I recently visited the southern U.S. island while sailing on Royal Caribbean’s Majesty of the Seas. After a fun filled day in Key West, I realized that it is one of my favorite cruise ports, and thought it was time to put together a list of some of my favorite activities. Here they are, in no particular order! Bicycle Tour If you are visiting in the cooler months (November through April), this would be my top choice. Key Lime Bike Tours offer an excellent two and a half to three hour tour around the island for $45. It will bring
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Der Key Lime Pie ist besonders in Florida sehr beliebt und wurde auch als "Nationalkuchen" Floridas anerkannt. Von Key Largo bis Key West herrscht ein stetiger Wettkampf darum, wer den besten Key Lime Pie anbietet.
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Located in the famous Transylvania, at the foot of Tampa Mountain, Brasov is a historic city of great beauty that will instantly bring you thrills of joy. Incontestable proof of this fact is the big number of foreign tourists who choose to visit it year after year. Moreover, according to some recent statistics, Brasov is the most visited city in Romania. But for those of you who haven’t yet managed to get here, I thought of writing this complete guide of the city, based on my last visit here, in late October.
Kay Nielsen knew his way around a fantasy. The Danish illustrator was raised in a “tense atmosphere of art” (his words) during the Golden Era of Illustration – a time when folks one-upped each another with books bearing golden spines and marbled end papers; elaborately illustrated copies of Grimm's
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It has occurred to me during the process of researching this blog that quite a number of realist painters have portrayed women at one time or another from a rear viewpoint – often in a domestic situation. Danish artists like Anna Ancher, Vilhelm Hammershøi and Carl Holsøe frequently employed this device in their compositions. The female subject may at some small domestic labour, or simply being contemplative, gazing out onto some unseen vista. Here are some examples: 1822 Woman at the Window oil on canvas 44 x 73 cm 1880 Berthe Morisot The Dining Room of the Rouart Family, Avenue d'Eylau oil on canvas 92 x 73 cm c1880 Edgar Degas Mary Cassatt at the Louvre pastel 1882 Christian Krohg The Hair is Braided 1883 Anna Ancher Girl in Kitchen oil on canvas 87.7 x 68.5 cm 1885 Edgar Degas A Visit to the Museum c1885 Edgar Degas Three Women at the Races pastel 68.6 x 68.6 cm 1886 Berthe Morisot The Little Maid Servant oil on canvas 71 x 44 cm 1887 Anna Ancher Young Girl before a Lighted Lamp oil on canvas 1888 Vilhelm Hammershøi Peasant Reading oil on canvas 63.5 x 55.5 cm 1890 Vilhelm Hammershøi Bedroom 73 x 58 cm 1896 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Woman in a Corset chalk on paper 1899 Vilhelm Hammershøi Interior c1900 Carl Holsøe c1900 Carl Holsøe Girl Reading in a Sunlit Room 1905 Vilhelm Hammershøi Rest 49.5 x 46.5 cm c1910 Frederick Carl Frieseke The Birdcage oil on canvas 78.7 x 78.7 cm 1912-13 Frederick C. Frieseke Blue Interior oil on canvas 81.3 x 81.3 cm 1920 Henri Lebasque The Blue Robe oil on canvas 81 x 65 cm c1885 A Young Girl Arranging Flowers oil on canvas 56 x 41 cm Anna Ancher Girl in the Kitchen Anna Ancher Carl Holsøe Carl Holsøe The Artist's Wife Setting the Table oil on canvas 73 x 65 cm Carl Holsøe Mother and Child by a Window oil on canvas 78.7 x 76.2 cm Vilhelm Hammershøi Lady Reading in an Interior Anna Ancher Young Woman in Front of a Mirror Carl Holsøe Waiting by the Window Carl Holsøe A Lady Playing the Spinet Carl Holsøe A Lady Playing the Piano Carl Holsøe Lamplight Carl Holsøe The Artist's Wife in an Interior oil on board Carl Holsøe Clearing Away the Tray oil on canvas 74.6 x 67.6 cm Carl Holsøe Interior with the Artists'a Wife oil on canvas Carl Holsøe Afternoon Tea oil on canvas 40 x 29.2 cm
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Kay Nielsen, a Danish fairy tale illustrator, born in 1886. Discover and explore the life and art of illustrator Kay Nielsen...
I actually chose to go with Kay Nielsen this time because of a comment you ended up making last February when I first came to the university, ha! A portion of "A Story of a
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I’m cheating. I’m supposed to be posting my free choice from my Heavenly Cake Baker club. This is not it. Instead, I have wanted to make this cake for a while now. It has been marked in the cookbook for ages and been passed over and over again and
Images from the Clavis Inferni or 'The Key of Hell', a late-18th-century book on black magic.
