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Download high-resolution files of public domain art
A few years ago I read that you could download high-resolution files of classic art (which is in the public domain). I googled for such a site but I couldn't find it. Is there such a site?
Bubba73You talkin' to me?05:25, 13 February 2022 (UTC)reply
I'm looking for files of particular ones that are good enough to print to hang on the wall. What I found either had the colors off or were of too low resolution to print out at the size I want.
Bubba73You talkin' to me?23:45, 13 February 2022 (UTC)reply
A fairly thorough Google search failed to find any middle names for any of those Alfreds, except that the East German chap liked to be called "Ali".
Alansplodge (
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11:40, 14 February 2022 (UTC)reply
In Germany, second and additional names are not that frequent (about 40% of current new-borns, less that for older people), and the use of middle initials is extremely rare. I have a very frequent name combination, but it never transpired to me to use my middle initial in scientific publishing until it was too late. --
Stephan Schulz (
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12:38, 14 February 2022 (UTC)reply
Geoffrey Sampson (an English linguist) said somewhere on his website that he is willing to be known as either Geoffrey Sampson or as G. R. Sampson, but Geoffrey R. Sampson would be an Americanism. —
Tamfang (
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03:31, 17 February 2022 (UTC)reply
@Stephan Schulz: Do you have a source for only "40% of current new-borns, less that for older people" having second names in Germany? In my personal experience a clear majority has several given names (usually two), though most people rarely use their second name. --
46.114.2.7 (
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19:04, 14 February 2022 (UTC)reply
Interesting, I wonder if that is a modern practice. I can immediately think of several German or Austrian historical figures with middle names (Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart, Rainer Maria Rilke, Johann .* Bach, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Hans Christian Andersen (ok, not German), etc. Contemporary names of that sort don't immediately come to mind though.
2602:24A:DE47:B8E0:1B43:29FD:A863:33CA (
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02:34, 15 February 2022 (UTC)reply
If you go go back far enough, naming conventions drift. Moreover, second names are more prevalent among the upper classes, and people you know from 200 years ago are mostly upper class, so there is a selection bias. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (note the "a") was baptised Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart - note that "Theophilus" is the Greek version of "Amadeus", and that he also sometimes went by "Gottlieb", which is the German equivalent. He mostly signed his name "Wolfgang Amadé Mozart" (with the French version ;-). And it's debatable if he was German - he was born in Salzburg, and mostly lived in Vienna, both now in Austria, but he lived before the Bismarck German unification (which left Austria out). --
Stephan Schulz (
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17:14, 15 February 2022 (UTC)reply
It's only debatable if we use modern, anachronistic definitions of
nation states, a concept that really did not fully exist at the time Mozart was alive, though it was certainly in development. The medieval and early modern understanding of "Germany" would have included Austria, which was not at the time thought of as "not-Germany". It was as German as Prussia or Hesse or any of the other German-speaking lands of the
Holy Roman Empire. The idea that Austria was not part of Germany was not really considered until the the late 19th century when they were deliberately excluded from the
German Empire; even then
German question was not fully settled until 1945. --
Jayron3219:12, 15 February 2022 (UTC)reply
Well, your point is well taken. But, as you say, the concept of German was not well-defined at that time. Mozart certainly called himself "Teutscher", so he certainly self-identified as a German. But Hanseatic culture was very different from Rhineland culture was very different from Vienna culture. --
Stephan Schulz (
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23:50, 15 February 2022 (UTC)reply
There is also a difference between having one and using one. People may have (as in, we granted at birth on their birth certificate) a middle name, but may not use that name in common or official use. --
Jayron3219:03, 15 February 2022 (UTC)reply
It occurs to me that the German-born physicist
Hans A. Bethe used a middle initial at least some of the time (or at least, other people sometimes used it when referring to him), but a) ok fine, there are some unusual cases, and b) he moved to the US in the 1930s and may have only started using his middle initial afterwards.
2602:24A:DE47:B8E0:1B43:29FD:A863:33CA (
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21:54, 15 February 2022 (UTC)reply
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Download high-resolution files of public domain art
A few years ago I read that you could download high-resolution files of classic art (which is in the public domain). I googled for such a site but I couldn't find it. Is there such a site?
