Gabriel Cornelius Ritter von Max (b.1840 - d.1915), ‘The Martyrdom of St. Ludmilla’, oil on canvas, c.1864, Austrian, sold by Lawrence Steigrad Fine Arts to The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York, USA.
Saint Ludmilla (c.860 - 921), born as a Princess of the Sorbs, was the grandmother of Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, and a convert to Christianity along with her husband Borivoj of Bohemia. Her daughter in law, Drahomira, Duchess of Bohemia and mother of Wenceslaus, resented her influence over her son, and, according to legend, had her strangled with her own veil.
After her death, Wenceslaus canonised her, and since she has become the patron saint of Bohemia and Czechia, of duchesses, widows, and those having certain issues with their in-laws (hopefully, so their relationship don’t also end in murder).
Norbertine Bresslern-Roth aka Norbertine von Bresslern-Roth aka N. B. Roth (Austrian, 1891-1978, b. Klosterwiesgasse, Graz, Austria, d. Ibid) - Lying Cat, 1920, Paintings: Watercolor on Paper, Private Collection
— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke | Pablo Neruda (?) | Louise Glück, Vita Nova | Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro | Vladimir Nabokov, Mary | Etel Adnan, Jebu | Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary | Bangtan Sonyeondan (방탄소년단), 봄날 (Spring Day) | Artwork by Claude Monet
“476. Children do not learn that books exist, that armchairs exist, etc.,etc. - they learn to fetch books, sit in armchairs, etc., etc. Later, questions about the existence of things do of course arise, “Is there such a thing as a unicorn?” and so on. But such a question is possible only because as a rule no corresponding question presents itself. For how does one know how to set about satisfying oneself of the existence of unicorns? How did one learn the method for determining whether something exists or not?
So one must know that the objects whose names one teaches a child by an ostensive definition exist.“ - Why must one know they do? Isn’t it enough that experience doesn’t later show the opposite? For why should the language-game rest on some kind of knowledge?
Does a child believe that milk exists? Or does it know that milk exists? Does a cat know that a mouse exists?
Are we to say that the knowledge that there are physical objects comes very early or very late?”
Piano Organ, ca. 1785 Franz Xaver Christophs (Vienna, Austria)
-Dimensions: Width: 164 cm x Height: 92 cm -Range: 5 octaves -Other Notes: This is a combination instrument; A stop is used to switch between piano and organ. Other stops include a damper and register switch for the piano, and 4 registers for the organ. The last photo is taken from above - the keyboard lifts to expose the mechanisms for the organ.
