Late Spring Morning, 2022/ Acrylic and oil on wood
First Summer Night, 2022/ Acrylic and oil on wood
120 x 60 cm
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Compost et calendrier des bergers, 1493.
Gautier Dalché, dans "Le Moyen Age en lumière" : connaître l'heure de nuit à l'aide d'une simple corde tenue dans l'axe de l'étoile polaire, en mesurant l'écoulement du temps sur la rotation de la voûte céleste.
Almanach des bergers pour la Seconde Année Républicaine : contenant deux méthodes faciles, l'une pour connoître l'heure de la nuit à l'aspect des étoiles, & l'autre pour connoître la position des planettes chaque jour de l'année : suivi d'un essai sur les moyens de se procurer les trésors du Perou
A Paris : Chez Pellier : et Demoraine, an deuxième de la République française [1793]
Almanac with instructions for finding the time of the night based on the stars. Each month also includes essays on astronomy. Final section includes instructions on procuring treasures of Peru by planting mulberry trees to encourage the culture of silk worms, whose silk may then be exchanged for gold. The almanac itself uses the ten new revolutionary months, with an explanation of the new calendar system. The star chart and planisphere, however, retain the traditional 12 month system. Later editions of the almanac, entitled L'horloge du labourer, have charts with the revolutionary months. The star chart and planisphere are also exceptional for joining constellations with solid or dotted lines, instead of using constellation figures. Non-pictorial star charts were thought not to occur until the nineteenth century. Cf. Nick Kanas. Star maps. Berlin ; New York : Springer, 2007
Winter Evening 2022
Acrylic, oil and gesso on wood 120 x 60 cm
120 x cm cm
Early Winter Morning, 2022
Acrylic, oil and gesso on wood
120 x 60 cm
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Almanach des Bergers (Shepherd’s Almanac)
pour l’année M.DCC.LIX (Liège: V. G. Barnabe, 1759)
According to the Cambridge History of English and American Literature (v. 18), the first Shepherds’ Calendar was printed in 1491 by Guyot Marchant, whose workshop was in the Latin Quarter of Paris. The work was entitled Kalendrier des Bergiers and it was the first illustrated French almanac.
In Honoré de Balzac’s 1843 novel Illusions Perdues (Lost Illusions), the Shepherds’ almanac plays a small role: “After rummaging round the workshop Eve discovered a collection of figures required for the printing of a so-called Shepherds’ Almanac, in which objects are represented by signs, pictures, and symbols in red, black, and blue. Old Séchard, illiterate as he was, had formerly made a lot of money by printing this little book intended for equally illiterate people. An almanac of this kind costs only a penny and comprises a hundred and twenty-eight pages of very small format. Delighted at the success of her broadsheets—the sort of production which is a specialty with small provincial presses—Madame Séchard decided to print the Shepherds’ Almanac on a large scale by putting her profits into it.” (translated by Herbert James Hunt).
This book comes bound with Almanach pour cette Année M. DCC. LIX. Supputé par Mtte Mathieu Laensbergh Mathematicien (Liege: G. Barnabe, 1759); and Pronostication particuliere pour l’an de notre Seigneur 1759. Par M. Mathieu Laensbergh, Mathematicien (Liege: Guil. Barnabe, 1759); and Continuation des choses les plus remarquables arrivées par toute l’Europe & autres parties du monde, depuis le mois de Septembre de l’An 1757. jusqu’audit mois de l’An 1758 (Liege: V. G. Barnabe, 1759).
Posted by on February 11 2011