#waterloo
A beautiful sunny day in London, and I’m chilling out in a tunnel under Waterloo. #Waterloo #leakestreet #london #graffiti #streetart #tunnel #thevaults #photo #photoshoot #city #urban #spraypaint #colours #colourful #multicoloured #art #street #dark (at Leake Street Tunnel)
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Waterloo Bridge / André Derain / Thyssen-Bornemisza museum, Madrid; 1906 (prefiguring Ray Davies by 60 years). Of course, pixel peepers might complain about the noise, but the best artistic effect is the one you have with you at the time. #sunset #dusk #Derain #Waterloo #London #impressionism #Madrid #ThyssenBornemisza #Kinks
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Rod Steiger as Napoleon, Waterloo
London 26.03.21
Everyday of March I walked 10,000 steps to raise money for Marie Curie UK, if you’d like to sponsor me please follow this link: https://bit.ly/3b6KCxN
Yesterday was a great day filled with love, culture and family moments. More of this every day of the week please ❤️ #family #trip #Waterloo #kids #lion #lebutdelion #ootd #look #flipflops #havaianas #fashion #style #blog #blogger #reallife #fashionblog #fashionblogger #notperfect #fashiondisaster #fashiondisastercc
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National Theatre Bookshop, SE1. Has one of the best collections of in print drama texts anywhere in the world. All the classics and contemporary greats are covered here. Currently there is a glorious plethora of Three Penny Opera goodies going. Beyond the bundles of Brechtian bounty many unique gifts and texts are available. If you have a penchant for plays you had better give yourself decent time for browsing before the curtain comes up! The functional brutalist architecture of the National’s complex provides many hidey holes for curling up with a book and an excellent cup of the black stuff from one of their many bars. If they let you sleep there you could probably stay well over a week and never get bored. cerainly worth the surrender of an entire Saturday. https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk
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- The armor of a 19-year-old Antonie Fraveau, a French soldier who died in the battle of Waterloo in 1815 with a cannonball …
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which is how jack ryan & the redhaired musical warrior doctor & her bold daughter & all their various doppelgangers got tangled into the mythos from the start , incl but not limited to richard sharpe & patrick harper & teresa moreno
but that isnt the all if it by long leagues
bc one of the stars of ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE REVOLUTION was rod steiger
who played the corsican emperor of france in that great russian WATERLOO i sometimes rant abt in the twists of this maze
against none but christopher plummer - & theres the trek connection going far back before it ever happened , b4 gates mcfadden played a redhaired doctor whose place was filled by anne archer as the badass lady fighting her doppelganger in a clash of empires in the sequel to RED OCTOBER
i saw the chain but not its first link -not being a westerns fan nor a film scholar nor critic
but i see how a n 18th c british supernatural novel abt italian nobles FITS into a GUERNICA-referencing story of the spanish civil war by a contemporary mexican dramatist now
February 26, 1815: Napoleon escapes from Elba. Feeling safe after his exile the previous April, France’s clowns emerged from their underground lairs and chased the mimes from the streets. First viewed as liberators, the nation’s populace soon regretted their elation as they became constantly harassed by clowns, who stalked France’s citizens with big, floppy, honking shoes; flowers that squirted wine; and too-large pants that bobbed up and down on rubber suspenders. Hearing of his nation’s plight, an enraged Napoleon escaped to retake France. Realizing the Emperor was on his way, the clowns ran for it, bandy-legged and with flapping arms, into Belgium with Napoleon hot on the heels of their enormous shoes. While in Belgium, Napoleon was attacked by a coalition of nations at Waterloo.
Rooftop bar times
#barelba #waterloo #rooftop #napoleon #bar #london #exileinparadise (at Bar Elba)
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Sorry not sorry we found this bar on a Sunday afternoon
#hashtag #sorrynotsorry #barelba #waterloo #london (at Bar Elba)
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On this day, 1815, a special edition of the official Govt paper of record, The Gazette, was printed in London. It contained the full text of Wellington’s dispatch from Waterloo, with the first details of the allied victory over Napoleon. The Duke later commissioned David Wilkie to paint this scene, with a group of The Chelsea Pensioners reading aloud the news outside a Chelsea pub, with the Royal Hospital in the background. It is one of the best known paintings in the Wellington Collection at Apsley.
TheChelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch, originally entitled Chelsea Pensioners Receiving the London Gazette Extraordinary of Thursday, June 22, 1815, Announcing the Battle of Waterloo, is an oil painting by David Wilkie, commissioned by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington in August 1816.
It was exhibited at the Royal Academy summer exhibition in 1822, where it was so popular that a rail was installed to protect it from the thronging crowds. This was the first time that a rail was needed at the Royal Academy exhibition. The painting was retained by the Duke of Wellington and his descendants, and it is displayed at Apsley House.
The painting’s focus on ordinary people made a significant impression on Théodore Géricault when he viewed the unfinished work in Wilkie’s studio in the spring of 1821, and on its second showing at the Royal Institution. It was also seen by Eugène Delacroix and Richard Parkes Bonington.
SirDavid Wilkie RA (18 November 1785 – 1 June 1841) was a Scottish painter, especially known for his genre scenes. He painted successfully in a wide variety of genres, including historical scenes, portraits, including formal royal ones, and scenes from his travels to Europe and the Middle East. His main base was in London, but he died and was buried at sea, off Gibraltar, returning from his first trip to the Middle East. He was sometimes known as the “people’s painter”.
He was Principal Painter in Ordinary to King William IV and Queen Victoria. Apart from royal portraits, his best-known painting today is probably The Chelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch of 1822 in Apsley House.
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