Bubba73You talkin' to me?05:25, 13 February 2022 (UTC)reply
I'm looking for files of particular ones that are good enough to print to hang on the wall. What I found either had the colors off or were of too low resolution to print out at the size I want.
Bubba73You talkin' to me?23:45, 13 February 2022 (UTC)reply
A fairly thorough Google search failed to find any middle names for any of those Alfreds, except that the East German chap liked to be called "Ali".
Alansplodge (
talk)
11:40, 14 February 2022 (UTC)reply
In Germany, second and additional names are not that frequent (about 40% of current new-borns, less that for older people), and the use of middle initials is extremely rare. I have a very frequent name combination, but it never transpired to me to use my middle initial in scientific publishing until it was too late. --
Stephan Schulz (
talk)
12:38, 14 February 2022 (UTC)reply
Geoffrey Sampson (an English linguist) said somewhere on his website that he is willing to be known as either Geoffrey Sampson or as G. R. Sampson, but Geoffrey R. Sampson would be an Americanism. —
Tamfang (
talk)
03:31, 17 February 2022 (UTC)reply
@Stephan Schulz: Do you have a source for only "40% of current new-borns, less that for older people" having second names in Germany? In my personal experience a clear majority has several given names (usually two), though most people rarely use their second name. --
46.114.2.7 (
talk)
19:04, 14 February 2022 (UTC)reply
Interesting, I wonder if that is a modern practice. I can immediately think of several German or Austrian historical figures with middle names (Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart, Rainer Maria Rilke, Johann .* Bach, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Hans Christian Andersen (ok, not German), etc. Contemporary names of that sort don't immediately come to mind though.
2602:24A:DE47:B8E0:1B43:29FD:A863:33CA (
talk)
02:34, 15 February 2022 (UTC)reply
If you go go back far enough, naming conventions drift. Moreover, second names are more prevalent among the upper classes, and people you know from 200 years ago are mostly upper class, so there is a selection bias. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (note the "a") was baptised Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart - note that "Theophilus" is the Greek version of "Amadeus", and that he also sometimes went by "Gottlieb", which is the German equivalent. He mostly signed his name "Wolfgang Amadé Mozart" (with the French version ;-). And it's debatable if he was German - he was born in Salzburg, and mostly lived in Vienna, both now in Austria, but he lived before the Bismarck German unification (which left Austria out). --
Stephan Schulz (
talk)
17:14, 15 February 2022 (UTC)reply
It's only debatable if we use modern, anachronistic definitions of
nation states, a concept that really did not fully exist at the time Mozart was alive, though it was certainly in development. The medieval and early modern understanding of "Germany" would have included Austria, which was not at the time thought of as "not-Germany". It was as German as Prussia or Hesse or any of the other German-speaking lands of the
Holy Roman Empire. The idea that Austria was not part of Germany was not really considered until the the late 19th century when they were deliberately excluded from the
German Empire; even then
German question was not fully settled until 1945. --
Jayron3219:12, 15 February 2022 (UTC)reply
Well, your point is well taken. But, as you say, the concept of German was not well-defined at that time. Mozart certainly called himself "Teutscher", so he certainly self-identified as a German. But Hanseatic culture was very different from Rhineland culture was very different from Vienna culture. --
Stephan Schulz (
talk)
23:50, 15 February 2022 (UTC)reply
There is also a difference between having one and using one. People may have (as in, we granted at birth on their birth certificate) a middle name, but may not use that name in common or official use. --
Jayron3219:03, 15 February 2022 (UTC)reply
It occurs to me that the German-born physicist
Hans A. Bethe used a middle initial at least some of the time (or at least, other people sometimes used it when referring to him), but a) ok fine, there are some unusual cases, and b) he moved to the US in the 1930s and may have only started using his middle initial afterwards.
2602:24A:DE47:B8E0:1B43:29FD:A863:33CA (
talk)
21:54, 15 February 2022 (UTC)reply