Restoration of a Vermeer’s painting-new in history (8/?)
In a recent restoration of a Vermeer masterpiece, an image of Cupido was restored. While it was already longer know that an image of Cupido was painted over, recent research proved it wasn’t painted over by Vermeer, but in a later stage. This recent restoration now shows the painting as it was intended by Vermeer. (x)
Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) was a Dutch Baroque painter during Holland’s Golden Age.
Yo waddup, my peasants? I’ve got a spooky guest post for you!
My girl Tiffany Apan from Tiffany’s Labyrinth and I decided to swap blogs for the day and boy does she have some fascinating information to share with you peasants today! I won’t keep you long, I just wanted to give you an introduction to my girl’s post!
Yo waddup, my peasants? It’s ur gurl another year older!
I hit the big 28 this year… And now I’m the same age as Theda when she was first discovered by Fox Studios, so who knows? Maybe this year will be lucky for me too! She claimed she was 24 but come on, she was 28! ANYWAAAAAYYY, so ya gurl had to work on her birthday but it’s okay because I was performing for one of my favorite sites,…
For this Memorial Day I give you an obit from my Grandma Alice’s scrapbook. She clipped a good number of them from friends and family that passed over the years. In this instance we have one for Pvt. Joseph Janzer, whose wife apparently worked with my Grandpa George. (I’m guessing it was with him because of the “Dept. 61” listing.) While the obit gives us some cursory, and rather sad background on Pvt. Janzer, I decided to see what else I could find.
Joseph Janzer was a member of the U.S. Army’s 141st Field Artillery, which is known as the Washington Artillery. According to a Cook County genealogy site he was killed in action on February 4, 1945. At that time his unit was fighting in what became known as the Colmar Pocket in Northeast France. This pocket was created by a Nazi offensive that in turn created a bulge into the Allied line. It is not far from the location of this battle that his remains are interred at the Epinal American Cemetery in France.
While it is impossible for me to know, I do hope his wife was able to make it out there at least once to visit him. With that said, someone cared enough to lay these flowers and flags at his gravesite as you can see in this Find A Grave photo. My guess is that Pvt. Janzer has family out there that remember him.
Four Euphrates Expedition incidents: expedition members accounts versus Battersby’s interpretation. Fitzjames singlehandedly saving a man from drowning? No, it was a team effort.
