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"The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles."
... Plato
Another fabulous day out with the FFF+ in Williamstown. This was taken at the Botantical Gardens.
New book! Epic Landscape Photography: The Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography!
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Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!
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Working on a couple photography books! 45EPIC GODDESS PHOTOGRAPHY: A classic guide to exalting the archetypal woman. And 45EPIC Fine Art Landscape Photography!
More on my golden ratio musings: facebook.com/goldennumberratio
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Greetings all! I have been busy finishing a few books on photography, while traveling all over--to Zion and the Sierras--shooting fall colors. Please see some here: facebook.com/mcgucken
Let me know in the comments if you would like a free review copy of one of my photography books! :)
Titles include:
The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art with the Yin-Yang Wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography
facebook.com/goldennumberratio
And I am also working on a book on photographing the goddesses! :) More goddesses soon!
Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
www.facebook.com/Epic-Poetry-for-Epic-Landscape-Photograp...
Did you know that John Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson all loved epic poetry and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, and Robert Burns?
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
www.facebook.com/lightimedimensiontheory/
Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
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Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!
New book! Epic Landscape Photography: The Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography!
www.facebook.com/epiclandscapephotography/
Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!
facebook.com/mcgucken
Working on a couple photography books! 45EPIC GODDESS PHOTOGRAPHY: A classic guide to exalting the archetypal woman. And 45EPIC Fine Art Landscape Photography!
More on my golden ratio musings: facebook.com/goldennumberratio
instagram.com/goldennumberratio
Greetings all! I have been busy finishing a few books on photography, while traveling all over--to Zion and the Sierras--shooting fall colors. Please see some here: facebook.com/mcgucken
Let me know in the comments if you would like a free review copy of one of my photography books! :)
Titles include:
The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art with the Yin-Yang Wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography
facebook.com/goldennumberratio
And I am also working on a book on photographing the goddesses! :) More goddesses soon!
Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
www.facebook.com/Epic-Poetry-for-Epic-Landscape-Photograp...
Did you know that John Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson all loved epic poetry and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, and Robert Burns?
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
www.facebook.com/lightimedimensiontheory/
Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
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Reflecting On Subtle Intelligible Principles.
Consecuencias eficientes de las intenciones formando perfecciones incompletas sustancias observadas generación posterior cuestiones coincidentes principios que componen,
hanfod elfennau rhanadwy rannau nodedig sy'n gofyn achosion gwahanol metaffiseg dynodedig penderfyniadau blaenorol dimensiynau constitutive gwahanol,
Indeterminado pensamentos integrais essenciais indivíduos assuntos aptidão substâncias diafanidade princípios reduções colocadas categorias medidas,
Революционизирующие импульсы дерзкие оценки критикующие склонности противоположные вопросы внешние последствия исчисление теологии понимание божественного мира,
Ταυτολογικά μυστικά ανακήρυξαν δοξασμένη αναλλοίωτη γνώση πιθανό απεριόριστο αιώνιο διάστημα ηχηρές υποθέσεις λανθασμένοι δικαστές αόριστες λέξεις,
知恵の反論の開発に対する抵抗を主張している驚くべき評価は、抵抗の立場から言えば推薦できる.
Steve.D.Hammond.
West Yellowstone Grizzly Bear Snow Sony A1 ILCE-1 Fine Art Grizzly Bear Montana Wildlife Photography! Sony Alpha 1 & Sony FE 200–600 mm F5.6–6.3 G OSS Emount Zoom Lens SEL200600G West Yellowstone Montana! Elliot McGucken Fine Art Wildlife Photography Sony Alpha1 !
All my photography celebrates the physics of light! The McGucken Principle of the fourth expanding dimension: The fourth dimension is expanding at the rate of c relative to the three spatial dimensions: dx4/dt=ic .
Lao Tzu--The Tao: Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Light Time Dimension Theory: The Foundational Physics Unifying Einstein's Relativity and Quantum Mechanics: A Simple, Illustrated Introduction to the Unifying Physical Reality of the Fourth Expanding Dimensionsion dx4/dt=ic !: geni.us/Fa1Q
"Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life." --John Muir
Epic Stoicism guides my fine art odyssey and photography: geni.us/epicstoicism
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” --John Muir
Epic Poetry inspires all my photography: geni.us/9K0Ki Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art Nature Photography with the Poetic Wisdom of John Muir, Emerson, Thoreau, Homer's Iliad, Milton's Paradise Lost & Dante's Inferno Odyssey
“The mountains are calling and I must go.” --John Muir
Epic Art & 45EPIC Gear exalting golden ratio designs for your Hero's Odyssey:
Support epic fine art! 45surf ! Bitcoin: 1FMBZJeeHVMu35uegrYUfEkHfPj5pe9WNz
Exalt the goddess archetype in the fine art of photography! My Epic Book: Photographing Women Models!
Portrait, Swimsuit, Lingerie, Boudoir, Fine Art, & Fashion Photography Exalting the Venus Goddess Archetype: How to Shoot Epic ... Epic! Beautiful Surf Fine Art Portrait Swimsuit Bikini Models!
Some of my epic books, prints, & more!
Exalt your photography with Golden Ratio Compositions!
Golden Ratio Compositions & Secret Sacred Geometry for Photography, Fine Art, & Landscape Photographers: How to Exalt Art with Leonardo da Vinci's, Michelangelo's!
Epic Landscape Photography:
A Simple Guide to the Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography: Master Composition, Lenses, Camera Settings, Aperture, ISO, ... Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography)
All art is but imitation of nature.-- Seneca (Letters from a Stoic - Letter LXV: On the First Cause)
The universe itself is God and the universal outpouring of its soul. --Chrysippus (Quoted by Cicero in De Natura Deorum)
Photographs available as epic fine art luxury prints. For prints and licensing information, please send me a flickr mail or contact drelliot@gmail.com with your queries! All the best on your Epic Hero's Odyssey!
A sign posted outside Rhinebeck, NY, a town in the Hudson Valley, as the U.S. prepares to complete its national vote on Nov. 3.
Silvestro Lega (Modigliana, December 8, 1826 - Florence, September 21, 1895) - Un dopo pranzo (Il pergolato) (1868) - oil on canvas 75 × 93.5 cm. - Brera Art Gallery, Milan
È considerato, insieme con Giovanni Fattori e a Telemaco Signorini, fra i maggiori esponenti del movimento dei macchiaioli.
La tela fu dipinta da Lega nel 1868 a Piagentina, la località dei colli fiorentini dove si era ritirato dal 1861 e dove si riunivano molti degli altri pittori macchiaioli, attratti dal paesaggio e dalla possibilità di dipingere dal vero. Si tratta di uno dei capolavori dell’artista, che osserva con sguardo affettuoso un piccolo mondo borghese e femminile traendone spunto per una splendida raffigurazione di paesaggio condotta sulla scorta della nuova teoria della “macchia”, con esiti di altissima qualità pittorica. La rigorosa costruzione prospettica, di taglio rinascimentale, diventa del tutto naturale grazie ai molteplici toni di colore che restituiscono la luce del sole e la frescura del pergolato.
Il dipinto fu donato alla Pinacoteca dall’Associazione Amici di Brera nel 1931.
Is considered, along with Giovanni Fattori and Telemaco Signorini, among the major exponents of the Macchiaioli movement.
The canvas was painted by Lega in 1868 at Piagentina, the place in the hills around Florence where he had gone to live in 1861 and where many of the other Macchiaioli painters used to gather, drawn by the landscape and the possibility of painting from life. It is one of the artist’s masterpieces, in which he turns an affectionate gaze on a bourgeois and feminine world, taking it as the cue for a splendid representation of the landscape carried out in accordance with the principles of the new theory of the macchia or “blot,” with results of the highest quality.
The myriad hues capturing the sunlight and the cool of the trellis impart a thoroughly natural feel to the stringent, almost Renaissance handling of perspective.
The painting was donated to the Pinacoteca by the Amici di Brera association in 1931.
Jardín Botánico José Celestino Mutis; Bogotá; 2600 meters above sea level.
