Rubens Painting The Incredulity of St Thomas in Elementary's The Woman

Summary: The Peter Paul Rubens painting The Incredulity of St. Thomas may be Irene Adler's only legal original in Elementary series episode The Woman May 16, 2013.

Flemish Baroque artist Sir Peter Paul Ruben painted The Incredulity of Saint Thomas triptych (ca. 1613-1615) by Flemish Baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens (June 28, 1577-May 30, 1640), Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Netherlands: Web Gallery of Art, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Peter Paul Rubens painting The Incredulity of Saint Thomas perhaps alone avows Irene Adler's abilities as restorer in The Woman episode of the Columbia Broadcasting System series Elementary May 16, 2013.

Director Seith Mann and writers Paul Doherty and Craig Sweeny bring the Peter Paul Rubens painting The Incredulity of Saint Thomas to Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer). Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) consults Irene at her apartment about forged or original Joseph Turner (April 23, 1775-Dec. 19, 1851) sketches for The Fighting Temeraire. Irene dismisses the sketches as "They're good forgeries but, you know, they're forgeries" just before Sherlock deems her paintings either "counts of felonious theft" or reproductions.

The Peter Paul Rubens painting The Incredulity of Saint Thomas emerges as possibly sole legitimate restoration since Irene and Sherlock never elucidate the other artworks' provenances.

The Peter Paul Rubens painting The Incredulity of Saint Thomas faces the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painting Rousse that fills space in front of Irene's winding staircase.

The 143- by 123-centimeter (56.2- by 48.42-inch) oil on canvas gazes upon the Pieter Bruegel painted parable The Blind Leading the Blind and the Turner Temeraire. Sherlock honors the Bruegel as the original while Irene hints that "The world would be a more interesting place with a few new Turners in it." In the everyday world outside imaginative and realistic television series the Flemish Baroque masterpiece inhabits Siegen 1577 in Antwerp, Brussels, not Irene's apartment in London, England.

The Peter Paul Rubens painting The Incredulity of Saint Thomas juggles the nickname Rockox Altarpiece and Rockox Triptych for commissioning patron, intended destination and three-panel construction.

The Peter Paul Rubens painting The Incredulity of Saint Thomas from 1615-1615 knew the Lady Chapel in the Recollects Church as its original destination in 1619.

Rubens (June 28, 1577-May 30, 1640) linked a panel with his patron's likeness and another with his patron's wife's to either side of the main panel. Curators nowadays maintain the Rockox Triptych among 14th- to 20th-century artworks in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen). Only the main panel with Thomas (died July 3, 72), Peter (died 64-67?) and Paul (died 64-67?) noting the red-garbed Jesus' wounds needed Irene's restorative talents.

Sherlock never occupies himself with the omitted couple even though Nicolaas II Rockox (Dec. 14, 1560-Dec. 12, 1640) and Adriana Perez (1568-1619) operated among Antwerp's elite.

The Royal Museum of Fine Arts online catalogue entry for Inventory number 307-311 presents the side-paneled couple as posed in sober black attire for devout faith.

Rubens queued up pearls and a rosary for Antwerp's devoutest, wealthiest Spaniard and fur, gilded buckle and right hand over the heart for her husband's philanthropy. He relayed the rich couple's reliance upon God's grace as revealed through Jesus's forgiving Peter's denying their friendship, Thomas's doubting the resurrection and Paul's persecuting Christians.

Perhaps the Peter Paul Rubens painting The Incredulity of St. Thomas shows up on Elementary's first-season finale for wounds that Sherlock should and should not suspect. No wounds from the non-existent Stapleton traumatize Irene, whose removed mole terminates her back's Auriga-like configuration of beauty marks and tells on her as Jamie Moriarty.

