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With more than 200 manufacturer and retail outlet stores offering up to 70% off, serious shoppers flock to Gurnee Mills. The diverse variety of stores includes Bass Pro Shops, Saks Fifth Avenue Off 5th, Nike Factory Store, Gap, Last Call by Neiman Marcus and Levi's. Dining options include Rainforest Cafe or a quick bite at one of the two food courts. Non-shoppers can check out Rink Side Sports and Entertainment Center for ice skating, arcade games and laser tag, or catch a movie at Gurnee Marcus Cinema.
The most under priced attraction in the area! 36 acres of family fun. See 300 classic, antique and muscle cars, including the country's largest display of Hollywood TV and movie cars! Experience the Military Combat Zone, a life-like battle scene with rare military vehicles and weapons. Shop 5 Antique Malls. Take a Haunted Trolley Tour. Enjoy great food in a Betty Boop themed diner and more. All in one location!
Goebbert's Pumpkin Farm and Garden Center
Fall: festival with haunted house, corn maze, farm animals, and more. Spring/Summer: large selection of annuals, perennials, vegetable plants, trees, shrubs, aquatic plants, roses, planters, and gourmet food items. Admission is free - cost for some activities.
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Richardson Adventure Farm and Corn Maze
Home of the World's Largest Corn Maze! Theres lots to do for all ages -- slides, pedal carts, jumping pillows, a carousel, wagon rides, pig races, and a 50 tall observation tower. For an additional charge, there are pumpkins of all shapes and colors, a train ride, petting zoo, zipline, zorbing, concessions, fresh donuts, fudge, kettle corn, and more! There are 2 kids game trails where parents can take their kids into the big maze, and not get lost! Or, find all of the checkpoints and earn a beautiful, full color certificate. Open until 11pm on Fridays and Saturdays for corn-mazing at night and sitting around a campfire with hot chocolate! Reserve a campfire spot as a base camp for your group!
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Chicagolands most creative hot glass artisan studio. Glass that glows in the dark that uses phosphorus materials. Shop for unique ready made pieces or take a class and make your own. We are great for interactive special events and parties! We can custom create many different shapes, colors for decoration or to display awards and memorials.
Chicago Botanic Garden Farmer's Market
First and third Sundays of the month from May until October (9 a.m. to 3 p.m.) Gather seasonal produce, flowers, herbs, and other local, sustainable products at this bimonthly Garden event that is held rain or shine. Talk with vendors and sample fresh fare. Visitors may purchase a special market bag from the Garden Shop to carry their purchases home. Free admission; $25 per car (includes tax) .
The annual Lake County Fair runs for five days beginning the last Wednesday in July. The Expo Building is available for rent for meetings, shows, weddings, and events year-round. Monthly events including Antique Shows, Swap Meet, Crafts Shows, Dog and Horse Shows, and much more. Visit the website for event schedule.
Volo Antique Malls and Mercantile Mall
Come visit our 30-acre antique theme park. Anchored by the nationally recognized Volo Auto Museum. The site also boasts great shopping in five separate malls; 3 malls selling antiques, a mall selling unique collectibles, gifts, vintage, home decor and lots more. Plus, all new furniture mall with everything for every room of the house. Over 400 dealer shops in one location offering a breathtaking variety from which to choose.
Your sweet tooth is sure to be on alert at Long Grove Confectionary Co. Watch homemade fudge getting made as thick layers of sweet goodness fold into large vats. Inhale the sugary goodness of the famed cocoa concoctions as soon as you walk inside. At Long Grove, the old fashioned confectionary is alive and well, and smelling oh so good.
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Long Grove Confectionery Nut and Candy Factory Store
The former Nut & Candy House is now the Long Grove Confectionery's Factory Store. Along with the store's original kinds of fresh roasted and raw nuts, chocolates, chocolate covered nuts, yogurt covered items, snack mixes and assorted candies, the store will also feature Long Grove Confectionery's famous hand-made chocolates. Bulk, bagged or gift packed items also available.
Didier Farms offers a variety of vegetables and flowers in our greenhouse this spring, and our farmers market in summer. U-pick opportunities are plentiful throughout the summer, weather permitting. During our Pumpkinfest, the last week of September and all of October, we offer hayrides, pony rides, corn maze and an exotic zoo, in beautiful Lake County. Also enjoy the Buffalo Creek Mining Co, pony & camel rides, Animal Land, Pumpkin Playland, kiddie rides, Parakeet Encounter, Pig Races (Sat, Sun & Mon) Pumpkin Patch Café, homemade apple cider & pumpkin donuts made daily. Antique tractor display, fall produce, birthday parties and school groups by reservation only.
Great shopping, dining and professional services are waiting for you in our picture-perfect downtown. Enjoy the turn-of-the-century buildings along Milwaukee Avenue or relax among the roses in Cook Park. Downtown Libertyville is a delightfully unique shopping and dining experience. With over 70 shops, boutiques, and restaurants, it's why we say "spend an hour, spend a day!"
Mickey Finn's Brewery is a landmark casual social gathering place famous for handcrafted beer. Since opening in 1993 as Lake County's first brewpub, Mickey Finn's has won a trophy case full of national and international awards for their beer. The menu offers a variety of items including burgers, pizza, fish n' chips, and buffalo wings. Also enjoy seasonal outdoor dining, a huge banquet facility, carry-out food and beer, live entertainment on weekends and a diverse clientele.
The McHenry Riverwalk connects the city's shopping, dining and entertainment districts with the Fox River.
Welcome to Lynfred Winery Wheeling, a satellite location for Illinois' oldest and largest, continually-operating winery. Since 1979, Lynfred Winery has been offering guests with great wine, food and lodging. We offer wine tastings, flights, and bottles every day of the week. We have received numerous awards for our wine, and we have countless events that go on throughout the year at the winery. We also have a variety of gift and gourmet food items.
Whether you are new to tea or far along on your journey, you will enjoy discovering farm-fresh teas at Adagio Teas. Come to experience a fresh and flavorful selection from around the world. Tea, tea-to-go, teaware, and tea classes.