El Tropicario del Jardín Botánico José Celestino Mutis, es un espacio donde confluyen principios ambientales y culturales. La interacción entre visitantes y fragmentos de los ecosistemas más representativos de nuestro país, hacen de este sea un espacio de alto valor educativo y de difusión de nuestra riqueza natural como nación.
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The Tropicario of the José Celestino Mutis Botanical Garden is a space where environmental and cultural principles come together. The interaction between visitors and fragments of the most representative ecosystems of our country, make this a space of high educational value and dissemination of our natural wealth as a nation.
New book! Epic Landscape Photography: The Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography!
www.facebook.com/epiclandscapephotography/
Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!
facebook.com/mcgucken
Working on a couple photography books! 45EPIC GODDESS PHOTOGRAPHY: A classic guide to exalting the archetypal woman. And 45EPIC Fine Art Landscape Photography!
More on my golden ratio musings: facebook.com/goldennumberratio
instagram.com/goldennumberratio
Greetings all! I have been busy finishing a few books on photography, while traveling all over--to Zion and the Sierras--shooting fall colors. Please see some here: facebook.com/mcgucken
Let me know in the comments if you would like a free review copy of one of my photography books! :)
Titles include:
The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art with the Yin-Yang Wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography
facebook.com/goldennumberratio
And I am also working on a book on photographing the goddesses! :) More goddesses soon!
Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
www.facebook.com/Epic-Poetry-for-Epic-Landscape-Photograp...
Did you know that John Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson all loved epic poetry and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, and Robert Burns?
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
www.facebook.com/lightimedimensiontheory/
Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
Follow me on instagram!
Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!
A merry German Neckar St Trop Spider shows the principles of weight transfer during cornering.
Like she's late for a party.
I honestly didn't know this car...
The Necker St Trop Spider was first created by OSI in 1963 on a Fiat base and clad by Michelotti.
The car was then produced by German manufacturer Neckar, who produced Fiats under license in Germany (like Seat in Spain).
With about 140 few examples built, it's a rare beast.
Inscribed beneath this statue: "We must not use Force till just laws are defied."
It's interesting to see James Brown Lord's cross-references to both Judeo-Christian morals and Greco-Roman principles of law and just society. The mix, reflecting choices in adopted heritages, appears to be uniquely American. The courthouse is one of the most embellished buildings in New York City. For more on the building, see: www.nyc.gov/html/dcas/html/resources/man_appellatecourt.s...
Not to touch the earth, not to see the sun
Nothing left to do but run, run, run
Let's run, let's run
House upon the hill, moon is lying still
Shadows of the trees witnessing the wild breeze
Come on, baby, run with me
Let's run
Run with me, run with me, run with me
Let's run
The mansion is warm at the top of the hill
Rich are the rooms and the comforts there
Red are the arms of luxuriant chairs
And you won't know a thing till you get inside
Dead president's corpse in the driver's car
The engine runs on glue and tar
Come on along, not going very far
To the east to meet the Czar
Run with me, run with me, run with me
Let's run
Some outlaws live by the side of a lake
The minister's daughter's in love with the snake
Who lives in a well by the side of the road
Wake up, girl! We're almost home
Sun, sun, sun
Burn, burn, burn
Moon, moon, moon
I will get you soon…soon…soon!
I am the Lizard King
I can do anything
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Epic Poetry inspires all my photography: geni.us/9K0Ki Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art Nature Photography with the Poetic Wisdom of John Muir, Emerson, Thoreau, Homer's Iliad, Milton's Paradise Lost & Dante's Inferno Odyssey
Epic Art & 45EPIC Gear exalting golden ratio designs for your Hero's Odyssey:
Support epic fine art! 45surf ! Bitcoin: 1FMBZJeeHVMu35uegrYUfEkHfPj5pe9WNz
Exalt the goddess archetype in the fine art of photography! My Epic Book: Photographing Women Models!
Portrait, Swimsuit, Lingerie, Boudoir, Fine Art, & Fashion Photography Exalting the Venus Goddess Archetype: How to Shoot Epic ... Epic! Beautiful Surf Fine Art Portrait Swimsuit Bikini Models!
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Some of my epic books, prints, & more!
Exalt your photography with Golden Ratio Compositions!
Golden Ratio Compositions & Secret Sacred Geometry for Photography, Fine Art, & Landscape Photographers: How to Exalt Art with Leonardo da Vinci's, Michelangelo's!
Epic Landscape Photography:
A Simple Guide to the Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography: Master Composition, Lenses, Camera Settings, Aperture, ISO, ... Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography)
All my photography celebrates the physics of light! dx4/dt=ic! Light Time Dimension Theory: The Foundational Physics Unifying Einstein's Relativity and Quantum Mechanics: A Simple, Illustrated Introduction to the Physical: geni.us/Fa1Q
Ralph Waldo Emerson. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca: On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the very nature of God!
John Muir: All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on the sea or land or down among the crystals of waves or high in a balloon in the sky; through all the climates, hot or cold, storms and calms, everywhere and always we are in God's eternal beauty and love. So universally true is this, the spot where we chance to be always seems the best.
HM Prison, Castlemaine was constructed of local sandstone between 1857 and 1861. It represents an important.
phase in the development of prison design associated with the completion of the Model Prison at Pentonville in.
1842. The influence of the Pentonville plan is evident in the radial wings, central hall and exercise yard.
(industries building) of Castlemaine Gaol. Beechworth, Bendigo and Castlemaine were the most accurate.
representations in Victoria of Jebb's panopticon design..
The completion of the Castlemaine Gaol in 1861 represents an important phase of prison construction in.
Victoria. Between 1857 and 1864 a remarkable period of building activity saw eight prisons constructed on.
Pentonville principles in metropolitan and regional areas..
The HM Prison Castlemaine is an essentially intact example of a building type. The sequence of alterations,.
however, is of historical importance, representing the changing requirements of prison design and construction..
The H M Prison at Castlemaine is historically significant because of its ability to represent the size and status of.
this town which reached pre-eminence in the second half of the nineteenth century as a result of the discovery of.
gold. (Heritage listed)..
Montana Grizzly Bears Playing Wrestling Fighting Winter Snow Sony A1 ILCE-1 Fine Art Grizzly Bear Photography! Sony Alpha 1 & Sony FE 200–600mm F5.6–6.3 G OSS Emount Zoom Lens SEL200600G West Yellowstone Montana! Elliot McGucken Fine Art Wildlife Photography
All my photography celebrates the physics of light! The McGucken Principle of the fourth expanding dimension: The fourth dimension is expanding at the rate of c relative to the three spatial dimensions: dx4/dt=ic .
Lao Tzu--The Tao: Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Light Time Dimension Theory: The Foundational Physics Unifying Einstein's Relativity and Quantum Mechanics: A Simple, Illustrated Introduction to the Unifying Physical Reality of the Fourth Expanding Dimensionsion dx4/dt=ic !: geni.us/Fa1Q
"Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life." --John Muir
Epic Stoicism guides my fine art odyssey and photography: geni.us/epicstoicism
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” --John Muir
Epic Poetry inspires all my photography: geni.us/9K0Ki Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art Nature Photography with the Poetic Wisdom of John Muir, Emerson, Thoreau, Homer's Iliad, Milton's Paradise Lost & Dante's Inferno Odyssey
“The mountains are calling and I must go.” --John Muir
Epic Art & 45EPIC Gear exalting golden ratio designs for your Hero's Odyssey:
Support epic fine art! 45surf ! Bitcoin: 1FMBZJeeHVMu35uegrYUfEkHfPj5pe9WNz
Exalt the goddess archetype in the fine art of photography! My Epic Book: Photographing Women Models!
Portrait, Swimsuit, Lingerie, Boudoir, Fine Art, & Fashion Photography Exalting the Venus Goddess Archetype: How to Shoot Epic ... Epic! Beautiful Surf Fine Art Portrait Swimsuit Bikini Models!
Some of my epic books, prints, & more!
Exalt your photography with Golden Ratio Compositions!
Golden Ratio Compositions & Secret Sacred Geometry for Photography, Fine Art, & Landscape Photographers: How to Exalt Art with Leonardo da Vinci's, Michelangelo's!
