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Gustave Courbet
French, 1817-1877
Oil on canvas
Detroit Institute of Arts
Summer flowers are the heart of this painting. Full-blown, they surge across the surface, engulfing the young woman whose dress is even printed with miniature flowers.
Gustave Courbet, famous at the time for his confrontational images of peasant life and dramatic landscapes, led a personal campaign to reform art. He declared that artists must represent, not imitate the past.
This painting of a woman arranging cut flowers on an outdoor trellis reflects Courbet's Realist manifesto: it presents the young woman not as a classical nymph or allegorical figure, but as a pretty model in contemporary dress. It also elevated flower painting, (traditionally considered low in the hierarchy of artistic genres) to a grand scale, the blooms dominating the composition.
Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens is the cathedral church of the Archbishopric of Athens and all Greece.
Dedicated to the Annunciation of the Mother of God, the three-aisled, domed basilica of the Athens Metropolitan Cathedral sits a short distance from Syntagma Square. Constructed between 1842 and 1862, the church enjoyed the participation of many prominent architects, including Hansen, Zezos, Boulanger and Kalkos.
Badly damaged during the great earthquake in 1999, it was only fully restored and open on July 2nd 2016.
I love to capture Cathedrals interior as it offers so much details and the history behind the paintings. The extend of human art dedicated to religion is simply speechless.
I asked permission to set up my tripod and was duly granted by the caretaker, the rest is history.
Imaged captured with Sony A7RM2 + IRIX 15mm f/2.4
1862 is a Mark I Open Second with Miniature Buffet (RMB) built in 1962 at Wolverton to lot 30670 and it is seen here at Butterley, 9th April 2011. This vehicle is basically an Open Second with three full window spaces removed to accommodate a buffet counter and four seats removed to accommodate a stock cupboard. Originally built with vacuum brakes, steam heating and Commonwealth bogies it has gained dual heating at some stage. It was withdrawn around 1983.