Bøger af Cristina Berna

This series, Fifty-three Pairings of the Tokaido Road, Tokaido gojusan tsui, popularly called Pairs Tokaido or 53 Parallels for the Tokaido Road, was published in 1845-1846. It is a unique cooperation between three artists: Utagawa Hiroshige, Utagawa Kunisada and Utagawa Kuniyoshi and five publishers: Ibaya Kyubei, (Ibaya Senzaburo (Dansendo)) and Kojimaya Jubei, Enshuya Matabei, Ebiya Rinnosuke (Kaijudo) and Iseya Ichibei.The special feature of this Pairs Tokaido is the pairing of a print for each station with a legend, a wonderful, dramatic, historic or supranatural story. These stories are told partly by the print theme, partly by accompanying text in a cartouche. Sometimes there is a poem. It is a very enjoyable tour!

Hokusais 53 Stationen des Tokaido 1801 sind etwas ganz anderes! Es ist sein erstes.Es unterscheidet sich von seinen berühmten 36 Ansichten des Berges Fuji aus dem Jahr 1832, bei denen es sich um erhabene künstlerische Ausdrucksformen handelt, die ein langes Lebenswerk widerspiegeln.Es unterscheidet sich von vielen anderen bekannten Werken Hokusais, etwa seinen 100 Ansichten des Berges Fuji. Aber in dieser Serie hat Hokusai noch viel von dem Humor und der Karikatur beibehalten, die hier zu finden sind.Es unterscheidet sich von den vielen anderen, später bekannten 53 Stationen des Tokaido darin, dass Hokusai sich nicht auf die Landschaft und die Markierungen konzentriert, die Hiroshige und andere zeigten.Stattdessen konzentriert sich Hokusai auf die Ereignisse, die Interaktionen zwischen den Reisenden und die Geschichten, die Sie Ihren Freunden erzählen werden, wenn Sie nach Hause kommen.Es war ein großartiger und früherer Beitrag zur Tokaido-Literatur.

Joaquín Sorolla (born in Valencia 1863 died in Cercedilla 1923) is one of the most successful Spanish painters ever. He was a genius in capturing the essence of the scene he was painting. He lived while photography was being invented and popularized. Some of his breathtaking seascapes show how he was familiar with and employed similar techniques as the photograph. His paintingsare also a great introduction to Spanish history. Most of his paintings of boats and the sea capture the fishermen in Valencia, who fished from the beach. He has painted several masterpieces of the returning boats being pulled to the beach. The oxen used to pull the boats are captured so strong, so life like, with so much love. He also painted the waiting fisherwomen and the children happily playing. He painted scenes from the lives of the fishermen. Sorollas paintings are extremely powerful and colorful and although he is usually labelled an impressionist, he is also often very naturalist and detailed. The reader is kindly referred to our book about Sorollas landscapes. This book is not a catalogue, the authors have put together a narrative and the reader may find some of the paintings in our other books as well.

The beauty of art is necessary for happiness.In everyday life the arts give that extra dimension to life that makes it a great adventure.The art and design in buildings, city planning, gardens and parks, roads, bridges, everything that we use daily contributes to a happy and fulfilling life.Ugly buildings, sloppy design, poor quality workmanship, littering and defacing contributes to a miserable life.Why would you want a miserable life? Why would you want to impose a miserable life on others?Hokusai was not only a truly great artist.He also sent a message to common people, who could afford to buy his low cost prints.He conveyed the beauty of majesty, the mount Fujijama, in life.He conveyed the beauty of scenery, he said to people, look around you and see and enjoy the beauty of the scenery.He conveyed the beauty of a good human life , the craftmanship in making the timber, building the boat, fishing, growing tea, enjoying tea with the scenery.The 36 Views of Mt Fuji are religious prints. But different from the typical Christian religious motif the humans are not shown focused on the diety all the time, even if Mt Fuji is shown to have a pervading influence on their lives.The admiration and worship of Mt Fuji is often shown as incidental a single traveler of the group casting a glance at the majestic mountain while the others are busy with the many other things to do. In other words a very realistic rendition on how the divine is taking part in everyday life.

Let us stake you on a delightful little journey into the world of cakes and to one of the smallest countries of the world the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg.Luxembourg was founded in 963 when Count Sigfried I acquired an ancient Roman fortress Lucilinburhuc the little castle from the Imperial Abbey of St. Maximin in Trier.Luxembourg sits right in the centre of Western Europe between France, Belgium and Germany. The size is 2.586 km2.In compaMany people first think about money and low taxes, secretive banks and successful investment funds whenever Luxembourg is mentioned.The financial sector is not the only delight in Luxembourg. Luxembourg has a thriving patisserie sector as well. rison, Rhode Island, USA is 3140 km2

This little book is for all travelers and cake lovers.It was not planned - it just happened through our first year in Luxembourg, filled with so much other joy and ecitement - all the enticing cake shop windows a little sampling - and because the cakes were so delicious and eye catching we started to take some pictures.We tasted all the cakes at our own expense, and quite a lot were downed with no documentation at all slightly to our regret when finally putting the story together.We are very happy to share this with you and hope you will enjoy Luxembourg and its pâtisseries!Pkease forgive the primitive pack phptp! However, the picturs are authentic we have savored all the cakes.