Epic Landscape Photography:
A Simple Guide to the Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography: Master Composition, Lenses, Camera Settings, Aperture, ISO, ... Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography)
All art is but imitation of nature.-- Seneca (Letters from a Stoic - Letter LXV: On the First Cause)
The universe itself is God and the universal outpouring of its soul. --Chrysippus (Quoted by Cicero in De Natura Deorum)
Photographs available as epic fine art luxury prints. For prints and licensing information, please send me a flickr mail or contact drelliot@gmail.com with your queries! All the best on your Epic Hero's Odyssey!
Professor Muhammad Yunus set up the Grameen Bank in 1983 in Bangladesh. His goal was to help poor people escape from poverty by providing loans on terms appropriate to them and by educating them on financial principles so that each could help themselves.
In 2006, he was awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize.
New book! Epic Landscape Photography: The Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography!
www.facebook.com/epiclandscapephotography/
Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!
facebook.com/mcgucken
Working on a couple photography books! 45EPIC GODDESS PHOTOGRAPHY: A classic guide to exalting the archetypal woman. And 45EPIC Fine Art Landscape Photography!
More on my golden ratio musings: facebook.com/goldennumberratio
instagram.com/goldennumberratio
Greetings all! I have been busy finishing a few books on photography, while traveling all over--to Zion and the Sierras--shooting fall colors. Please see some here: facebook.com/mcgucken
Let me know in the comments if you would like a free review copy of one of my photography books! :)
Titles include:
The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art with the Yin-Yang Wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography
facebook.com/goldennumberratio
And I am also working on a book on photographing the goddesses! :) More goddesses soon!
Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
www.facebook.com/Epic-Poetry-for-Epic-Landscape-Photograp...
Did you know that John Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson all loved epic poetry and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, and Robert Burns?
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
www.facebook.com/lightimedimensiontheory/
Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
Follow me on instagram!
Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!
Another from a couple of days ago wearing my dress, it is so lovely to wear and fits perfectly, I’m wearing my MJ shoes with heels with black tights. I hope to get out again soon for a walk, today was spoilt by the pesky heavy rain!
Stay Safe,
Jane xxx
[From Wikipedia] Gyeongbokgung (Korean: 경복궁; Hanja: 景福宮), also known as Gyeongbokgung Palace or Gyeongbok Palace, was the main royal palace of the Joseon dynasty. Built in 1395, it is located in northern Seoul, South Korea. The largest of the Five Grand Palaces built by the Joseon dynasty, Gyeongbokgung served as the home of Kings of the Joseon dynasty, the Kings' households, as well as the government of Joseon.
Gyeongbokgung continued to serve as the main palace of the Joseon dynasty until the premises were destroyed by fire during the Imjin War (1592–1598) and abandoned for two centuries. However, in the 19th century, all of the palace's 7,700 rooms were later restored under the leadership of Prince Regent Heungseon during the reign of King Gojong. Some 500 buildings were restored on a site of over 40 hectares.[1][2] The architectural principles of ancient Korea were incorporated into the tradition and appearance of the Joseon royal court.
In the early 20th century, much of the palace was systematically destroyed by Imperial Japan. Since then, the walled palace complex is gradually being restored to its original form. Today, the palace is arguably regarded as being the most beautiful and grandest of all five palaces. It also houses the National Palace Museum and the National Folk Museum within the premises of the complex.
Paris - Antonio Canova.
Antonio Canova (1 November 1757 – 13 October 1822) was an Italian sculptor who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh. The epitome of the neoclassical style, his work marked a return to classical refinement after the theatrical excesses of Baroque sculpture.
Antonio Canova was born in Possagno, a village of the Republic of Venice situated amid the recesses of the hills of Asolo, where these form the last undulations of the Venetian Alps, as they subside into the plains of Treviso. At three years of age Canova was deprived of both parents, his father dying and his mother remarrying. Their loss, however, was compensated by the tender solicitude and care of his paternal grandfather and grandmother, the latter of whom lived to experience in her turn the kindest personal attention from her grandson, who, when he had the means, gave her an asylum in his house at Rome.
His father and grandfather followed the occupation of stone-cutters or minor statuaries; and it is said that their family had for several ages supplied Possagno with members of that calling. As soon as Canova's hand could hold a pencil, he was initiated into the principles of drawing by his grandfather Pasino. The latter possessed some knowledge both of drawing and of architecture, designed well, and showed considerable taste in the execution of ornamental works. He was greatly attached to his art; and upon his young charge he looked as one who was to perpetuate, not only the family name, but also the family profession.
The early years of Canova were passed in study. The bias of his mind was to sculpture, and the facilities afforded for the gratification of this predilection in the workshop of his grandfather were eagerly improved. In his ninth year he executed two small shrines of Carrara marble, which are still extant. Soon after this period he appears to have been constantly employed under his grandfather. Amongst those who patronized the old man was the patrician family Falier of Venice, and by this means young Canova was first introduced to the senator of that name, who afterwards became his most zealous patron.
Between the younger son, Giuseppe Falier, and the artist a friendship commenced which terminated only with life. The senator Falier was induced to receive him under his immediate protection. It has been related by an Italian writer and since repeated by several biographers, that Canova was indebted to a trivial circumstance - the moulding of a lion in butter - for the warm interest which Falier took in his welfare. The anecdote may or may not be true. By his patron Canova was placed under Bernardi, or, as he is generally called by filiation, Giuseppe Torretto, a sculptor of considerable eminence, who had taken up a temporary residence at Pagnano, one of Asolo's boroughs in the vicinity of the senator's mansion.
This took place whilst Canova was in his thirteenth year; and with Torretto he continued about two years, making in many respects considerable progress. This master returned to Venice, where he soon afterwards died; but by the high terms in which he spoke of his pupil to Falier, the latter was induced to bring the young artist to Venice, whither he accordingly went, and was placed under a nephew of Torretto. With this instructor he continued about a year, studying with the utmost assiduity.
After the termination of this engagement he began to work on his own account, and received from his patron an order for a group, Orpheus and Eurydice. The first figure, which represents Eurydice in flames and smoke, in the act of leaving Hades, was completed towards the close of his sixteenth year. It was highly esteemed by his patron and friends, and the artist was now considered qualified to appear before a public tribunal.
The kindness of some monks supplied him with his first workshop, which was the vacant cell of a monastery. Here for nearly four years he labored with the greatest perseverance and industry. He was also regular in his attendance at the academy, where he carried off several prizes. But he relied far more on the study and imitation of nature. A large portion of his time was also devoted to anatomy, which science was regarded by him as the secret of the art. He likewise frequented places of public amusement, where he carefully studied the expressions and attitudes of the performers. He formed a resolution, which was faithfully adhered to for several years, never to close his eyes at night without having produced some design. Whatever was likely to forward his advancement in sculpture he studied with ardour. On archaeological pursuits he bestowed considerable attention. With ancient and modern history he rendered himself well acquainted and he also began to acquire some of the continental languages.
Three years had now elapsed without any production coming from his chisel. He began, however, to complete the group for his patron, and the Orpheus which followed evinced the great advance he had made. The work was universally applauded, and laid the foundation of his fame. Several groups succeeded this performance, amongst which was that of Daedalus and Icarus, the most celebrated work of his noviciate. The terseness of style and the faithful imitation of nature which characterized them called forth the warmest admiration. His merits and reputation being now generally recognized, his thoughts began to turn from the shores of the Adriatic to the banks of the Tiber, for which he set out at the commencement of his twenty-fourth year.
Before his departure for Rome, his friends had applied to the Venetian senate for a pension, to enable him to pursue his studies without embarrassment. The application was ultimately successful. The stipend amounted to three hundred ducats (about 60 pounds per annum), and was limited to three years. Canova had obtained letters of introduction to the Venetian ambassador, the Cavaliere Zulian, and enlightened and generous protector of the arts, and was received in the most hospitable manner.
