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rabid1stToday's JUST CURIOUS question is: Is there a particular work of art that you identify with and why? Photos are, of course, welcome.
You know I do go on about Billie Piper and her costar/buddy David Tennant. But I seldom mention Laurence Fox. Hmmm! Well, truth be told what do we know about Larry except that he's an actor from an acting dynasty, he plays Hathaway on Lewis and he is married to Billie?
But I stumbled across a fascinating picture of Laurence while doing a search tonight. Look, he identifies with a work of art.
Scary on many levels. It says, "Cranmer watched from the prison as flames consumed their bodies. His turn to die a martyr was yet to come."
Laurence played a WWII German officer in his break-out role and he is classically merciless here as the observer of horror and a participant in it, martyr and martyring. Perhaps understanding what it means to lead people to their doom. This photo led me to a marvelous photographic tribute to the Ashmorlean Museum. I adore the Ben Kingsley photo. And now. because each sitter is expressing a relationship to an object from the museum, we know a few more things about Laurence Fox. He identifies with the iron band or Thomas Cranmer* (or martyrdom) or the Protestant faith and he is a patron of the arts.
Check out all of the photos at this site. You just click on the baby picture and then scroll your mouse down on the page and the photos flip past like a slideshow.
http://www.theochalmers.com/ash/ash.html
*Thomas Cranmer (2 July 1489 – 21 March 1556) was a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI. Cranmer was tried for treason and heresy after Mary I, a Roman Catholic, came to the throne. Imprisoned for over two years and under pressure from the Church authorities, he made several recantations and apparently reconciled himself with the Roman Catholic faith. However, on the day of his execution, he dramatically withdrew his recantations, to die a Protestant martyr. His legacy lives on within the Church of England through the Book of Common Prayer and the Thirty-Nine Articles, an Anglican statement of faith derived from his work.
You can read all about Cranmer and his band of heretical (or properly Protestant) clergymen...on Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cranmer#Trials.2C_recantations.2C_and_martyrdom_.281553.E2.80.931556.29
You know I do go on about Billie Piper and her costar/buddy David Tennant. But I seldom mention Laurence Fox. Hmmm! Well, truth be told what do we know about Larry except that he's an actor from an acting dynasty, he plays Hathaway on Lewis and he is married to Billie?
But I stumbled across a fascinating picture of Laurence while doing a search tonight. Look, he identifies with a work of art.
Scary on many levels. It says, "Cranmer watched from the prison as flames consumed their bodies. His turn to die a martyr was yet to come."
Laurence played a WWII German officer in his break-out role and he is classically merciless here as the observer of horror and a participant in it, martyr and martyring. Perhaps understanding what it means to lead people to their doom. This photo led me to a marvelous photographic tribute to the Ashmorlean Museum. I adore the Ben Kingsley photo. And now. because each sitter is expressing a relationship to an object from the museum, we know a few more things about Laurence Fox. He identifies with the iron band or Thomas Cranmer* (or martyrdom) or the Protestant faith and he is a patron of the arts.
Check out all of the photos at this site. You just click on the baby picture and then scroll your mouse down on the page and the photos flip past like a slideshow.
http://www.theochalmers.com/ash/ash.html
*Thomas Cranmer (2 July 1489 – 21 March 1556) was a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI. Cranmer was tried for treason and heresy after Mary I, a Roman Catholic, came to the throne. Imprisoned for over two years and under pressure from the Church authorities, he made several recantations and apparently reconciled himself with the Roman Catholic faith. However, on the day of his execution, he dramatically withdrew his recantations, to die a Protestant martyr. His legacy lives on within the Church of England through the Book of Common Prayer and the Thirty-Nine Articles, an Anglican statement of faith derived from his work.
You can read all about Cranmer and his band of heretical (or properly Protestant) clergymen...on Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cranmer#Trials.2C_recantations.2C_and_martyrdom_.281553.E2.80.931556.29
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Date: 2010-05-12 02:43 am (UTC)Is it just me, or does he look like a Donkey? Just saying ;)
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Date: 2010-05-12 02:49 am (UTC)Poor Laurence cannot help his ears being slightly pointed. He definitely looks like he might play someone mercilessly devoted to a cause, however. He seems as firm as that iron. And I love the glove. Many of the patrons wear them...apparently to protect the artifacts...but Laurence looks like he uses it to inspect for minute traces of dust as well.
Rae
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Date: 2010-05-12 03:14 am (UTC)Oh you've turned, Rae. You're sleeping with the enemy now ;)
Them's fighting words my friend.
I'm fighting the good fight. Besides, it's not just the ears, his whole damn face looks freaky! His nose makes me laugh.