Tales from the Island of Serendip 4 4

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“What you call dying is finally dying, and what you call birth is beginning to die, and what you call living is dying in life.”

 

Francisco de Quevedo

 

 

 

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What a beauty!

 

 

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What a beauty!

 

 

 

Hi Joshua. She is, isn't she? She is a Kazakh.

 

The Kazakhs are a semi-nomadic people from the mountains and valleys of western Mongolia, who worship the sky, the ancestors, fire and the supernatural forces of good and evil spirits.

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"Even the most 'traditional' and remote communities are, like the rest of us, still living in the present. They are not throwbacks to the past, but simply one aspect of what it means to be human in the twenty first century."

 

Merlyn Driver

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Jean Baptiste Debret (1768 - 1848), the French painter and draughtsman, is considered to be the most faithful illustrator of 19th-century Brazil.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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From 1834 to 1839 he published his monumental series of three volumes of engravings, titled "Voyage Pittoresque et Historique au Brésil, ou Séjour d'un Artiste Français au Brésil ", but it was not a commercial success.

 

 

 

 

 

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He returned to France and died in poverty.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802 - 1858), was a German painter, famous for his works depicting landscapes and ethnographic subjects in several countries in the Americas, in the first half of the 19th century.

 

 

 

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From 1827 to 1835, with the help of Victor Aimé Huber, he published his monumental book Voyage Pittoresque dans le Brésil , with more than 100 illustrations, which became one of the most important documents about Brazil in the 19th century.

 

 

 

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Both artists are quite matter-of fact in their depiction of slavery and conflict, which they render with precisely the same level of detachment as their idyllic jungle scenes.

 

 

 

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