His arrival in Rome, on 28 December 1780, marks a new era in his life. It was here he was to perfect himself by a study of the most splendid relics of antiquity, and to put his talents to the severest test by a competition with the living masters of the art. The result was equal to the highest hopes cherished either by himself or by his friends. The work which first established his fame at Rome was Theseus Vanquishing the Minotaur, now in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, in London. The figures are of the heroic size. The victorious Theseus is represented as seated on the lifeless body of the monster. The exhaustion which visibly pervades his whole frame proves the terrible nature of the conflict in which he has been engaged. Simplicity and natural expression had hitherto characterized Canova's style; with these were now united more exalted conceptions of grandeur and of truth. The Theseus was regarded with fervent admiration.
Canova's next undertaking was a monument in honor of Clement XIV; but before he proceeded with it he deemed it necessary to request permission from the Venetian senate, whose servant he considered himself to be, in consideration of the pension. This he solicited, in person, and it was granted. He returned immediately to Rome, and opened his celebrated studio close to the Via del Babuino. He spent about two years of unremitting toil in arranging the design and composing the models for the tomb of the pontiff. After these were completed, other two years were employed in finishing the monument, and it was finally opened to public inspection in 1787. The work, in the opinion of enthusiastic dilettanti, stamped the author as the first artist of modern times.
After five years of incessant labor, he completed another cenotaph, to the memory of Clement XIII, which raised his fame still higher. Works now came rapidly from his chisel. Amongst these is Psyche, with a butterfly, which is placed on the left hand, and held by the wings with the right. This figure, which is intended as a personification of man's immaterial part, is considered as in almost every respect the most faultless and classical of Canova's works. In two different groups, and with opposite expression, the sculptor has represented Cupid with his bride; in the one they are standing, in the other recumbent. These and other works raised his reputation so high that the most flattering offers were sent to him from the Russian court to induce him to remove to St Petersburg, but these were declined, although many of his finest works made their way to the Hermitage Museum. "Italy", says he, in writing of the occurrence to a friend, "Italy is my country - is the country and native soil of the arts. I cannot leave her; my infancy was nurtured here. If my poor talents can be useful in any other land, they must be of some utility to Italy; and ought not her claim to be preferred to all others?"
Numerous works were produced in the years 1795-1797, of which several were repetitions of previous productions. One was the celebrated group representing the Parting of Venus and Adonis. This famous production was sent to Naples. The French Revolution was now extending its shocks over Italy; and Canova sought obscurity and repose in his native Possagno. Thither he retired in 1798, and there he continued for about a year, principally employed in painting, of which art also he had some knowledge. Events in the political world having come to a temporary lull, he returned to Rome; but his health being impaired from arduous application, he took a journey through a part of Germany, in company with his friend Prince Rezzonico. He returned from his travels much improved, and again commenced his labors with vigour and enthusiasm.
The events which marked the life of the artist during the first fifteen years of the period in which he was engaged on the above-mentioned works scarcely merit notice. His mind was entirely absorbed in the labors of his studio, and, with the exception of his journeys to Paris, one to Vienna, and a few short intervals of absence in Florence and other parts of Italy, he never quit Rome. In his own words, "his statues were the sole proofs of his civil existence."
There was, however, another proof, which modesty forbade him to mention, an ever-active benevolence, especially towards artists. In 1815 he was commissioned by the Pope to superintend the transmission from Paris of those works of art which had formerly been conveyed thither under the direction of Napoleon. By his zeal and exertions - for there were many conflicting interests to reconcile - he adjusted the affair in a manner at once creditable to his judgment and fortunate for his country.
In the autumn of this year he gratified a wish he had long entertained of visiting London, where he received the highest tokens of esteem. The artist for whom he showed particular sympathy and regard in London was Benjamin Haydon, who might at the time be counted the sole representative of historical painting there, and whom he especially honored for his championship of the Elgin marbles, then recently transported to England, and ignorantly depreciated by polite connoisseurs. Among Canova's English pupils were sculptors Sir Richard Westmacott and John Gibson.
Canova returned to Rome in the beginning of 1816, with the ransomed spoils of his country's genius. Immediately after, he received several marks of distinction: he was made President of the Accademia di San Luca, the main artistic institution in Rome, and by the hand of the Pope himself his name was inscribed in "the Golden Volume of the Capitol", and he received the title of Marquis of Ischia, with an annual pension of 3000 crowns.
He now contemplated a great work, a colossal statue of Religion. The model filled Italy with admiration; the marble was procured, and the chisel of the sculptor ready to be applied to it, when the jealousy of churchmen as to the site, or some other cause, deprived the country of the projected work. The mind of Canova was inspired with the warmest sense of devotion, and though foiled in this instance he resolved to consecrate a shrine to the cause. In his native village he began to make preparations for erecting a temple which was to contain, not only the above statue, but other works of his own; within its precincts were to repose also the ashes of the founder. Accordingly he repaired to Possagno in 1819. After the foundation-stone of this edifice had been laid, Canova returned to Rome; but every succeeding autumn he continued to visit Possagno, in order to direct the workmen, and encourage them with pecuniary rewards and medals.
In the meantime the vast expenditure exhausted his resources, and compelled him to labor with unceasing assiduity notwithstanding age and disease. During the period which intervened between commencing operations at Possagno and his decease, he executed or finished some of his most striking works. Amongst these were the group Mars and Venus, the colossal figure of Pius VI, the Pietà, the St John, the recumbent Magdalen. The last performance which issued from his hand was a colossal bust of his friend, the Count Cicognara.
In May 1822 he paid a visit to Naples, to superintend the construction of wax moulds for an equestrian statue of the perjured Bourbon king Ferdinand VII. This journey materially injured his health, but he rallied again on his return to Rome. Towards the latter end of the year he paid his annual visit to the place of his birth, when he experienced a relapse. He proceeded to Venice, and expired there at the age of nearly sixty-five. His disease was one which had affected him from an early age, caused by the continual use of carving-tools, producing a depression of the ribs. The most distinguished funeral honors were paid to his remains, which were deposited in the temple at Possagno on 25 October 1822. His heart was interred in a marble pyramid he designed as a mausoleum for the painter Titian in the church of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice, now a monument to the sculptor.
Among Canova's heroic compositions, his Perseus with the Head of Medusa (photo, right) appeared soon after his return from Germany. The moment of representation is when the hero, flushed with conquest, displays the head of the "snaky Gorgon", whilst the right hand grasps a sword of singular device. By a public decree, this fine work was placed in one of the stanze of the Vatican hitherto reserved for the most precious works of antiquity.
In 1802, at the personal request of Napoleon, Canova returned to Paris to model a bust of the first consul. The artist was entertained with munificence, and various honors were conferred upon him. The statue, which is colossal and entitled Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker, was not finished till four years after. On the fall of the great emperor, Louis XVIII presented this statue to the British government, by whom it was afterwards given to the Duke of Wellington.
Palamedes, Creugas and Damoxenus, the Combat of Theseus and the Centaur, and Hercules and Lichas may close the class of heroic compositions, although the catalogue might be swelled by the enumeration of various others, such as Hector and Ajax, and the statues of George Washington (commissioned by the State of North Carolina to be displayed in its Capitol Building), King Ferdinand of Naples, and others.
Under the head of compositions of grace and elegance, the statue of Hebe takes the first place in point of date. Four times has the artist embodied in stone the goddess of youth, and each time with some variation. The last one is in the Museum of Forlì, in Italy. The only material improvement, however, is the substitution of a support more suitable to the simplicity of the art. Each of the statues is, in all its details, in expression, attitude and delicacy of finish, strikingly elegant.
The Dancing Nymphs maintain a character similar to that of the Hebe. The Three Graces and the Venus are more elevated. The Awakened Nymph is another work of uncommon beauty. The mother of Napoleon, his consort Maria Louise (as Concord), to model whom the author made a further journey to Paris in 1810, the princess Esterhazy and the muse Polymnia (Elisa Bonaparte) take their place in this class, as do the ideal heads, comprising Corinna, Sappho, Laura, Beatrice and Helen of Troy.
Of the cenotaphs and funeral monuments the most splendid is the monument to the archduchess Archduchess Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen, consisting of nine figures.
Besides the two for the Roman Pontiffs already mentioned, there is one for Alfieri, another for Emo, a Venetian admiral, and a small model of a cenotaph for Horatio Nelson, besides a great variety of monumental relieves.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 by a group of American citizens – businessmen and financiers as well as leading arists and thinkers of the day – who wanted to create a museum to bring art and art education to the American people.