For more than 30 years, The Popcorn Factory has been the "popcorn authority" with our impressive collection of crowd-pleasing gifts and great-tasting snacks. Our factory store in Lake Forest is delighting customers with delicious, premium popcorn, cookies, candies, nuts and snacks of all kinds, plus all your Popcorn Factory favorite items! A trip to The Popcorn Factory Store is sure to be an adventure every time!
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Lincolnshire's place for dining, shopping, entertainment and work. Enjoy unique boutiques, the 20-theatre Regal Cinema and IMAX, glow-in-the-dark miniature golf, ceramic painting, outdoor summer concerts and a variety of restaurants.
One of the last actual places of its kind to find copies of thousands of magazines and posters for collectors and enthusiasts alike. Life, Rolling Stone, Motor Trend, Mad, Star Trek, Beatles, if you can remember it....Bob probably has it. All items are very reasonably priced and not only make great gifts but give you your chance to own history. The collection includes periodicals from centuries past. The store also features flags from over 200 nations.
The Arboretum of South Barrington
The Arboretum is South Barrington's newest and most exciting place to shop, dine and play. The open-air center is named for the lush treescapes and gardens of its landscape, and for the large tree farm that formerly stood on the site. An upscale mix of shops, restaurants and entertainment venues including iPic Theaters, the ultimate cinema experience and a new way to go to the movies; L.L.Bean's first Midwest outdoor gear and apparel store and the incomparable Pinstripes Bowling/Bocce/Bistro.
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Over 40 specialty shops, a grocery store, furniture store, and restaurants at this center.
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Bass Pro Shops has established itself as the prime destination for all your outdoor needs. Gorgeous waterfalls, giant aquariums, incredible wildlife mounts and more make Bass Pro Shops a must-see attraction for families around the world. For the best selection in hunting, fishing, camping, boating, archery, footwear and family clothing be sure to visit Bass Pro sporting goods store. Check out the boat and ATV showrooms or come in for a variety of outdoor skill workshops, including fly fishing and hunting. Enjoy kids and family events held throughout the year! Make Bass Pro your one stop place to shop!
Come visit our 30-acre antique theme park. Anchored by the nationally recognized Volo Auto Museum, the site also boasts great shopping in five separate malls selling antiques, unique gifts and collectibles. Over 400 dealers.
Cooper's Hawk Winery & Restaurant - South Barrington
After four years of planning and construction, Cooper's Hawk Winery & Restaurant opened in 2005 in Orland Park. The concept was unique. We would create a signature menu with a selection of dishes designed to pair perfectly with our own Cooper's Hawk wines, made in our own private winery. With sophisticated food and exceptional wines, our concept was born. The Cooper's Hawk concept includes four distinct components: an upscale casual dining restaurant, full-service bar, private barrel-aging room, and Napa-style tasting room and retail gift store…all under one roof. Each Cooper's Hawk location is distinctive in layout and décor, but carries the same warmth and elegance that guests have come to expect.
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We are in the Jewish Museum in Bucharest, which is also known as the Museum of the History of the Jewish Community in Romania.
"The story of the Jews of Romania is only beginning to be told," says Elena Maxim, a non-Jewish historian.
The museum in Romania is a repository of a rich culture and history. It's housed in the ornate three-storey Tailor's Synagogue.
On the ground floor are displays of ritual objects – candlesticks, Torah crowns, spice boxes and seder plates. Some of the Torah ornaments were created in the Viennese style; others reflect the skill of Jewish silversmiths and the influence of Romanian folk art.
On the second floor (the first balcony) is a section displaying paintings by 19th- and 20th-century Jewish artists.
The museum has walls of photos as well as a section devoted to the Yiddish Theatre, which was founded by Abraham Goldfaden in the town of Iasi in 1876 and soon moved to Bucharest. Amazingly, the State Jewish Theatre continues today, although the plays are not always in Yiddish. There are posters, costumes and photos of actors, directors and playwrights.
One thing missing is a section on music: no other country had such an influence on klezmer music as Romania. The word "horah" comes from Romanian.
Photos of noted rabbis and cantors are featured. And there are small models of synagogues across Romania.
Bucharest once had dozens of synagogues, both Sephardi and Ashkenazi, and a thriving Jewish community, urbane and well suited to this city that used to be called "litte Paris." Writers Paul Celan and Tristan Tsara were two of Bucharest's literary luminaries.
Today, only three synagogues remain. Most were razed, along with churches, by the Communist dictator, Nicolae Ceausecsu, to make room for his megalomanic projects, including the People's Palace, the second-largest building in the world, now a tourist attraction.
"There were 800,000 Jews in Romania and now there are 8,000," Maxim says, pointing to a statement printed on the wall of the museum.
The Romanian state's responsibility for the deaths of 280,000 Romanian and Ukrainian Jews was not officially acknowledged before 2004, when a presidential commission of international historians issued a report. For decades, most of the blame had been attributed to the Hungarian collaboration with the Germans in what had been Romanian territory.
Among the 135,000 Romanian Jews in northern Transylvania who were deported to Auschwitz was writer and activist Elie Wiesel. The presidential commission was named after him.
More than half of Romanian Jews survived, mainly because the antisemitic dictator, Ion Antonescu, ordered the killing stopped, mostly due to pressure from Jewish communities and Allied powers. Romania switched over to the Allied side toward the end of the war, and this deterred Adolf Eichmann, one of the major organizers of the Holocaust, from coming to Bucharest to murder Romanian Jews.
The 8,000 Jews that Maxim cites (the number has been cited elsewhere as 12,000, but nobody knows for sure) numbered more than 400,000 after World War II. Many Jews left when the western border was opened for a time at the end of the war. Others immigrated to Israel during the decades that followed.
Outside of Bucharest, there are 98 synagogues, mostly intact, if not in use. Their architecture ranges from late baroque and Moorish to a painted wooden synagogue that looks as if it was inspired by Romanian folk art.
