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Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña - Escocia - Stirling - Cowane's Hospital
Cowane's Hospital is a 17th-century almshouse in the Old Town of Stirling, Scotland. It was established in 1637 with a bequest of 40,000 merks from the estate of the merchant John Cowane (1570–1633). Subsequently converted for use as a Guildhall the building is considered by Historic Scotland to be "a rare survival of 17th century burgh architecture and one of the finest buildings of its kind in Scotland." It was listed at category A in 1965. The gardens are also seen as a "rare survival" of an institutional garden of the 17th century, and were included in the national Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in 2012. The hospital is located on St John Street, between the medieval Church of the Holy Rude and the 19th-century Old Town Jail.
John Cowane was descended from a family of Stirling merchants who had been trading with the Dutch since the early 16th century. The Cowanes exported fish, coal and wool in exchange for luxuries such as prunes, saffron and spices which were supplied to the royal court of James V at Stirling Castle. John Cowane also ventured into money lending, invested in shipping, and was a substantial landlord in the burgh. He served on the town council, was elected Dean of Guild in 1624, and sat in the Parliament of Scotland from 1625–1632. He never married, though in 1611 he was fined £6 for fathering a child out of wedlock: the mother was also fined and forced to do public penance. Cowane lived on St Mary's Wynd, in the building which still bears his name. John Cowane's house, though ruined, was purchased and preserved in 1924 by the trust he established.
On his death in 1633, Cowane was a wealthy man. He left sums of money to numerous charitable causes, including 500 merks to the Church of the Holy Rude. The largest bequest was the 40,000 merks which he left for the establishment of a hospital. This was intended to provide for "twelve decayed guild brethren", that is, elderly members of the Merchant Guildry of Stirling who could no longer support themselves. The establishment of a hospital, or almshouse, would allow them to live rent-free in their old age. In the 1630s a merk was worth two-thirds of a Scots pound, and was equivalent to one English shilling. The hospital was to be managed by a trust, overseen by Patrons who were drawn from the town council, the guilds, and kirk ministers.
John Cowane's brother, Alexander, acted as his executor and signed the hospital's Deed of Foundation on 13 February 1637. The land, sited adjacent to the Church of the Holy Rude in a prestigious part of the town, was transferred to the Town Council, and plans for the new building were commissioned from the royal master-mason John Mylne. As with Mylne's other architectural work, the design shows contemporary Dutch influences, notably the form of the bell tower and crow-step gables. In a niche on the tower is a statue of John Cowane, sculpted by Mylne and William Ayton. The statue, locally known as "Auld Staneybreeks" (old stone-trousers), is said to come to life and dance in the courtyard at Hogmanay (New Year).
The hospital was constructed by the master-mason John Rynd. Existing buildings on the site were demolished in early 1637, and the uneven ground was levelled by burning peat in order to shatter the hard underlying rock. At the rear of the site is the defensive town wall, which was constructed in the 16th century, and the hospital building may have been conceived as forming part of the town's defences. Building proceeded through the troubled period of the mid-17th-century, when a series of conflicts affected Scotland and Britain: the hospital was not completed until 1643, and may not have been fully complete until 1660. In any case the building appears to have been unoccupied until at least 1661 when repairs had to be made. In the 1660s the grounds of the hospital were levelled and laid out with ornamental gardens, as well as vegetable, fruit and herb gardens, and terraces overlooking the Carse of Forth to the east. An elaborate carved sundial was set up in 1673. William Stevenson, gardener at the hospital from 1667, is recorded as having ordered plants from Holland, including apricot, peach and almond trees.
"There will be a substantial reward for the one who finds the Millennium Falcon. You are free to use any methods necessary, but I want them alive. No disintegrations. "
My next Episode V Build, i'm particularly proud of this one as it's something i've wanted to do for a long long time. Feedback appreciated!
The Kiss of Dead. Poblenou (Barcelona) Cemetery
The sculpture is located in the cemetery of the east, in the neighborhood of Poblenou of Barcelona. It is an order carried out around 1930 in the workshop of the executor Jaume Barba by the family Llaudet Soler on the occasion of the death of his son in full youth. The experts attribute the work to Joan Fontbernat, son-in-the-art of Barba and the best sculptor in the workshop. The back of the ribs is also attributed to Artemi Barba. In the foot there is an epitaph with some verses of Mossèn Cinto Verdaguer of his work "L'atlàntida":
The Kiss of Dead. Poblenou (Barcelona) Cemetery
The sculpture is located in the cemetery of the east, in the neighborhood of Poblenou of Barcelona. It is an order carried out around 1930 in the workshop of the executor Jaume Barba by the family Llaudet Soler on the occasion of the death of his son in full youth. The experts attribute the work to Joan Fontbernat, son-in-the-art of Barba and the best sculptor in the workshop. The back of the ribs is also attributed to Artemi Barba. In the foot there is an epitaph with some verses of Mossèn Cinto Verdaguer of his work "L'atlàntida":
"There will be a substantial reward for the one who finds the Millennium Falcon. You are free to use any methods necessary, but I want them alive. No disintegrations. "
My next Episode V Build, i'm particularly proud of this one as it's something i've wanted to do for a long long time. Feedback appreciated!
I have been in Gloucester visiting my brother and clearing the family home which is an immense undertaking. Tuesday morning Peter and I went into the City for coffee, into the bank as part of my executor duties and then into the Cathedral so I could take some photos. Everyone, it seems, has their favourite cathedral and mine is most definitely Gloucester.
It was built as a Benedictine monastery, work commenced in 1089. It survived Henry VIII's abolition of monasteries as Edward II had been buried there . . . so it became a cathedral.
City of Night - Law Executor.
Category: Gashapons/Capsule Toys.
Name: Law Executor.
Series: City of Night.
Size - Height: 6 cm.
Origin: Japanese Fantasy Design by SkullPanda.
Brand: Pop Mart.
Material: PVC and ABS.
Release Date: 2021.
Status:
Cost: S$23.11
Condition: Unassembled/Mint in Box.
Remark:
Description:
*Note: These are Trading Figures/Gashapons/Capsule Toys collected by my BB or me.
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UNESCO World Heritage Site (2003)
33rd chapel
The chapel represents the scene in which Pilate, saying: "Ecce homo", from the balcony of his palace, shows Christ to the crowd, wounded by the scourging and crowning with thorns and tied by thugs. The crowd responds clamoring to crucify him.UNESCO World Heritage Site (2003)
XXXIII cappella rappresenta la scena in cui Pilato, dicendo: “Ecce homo”, dalla loggia del suo palazzo mostra Cristo alla folla, piagato per la flagellazione e incoronazione di spine e legato dagli sgherri. La folla risponde chiedendo a gran voce di crocifiggerlo.
Il Sacro Monte di Varallo costituisce, tra i Sacri Monti esistenti, l'esempio più antico e di maggior interesse artistico. Consta di una basilica e di quarantacinque cappelle affrescate e popolate da oltre ottocento statue di terracotta policroma a grandezza naturale. È situato nel comune di Varallo (VC), in Valsesia
L'idea dell'edificazione di un Sacro Monte posizionato su di un'imponente parete rocciosa che sovrasta l'abitato di Varallo fu concepita nel 1481 dal frate francescano padre Bernardino Caimi. Verso la metà del XV secolo, aveva cominciato a diffondersi, in Occidente, un forte bisogno di riprodurre i luoghi della Terrasanta, il pellegrinaggio verso la quale, a causa dei Turchi, stava diventando sempre più pericoloso.
A partire dai primi anni del XVI secolo, regista dell'impresa del Sacro Monte fu il pittore, scultore ed architetto Gaudenzio Ferrari di Valduggia: egli crebbe artisticamente con le prime realizzazione del Sacro Monte, fino a diventare protagonista del suo sviluppo; vi lavorò sino al 1529 come progettista di alcune cappelle, autore di numerose statue (dapprima lignee, poi in terracotta) e di affreschi che, nelle cappelle, fanno da sfondo alle scene sacre.
The Sacred Mountain of Varallo (a type of mountainside Christian devotional complex), overlooking the town of Varallo Sesia in Piedmont, northern Italy. It is the oldest Sacro Monte, founded in 1491 by Franciscan friar Bernardino Caimi.