The Metropolitan's paintings collection also began in 1870, when three private European collections, 174 paintings in all, came to the Museum. A variety of excellent Dutch and Flemish paintings, including works by such artists as Hals and Van Dyck, was supplemented with works by such great European artists as Poussin, Tiepolo, and Guardi.
The collections continued to grow for the rest of the 19th century – upon the death of John Kensett, for example, 38 of his canvases came to the Museum. But it is the 20th century that has seen the Museum's rise to the position of one of the world's great art centers. Some highlights: a work by Renoir entered the Museum as early as 1907 (today the Museum has become one of the world's great repositories of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art)...in 1910 the Metropolitan was the first public institution to accept works of art by Matisse...by 1979 the Museum owned five of the fewer than 40 known Vermeers...the Department of Greek and Roman Art now oversees thousands of objects, including one of the finest collections in glass and silver in the world...The American Wing holds the most comprehensive collection of American art, sculpture, and decorative arts in the world...the Egyptian art collection is the finest outside Cairo...the Islamic art collection is without peer...and so on, through many of the 17 curatorial departments.
In 1880, the Metropolitan Museum moved to its current site in Central Park. The original Gothic-Revival-style building has been greatly expanded in size since then, and the various additions (built as early as 1888) now completely surround the original structure. The present facade and entrance structure along Fifth Avenue were completed in 1926.
A comprehensive architectural plan for the Museum approved in 1971 was completed in 1991. The architects for the project were Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates, and the overall aim was to make the Museum's collections more accessible to the public, more useful to the scholars and, in general, more interesting and informative to all visitors.
Among the additions to the Museum as part of the master plan are: the Robert Lehman Wing (1975), which houses an extraordinary collection of Old Masters, as well as Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art; the installation in The Sackler Wing of the Temple of Dendur (1978), an Egyptian monument (ca. 15 B.C.) that was given to the United States by Egypt; The American Wing (1980), whose magnificent collection also includes 24 period rooms offering an unparalleled view of American art history and domestic life; The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing (1982) for the display of the arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas; the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing (1987), which houses modern art; and the Henry R. Kravis Wing, devoted to European sculpture and decorative arts from the Renaissance to the beginning of the 20th century.
With the building now complete, the Metropolitan Museum continues to refine and reorganize the collections in its existing spaces. In June 1998, the Arts of Korea gallery opened to the public, completing a major suite of galleries – a "museum within the Museum" – devoted to the arts of Asia. In October 1999 the renovated Ancient Near Eastern Galleries reopened. And a complete renovation and reinstallation of the Greek and Roman Galleries is underway: the first phase, The Robert and Renée Belfer Court for early Greek art, opened in June 1996; the New Greek Galleries premiered in April 1999; and in April 2000 the Cypriot Galleries will open to the public.
Antonio Canova (Possagno, 1 de Novembro de 1757 — Veneza, 13 de Outubro de 1822) foi um desenhista, pintor, antiquário e arquiteto italiano, mas é mais lembrado como escultor, desenvolvendo uma carreira longa e produtiva. Seu estilo foi fortemente inspirado na arte da Grécia Antiga, suas obras foram comparadas por seus contemporâneos com a melhor produção da Antiguidade, e foi tido como o maior escultor europeu desde Bernini, sendo celebrado por toda parte. Sua contribuição para a consolidação da arte neoclássica só se compara à do teórico Johann Joachim Winckelmann e à do pintor Jacques-Louis David, mas não foi insensível à influência do Romantismo. Não teve discípulos regulares, mas influenciou a escultura de toda a Europa em sua geração, atraindo inclusive artistas dos Estados Unidos, permanecendo como uma referência ao longo de todo o século XIX especialmente entre os escultores do Academismo. Com a ascensão da estética modernista caiu no esquecimento, mas sua posição prestigiosa foi restabelecida a partir de meados do século XX. Também manteve um continuado interesse na pesquisa arqueológica, foi um colecionador de antiguidades e esforçou-se por evitar que o acervo de arte italiana, antiga ou moderna, fosse disperso por outras coleções do mundo. Considerado por seus contemporâneos um modelo tanto de excelência artística como de conduta pessoal, desenvolveu importante atividade beneficente e de apoio aos jovens artistas. Foi Diretor da Accademia di San Luca em Roma e Inspetor-Geral de Antiguidades e Belas Artes dos estados papais, recebeu diversas condecorações e foi nobilitado pelo papa Pio VII com a outorga do título de Marquês de Ischia.[1][2][3]
ntonio Canova era filho de um escultor de algum mérito, Pietro Canova, que faleceu quando o filho tinha cerca de três anos. Um ano depois sua mãe, Angela Zardo, também o deixou, casando com Francesco Sartori e entregando o menino aos cuidados de seu avô paterno, Passino Canova, também escultor, e de sua tia Caterina Ceccato. Teve um meio-irmão das segundas núpcias de sua mãe, o abade Giovanni Battista Sartori, de quem se tornou amigo íntimo, e que foi seu secretário e executor testamentário. Aparentemente seu avô foi o primeiro a notar seu talento, e assim que Canova pôde segurar um lápis foi iniciado nos segredos do desenho. Sua juventude foi passada em estudos artísticos, mostrando desde cedo predileção pela escultura. Com nove anos já foi capaz de produzir dois pequenos relicários em mármore, que ainda existem, e desde então seu avô o empregou para diversos trabalhos. O avô era patrocinado pela rica família Falier de Veneza, e através dele Canova foi apresentado ao senador Giovanni Falier, que se tornou seu assíduo protetor, e cujo filho Giuseppe se tornou um dos seus mais constantes amigos. Através de Falier, Canova, com cerca de 13 anos, foi colocado sob a orientação de Giuseppe Torretto, um dos mais notáveis escultores do Vêneto em sua geração. Seu estudo foi facilitado pelo acesso que teve a importantes coleções de estatuária antiga, como as mantidas pela Academia de Veneza e pelo colecionador Filippo Farsetti, que foi-lhe útil estabelecendo novos contatos com ricos patronos. Logo suas obras foram elogiadas pela precoce virtuosidade, capacitando-o a receber suas primeiras encomendas, entre elas duas cestas de frutas em mármore para o próprio Farsetti, muito admiradas. A cópia que fez em terracota dos célebres Lutadores Uffizi valeu-lhe o segundo prêmio na Academia.[4][5]
Com a morte de Torretto a continuidade da instrução de Canova foi confiada a Giovanni Ferrari, sobrinho do outro, mas permaneceu com ele apenas um ano. Então, com apenas dezesseis anos, decidiu iniciar o trabalho por conta própria, e logo recebeu de Falier a encomenda para estátuas representando Orfeu e Eurídice. O conjunto, acabado entre 1776-77, resultou tão bem e atraiu tanto aplauso que seus amigos já previam para ele um futuro brilhante.[5] Nele, e em outro grupo importante, representando Dédalo e Ícaro (1778-79), o escultor já mostrava grande maturidade. Seu estilo nessa fase, se tinha um caráter ornamental típico do Rococó, era também vigoroso, e ao mesmo tempo se distinguia da tradição naturalista da arte veneziana e evidenciava uma tendência à idealização que adquirira com seus estudos dos clássicos.[4]
