{"id":982,"date":"2017-11-01T15:33:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T15:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/?p=982"},"modified":"2017-11-15T18:56:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T18:56:57","slug":"ripms-illustration-of-the-weekno-4-a-lithograph-of-felix-mendelssohn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/?p=982","title":{"rendered":"RIPM&#8217;s Illustration of the Week!<br\/>A Lithograph of Felix Mendelssohn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-indent: .5in;\">Felix Mendelssohn died 170 years ago on 4 November 1847.\u00a0 In his honor we present this beautiful lithograph of the composer, by an unidentified artist. It appeared in a biographical study published in 1836 in London&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Musical World.<\/em><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-988 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1a-Mendelssohn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"649\" height=\"872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1a-Mendelssohn.jpg 649w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1a-Mendelssohn-528x710.jpg 528w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1a-Mendelssohn-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1a-Mendelssohn-171x230.jpg 171w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/><em>The Musical World<\/em>, Vol. 4 Supplemental Pages (1836): [1p.]<\/h5>\n<blockquote><p>His hair was black and curling, the forehead of the highest order of intellectual beauty, the nose somewhat bent, the lips well chiseled, the shape of the face oval, the eyes irresistible, brilliant, and spiritual.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\">Elise Polko, \u201cReminisces of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy,\u201d translated by Grace Wallace (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1869): 77.<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>RIPM search tip:<\/u> A search for \u201cMendelssohn\u201d in RIPM\u2019s Retrospective Index<em>\u00a0<\/em>reveals that his name appears in 12,529 citations!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felix Mendelssohn died 170 years ago on 4 November 1847.\u00a0 In his honor we present this beautiful lithograph of the composer, by an unidentified artist. It appeared in a biographical study published in 1836 in London&#8217;s\u00a0The Musical World. The Musical World, Vol. 4 Supplemental Pages (1836): [1p.] His hair was black and curling, the forehead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1140,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions\/1140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}