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Begun in 1063, Saint Mark's Basilica is now an amalgamation of architectural styles including Byzantine, Romanesque, and Gothic. It's interior, however, most greatly reflects the Byzantine style in its inclusion of 40,000 square feet of golden mosaics, most of which date from the 12th and 13th centuries.
A scarf using a reversible mock-cable pattern ("Toasty Twisty Scarf.") Will eventually be donated to the Red Scarf Project.
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STOP HANGING OF PERARIVALAN, MURUGAN, SANTHAN .
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Preparations have begun at the Vellore Central Prison to hang Sriharan (alias) Murugan, T. Suthendraraja (alias) Santhan and G. Perarivalan (alais) Arivu. The mercy petition, that was filed 11 years before, was rejected on 11th August 2011 by the President of India. Soon after the rejection of the clemency petition, the execution order of the three in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case has come and communicated to the Vellore jail authorities. The date decided by the Vellore jail authorities is September 9, 2011 morning. .
Perarivalan was sentenced in 1999, confirmed by the Supreme Court in the year 2000, re-confirmed by the Ministry of Home Affairs in 2005, called back for review in February 2011 and again confirmed in March this year, all this while, Perarivalan has been on the death row. Though the Supreme Court has clearly held that the TADA act cannot apply to the Rajiv Gandhi murder case, it is the set of the confessional statements recorded under TADA that has been the mainstay of the case. Perarivalan in his statement has specifically mentioned how he was tortured and pressures to sign the confession. .
Perarivalan had been in jail for the last 20 years for no fault of his. He has been awarded the death sentence for what? -for purchasing toy batteries! In this recent book, An Appeal from Death Row (Rajiv Murder Case The Truth Speaks) narrates the incidents, forced confession, third degree tortures, the handling of the case and Perarivalan's letters, and appeals for justice. The first sentence of his letter of appeal is, I, A.G.Perarivalan, have been falsely implicated in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and am imprisoned as a death row inmate. Any layperson can identify that he is an innocent. In fact, the senior CBI officer Mr. Ragothaman has quoted in his book, Rajivs Assassination Case and on interview that the puzzle behind the assembler of the Belt-Bomb is still unresolved. .
Arputham Ammal, A.G.Perarivalan's Mother is sitting on fast outside the Vellore Jail to demand the commutation of death sentence to life imprisonment. Lakhs of people are protesting outside the jail in Chennai. Kuyildasan, father of Perarivalan making an appeal to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa at Jolarpettai in Vellore district after participating in a fast, Kuyildasan said if his son was not released, he along with his family members, would commit suicide before the Vellore Central Prison. "We will commit suicide in front of the prison before my son is hanged", he said, adding Perarivalan was innocent and had not committed any offence. .
Death Penalty is nothing but a judicially sanctioned murder, executed on a planned date and time says Former Justice of Supreme Court V.R.Krishna Iyer. As many as 132 countries have abolished capital punishment, no matter how awful the crime or how savage the criminal. But India despite priding itself on a highly evolved rule of law system has steadfastly stick to the punishment. Death penalty in India largely figured in British Indian Penal System along with transportation for life-kala pani. Post-1947 India retained the majority of legal statutes put in place by its colonial master. This included the IPC, 1860 and the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898. India follows the principle of the rarest of the rare cases and claims to be complying with the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) where death penalty is abolished. The doctrine of rarest of rare case is superfluous as it is vague. There is no uniform guideline for its application. The quantum of punishment varies according to the nature i.e; caste, class of a judge (subjective satisfaction) in awarding death or life. But indeed, in world history of capital punishments, Perarivalans case is rare because if he is executed, it will be because of the crime of the purchase of a mere battery. If this is allowed to happen, one can only imagine the kind of precedent it would set in this country
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ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY ! .
REVOKE 9TH SEPEMBER HANGING ORDER OF PERARIVALAN, MURUGAN, SANTHAN !! .
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Begun 1561, mostly of stone quarried from the Mayan structures that stood on this spot, the second oldest Cathedral in the New World, the Cathedral of San Ildefonso
Begun 1369 at beginning of Ming; one of best-preserved government offices remaining in China. Yexian, Henan Province. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com.
“We’d been thinking for several years about having one…we never felt there were enough children or leaders for a VBS.” Things changed when a volunteer, Lisa Boone, was willing to take the lead.
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This church was begun in the year 1482 and was completed in the 17th century. It is in the Renaissance and Baroque styles. A notable work within it is the “Sibyls receiving instruction from Angels,” painted by the famous Raphael and decorating one of the side chapels.
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Rectoría de Santo Domingo de Guzmán, (Santo Domingo); begun in 1717 and finished in 1736.