O grande progresso de Canova levou Falier a organizar sua ida para Roma, a fim de que se aperfeiçoasse. Roma nessa época era o mais importante centro de peregrinação cultural da Europa e uma meta obrigatória para qualquer artista que aspirasse à fama. Com sua pletora de monumentos antigos e grandes coleções, numa fase em que estava em pleno andamento a formação do Neoclassicismo, a cidade era toda um grande museu, e oferecia inúmeros exemplares autênticos para estudo em primeira mão da grande produção artística do passado clássico. [4] Antes de sua partida seus amigos conseguiram-lhe uma pensão de 300 ducados anuais, que se manteria por três anos. Também obteve cartas de apresentação para o embaixador veneziano na cidade, o Cavalier Girolamo Zulian, um ilustrado patrono das artes, que o recebeu com grande hospitalidade quando o artista chegou ali em torno de 1779 (Cf. nota: [6]), e providenciou a primeira exibição pública, em sua própria casa, de um trabalho do artista, uma cópia do grupo de Dédalo e Ícaro que mandou vir de Veneza e que suscitou a admiração de quantos a viram. Segundo o relato do conde Leopoldo Cicognara, um de seus primeiros biógrafos, apesar da aprovação unânime da obra Canova sentiu enorme embaraço naquele momento, falando muitas vezes dele anos mais tarde como um dos episódios mais tensos de sua vida. Através de Zulian Canova foi assim introduzido, com um sucesso imediato, na populosa comunidade local de intelectuais, onde brilhavam o arqueólogo Gavin Hamilton, os colecionadores sir William Hamilton e o cardeal Alessandro Albani, e o antiquário e historiador Johann Joachim Winckelmann, o principal mentor do Neoclassicismo, entre tantos outros que partilhavam de seu amor aos clássicos.[5][7]
Em Roma Canova pôde aprofundar o estudo das mais importantes relíquias da Antigüidade, completar sua educação literária, aperfeiçoar sua fluência no francês e colocar-se na competição com os melhores mestres da época.[8] O resultado ficou além de suas próprias expectativas. Sua primeira obra produzida em Roma, patrocinada por Zulian, foi Teseu vencendo o Minotauro (1781), que foi recebida com grande entusiasmo, a ponto de ser declarada como o marco inaugural de uma nova era para as artes. Em seguida esculpiu um pequeno Apolo em ato de coroar a si mesmo (1781-82), para o senador Abondio Rezzonico, uma estátua de Psiquê (1793) para Zulian, e passou a contar com o apoio de Giovanni Volpato, que abriu-lhe outras portas, entre elas a do Vaticano. Nesse período estabeleceu uma ligação tumultuada com a filha de Volpato, Domenica.[9][7]
Sua próxima encomenda, acertada por intermédio de Volpato, foi um monumento fúnebre ao papa Clemente XIV, mas para aceitá-la decidiu pedir permissão ao Senado de Veneza, em consideração à pensão que lhe haviam conseguido. Sendo concedida, fechou sua oficina em Veneza e voltou imediatamente para Roma, onde abriu um novo atelier nas imediações da Via del Babuino, onde os dois anos seguintes foram passados para a conclusão do modelo, e outros dois gastos na realização da obra, que foi finalmente inaugurada em 1787, atraindo o elogio dos maiores críticos da cidade. Durante esse período se engajou paralelamente em projetos menores, alguns baixos-relevos em terracota e uma estátua de Psique. Mais cinco anos foram despendidos na elaboração de um cenotáfio para Clemente XIII, entregue em 1792, que levou sua fama a alturas ainda maiores.[9]
Nos anos seguintes, até o encerramento do século, Canova se aplicou com ingente empenho em produzir um significativo conjunto de novas obras, entre elas vários grupos de Eros e Psiquê, em atitudes diferentes, que lhe valeram um convite para que se instalasse na corte russa, mas declarando sua íntima ligação com a Itália, declinou. Outras foram a Despedida de Vênus e Adônis, o grupo Hércules furioso lançando Licas ao mar, uma estátua de Hebe, e uma primeira versão da Madalena penitente. Mas o esforço foi excessivo para sua saúde, e o uso continuado de um apetrecho de escultura chamado trapano, que comprime o peito, provocou o afundamento de seu esterno. Sentindo-se exausto após tantos anos de atividades intensas e ininterruptas, e em vista da ocupação francesa de Roma em 1798, retirou-se para Possagno, onde aplicou-se à pintura, e logo seguiu em uma excursão de recreio pela Alemanha em companhia de seu amigo o Príncipe Rezzonico. Também passou pela Áustria, onde recebeu a encomenda de um cenotáfio para a arquiduquesa Maria Cristina, filha de Francisco I, que resultou anos mais tarde em uma obra majestosa, a melhor que produziu nesse gênero. Nessa mesma ocasião foi induzido a enviar para a capital austríaca o grupo de Teseu matando o centauro, que havia sido destinado para Milão, e que foi instalado em um templo em estilo grego construído especialmente para esse fim nos jardins do Palácio de Schönbrunn.[9]
Em sua volta a Roma em 1800, revigorado, produziu em poucos meses uma das suas composições mais aclamadas, o Perseu com a cabeça da Medusa (1800-01), inspirado livremente no Apolo Belvedere e julgado digno de ombrear com ele, e que lhe valeu o título de Cavalier, concedido pelo papa. Em 1802 foi convidado por Napoleão Bonaparte para visitar Paris e criar uma estátua sua, e segundo o testemunho de seu irmão, que o acompanhara, o escultor e o estadista mantiveram conversações em um nível de grande franqueza e familiaridade. Também encontrou o pintor Jacques-Louis David, o mais importante dos neoclássicos franceses.[10]
Em 10 de agosto de 1802 o papa Pio VII indicou o artista como Inspetor-Geral das Antiguidades e Belas Artes do Vaticano, posto que conservou até sua morte. Além de ser um reconhecimento de sua obra escultórica, a indicação implicava que ele também era considerado um conhecedor, com a capacidade de julgar a qualidade das obras de arte e um interesse em preservar as coleções papais. Entre as atribuições do cargo estavam a responsabilidade pela emissão de autorizações para escavações arqueológicas e a supervisão dos trabalhos de restauro, aquisição e exportação de antiguidades, além da supervisão sobre a instalação e organização de novos museus nos estados papais. Ele inclusive comprou 80 peças antigas com seus próprios recursos e as doou para os Museus Vaticanos. Entre 1805 e 1814 foi quem decidiu sobre a vinda de todos os artistas bolsistas italianos para aperfeiçoamento em Roma. Em 1810 foi indicado para a presidência da Accademia di San Luca, a mais importante instituição artística da Itália em sua época, e permaneceu como um baluarte de estabilidade na esfera cultural romana ao longo do turbulento período da ocupação francesa, sendo confirmado em suas posições por Napoleão. Sua missão administrativa culminou com a incumbência de resgatar, em 1815, o espólio artístico arrebatado da Itália pelo imperador francês, e por seu zelo e esforço conseguiu resolver o difícil trabalho de acomodar interesses internacionais divergentes e recuperar diversos tesouros para sua pátria, entre eles obras de Rafael Sanzio, o Apolo Belvedere, a Vênus Medici e o Laocoonte.[11][12]
No outono deste ano pôde realizar o sonho há muito acalentado de viajar a Londres, onde foi recebido com grande consideração. Sua viagem tinha dois propósitos primários: agradecer a ajuda que o governo britânico lhe dera da recuperação do acervo italiano confiscado, e conhecer os Mármores de Elgin, um grande conjunto de peças removidas do Partenon de Atenas, criadas por Fídias e seus assistentes, conhecimento que para ele foi uma revelação, contribuindo para confirmar sua impressão de que a arte grega era superior pela qualidade de seu acabamento e pela sua atenção à natureza. Ele também foi solicitado a dar seu parecer de perito sobre a importância do conjunto, que estava sendo posto à venda por Lord Elgin para a Coroa, e expressou-se nos termos mais elogiosos, mas recusou-se a restaurá-las, conforme foi convidado a fazê-lo, considerando que deviam permanecer como testemunhos autênticos da grande arte grega.[13] Voltando a Roma em 1816 com as obras devolvidas pela França, foi recebido em triunfo e recebeu do papa uma pensão de 3 mil escudos, tendo seu nome inscrito no Livro de Ouro do Capitólio com o título de Marquês de Ischia.[3][14]