The Sacro Monte at Varallo comprises the minor basilica and 45 chapels, either isolated or inserted into the large monumental complexes Nazareth, Bethlehem, Pilate’s house, Calvary, Sepulchre and Parella’s house – populated by more than 800 life size painted statues, in wood and terracotta, that dramatically illustrate the life, passion, death and resurrection of Christ. These interiors are vividly decorated with fresco paintings.
Father Bernardino Caimi, was the promoter of the Sacro Monte, helped by Gauenzio Ferrari from Valduggia (a key figure until 1529 – painter, sculptor and architect), creator of some of the most enthralling of the sacred dramas: The Three Kings and The Crucifixion. The Lanino brothers Giulio Cesare Luini and Fermo Stella da Caravaggio were the executors of his work.
After my Keldabe cruiser was a complete fail, I thought I might try a diferent ship, so I have decided to make a flagship for my legion, but Venators are completely overdone, so I kind of combined several Star Destroyer designs to create my own kind of ship, it´s kind of a mix between the original ISD, the Executor, Acclamator and the Venator, wish me luck=D
NEO Japan 12th Round
Sept/Oct 2023
Credits:
Headpiece: Zibska Momoe @ NEO Japan
Makeup: Zibska Momoe Eyes & Ayumi Lips @ NEO Japan
Tattoo: DAPPA Jin @ NEO Japan
Pants: JEYS UKIYO @ NEO Japan
Pet: Moon Rabbit ONI FOX Companion @ NEO Japan
Weapon: [TANAKA x TREVOR] EXECUTOR BLADE @ NEO Japan
Backdrop: The Bearded Guy Kawaguchi View @ NEO Japan
Hair: [MAGNIFICENT] THOR Bun @ main store
“Ahem…seeing as you’re all here, let’s begin, the solicitor began. “The document reads as follows…” He was squinting. “Would someone find a light switch? I can’t see in this bloody darkness.”
“Ahem… now as I was saying…I, Patrick Paul Downes, residing in the city of Sligo, of the same county, Ireland, and being of sound mind, this, the twenty-seventh day of August, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-four, hear-by appoint Mr. Fred (Freddy Duh) Mavins, of Sligo executor of my estate on confirmation of my death.”
“Ah, shite,” Mary Quinn, sister of the deceased, whispered to her twin sister, Maggie. “The eejit went and done it. And Freddy Duh isn’t even here. If there was work in the bed, Freddy would sleep on the floor.”
“Hush, Mary. Shut up and listen to the man,” Maggie replied.
“The executor shall promptly pay any and all outstanding debts and assignments….”
The sisters and others had already quit listening to the legal boilerplate, and were eyeing the tea pot and biscuits that had been brought in and placed on a nearby table.
“I hate to admit it, but I’m glad Yuki left. I never liked having that foreign girl here. Pat Paul was better off without the woman,” Mary hissed.
Maggie put her hand on Mary’s leg. “Settle down. We said what was needed to be said. Today will be our reward.”
“Why did we have to be here so damn early in the morning?” Jimmy Joyce muttered under his breath. Seven AM? Christ almighty. He had cows to feed. Well, then again, maybe old Pat Paul would have though about that; hence the early hour.
“Ahem.” Declan O’Connor, the solicitor, tried to make eye contact with the group.
‘Now, the distribution of the estate is as follows…’’
That seemed to work, O’Connor noted. All eyes were upon him. You could hear the proverbial pin drop.
“To my lifelong fishing buddy, Jimmy Joyce, I leave my 17-foot lake boat, my Yamaha 5 horsepower engine, and all my fishing gear.“
Jimmy Joyce beamed. Pat Paul always went first class when it came to fishing. God bless ya, Jimmy thought.
“To my local parish, my church, Our Lady of Eternal Sorrows, and that lovely new priest, Father Akachukwu, recently arrived from Nigeria, I leave ten thousand Euro, to be used toward the recompense of people abused in their National School during the 1950s… the 1960s…the 1970s… the 1980s…
Father Akachukwu beamed.
Having little English, Father Akachukwu had no idea what had just been said, but he had heard his name, and knew what ten thousand Euro was.
Now we’re getting to the meat on the table, Maggie thought to herself.
“To my son, Patrick Paul Junior, who fecked off to America twenty years ago, and never sent so much as a postcard, I leave one Euro.”
Mary and Maggie gasped.
Patrick Paul Junior, who had at last returned to the auld sod for the reading of the will, spit on the rug and left the room; never, it was imagined by those in attendance, ever to be seen again.
“If I hurry, I maybe can catch the noon flight out of Shannon,” he thought to himself, as he fumbled for his mobile phone and the keys to the hire car. “The old gobshite…”
“To my sisters, Mary, and Mildred,” (who winced at hearing her given name) “Despite their constant bickering, and meddling in my affairs, I leave the remainder of my estate.”
Mary and Maggie beamed.
A month earlier, Patrick Paul Downes, knowing he was dying, had strolled into Mullaney’s in town and purchased a new suit, a couple of shirts, and a sharp looking necktie.
He’d then walked to the other side of the shop, to Mullaney’s travel agency, and had them arrange for airfare, a hotel, plus a car and driver, for a long-overdue holiday abroad. He wore the suit out of the shop, lacking a final tailoring, but suitable for his next task.
He stopped at the Bank of Ireland, whose manager knew him well, to arrange for a loan for the full market value of his property. The manager looked at Pat Paul; looked at the suit, and determined Pat Paul must of made a killing on the ponies at the local horse track. Loan approved.
Taking all the cash and life savings he’d gathered from beneath his mattress at home, he flew off to Monte Carlo a few days later. Pat Paul went to the grand casino, marched up to the first roulette table he saw, and bet it all on black. The wheel came up red.
Patrick Paul beamed.
(Photo taken at a grand Manor House now used as a luxury resort hotel, western Ireland.)
UNESCO World Heritage Site (2003)
33rd chapel
The chapel represents the scene in which Pilate, saying: "Ecce homo", from the balcony of his palace, shows Christ to the crowd, wounded by the scourging and crowning with thorns and tied by thugs. The crowd responds clamoring to crucify him.
XXXIII cappella rappresenta la scena in cui Pilato, dicendo: “Ecce homo”, dalla loggia del suo palazzo mostra Cristo alla folla, piagato per la flagellazione e incoronazione di spine e legato dagli sgherri. La folla risponde chiedendo a gran voce di crocifiggerlo.
UNESCO World Heritage Site (2003)
Il Sacro Monte di Varallo costituisce, tra i Sacri Monti esistenti, l'esempio più antico e di maggior interesse artistico. Consta di una basilica e di quarantacinque cappelle affrescate e popolate da oltre ottocento statue di terracotta policroma a grandezza naturale. È situato nel comune di Varallo (VC), in Valsesia
L'idea dell'edificazione di un Sacro Monte posizionato su di un'imponente parete rocciosa che sovrasta l'abitato di Varallo fu concepita nel 1481 dal frate francescano padre Bernardino Caimi. Verso la metà del XV secolo, aveva cominciato a diffondersi, in Occidente, un forte bisogno di riprodurre i luoghi della Terrasanta, il pellegrinaggio verso la quale, a causa dei Turchi, stava diventando sempre più pericoloso.
A partire dai primi anni del XVI secolo, regista dell'impresa del Sacro Monte fu il pittore, scultore ed architetto Gaudenzio Ferrari di Valduggia: egli crebbe artisticamente con le prime realizzazione del Sacro Monte, fino a diventare protagonista del suo sviluppo; vi lavorò sino al 1529 come progettista di alcune cappelle, autore di numerose statue (dapprima lignee, poi in terracotta) e di affreschi che, nelle cappelle, fanno da sfondo alle scene sacre.
The Sacred Mountain of Varallo (a type of mountainside Christian devotional complex), overlooking the town of Varallo Sesia in Piedmont, northern Italy. It is the oldest Sacro Monte, founded in 1491 by Franciscan friar Bernardino Caimi.
The Sacro Monte at Varallo comprises the minor basilica and 45 chapels, either isolated or inserted into the large monumental complexes Nazareth, Bethlehem, Pilate’s house, Calvary, Sepulchre and Parella’s house – populated by more than 800 life size painted statues, in wood and terracotta, that dramatically illustrate the life, passion, death and resurrection of Christ. These interiors are vividly decorated with fresco paintings.
