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24 Mar 2013, 6:42 am

As a history lover I have a few historical crushes such as Prince Albert and Alexander the Great. I was wondering if anyone else has a crush on a historical figure.

If you do then there is nothing wrong with it.

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24 Mar 2013, 2:00 pm

I never had a crush on historical figures but there is a person that is quite interesting and intriguing to me, a doctor from the 16th century whose name was Francisco de Peñaranda. He had to escape to another country (because he was Jewish and Jews were prosecuted were he lived) so he confined some books of his library into the walls of his house to preserve them. He wanted to come back to recover them, but he never did, because those books were discovered twenty years ago behind the same wall. He was a very learned man.

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24 Mar 2013, 9:26 pm

Nikola Tesla is a big one for me, he was just such a wonderful sounding man. I'm also fond of El Greco and Van Gogh, and often fantasize about posing for them...*sIgh* and Lewis Carrol, who snuck math into a kids book. And Alexander the Great is very crush worthy, too!

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25 Mar 2013, 7:42 am

I don't know much about him, but something about Shakespeare draws me in :3

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25 Mar 2013, 12:10 pm

I have seen many handsome men in paintings and felt sad that they are now dust.

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27 Mar 2013, 6:31 am

My 7yr old has a crush on Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

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27 Mar 2013, 10:20 am

I've always had a fascination with Edward Teach.

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27 Mar 2013, 11:33 am

It was always Leonardo Da Vinci for me...

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28 Mar 2013, 5:04 am

LuckyKayla wrote:

Yes Alexander the Great in personal view is the most beautiful man in History.

I think Charles I was such a caring and gentle husband to Queen Henrietta Maria, I would hope my future husband was like that.

Charles I was said to be not very handsome but I think that in the case of Charles I. He had a very kind personality on the inside which can be more important than being beautiful on the outside. So he is my personality crush if you get what I mean.

I like Prince Albert because he was nice on the outside and on the inside.

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28 Mar 2013, 5:06 am

Mummy_of_Peanut wrote:

My 7yr old has a crush on Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

Aww that's nice to hear. Charles Rennie Mackintosh was a very talented man and have you taken your daughter to see any of his artwork?

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28 Mar 2013, 6:18 am

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Mummy_of_Peanut wrote:

My 7yr old has a crush on Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

Aww that's nice to hear. Charles Rennie Mackintosh was a very talented man and have you taken your daughter to see any of his artwork?

Yes. Her school topic just now is Glasgow (we stay just outside Glasgow). So, as ever, she's gotten really into the topic. At the mid term break, the two of us had a 'Mackintosh weekend', where we visited the Lighthouse, which he designed, his house at the Hunterian Art Gallery and we had afternoon tea in the Willow Tea Rooms. Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery has loads of his art work too (and his wife's) and we visit there often.

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28 Mar 2013, 12:51 pm

Mummy_of_Peanut wrote:

cowscows wrote:

Mummy_of_Peanut wrote:

My 7yr old has a crush on Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

Aww that's nice to hear. Charles Rennie Mackintosh was a very talented man and have you taken your daughter to see any of his artwork?

Those places all sound very interesting and the Willow Tea Rooms seems lovely!

I had no idea that Mackintosh's wife did art as well, wow.

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28 Mar 2013, 4:03 pm

Yes, I've also had crushes on anime characters. My historical crush was an general during the civil war.....So weird....

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30 Mar 2013, 6:29 am

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I have seen many handsome men in paintings and felt sad that they are now dust.

I know what you mean, I think this when I see busts of Alexander the Great.

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30 Mar 2013, 10:57 am

cowscows wrote:

Mummy_of_Peanut wrote:

cowscows wrote:

Mummy_of_Peanut wrote:

My 7yr old has a crush on Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

Aww that's nice to hear. Charles Rennie Mackintosh was a very talented man and have you taken your daughter to see any of his artwork?

Those places all sound very interesting and the Willow Tea Rooms seems lovely!

I had no idea that Mackintosh's wife did art as well, wow.

Sadly, one of the Willow Tea rooms is at risk of closure, as the owner rents the space from a jeweller's, which is closing down. I hope something can be sorted out, as the owner has kept the place true to the original design and it would be a real pity if that couldn't be maintained.

Charles's wife's name was Margaret MacDonald. Her sister, Frances and her husband, Herbert Macnair were also artists/designers. Together, they were known as the Glasgow Four. Some of the new designs we see today, known as Mackintosh style are actually based on the work of the sisters.

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30 Mar 2013, 9:25 pm

LuckyKayla wrote:

and Lewis Carrol, who snuck math into a kids book.

You'd be a bit old for him...

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