Is Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer) restoring only the main panel of Flemish Baroque artist Sir Peter Paul Rubens' The Incredulity of Saint Thomas triptych (ca. 1613-1615 oil on canvas), or is the solitary panel an exemplar of her forging excellence in Elementary tv series' The Woman (season 1 episode 23)?: Ari Permadi @aripermantap, via Twitter May 17, 2013

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Flemish Baroque artist Sir Peter Paul Ruben painted The Incredulity of Saint Thomas as a triptych (ca. 1613-1615), but only the main panel displays on Irene Adler's (Natalie Dormer) easel when Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) makes her acquaintance during a visit to her studio in Elementary tv series' The Woman (season 1 episode 23); in real life, the Netherlands's Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp shelters Ruben's triptych.: Web Gallery of Art, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peter_Paul_Rubens_-_The_Incredulity_of_St_Thomas_-_WGA20193.jpg

Is Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer) restoring only the main panel of Flemish Baroque artist Sir Peter Paul Rubens' The Incredulity of Saint Thomas triptych (ca. 1613-1615 oil on canvas), or is the solitary panel an exemplar of her forging excellence in Elementary tv series' The Woman (season 1 episode 23)?: Ari Permadi @aripermantap, via Twitter May 17, 2013, @ https://twitter.com/aripermantap/status/335306678604009472

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Espin Crater Honors British Astronomer Thomas Henry Espinell Compton Espin

Summary: Espin Crater honors British astronomer Thomas Henry Espinell Compton Espin, whose astronomical accomplishment include discovering Nova Lacertae 1910.

Details of Lunar Astronautical Charts (LAC) 46 and 47 show Espin Crater with its sole satellite, Espin E, which lies between its parent and Seyfert Crater, on the lunar far side; courtesy NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) / GSFC (Goddard Space Flight Center) / ASU (Arizona State University): Public Domain, via USGS Astrogeology Science Center / Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Espin Crater honors British astronomer Thomas Henry Espinell Compton Espin, whose accomplishments in observational astronomy include the discovery of a nova in Lacerta the Lizard constellation in 1910.

Espin Crater is a lunar impact crater that lies on the lunar far side, just beyond the near side’s northeastern limb. The crater’s northern rim exhibits heavy damage.

The worn crater is centered at 28.15 degrees north latitude, 109.34 degrees east longitude, according to the International Astronomical Union’s (IAU) Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. The northern hemisphere crater sets its northernmost and southernmost latitudes at 29.3 degrees north and 26.99 degrees north, respectively. The northwestern quadrant crater marks its easternmost and westernmost longitudes at 110.65 degrees east and 108.03 degrees east, respectively. Espin Crater’s diameter measures 70.01 kilometers.

Espin Crater parents one satellite on the lunar far side. Espin E lies to the east of its parent.

Espin E is centered at 28.43 degrees north latitude, 111.58 degrees east longitude. The satellite obtains northernmost and southernmost latitudes at 28.96 degrees north and 27.9 degrees north, respectively. Its easternmost and westernmost longitudes occur at 112.18 degrees east and 110.98 degrees east, respectively. Espin E has a diameter of 32.16 kilometers.

Espin E’s location places the satellite between its parent, to the west, and Seyfert Crater, to the east. Seyfert Crater lies to the east-northeast of Espin E’s parent.

Seyfert Crater is centered at 29.26 degrees north latitude, 114.34 degrees east longitude. Its northernmost and southernmost latitudes stretch to 30.96 degrees north and 27.57 degrees north, respectively. Its easternmost and westernmost longitudes reach 116.27 degrees east and 112.4 degrees east, respectively. Seyfert Crater’s diameter spans 102.63 kilometers.

Espin Crater honors British astronomer Thomas Henry Espinell Compton Espin (May 28, 1858-Dec. 2, 1934). The International Astronomical Union (IAU) approved Espin as the crater’s official name in 1970, during the organization’s XIVth (14th) General Assembly, held in Brighton, United Kingdom, from Wednesday, Aug. 18, to Friday, Aug. 27. The letter designation for the Espin Crater system’s sole satellite, Espin E, was approved in 2006.

Thomas Henry Espinell Compton Espin’s interest in observational astronomy dated to his attendance from 1872 to 1876 at Haileybury College in Hertfordshire, South England, according to his obituary in the Feb. 8, 1935, issue of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The Reverend Frederic John Hall, a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS), lectured in astronomy and conducted sessions in telescopic observation. While at Haileybury, Espin also was inspired by observing Coggia’s Comet (C/1874 H1), which was discovered April 17, 1874, by 19th-century Corsican astronomer Jérôme Eugène Coggia (Feb. 18, 1849-Jan. 15, 1919).

Espin was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS) on Jan. 11, 1878, during the presidency of English spectroscopist Sir William Huggins (Feb. 7, 1824-May 12, 1910). The successful election of Espin and eight other candidates was announced in the Jan. 11, 1878, issue of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. His election at the young age of 19 made him “. . . accordingly one of our oldest Fellows” (page 319), stated the Royal Astronomical Society’s obituary.

