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I met him at the Bluebird coffeeshop in Amsterdam and he immediately begin to talk to me about the meaning of love and 'god' money in the world and so on...
It has been a brief encounter with a really interesting person who surely is going to remain in my mind for a long time yet.....
Morpeth Castle is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Grade I listed building at Morpeth, Northumberland, in northeast England. It has been restored by the Landmark Trust and is now available as a holiday rental home.
History
The original motte and bailey dating from the 11th century was built on a hill overlooking the River Wansbeck and destroyed by King John in 1216. A new castle was built in the bailey of the original in the 1340s, but little of that structure survives apart from parts of the curtain wall and the much-altered gatehouse. In 1516 Margaret Tudor, sister of Henry VIII and widow of James IV of Scotland, stayed for four months in Morpeth Castle as she fled from her enemies in Scotland and sought refuge with her brother. The one great military event in the castle's history was in 1644 when a garrison of 500 Lowland Scots held it for Parliament for 20 days against 2,700 Royalists.
The castle was held by and passed by the female line through several illustrious families; de Merlay, Greystoke, Dacre and Howard, none of whom resided there for any long period. In about 1860 the gatehouse was restored and converted to provide a staff residence.
Recent History
The Castle was rented on a long-term arrangement to the Landmark Trust in 1988 which undertook a complete refurbishment in 1990, restoring many of the gatehouse's original historic features and removing the modern extensions and swimming pool. The gatehouse is now available to rent from the Landmark Trust as holiday accommodation.
Civil parish
Morpeth Castle was a civil parish, in 1951 the parish had a population of 327. Morpeth Castle was formerly a township, from 1866 Morpeth Castle was a civil parish in its own right until it was abolished on 1 April 1935 and merged with Morpeth.
Morpeth is a historic market town in Northumberland, England, lying on the River Wansbeck. Nearby towns include Ashington and Bedlington. In the 2011 census, the population of Morpeth was given as 14,017, up from 13,833 in the 2001 census. The earliest evidence of settlement is believed to be from the Neolithic period, and some Roman artifacts have also been found.
The first written mention of the town is from 1080, when the de Merlay family was granted the barony of Morpeth. The meaning of the town's name is uncertain, but it may refer to its position on the road to Scotland and a murder which occurred on that road. The de Merlay family built two castles in the town in the late 11th century and the 13th century. The town was granted its coat of arms in 1552. By the mid-1700s it had become one of the main markets in England, having been granted a market charter in 1200, but the opening of the railways in the 1800s led the market to decline. The town's history is celebrated in the annual Northumbrian Gathering.
Morpeth is governed by Northumberland County Council and Morpeth Town Council. The town is split into three wards – North, Kirkhill and Stobhill – for the purposes of parish elections. In 2008 the town suffered a severe flood, which was repeated in 2012, resulting in the construction of new flood defences. Morpeth railway station is on the east coast line and a curve to the south of it has caused several rail crashes. Several sports teams compete in Morpeth, with Morpeth Town A.F.C. having been the winner of the FA Vase in 2016. The town hosted its own Olympics from 1873 to 1958. Two middle schools, a high school and seven first schools are situated in Morpeth, as well as several churches of Anglican, Roman Catholic, United Reformed and Methodist denominations. Morpeth's Carlisle Park, the recipient of several awards, contains one of the four floral clocks in England.
History
Morpeth was founded at a crossing point of the River Wansbeck. Remains from prehistory are scarce, but the earliest evidence of occupation found is a stone axe thought to be from the Neolithic period. There is a lack of evidence of activity during the Roman occupation of Britain, although there were probably settlements in the area at that time. The first written reference is from 1080 when William de Merlay was rewarded for his part in suppressing a rebellion in Northumbria with "the Barony of Morthpeth stretching from the Tyne to the Coquet". The name derives from Old English morð pæð and literally means "murder path"; writing in 1666, the antiquarian John Stainsby attributed this moniker to "the many robberies and murders in those parts committed".