I think just about everyone in Christchurch would love to see this High-rise building to come down.. they are turning into a hotel. On my walk around the city September 11, 2014 Christchurch New Zealand. Work has Began
In Brussels after On July 21, the next session of the fourth day of the EU summit began on July 20. Leaders will make another attempt to find a compromise on the EU budget and reconstruction fund. The starting point is to be the latest proposal by the head of the European Council, Charles Michel. […]
John Frederick Kensett - American, 1816 - 1872
View on the Genesee near Mount Morris, 1857
West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 67
ohn Frederick Kensett was born on March 22, 1816, in Cheshire, Connecticut, the son of Thomas Kensett, an English engraver who had immigrated to America, and Elizabeth Daggett, a New Englander. By 1828, Kensett had begun studying engraving and drawing in his father's firm in New Haven and in 1829 he worked briefly for the engraver Peter Maverick in New York. Earning his living as an engraver during the 1830s, Kensett also began to experiment with landscape painting, encouraged by his friend John Casilear (1811-1893). In 1838 he exhibited a work entitled Landscape at the National Academy of Design in New York and by 1840 he had decided to become a full-time painter. In that year he sailed for Europe with fellow artists Casilear, Asher B. Durand (1796-1886), and Thomas P. Rossiter (1818-1871). After an extended stay in Europe, with visits to London, Paris, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, Kensett returned to New York in 1847. He rapidly established a name as a landscape painter and was elected an Associate of the National Academy in 1848. In 1849 he was named a full member of the Academy and was also elected to membership in the prestigious Century Club, which brought him into contact with numerous leading artistic and literary figures of the day.
Kensett's early works were generally richly painted and owed much to the inspiration of Thomas Cole (1801-1848) and English landscape painters such as John Constable (1776-1837). Works from the early 1850s combined vigorous and expressive brushwork with carefully observed details of rocks, vegetation, and atmosphere in a strikingly effective way, and were well-received. By the middle and later 1850s his style had become more precise and meticulous, reflecting the influence of Durand, and he began to favor more tranquil and simplified compositions. Kensett was at the height of his powers in the 1860s and he created some of the most accomplished American landscapes of the nineteenth century. Although he occasionally painted large works, Kensett generally preferred to work on small to medium sized canvases. Unlike such contemporaries as Frederic Church (1826-1900) or Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902), who travelled to exotic and far-off locales in search of inspiration, Kensett returned again and again to favorite spots that were easily accessible to New York. Never tiring of the pictorial possibilities of these places, Kensett produced a substantial body of works that seem superficially similar, but in fact have subtle, but significant variations in composition, lighting, and atmosphere. He became so well known for painting certain places, including Bash-Bish Falls, Lake George, and the coastal areas of Newport, Rhode Island, and Beverly, Massachusetts, that many of his contemporaries invariably associated them with his name.
Kensett maintained a high profile in the artistic and cultural circles of New York and was respected and well liked by his fellow artists. In 1859 he was appointed a member of the National Art Commission, which was charged with overseeing the decoration of the Capitol in Washington. He was one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1870 and also served as a member of its board of trustees. In these same years he began to experiment with simpler and more austere, even reductive, compositions. Many of his works from 1870-1872 were unfinished, but examples such as Eaton's Neck, Long Island (1872, Metropolitan Museum of Art) are remarkable for their powerful arrangements of a few boldly simplified shapes representing earth, sea, and sky.
On December 14, 1872, Kensett died in New York City, of pneumonia and heart disease contracted while trying to retrieve the body of a friend's wife from the waters off Contentment Island, Connecticut. His passing at the age of fifty-six was considered virtually a national tragedy, and when the contents of his studio were auctioned in 1873 they brought more than $136,000, an astonishing sum for the period. For many of his contemporaries Kensett had represented a kind of artistic epitome in landscape painting.
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The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC is a world-class art museum that displays one of the largest collections of masterpieces in the world including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and decorative arts from the 13th century to the present. The National Gallery of Art collection includes an extensive survey of works of American, British, Italian, Flemish, Spanish, Dutch, French and German art. With its prime location on the National Mall, surrounded by the Smithsonian Institution, visitors often think that the museum is a part of the Smithsonian. It is a separate entity and is supported by a combination of private and public funds. Admission is free. The museum offers a wide range of educational programs, lectures, guided tours, films, and concerts.
The original neoclassical building, the West Building includes European (13th-early 20th century) and American (18th-early 20th century) paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, and temporary exhibitions. The National Gallery of Art was opened to the public in 1941 with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The original collection of masterpieces was provided by Mellon, who was the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury and ambassador to Britain in the 1930s. Mellon collected European masterpieces and many of the Gallery’s original works were once owned by Catherine II of Russia and purchased in the early 1930s by Mellon from the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad.
The core collection includes major works of art donated by Paul Mellon, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Samuel Henry Kress, Rush Harrison Kress, Peter Arrell Browne Widener, Joseph E. Widener, and Chester Dale. The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile created by Alexander Calder.
The NGA's collection galleries and Sculpture Garden display European and American paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, and decorative arts. Paintings in the permanent collection date from the Middle Ages to the present. The Italian Renaissance collection includes two panels from Duccio's Maesta, the tondo of the Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi, a Botticelli work on the same subject, Giorgione's Allendale Nativity, Giovanni Bellini's The Feast of the Gods, Ginevra de' Benci (the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas) and groups of works by Titian and Raphael.