There are more than 800 Jewish cemeteries in Romania. Ruth Ellen Gruber has studied the artful carvings on the gravestones, particularly the depictions of candlesticks on the women's stones. She wrote an article called Sticks and Stones, about representations of women in Romania's Jewish cemeteries, which was published in the Sept. 30, 2009, edition of the online magazine Tablet (www.tabletmag.com).
Israeli Meyer Phaina is the mashgiach at the café attached to the synagogue. He said that before the war 1,500 Jews lived in Brasov. Afterward that number doubled. "This was one of the places where people hid Jews and made false papers from them," he added. Today, though, there are only about 150 Jews there.
And while so many Jews have left Romania for Israel, Hebrew can be heard in hotel lobbies, as Israelis do business in Romania. For them, as for many North Americans, the Romanian specialties of pastrami and mamaliga (polenta) are familiar foods.


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Baptism of Christ and the Decapitation of Saint James Major
Predella panel from the altarpiece from the Ardinghelli Chapel in Santa Trinita, Florence; companion panels are in the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence (no. 3333, no. 6089); the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore (37.632); the Carandini Collection, Rome; and a private collection in Florence
Baptism of Christ and the Decapitation of Saint James Major
Predella panel from the altarpiece from the Ardinghelli Chapel in Santa Trinita, Florence; companion panels are in the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence (no. 3333, no. 6089); the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore (37.632); the Carandini Collection, Rome; and a private collection in Florence
Giovanni Toscani (Giovanni di Francesco Toscani), Italian (active Florence), c. 1370-80 - 1430
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Tempera and tooled gold on panel with horizontal grainDimensions:
16 1/8 x 26 3/8 inches (41 x 67 cm)Curatorial Department:
European Painting
* Gallery 312, European Art 1100-1500, third floorAccession Number:
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John G. Johnson Collection, 1917
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Toscani combined two stories in this panel. Instead of using a frame to divide them, he set them in a unified landscape on opposite sides of a mountain range. This was part of a predella, or base, of an altarpiece made for the Ardinghelli family chapel in the church of Santa Trinita in Florence.
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The panel contains two scenes that are set in the same landscape and divided by a mountain range. On the left is the Baptism of Christ. Saint John the Baptist stands on the bank of the Jordan as he leans over Christ, who wears only his loincloth. On the opposite bank angels hold Christ's garments. To the right of the panel is the martyrdom of the apostle James Major, an event that is briefly recorded in the Acts of the Apostles 12:1-2. Here the saint has just been decapitated, as the executioner sheathes his sword and groups of soldiers stare as James's head rolls on the ground.
The other extant pieces of the predella to which this panel originally belonged are the Stigmatization of Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Nicholas of Bari Saving a Shipwreck (see Florence, Galleria dell'Accademia, no. 3333) and the Adoration of the Magi (see Florence, private collection). The only surviving component of the main section of the altarpiece is the right lateral panel, Saints John the Baptist and James Major (see Baltimore, The Walters Art Museum, no. 37.632), under which the Johnson predella scene would have been set. A painting of Saints Francis and Nicholas of Bari from the other lateral panel is missing. Three pinnacle panels still exist: Annunciate Angel (see Rome, Carradini Collection), Crucifixion with the Mourning Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist (see Florence, Galleria dell'Accademia, no. 6089), and Virgin Annunciate (see Rome, Carradini Collection).
The center main section of Toscani's altarpiece was not a painting but a reliquary of the cross that had been donated by the chapel's founder, Niccolò Ardinghelli. This reliquary no longer exists; in 1487 the abbot of Santa Trinita commissioned Amerigo di Giovanni to replace the original reliquary with a new silver one.1 Although Amerigo's reliquary is now lost, written accounts suggest that it incorporated pieces of the old one. It is not clear whether Amerigo's reliquary was originally kept in the altarpiece. Although it was listed in an inventory of the chapel in 1505, by then it was not part of the altarpiece. Around 1665 a now-lost reliquary of the crucifix as well as images of Saint Giovanni Gualberti and the Blessed Umiltà were installed in the altarpiece.2 In 1740 Bernardo Davanzati, the abbot of Santa Trinita, wrote a description of the altarpiece that serves as a precious record of the lost main panel.3 In the upper section, above the sculptures, were three medallions, with the one in the center depicting God the Father and the dove of the Holy Spirit. Its original position over a reliquary of the cross would have been a reference to the Trinity, the titular of the church. The two other medallions depicted the prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah.
The altarpiece was in a chapel that Niccolò Ardinghelli had founded in 1399. It was at the top of the right aisle of the nave and adjacent to the transept. Niccolò had dedicated it to his namesake, Saint Nicholas of Bari, but because he had also donated the reliquary to the church, it was also known as the chapel of the Cross. In 1423 Niccolò's descendant Piero di Neri Ardinghelli commissioned from Giovanni and Domenico Toscani a complete refurbishment of the chapel, including mural paintings and a tabernacle altarpiece for the reliquary. Ardinghelli's marriage to Caterina di Niccolò di Nofri Strozzi on January 24, 1424 (modern style), provided the motivation for this project. The bride's uncle Palla Strozzi, the richest man in Florence, provided her with a dowry of 2,000 florins. At the time of the marriage he was still overseeing the decoration of his own newly constructed family chapel in the same church, where Gentile da Fabriano's altarpiece of the Adoration of the Magi (see Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, no. 295) had been installed only a few months before, and where Lorenzo Monaco (q.v.) was still at work painting another altarpiece for the sacristy.4
Given the new family alliance formed by the marriage, Palla Strozzi had a strong interest in seeing that the Ardinghelli reliquary was housed in a properly appointed chapel as soon as possible. Thus, as part of his dowry obligations to his niece, he partially paid the Toscani brothers for their work in the chapel.5 Some of the chapel's murals survive, including the one in the exterior entrance arch showing Saint Nicholas of Bari in glory6 and another, in the interior arched niche that marked the family sarcophagus,7 depicting the Pietà (see Florence, church of Santa Trinita, Ardinghelli chapel). The other walls and vaulting of the chapel were also painted, but nothing remains. The 1433 tax return of Toscani's widow states that Domenico executed the vaulting and Giovanni the rest.8
Gentile da Fabriano's Adoration altarpiece for the Strozzi influenced the style of the Toscani's altarpiece for the Ardinghelli. The Toscani panel of the Adoration (see Florence, private collection) derives directly from the Gentile, and the bird's-eye-view landscapes of the two other predella scenes also presuppose Gentile.
