Notre Dame de Rouen. The façade of the Gothic Church in France. Photographer: Hippo1947. Licence: SHUTTERSTOCK.

17 September, 2026

Art Deco. The Golden Age Of Graphic Art And Typographical Illustration.



Advertisement for “The North Star Train”.
Affiche du train “Étoile du Nord” (North Star).
Source: Own work.
This File: 14 November 2010.
Author: Not known.
(Wikimedia Commons)


Text from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia,
unless stated otherwise.

Art Deco, or, Deco, is an influential visual arts design style that first appeared in France after World War I and began flourishing internationally in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s before its popularity waned after World War II. 

It is an eclectic style that combines Traditional craft motifs with Machine Age imagery and materials. The style is often characterised by rich colours, bold geometric shapes, and lavish ornamentation.

Deco emerged from the Inter-War Period when rapid industrialisation was transforming culture. One of its 
major attributes is an embrace of technology. This distinguishes Deco from the organic motifs favoured by 
its predecessor, Art Nouveau.



The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco-style Skyscraper,
which was completed in 1930, in New York.
Creator: Carol M. Highsmith. 1946. Photographer.
Date Created/Published: 16 September 2007.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and 
Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540
Credit: 
Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, 
Prints and Photographs Division.
(Wikimedia Commons)



English: 
Cassandre in 1967.
Nederlands: 
A. M. Cassandre op de opening van de decor 
en affiche-tentoonstelling van A. M. Cassandre 
in de Rijksacademie te Amsterdam.
Photo: 26 May 1967.
Source: 
Image has been extracted from another file: 
This File is made available under the 
Author: Ron Kroon / Anefo.
(Wikimedia Commons)


Cassandre, pseudonym of Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron (24 January 1901 – 17 June 1968) was a Ukrainian-French Painter, Commercial Poster Artist, and Typeface Designer.

He was born Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron in Kharkiv, Ukraine, to French parents. As a young man, Cassandre moved to Paris, where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and at the Académie Julian. 

The popularity of Posters as advertising afforded him an opportunity to work for a Parisian Printing House. 

Inspired by Cubism, as well as Surrealism, he earned a reputation with works such as Bûcheron (Woodcutter), a Poster created for a Cabinet-Maker that won First Prize at the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes.


Cassandre became successful enough that, with the help of partners, he was able to set up his own Advertising Agency, called “Alliance Graphique”, serving a wide variety of clients during the 1930s. 

He is perhaps best known for his Posters advertising travel, for clients such as the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits.

His creations for the Dubonnet Wine Company were among the first Posters designed in a manner that allowed them to be seen by occupants in moving vehicles. 

His Posters are memorable for their innovative graphic solutions and their frequent denotations to such Painters as Max Ernst and Pablo Picasso. 


In addition, he taught Graphic Design at the École des Arts Décoratifs and then at the École d’Art Graphique.

With Typography an important part of Poster Design, the Company created several new Typeface Styles. 

Cassandre developed Bifur in 1929, the Sans Serif Acier Noir in 1935, and, in 1937, an all-purpose Font called Peignot. 

In 1936, his works were exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York City, which led to commissions from Harper’s Bazaar to do Cover Designs.



Bluebird Sparton Radio.
1936.
Designed by Walter Dorwin Teague
in Blue Mirrored Glass, Chrome and Ebonised Wood.
Illustration: PHIL'S OLD RADIOS



Poster for Century of Progress World’s Fair in Chicago, Illinois, in 1933, showing Buildings with Boats on Water.
Date: 1933.
This image is available from the United States 
Library of Congress’ Prints and Photographs Division 
under the Digital ID cph.3q11941.
Author: Weimer Pursell. 
Silkscreen print by Neely Printing Co., Chicago.
(Wikimedia Commons)



The De La Warr Pavilion,
Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, England.
Photo: 9 November 2007.
Source:
Originally posted to Flickr
This File is licensed under the
Author: Alan Stanton.
(Wikimedia Commons)



Spiral Staircase of the De La Warr Pavilion, 
Bexhill, East Sussex.
Photo: 27 June 2007.
Source: 
Originally posted to Flickr as De La Warr Pavilion.
This File is licensed under the 
2.0 Generic Licence.
Author: David Dawson
(Wikimedia Commons)



Tamara de Lempicka.
Date: 1929.
Source:
(Wikipedia)
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The Impression Of The Stigmata of Saint Francis. Confessor. Feast Day 17 September. White Vestments.