The barony of Morpeth was granted to the de Merlay family in around 1080, and by 1095 a motte-and-bailey castle had been built by William de Merlay. It is uncertain whether there was any settlement at Morpeth at the time that the barony was created, and documents relating to the foundation of an abbey in 1137 refer to the "new town of Morpeth". Newminster Abbey, located on the outskirts of Morpeth, was founded in 1138 by William's son, Ranulf de Merlay, lord of Morpeth, and his wife, Juliana, daughter of Gospatric II, Earl of Lothian, as one of the first daughter houses of Fountains Abbey. King John granted a market charter for the town to Roger de Merlay in 1200. It became one of the main markets in Northern England by the mid-1700s and by the mid 18th century was one of the key cattle markets in England selling cattle driven by drovers over the border from Scotland; however, the opening of the railways made transport to Newcastle easier in the 19th century, and the market accordingly declined. The market is still held on Wednesdays.
The town was badly damaged by fire set by the barons in 1215 during the First Barons' War, in an attempt to block the military operations of King John. Whilst it is common report that the motte-and-bailey castle was burnt down by King John in 1216 and a new Morpeth Castle was built later in the 13th century by Ranulph de Merlay, to the south of Haw Hill, there is no firm evidence that King John destroyed the castle and an alternative narrative suggests that the second castle was in fact "completed by William de Merlay (the 2nd) in the year of his death" (c. 1170). In the 13th century, a stone bridge was built over the Wansbeck in Morpeth,[21] to the west of the current bridge, replacing the ford previously in use in Morpeth. For some months in 1515–16, Margaret Tudor (Henry VIII's sister) who was the Queen Consort of Scotland (James IV's widow), had laid ill in Morpeth Castle, having been brought there from Harbottle Castle. The only remains of the castle are the inner gatehouse, which was restored by the Landmark Trust, and parts of the ruined castle walls.
In 1540, Morpeth was described by the royal antiquary John Leland as "long and metely well-builded, with low houses" and "a far fairer town than Alnwick". During the 1543–51 war of the Rough Wooing, Morpeth was occupied by a garrison of Italian mercenaries, who "pestered such a little street standing in the highway" by killing deer and withholding payment for food. In 1552, William Hervey, Norroy King of Arms, granted the borough of Morpeth a coat of arms. The arms were the same as those granted to Roger de Merlay, but with the addition of a gold tower. In the letters patent, Hervey noted that he had included the arms of the "noble and valyaunt knyght ... for a p'petuall memory of his good will and benevolence towardes the said towne".
Morpeth was a borough by prescription, but received its first charter of confirmation from Charles II. The corporation it created was controlled by seven companies: the Merchant Tailors, the Tanners, the Fullers and Dyers, the Smiths, the Cordwainers, the Weavers and the Butchers. This remained the governing charter until the borough was reformed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835. During the Second World War, RAF Morpeth, an air-gunnery training school, opened at nearby Tranwell.
The town and the county's history and culture are celebrated at the annual Northumbrian Gathering. The gathering is held over a weekend in mid-April and includes the Border Cavalcade and Pageant. The 50th gathering took place in 2017.
Governance
Morpeth has two tiers of local government.
The lower tier is Morpeth Town Council, which has 15 members. Morpeth is a civil parish with the status of a town. For the purposes of parish elections the town is divided into three wards: North, Kirkhill and Stobhill, each returning five town councillors. Each ward also elects one County Councillor. In May 2021, the political make up of the Town Council was ten Conservatives, two Liberal Democrats, two Green and one Labour member.
The upper tier of local government is Northumberland County Council, which meets at County Hall in Morpeth. Since April 2009 the county council has been a unitary authority. Previous to this there was an intermediate tier, the non-metropolitan district of Castle Morpeth, which has been abolished along with all other districts in the county. The county council has 67 councillors, of whom three represent Morpeth, one each from the electoral wards of Morpeth Kirkhill, Morpeth North and Morpeth Stobhill. The 2017 and 2021 County Council elections both elected three Conservative councillors for the three wards.
Education
The local state school, King Edward VI School, was originally founded as a chantry school in the early 14th century and was located in the Morpeth Chantry. The school was refounded in 1552 by royal charter as the Free Grammar School of King Edward the Sixth, being commonly referred to as the Morpeth Grammar School by locals. The school was renamed to King Edward VI Grammar School by 1947 and in the 1970s lost its grammar school status, becoming a comprehensive under the current name.