Father Bernardino Caimi, was the promoter of the Sacro Monte, helped by Gauenzio Ferrari from Valduggia (a key figure until 1529 – painter, sculptor and architect), creator of some of the most enthralling of the sacred dramas: The Three Kings and The Crucifixion. The Lanino brothers Giulio Cesare Luini and Fermo Stella da Caravaggio were the executors of his work.
Nine roundels - two with the Cromwell badge of a purse enclosed by symetrically arranged gromwell leaves, two with rose 'en soleil', a winged and nimbed lion of St Mark, a white falcon perched on, and enclosed by, a yellow stain fetterlock (another Yorkist device), a white and yellow stain rose with a yellow stain edging, a yellow stain chalice and white host set on a white ground and half of a roundel of a yellow stain falcon on ground with white flowers (the left half of the lower right roundel is restoration).
It may seem strange to see Yorkist badges in an establishment whose purpose was to pray for the souls of Henry VI as well as Lord Cromwell, for long a loyal servant of that monarch. The explanation probably lies in the fact that one of the executors of Cromwell was William Wainfleet, Bishop of Winchester, who was involved in establishing the foundation at Tattershall - and he served the Yorkist King Edward IV.
The story of executor's rocks. Myth has it that on this point, which sits off of what was then Cow Neck New York (now Port Washington), the British, during the American Revolution, took control of the rocks. The rocks were submerged at high tide, but during low tide, they would row condemned prisioners whom they had captured to be chained on the rocks. When the tide rose, the prisioner would drown. When the tide went down, the British would row the next prisioner to the rocks, with a full view of the remains of the last prisioner.
This myth has been frequently true, but alas, is not true. It was a myth -- some propaganda before the term was popular. In reality, the rocks were named because they were a hazard to boaters.
Today, a lighthouse remains, one of the oldest working lighthouses on Long Island sound, to warn boaters of the rocks.
Besides being an interesting storey, it is also an excellent place to watch a sunset.
Which is what we did on October 1, 2006 to take this picture.
"Darkwater Executors have entered The Purge.
Flee while you still have the chance...."
An elite PMC allied with Darkwater, the Executors are a small collection of genetically upgraded soldiers who have no fear of pain or death.
First emerging as an ally to Darkwater after the bombing of Portland, the Executors are an unknown foe.
"Designed by Nadiri Dockyards during the final days of the Galactic Empire, the Starhawk-Class Battleship was mainly used by the New Republic to pursue the remnants of the Empire. With a length standing slightly over 1800 m, it was built out of decommissioned Imperial Star Destroyers, and held a tractor beam strong enough to take down an Executor-class Star Destroyer."
This LEGO model was originally designed as a SHIPtember 2019, but unfortunately it wasn't finished until 3 1/2 months after the start. It's final length is 89 cm, so roughly 111 studs.
I hope you enjoyed this MOC, it certainly a lot of fun and a very big challenge from a LEGO design point of view!
Full showcase video: youtu.be/j9qXvzEGGPk
More close-ups coming soon!
/0100, Seattle/
Recent footage taken from a low quality shows DarkWater Executor agents entering the outskirts of Seattle after the destruction of Portland.
A single EU is seen in the upper left corner, it is unknown if the EU is still at war with DarkWater and it's affiliate branches.
We will update this story as it progresses.
GRAH, this is what happens when I try to overstretch my collection. I end up with a large meh scene.
:c
No disintegrations! An iconic scene of the bounty hunters on the Executor bridge.
Trivia: If you can name all the characters in the picture off the top of your head, you're a proper Star Wars fan :)
Thanks for all the feedback and comments!
This is quick scene of Imperial officers containing Grand Moff Randine, (the guy on the far left).
This is the replacement for JastaBrick's version of the character: www.flickr.com/photos/187213881@N03/50599848558/in/pool-t...
"Moff Randine was on his Executor II-class Star Dreadnought Basilisk, planning a new mission to harvest all Kyber crystals on Christophsis. The thoughts of doing pointless work crossed his mind. Now it is over 10 years since Emperor Palpatine's death. Maybe his plan has failed, and the whole harvesting of Kyber crystals was pointless.
Suddenly the red light starts to blink. Incoming holo transmission from Exegol: Execute Order 256!
Immediately, he was torn out of his thoughts. "Finally...So long have I waited for this!" He opens his drawer and looks at the shiny rank insignia plaque of Grand Moff.
The mission was clear! As the new Grand Moff of the Outer Rim territory, he had to gather all the Warlords and introduce Emperor Palpatine's plan."
Story above was written by JastaBrick who is tagged in the photo.
I really enjoyed putting these figs together, so let me know what you think of them in the comments below!
This light cargo VTOL has been on the receiving end of many jabs and insults due to her chubby nature, the "Penguin" is the first in a line of specialized Darkwater Executor vehicles from Poseidon Industries.
The first in a line of DarkWater Executor vehicles.
Next up, MRAP.
The Kiss of Dead. Poblenou (Barcelona) Cemetery
The sculpture is located in the cemetery of the east, in the neighborhood of Poblenou of Barcelona. It is an order carried out around 1930 in the workshop of the executor Jaume Barba by the family Llaudet Soler on the occasion of the death of his son in full youth. The experts attribute the work to Joan Fontbernat, son-in-the-art of Barba and the best sculptor in the workshop. The back of the ribs is also attributed to Artemi Barba. In the foot there is an epitaph with some verses of Mossèn Cinto Verdaguer of his work "L'atlàntida":
Ightham Mote (/ˈaɪtəm ˈmoʊt/), Ightham, Kent is a medieval moated manor house. The architectural writer John Newman describes it as "the most complete small medieval manor house in the county". Ightham Mote and its gardens are owned by the National Trust and are open to the public. The house is a Grade I listed building, and parts of it are a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The origins of the house date from circa 1340-1360. The earliest recorded owner is Sir Thomas Cawne, who was resident towards the middle of the 14th century. The house passed by the marriage of his daughter Alice to Nicholas Haute and their descendants, their grandson Richard Haute being Sheriff of Kent in the late 15th century. It was then purchased by Sir Richard Clement in 1521. In 1591, Sir William Selby bought the estate.
The house remained in the Selby family for nearly 300 years. Sir William was succeeded by his nephew, also Sir William, who is notable for handing over the keys of Berwick-upon-Tweed to James I on his way south to succeed to the throne. He married Dorothy Bonham of West Malling but had no children. The Selbys continued until the mid-19th century when the line faltered with Elizabeth Selby, the widow of a Thomas who disinherited his only son. During her reclusive tenure, Joseph Nash drew the house for his multi-volume illustrated history Mansions of England in the Olden Time, published in the 1840s. The house passed to a cousin, Prideaux John Selby, a distinguished naturalist, sportsman and scientist. On his death in 1867, he left Ightham Mote to a daughter, Mrs Lewis Marianne Bigge. Her second husband, Robert Luard, changed his name to Luard-Selby. Ightham Mote was rented-out in 1887 to American Railroad magnate William Jackson Palmer and his family. For three years Ightham Mote became a centre for the artists and writers of the Aesthetic Movement with visitors including John Singer Sargent, Henry James, and Ellen Terry. When Mrs Bigge died in 1889, the executors of her son Charles Selby-Bigge, a Shropshire land agent, put the house up for sale in July 1889.
The Mote was purchased by Thomas Colyer-Fergusson. He and his wife brought up their six children at the Mote. In 1890-1891, he carried out much repair and restoration, which allowed the survival of the house after centuries of neglect. Ightham Mote was opened to the public one afternoon a week in the early 20th century.
Sir Thomas Colyer-Fergusson's third son, Riversdale, died aged 21 in 1917 in the Third Battle of Ypres, and won a posthumous Victoria Cross. A wooden cross in the New Chapel is in his memory. The oldest brother, Max, was killed at the age of 49 in a bombing raid on an army driving school near Tidworth in 1940 during World War II. One of the three daughters, Mary (called Polly) married Walter Monckton.
