Alice
Alice ♀ Originally a variant of
Adelaide, representing an Old French spelling of a reduced form of Germanic
Adalheidis.
Alice and
Adelaide were already regarded as distinct names in English during the medieval period.
Alice enjoyed a surge of popularity in the 19th century and periods of favour ever since. It was the name of the central character of Lewis Carroll's
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and
Through the Looking Glass (1872), who was based on his child friend Alice Liddell, daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford.
Variants:
Alys;
Alis (Welsh).
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Browning's painters.(Robert Browning)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...with the dramatic monologue. Gerard de Lairesse was a seventeenth-century Dutch...by passage [...]. (With Gerard de Lairesse, ll. 262-71) (1) The poet not only accompanies Gerard on his walk, he sees with Gerard...
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Senses boost for gallery
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 11/7/2001; ; 516 words
; ...flagship museums. The Five Senses by Gerard de Lairesse, which was painted 400- years...gallery. Flemish-born artist Lairesse suffered from congenital syphilis...Rembrandt, a close friend of Lairesse, took the comment in good spirit...
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The art of making a deal: an exhibition and a new book reveal in unprecedented detail how Rembrandt and other Dutch artists were linked to the art trade.(EXHIBITIONS)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...academy of Uylenburgh'. Govaert Flink, Jurgen Ovens, Gerard De Lairesse and probably Johannes Lingelbach spent time with the...Uylenburgh and Son, Art and Commerce from Rembrandt to De Lairesse 1625-1675. This book (it cannot really be described...
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GEMS WE TREASURE SIX APPEAL
Newspaper article from: Evening Times; 7/16/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...going to continue beyond death. WHO: Robert Wenley, curator of European Art WHAT: An Allegory of the Senses by Gerard de Lairesse WHY: It's one of the most unusual paintings in the collection. It's an allegory of the five senses, so you...
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Painting by numbers
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday; 1/21/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...the most simplistic kind, intrude at every point. A large 17th century painting, 'Allegory Of The Senses' by Gerard de Lairesse, has a chart next to it explaining the five senses in clunking detail. "The parrot pecking the woman's finger...
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Dutch Treat; In New York, a Delightful Display of Old Masters, on Loan From Leningrad
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/3/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...the first picture by the master to arrive in Russia. And they paid a bargain price. A now forgotten canvas by Gerard de Lairesse, sold at the same auction, fetched 150 times as much.) Only one of Peter's paintings-"Hare, Fruit and...
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A History of Anatomy: The Post-Vesalian Era. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...purchased the copperplates of Govert Bidloo's anatomical text, which were illustrated by the Belgian painter Gerard de Lairesse and engraved by Pieter van Gunst. Cowper added his own improved text but did not credit the plates to Bidloo...
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The face of the public.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Early American Literature; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...as much money as the painter asks," can sit for a portrait, "this is a great abuse" (165) wrote the artist Gerard de Lairesse, because portraiture should teach "posterity to emulate the same virtues" (164) as those displayed by the sitter...
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Gerard De Lairesse
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Gerard De Lairesse see Lairesse, Gerard de .
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Gerard de Lairesse
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Gerard de Lairesse , 1641-1711, Flemish painter of allegorical and religious subjects, b. Liège. Most of his life was spent in Holland...
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Aeschylus
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...the play (1833) by Elizabeth Barrett (Browning) ; R. Browning's outline of the legend in ‘With Gerard de Lairesse’ (1887); and Bridges's Prometheus the Firegiver (1883). From Landor on attention shifted to the...
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