fuckyeahfarinelli: The phrase “One God, one Farinelli” appears in William Hogarth’
fuckyeahfarinelli:The phrase “One God, one Farinelli” appears in William Hogarth’s second engraving based on his own paintings picturing The Rakes’s Progress. The engraving shows a scroll rolling down the floor in back of a keyboardist behind whom appear the figures of Tom Rakewell, a dancing master, and others. At the bottom of the scroll is an image showing Farinelli raised on a pedestal before a burning altar, in front of which several women are falling forward in reverence. One of them has a tribune issuing from her mouth bearing the blasphemous words. A Lady Rich is reported to have shouted the phrase to Farinelli at one of his London performances in 1735. -- source link
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