Então Canova começou a elaborar o projeto para uma outra estátua, monumental, representando a Religião. Não por servilismo, uma vez que era um devoto ardente, mas sua idéia de instalá-la em Roma acabou frustrado mesmo sendo financiado por ele mesmo e estando pronto o modelo em seu tamanho definitivo, que entretanto acabou sendo executado em mármore em tamanho muito reduzido por ordem Lord Brownlow e levado para Londres. Mesmo assim ele decidiu erguer um templo em sua vila natal que conteria aquela escultura conforme seu plano original e outras peças de sua autoria, e nele deveriam, no tempo, repousar suas cinzas. Em 1819 foi lançada a pedra fundamental, e em seguida Canova retornou a Roma, mas a cada outono voltava às obras para acompanhar o seu progresso e instruir os empregados, encorajando-os com recompensas financeiras e medalhas. Mas o empreendimento se revelou excessivamente custoso, e o artista teve de voltar ao trabalho com renovado empenho a despeito de sua idade e doenças. Desta fase são algumas de suas peças mais significativas, como o grupo de Marte e Vênus para a Coroa Inglesa, a estátua colossal de Pio VI, uma Pietà (somente o modelo), outra versão da Madalena penitente. Sua última obra acabada foi um enorme busto de seu amigo o Conde Cicognara.[15]
Em maio de 1822 visitou Nápoles para superintender a construção do modelo para uma estátua eqüestre do Rei Fernando IV de Nápoles, mas o trajeto cobrou caro de sua saúde. Voltando a Roma, recuperou-se, mas em sua visita anual a Possagno já chegou lá doente, e recusando o repouso seu estado piorou. Então foi levado a Veneza, onde faleceu lúcido e serenamente. Suas últimas palavras foram "Anima bella e pura" (alma bela e pura), que pronunciou várias vezes antes de expirar. Testemunhos de amigos presentes em seu transpasse dizem que seu semblante foi adquirindo uma crescente radiância e expressividade, como se estivesse absorvido em uma contemplação extática. A autópsia realizada em seguida revelou uma obstrução do intestino por uma necrose na altura do piloro. Seu funeral, realizado em 25 de outubro de 1822, foi cercado das mais altas honras, entre a comoção de toda a cidade, e os acadêmicos disputaram para carregar seu caixão. Seu corpo foi em seguida sepultado em Possagno e seu coração foi depositado em uma urna de pórfiro mantida na Academia de Veneza. Sua morte gerou luto em toda a Itália, e as homenagens fúnebres ordenadas pelo papa em Roma foram assistidas por representantes de várias casas reais da Europa. No ano seguinte começou a ser erguido um cenotáfio para ele, a partir de um modelo que havia sido criado pelo próprio Canova em 1792 por encomenda de Zulian, originalmente para celebrar o pintor Ticiano, mas que não havia sido realizado. Hoje o monumento pode ser visitado na Basílica de Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, em Veneza.[15]
Segundo a Memória Biográfica sobre o artista deixada pelo seu amigo íntimo o Conde Cicognara, Canova manteve ao longo de toda sua vida hábitos frugais e uma rotina regular. Acordava cedo e imediatamente começava a trabalhar. Após o almoço costumava retirar-se para um breve repouso. Teve uma doença crônica de estômago que permanece não identificada, que causava dores severas em ataques que se sucederam ao longo de toda sua vida. Parece ter nutrido uma fé religiosa profunda e sincera. Não manteve uma vida social especialmente brilhante, embora fosse constantemente solicitado para frequentar os círculos de personalidades ilustres que o admiravam, mas era comum que recebesse amigos em sua própria casa após sua jornada de trabalho, à noite, quando se revelava um anfitrião de modos finos, inteligente, afável e caloroso. Segundo suas próprias palavras, suas esculturas eram a única prova de sua existência civil. Parece que em duas ocasiões esteve perto de contrair matrimônio, mas permaneceu solteiro por toda a vida. Seu grupo de amigos, porém, era grande e a eles dedicava um afeto intenso e elevado. Não manteve discípulos regulares, mas se notava talento superior em algum artista iniciante não poupava bons conselhos e encorajamento. Muitas vezes apoiou financeiramente jovens promissores e buscou-lhes encomendas. Mesmo sempre às voltas com muito trabalho, não hesitava em abandonar seu atelier assim que fosse chamado por outro artista para dar sua opinião sobre assuntos de arte ou oferecer conselhos técnicos.[16]
Alimentou um perene entusiasmo pelo estudo da arte antiga e pela arqueologia. Gostava da literatura clássica e fazia frequentes leituras, mas de hábito alguém lia para ele enquanto trabalhava. Considerava a leitura de bons autores um recurso indispensável para aperfeiçoamento pessoal e de sua arte. Não foi um escritor, mas manteve profusa correspondência com amigos e intelectuais, onde se evidencia um estilo de escrita claro, simples e vívido, que foi-se refinando ao longo dos anos sem perder sua força e espontaneidade. Uma de suas cartas de 1812 atesta que chegou a pensar em publicar algo sobre sua arte em seus princípios gerais, mas não o concretizou. Contudo, em segredo muitas de suas observações e idéias foram registradas por seu círculo de associados e tornadas públicas mais tarde. Parecia ser imune à inveja, à crítica e à bajulação, e nunca se afligiu com o sucesso alheio; ao contrário, não economizava elogios quando percebia grandeza na obra de seus colegas de ofício, e manifestava gratidão por conselhos ou reparos que julgava justos e apropriados. Quando uma crítica contundente apareceu publicada em um jornal de Nápoles, dissuadiu seus amigos que queriam prover uma réplica, dizendo que seu trabalho se encarregaria de dar a resposta adequada.[17] As relações de Canova com a política de seu tempo são exemplificadas nas obras que criou para a Casa da Áustria e a Casa de Bonaparte, onde os desejos de legitimação e glorificação dos governantes entraram em conflito com a postura politicamente neutra que o escultor desejava manter. Teve obras recusadas ou severamente criticadas por ambas por não se enquadrarem naqueles desejos, como o grupo de Hércules furioso que lança Licas ao mar (1795), rejeitado pelo imperador austríaco, e o mesmo acontecendo com o retrato alegórico que fez para Napoleão como Marte pacificador.[18] Sua opinião a respeito de Napoleão tem sido descrita como ambígua, sendo ao mesmo tempo um admirador, aceitando da sua família várias encomendas, e um crítico, especialmente pela sua invasão da Itália e o confisco de um grande acervo de obras de arte italianas.[19]
Apreciava o sucesso de suas obras e era vivamente grato por isso, mas nunca evidenciou que um desejo de glória pessoal fosse seu objetivo primário, apesar de ter sido um dos artistas de seu tempo mais expostos aos perigos da celebridade, pois recebeu diversas condecorações e a proteção de muitos nobres importantes, foi ele mesmo nobilitado em vários Estados da Europa, incumbido de altos cargos públicos e incluído como membro em muitas academias de arte mesmo sem jamais tê-lo solicitado. Gastou boa parte da fortuna que veio a acumular em obras de caridade, no fomento de associações de classe e no apoio aos jovens artistas. Em várias ocasiões adquiriu com recursos próprios obras de arte para museus públicos e coleções de livros para bibliotecas, não raro fazendo suas doações anonimamente. Também em vários momentos precisou ser alertado para não dissipar seus rendimentos com os problemas alheios.[20][8]
Seu permanente fascínio pela antiguidade clássica fez com que ele acumulasse uma significativa coleção de peças arqueológicas de mármore e terracota. Sua coleção de placas de terracota da Campania era especialmente interessante, embora nunca citada nas suas primeiras biografias. As peças eram em sua maioria fragmentárias, mas muitas estavam íntegras e eram de alta qualidade, e as tipologias que ele preferiu reunir evidenciam que ele estava à frente das tendências museológicas e colecionistas de seu tempo. O seu interesse pelo material estava ligado ao uso da argila para criar os modelos de suas obras em mármore, e ele a preferia antes do que o gesso por ser mais fácil de trabalhar, e a empregava também para a elaboração dos relevos que ele chamava "de recreação privada", onde representava cenas que encontrava em suas leituras de Homero, Virgílio e Platão.[21]
I did manage to get time to dress today, wearing my Principles dress and hoped to go out for a walk but with rain threatening and a old wind I decided against it. This dress is figure hugging and lovely to wear, perhaps I’ll have a walk in it tomorrow.
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I actually managed to find time to be Jane again today, the first time this year. I’m wearing a Principles dress with a black cardigan and Mary Janes. My daughter and her husband are on the mend now after contracting Covid, it’s lovely to hear her laughing again.
