Word: hamen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...story of the holiday goes something like this: Esther the beautiful marries into the harem of Persian King Achashveirosh (365 BCE), where she uses her influence over the king to save the Jewish people from the King’s evil advisor Hamen (namesake of those delicious triangular jam-filled cookies), who wants to kill the Jewish people for having their own unique traditions and values...
This peculiar character was shared by other still-life artists in Spain, who turned their tables into arrays of symmetrical dishes and vases that have the liturgical solemnity of altars. Such abstraction persists even in the more materialistic work of Juan van der Hamen y Leon (1596-1631), whose "aristocratic" still lifes are arranged on different levels like an architectural stage, glittering with invitation. Each detail--the sheen of silver, the frosting of sugar and spice (real luxuries then) on a macaroon or a doughnut, the translucency of candied fruit--speaks of privilege...
...least typically Spanish work is that of Juan van der Hamen y León, whose father was a Flemish painter in Madrid. Completely Flemish in technique and approach, Van der Hamen had a tremendous influence in forming the school of Spanish still-life painting that later developed with Meléndez, De Loarte and even Goya. After the show closes in Indianapolis in late March, it will go to the Museum of Art of the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence for a month, and then be dispersed again to its scattered owners...
With only ten men on the ice, play speeded up, and Wilkinson put Nassau ahead by hacking his own rebound post Cumings before the Crimson leader could clear. For the remainder of the period, Harvard launched one drive after another Hamen and Coady twice missing good chances to tally. The period ended in a huge pileup in front of the Tigers and Colebrook stopped another Crimson advance...
...Bradford, Doherty l.e. r.e. PotterLindner, Taylor, Simonds l.t. r.t. Brosowsky, ReillyKilgour, Hoague, Tripp l.g. r.g. Ehlert, SinclairMacomber, Turner, Shapiro c. c. McLaughlin, FurbushC. H. Bradford, Daniell, Laimbeer r.g. l.g. Wiley, FrankNash, Pratt, Fordyce r.t. t.l. MullenSaltonstall, Adie, Baldwin r.e. l.e. JonesCheek, Stafford, McGlone q.b. q.b. RiceCrosby, Moseley, Zarakov, Hamen l.h.b. r.h.b. Schaefer, McNeilMiller, Puffer, Moseley, Barbee r.h.b. l.h.b. WhittemoreCoady, Howe f.b. f.b. Krugel, Keen
| 1 |