The Lovers’ Chronicle 17 June – stay – art by Giovanni Paolo Panini – birth of Charles Gounod – photography by Carl Van Vechten

17 June 2023 By Rhett 0 In Random

Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett

The Lovers’ Chronicle

Dear Muse,

i have been tryin’

i even wrote about it

show me somethin’

i had no idea

come a little closer

tell me you know

how to feel about it

somethin’ in the way you are

takes me all the way

i found the reason

the need to hold on

somethin’ in the way

i miss you, takes me

i have been tryin’

i said show me somethin’

if you come a little closer

now tell me you know

how to feel about it

somethin’ in the way you are

takes me all the way

i found the reason

the only need to hold on

funny, when you are broken

how you have to want

to be saved

all along
i said show me somethin’
if you dare come a little closer

round and around
now tell me you know

how to feel about it
somethin’ in the way you are
takes me all the way
if you would stay

not just somethin’ given
round and around
now tell me you know

how to feel about it
somethin’ in the way
you make me feel
takes me all the way
if you want to stay

i found the reason
the only need to hold on

funny, when you are broken
how you have to want
to be saved

when you are without
for so long, hard to know

how to feel about it
somethin’ in the way
i miss you, takes me…

i want you to stay

would it matter to weep
to see you haste away
would it be as well to ask
first light to stay until
the day has run to evensong

if we speak of together
will we go along as before

we have a short time
to stay, to give to be
as hours do and dry
away, never to be found

Pannini by Blanchet

Today is the birthday of Giovanni Paolo Panini or Pannini (Piacenza, Duchy of Parma, Holy Roman Empire 17 June 1691 – 21 October 1765 Rome, Papal States); painter and architect, who worked in Rome and is mainly known as one of the vedutisti (“view painters”). As a painter, Panini is best known for his vistas of Rome, in which he took a particular interest in the city’s antiquities. Among his most famous works are his view of the interior of the Pantheon (on behalf of Francesco Algarotti), and his vedute, paintings of picture galleries containing views of Rome.

Gallery

The interior of the Pantheon, Rome
Roman Capriccio: The Pantheon and Other Monuments (1735),Indianapolis Museum of Art
A Capriccio of the Roman Forum (1741)
Ancient Rome (1757)
Modern Rome (1757)
The Lottery at Palazzo Montecitorio, now in the National Gallery, London
St. Peter’s Basilica, from the entrance
Adoration of the Shepherds, Adoration of the Magi (1755)
View of the Colosseum (1747), The Walters Art Museum
Charles Gounod, photograph by Nadar(1890)

Today is the birthday of Charles-François Gounod (Paris 17 June 1818 – 17 or 18 October 1893); composer, perhaps best known for his Ave Maria, based on a work by Bach, as well as his opera Faust. Another opera by Gounod occasionally still performed is Roméo et Juliette.

Gounod died at Saint-Cloud in 1893, after a final revision of his twelve operas. His funeral took place ten days later at the Church of the Madeleine, with Camille Saint-Saëns playing the organ and Gabriel Fauré conducting. He was buried at the Cimetière d’Auteuil in Paris.

Performance of Ave Maria on YouTube

Today is the birthday of Carl Van Vechten (Cedar Rapids, Iowa; June 17, 1880 – December 21, 1964 New York City); writer and artistic photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein.