Elf Fantasy Fair 2011 Edition Haarzuilens
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Elf Fanatasy Fair Haarzuilen 2011 saturday 17 april 2011
Every year in April since 2001, the substantial number of 25,000 people from all over Europe come to the largest Fantasy event on the European continent: the Elf Fantasy Fair.
Two-third of the visitors have transformed into orcs, magicians, dragons, knights, vampires, elves, unicorns, gothic lolita, manga comic hero or a combination of these. Every year the costumes are getting more resourceful and more artistic. In the midst of the budding nature of the Castle park which belongs to the largest castle of the Netherlands – Kasteel de Haar fantasy lovers indulge themselves in all that is offered and coveted: medieval music, dancing, lectures, theatre plays, and parades.
Sinds 2001 komen elk jaar in april een groeiend aantal mensen uit heel Europa op de Elf Fantasy Fair editie Haarzuilens naar het grootste fantasy evenement dat op het Europese continent georganiseerd wordt: de Elf Fantasy Fair.
Tweederde van deze bezoekers hebben zichzelf omgetoverd tot orc, tovenaar, draak, ridder, vampier, elf, eenhoorn, gothic lolita, manga stripheld of een combinatie daarvan. De kostuums worden elk jaar steeds vindingrijker en kunstzinniger. Temidden van de opbloeiende natuur van het kasteelpark, dat behoort tot het grootste kasteel van Nederland, Kasteel de Haar, dompelen de fantasy liefhebbers zich onder in een aangenaam bad van middeleeuwse muziek, dans, lezingen, theatervoorstellingen en optochten.
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Elf Fantasy Fair 2011 Edition Haarzuilens, Sandra
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Elf Fanatasy Fair Haarzuilen 2011 Sunday 18th of april 2011
Every year in April since 2001, the substantial number of 25,000 people from all over Europe come to the largest Fantasy event on the European continent: the Elf Fantasy Fair.
Two-third of the visitors have transformed into orcs, magicians, dragons, knights, vampires, elves, unicorns, gothic lolita, manga comic hero or a combination of these. Every year the costumes are getting more resourceful and more artistic. In the midst of the budding nature of the Castle park which belongs to the largest castle of the Netherlands – Kasteel de Haar fantasy lovers indulge themselves in all that is offered and coveted: medieval music, dancing, lectures, theatre plays, and parades.
Sinds 2001 komen elk jaar in april een groeiend aantal mensen uit heel Europa op de Elf Fantasy Fair editie Haarzuilens naar het grootste fantasy evenement dat op het Europese continent georganiseerd wordt: de Elf Fantasy Fair.
Tweederde van deze bezoekers hebben zichzelf omgetoverd tot orc, tovenaar, draak, ridder, vampier, elf, eenhoorn, gothic lolita, manga stripheld of een combinatie daarvan. De kostuums worden elk jaar steeds vindingrijker en kunstzinniger. Temidden van de opbloeiende natuur van het kasteelpark, dat behoort tot het grootste kasteel van Nederland, Kasteel de Haar, dompelen de fantasy liefhebbers zich onder in een aangenaam bad van middeleeuwse muziek, dans, lezingen, theatervoorstellingen en optochten.
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Elf Fantasy Fair 2011 Edition Haarzuilens, Sandra
Image by Qsimple
Elf Fanatasy Fair Haarzuilen 2011 Sunday 18th of april 2011
Every year in April since 2001, the substantial number of 25,000 people from all over Europe come to the largest Fantasy event on the European continent: the Elf Fantasy Fair.
Two-third of the visitors have transformed into orcs, magicians, dragons, knights, vampires, elves, unicorns, gothic lolita, manga comic hero or a combination of these. Every year the costumes are getting more resourceful and more artistic. In the midst of the budding nature of the Castle park which belongs to the largest castle of the Netherlands – Kasteel de Haar fantasy lovers indulge themselves in all that is offered and coveted: medieval music, dancing, lectures, theatre plays, and parades.
Sinds 2001 komen elk jaar in april een groeiend aantal mensen uit heel Europa op de Elf Fantasy Fair editie Haarzuilens naar het grootste fantasy evenement dat op het Europese continent georganiseerd wordt: de Elf Fantasy Fair.
Tweederde van deze bezoekers hebben zichzelf omgetoverd tot orc, tovenaar, draak, ridder, vampier, elf, eenhoorn, gothic lolita, manga stripheld of een combinatie daarvan. De kostuums worden elk jaar steeds vindingrijker en kunstzinniger. Temidden van de opbloeiende natuur van het kasteelpark, dat behoort tot het grootste kasteel van Nederland, Kasteel de Haar, dompelen de fantasy liefhebbers zich onder in een aangenaam bad van middeleeuwse muziek, dans, lezingen, theatervoorstellingen en optochten.
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Elf Fantasy Fair 2011 Edition Haarzuilens, Sandra
Image by Qsimple
Elf Fanatasy Fair Haarzuilen 2011 Sunday 18th of april 2011
Every year in April since 2001, the substantial number of 25,000 people from all over Europe come to the largest Fantasy event on the European continent: the Elf Fantasy Fair.