Toscani also borrowed from other sources. The position of the Baptist is based on one in the same scene in Ghiberti's first bronze doors for the baptistery (installed 1424),9 and the most immediate precedent for Toscani's depiction of the rare scene of Saint James Major's execution is Nicolò di Pietro Lamberti's sculptured predella of the niche of the Guild of the Furriers (Arte dei Vaiai e Pellicciai) on the façade of Orsanmichele in Florence.10 The saint's frontal position and executioner sheathing his sword are also used in Agnolo Gaddi's (q.v.) wall painting in the choir of Santa Croce in Florence11 as well as in works by Lorenzo Monaco and other late trecento and early quattrocento painters.
The use of a mountain range to divide two scenes was a common device. For example, Agnolo Gaddi used it in the above-mentioned mural in Santa Croce. The technique was also frequently employed in cassone paintings, including one by Toscani.12 The artist also used it in the predella from the altarpiece last recorded in the Nevin Collection in Rome.13 Carl Brandon Strehlke, from Italian paintings, 1250-1450, in the John G. Johnson Collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2004, pp. 420-425.
1. Dora Liscia Bemporad. "Appunti sulla bottega orafa di Antonio del Pollaiolo e di alcuni suoi allievi." Antichità viva (Florence), vol. 19, no. 3 (May-June 1980; printed January 1981), p. 51.
2. Dora Liscia Bemporad in Giuseppe Marchini and Emma Micheletti. La chiesa di Santa Trinita a Firenze. Introduction by Maria Grazia Ciardi Dupré Dal Poggetto. Florence, 1987, p. 282.
3. Anna Padoa Rizzo. "Sul polittico della cappella Ardinghelli in Santa Trinita, di Giovanni Toscani." Antichità viva (Florence), vol. 21, no. 1 (January- February 1982; printed December 1982), pp. 7-8.
4. Florence, Museo Nazionale di San Marco. Before Lorenzo Monaco's death only the predella and the pinnacles in the frame were painted. A number of years later Fra Angelico (q.v.) would finish it. See John Pope-Hennessy. Fra Angelico. 2nd ed. London, 1974, plate 98; Marvin Eisenberg. Lorenzo Monaco. Princeton, 1989, figs. 92-95, color plate 10; John T. Spike. Fra Angelico. New York, 1997, color repro. p. 107.
5. On the Strozzi, the Ardinghelli, and Palla's payments to the Toscani, see Stefano Orlandi. Beato Angelico: monografia storica della vita e delle opere con un'appendice di nuovi documenti inediti. Florence, 1964, pp. 10, 46 n. 3, 171, 180, 181 and n. 1.
6. Marchini and Micheletti 1987, fig. 102.
7. In December 1403 Michele Ardinghelli had endowed the chapel for family burials. See Francis William Kent. Household and Lineage in Renaissance Florence: The Family Life of the Capponi, Ginori, and Rucellai. Princeton, 1977, pp. 271-72.
8. Cited in Gaetano Milanesi. "Le vite di alcuni artefici fiorentini scritte da Giorgio Vasari corrette ed accresciute coll'aiuto de' documenti." Giornale storico degli archivi toscani. (Florence), vol. 4, no. 3 (July-September 1860), p. 210: "Più dovremo avere da Piero di Neri Ardinghelli per resto d'una cappella gli dipinse in Santa Trinita el detto Giovanni. Non se ne fe patto ne' convegna. Dipesela el resto. La volta fece fare Domenico, e 'l resto Giovanni. Ànne avuto fior. 23. No so se s'a avere più." (In addition we must have from Piero di Neri Ardinghelli the outstanding monies for a chapel that the said Giovanni painted in Santa Trinita. He never made a pact or a contract for it. He painted the remaining part. The vaulting was done by Domenico and the rest by Giovanni. They were paid 23 florins. I do not know if they are owed any more.)
9. Richard Krautheimer in collaboration with Trude Krautheimer-Hess. Lorenzo Ghiberti. Princeton Monographs in Art and Archaeology, 31. 3rd ed. Princeton, 1982, plate 32.
10. Diane Finiello Zervas, ed. Orsanmichele a Firenze / Orsanmichele Florence. Texts by Paola Grifoni et al. 2 vols. Mirabilia italiae, 5. Modena, 1996, atlas vol., color plate 83.
11. Bruce Cole. Agnolo Gaddi. Oxford Studies in the History of Art and Architecture. Oxford, 1977, fig. 33.
12. See his cassone with three stories of Venus (Brunswick, Maine, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Kress 275; Fern Rusk Shapley. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XIII-XV Century. London, 1966, fig. 269).
13. Luciano Bellosi. "Il Maestro della Crocifissione Griggs: Giovanni Toscani." Paragone-arte (Florence), n.s., vol. 17, no. 193/13 (March 1966), pp. 44-58, fig. 26b.