Espin’s accomplishments in observational astronomy included the discovery of DI Lacertae (Nova Lacertae 1910; Nova Lac 1910), a nova in Lacerta the Lizard constellation on Dec. 30, 1910. He announced his discovery in the Jan. 13, 1911, issue of the Monthly Notices. Espin noted the red star’s first appearance, with 8.0 as estimated magnitude at twilight. He considered, however, the star’s magnitude as probably “. . . a little under 7.0 . . .” because of the “fainter” appearance of red stars “on a bright background” (page 189). Espin reported the star’s curious situation “. . . on the base line of a triangle of 12-mag. stars . . .” (page 190).

The takeaways for Espin Crater, which honors British astronomer Thomas Henry Espinell Compton Espin, are that the far side lunar impact crater lies just beyond the near side’s northeastern limb; that the primary crater hosts one satellite, Espin E; and that the crater’s namesake is credited with the discovery of DI Lacertae, a nova in Lacerta the Lizard constellation on Dec. 30, 1910.

Detail of Shaded Relief and Color-Coded Topography Map shows Espin Crater (upper right), with unmarked satellite E (right; east) and eastern neighbor Seyfert (upper right corner) in the lunar far side’s northwestern quadrant: U.S. Geological Survey, Public Domain, via USGS Astrogeology Science Center / Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Details of Lunar Astronautical Charts (LAC) 46 and 47 show Espin Crater with its sole satellite, Espin E, which lies between its parent and Seyfert Crater, on the lunar far side; courtesy NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) / GSFC (Goddard Space Flight Center) / ASU (Arizona State University): Public Domain, via USGS Astrogeology Science Center / Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature @ https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/images/Lunar/lac_46_wac.pdf and https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/images/Lunar/lac_47_wac.pdf

Detail of Shaded Relief and Color-Coded Topography Map shows Espin Crater (upper right), with unmarked satellite E (right; east) and eastern neighbor Seyfert (upper right corner) in the lunar far side’s northwestern quadrant: U.S. Geological Survey, Public Domain, via USGS Astrogeology Science Center / Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature @ https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/images/moon_farside.pdf

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Painting Rousse in Elementary Episode The Woman

Summary: Irene Adler keeps the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painting Rousse as reproduction or restoration in the Elementary Series Episode The Woman May 16, 2013.

Rousse (1889 oil on cardboard) by French post-Impressionist painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (November 24, 1864-September 9, 1901), Musée d'Orsay, seventh arrondissement (7e arrondissement de Paris): Olivier Duquesne (DaffyDake), CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Flickr

The Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painting Rousse appears diagonally from the Bruegel painted parable The Blind Leading the Blind in The Woman episode of the Columbia Broadcasting System series Elementary May 16, 2013.

That the Pieter Bruegel painted parable The Blind Leading the Blind bears the gouges from "shelling during the Great War" baffles Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller). Sherlock considers, "Hard to see you, a restorer by trade, would recreate the gouges" from World War I (July 28, 1914-Nov. 11, 1918) "in the canvas."

Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer) deems diversion a decorous part of valor and declares," The museum director wanted to file down the paint where the gouges were." She explains to Sherlock, "I told him that that would compromise what the artist intended, but he didn't see it my way, so I preserved it."

Sherlock fathoms that "other paintings are preserved as well" and formulates that "I appreciate your efforts to keep the vulgarities of the modern era at bay."

Sherlock's gauging that "I'll tell you which of the paintings are reproductions and which of them are counts of felonious theft" gives no answers to viewers. The fact that Irene handles its "very very particular palette" hints of the Peter Paul Rubens painting The Incredulity of Saint Thomas as restoration, not reproduction. It indicates nothing about the 67- by 54-centimeter (26.38- by 21.26-inch) Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painting Rousse from 1889 as original oil on cardboard, reproduction or restoration.

In the brick-and-mortar world outside the facts and fiction on television series the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painting Rousse joins other original art in the Musée d'Orsay.

The Paris museum on the left bank of the Seine River keeps an online catalogue entry for Rousse dit aussi La Toilette ("Redhead also called Toilet").

