The Arcades Project - Operi

Other names : optical belvedere.
It remains to be discovered what is meant when, in the dioramas, the variations in lighting
which a day brings to a landscape take place in fifteen or thirty minutes.
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The Berlin diorama is closed on May 31, 1850; the pictures are sent, in part, to
St. Petersburg.
First London exhibition of 1851 brings together industries from around the world. Fol·
lowing this, the South Kensington museum is founded. Second world exhibition 1862 (in
London!). With the Munich exhibition of 1875, the GelTllan Renaissance style came into
fashion.
In 1903, in Paris, Emile Tardieu brought out a book entitled L'l!.rmui, in which all human
activity is shown to be a vain attempt to escape from boredom, but in which, at the same
time, what is, what was, and what will be appear as the inexhaustible nourishment of that
feeling. In view of such a portrait, one might suppose the work to be some mighty classical
monument of literature-a monument aere perenniuJ erected by a Roman to the taedium
vitae ,37 But it is only the self-satisfied, shabby scholarship of a new Homais, who aims to
tum the most serious matters-asceticism and martyrdom included-into documents of
his thoughtless, spiritually barren, petty-bourgeois discontent.
To be mentioned in connection with the fashion in shawls: the characteristic and, properly
speaking, sole decoration of the Biedenneier room "was afforded by the curtains,
which-extremely refined and compounded preferably from several fabrics of different
colors-were funushed by the upholsterer. For nearly a whole century afterward, interior
decoration amounts, in theory, to providing instructions to upholsterers for the tasteful
arrangement of draperies." Max von Boehn, Die Mode im XIX Jahrhundert) voL 2 (Mu­
nich, 1907), p. 130.
Mantlepiece clocks with genre scenes in bronze. Tu ne looks out from the base.
Double meaning of the term temps .38