The town has two middle schools, Newminster and Chantry, which are built next door to one another. It also has several first schools: Abbeyfields First School in Kirkhill, Morpeth First School in Loansdean to the south of the town, Stobhillgate First School in the Stobhillgate housing estate, and Morpeth All Saints' Church of England-aided First School in Lancaster Park, which is located north of the town. Additionally, St. Robert's R.C. First School, a primary school for Roman Catholics, is located in Oldgate, Morpeth.
Religious sites
Church of England
The ancient Church of England parish church of Morpeth is St Mary's at High Church, which was the main Anglican place of worship in the area until the 1840s. The church is mostly in the 14th century style. The grave of Emily Wilding Davison lies in St Mary's graveyard.
In 1843, a public meeting was called to address the lack of attendance at the church, and it was found that the walk to the current church, then on the southern edge of the town, was too much for many of the parishioners. From this meeting, it was decided to build a new church in the town centre and accordingly, the church of St James the Great was consecrated for worship on 15 October 1846. Benjamin Ferrey designed the church in a "Neo-Norman" style, based on the 12th century Monreale Cathedral, Sicily.
A third parish church, St Aidan's, was founded as a mission church in 1957, located on the Stobhill estate on the south-east of the town.
Roman Catholic Church
Morpeth's Roman Catholic Church, St Robert of Newminster Church, was built off Oldgate on land adjacent to Admiral Lord Collingwood's house. It was consecrated on 1 August 1850 by the Right Reverend William Hogarth, Bishop of Samosata (later Bishop of Hexham). Collingwood House is now the presbytery (residence) for the priest in charge of the Church.
United Reformed Church
Morpeth has had a Presbyterian ministry since 1693. Their first service was held in a tannery loft in the town in February 1693 and in 1721 a chapel was built in Cottingwood Lane, which still exists as a private home. The construction of St. George's United Reformed Church began in 1858 and the first service in the new building was held on 12 April 1860. The Church stands immediately to the north of the Telford Bridge and is in the style of the early English era, containing a stained glass rose window and an octagonal spirelet.
Methodist Church
The present Methodist Church in Howard Terrace was opened as a Primitive Methodist place of worship on 24 April 1905. Designed by J. Walton Taylor, it was built from local quarry stone. Although the Primitive Methodists were united with the Wesleyan Church to form the Methodist Church of Great Britain in 1932, a separate Wesleyan Church continued to function in Manchester Street until 1964, when the congregations were united at Howard Terrace. The former Wesleyan Church (built in 1883) is currently used as the Explorer Scout headquarters.
Sport
Morpeth Town A.F.C., Morpeth RFC and the Morpeth Golf Club play competitively within Morpeth. In addition, the Morpeth Harriers compete in athletics. The town also offers opportunities to play sport on a non-competitive basis through facilities such as Carlisle Park, the common for playing golf and football, and the Riverside leisure centre for swimming, indoor sports and fitness gym activities. Morpeth Town A.F.C. was the 2016 winner of the FA Vase.
The Morpeth Olympic Games, a professional event consisting mainly of athletics and wrestling, were staged from 1873 until 1958, barring interruptions during the two world wars. The Games were held on the Old Brewery Field until 1896, then at Grange House Field until the First World War. After two years at the town's cricket pitch at Stobhill (1919–20), the Olympics moved to Mount Haggs Field until 1939, and then back to Grange House Field after the war until the end of the games in 1958.
In 1730, a racecourse was built for horse racing, which was used until 1854, when the racetrack was replaced with St. George's Hospital.
The town was the start point of the Morpeth To Newcastle Road Race. It was held annually on New Year's Day from 1902 to 2004, when insurance and policing costs became prohibitively high, and winners included Commonwealth champion Jack Holden and Olympic medallist Mike McLeod.
Media
Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC North East and Cumbria and ITV Tyne Tees. Television signals are received from the Pontop Pike and local relay transmitters.
Local radio stations are BBC Radio Newcastle on 95.4 FM, Capital North East on 105.3 FM, Heart North East on 101.8 FM, Smooth North East on 97.5 FM, Metro Radio on 97.1 FM, and Koast Radio, a community based radio station which broadcast on 106.6 FM.
The Morpeth Herald is the town's local weekly newspaper.