Wicker chairs let the entry locate the bare-backed redhead lingering over clean-up, coiffure, dress and make-up rituals at her painter's wooden floor-boarded studio at 27 rue Caulaincourt. The Masterpieces from Paris exhibition book Dec. 4, 2009-April 18, 2010, at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra mentions Carmen Gaudin (1866?-1920) as the model. Claire and José Frèches, curators and Toulouse-Lautrec historians, noted Gaudin's careers as "extremely punctual" model, Mirliton cabaret singer Rosa la Rouge and "quiet, sickly, working-class girl."

National Gallery of Australia curator Jane Kinsman offers the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painting Rousse as occurring at 7 rue Tourlaque because of a photo from 1889-1890.

The Musée d'Orsay entry posits a 1889 painting date, from a Rousse painting at Les XX ("The Twenty") exhibition Jan. 18-Feb. 23, 1890, in Brussels, Belgium. Vincent van Gogh (March 30, 1853-July 29, 1890) queued up his only known sale, The Red Vineyard to Anna Boch (Feb. 10, 1848-Feb. 25, 1936), there.

Toulouse-Lautrec (Nov. 24, 1864-Sep. 9, 1901) realized a 57- by 46-centimeter (22.44- by 18.11-inch) colored chalk on cardboard portrait of van Gogh in Paris in 1887. Sherlock suffers the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painting Rousse in Irene's studio whereas, in The Leviathan, he saves the stolen van Gogh Pietà from Peter Kent's stash.

Perhaps Carmen's back tells whether Irene tethers the reproduced or restored Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painting Rousse, just as Irene's tracks her Moriarty persona in The Heroine.

After reuniting with Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer) at the end of Risk Management (season 1 episode 22), Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) flashbacks, in The Woman (season 1, episode 23), to their first meeting, at Irene's studio adorned with art originals, including Toulouse-Lautrec's Rousse, and forgeries: Irene, still painting during her alleged captivity, at the end of Risk Management: Marco G. @marcogangini, via Twitter May 14, 2013

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

French post-Impressionist painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's Rousse (1889 oil on cardboard) numbers among fictitiously stolen art work that Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) notes in Irene Adler's (Natalie Dormer) studio in Elementary tv series' The Woman (season 1 episode 23); in real life, Musée d'Orsay in Paris's 7e arrondissement de Paris (7th arrondissement, Paris, France) claims ownership of Toulouse-Lautrec's Rousse: Olivier Duquesne (DaffyDake), CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/daffyduke/3402893626/

After reuniting with Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer) at the end of Risk Management (season 1 episode 22), Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) flashbacks, in The Woman (season 1, episode 23), to their first meeting, at Irene's studio adorned with art originals, including Toulouse-Lautrec's Rousse, and forgeries: Irene, still painting during her alleged captivity, at the end of Risk Management: Marco G. @marcogangini, via Twitter May 14, 2013, @ https://twitter.com/marcogangini/status/334288651506819073

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Marco G. ‏@marcogangini. 14 May 2013. "Irene Adler! . . . .#Elementary." Twitter.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 17 May 2013. “The Bruegel Painted Parable in the Elementary Series Episode The Woman.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 1 February 2013. “Russian Tortoise Natural History Illustrations and Elementary's Clyde Jan. 31, 2013.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 25 January 2013. “Costliest, World-Most Expensive Chopard Watch: 201 Carats at $25 Million.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 18 January 2013. “Chopard Watch Worth $25 Million on Elementary Episode The Leviathan.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2013/01/chopard-watch-worth-25-million-on.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 11 January 2013. “Claude Monet Painting Nympheas 1918 in Elementary Series' Leviathan.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2013/01/claude-monet-painting-nympheas-1918-in.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 4 January 2013. “Paul Cézanne Still Life Painting Fruit in Elementary Series' Leviathan.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2013/01/paul-cezanne-still-life-painting-fruit.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 28 December 2012. “Paul Signac Painting Women at the Well in Elementary Series' Leviathan.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2012/12/paul-signac-painting-women-at-well-in.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 21 December 2012. “The Van Gogh Pietà Painting in Elementary Series Episode The Leviathan.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-van-gogh-pieta-painting-in.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 14 December 2012. “Edward Hopper Painting Western Motel in Elementary Series' Leviathan.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2012/12/edward-hopper-painting-western-motel-in.html

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Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2012/09/are-lesser-clovers-sherlocks-lucky.html

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May 25, 2013, Penumbral Lunar Eclipse Belongs to Saros Series 150

Summary: The Saturday, May 25, 2013, penumbral lunar eclipse belongs to Saros cycle 150, a series of 71 similar lunar eclipses.

