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Post by cato on Oct 7, 2017 12:31:05 GMT
Family that have returned from Europe recently commented on the beauty,Catholic patrimony in particular,of Salzburg and Vienna. Oh Vienna. I only read recently that the (rather strange, in the style of the time) original Ultravox music video was made on a budget and mostly filmed in England. When they actually brought a cameraman to Vienna to get some shots,the city's buildings were largely closed for the Winter season, when repairs were often done there. They ended up in a place called Zentralfriedhof taking shots of a piano-builders tomb. Carl Schweighofer. The tomb ended up being the single-cover( something currently extinct.) It's probably a positive thing to say about a place, that you can end up at a grave yard and somehow the photos still "work" and still become classic. I was very impressed by Vienna when I visited a few years ago particularly the scale and the beautiful buildings but I couldn't help but think how strange it is that this massive imperial capital is now the capital of a small European state. Sic transit gloria mundi.
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Post by kj on Oct 7, 2017 17:52:32 GMT
I must confess, though, that it was the vacuity of London that brought me back to matters religious and theological.
My basic feeling was: "This place is so soulless - God has to be hiding *somewhere*"
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Post by Séamus on Oct 8, 2017 9:21:17 GMT
Family that have returned from Europe recently commented on the beauty,Catholic patrimony in particular,of Salzburg and Vienna. Oh Vienna. I only read recently that the (rather strange, in the style of the time) original Ultravox Etc you can end up at a grave yard and somehow the photos still "work" and still become classic. I was very impressed by Vienna when I visited a few years ago particularly the scale and the beautiful buildings but I couldn't help but think how strange it is that this massive imperial capital is now the capital of a small European state. Sic transit gloria mundi. I don't think the Hungarians have any problem with that. A lady from a Croatian background that visits her mother in Split quite often has told me that Croatians, at least, while not wanting any return to the pre-WW1 map generally look back at the Hapsburgs in a positive way. Often they'll send postcards back from Vienna that depict the Hapsburgs or places that they lived in. It's perhaps a bit like the relationship the Windsors have with New Zealand(I won't say Australia as it's future is much less certain). She was showing me photos she took of a chapel which is actually part of the parliamentary precinct and which is used in an official capacity, there in Zagreb. Although not terribly old, it predates the Great War, so I asked whether or was a type of royal chapel- I imagine the dynasty visited Zagreb at times. She wasn't sure, but was going to find out. One person she wasn't aware of was Irishman Count Lavall Nugent,a honorary Prince of the Austrian Empire who was active in Croatia in Napoleonic times
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Post by Séamus on Nov 9, 2017 12:02:35 GMT
Nice to see some great images of Skelligs on the STAR WARS/LAST JEDI trailers. It's one of two things that fascinates me about the teaser. The other is that, after all these years,Chewbacca still doesn't have any 'grey ones'.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Nov 9, 2017 12:34:53 GMT
Yes...he's no "wookie" (rookie) after all this time...
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Post by tomás laserian on Nov 19, 2017 6:32:34 GMT
it's nice seeing a Christian inspired artwork become the world's must valuable painting again, whatever about it's real origin, artists or real value
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Post by Séamus on Feb 21, 2018 7:35:54 GMT
While there's nothing new or extraordinary about travelling art exhibitions and nothing new about some or most of the art being sacred, it's rather surprising that the press in Perth has given much space to a story attached to a visiting collection belonging to the semi-royal Corsini family of Florence. "For Contessa Livia, the story of how her grandmother saved the works of art is also a historical tale of her favourite work -the portrait of Saint Andrea [Corsini] by Guercino. In a desperate attempt to save the works from the German army, Donna Elena split the collection and his them in three separate places...' The painting of Saint Andrea was placed in front of all the other... My grandmother said to Saint Andrea:I DID MY BEST TO HIDE THE COLLECTION, PLEASE LOOK AFTER THE PAINTINGS', Countess Livia said. When a German officer discovered the secret room, he broke down the wall, burst open the door and shot in the dark. He hit the painting of St Andrew, but no other painting was damaged...'we all decided that this painting would never be restored because it is a miracle for us,' Countess Livia said" (from a liftout from the WEST AUSTRALIAN)
RIP No mention of the Prince Corsini-no doubt part of the same dynasty- who was killed in Britain last year, where he'd been studying-hit by a car while cycling.
