Haydn's mu-sic became immensely popular all over Europe - By: fandydu

They were regarded as objects of reverence because the rims of tortoise-shell came from a sacred and symbolic animal, and the lenses were made from sacred stones. People wore them at first not so much to aid eyesight as for good luck, or for curing eye-ailments, or for the dignity which they bestowed on the wearer. Sometimes even empty frames were worn as a mark of distinction.

The English scientist, Roger Bacon, mentioned convex lenses in his Opus major and recommended them for old or weak eyes. But his knowledge was based on the writings of Alhazen, an Arabic physician of the eleventh century.The real credit for introducing spectacles to Europe goes to two Italian physicians of the thirteenth century. And by the middle of the fourteenth century .they were in general use.

Eyeglasses were thought to lend such distinction to the appearance that many officials and dignitaries had their portraits painted on them, whether they actually wore them or not. Renaissance painters, ignoring fact and chronology, sometimes picture the apostles with glasses, as befitting their venerability. There is at 1840 painting of St. Jerome writing at a desk from which a pair of nose-glasses dangles by a string.

At first the lenses were made of any transparent stone: rock crystal, emerald, amethyst any of which were loosely called beryl. Thus came the German word for glasses, Braille. The earliest ones were merely magnifying lenses, held in the hand much like the modern reading glass. Later they were framed and held by a handle before the eyes, much like the modern lorgnette. In the early sixteenth century came the first concave lenses for shortsightedness. In 1517, Raphael painted a picture of Pope Leo X holding a pair of rimmed concave glasses in his hand. This portrait is in the Pitti Palace in Florence.

The first spectacles in England were hugely ridiculed. Physicians scorned them and feared them, and stuck to their eye ointments and lotions. The clergy violently opposed them, saying it was impertinent defiance against the hand of Cod to try to restore failing sight. But the fame of spectacles spread, partly because of the ridiculous caricatures of the artist William Hogarth. Pantaloon, the comic old man of Italian folk dramas, often wore spectacles.

Gradually, of course, people needing visual aid tried them and the spectacles themselves won over opposition and ridicule. Wealthy people used to send to Vienna for the finest lenses, which they wore in ornamental frames and cherished in jeweled frames. Over a period of twenty years, Haydn's mu-sic became immensely popular all over Europe. After the death of Prince Nicholas Esterhazy in 1790, Haydn was free to go to London where a concert series was planned around his compositions. And so, a servant had become a celebrity. Rich and honored, Haydn returned to Vienna in 1795. He died in 1809 at the age of seventy-seven when Napoleon's army occupied Vienna.

All the earliest Replica Christian louboutin glasses were nose-glasses with round lenses. The first ad for spectacles with bows or leather thongs to tie around the head declared the wonderful fact that they allowed free breathing i George Washington had a pair of these with long jointed bows.

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