Penumbral lunar eclipse of Saturday, May 25, 2013, opens Saros 150’s lineup of 71 lunar eclipses: "Permission is freely granted to reproduce this data when accompanied by an acknowledgment, Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak and Jean Meeus (NASA's GSFC)," via NASA Eclipse Web Site

The Saturday, May 25, 2013, penumbral lunar eclipse belongs to Saros cycle 150, which comprises 71 lunar eclipses with similar geometries.

May’s penumbral lunar eclipse begins Saturday, May 25, at 03:53:11 Universal Time, according to NASA’s Eclipse Web Site. Greatest eclipse takes place at 04:10:00 UT. Greatest eclipse indicates the instant of the moon’s closest passage to the axis of Earth’s shadow. The eclipse ends at 04:26:56 UT.

May 2013’s penumbral lunar eclipse appears as the first eclipse in the lineup of 71 lunar eclipses that compose Saros cycle 150. Similar geometries unite the 71 lunar eclipses into a family, known as a series.

Retired NASA astrophysicist Fred Espenak’s EclipseWise website describes Saros 150 lunar eclipses as sharing the geometry of occurring at the moon’s ascending node. With each succeeding eclipse in Saros 150, the lunar movement is southward with respect to the ascending node.

An ascending node and a descending node announce the intersections of Earth’s orbit by the moon’s orbit. The two nodes reveal the approximately 5.1 degree tilt of the lunar orbit with respect to Earth’s orbit. The ascending node concerns the moon’s orbital crossing to the north of Earth’s orbit. The descending node accentuates the lunar orbital crossing to the south of Earth’s orbit.

Saros lunar series 150’s number attests to the occurrence of the series’ eclipses at the ascending node. Even-numbered lunar Saros series are associated with the ascending node. Odd numbers are assigned to the descending node’s lunar eclipses.

A Saros cycle of approximately 6,585.3 days (18 years 11 days 8 hours sets the periodicity and recurrence of eclipses. A Saros series contains 70 or more lunar eclipses, with each separated from its successor by a Saros cycle. A Saros series typically requires 12 to 15 centuries.

Saros series 150 lasts for 1,262.11 years, according to NASA Eclipse Web Site. Saros series 150 plays out over 13 centuries. Saros series 150 spans the 21st through 33rd centuries.

Lunar eclipses in Saros cycle 150 exhibit a sequence order of eight penumbral lunar eclipses, 23 partial lunar eclipses, 12 total lunar eclipses, 15 partial lunar eclipses and 13 penumbral lunar eclipses. Partial lunar eclipses occur with the most frequency in Saros series 150, with a total of 38 occurrences. Penumbral lunar eclipses appear as the second most frequent lunar eclipse type in the series, with a total of 21 occurrences.

The Saturday, May 25, 2013, penumbral lunar eclipse will initiate Saros series 150. This eclipse will occur near the northern edge of the penumbra (shadow’s lighter, outer region).

The 33rd century’s penumbral eclipse of Sunday, June 30, 3275, ends Saros series 150. This eclipse will occur near the penumbra’s southern edge.

May 2013’s penumbral lunar eclipse opens Saros series 150 as the first eclipse in the series’ opening sequence of eight penumbral lunar eclipses. This event will stage its greatest eclipse over eastern Bolivia’s Santa Cruz Department (Departamento de Santa Cruz).

The penumbral lunar eclipse of Wednesday, June 5, 2031, is the successor of the Saturday, May 25, 2013, penumbral lunar eclipse in Saros series 150. This event’s greatest eclipse will take place over the southwestern Pacific Ocean, northwest of the Kingdom of Tonga’s main island of Tongatapu and southwest of Tonga’s Tofua Island.

The June 2031 eclipse occurs as the second of eight in Saros series 150’s opening sequence of penumbral lunar eclipses. This eclipse appears as number two in the series’ lineup of 71 lunar eclipses.

The takeaway for the Saturday, May 25, 2013, penumbral lunar eclipse is that the astronomical event opens Saros series 150 as the first eclipse in Saros series 150’s lineup of 71 lunar eclipses and announces the series’ opening sequence of eight penumbral lunar eclipses.