Gaetano Milanesi in Giorgio Vasari. Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori ed architettori. Edited by Gaetano Milanesi. 9 vols. Florence, 1878-85, vol. 2, 1878, p. 19;
Giuseppe Richa. Notizie istoriche delle chiese fiorentine, divise ne' suoi quartieri. 10 vols. Florence, 1754-62, vol. 3, 1755, p. 163;
Bernhard Berenson. Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings and Some Art Objects. Vol. 1, Italian Paintings. Philadelphia, 1913, pp. 8-9, repro. p. 233 (Florence, c. 1425);
Raimond van Marle. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. vol. 9. The Hague, 1927, p. 177;
John G. Johnson Collection: Catalogue of Paintings. Foreword by Henri Marceau. Philadelphia, 1941, p. 6 (Florence, c. 1425);
Walter Paatz and Elisabeth Paatz. Die Kirchen von Florenz: Ein kunstgeschichtliches Handbuch. 6 vols. Frankfurt am Main, 1940-54, vol. 5, 1953, pp. 291-92, 357-58 nn. 226-28;
Ulrich Middeldorf. "L'Angelico e la scultura." Rinascimento (Florence), vol. 6, no. 2 (December 1955), p. 180;
Luciano Bellosi. "Il Maestro della Crocifissione Griggs: Giovanni Toscani." Paragone-arte (Florence), n.s., vol. 17, no. 193/13 (March 1966), pp. 50-51, 55;
[Barbara Sweeny]. John G. Johnson Collection: Catalogue of Italian Paintings. Foreword by Henri Marceau. Philadelphia, 1966, p. 53, repro. p. 116 (Master of the Griggs Crucifixion);
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, 1972, p. 204;
Federico Zeri. Italian Paintings in the Walters Art Gallery. Condition notes by Elisabeth C. G. Packard. Edited by Ursula E. McCracken. 2 vols. Baltimore, 1976, pp. 30-31;
Marvin Eisenberg. "'The Penitent St Jerome' by Giovanni Toscani." The Burlington Magazine (London), vol. 118, no. 878 (May 1976), p. 279, fig. 22;
Anna Padoa Rizzo. "Sul polittico della cappella Ardinghelli in Santa Trinita, di Giovanni Toscani." Antichità viva (Florence), vol. 21, no. 1 (January- February 1982; printed December 1982), pp. 5-10, fig. 6;
Anna Padoa Rizzo in Giuseppe Marchini and Emma Micheletti. La chiesa di Santa Trinita a Firenze. Introduction by Maria Grazia Ciardi Dupré Dal Poggetto. Florence, 1987, pp. 123-25;
Luciano Bellosi in Milan, Palazzo Reale. Arte in Lombardia tra gotico e rinascimento. 1988, p. 196;
Philadelphia Museum of Art. Paintings from Europe and the Americas in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: A Concise Catalogue. Philadelphia, 1994, repro. p. 235.
Companion panels for Philadelphia Museum of Art, John G. Johnson Collection cat. 11
A. Lateral panel of an altarpiece: Saints John the Baptist and James Major. Baltimore, The Walters Art Museum, no. 37.632.
B. Predella panel of an altarpiece: Stigmatization of Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Nicholas of Bari Saving a Shipwreck. Florence, Galleria dell'Accademia, no. 3333.
C. Predella panel of an altarpiece: Adoration of the Magi. Florence, private collection.
D. Pinnacle panel of an altarpiece: Annunciate Angel. Rome, Carradini Collection.
E. Pinnacle panel of an altarpiece: Crucifixion with the Mourning Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist. Florence, Galleria dell'Accademia, no. 6089.
F. Pinnacle panel of an altarpiece: Virgin Annunciate. Rome, Carradini Collection.
* Works in the collection are moved off view for many different reasons. Although gallery locations on the website are updated regularly, there is no guarantee that this object will be on display on the day of your visit.


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Traditional Home readers love the work of Louisiana architect Ken Tate; you're about to see why. Ken, the Mississippi-bred master of southern vernacular design, is the author of the new book, A Classical Journey (Images, 2011, available at amazon.com). He strives to create what he calls architecture with a soul. As a young student, he wrote that his goal was "To bring beauty out of ugliness, order out of chaos, and something new out of passion." Those goals still inform his work.
Traditional Home magazine has featured homes that Ken has designed half a dozen times over the years. For this slide show, we plundered our archives to bring you the crème de la crème of this award-winning classical architect's work spanning nearly two decades.
Ken and his interior designer wife, Charme, relax with Peppy, their energetic Jack Russell terrier, on the porch of their rambling country cottage in rural Louisiana.
Wouldn't you like to pull up a chair and sit a spell? "The house had a cottage look outside and a more contemporary feeling inside, and we liked that," Ken says. At dusk, the back of the house takes on a welcoming aura, with its deep porch and wide back steps.
"Swept Away," the painting above the living room bookcase, is by Ken, who loves art and literature. "I'm a pluralist," he says. "I'm not religiously adhered to the idea that classicism is the be-all and end-all for all forms of expression. I think it's very healthy to expand one's creative outlook."
In the guest bedroom, soothing lavender contrasts against black-and-cream toile. The photograph of the quiet, contemplative horse adds an air of luminous mystery regarding the boundaries between species: What is this gentle equine creature thinking?
Most of us wouldn't think to put a 20th-century citrus-colored Eames chair on the porch; here it looks not only comfortable and classic but also slightly insouciant.
Ken designed this French Colonial house near Jackson, Mississippi, for homeowners who love traditional style but like a more relaxed, less symmetrical architecture than classic Georgian or Greek Revival. The architect became intrigued with the French Colonial houses when he moved to Jackson, because "they were mysterious and interesting, with gates and courtyards, and they were built from old materials."
Here the exterior doors are made of reclaimed cypress; the lintels above them of antique heart pine.
Ken wanted the living room to be both convivial and functional, so he placed the fireplace on the room's long wall. "That way, it's easier to arrange furniture and walk through the room."
A pair of Italian painted torchéres flank the mantel's Louis XVI gilded mirror. Two circa-1880 cane-seat English elbow chairs pull up to the skirted table. Used as wall upholstery in the late 18th century, French toile-pattered linen panels lend a mellow look.
Here is a view of the living room from the library. The patterned rug creates a sense of transition from space to space.
The informal floor plan has an open flow that permits a view of the living room from the dining table. The antique French refectory table is illumined by an old French fixture. Ken likes even a new house to look as if it has evolved over time. Typically such houses don't have many hallways, so "it's easy to make the dining room a space you can walk through; it can be anywhere."