 



English: Saint Francis of Assisi.
Polski: Św. Franciszek z Asyżu.
Artist: Cigoli (1559–1613).
Date: 1597-1599.
Current location: Hermitage Museum,
Saint Petersburg, Russia.
(Wikimedia Commons)


Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.

The Impression of The Stigmata of Saint Francis.
   Confessor.
   Feast Day 17 September.

Double.

White Vestments.

Two years before his death, Saint Francis retired to Mount Alverno, Italy, where he began a Fast of Forty Days in honour of Saint Michael The Archangel. And lo ! In the midst of his Meditations, he saw a figure, like a Seraphim, with six wings dazzling and burning, whose feet and hands were nailed to a Cross.

Aware that suffering is incompatible with the immortality of a Seraphic Spirit, he understood this to mean that he would become more like Jesus and bear his Cross after Him (Gospel), not by physical Martyrdom, but by a Mystical kindling of Divine Love.


English: Basilica of Saint Francis, Assisi, Italy.
Photo: 7 March 2009.
Source: Own work.
(Wikimedia Commons)

And, in order that this Crucified Love might become an example to us all, five wounds, resembling those of Jesus on The Cross, appeared on his feet, hands, and side. From his side, blood flowed abundantly.

The facts were so fully authenticated, later, that Pope Benedict XI ordered them to be Commemorated every year, and Pope Paul V, to kindle in The Faithful The Love of Jesus Crucified, extended The Feast to the whole Church.

Mass: Mihi autem.
Proper Collects.
Gospel: Si quis vult.
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Wow !!! Just A Hint Of Art Deco, Maybe ?



A 200-metre-long, sci-fi-esque, façade in Montpellier, France.
Curtain walls for interplanetary spacecraft. British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid, the first woman to win the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 2004, loves complexity, as is borne out by her outstanding creation in Montpellier, France, called ‘Pierres Vives’ (Living Stones).
This impressive ship of a building, measuring 200 metres long and twenty-five metres tall, and, with its sloping façades, resembling something out of a science fiction film, is designed to house the archives, a media library and offices, of “Hérault Sport” association for the Hérault Department (Region).
Text and Illustration: RIBAJ and REYNAERS

The following illustrations are from ARCHDAILY
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Saint Hildegarde von Bingen (1098 - 1179). “Voice Of The Living Light”. Doctor Of The Church. Feast Day 17 September. White Vestments.



English: Eibingen Abbey, Germany, 
where Saint Hildegarde von Bingen is buried.
Deutsch: Benediktinerinnenkloster Eibingen.
Photo: 8 October 2006.
Source: Own work.
Author: Moguntiner
(Wikimedia Commons)


Text from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia, unless stated otherwise.

Hildegarde von Bingen (1098 – 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegarde and The Sibyl of The Rhine, was a German Benedictine Abbess and Polymath, active as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical writer and practitioner during the High Middle Ages.[1][2] 

She is one of the best-known composers of Sacred Monophony, as well as the most recorded in modern history.[3]

Hildegarde’s convent at Disibodenberg elected her as Magistra (Mother Superior) in 1136. She Founded the Monasteries of Rupertsberg in 1150 and Eibingen in 1165. 



“Canticles Of Ecstasy”.
Composed by: Hildegarde von Bingen.
Sung by: Sequentia.
Available on YouTube

Hildegarde wrote theological, botanical, and medicinal works,[5] as well as Letters, Hymns, and Antiphons for the Liturgy.[2] 

She wrote poems, and supervised miniature illuminations in the Rupertsberg Manuscript of her first work, Scivias.[6] 

There are more surviving chants by Hildegarde than by any other composer from the entire Middle Ages, and she is one of the few known composers to have written both the music and the words.[7] 



Abbey of Saint Hildegarde,
Rüdesheim-Eibingen, Germany.
Date: November 2010.
Photo Credit: Gregor Kollmorgen.

One of her works, the Ordo Virtutum, is an early example of Liturgical drama and arguably the oldest surviving Morality Play.[a] She is noted for the invention of a constructed language known as Lingua Ignota.

Although the history of her formal Canonisation is complicated, Regional Calendars of the Roman Catholic Church have listed her as a Saint for Centuries. 

On 10 May 2012, Pope Benedict XVI extended the Liturgical cult of Hildegarde to the entire Catholic Church in a process known as “Equivalent Canonisation”. 