Landmarks
The historical layout of central Morpeth consisted of Bridge Street, Oldgate Street and Newgate Street, with burgage plots leading off them. Traces of this layout remain: Old Bakehouse Yard off Newgate Street is a former burgage plot, as is Pretoria Avenue, off Oldgate. The town stands directly on what used to be the Great North Road, the old coaching route between London and Edinburgh.
Carlisle Park is located on the southern bank of the River Wansbeck in Morpeth. The park has the William Turner Garden, one of the only four floral clocks in England, a statue of Emily Wilding Davison, as well as other facilities and attractions. Morpeth's Mafeking Park, at the bottom of Station Bank, was unsuccessfully put forward by locals to be listed as the smallest park in the world in the Guinness Book of Records.
Other landmarks are:
Morpeth Clock Tower, a free-standing 17th century clock tower
Morpeth Town Hall, originally designed by Sir John Vanbrugh (rebuilt 1869)
Collingwood House, the Georgian home of Admiral Lord Collingwood
Morpeth Chantry, a 13th-century chapel that now houses the town's tourist information centre and the Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum
Morpeth Castle, which stands on a hill to the south, is now operated by the Landmark Trust as holiday accommodation
A nuclear bunker located underneath Morpeth County Hall
A gateway on High Stanners framed by a whale's jawbone
Ruins of Newminster Abbey, a former Cistercian abbey about one mile to the west of Morpeth
Morpeth Court, former courthouse and prison, now converted into apartments
Notable people
Bill Rutherford (1955-), Professor and Chair in Biochemistry of Solar energy in the Department of Life sciences at Imperial College London.
Lawrence William Adamson (1829–1911), High Sheriff of Northumberland, who died at Linden Hall near Morpeth in 1911
James (Jim) Alder (born 1940), athlete, who spent his childhood in Morpeth after being adopted by Adler family
Emerson Muschamp Bainbridge (1817–1892), founder of Bainbridge Department Store – the first such store in the world – in Newcastle upon Tyne, who, from 1877, lived near Morpeth at Eshott Hall
Arthur Bigge, 1st Baron Stamfordham (1849–1931), born at Linden Hall, near Morpeth, who became private secretary to Queen Victoria and George V
Robert Blakey (1795–1878), radical journalist and philosopher, born in Manchester Street, Morpeth
Luke Clennell (1781–1840), engraver and painter, born in Morpeth
Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood (1748–1810), Royal Navy Admiral. He lived at Collingwood House in Oldgate and once said "Whenever I think how I am to be happy again, my thoughts carry me back to Morpeth".
Emily Wilding Davison, a suffragette who was killed when she fell under the King's horse during the Epsom Derby in 1913. Following her funeral in London, her coffin was brought by train to Morpeth for burial in St Mary's churchyard.
William Elliott, Baron Elliott of Morpeth (1920–2011), Conservative politician born in Morpeth
Toby Flood (born 1985), rugby union player for Leicester Tigers and England, who attended Morpeth Chantry School
Hamish Turnbull (born 1999), Cyclist representing British Cycling and Great Britain.
John Cuthbert Hedley (1837–1913), Benedictine monk and Roman Catholic Bishop of Newport born at Carlisle House, Morpeth
Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle (1669–1738), MP for Morpeth in 1689–1692
Robert Morrison (1782–1834), translator of the Bible into Chinese and first Protestant missionary in China, born in Buller's Green, Morpeth
John Peacock (c. 1756–1817), piper, born in Morpeth
John Urpeth Rastrick (1780–1856), railway engineer, born in Morpeth
Joe Robinson (1919–1991), footballer, born in Morpeth, who played for Blackpool in the 1948 FA Cup Final
Walter Trevelyan (1821 – 1894), first-class cricketer and barrister, born in Morpeth
William Turner (naturalist) (c. 1508 – 13 July 1568), an English divine and reformer, physician and natural historian. The William Turner Garden is situated in Carlisle Park, Morpeth.
Dr. N. T. Wright (born 1948), Anglican theologian and author, born in Morpeth
Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) - Le trouble du philosophe [The philosophers trouble] aka Le repos du philosophe or Mannequins on the seashore (1922). In the collection of the Museo del Novecento, Milan.
The Church of Santa Maria dei Servi is a Romanesque style, Roman Catholic church in the Terzo of San Martino in the city of Siena, Tuscany, Italy.