The collections include paintings by many European masters, including a version of Saint Martin and the Beggar, by El Greco, and works by Matthias Grünewald, Cranach the Elder, Rogier van der Weyden, Albrecht Dürer, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, Francisco Goya, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Eugène Delacroix, among others. The collection of sculpture and decorative arts includes such works as the Chalice of Abbot Suger of St-Denis and a collection of work by Auguste Rodin and Edgar Degas. Other highlights of the permanent collection include the second of the two original sets of Thomas Cole's series of paintings titled The Voyage of Life, (the first set is at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York) and the original version of Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley (two other versions are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Detroit Institute of Arts).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Art
Andrew W. Mellon, who pledged both the resources to construct the National Gallery of Art as well as his high-quality art collection, is rightly known as the founder of the gallery. But his bequest numbered less than two hundred paintings and sculptures—not nearly enough to fill the gallery’s massive rooms. This, however, was a feature, not a failure of Mellon’s vision; he anticipated that the gallery eventually would be filled not only by his own collection, but also by additional donations from other private collectors. By design, then, it was both Andrew Mellon and those who followed his lead—among them, eight men and women known as the Founding Benefactors—to whom the gallery owes its premier reputation as a national art museum. At the gallery’s opening in 1941, President Roosevelt stated, “the dedication of this Gallery to a living past, and to a greater and more richly living future, is the measure of the earnestness of our intention that the freedom of the human spirit shall go on.”
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The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC is a world-class art museum that displays one of the largest collections of masterpieces in the world including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and decorative arts from the 13th century to the present. The National Gallery of Art collection includes an extensive survey of works of American, British, Italian, Flemish, Spanish, Dutch, French and German art. With its prime location on the National Mall, surrounded by the Smithsonian Institution, visitors often think that the museum is a part of the Smithsonian. It is a separate entity and is supported by a combination of private and public funds. Admission is free. The museum offers a wide range of educational programs, lectures, guided tours, films, and concerts.
The original neoclassical building, the West Building includes European (13th-early 20th century) and American (18th-early 20th century) paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, and temporary exhibitions. The National Gallery of Art was opened to the public in 1941 with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The original collection of masterpieces was provided by Mellon, who was the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury and ambassador to Britain in the 1930s. Mellon collected European masterpieces and many of the Gallery’s original works were once owned by Catherine II of Russia and purchased in the early 1930s by Mellon from the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad.
The core collection includes major works of art donated by Paul Mellon, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Samuel Henry Kress, Rush Harrison Kress, Peter Arrell Browne Widener, Joseph E. Widener, and Chester Dale. The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile created by Alexander Calder.
The NGA's collection galleries and Sculpture Garden display European and American paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, and decorative arts. Paintings in the permanent collection date from the Middle Ages to the present. The Italian Renaissance collection includes two panels from Duccio's Maesta, the tondo of the Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi, a Botticelli work on the same subject, Giorgione's Allendale Nativity, Giovanni Bellini's The Feast of the Gods, Ginevra de' Benci (the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas) and groups of works by Titian and Raphael.
The collections include paintings by many European masters, including a version of Saint Martin and the Beggar, by El Greco, and works by Matthias Grünewald, Cranach the Elder, Rogier van der Weyden, Albrecht Dürer, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, Francisco Goya, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Eugène Delacroix, among others. The collection of sculpture and decorative arts includes such works as the Chalice of Abbot Suger of St-Denis and a collection of work by Auguste Rodin and Edgar Degas. Other highlights of the permanent collection include the second of the two original sets of Thomas Cole's series of paintings titled The Voyage of Life, (the first set is at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York) and the original version of Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley (two other versions are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Detroit Institute of Arts).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Art
Andrew W. Mellon, who pledged both the resources to construct the National Gallery of Art as well as his high-quality art collection, is rightly known as the founder of the gallery. But his bequest numbered less than two hundred paintings and sculptures—not nearly enough to fill the gallery’s massive rooms. This, however, was a feature, not a failure of Mellon’s vision; he anticipated that the gallery eventually would be filled not only by his own collection, but also by additional donations from other private collectors. By design, then, it was both Andrew Mellon and those who followed his lead—among them, eight men and women known as the Founding Benefactors—to whom the gallery owes its premier reputation as a national art museum. At the gallery’s opening in 1941, President Roosevelt stated, “the dedication of this Gallery to a living past, and to a greater and more richly living future, is the measure of the earnestness of our intention that the freedom of the human spirit shall go on.”
www.doaks.org/resources/cultural-philanthropy/national-ga...
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Walk Wise Phase 4 project schools have begun road safety curriculum implementation for the 2015-2016 school year. The Walk Wise program team visited Heyan Primary School; the teachers were excited to teach the road safety class to help keep children safe. Teachers make the classes interesting through games to learn important skills.