“11,000 Virgins. 
Chants For The Feast Of Saint Ursula”. 
Composed by: Hildegarde von Bingen.
Sung by: Anonymous4.
Available on YouTube

On 7 October 2012, he named her a Doctor of The Church, in recognition of “her holiness of life and the originality of her teaching.”[8]

Hildegarde was born around 1098. Her parents were Mechtild of Merxheim-Nahet and Hildebert of Bermersheim, a family of the free lower nobility in the service of the Count Meginhard of Sponheim.[9]
 
Sickly from birth, Hildegarde is traditionally considered their youngest and tenth child,[10] although there are records of only seven older siblings.[11][12] In her “Vita” [Editor: “story of her life”], Hildegarde states that from a very young age she experienced visions.[13]



The Nave, Abbey of Saint Hildegarde,
Rüdesheim-Eibingen, Germany.
Date: November 2010.
Photo Credit: Gregor Kollmorgen.

From early childhood, long before she undertook her public mission or even her Monastic Vows, Hildegarde’s Spiritual awareness was grounded in what she called the “Umbra Viventis Lucis”, “the reflection of the Living Light”. Her letter to Guibert of Gembloux, which she wrote at the age of seventy-seven, describes her experience of this light:

“From my early childhood, before my bones, nerves, and veins were fully strengthened, I have always seen this vision in my Soul, even to the present time when I am more than seventy years old.

“In this vision, my Soul, as God would have it, rises up high into the vault of Heaven and into the changing sky and spreads itself out among different peoples, although they are far away from me in distant lands and places.



Hymns and Songs (12th-Century).
Composed by: Hildegarde von Bingen.
Sung by: Ensemble Vocatrix.
Available on YouTube

“And because I see them this way in my Soul, I observe them in accord with the shifting of clouds and other created things. I do not hear them with my outward ears, nor do I perceive them by the thoughts of my own heart or by any combination of my five senses, but in my Soul, alone, while my outward eyes are open.

“So, I have never fallen prey to ecstasy in the visions, but I see them wide awake, day and night. And I am constantly fettered by sickness, and often in the grip of pain so intense that it threatens to kill me, but God has sustained me until now.

“The light which I see thus is not spatial, but it is far, far brighter than a cloud which carries the sun. I can measure neither height, nor length, nor breadth in it; and I call it “the reflection of the Living Light.”



The Nuns in Choir.
Abbey of Saint Hildegarde,
Rüdesheim-Eibingen, Germany.
Date: November 2010.
Photo Credit: Gregor Kollmorgen.

“And, as the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars, appear in water, so writings, sermons, virtues, and certain human actions take form for me and gleam”.[14]

Perhaps, because of Hildegarde’s visions, or as a method of political positioning, or both, Hildegarde’s parents offered her as an Oblate to the Benedictine Monastery at Disibodenberg, which had been recently reformed in the Palatinate Forest.

The date of Hildegarde’s Enclosure at the Monastery is the subject of debate. Her “Vita” says she was eight years old when she was Professed with Jutta, who was the daughter of Count Stephan II of Sponheim and about six years older than Hildegarde.[15]



The Nave, Abbey of Saint Hildegarde,
Rüdesheim-Eibingen, Germany.
Date: November 2010.
Photo Credit: Gregor Kollmorgen.

Today, the Catholic Parish and Pilgrimage Church of Saint Hildegarde, rebuilt between 1932 and 1935 after a fire, and incorporating earlier stylistic elements, stands on the foundations of the former Monastery Founded by 
Hildegarde of Bingen in 1165.
The Church houses Hildegarde’s Shrine, with the 
Relics of Saint Hildegarde von Bingen. Every year on 
17 September, the Feast Day of Saint Hildegarde, large numbers of Pilgrims flock to Eibingen to participate in 
the procession of Relics in honour of the Saint.

However, Jutta’s date of Enclosure is known to have been in 1112, when Hildegarde would have been fourteen.[16]

Their Vows were received by Bishop Otto of Bamberg on All Saints’ Day 1112. Some scholars speculate that Hildegarde was placed in the care of Jutta at the age of eight, and that the two of them were then Enclosed together six years later.[17]


The following Text is from “The Liturgical Year”.
By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
Volume 14.
Time After Pentecost.
Book V.

At Bingen, in the Diocese of Mayence (Mainz), Germany, Saint Hildegarde, Virgin. Let us salute the “Great Prophetess of The New Testament”.

What Saint Bernard’s influence over his contemporaries was in the first half of the 12th-Century, that in the second half of the 12th-Century was Hildegarde’s, when the humble Virgin became the oracle of Popes and Emperors, of Princes and Prelates.

Multitudes from far and near flocked to Mount Saint Rupert, where the doubts of ordinary life were solved, and the questions of doctors answered.