In this house, the dining room is in the back, between the dine-in kitchen and living room. "I like to place the dining room so it's a beautiful space that is definitely used," the architect says.
Instead of an island, a scrolled iron table with a honed marble top seats the family in the kitchen, the owners' favorite space. The room opens onto both the front porch (shown) and a back porch. The light fixture is new. Light filtered through shutters, Ken says, is the essence of French Colonial style.
Heart pine was used for beams in the kitchen; old cypress was used for the doors and for the kitchen cabinets. The materials give a look that's honest, hardworking, and warm.
The back porch speaks of tranquility and ease, a look enhanced by wicker furniture and faded colors as soft as a Southern drawl. "Historically, these houses were built in the French Caribbean and along the Gulf Coast," Ken notes, "so for much of the year, the porches functioned as outdoor rooms."
Low-key and lovely with its mixture of patterns and worn-looking rug, the master bedroom has a reproduction mahogany bed that was re-stained in ebony for a new, vaguely Caribbean look.
For this new home, Ken's mission was to create a house that would be a cross between a French country cottage and a Caribbean cottage. It needed to have a circular main staircase and a floor plan conducive to circulating.
Evidence of Ken's preference for using beautiful and highly functional materials, the unusual balusters in the foyer staircase are individual welded-metal elements that pivot at top and bottom so that they can be turned to follow the curve of the stairway.
Ken's wife, Charme, designed the interior spaces of this home. In the living room, she used a neutral color scheme to tie things together; the cowhide rugs are pure Texan, as is the fireplace in Texas limestone that has been sandblasted.
The cheery breakfast room has a great view of the lake below the bluff on which the house sits; the willow-twig chandelier echoes the setting.
High Southern hospitality reigns in the formal dining room. The room with its neoclassical motif has windows shuttered against the southern sun, so the dining chairs are slip-covered.
For this vacation home property in the Mississippi countryside, Ken worked his magic in the French West Indies/French colonial style. Inside and out, from the shuttered entrance and metal hipped roof to the exposed stud walls and wood floor in the living room, the house is quiet and spare, a place to relax.
The courtyard deck provides a sheltered gathering space. The outdoor fireplace is finished in concrete, as is the fireplace in the living room.
To create the feel of an older home, Ken created the illusion of having carved up old spaces to create new areas, like this gallery that overlooks the courtyard and kitchen.
Quiet furnishings bow to the view.
The living room in one of Ken's own homes was featured in Traditional Home in 1994, proving, as Yves St. Lauren said, that "Fashion fades, style is eternal." A 1910 Bosendorfer piano plays to a hand-carved angel from Italy and a piano bench from India, inlaid with bone and horn. "We buy things that we like," says Ken, "and put them down somewhere and see if they relate to the other things around them. If they don't, we'll move them until they do."
The remaining images in this slide show come from Ken's new book, A Classical Journey (Images, 2011, available at aamazon.com.) Light from Palladian windows heightens a huge living room's glow. Ken notes that the ceiling's massive crossbeams are bolder than you would normally see in a home. He over-scaled them intentionally to reduce the size of the room, giving a sense of intimacy and comfort.
Ken notes that this house is purer and more austere than other classical houses he's designed, so that at first glance it looks almost too symmetrical. But within the compound--the property includes a carriage house and barn--there is a shift in symmetry. The carriage house is parallel to the main house, but the barn is set well back from it.
This imposing residence was designed for clients who wanted a home inspired by the Georgian dwellings of Greenwich, Connecticut. To create the illusion that the home evolved over time, Ken created a fictional narrative to explain its progression, beginning in 1690 with the construction of a stone storage barn.
In the Colonial Revival house where this room is located, Ken says, every space is slightly different in style. "Overall, there are a lot of design elements that normally wouldn't go together, but somehow they do. The effect is like a multicourse meal--the appetizer doesn't have to complement the dessert, because you aren't eating them together."
"The Adam blue parlor is high-style Federal, very light, very New Republic in style," Ken says. (We simply call it gorgeous.)
Who doesn't love a turret? This one is an architectural detail of a house on a small lot in a neighborhood of compact houses. The home's design, Ken says, "was formed more by intuition than any rigid program of style.the turret overlooking the courtyard, the loggia facing the lake arose from my subconscious, from the archetypal language of architecture. When I presented the drawings for the house, one of the owners said, 'I always wanted a house with a turret.' This made me realize that when one follows one's intuition without any preconceived notions, one can arrive at a solution that feels right. "


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This was the last episode Grace Lee Whitney filmed. She recalls that she went out and bought a bottle of wine afterwards, bringing it back and getting drunk in her dressing room. Unfortunately she would go on to struggle with drug and alcohol problems for years afterwards.
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As Riley sits a watch in engineering his drink is poisoned, and only quick medical intervention saves him. As he slowly recovers, Spock ponders that Kirk must surely be a target himself now. Whilst the First Officer is convinced that Karidian must be Kodos, Kirk remains uncertain. Whilst they talk, however, he hears a phaser building to an overload. They quickly search and locate the hidden weapon, just in time to dump it overboard before it explodes. Kirk goes to confront Karidian, challenging him directly on his identity. Kodos doesn't confirm it but doesn't quite deny it either. Kirk has him recite the speech Kodos made so that a voice analysis can be performed, but the analysis is not wholly conclusive.
In sickbay, Riley overhears McCoy mentioning the suspicion about Karidian's true identity. As the Karidian players begin a performance of Hamlet for the crew Riley arrives with a phaser. McCoy warns Kirk that he is gone, and the Captain catches and confronts Riley, convincing him to put the poser down. Karidian overhears them and the truth slowly emerges - he is Kodos, a fact his daughter was fully aware of. But it is she who has been murdering the witnesses, determined to keep her father's secret. Kodos is shattered by the news that the one good thing remaining in his life has produced yet more death, more blood on his hands. It becomes clear that Lenore is insane, as she rambles on about how she had to kill them and begins to recite Shakespeare to justify her actions. As security take them into custody Lenore snatches a phaser and fires at Kirk, the last witness. Kodos steps in the way of the shot and is killed. Being responsible for her father's death destroys Lenore, and she collapses completely into a fantasy world in which Kodos is still alive, performing to cheering crowds.
