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[olde_fashioned]

I've been thinking about this for some time. Would anyone be interested in a sort of "Painting of the Week" series on my blog? I come across a lot of artwork while browsing for icon fodder that other people might enjoy looking at, and it might be fun to post a painting a week, or at least I think so. :-)

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I'm principally interested in the costumes and clothing depicted in the paintings, myself, so obviously this would mean things more akin to Gainsborough rather than Picasso. ;-P But I do enjoy discovering lesser-known historical artists, so I would try to do that as well.

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[epea-pteroenta.livejournal.com]

Darn, forgot the pronunciation!

It's pronounced as it sounds:

"arz gratis artis". The "a" in "gratis" is short, as is the "i". "artis" is just like "artist" without the "t". The "a" in "ars" is the "ah" sound you make at the dentist. Maybe roll the "r" in "gratis" a bit. But maximum authenticity, think Italian sounds.

I'm basing this on an English RP pronunciation, but I can't imagine an American viewpoint can be very different!

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

I could figure out the last two from what I remember of the Latin course we briefly took, but it was that first word that stumped me. LOL, I was afraid of making it sound rather like another unpolite word with a similiar spelling only minus a certain vowel....*halo*

Thank you very much! :-D