History
The church is built on the site of the former Church of San Clement, which was acquired by the Servite order in the Medieval era. The original Basilica was built in the 13th century, but later underwent reconstruction and transformation which continued until the 15th-16th century.
Exterior
The façade is simple and unadorned, with a single doorway and a rose window (indications of another can be discerned on the wall). It is in the Romanesque period style
The adjoining Campanile is likewise of the 13th century, richly embellished by four orders of windows. It was entirely restored in the 20th century. The church building stands atop it is cook entrance stairs, with views over the Duomo and the Palazzo Publico of Siena.
Interior
The interior is in great contrast with the rough and bare aspect of the exterior. A renaissance design is attributed to Baldassare Peruzzi. The church was enlarged in the fourteenth or fifteenth century, as seen in the interior of a Latin cross, where the Gothic style of the transept and apse joins the Renaissance style of the three aisles. The Renaissance style does not continue into the transept and apse, which are in the Gothic style. Near the entrance is a Crucifix of the 14th century and a Holy Water stoup of the 13th century.
Works of art
The most important works housed in the Santa Maria dei Servi have included :
Coronation of the Virgin altarpiece
Coronation of the Virgin by Bernardino Fungai. This altarpiece is generally acclaimed as the masterpiece of Fungai and belongs to the period between 1498 and 1501. The four predella panels depicting the life of Saint Clement were sold separately, and were temporarily reunited for an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1988. The narrative scenes of the four panels are all painted with tempera on wood.
Conversion of Saint Clement, housed in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg. The first panel represents the young philosopher, Clement, who having thought that his parents and two brothers were lost at sea turned more seriously to inquire into the question of the immortality of the soul.
Reunion of Saint Clement with his family, also housed in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg. The second panel shows Clement reunited with his parents and brothers through the instrumentality of Saint Peter the Apostle
Saint Clement Striking the Rock, housed in the City Art Gallery, York, England. The third panel continues the narrative of the life of Saint Clement, after he succeeded Saint Peter as Bishop of Rome.
Martyrdom of Saint Clement, also housed in the City Art Gallery, York, England. The final scene depicting highlights in the life of Clement done in tempera and gold on wood, and is noted as the most magically evocative in Fungai’s career.
The central panel belonging to the predella, depicting The Dead Christ Supported by Two Angels, resurfaced at the 1991 sale of works from the Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos collection at Christie's in New York. The picture was subsequently purchased by the City Art Gallery, York.
It is not known when the Fungai predella panels were dismantled from the altarpiece of the church of Santa Maria dei Servi and then separated. There is a lack of information regarding the dates when these panels found their way into the museums where they are housed at the present.
Paintings
Madonna del Marcovaldo (called Madonna del Bordone) by Coppo di Marcovaldo, signed and dated 1261, in Byzantine style and partially repainted by a pupil of Duccio. Its height of 7 feet 3 inches and its width of 4 feet foreshadow the late-thirteenth-century tendency for panel paintings to approach the scale of frescoes.
The Massacre of the Innocents by Matteo di Giovanni (1491)
Adoration of the Shepherds (1404) by Taddeo di Bartolo
Madonna and Saints by Matteo di Giovanni
Madonna with child by Duccio di Buoninsegna
The Slaughter of the Innocents by Pietro Lorenzetti
Madonna del Popolo by Lippo Memmi
Herod’s Feast by Pietro Lorenzetti
The Death of St. John the Evangelist by Pietro Lorenzetti
Annunciation by Francesco Vanni
The Madonna of Belvedere of Jacopo di Mino del Pellicciaio and Taddeo di Bartolo (1363)
(Wikipedia)
Die meist nur Santa Maria dei Servi genannte Kirche wurde vom Bettelorden der Serviten vom 13. bis 16. Jahrhundert in der toskanischen Stadt Siena errichtet.
Lage
Die Basilika befindet sich innerhalb der Stadtmauern von Siena an der Piazza Manzoni. Dieser befindet sich im Stadtdrittel Terzo di San Martino in der Contrada Valdimontone (Widder). Zur Kirche gehört zudem der Konvent, der von den Serviten geleitet wurde, und das 1380 entstandene Oratorio della Santissima Trinità.