At length, by God’s command, Hildegarde went forth from her Monastery to administer to all alike, Monks, Clerics, and Laymen, the word of correction and salvation.

The Spirit indeed breatheth where He will [Saint John iii. 8]. To the massy [Editor: Massive. Gargantuan] pillars that support His Royal Palace, God preferred the poor little feather floating in the air, and blown about, at His pleasure, hither and thither in the light [Hildegarde. Epist. ad Eugenium Pontificem].

In spite of labours, sicknesses, and trials, the holy Abbess lived to the advanced age of eighty-two, “in the shadow of the living light”.


Her precious Relics are now at Eibingen Abbey, Germany. The writings handed down to us from the pen of this illiterate Virgin, are a series of sublime visions, embracing the whole range of contemporary science, physical and theological, from the creation of the World to its final consummation.

May Hildegarde von Bingen deign to send us an interpreter of her works, and an historian of her life, such as they merit !

PRAYER.

O, God, Who didst adorn Thy Blessed Virgin, Hildegarde, with Heavenly gifts; grant, we beseech Thee, that walking in her footsteps, and according to her teachings, we may deserve to pass from the darkness of this World into thy lovely light.

Through Our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who lives 
and reigns with Thee in the union of The Holy Ghost, 
One God, World without end.

Amen.
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16 September, 2026

“Westminster” Cope In Sarum Red “Gothic” With Hand-Embroidered Symbols Of The Passion.



Text and Illustrations:

“Westminster” Cope in Sarum Red “Gothic” 
with Hand-Embroidered Symbols of The Passion.

Our Seamstresses have hand-crafted a Cope redolent 
in glorious Silver Threads for Passiontide, depicting 
the “Arma Christi” in bold embroidery. 

In our classic “Westminster” shape, 
this Cope comes with a matching Gothic-Style Stole.

The main fabric is our “Gothic” Silk Damask in Sarum Red. 

The Orphreys and Morse are in our Black “Comper Cathedral” Silk Damask, outlined in Black and Silver “Dice” braid, 
and the Hood is trimmed with Black Rayon fringe. 

It is lined with a Black Cotton Sateen lining, 
and has a back length of 60 inches.

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Earl Of Shrewsbury. Earl Of Waterford. Earl Talbot. (Part Five).



Arms of Talbot-Chetwynd.

Quarterly: 
1st and 4th: Gules, a Lion Rampant 
within a Bordure Engrailed Or (for Talbot).
2nd and 3rd: Azure, a Chevron 
between three Mullets Or (for Chetwynd).
Date: 25 June 2017.
Source: Own work.
This File is licensed under the 
Author: Wikimandia.
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Text from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia,
unless stated otherwise.

When he died, the titles were inherited by his nephew John, the sixteenth Earl, who was the son of the Hon. John Joseph Talbot. 

When, in 1831, the principal home of the family at Heythrop, Oxfordshire, was destroyed by fire, he moved the family seat to Alton Towers. 


The sixteenth Earl was also a noted patron of A W N Pugin. 

He was succeeded by Bertram, his second cousin-once-removed, the seventeenth Earl, who was the great-grandson of the Hon. George Talbot, younger son of the aforementioned Gilbert Talbot (died 1711), second son of the tenth Earl.

Bertram died unmarried at an early age in 1856. By his Will, he left his estates to Lord Edmund Howard (by Royal Licence from 1876-1922: Talbot), son of the Duke of Norfolk, a Will contested by three distant relatives and, after a long and expensive legal case, the House of Lords ruled in 1860 in favour of Henry John Chetwynd-Talbot, 3rd Earl Talbot, who thus became the eighteenth Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford. 


Parliament Robe of a Viscount,
with 2½ Bars (Robes of Viscount Nuffield.
Photo: 15 April 2012.
Uploaded by tm.
This File is licensed under the 
2.0 Generic Licence.
Author: Simon Q.
(Wikimedia Commons)

He was a descendant of the aforementioned the Hon. Sir Gilbert Talbot (died 1518), third son of the second Earl of Shrewsbury (see the Earl Talbot for earlier history of this Branch). 


He also held the titles of Baron Talbot, of Hensol in the County of Glamorgan, and Viscount of Ingestre, of Ingestre Hall in the County of Stafford. 

Lord Shrewsbury was an Admiral in the Royal Navy and also served in the second Conservative administration of the Earl of Derby as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (Chief Whip in the House of Lords) from 1858 to 1859.

PART SIX FOLLOWS.
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