Lenore also is hardly the stereotypical "bad guy". Yes, she's a cold blooded killer many times over. And yet, she's not so much evil as she is insane. How do you cope with life when your own father is known on every world as a horrific monster? When you can't admit that you even know that to anybody, including him? Little wonder that they became actors when their very lives were nothing but a performance, even to one another.
And Kirk has his moments, too. Is he interested in justice, or interested in revenge? He does some pretty iffy things himself here, putting the moves on Lenore to try and worm information out of her. She calls him on it, too, when she finds out. It's rare that we see Kirk really wrestling with his doubt like this, and Shatner plays it very well indeed.
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Tendons connect bones to muscles in the body. Flexor tendons of the thumb and fingers pull the fingers into a fist. The tendons are enclosed in a synovial sheath. When this sheath becomes inflamed it can cause trigger finger.
Usually, tendons slide easily through the sheath as the finger moves. In the case of trigger finger, the synovial sheath is swollen. The tendon cannot move easily. This causes the finger to remain in a flexed (bent) position. In mild cases, the finger may be straightened with a pop. In severe cases, the finger becomes stuck in the bent position. Usually, this condition can easily be treated.
Many cases of trigger finger are caused by:
- Swelling of the synovial sheath— tenosynovitis
- Genetics
Risk Factors
Trigger finger is more common in women, and in people aged 40-60 years old. Other factors that may increase your chance of trigger finger include:
Overuse of the hand from repetitive motions, which can occur from:
- Computer operation
- Machine operation
- Repeated use of hand tools
- Playing musical instruments
History of certain diseases, such as:
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Gout
- Hypothyroidism
- Diabetes
Trigger finger may cause:
- Finger or thumb stiffness
- Finger, thumb, or hand pain
- Swelling or a lump in the palm
- Catching or popping when straightening the finger or thumb
- Finger or thumb stuck in bent position
You will be asked your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. The physical exam may include:
- Asking you to move the affected finger or thumb
- Feeling the hand and fingers
Your doctor can diagnose trigger finger based on the exam. For severe cases, your doctor may refer you to a hand specialist.
Talk with your doctor about the best plan for you. The goal of treatment is to reduce swelling and pain. This will allow the tendon to move freely in the sheath. Treatment options include the following:
Stopping movement in the finger or thumb is often the best treatment for mild cases of trigger finger. A brace or splint may be used. Rest may be combined with stretching the tendon.
Medications include:
- Corticosteroid injections
- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
Severe cases of trigger finger may not respond to medications. In this case, surgery may be used to release the tendon from a locked position. This surgery is usually performed on an outpatient basis. It only requires a small incision in the palm of the hand.
Avoid overuse of the thumb and fingers. If a job or hobby involves repetitive motions of the hand, take the following steps:
- Adjust the workspace to minimize the strain on the joints.
- Alternate activities when possible.
- Take breaks throughout the day.
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Pressure by local activists helped pass Connecticut's GMO-labeling law
The last time Allen Longendyke became politically active, young men his age were being sent to war in Vietnam and he joined the movement in protest.
Now, more than four decades later, the 63-year-old Pawcatuck resident found his dormant activist tendencies reawakened by an issue with a different kind of personal connection.
"I wouldn't buy anything that I knew had GMOs in it," said Longendyke, talking this week after finishing his shift as perishable foods buyer at Fiddleheads Food Co-op in New London. "I just think we should know about what's in food so we can make intelligent choices as consumers."
Longendyke is one of the southeastern Connecticut residents who became involved in the successful grassroots campaign behind the bill signed into law by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy this month requiring that foods and seed containing genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, be labeled.
The bill, which contains several triggers that must be met before it takes effect, makes Connecticut the first state in the nation to adopt such legislation, although similar bills are being considered in two dozen other states. Maine became the second state to pass a GMO labeling bill last week.
"Connecticut is definitely a leader in being the first state," said Rebecca Spector, West Coast director at the nonprofit Center for Food Safety who headed the group's work with campaigns in Connecticut and other states. "This gives other states more of a push to pass their own legislation."
Momentum for labeling bills began building, she said, after last fall's narrow defeat of the Proposition 37 ballot referendum in California that would have required GMO labeling for products sold in the nation's most populous state. The failure of the measure, blamed by supporters on the $45 million campaign against labeling by agriculture and food industry groups, spurred pro-labeling activists across the country to employ social media to start organizing in their own states, Spector said. The movement took hold strongly in the Nutmeg State, with less than one-tenth of California's population.
The grassroots flavor and wide variety of ages and backgrounds that came together in the Connecticut campaign - from mothers with young children to senior citizens, farmers and businesses to environmental groups - was key in helping persuade reluctant lawmakers and Malloy to support the bill in the end, even in the face of warnings from industry groups that the bill was sending an anti-science, anti-biotech message, said two local lawmakers who supported the bill.
In the compromise bill that won out, the GMO labeling requirement will kick in once four other states from the region that includes New England and New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania adopt labeling requirements, and the total population of those states is at least 20 million.
"It was those grassroots activists," said state Sen. Catherine Osten, D-Sprague, adding that the GMO labeling bill was "one of the top 10 issues" of the recent session in terms of public interest and the number of constituents she heard from. "Over and over we heard that people are concerned about what they are consuming. This really was an issue of the people, not driven from the top down, but from the bottom up."
State Rep. Timothy Bowles, D-Ledyard, said while he heard from many voters who wanted labeling, no constituents opposed contacted him.
"It boiled down to a very simple argument - a consumer's right to know," he said. "It's hard to make an argument against that."
