12 August 2010

"Landscape with a Bridge and Castle"

Andreas Roller (1805-1891): 'Landscape with a Bridge and Castle', 1843
If you like it, it's worth embiggifying with a click.  From the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, via A Polar Bear's Tale.

7 comments:

  1. You misspelled "embiggening." Hope this helps.

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  2. Thanks - but I thought I was making up the word (I get tired of always saying "click to enlarge" "click to magnify" etc.)

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  3. Toledo, Spain actually looks a lot like this minus the huge mountains in the background

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  4. "Embiggen" according to Wikipedia, since 1884 (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/embiggen), but I like the use of "embiggify" for "click to enlarge."

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  5. Just a little correction, the image name is "Landscape with a Bridge and Castle", not Fortress :-)

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    1. Amended - although I never did find a definitive source online. I thought castle/fortress was a translation variation, but I also see the painting entitled "Landscape with a Castle" (no bridge).

      I also enlarged the embedded image while I was editing the post.

      Tx, Ole.

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