On Sir Thomas's death in 1951, the property and the baronetcy passed to Max's son, James. The high costs of upkeep and repair of the house led him to sell the house and auction most of the contents. The sale took place in October 1951 and lasted three days. It was suggested that the house be demolished to harvest the lead on the roofs, or that it be divided into flats. Three local men purchased the house: William Durling, John Goodwin and John Baldock. They paid £5,500 for the freehold, in the hope of being able to secure the future of the house.
In 1953, Ightham Mote was purchased by Charles Henry Robinson, an American of Portland, Maine, United States. He had known the property when stationed nearby during the Second World War. He lived there for only fourteen weeks a year for tax reasons. He made many urgent repairs, and partly refurnished the house with 17th-century English pieces. In 1965, he announced that he would give Ightham Mote and its contents to the National Trust. He died in 1985 and his ashes were immured just outside the crypt. The National Trust took possession in that year.
In 1989, the National Trust began an ambitious conservation project that involved dismantling much of the building and recording its construction methods before rebuilding it. During this process, the effects of centuries of ageing, weathering, and the destructive effect of the deathwatch beetle were highlighted. The project ended in 2004 after revealing numerous examples of structural and ornamental features which had been covered up by later additions. The final year of construction was followed by the television series Time Team.
Originally dating to around 1320, the building is important because it has most of its original features; successive owners effected relatively few changes to the main structure, after the completion of the quadrangle with a new chapel in the 16th century. Pevsner described it as "the most complete small medieval manor house in the county", and it remains an example that shows how such houses would have looked in the Middle Ages. Unlike most courtyard houses of its type, which have had a range demolished, so that the house looks outward, Nicholas Cooper observes that Ightham Mote wholly surrounds its courtyard and looks inward, into it, offering little information externally. The construction is of "Kentish ragstone and dull red brick," the buildings of the courtyard having originally been built of timber and subsequently rebuilt in stone.
The house has more than 70 rooms, all arranged around a central courtyard, "the confines circumscribed by the moat." The house is surrounded on all sides by a square moat, crossed by three bridges. The earliest surviving evidence is for a house of the early 14th century, with the Great Hall, to which were attached, at the high, or dais end, the Chapel, Crypt and two Solars. The courtyard was completely enclosed by increments on its restricted moated site, and the battlemented tower was constructed in the 15th century. Very little of the 14th century survives on the exterior behind rebuilding and refacing of the 15th and 16th centuries.
The structures include unusual and distinctive elements, such as the porter's squint, a narrow slit in the wall designed to enable a gatekeeper to examine a visitor's credentials before opening the gate. An open loccia with a fifteenth-century gallery above, connects the main accommodations with the gatehouse range. The courtyard contains a large, 19th century dog kennel. The house contains two chapels; the New Chapel, of c.1520, having a barrel roof decorated with Tudor roses. Parts of the interior were remodelled by Richard Norman Shaw.
(Wikipedia)
Ightham Mote (sprich wie "item moot") ist ein mittelalterliches Herrenhaus mit Wassergraben in der Nähe des Dorfes Ightham bei Sevenoaks in der englischen Grafschaft Kent.
Ightham Mote und die umgebenden Gärten werden heute vom National Trust verwaltet und sind öffentlich zugänglich. English Heritage hat das Herrenhaus als historisches Gebäude I. Grades gelistet und Teile davon gelten als Scheduled Monument.
Die eigentliche Bedeutung des ursprünglich um 1320 entstandenen Gebäudes liegt in der Geringfügigkeit der Änderungen, die nachfolgende Besitzer nach der Fertigstellung des Vierseitgebäudes mit einer neuen Kapelle im 16. Jahrhundert an der Grundstruktur vornehmen ließen. Nikolaus Pevsner nannte es „(...) das kompletteste kleine mittelalterliche Herrenhaus auf dem Land.“ Es zeigt heute noch, wie solche Häuser im Mittelalter ausgesehen haben. Anders als die meisten anderen Hofhäuser dieses Typs, von denen jeweils Teile im Laufe der Zeit abgerissen wurde, sodass das Haus sich nach außen orientiert, besitzt Ightham Mote noch alle vier Gebäudeseiten um den Hof und orientiert sich so nach innen. Nach außen zeigt es wenig Details und Informationen.
Es gibt mehr als 70 Räume in dem Haus, alle arrangiert um den Hof in der Mitte. Auf allen Seiten umgibt ein Graben mit quadratischem Querschnitt das Gebäude. Drei Brücken überqueren ihn. Die früheste urkundliche Erwähnung eines Hauses an dieser Stelle datiert auf den Anfang des 14. Jahrhunderts. Es hatte einen Rittersaal, an dessen oberes Ende eine Kapelle, eine Krypta und zwei Solare angeschlossen waren. Der Hof wurde dann durch Zubauten in seiner begrenzten, grabenbewehrten Lage und den zinnenbewehrten Turm im 15. Jahrhundert vollständig umschlossen. Außen ist nach den Umbauten im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert nur wenig vom 14. Jahrhundert bis heute erhalten geblieben.
Das Grundgerüst enthält unübliche und einzigartige Elemente, wie z. B. der Portiersspion, ein schmaler Schlitz in der Mauer, der es dem Torwächter ermöglichte, das Beglaubigungsschreiben eines Besuchers zu prüfen, bevor er ihn einließ. Eine offene Loggia mit einer Galerie aus dem 15. Jahrhundert darüber verbindet die Hauptwohnräume mit dem Torhaustrakt. Eine große Hundehütte aus dem Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts für einen Bernhardiner namens Dido ist die einzige, die als historisches Gebäude I. Grades gelistet ist.
Man erzählt sich, dass im 19. Jahrhundert ein weibliches Skelett eingemauert hinter einer nicht benutzten Seitentüre gefunden wurde. Diese Türe in der Spezialsendung Nr. 21 der archäologischen Fernsehserie ‚‘Time Team‘‘ zu sehen. Tatsächlich handelt es sich dabei um einen Abstellraum. Es gibt keine Aufzeichnungen über den Fund eines Skeletts und so nahm man das Gerücht nicht in den 2004 verlegten Führer auf.
In der historischen Novelle A Rose for the Crown von Anne Easter Smith, die im 15. Jahrhundert spielt, ist Ightham Mote häufig erwähnt. Die Novelle Green Darkness von Anya Seton spielt auch hauptsächlich in Ightham Mote. Die Legende vom eingemauerten Skelett spielt darin eine wesentliche Rolle.
Das Haus blieb fast 300 Jahre lang in den Händen der Familie Selby. Sir William Selby kaufte es 1591 von Charles Allen. Ihm folgte sein Neffe, ebenfalls William Selby, nach, der bekanntermaßen die Stadtschlüssel von Berwick-upon-Tweed an Jakob I. übergab, als dieser auf dem Weg nach Süden war, um den Thron zu übernehmen. Dieser William Selby heiratete Dorothy Bonham aus West Malling, aber das Paar blieb kinderlos. Dennoch verblieb das Anwesen in den Händen der Familie, bis diese Linie Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts mit Elizabeth Selby, der Witwe eines Thomas Selby, der seinen einzigen Sohn enterbte, endete. Das Anwesen ging an einen Vetter, Prideaux John Selby, einen ausgewiesenen Naturalisten, Sportler und Wissenschaftler, über. Nach dessen Tod 1867 vererbte er Ightham House an seine Tochter, Mrs Lewis Marianne Bigge. Deren zweiter Mann, Robert Luard, änderte seinen Namen in Luard-Selby. Sie starb 1889 und die Nachlassverwalter ihres Sohnes Charles Selby-Bigge, einem Makler aus Shropshire, boten das Anwesen im Juli 1889 zum Verkauf an.
Ightham Mote wurde von Thomas Colyer-Fergusson erworben, der seine sechs Kinder in dem Herrenhaus aufzog. In den Jahren 1890–1891 ließ er umfangreiche Reparatur- und Restaurierungsarbeiten ausführen und so ist das Haus trotz jahrhundertelanger Vernachlässigung bis heute erhalten. Er ließ die Rumpelkammer in ein Billiardzimmer umbauen, Badezimmer und Zentralheizung einbauen, arrangierte die Küche und das Speisezimmer neu und ließ ungezählte Reparaturen durchführen. Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts wurde Ightham Mote einen Nachmittag pro Woche der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht.