Two-third of the visitors have transformed into orcs, magicians, dragons, knights, vampires, elves, unicorns, gothic lolita, manga comic hero or a combination of these. Every year the costumes are getting more resourceful and more artistic. In the midst of the budding nature of the Castle park which belongs to the largest castle of the Netherlands – Kasteel de Haar fantasy lovers indulge themselves in all that is offered and coveted: medieval music, dancing, lectures, theatre plays, and parades.
Sinds 2001 komen elk jaar in april een groeiend aantal mensen uit heel Europa op de Elf Fantasy Fair editie Haarzuilens naar het grootste fantasy evenement dat op het Europese continent georganiseerd wordt: de Elf Fantasy Fair.
Tweederde van deze bezoekers hebben zichzelf omgetoverd tot orc, tovenaar, draak, ridder, vampier, elf, eenhoorn, gothic lolita, manga stripheld of een combinatie daarvan. De kostuums worden elk jaar steeds vindingrijker en kunstzinniger. Temidden van de opbloeiende natuur van het kasteelpark, dat behoort tot het grootste kasteel van Nederland, Kasteel de Haar, dompelen de fantasy liefhebbers zich onder in een aangenaam bad van middeleeuwse muziek, dans, lezingen, theatervoorstellingen en optochten.
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The Battle Story (The Returned Soldier); Mead (Modeled ca. 1863 - 1865; Carved 1865 - 1866)
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From the Chrysler Museum of Art Website:
collection.chrysler.org/emuseum/view/objects/asitem/217/4...
The Battle Story (The Returned Soldier)
Date: modeled ca. 1863-65, carved 1865-66
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Artist: Larkin Goldsmith Mead
American, 1835-1910
Dimensions: Base: 28 in. (71.1 cm) Overall: 83 3/8 x 31 7/8 x 42 5/8 in. (211.8 x 81 x 108.3 cm)
Medium: Marble
Credit Line: Gift of James H. Ricau and Museum purchase
Description: This is a marble statue of a soldier with a young girl on his lap. He is dressed in military uniform with a cape over his shoulders - he is a Union soldier from the Civil War in America. He has a mustache and his eyes are cast downward. The little girl reaches out to put her left arm around him; her right hand hovers near her collarbone. His right arm reaches forward toward the viewer and his left arm is around the little girl's waist. He wears knee high boots, and his the tip of his sword is visible under his left leg, where the girl sits.
Current Location: Gallery 262
Catalog Entry: Larkin Goldsmith Mead Chesterfield, N.H. 1835-1910 Florence, The sculptor Larkin Mead belonged to a prominent New England family noted for its intellectual and artistic achievements. Mead's brother William became a principal partner in the renowned architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White in New York. His sister Elinor, herself an artist, married the writer William Dean Howells and moved with him to Venice, where he served as United States consul. In 1853 the young Larkin's proclivity for drawing and carving caught the attention of the sculptor Henry Kirke Brown (see object 95.8.2), who convinced Mead's parents to let him leave their Brattleboro, Vermont, home to study with him in New York.
After returning to Brattleboro in 1855, Mead caused a sensation that winter with what would become regarded as a legendary feat of artistic showmanship: the modeling of an eight-foot sculpture of an angel out of snow. Though his clever self-promotion attracted the sponsorship of the influential Cincinnati art patron Nicholas Longworth, Mead's career stalled with the outbreak of the Civil War. In 1862 he traveled with the Army of the Potomac, providing illustrations of enlisted life to Harper's Weekly. His wartime experiences inspired two of his most memorable creations, The Battle Story and the colossal Lincoln Monument for Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois (completed 1874). Mead conceived both works in Florence, where he had moved in 1863. Eventually he settled there for good, undisturbed by the fact that Rome had supplanted that city as the center of the American neoclassical movement. The Civil War and its aftermath brought a demand among Northern patrons for sculptures that paid tribute to those who had fought and died to hold the Union together. While traditional monuments tended to extol the heroic victories of generals and admirals, many Civil War memorials focused, more realistically, on the strength and valor of ordinary soldiers caught in the cross hairs of history. Such is the case with The Battle Story, which numbers among the earliest and most affecting of these Civil War tributes.
The sculpture depicts a Union soldier-the sword at his side indicates his rank as an officer-who has returned from battle. Seated on a rocky outcropping, he intently relates his war stories to a young girl-presumably his daughter-who hangs on his every word. Mead's penchant for naturalistic depiction reveals itself in the crisply rendered details of the soldier's uniform. Yet the figure's stoop-shouldered pose and the declamatory gesture of his outstretched hand have clear precedents in the idealized marble images of ancient Roman athletes and senators that the American neoclassicists studied so closely. Modeled soon after he arrived in Florence, Mead's warmly human tribute to Civil War heroism was widely praised when he exhibited it in New York in 1866, prompting production of the Chrysler's marble and at least one other replica.
Object Number: 86.486
Photo taken September 29th, 2007.
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