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Post by Séamus on Feb 21, 2018 9:12:10 GMT
...not sure what I did there
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Feb 21, 2018 9:34:28 GMT
Heidegger apparently use to write the word "being" with a line through it later in his career, to avoid the reader thinking of it as a mere word. I thought you were going for something like that!
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Post by Séamus on Jun 23, 2018 7:42:32 GMT
I came across an article today about the Landmark Trust of Sir John Smith (+2007) founded in the Sixties and responsible for over 200 buildings in Britain, dating from the 1200s to the mid-1900s. They usually take on the ones that are too eccentric or impractical for other heritage bodies to take on. Most are converted into(relatively) cheap accommodation, according to the article. 'The Pineapple', an 18th century summerhouse in Scotland, is probably the most unusual one illustrated. An old museum named Egyptian House in Penzance has apparently been subdivided into three apartments. They began with Church Cottage in Llanddygwydd, Wales, originally the 1850s-built residence of the sexton of St Tygwydd's Church. Unfortunately the church wasn't so lucky, being demolished in 2000.... ...More interesting than the work of the archeological team from a Binghampton University, reportedly digging up there grounds of Woodstock in America, so to be able to identify the stage site for next year's anniversary. Have they really so little to do?
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Post by Séamus on Jul 21, 2018 6:57:09 GMT
I'm not sure if anyone keeps up with astrophotography, but one image that made the shortlist of the 'Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year'18 ' (not sure how prestigious that is)captured the Northern Lights over a tiny church in a place named Buoir in Iceland rather splendidly. (Mikkel Beiter is photographer's name, not sure if he's a local there)
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Post by Séamus on Oct 18, 2018 7:00:01 GMT
Ghent and Bruges are very beautiful. The latter particularly, especially on a quiet, dreamy Sunday.... Ghent, Antwerp, and Bruges are all spectacular, but completely different one from the next. If someone offered me a free house in Belgium, of the three I would choose the Gothic jewel that is Ghent. Happy St Luke's day. I'm thinking today in particular of Dublin-born stained-glass artist Michael Healy's Sts Peter, Luke & Patrick window made for a St Peter's Church of England parish in England. They must have been a fairly high-church strain of Anglicanism- St Luke is holding, not any symbol of the Gospel or anything else that's attributable to the New Testament, but an image of the Blessed Virgin, which he points to, drawing more on Catholic and Eastern traditions of a St Luke-painted icon.
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Post by Séamus on Oct 27, 2018 4:51:23 GMT
I have to admit I'm relatively oblivious to this heritage. In fact, I'm rather more drawn to the jejeune architecture of America. However, I do very much cherish the non-physical heritage of Europe-- folklore, literature, custom, tradition, and so forth. It would take forever to list the nooks and crannies of Europe's churches, but a photo of a huge plaque-style memorial in Antwerp, that was in a book I finished recently, struck me for being that bit unusual. It's dedicated to Mary,Queen of Scots' ladies-in-waiting. "Elizabeth Curle and her sister-in-law Barbara Curle,born Mowbray, ended their lives together in Antwerp... the joint memorial to Elizabeth and Barbara in St Andrew's church ,Antwerp, flanked with their respective patron Saints, is still today[1969] crowned with a portrait of Mary Stuart, the woman who Elizabeth believed to have been a martyred queen, and to whose life she dedicated her service;the Latin inscription on the memorial still proclaims proudly that it was she, Elizabeth Curle, who received the last kiss of Mary,Queen of Scots" The caption mentions that they're actually buried here, it's not in the main text. Mention is also made of "a full-scale portrait of (Elizabeth and Barbara's) mistress at the time of her execution... The portrait was bequeathed by Elizabeth to her nephew,Hippolytus Curle,a Jesuit, and from him was handed on to the Scots College in Douai. At either side of the standing figure of the queen are shown two vignettes of the execution scene...on the right are shown Elizabeth Curle and Jane Kennedy standing together, wearing the black habits these good ladies appear to have adopted for the rest of their lives"
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Post by Séamus on Dec 4, 2018 7:03:56 GMT
Nice that the winning entry of the second London-based Historic Photographer of the Year Awards was a distant image of Mont St-Michel by Brit Daniel Burton. Cordoba Cathedral, King's College Chapel and the perennially picturesque Withby Abbey ruins were among the minor winners. Rustic residential streets seem to have been a hit with the judges also, two in England and another in Central America were shown in one newspaper report.
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Post by assisi on Dec 4, 2018 10:28:44 GMT
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