Sir Thomas Colyer-Fergussons dritter Sohn, Riversdale, fiel 1917 im Alter von 21 Jahren in der dritten Flandernschlacht. Ihm wurde posthum ein Victoria Cross verliehen. In der neuen Kapelle erinnert ein Holzkreuz an ihn. Der älteste Bruder, Max, starb 1940 im Alter von 49 Jahren bei einem Bombenangriff auf eine Armeefahrschule bei Tidworth. Eine der drei Töchter, Mary (auch „Polly“ genannt), heiratete Walter Monckton.
Im Zweiten Weltkrieg schlief die dezimierte Dienerschaft in der Krypta, die Schutz vor Fliegerangriffen bot. Ein deutscher Pilot, der mit dem Fallschirm auf dem Anwesen landete, nachdem sein Flugzeug abgeschossen worden war, wurde eine Nacht dort eingesperrt.
Nach dem Tod von Sir Thomas 1951 fielen das Anwesen und der Titel eine Barons an Maxs Sohn James, der nie heiratete. Die Kosten für die Erhaltung und Reparatur des Herrenhauses zwangen ihn, das Haus zu verkaufen und den größten Teil des Inventars versteigern zu lassen. Die Versteigerung fand im Oktober 1951 statt und dauerte drei Tage. Man schlug vor, das Haus abzureißen und das Blei auf dem Dach wiederzuverwerten oder das Haus in Wohnungen aufzuteilen. Drei Männer aus der Gegend taten sich zusammen, um das Herrenhaus zu retten, weil es ihnen so gefiel: William Durling, John Goodwin und John Baldock. Sie zahlten £ 5500 für die Grundstücksrechte und hofften, dass sich weiterer, reicherer Wohltäter anschließen würde.
1953 kaufte der unverheiratete Charles Henry Robinson aus Portland in Maine das Haus. Aus steuerlichen Gründen konnte er das Haus nur 14 Wochen im Jahr bewohnen. Er ließ viele dringende Reparaturen durchführen und möblierte die Innenräume teilweise mit englischen Stücken aus dem 17. Jahrhundert. 1965 kündigte er an, dass er Ightham Mote und seinen Inhalt dem National Trust überlassen wollte. Er starb 1985 und seine Asche wurde außen an der Krypta eingemauert. Im selben Jahr übernahm der National Trust das Anwesen.
1989 begann der National Trust ein ambitioniertes Erhaltungsprojekt, das auch eine weitgehende Demontage der Gebäude umfasste, um deren Konstruktionsprinzip aufzunehmen. Danach wurden sie wiederhergestellt. Das Projekt endete 2004 nach der Entdeckung zahlreicher struktureller und ornamentaler Details, die von späteren Umbauten verdeckt waren. Die Kosten dieser Arbeiten werden auf mehr als £ 10 Mio. geschätzt.
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Mespelbrunn Castle is a late-medieval/early-Renaissance moated castle on the territory of the town of Mespelbrunn, between Frankfurt and Würzburg, built in a tributary valley of the Elsava valley, within the Spessart forest. It is a popular tourist attraction and has become a famous Spessart landmark.
The first precursor of Mespelbrunn Castle was a simple house. The owner was Hamann Echter, vizedom of Aschaffenburg, a title which means that he was the representative of the ruling prince, the Archbishop of Mainz Johann von Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein (de) at the castle and town of Aschaffenburg. On 1 May 1412, Johann gave the site, a forest clearing next to a pond, to Echter, a knight, who constructed a house without fortifications. It was a reward for Echter's services against the Czechs. The Echter family (de) originates from the Odenwald region. Their name presumably means "der die Acht vollstreckt", the executor of the ostracism. In the 15th century the Spessart was a wild and unexploited virgin forest, used as a hideout by bandits and Hussites, who despoiled the regions nearby. Therefore, in 1427 Hamann Echter, the son of the first owner, began to rebuild his father's house to a fortified castle with walls, towers, and a moat using the nearby lake.
In 1957, Mespelbrunn Castle was one of the locations of the German film Das Wirtshaus im Spessart (The Spessart Inn, 1958), based on the novella by Wilhelm Hauff.
Hugo Carl Emil Muecke (1842-1929), customs and shipping agent, was born on 8 July 1842 at Rathenow, near Berlin, eldest son of Dr Carl Wilhelm Ludwig Muecke and his first wife Emilie. The family arrived in Adelaide in 1849. Educated at Tanunda High School, at 16 Hugo joined John Newman's commercial and shipping agency, which required a German-speaking clerk. In 1866 he became a partner, and also a naturalized British subject. On 2 April 1863 at Tanunda he had married Margaret Elisabeth Julia Le Page from Guernsey, Channel Islands; they had four daughters and four sons.
After Newman's death in 1873, Muecke took over the business, renamed H. Muecke & Co. It owned large bond stores at Port Adelaide, handled consignment and customs business, acted as agent for Norddeutscher-Lloyd and other steamship lines, and owned and operated small coastal vessels. In 1877 Muecke became vice-consul for Germany, and was consul in 1882-1914, an honorary position (apart from occasional fees). He was also a justice of the peace. First elected to the Adelaide Chamber of Commerce committee in 1880, he served almost continuously until 1915, including terms as deputy chairman (1884) and president (1885-86). A successful and highly respected member of the business community, Muecke became a director of the Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd in 1892. He joined the boards of the Bank of Adelaide, Adelaide Steamship Co. Ltd and Executor Trustee & Agency Co. of South Australia Ltd and the local boards of South British Fire & Marine Insurance Co. and National Mutual Life Association of Australasia (1878-1915). He served as warden of the Marine Board and on the Port Adelaide, Rosewater and Walkerville municipal councils. In 1900 he became a member of the Adelaide Club; he was active in the German Club and a prominent Freemason. In 1903 he entered the Legislative Council for the Central District as a conservative; he was defeated in 1910.
Montefiore Windmill
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Montefiore Windmill
16-03-30-Jerusalem-Innenstadt-RalfR-DSCF7584.jpg
Montefiore Windmill, 30 March 2016
Origin
Mill nameMontefiore Mill
Jaffa Gate Mill
Mill locationJerusalem, Israel
31°46′17.31″N 35°13′27.03″E
Year built1857
Information
PurposeFlour mill
TypeTower mill
StoreysFour storeys
Number of sailsFour sails
Type of sailsPatent sails
WindshaftCast iron
WindingFantail
Fantail bladesSix blades
Auxiliary powerElectric motor
Number of pairs of millstonesTwo pairs
The Montefiore Windmill is a landmark windmill in Jerusalem, Israel. Designed as a flour mill, it was built in 1857 on a slope opposite the western city walls of Jerusalem, where three years later the new Jewish neighbourhood of Mishkenot Sha'ananim was erected, both by the efforts of British Jewish banker and philanthropist Moses Montefiore. Jerusalem at the time was part of Ottoman-ruled Palestine. Today the windmill serves as a small museum honored and dedicated to the achievements of Montefiore. It was restored in 2012 with a new cap and sails in the style of the originals. The mill can turn in the wind.
Contents [hide]
1History
2Anecdotes
31948 War of Independence
4Montefiore carriage
5Restoration
6References
History[edit]
The mill in 1858
The windmill and the neighbourhood of Mishkenot Sha'ananim were both funded by the British Jewish banker and philanthropist Moses Montefiore, who devoted his life to promoting industry, education and health in the Land of Israel.[1] Montefiore built the windmill with funding from the estate of an American Jew, Judah Touro, who appointed Montefiore executor of his will.[2] Montefiore mentions the windmill in his diaries (1875), noting that he had built it 18 years ago on the estate of Kerem-Moshe-ve-Yehoodit (lit. "the orchard of Moses and Judith"), and that it had since been joined by two other windmills nearby, owned by Greeks.[3] The project, bearing the hallmarks of nineteenth century artisan revival, aimed to promote productive enterprise in the Yishuv.
