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The Cappella Colleoni (Italian: "Colleoni Chapel") is a chapel and mausoleum attached to the Basilica of St. Mary Major in the northern Italian city of Bergamo.
Dedicated to the saints Bartholomew, Mark and John the Baptist, it was built between 1472 and 1476 as the personal shrine for the condottiere Bartolomeo Colleoni, a member of one of the city's most notable families, and his beloved daughter Medea. The site chosen was that of the church's sacristy, which was demolished by Colleoni's soldiers. Whether or not the demolition was authorized by church administrators remains the subject of scholarly debate among Italian historians.
The design was entrusted to Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, whose plan respected the style of the church, as can be seen from the octagonal tambour of the dome and in the lantern cusp, as well as in the use of polychrome marbles.
The façade is characterized by the use of inlaying and polychrome marble decoration in white, red and black lozenges. Over the main portal is a rose window, flanked by two medallions portraying Julius Caesar and Trajan.
The upper part of the basement has nine plaques with reliefs of biblical stories, and four bas-reliefs depicting the labors of Hercules. The four pilasters of the windows flanking the portal are surmounted by statues of the Virtues. The upper part of the façade has a loggia in Romanesque style.
The interior includes a square hall and a smaller room housing the high altar. The tomb of Bartolomeo Colleoni (who died on November 2, 1475) is on the wall facing the entrance. It is decorated with reliefs of Episodes from the Life of Christ, statues, heads of lions, and an equestrian statue of the condottiere in gilded wood, finished by German masters from Nuremberg in 1501. The whole complex is surrounded by a triumphal arch.
Amadeo himself executed the funerary monument of Medea Colleoni (died March 6, 1470). Located on the left wall, it has a statue of the Deposition from the Cross in high relief. The tomb was transferred here in 1892 from Basella di Urgnano.
The presbytery has a high altar sculpted by Bartolomeo Manni in 1676, housing statues of the three saints to whom the chapel is dedicated—John, Mark, and Bartholomew—by Pietro Lombardo. The upswept cornice is supported by Solomonic columns. The altar table, to a design by Leopoldo Pollack, is supported by angels carved by Grazioso Rusca.
The altar by Bartolomeo Manni, incorporating earlier sculptures of saints by Pietro Lombardo
Notable are the frescoes of the dome, depicting Episodes of the Lives of St. Mark, John the Baptist and Bartholomew, executed by Giambattista Tiepolo in 1732–1733.
Of course in Liège I visited the wonderful Botanical Gardens. The Garden itself, with a pleasant pond, has scores of fine trees, but the real treat is the marvellous glass houses and their collections. Those glass houses were constructed between 1841 and 1884 in the then prevalent English style. Though severely damaged by wars and the weather, they've been maintained in great state. The collection of plants is truly worth a visit.
The inset shows the flower of Malabar Spinach, Basella rubra. I'd not seen it before. Usually you'll find only pictures of the beet-like foliage, but here's a cluster of flowers, one open to the public.
Our Basella was first described for the West by that intrepid Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) warlord and naturalist at the same time, Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede tot Drakenstein ( 1636-1691). He wrote a botanico-anthropological work on the Malabar regions which he governed between 1669 and 1676. In it he writes about this Basella rubra; its name he coins in neolatin from a local language. Its Dutch name - the plant was grown in the Botanical Garden at Amsterdam from 1685 - is Beetklim. That name derives from the Beet-fashioned foliage including the color of its stems and the fact that it's a climber ('klimmen' in Dutch means 'to climb'). The English Malabar Spinach refers obviously to the foliage.
So Olymp thought it would be nice to show you Basella's minute flowers.
I love lamb saag and not just because it tastes great, it is also one of the healthiest things you can eat. Saag is a leaf-based (spinach, mustard leaf, collard greens, basella, etc.) dish eaten in the Indian subcontinent with bread such as roti or naan, or rice (in Nepal, Odisha and West Bengal).
Malabar spinach is not spinach at all.
Malabar spinach is eaten like a leafy vegetable, and is a perennial vine, although it is often grown as an annual in cooler climates.
It’ is also known as ‘Creeping Spinach’, ‘Climbing Spinach’, ‘Indian Spinach’, ‘Chinese spinach’, ‘Vine Spinach’, ‘Vietnamese Spinach’ and ‘Ceylon Spinach’.
Malabar spinach has the scientific name of Basella alba, a white flowering, green stem variety, or Basella rubra, a plant that has red stems. It is from the family Basellaceae, the family of some flowering plants including a number of other vines, with edible leaves and roots.
In a tropical environment, a Malabar spinach vine can grow up to a height of 33 feet.