Geschichte und Baugestalt
Die Basilika entstand aus der Chiesa di San Clemente, die um 1234 von dem Orden der Serviten errichtet wurde. Aus dem Jahr 1362 sind Ziegelsteinlieferungen der Stadt Siena dokumentiert (ca. 50.000), um den Ausbau der Kirche zu unterstützen. An den Baunähten der Fassade ist ablesbar, dass der Bau später verbreitert und erhöht wurde. 1473 bis 1528 wurde das Querschiff gewölbt und das basilikale Langhaus in seiner heutigen Form mit seinen jonischen Säulen und den die Seitenschiffe begleitenden, tonnengewölbten Kapellennischen im Sinne der Renaissance errichtet. Im Unterschied zu den beiden älteren großen Bettelsordenskirchen in Siena, die heute ebenfalls im kirchlichen Rang einer Basilica minor stehen, kann die Bezeichnung "Basilika" bei S. Maria dei Servi durchaus auf den Bautyp bezogen werden.
Die Konsekration der Kirche fand am 18. Mai 1533 statt, fertiggestellt wurde sie allerdings erst 1537. Die Kirchenfassade blieb unvollendet. Von 1890 bis 1901 wurde die Kirche von Giuseppe Partini und Agenore Socini restauriert. 1908 wurde sie zur Basilica minor erhoben. Der Campanile stammt aus dem 13. oder 14. Jahrhundert und wurde 1926 komplett restauriert. Die Basilika gehört zum Erzbistum Siena-Colle di Val d’Elsa-Montalcino. In der Kirche befinden sich die Reliquien des Francesco Patrizi da Siena (1266–1328) und des Gioacchino da Siena (um 1258–1305).
Werke im Innenraum (Auswahl)
Alessandro Casolani: Adorazione dei pastori, ca. 1581 entstanden
Coppo di Marcovaldo: Madonna del Bordone, inschriftlich 1261 datiertes, bekanntestes und einziges signiertes Werk des florentiner Malers. Auch wenn die Gesichter auf diesem über 2 m hohen Gemälde einige Jahrzehnte später übermalt wurden, bleibt das Tafelbild als ganz frühe ganzfigurige Darstellung der Madonna ein Schlüsselwerk für die weitere Kunstentwicklung.
Bernardino Fungai: Incoronazione della Vergine e Santi
Giovanni di Paolo: Madonna della Misericordia, 1431 entstanden
Biagio di Goro Ghezzi: Sant’Agnese (Wandgemälde)
Rutilio Manetti: Natività di Maria, 1625 entstanden, Martirio di San Lorenzo, 1602
Matteo di Giovanni: Strage degli Innocenti, 1491 entstanden
Lippo Memmi: Madonna del Popolo, 1325 entstanden
Astolfo Petrazzi: La Madonna e la peste di Siena
Lorenzo Rustici: Angeli
Ventura Salimbeni: Fresken des Oratoriums, zwischen 1595 und 1601 entstanden
Sano di Pietro: Madonna col Bambino e Santi
Segna di Bonaventura: Madonna col Bambino (Holzgemälde, 85 × 52 cm, 1319 entstanden)
Taddeo di Bartolo: Natività di Maria, 1404 entstanden
Ugolino di Nerio: Cucifix (Croce dipinto, dt. bemaltes Kreuz, 401 x 244,5 cm, 2003 restauriert)
Raffaello Vanni: Scena di Clodoveo
Francesco Vanni: Annunciazione, ca. 1585 entstanden
Orgel
Die Orgel wurde 1925 von der Orgelbaufirma Mascioni erbaut. Das Instrument befindet sich hinter dem Hauptaltar. Es hat 19 Register auf zwei Manuale und Pedal. Die Spieltrakturen sind mechanisch, die Registertrakturen sind elektrisch.
(Wikipedia)
“Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.”
― Samuel Beckett
seen this today morning while going to office. Didn't had my DSLR with me. hence captured with mobile resulted lower quality.