The mill was designed by Messrs Holman Brothers, the Canterbury, Kent millwrights. The stone for the tower was quarried locally. The tower walls were 3 feet (910 mm) thick at the base and almost 50 feet (15.24 m) high. Parts were shipped to Jaffa, where there were no suitable facilities for landing the heavy machinery. Transport of the machinery to Jerusalem had to be carried out by camel. In its original form, the mill had a Kentish-style cap and four Patent sails. It was turned to face into the wind by a fantail. The mill drove two pairs of millstones, flour dressers, wheat cleaners and other machinery.[4]
The mill as it appeared with decorative, non-functional sails and bronze cap prior to the 2012 restoration
The construction of the mill was part of a broader program to enable the Jews of Palestine to become self-supporting. Montefiore also built a printing press and a textile factory, and helped to finance several agricultural colonies. He attempted to acquire land for Jewish cultivation, but was hampered by Ottoman restrictions on land sale to non-Muslims.
The mill was not a success due to a lack of wind.[5] Wind conditions in Jerusalem could not guarantee its continued operation. There were probably no more than 20 days a year with strong enough breezes. Another reason for the mill's failure was technological. The machinery was designed for soft European wheat, which required less wind power than the local wheat. Nevertheless, the mill operated for nearly two decades until the first steam-powered mill was completed in Jerusalem in 1878.[6][7]
In the late 19th century the mill became neglected and abandoned and it was not until the 1930s that it was comsetically restored by British Mandate authorities together with the Pro-Jerusalem Society. During this restoration decorative, non-functional fixed sails were placed at the top of the structure. Over the years the building's condition had deteriorated again and following the reunification of Jerusalem in the Six-Day War another cosmetic restoration was carried out, as part of which a decorative bronze cap was also added to the structure. In 2012 these decorative elements were removed and the mill was completely restored to full working order using the original 1850s plans (which were located in the British Library) as a guide.[7]
Anecdotes[edit]
Blowing up of the windmill by the British in 1948
Two anecdotes about the windmill appear in a 1933 book, which refers to it as the Jaffa Gate Mill. The first is that there was much opposition from among the local millers to the windmill, who looked upon it with the evil eye and sent their head man to curse it. Predictions were made that the mill would be washed away during the rainy season; after it survived intact, it was declared to be the work of Satan. The second is that the Arabs developed a taste for the lubricating oil on the bearings and would lick them, prompting fear the mill would burn down from the resulting friction. The solution was said to be placing a leg of pork in the oil barrel, whereafter the Arabs lost a taste for the oil.[4]
1948 War of Independence[edit]
During the 1948 blockade of Jerusalem the windmill served as an observation point for Jewish Haganah fighters. In an attempt to impede their activities, the British authorities blew up the top of the windmill in an operation mockingly dubbed by the population "Operation Don Quixote."[8][9]
Montefiore carriage[edit]
In a glassed-in room at the windmill is a replica of the famous carriage Sir Moses Montefiore used in his travels. The original carriage was brought to Palestine by Boris Schatz, the founder of the Bezalel Academy of Art, but was destroyed in an arson fire at the site in 1986.[10]
Restoration[edit]
Cap under construction in Sloten
The mill was restored in 2012 as part of the celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the founding of Israel. A Dutch organisation, "Christians for Israel" (Dutch: Stichting Christenen voor Israël), is behind the scheme. A model of Stelling Minnis windmill, built by Tom Holman, was temporarily taken to the Netherlands to help raise funds for the restoration. None of the original machinery survives.[11] Millwright Willem Dijkstra rebuilt the floors, sails, cap and machinery in his workshop in Sloten, the Netherlands in cooperation with Dutch construction company Lont and British millwright Vincent Pargeter. The windshaft was cast and machined at Sanders’ Ijzergieterij en Machinefabriek B.V. (Sanders foundry and machines factory) in Goor, the Netherlands.[12] The parts were then shipped to Israel and reassembled on site.[13] Dijkstra, his family and employee temporarily moved to Israel to help with the restoration.[12] The cap and sails were lifted into place on July 25, 2012,[14][15] and the mill was turning for the first time again on August 6.[16][17] The first bag of flour was ground in May 2013.[7]
References[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Moses Montefiore Windmill.
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Jump up ^ Jerusalem Simon Goldhill
Jump up ^ Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore: comprising their life and work as recorded in their diaries from 1812-1883, Volume 2. Adamant Media Corporation. 2001. p. 277. ISBN 9781402193149.
^ Jump up to: a b Coles Finch, William (1933). Watermills and Windmills. London: C W Daniel and Company. pp. 50–52, illustration facing p224.
Jump up ^ "The Windless Windmill". ohr.edu. Retrieved 2008-11-12.
Jump up ^ Palestine in the Late Ottoman Period , David Kushner
^ Jump up to: a b c "Historic Jerusalem Windmill" (PDF). Mishkenot Shaananim website (in Hebrew). Retrieved 22 May 2016.
Jump up ^ Eisenberg, Ronald L. (2006). The Streets of Jerusalem - Who, What, Why. Devora Publishing Company. p. 178. ISBN 1-932687-54-8.
Jump up ^ Dudman, Helga (1982). Street People. Jerusalem: Jerusalem Post/Carta. pp. 21–22.
Jump up ^ In the shadow of the walls
Jump up ^ Holman, Geoff (2010). "Kent mill moved to Holland". Cant Post (Kent Mills Society) (1): 9.
^ Jump up to: a b "Bertus Dijkstra, Bouw en Molenbouw" (in Dutch). Retrieved 8 June 2012.
Jump up ^ Walinga, Cees (5 January 2012). "Willem Dijkstra herstelt Montefiore-molen in Jeruzalem". Balkster Courant (in Dutch). p. 7. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
Jump up ^ "Historic Jerusalem mill gets new wind in sails". Retrieved 3 August 2012.
Jump up ^ "Mûne yn Jeruzalem opknapt" (in Frisian). Retrieved 3 August 2012.
Jump up ^ "Jerusalem Mill turns after 140 years". The Mills Archive Trust. August 7, 2012. Retrieved August 16, 2012.
Jump up ^ "De Montefioremolen draait weer". Alfred Muller via YouTube. 6 August 2012. Retrieved 18 August 2012.
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Sir Kenelm Digby (July 11, 1603 – June 11, 1665) was an English courtier and diplomat. He was also a highly reputed natural philosopher, and known as a leading Roman Catholic intellectual and Blackloist. For his versatility, Anthony à Wood called him the "magazine of all arts".
He was born at Gayhurst, Buckinghamshire, England. He was of gentry stock, but his family's adherence to Roman Catholicism coloured his career. His father, Sir Everard, was executed in 1606 for his part in the Gunpowder Plot. Kenelm was sufficiently in favour with James I to be proposed as a member of Edmund Bolton's projected Royal Academy (with George Chapman, Michael Drayton, Ben Jonson, John Selden, and Sir Henry Wotton).[2]
He went to Gloucester Hall, Oxford in 1618, where he was taught by Thomas Allen; but left without taking a degree. In time Allen bequeathed to Digby his library, and the latter donated it to the Bodleian.[3][4]
He spent three years in Europe between 1620 and 1623, where Marie de Medici fell madly in love with him (as he later recounted). He was granted a Cambridge M.A. on the King's visit to the university in 1624.[5] Around 1625, he married Venetia Stanley, whose wooing he cryptically described in his memoirs. He had also become a member of the Privy Council of Charles I of England. His Roman Catholicism being a hindrance in the way of government office, he switched to Anglicanism.
In 1628, Digby became a privateer, with some success: on January 18 he arrived off Gibraltar and captured several Spanish and Flemish vessels. From February 5 to March 27 he remained at anchor off Algiers on account of the sickness of his men, and extracted a promise from the authorities of better treatment of the English ships. He seized a rich Dutch vessel near Majorca, and after other adventures gained a complete victory over the French and Venetian ships in the harbour of Iskanderun on the June 11. His successes, however, brought upon the English merchants the risk of reprisals, and he was urged to depart.
He returned to become a naval administrator and later Governor of Trinity House. His wife died suddenly in 1633, prompting a famous deathbed portrait by Van Dyck and a eulogy by Ben Jonson. (Digby was later Jonson's literary executor. Jonson's poem about Venetia is now mostly lost, because of the loss of the center sheet of a leaf of papers which held the only copy.) Digby, stricken with grief and the object of enough suspicion that the Crown had ordered an autopsy (rare at the time) on Venetia's body, secluded himself in Gresham College and attempted to forget his personal woes through scientific experimentation and a return to Catholicism. At that period, public servants were often rewarded with patents of monopoly; Digby received the regional monopoly of sealing wax in Wales and the Welsh Borders. This was a guaranteed income; more speculative were the monopolies of trade with the Gulf of Guinea and with Canada. These were doubtless more difficult to police.
