Ooooh, your answers make me HAPPY, inspiring answers, even!
1) HAHAHAHAHAHA, that's hilarious, you sound so demure. "What? WHO'S invading? Forget it, tell me when it's over, I'm under the bed. Oh, oh, and tell him I think he's super-cool, and that when all this calms down, well...I'd like to have him over for tea if he has a moment, perhaps?" 2) I know exactly what you mean, what with the architectural beauty and whatnot. Also, in terms of trying things out, that's largely why I'm studying in Europe to begin with. That way I can comfortably settle on either side of the Atlantic with the satisfaction of knowing that whatever decision I made, I made with much certainty. 3) Yes, yes, yes, YES! Yes, yes! God, YES! I'm going through a big Modigliani revival (though my bigger one was last December) right now, but, oh wow, you just reminded me of Fragonard! The Swing is one of my favourite paintings! 4) Yes, yes, yes. You really should try to get your hands on anything from Will and Ariel Durant's Story of Civilisation series. Their book on The Age of Napoleon will make you swoon in joy, and The Renaissance is also rather glorious. It's pure history, as in books, not novels, but they tell it impartially and via anecdotes, so it feels like a beloved elder is telling you what happened directly, and that all of these people are old friends, so that you're really on a first-name basis with Napoleon or Talleyrand or Mme. Recamier by the end. Look in libraries, they're there. 5) Oh, me too, hurrah hurrah!
1.) My sentiments EXACTLY. Oh, tea with the Emperor after a long day of hiding under the bed from weaponry. 4.) Oh, you reminded me of Mme. Recamier. Have you seen the painting of her by Gerard? Absolutely one of the most beautiful paintings I have ever seen. I will most certainly look for these books, oh yes.
Most certainly, most certainly; as much as I'm attatched to David's own experiments with Julie and the fainting-couch, Gerard does actually outdo ol' Jacques-Louis with Madame's dress-sleve gently falling off her shoulder in that most-seductive way. Quite glorious, aye! But look for the Durants - she features prominently in a section on the Sexual Morality of the age, and they take to calling her one of the Three Graces (along with Josephine and I-forget-whom) of the Directory in quite a charmingly endearing way.
1) HAHAHAHAHAHA, that's hilarious, you sound so demure. "What? WHO'S invading? Forget it, tell me when it's over, I'm under the bed. Oh, oh, and tell him I think he's super-cool, and that when all this calms down, well...I'd like to have him over for tea if he has a moment, perhaps?"
2) I know exactly what you mean, what with the architectural beauty and whatnot. Also, in terms of trying things out, that's largely why I'm studying in Europe to begin with. That way I can comfortably settle on either side of the Atlantic with the satisfaction of knowing that whatever decision I made, I made with much certainty.
3) Yes, yes, yes, YES! Yes, yes! God, YES! I'm going through a big Modigliani revival (though my bigger one was last December) right now, but, oh wow, you just reminded me of Fragonard! The Swing is one of my favourite paintings!
4) Yes, yes, yes. You really should try to get your hands on anything from Will and Ariel Durant's Story of Civilisation series. Their book on The Age of Napoleon will make you swoon in joy, and The Renaissance is also rather glorious. It's pure history, as in books, not novels, but they tell it impartially and via anecdotes, so it feels like a beloved elder is telling you what happened directly, and that all of these people are old friends, so that you're really on a first-name basis with Napoleon or Talleyrand or Mme. Recamier by the end. Look in libraries, they're there.
5) Oh, me too, hurrah hurrah!
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4.) Oh, you reminded me of Mme. Recamier. Have you seen the painting of her by Gerard? Absolutely one of the most beautiful paintings I have ever seen. I will most certainly look for these books, oh yes.
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