Penumbral lunar eclipse of Wednesday, June 5, 2031, succeeds May 2013’s penumbral lunar eclipse in Saros series 150’s opening sequence of eight penumbral lunar: "Permission is freely granted to reproduce this data when accompanied by an acknowledgment, Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak and Jean Meeus (NASA's GSFC)," via NASA Eclipse Web Site

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Penumbral lunar eclipse of Saturday, May 25, 2013, opens Saros 150’s lineup of 71 lunar eclipses: "Permission is freely granted to reproduce this data when accompanied by an acknowledgment, Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak and Jean Meeus (NASA's GSFC)," via NASA Eclipse Web Site @ https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/5MCLEmap/2001-2100/LE2013-05-25N.gif

Penumbral lunar eclipse of Wednesday, June 5, 2031, succeeds May 2013’s penumbral lunar eclipse in Saros series 150’s opening sequence of eight penumbral lunar: "Permission is freely granted to reproduce this data when accompanied by an acknowledgment, Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak and Jean Meeus (NASA's GSFC)," via NASA Eclipse Web Site @ https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/5MCLEmap/2101-2200/LE2139-07-12N.gif

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Espenak, Fred. “Penumbral Lunar Eclipse of 2031 Jun 05.” EclipseWise > Lunar Eclipses > Lunar Eclipse Links > Six Millennium Catalog of Lunar Eclipses -2999 to +3000 (3000 BCE to 3000 CE) > 2001 to 2100 (2001 CE to 2100 CE).
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Marriner, Derdriu. “First of Three 2013 Lunar Eclipses Happens April 25 as Partial Eclipse.” Earth and Space News. Wednesday, April 17, 2013.
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The Bruegel Painted Parable in the Elementary Series Episode The Woman

Summary: The Bruegel painted parable The Blind Leading the Blind fictitiously belongs to Irene Adler in the Elementary series episode The Woman May 16, 2013.

The Parable of the Blind (1568 distemper on linen canvas) by Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca. 1525-1530-Sept. 9, 1569); Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Southern Italy; Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Pieter Bruegel painting The Parable of the Blind appears May 16, 2013, in episode 23, directed by Seith Mann, in the first season of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) series Elementary.

The 33.875- by 60.625-inch (86.0425- by 153.9875-centimeter) tempera on canvas from 1568 becomes the fictitiously restored belonging of Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer) in The Woman episode. Irene catches Sherlock Holmes' (Jonny Lee Miller's) curiosity by claiming the consummately restored original clandestinely for herself and the cleverly counterfeited copy for the museum collection. The brown-gray-mauve glue-bound painting depicts the parable of St. Matthew XV verse 14 that "If the Blind lead the Blind, both shall fall into the ditch."

Episode writers Robert Doherty and Craig Sweeny perhaps entertain the Bruegel painted parable as foreshadowed evidence of Irene's exile as Jamie Moriarty and Sherlock's for addictions.

Away from sometimes fabricated, sometimes non-fabricated serial plots, the Bruegel painted parable of the blind flourishes at the Museo di Capodimonte (Top-of-the-Hill Museum) in Naples, Italy.

The tragic glimpse gives the blind leader already gone face-up into the stream, the second about to go face-down and the last four going gingerly forward. The blind beggar amid The Fight between Carnival and Lent of 1559 heralds the Bruegel painted parable's physical and spiritual blindness, despite the fourth man's cross. The second, third, fourth and sixth men illustrate the respective blindness of empty, eyeball-less sockets, fixated non-seeing eyes, inflicted or inherited non-seeing squints and sewed-together eyelids.

Perhaps Irene judged as juggle-worthy the thin-colored Bruegel painted parable with cowering cow, lone lily, sparse grasses and trees and peripheral church, three buildings and town.

An earlier depiction of the blind leading the blind by figure and landscape painter Pieter Bruegel is found in the background in Netherlandish Proverbs (1559 oil-on-panel): Netherlandish Proverbs (Dutch: Nederlandse Spreekwoorden) with inset detail of three blind figures, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Art collectors, connoisseurs and historians know Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525-1530?-Sept. 9, 1569) as figure and landscape illustrator and genre and landscape oil and tempera painter.