Digby became a Catholic once more in 1635. He went into voluntary exile in Paris, where he spent most of his time until 1660. There he met both Marin Mersenne and Thomas Hobbes.[6]
Returning to support Charles I in his struggle to establish episcopacy in Scotland (the Bishops' Wars), he found himself increasingly unpopular with the growing Puritan party. He left England for France again in 1641. Following an incident in which he killed a French nobleman, Mont le Ros, in a duel,[7] he returned to England via Flanders in 1642, and was jailed by the House of Commons. He was eventually released at the intervention of Anne of Austria, and went back again to France. He remained there during the remainder of the period of the English Civil War. Parliament declared his property in England forfeit.
Queen Henrietta Maria had fled England in 1644, and he became her Chancellor. He was then engaged in unsuccessful attempts to solicit support for the English monarchy from Pope Innocent X. Following the establishment of The Protectorate under Oliver Cromwell, who believed in freedom of conscience, Digby was received by the government as a sort of unofficial representative of English Roman Catholics, and was sent in 1655 on a mission to the Papacy to try to reach an understanding. This again proved unsuccessful.
At the Restoration, Digby found himself in favor with the new regime due to his ties with Henrietta Maria, the Queen Mother. However, he was often in trouble with Charles II, and was once even banished from Court. Nonetheless, he was generally highly regarded until his death at the age of 62 from "the stone", likely caused by kidney stones.
He published a work of apologetics in 1638, A Conference with a Lady about choice of a Religion. In it he argued that the Catholic Church, possessing alone the qualifications of universality, unity of doctrine and uninterrupted apostolic succession, is the only true church, and that the intrusion of error into it is impossible.
Digby was regarded as an eccentric by contemporaries, partly because of his effusive personality, and partly because of his interests in scientific matters. Henry Stubbe called him "the very Pliny of our age for lying".[9] He lived in a time when scientific enquiry had not settled down in any disciplined way. He spent enormous time and effort in the pursuits of astrology, and alchemy which he studied in the 1630s with Van Dyck.[10][11][12]
Notable among his pursuits was the concept of the Powder of Sympathy. This was a kind of sympathetic magic; one manufactured a powder using appropriate astrological techniques, and daubed it, not on the injured part, but on whatever had caused the injury. His book on this salve went through 29 editions.[13] Synchronising the effects of the powder, which apparently caused a noticeable effect on the patient when applied, was actually suggested in 1687 as a means of solving the longitude problem.
In 1644 he published together two major philosophical treatises, The Nature of Bodies and On the Immortality of Reasonable Souls. The latter was translated into Latin in 1661 by John Leyburn. These Two Treatises were his major natural-philosophical works, and showed a combination of Aristotelianism and atomism.[14]
He was in touch with the leading intellectuals of the time, and was highly regarded by them; he was a founding member of the Royal Society[10] and a member of its governing council from 1662 to 1663. His correspondence with Fermat contains the only extant mathematical proof by Fermat, a demonstration, using his method of descent, that the area of a Pythagorean triangle cannot be a square. His Discourse Concerning the Vegetation of Plants (1661) proved controversial among the Royal Society's members.[15] He is credited with being the first person to note the importance of "vital air," or oxygen, to the sustenance of plants.[16]
Digby is known for the publication of a cookbook, The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Knight Opened, but it was actually published by a close servant, from his notes, in 1669, several years after his death. It is currently considered an excellent source of period recipes, particularly for beverages such as mead.
Digby is also considered the father of the modern wine bottle. During the 1630s, Digby owned a glassworks and manufactured wine bottles which were globular in shape with a high, tapered neck, a collar, and a punt. His manufacturing technique involved a coal furnace, made hotter than usual by the inclusion of a wind tunnel, and a higher ratio of sand to potash and lime than was customary. Digby's technique produced wine bottles which were stronger and more stable than most of their day, and which, due to their dark color, protected the contents from light. During his exile and prison term, others claimed his technique as their own, but in 1662 Parliament recognized his claim to the invention as valid.
Sir Kenelm Digby (July 11, 1603 – June 11, 1665) was an English courtier and diplomat. He was also a highly reputed natural philosopher, and known as a leading Roman Catholic intellectual and Blackloist. For his versatility, Anthony à Wood called him the "magazine of all arts".
He was born at Gayhurst, Buckinghamshire, England. He was of gentry stock, but his family's adherence to Roman Catholicism coloured his career. His father, Sir Everard, was executed in 1606 for his part in the Gunpowder Plot. Kenelm was sufficiently in favour with James I to be proposed as a member of Edmund Bolton's projected Royal Academy (with George Chapman, Michael Drayton, Ben Jonson, John Selden, and Sir Henry Wotton).[2]
He went to Gloucester Hall, Oxford in 1618, where he was taught by Thomas Allen; but left without taking a degree. In time Allen bequeathed to Digby his library, and the latter donated it to the Bodleian.[3][4]
He spent three years in Europe between 1620 and 1623, where Marie de Medici fell madly in love with him (as he later recounted). He was granted a Cambridge M.A. on the King's visit to the university in 1624.[5] Around 1625, he married Venetia Stanley, whose wooing he cryptically described in his memoirs. He had also become a member of the Privy Council of Charles I of England. His Roman Catholicism being a hindrance in the way of government office, he switched to Anglicanism.
In 1628, Digby became a privateer, with some success: on January 18 he arrived off Gibraltar and captured several Spanish and Flemish vessels. From February 5 to March 27 he remained at anchor off Algiers on account of the sickness of his men, and extracted a promise from the authorities of better treatment of the English ships. He seized a rich Dutch vessel near Majorca, and after other adventures gained a complete victory over the French and Venetian ships in the harbour of Iskanderun on the June 11. His successes, however, brought upon the English merchants the risk of reprisals, and he was urged to depart.
He returned to become a naval administrator and later Governor of Trinity House. His wife died suddenly in 1633, prompting a famous deathbed portrait by Van Dyck and a eulogy by Ben Jonson. (Digby was later Jonson's literary executor. Jonson's poem about Venetia is now mostly lost, because of the loss of the center sheet of a leaf of papers which held the only copy.) Digby, stricken with grief and the object of enough suspicion that the Crown had ordered an autopsy (rare at the time) on Venetia's body, secluded himself in Gresham College and attempted to forget his personal woes through scientific experimentation and a return to Catholicism. At that period, public servants were often rewarded with patents of monopoly; Digby received the regional monopoly of sealing wax in Wales and the Welsh Borders. This was a guaranteed income; more speculative were the monopolies of trade with the Gulf of Guinea and with Canada. These were doubtless more difficult to police.
Digby became a Catholic once more in 1635. He went into voluntary exile in Paris, where he spent most of his time until 1660. There he met both Marin Mersenne and Thomas Hobbes.[6]
Returning to support Charles I in his struggle to establish episcopacy in Scotland (the Bishops' Wars), he found himself increasingly unpopular with the growing Puritan party. He left England for France again in 1641. Following an incident in which he killed a French nobleman, Mont le Ros, in a duel,[7] he returned to England via Flanders in 1642, and was jailed by the House of Commons. He was eventually released at the intervention of Anne of Austria, and went back again to France. He remained there during the remainder of the period of the English Civil War. Parliament declared his property in England forfeit.
Queen Henrietta Maria had fled England in 1644, and he became her Chancellor. He was then engaged in unsuccessful attempts to solicit support for the English monarchy from Pope Innocent X. Following the establishment of The Protectorate under Oliver Cromwell, who believed in freedom of conscience, Digby was received by the government as a sort of unofficial representative of English Roman Catholics, and was sent in 1655 on a mission to the Papacy to try to reach an understanding. This again proved unsuccessful.
At the Restoration, Digby found himself in favor with the new regime due to his ties with Henrietta Maria, the Queen Mother. However, he was often in trouble with Charles II, and was once even banished from Court. Nonetheless, he was generally highly regarded until his death at the age of 62 from "the stone", likely caused by kidney stones.
He published a work of apologetics in 1638, A Conference with a Lady about choice of a Religion. In it he argued that the Catholic Church, possessing alone the qualifications of universality, unity of doctrine and uninterrupted apostolic succession, is the only true church, and that the intrusion of error into it is impossible.
