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Aïdar, a young Kyrgyz man returns home from his studies in France, with a beautiful French fiancée in tow. His fiancée is warmly welcomed by the village and captivated by the beauty of the region, but he stubbornly refuses to tell his family that the two are engaged.
A look at modern Korean society and how the old and new rituals and traditions combine, illustrated by the combination of a modern wedding but continued rituals in the form of the wedding chest, presented by the groom to his parents-in-law.
See Baskins’s introduction to The Triumph of Marriage, 25–28. Inside the lid, the painter often depicted an unclad male or female figure in a reclined posture, appearing before the viewer who opens the chest and disappearing once the lid is closed, as if the contents of the chest were a bed on which the image rested (figs. 7 and 8).
Ca. 1520. Pinewood. Wedding chests or cassoni first appeared in the late fourteenth century in the republics of Siena and Florence and were used to store the bride’s dowry received on her marriage. Notably Italianate in style, the front of this cassone has Renaissance motifs in gilded gesso relief framing the three coats-of-arms referring to ...
The Metropolitan’s Cassone stands out due to the choice of subject matter on the front panel (above)—depicted a contemporary historical event, the Conquest of Trebizond (in present-day Turkey) as well as for the two artists involved—Marco del Buono Giamberti and Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso. Emblazoned on each of the side panels of the ...
18 ott 2009 · With Kim KeumHwa, Boseong, Kim Minja. Germany/South Korea, 2009, 35mm, color, 82 min. English and Korean with English subtitles. Ottinger’s fascinating documentary portrait of wedding customs in contemporary Seoul centers around the eponymous chest, its contents, and the important ceremonial role it continues to play in South Korean weddings.
31 dic 2021 · Brides can start their own hope chest at any point before her wedding, and they can do it their own way. Collecting special, sentimental things can be a way to commemorate this unique time in one ...