Living in a Jungle
Biscayne Park, FL
Just under the wire for an "on time" Fence Friday post - it's been an insane week. I'll catch up with your wonderful streams as fast as I can. Happy Fence Friday, my friends, enjoy this last weekend of Summer! :)
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La espinaca de Malabar o espinaca china (Basella alba) es una especie de enredadera perenne perteneciente a la familia Basellaceae. Sus hojas son gruesas, de color verde oscuro, con pecíolos rojos o blancos (dependiendo del cultivar). Se consume tierna, 57 días después de sembrada la planta.
Cultivo
La espinaca de Malabar es cultivada principalmente en el trópico como cultivo perenne y en temperaturas más cálidas como cultivo anual. Puede crecer hasta 10m de largo y se utiliza como una fuente de alimento comestible.
Descripción botánica
Las hojas miden 25-65(-80) × 25-55 mm, con una base cortamente angostada a truncada o ligeramente cordada, y una lámina cortamente decurrente en los pecíolos. El ápice es redondeado-obtuso con una nervadura.
The length of the nylon string seen in the picture is between 2.5 to 2.7 inches. Had to crop the original picture to fit the size requirement.
Malabar spinach is not spinach at all.
Malabar spinach is eaten like a leafy vegetable, and is a perennial vine, although it is often grown as an annual in cooler climates.
‘Malabar spinach’ is also known as ‘Creeping Spinach’, ‘Climbing Spinach’, ‘Indian Spinach’, ‘Chinese spinach’, ‘Vine Spinach’, ‘Vietnamese Spinach’ and ‘Ceylon Spinach’.
Malabar spinach has the scientific name of Basella alba, a white flowering, green stem variety, or Basella rubra, a plant that has red stems. It is from the family Basellaceae, the family of some flowering plants including a number of other vines, with edible leaves and roots.
In a tropical environment, a Malabar spinach vine can grow up to a height of 33 feet.
Living in a Jungle
Biscayne Park, FL
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This lovely plant isn't really Spinach. Basella alba is an edible perennial vine in the family Basellaceae. It is found in tropical Asia and Africa where it is widely used as a leaf vegetable. It is native to the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and New Guinea. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basella_alba
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A traveling/climbing vine of the Red/Purple variety of,
English: Indian Spinach / Malabar Spinach
Portuguese: Bartelha / Bacela
Spanish: Espinaca bacela
Tagalog: Alugbati
Thai: Phak plang
Bengali (India): Pui Shaak
Malaysia: Remayong
Indonesia: Gendola
Vietnam: Mong to
Malabar Spinach or Indian Spinach, a native of the East Indies is not a true spinach (Spinacia oleracea L., Chenopodiaceae) at all, but the taste is similar. It found its way to the New World from China.
The scientific names are Basella alba for the green variety and Basella rubra for the red.
This highly heat tolerant, fast growing, frost tender tropical vine with large meaty leaves is remarkably spinach-like in flavor. It however, requires a minimum daytime temperature of 59F(15C) to keep growing, though it tolerates occasional night temperatures falling below 50F (10C) and low light levels.
This vine tolerates high rainfall.
Plants do not flower if the length of daylight is more than 13 hours per day. Widely cultivated for its edible stems and leaves in the tropics, there are some named varieties, but they all can be treated in the same way.
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A mature vine with mature seed pods had totally covered a fence.
Basella alba
Family Basellaceae
Educations Concerns for Hunger Organization (E.C.H.O.)
Ft. Myers
Florida
USA.
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A traveling/climbing vine of the Green variety of,
English: Indian Spinach / Malabar Spinach
Portuguese: Bartelha / Bacela
Spanish: Espinaca bacela
Tagalog: Alugbati
Thai: Phak plang
Bengali (India): Pui Shaak
Malaysia: Remayong
Indonesia: Gendola
Vietnam: Mong to
Malabar Spinach or Indian Spinach, a native of the East Indies is not a true spinach (Spinacia oleracea L., Chenopodiaceae) at all, but the taste is similar. It found its way to the New World from China.
The scientific names are Basella alba for the green variety and Basella rubra for the red.
This highly heat tolerant, fast growing, frost tender tropical vine with large meaty leaves is remarkably spinach-like in flavor. It however, requires a minimum daytime temperature of 59F(15C) to keep growing, though it tolerates occasional night temperatures falling below 50F (10C) and low light levels.
This vine tolerates high rainfall.
Plants do not flower if the length of daylight is more than 13 hours per day. Widely cultivated for
its edible stems and leaves in the tropics, there are some named varieties, but they all can be treated in the same way.
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A 6 ft long piece of a mature vine with immature seed pods.
Basella alba
Family Basellaceae
The Hunt Grove, Merritt Island, Florida, USA.
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Bowl with a home made tomate and chickpea soup with malabar spinach. Ingredients: onion, celery seed, garlic, chickpeas, rice, vegetable bouillon, tomato paste, smoky paprika, turmeric,
chili sauce, Malabar spinach, salt and pepper, garnished with parsley
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