Specialists list the Bruegel legacy as figure and landscape drawings for engravings in Antwerp, miniatures and watercolors in Italy and genre and landscape paintings in Brussels. They mention as respective fine linen watercoloring, Mannerist panting and miniature painting mentors Claude Dorizi and Mayken Verhulst Bessemer, Pieter Coeck van Alst and Giulio Clovio. They note as early-drawn landscapes, miniatures and figures Landscape with Walled Town and Tower of Babel in 1553 and Big Fish Eat Little Fish in 1556.

Death of the Virgin and the Mannerist Adoration of the Kings in 1564 and Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery in 1565 offer early-painted figures.

Bruegel drawings and paintings present, until the last years, powerful built and natural settings prevailing over pint-sized people, as in The Triumph of Death in 1562.

Only the gray-monochromed Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery and Death of the Virgin, the thin-colored painted parable and the watercolor-like Misanthrope qualify as non-vivid. Even The Hunters in the Snow, Massacre of the Innocents, Numbering at Bethlehem and Winter Landscape with Skaters and a Bird-Trap in 1565-1566 reek of colors. Carol van Mander's Schilder-boeck in 1604 said, "He (Bruegel) liked to frighten people, often even his own pupils, with all kinds of spooks and uncanny noises."

Perhaps the Bruegel painted parable told Irene, not der Mander's take, or Sherlock's on her dark heart, but tumultuous truths of thoughtful teamwork and trustworthy tips.

Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) flashes back to meeting art forger and restorer Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer) in her studio, where he discovers her collection of original art, including Pieter Bruegel's Parable of the Blind, in Elementary tv series' The Woman (season 1, episode 23): CBS Elementary episode 1.23 promotional photo, via SpoilerTV May 11, 2013

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

In CBS series Elementary episode The Woman, Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) discovers that art restorer Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer) has skillfully switched her copy of The Parable of the Blind by Pieter Bruegel the Elder for the original: Pieter Bruegel's The Parable of the Blind (1568 distemper on linen canvas); Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Southern Italy; Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_(1568)_The_Blind_Leading_the_Blind.jpg

An earlier depiction of the blind leading the blind by figure and landscape painter Pieter Bruegel is found in the background in Netherlandish Proverbs (1559 oil-on-panel); Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, northeastern Germany: Netherlandish Proverbs (Dutch: Nederlandse Spreekwoorden) with inset detail of three blind figures, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_-_Netherlandish_Proverbs_-_detail_of_blind_men.jpg

Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) flashes back to meeting art forger and restorer Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer) in her studio, where he discovers her collection of original art, including Pieter Bruegel's Parable of the Blind, in Elementary tv series' The Woman (season 1, episode 23): CBS Elementary episode 1.23 promotional photo, via SpoilerTV May 11, 2013, @ https://www.spoilertv.com/2013/05/elementary-season-1-finale-promotional.html

For further information:

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Marriner, Derdriu. 1 February 2013. “Russian Tortoise Natural History Illustrations and Elementary's Clyde Jan. 31, 2013.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2013/02/russian-tortoise-natural-history.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 25 January 2013. “Costliest, World-Most Expensive Chopard Watch: 201 Carats at $25 Million.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2013/01/costliest-world-most-expensive-chopard.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 18 January 2013. “Chopard Watch Worth $25 Million on Elementary Episode The Leviathan.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2013/01/chopard-watch-worth-25-million-on.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 11 January 2013. “Claude Monet Painting Nympheas 1918 in Elementary Series' Leviathan.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2013/01/claude-monet-painting-nympheas-1918-in.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 4 January 2013. “Paul Cézanne Still Life Painting Fruit in Elementary Series' Leviathan.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2013/01/paul-cezanne-still-life-painting-fruit.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 28 December 2012. “Paul Signac Painting Women at the Well in Elementary Series' Leviathan.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2012/12/paul-signac-painting-women-at-well-in.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 21 December 2012. “The Van Gogh Pietà Painting in Elementary Series Episode The Leviathan.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-van-gogh-pieta-painting-in.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 14 December 2012. “Edward Hopper Painting Western Motel in Elementary Series' Leviathan.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2012/12/edward-hopper-painting-western-motel-in.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 29 September 2012. "Are Lesser Clovers Sherlock's Lucky Shamrocks on Elementary's Pilot?" Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2012/09/are-lesser-clovers-sherlocks-lucky.html

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