In Connecticut, a coalition of groups including GMO Free CT and Food & Water Watch Connecticut used Facebook and other sites to enlist interest in a campaign to coincide with introduction of a bill in the 2013 legislative session. Jen Siskind, Hartford-area organizer for Food & Water Watch, said most of the participants in the grassroots campaign came from three parts of the state - Hartford, Fairfield and New London counties.
"A lot of people are trying to get back to healthier food, and are tired of chemicals in their food and the environment and want to support local farms," she said. "This ties into the culture of the day."
Labeling in 64 countries
Matt Lipman of Waterford, a 29-year-old website and graphic designer for the Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut, received a Facebook invitation to an organizational meeting at the Bean & Leaf coffee shop in New London a few weeks after the beginning of the new session at the Capitol, and decided to check it out.
"Before this, I've only sat in front of a TV and gotten angry," he said. "But I always wanted to do something. When I went to the meeting, I was surprised by all the interest. There were about 60 people there."
Among them was Meagan Erhart of Lyme, a 24-year-old local coordinator and volunteer for Food & Water Watch who is planning to become a health counselor. As coordinator, she helped organize weekly and biweekly meetings at Bean & Leaf, set up information tables at various local events and enlisted supporters to sign petitions, write letters to Malloy and call key legislators. The group also hosted screenings of documentaries about GMOs.
"There were a massive amount of phone calls and emails from our organization," she said. "There's so much momentum now."
Disgust at the way biotech firms like Monsanto treat small farmers, Erhart said, first got her motivated to eliminate GMO products from her diet, and to support GMO labeling. Then she learned about all the other countries that have labeling requirements, and her motivation intensified.
"They're labeling in 64 other countries," she said. "Why are we being treated differently?"
Both Erhart and Lipman, like others involved in the GMO labeling effort, are highly conscientious about what they eat, checking labels and using cell phone apps that help consumers sort non-GMO producers from companies that have fought GMO labeling, before making purchases.
At stores like Fiddleheads and organic food sections of grocery stores, many products carry "non-GMO" labels, but the vast majority of processed foods in conventional grocery stores don't. According to Spector, about 80 percent of all the processed foods that contain corn or soy ingredients include products raised using genetic engineering, and would have to carry the required label.
"We're just trying to let people have a choice," Erhart said.
As the bill made its way through the legislature, Robert Burns, owner of Aiki Farms in Ledyard, took time away from his five-acre organic vegetable farm to testify at Capitol hearings and organize panel discussions at the Ledyard Congregational Church. For Burns, the main issue is what isn't known about the possible long-term health and environmental effects of consuming foods and planting seeds that have been genetically altered by scientists.
"My main reason for involvement is that the biotech industry has never adequately tested this product," he said.
In his testimony, Burns pointed out that the Board of Directors of the Ledge Light Health District, which serves Groton, East Lyme, New London, Ledyard and Waterford, last year formally adopted a pro-labeling position, becoming the first and perhaps only public health agency in the state to do so. Burns is a member of the Ledge Light board.
"There's been a lot of interest about this in this part of the state," said Baker Salisbury, director of health at Ledge Light. "It is unusual for Ledge Light to take positions on matters of policy that could be considered controversial. The science on this is complex and dense, but the board's position is about the right to choose."
'Sends the wrong message'
The main opposition to the labeling bill came from the Biotechnology Industry Organization, or BIO, a trade group coalition that included grocery store representatives, biotech firms, food processors and growers, said Chris Cooper, Connecticut spokesman for the group. He acknowledged that the "significant grassroots organization" in Connecticut made all the difference, but indicated BIO isn't giving up on making its case.
"We support a voluntary, consumer-driven system of labeling," he said. "We're trying to make people understand that GMO foods are not an ingredient, but a growing technique - gene splicing in a lab. Mandatory labeling suggests that these foods are less healthy or nutritionally different, and the science shows that is not the case. The scientific goal of genetic engineering is to make better, safer, more nutritious food that can feed the world, that's more resistant to disease. The potential for helping with world hunger is there, and it would be a shame to mischaracterize this food by attaching a scarlet letter, without hard scientific facts. This also sends the wrong message to the kinds of biotech companies Connecticut is trying to attract."
As similar labeling bills make their way through legislatures in other states, BIO lobbyists are "on the ground working" against them, said Karen Batra, spokeswoman for BIO. Asked if a lawsuit challenging the Connecticut law is being considered, she replied, "we're looking at our options."
Grassroots supporters in Connecticut, while pleased with their victory, acknowledge that their campaign is far from over. Much work remains ahead, they said, to ensure that similar bills pass in other Northeastern states to trip the triggers in the Connecticut bill.
"We've had a lot of volunteers say, 'what's next?'" said Siskind of Food & Water Watch. "We're asking them to contact family and friends in the other states where bills are pending."
Erhart said the local group that had been meeting at Bean & Leaf during the legislative session will start meeting again next week.
"We definitely want to focus on the other New England states needed for the trigger," she said.
Added Lipman: "Our campaign is far from over."
Provisions of Public Act 13-183, "An Act Concerning Genetically-Engineered Food" include:
• Producers would be required to label genetically engineered food as long as four states from the New England region adopt a labeling requirement, and the total population of those states is at least 20 million. One of the four states must border Connecticut.
• The requirement applies to food intended for humans, and seed and seed stock intended to produce human food.
• The package must include the words "Produced with Genetic Engineering," in clear and conspicuous type, in the same size and font as the ingredients in the nutritional facts panel.
• The Commissioner of Consumer Protection is responsible for enforcing the requirement.
• Violators can be fined up to $1,000 per day, per product.
Exempt from the law:
• Alcoholic beverages, restaurant meals and prepared foods intended for immediate consumption.
• Farm products sold by a farmer or farmer's agent to a consumer at a pick-your-own farm, roadside stand, on-farm market or farmers' market.
• Food made entirely from animals that were not genetically engineered, regardless of whether the animals were fed genetically engineered food or drugs.
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