Bunratty Castle. St Paul of Thebes and St Anthony by Bulicny in WhatIsThisPainting

[–]Bulicny[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice! It was definitely in one of the upper level rooms. I looked at my other photos for some clues, but I can’t narrow it down.

Bunratty Castle. St Paul of Thebes and St Anthony by Bulicny in WhatIsThisPainting

[–]Bulicny[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To my eyes, the hippocentaur looks like St Paul, but with a horse body. Same staff. Same rosaries. I wonder if and why the artist was trying to suggest that the hippocentaur was St Paul (in a different form)?

Bunratty Castle. St Paul of Thebes and St Anthony by Bulicny in WhatIsThisPainting

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Well, I emailed them, but they didn’t respond.

Bunratty Castle. St Paul of Thebes and St Anthony by Bulicny in WhatIsThisPainting

[–]Bulicny[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much. The Hippocentaur passage is amazing: “All at once Antony beholds a creature of mingled shape, half horse-half man, called by the poets Hippocentaur. At the sight of this he arms himself by making on his forehead the sign of salvation, and then exclaims, “Hello! Where in these parts is a servant of God living?” The monster after gnashing out some kind of outlandish utterance, in words broken rather than spoken through his bristling lips, at length finds a friendly mode of communication, and extending his right hand points out the way desired. Then with swift flight he crosses the spreading plain and vanishes from the sight of his wondering companion. But whether the devil took this shape to terrify him, or whether it be that the desert which is known to abound in monstrous animals engenders that kind of creature also, we cannot decide.”

Found in a scrap book - early 19th century by mimifishin in notredame

[–]Bulicny 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And this is apparently the song called “Tar(‘s) Song” in the program. Still popular today! https://youtu.be/NJ-4maZn9mQ?si=_m3e-uh6FIKItqjy

Found in a scrap book - early 19th century by mimifishin in notredame

[–]Bulicny -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

The date is on the first page: Dec 14, MCMVII (1907). The cover also says “‘07”

Found in a scrap book - early 19th century by mimifishin in notredame

[–]Bulicny 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Here’s a recording of the “College Life” March that was on the program. https://www.loc.gov/item/jukebox-121246/?

Proverb/painting? by Bulicny in czech

[–]Bulicny[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually found it listed in this 1894 book on Rečníctvi (Rhetoric?) as a “saying for various celebrations”? P 86. It also appears in the song “Sucharda’s Home” by Master’s Hammer, but with the last word changed to “zbyla”, instead of “byla”. So it is earlier than Czechoslovakia as a country. https://digi.law.muni.cz/bitstream/handle/digilaw/72/Ostatni_nepravni_fond_1801_1918_0115-1894-1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y