Meissonier, Ernest
Meissonier, Ernest (
b Lyons, 21 Feb. 1815;
d Paris, 31 Jan. 1891). French painter, illustrator, and sculptor. He was immensely successful with his small-format, nigglingly detailed historical paintings and historical
genre pieces (particularly scenes in
Three Musketeers vein or from the Napoleonic campaigns) and from the 1840s he received the highest official honours, including the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour in 1889—he was the first painter to win this award. Astonishingly conceited as well as mean-spirited, he cultivated a huge white beard and liked to be photographed or painted in attitudes of fiercely profound thought, as in his self-portrait of 1889 in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris. He did his best work when he was at his least pretentious. His landscapes are attractive descriptive exercises and his
Rue de la Mortellerie (1848, Mus. d'Orsay), which shows a corpse-strewn Paris street during the revolutionary events of 1848, has genuine pathos and impressed
Delacroix. There are large collections of Meissonier's work in the Musée d'Orsay and in the Wallace Collection, London.
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The World of Sumer.(Musings)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 9/1/2003; 496 words
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Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 11/15/1992; 700+ words
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The Invention of Cuneiform: Writing in Sumer
Magazine article from: Near Eastern Archaeology; 9/1/2005; ; 700+ words
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Sumer Is Icumen In
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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‘Sumer is icumen in’
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
‘Sumer is icumen in’, one of the earliest known English lyrics, from the first half of the 13th cent. The music, and Latin instructions for singing it, are also in the MS (BM MS Harley 978).
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Sumer
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sumer and Sumerian civilization . The term Sumer is used today to designate the southern part of ancient Mesopotamia . From the earliest...Culture, and Character (1971), Sumerian Mythology (1973), and In the World of Sumer (1986).
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Sumer is Icumen In
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Sumer is Icumen In (Old Eng.). Summer is coming in. Eng. comp., dating supposedly from c .1240, sometimes known as the Reading...
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Akkad
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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