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (German: [ˈjoːhan ˈkʁɪstɔf ˈfʁiːdʁɪç fɔn ˈʃɪlɐ]; 10 November 1759 – 9 May 1805) was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. They frequently discussed issues concerning aesthetics, and Schiller encouraged Goethe to finish works he left as sketches. This relationship and these discussions led to a period now referred to as Weimar Classicism. They also worked together on Xenien, a collection of short satirical poems in which both Schiller and Goethe challenge opponents to their philosophical vision. -Wiki
He took the business of having his picture taken very seriously; such an interesting face.
Guebwiller, France
The Philosopher III
Over the clouds she recognizes:
This is my Head
HKD
Der Philosoph auf dem Gipfel
Mit seiner Trophäe über den Wolken angekommen
erkennt er: Das ist mein eigener Kopf.
HKD
Die Beute des Philosophen ist sein eigenes Ego.
Er könnte auch ausrufen: Tat tvam asi
Der Gipfel der Selbstkonfrontation und der Selbsterkenntnis zeigt gleichzeitig, wie unbewusst das naive Ego-Bewusstsein ist und war.
Ich weiß, dass ich nichts wusste. Ich weiß, dass ich nichts weiß.
(Frei nach Sokrates :-))
HKD
These are the last photos of my project Liberty Plaza, for now.
It was a great project and really fun to build ! I hope you enjoyed the photos as much as I did ! If you missed any, here.is the set containing all the photos of this project.
Thanks for your support !
Now it's time to move on to other great projects like:
-another Clone Wars story
-more mechs
-a Force Unleashed MoC
and the one project I am most exited about
A Lego Mass Effect RPG group ! Please, support this project by telling us (Agent "Wash" Washington and me) if you are interested, here.
EDIT: The group has been created. It's called N7 Special Forces. Feel free to join !
Thanks again for you support !
Edited in the VSCO Android app.
Did philosophers all dress this casually? And did they look like body builders? Is that why philosophy made more sense in the ancient times?
“Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.”
Aristotle (384-322 BCE)
I have attempted to recreate one of the most beautiful book stores in the world in Lego. The Livraria Lello in Porto Portugal was built in 1906 by the engineer Xavier Esteves. It was founded by the brothers José and António Lello. I have renamed my MOC “The Lion and The Rose” since these can be found throughout my creation.
The Livraria Lello features one of the most exquisite staircases ever created that appears to float within the building. This iconic red staircase, with its ornate decorations that adorn its facade, is at the centre of my MOC and the rest of building was built around it.
“Thou who walked the room, shall then see a staircase which is a piece of surprising allure, for its apparent lightness which masks the audacity of its design. One feels the urge to climb it yet fears one’s weight may make it crumble.” (in Catálogo 1930 of Livraria Lello).
JK Rowling, who frequented the book store in the early 1990s is said to have been inspired by them when writing Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. A few the the characters from her novels can be seen browsing books in my MOC.
The ceilings of the Livraria Lello are equally impressive. A large stained glass skylight features prominently on the second story ceiling. Usually ceilings are ignored in Lego MOCs. I have tried to add some interest to my MOC with dual chandeliers, a stained glass skylight and decorated tiles.
There are numerous books for sale in my MOC. Some books displayed in the window are custom tiles from The Brick Show Shop. I have tried to create the characters from these novels in minifig form (luckily Lego has produced a couple of them already). The novels are “The Great Gatsby”, “The Wizard of Oz”, “Alice in Wonderland”, “Tom Sawyer”, “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”, “The Old Man and the Sea”, “Gone With the Wind”, and “Treasure Island”.
I have slightly modified the exterior of the book store but have tried to capture its gothic and Art Nouveau style. The back and front facades on the first floor of my MOC are hinged to allow easy access to the interior. The back of the second floor is hinged as well. The roof is easily removed so the stairs can be seen from above.
Diffracted sunlight grazing the surface of a pebble rock made from the mineral serpentine from Lizard Point, Cornwall, UK.
Another member of the group I posted earlier today, gathered at a small park overlooking Elliot Bay in Seattle, Washington.
For the 114 in 2014 Group - #109 Illustrate a children's book title
I chose the first Harry Potter book, as it is written for children around the 11 years mark.
One of the most memorable sequences is the game of chess, when Ron Weasley rides the knight to victory.
I couldn't get hold of a proper pair of HP specs - so I raided my optician for the closest I could get! ;o)
Great fun was had in the making of this image ;o))
My 114 in 2014 set is here: Elisa 114 in 2014