Digby was regarded as an eccentric by contemporaries, partly because of his effusive personality, and partly because of his interests in scientific matters. Henry Stubbe called him "the very Pliny of our age for lying".[9] He lived in a time when scientific enquiry had not settled down in any disciplined way. He spent enormous time and effort in the pursuits of astrology, and alchemy which he studied in the 1630s with Van Dyck.[10][11][12]
Notable among his pursuits was the concept of the Powder of Sympathy. This was a kind of sympathetic magic; one manufactured a powder using appropriate astrological techniques, and daubed it, not on the injured part, but on whatever had caused the injury. His book on this salve went through 29 editions.[13] Synchronising the effects of the powder, which apparently caused a noticeable effect on the patient when applied, was actually suggested in 1687 as a means of solving the longitude problem.
In 1644 he published together two major philosophical treatises, The Nature of Bodies and On the Immortality of Reasonable Souls. The latter was translated into Latin in 1661 by John Leyburn. These Two Treatises were his major natural-philosophical works, and showed a combination of Aristotelianism and atomism.[14]
He was in touch with the leading intellectuals of the time, and was highly regarded by them; he was a founding member of the Royal Society[10] and a member of its governing council from 1662 to 1663. His correspondence with Fermat contains the only extant mathematical proof by Fermat, a demonstration, using his method of descent, that the area of a Pythagorean triangle cannot be a square. His Discourse Concerning the Vegetation of Plants (1661) proved controversial among the Royal Society's members.[15] He is credited with being the first person to note the importance of "vital air," or oxygen, to the sustenance of plants.[16]
Digby is known for the publication of a cookbook, The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Knight Opened, but it was actually published by a close servant, from his notes, in 1669, several years after his death. It is currently considered an excellent source of period recipes, particularly for beverages such as mead.
Digby is also considered the father of the modern wine bottle. During the 1630s, Digby owned a glassworks and manufactured wine bottles which were globular in shape with a high, tapered neck, a collar, and a punt. His manufacturing technique involved a coal furnace, made hotter than usual by the inclusion of a wind tunnel, and a higher ratio of sand to potash and lime than was customary. Digby's technique produced wine bottles which were stronger and more stable than most of their day, and which, due to their dark color, protected the contents from light. During his exile and prison term, others claimed his technique as their own, but in 1662 Parliament recognized his claim to the invention as valid.
Jacopo della Quercia
Madonna della Melagrana (1403-1408)
Ferrara, Museo della Cattedrale
Chiamata anche Madonna Silvestri, dal nome del committente dell'opera venne scolpita dallo scultore senese in marmo di Carrara e rappresenta una tra le massime opere scultoree del Rinascimento.
Di essa esiste una vasta informazione che va dalla sua committenza nel 1403 dagli esecutori testamentari di Virgilio Silvestri fino alla sua esecuzione e collocazione sull'altare di famiglia nell'antico Duomo di Ferrara nel settembre di tre anni dopo.
Gli esperti di storia dell'arte sono concordi nel definire questa statua, che oggi è conservata nel Museo della Cattedrale di Ferrara, come uno delle massime opere di Jacopo della Quercia, "un artista di dimensioni internazionali, né soltanto gotico, né già rinascimentale, ancora profondamente medievale ma capace di intuizioni che scavalcano il Quattrocento" (L. Bellosi).
L'impianto volumetrico e la maestosità delle forme rappresentano il più palese omaggio alla cultura figurativa toscana che va da Nicola Pisano a Giotto, passando per Arnolfo di Cambio.
La scultura è stata sempre oggetto di profonda devozione da parte dei ferraresi che fin dal Settecento la chiamavano "Madonna Bianca" o, più affettuosamente, "Madonna del Pane" in quanto la popolazione vedeva nel rotolo della legge tenuto in mano dal Bambino la forma di un pezzo di pane ferrarese.
Indubbiamente una delle massime opere del Rinascimento Italiano da ammirare nel suo restauro eseguito recentemente.
Jacopo della Quercia
Madonna of the Pomegranate (1403-1408)
Ferrara, Cathedral Museum
Also called Madonna Silvestri, from the name of the client of the work, it was sculpted by the Sienese sculptor in Carrara marble and represents one of the greatest sculptural works of the Renaissance.
There is a vast amount of information about it which goes from its commissioning in 1403 by the executors of Virgilio Silvestri up to its execution and placement on the family altar in the ancient Cathedral of Ferrara in September three years later.
Art history experts agree in defining this statue, which today is preserved in the Museum of the Cathedral of Ferrara, as one of the greatest works of Jacopo della Quercia, "an artist of international dimensions, neither just Gothic nor already Renaissance, still profoundly medieval but capable of intuitions that go beyond the fifteenth century" (L. Bellosi).
The volumetric layout and the majesty of the forms represent the most obvious homage to the Tuscan figurative culture that goes from Nicola Pisano to Giotto, passing through Arnolfo di Cambio.
The sculpture has always been the object of profound devotion on the part of the people of Ferrara who since the eighteenth century called it "White Madonna" or, more affectionately, "Madonna del Pane" (Madonna of the Bread) as the population saw in the scroll of the law held in the Child's hand the shape of a piece of Ferrarese bread.
Undoubtedly one of the greatest works of the Italian Renaissance to be admired in its recently restored restoration.
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The Harry F. Sinclair House at E. 79th Street and 5th Avenue, completed in 1899, was successively the residence of businessmen Isaac D. Fletcher and Harry F. Sinclair, and then the descendants of Peter Stuyvesant. The mansion was designed by C. P. H. Gilbert and built by foreman Harvey Murdock. The building largely retains its original design, except for a 1917, [ on the roof. The mansion comprises 27 rooms on 6 floors, for a total floorspace of 20,000 square feet. Fletcher died at the house in 1917 and in his will bequeathed the property to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The museum sold the house the next year to oil magnate Harry F. Sinclair, who sold the house in 1930 to Augustus Stuyvesant Jr. and Anne van Horne Stuyvesant. The siblings resided in the mansion until their deaths in 1953 and 1938, respectively. The executors of the Stuyvesant estate sold the Sinclair House in 1954 to a group of investors, who sold it in 1955 to the Ukrainian Institute of America, a nonprofit founded by Ukrainian businessman William Dzus in 1948 to promote Ukrainian culture.
"No Disintegrations!" I present my interpretation of the classic scene from Empire Strikes Back, complete with lighting and non-slip design to hold books nicely. Instructions available here, rebrickable.com/users/IScreamClone/mocs/
Cambridge
Sidney Sussex College (referred to informally as "Sidney") is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England. The College was founded in 1596 under the terms of the will of Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex (1531–1589), wife of Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, and named after its foundress. In her will, Lady Sidney left the sum of £5,000 together with some plate to found a new College at Cambridge University "to be called the Lady Frances Sidney Sussex College". Her executors Sir John Harington and Henry Grey, 6th Earl of Kent, supervised by Archbishop John Whitgift, founded the Protestant College seven years after her death.
Sidney sits on the site of Cambridge's Franciscan friary, built in the middle of the 13th century and dissolved in the 1530s. Artefacts of the site's past lie beneath the foundations of the college buildings.
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The Eva van Hoogeveen almshouse has the entrance at the Doelensteeg. Eva van Hoogeveen came from a wealthy family. She was unmarried, daughter of Albert (Aelbrecht), Heere van Hoogeveen and a very chaste and praiseworthy virgin. In 1650, she testified that she wanted to use her money to buy Houses in honor of God for Chaste Virgins and Honorable Widows. After her death, in 1652, the executors (her brother and a cousin) bought a number of building plots to build this almshouse.
The houses are currently occupied by one-person households. Given the historical background of the almshouse, the houses are preferably rented to single middle-aged ladies.
The almshouse is a national monument
Sporo's receive the 'big brother' gaze from Birch, the all-seeing silver sentinel - he doesn't appear very often, but you can be sure he is watching you :-)
Dear friends, i'm still here, but engaged in distracting executor and house improvement tasks after my mother passed away last year.
I hope to be back more regularly in the near future, but in the meantime I do look in at your new posts, even if you haven't heard my thoughts.
Kind regards to you all.
Pete