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For the last sixty years, car construction has used 'monocoque' principles whereby the chassis and body are built as one strong shell. All the key components such as engine, axles etc are then attached to the shell - the result is a very strong unit with the ability to model exactly how the vehicle's structure will react to an accident or under different handling conditions.
Unfortunately, it's difficult to do this with a bus. Firstly they're far bigger, and secondly their size makes them prone to bumps and scrapes so it needs to be easy to detach external parts and panels for repair. So historically, buses are made as a chassis and then separate bodywork is built on top of it. In the 21st century more car construction techniques are being used, and many buses are built on 'integral' principles, but in general buses are still made on a less hi-tech, robotic basis than cars.
This is a Leyland Olympian for Greater Manchester Transport, at the Northern Counties Motor & Engineering Company factory at Wigan. GMT owned Northern Counties for a while and regarded it as its 'in house' coachbuilder. Most GMT buses were bodied by Northern Counties.
This bus is nearly finished, and the interior is done - you can see the seats through the windows. The next step will be painting into GMT's brown, orange and white colour scheme. The white exterior parts you can see on the bus are fibreglass, while the silver parts are the aluminium panels that are riveted to a strong frame.
One of these buses, GMT bus number 3065, is restored and on display at the Museum of Transport Greater Manchester.If you'd like to know more about the Museum of Transport Greater Manchester and its collection of vintage buses, go to www.gmts.co.uk.
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A Simple Guide to the Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography: Master Composition, Lenses, Camera Settings, Aperture, ISO, ... Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography)
All my photography celebrates the physics of light! dx4/dt=ic! Light Time Dimension Theory: The Foundational Physics Unifying Einstein's Relativity and Quantum Mechanics: A Simple, Illustrated Introduction to the Physical: geni.us/Fa1Q
Ralph Waldo Emerson. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca: On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the very nature of God!
John Muir: All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on the sea or land or down among the crystals of waves or high in a balloon in the sky; through all the climates, hot or cold, storms and calms, everywhere and always we are in God's eternal beauty and love. So universally true is this, the spot where we chance to be always seems the best.
i have to say that Immigration is too intricate an issue to discuss on FLICKR.
I can say that America needs to rewrite its constitution, because many of its principles, its laws, its philosophies, its principles are too outdated and no longer make sense in our modern world!
Its loose border IMHO will be the beginning of a huge battle in its congressional halls. My grandparents came here legally,
paid taxes, worked hard, learned the language, escaped the COSSACKS who were killing JEWS on sight.
Today you can walk across the border and stay?
Photography’s new conscience
New book! Epic Landscape Photography: The Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography!
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Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!
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Working on a couple photography books! 45EPIC GODDESS PHOTOGRAPHY: A classic guide to exalting the archetypal woman. And 45EPIC Fine Art Landscape Photography!
More on my golden ratio musings: facebook.com/goldennumberratio
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Greetings all! I have been busy finishing a few books on photography, while traveling all over--to Zion and the Sierras--shooting fall colors. Please see some here: facebook.com/mcgucken
Let me know in the comments if you would like a free review copy of one of my photography books! :)
Titles include:
The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art with the Yin-Yang Wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography
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And I am also working on a book on photographing the goddesses! :) More goddesses soon!
Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
www.facebook.com/Epic-Poetry-for-Epic-Landscape-Photograp...
Did you know that John Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson all loved epic poetry and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, and Robert Burns?
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
www.facebook.com/lightimedimensiontheory/
Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
Follow me on instagram!
Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!
New book! Epic Landscape Photography: The Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography!
www.facebook.com/epiclandscapephotography/
Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!
facebook.com/mcgucken
Working on a couple photography books! 45EPIC GODDESS PHOTOGRAPHY: A classic guide to exalting the archetypal woman. And 45EPIC Fine Art Landscape Photography!
More on my golden ratio musings: facebook.com/goldennumberratio
instagram.com/goldennumberratio
Greetings all! I have been busy finishing a few books on photography, while traveling all over--to Zion and the Sierras--shooting fall colors. Please see some here: facebook.com/mcgucken
Let me know in the comments if you would like a free review copy of one of my photography books! :)
Titles include:
The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art with the Yin-Yang Wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography
facebook.com/goldennumberratio
And I am also working on a book on photographing the goddesses! :) More goddesses soon!
Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
www.facebook.com/Epic-Poetry-for-Epic-Landscape-Photograp...
Did you know that John Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson all loved epic poetry and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, and Robert Burns?
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
www.facebook.com/lightimedimensiontheory/
Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
Follow me on instagram!
Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!
A New Year can only bring us a new combination of the same elements; and about once in so often we go back and begin again.
Words by Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Best Wishes To You All For The New Year - 2014
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I'm writing an article for Smashing Magazine entitled "10 Principles of Beautiful Photography", and, in so doing, I am making one of the notions therein that it helps if you can learn to draw. Now, last year, I could barely draw a bath and my portraits looked worse than my 7-year-old's!
But get this... I have a very good friend at work named Gustaf with whom I made a bet. Now, the guy is brilliant and a great designer, but he is absolutely terrible at Photoshop. I thought that was unacceptable, and I also thought my complete lack of drawing skills was unacceptable. Since I am mega-competitive, I made a bet with him that I could teach myself to be passable at drawing before he could teach himself to be passable at photoshop. I won the competition, as it should be, but he still has time to learn (he got a girlfriend and it kind of threw a wrench into the whole competition).
I’ve always admired people that can draw. “Man, I always wanted to do that!” I thought, remorsefully.
But after practicing in secret for many months, I feel like I am a little bit better. I’m not great, by any means. Before getting into it, I knew there were natural savants out there that can naturally draw from birth. I knew I could not ever get to that level, but I wanted to get to a point where I felt better about my ability to capture a scene or feeling with just charcoal and paper.
Anyway, here are some of my favorite drawings over the past 6 months or so. They are in chronological order with the most recent ones on top. You'll probably need to visit my blog here to see everything in a decent size.
And I'll post the article as soon as it comes out over at www.stuckincustoms.com
New book! Epic Landscape Photography: The Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography!
www.facebook.com/epiclandscapephotography/
Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!
facebook.com/mcgucken
Working on a couple photography books! 45EPIC GODDESS PHOTOGRAPHY: A classic guide to exalting the archetypal woman. And 45EPIC Fine Art Landscape Photography!
More on my golden ratio musings: facebook.com/goldennumberratio
instagram.com/goldennumberratio
Greetings all! I have been busy finishing a few books on photography, while traveling all over--to Zion and the Sierras--shooting fall colors. Please see some here: facebook.com/mcgucken
Let me know in the comments if you would like a free review copy of one of my photography books! :)
Titles include:
The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art with the Yin-Yang Wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography
facebook.com/goldennumberratio
And I am also working on a book on photographing the goddesses! :) More goddesses soon!
Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
www.facebook.com/Epic-Poetry-for-Epic-Landscape-Photograp...
Did you know that John Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson all loved epic poetry and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, and Robert Burns?
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
www.facebook.com/lightimedimensiontheory/
Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
Follow me on instagram!
Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!
After returning from my trip I tried on the dress I had bought. It fitted perfectly and felt wonderful to wear, only £7 too! All in all a lovely day and good to be Jane again!
Jane xxx
The Eastern State Penitentiary is a former American prison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located at 2027 Fairmount Avenue between Corinthian Avenue and North 22nd Street in the Fairmount section of the city, and was operational from 1829 until 1971. The penitentiary refined the revolutionary system of separate incarceration first pioneered at the Walnut Street Jail which emphasized principles of reform rather than punishment.
Notorious criminals such as Al Capone and bank robber Willie Sutton were held inside its innovative wagon wheel design. At its completion, the building was the largest and most expensive public structure ever erected, and quickly became a model for more than 300 prisons worldwide.
The prison is currently a U.S. National Historic Landmark, which is open to the public as a museum for tours seven days a week, twelve months a year, 10 am to 5 pm.
St Andrew's Church is a Church of England parish church in Presteigne, Powys, Wales. It was first constructed in the 9th century by the Anglo-Saxons and retains elements of the original Anglo-Saxon church within a Norman renovation and later Victorian restoration. It is a Grade I listed building.
In the 9th century, Anglo-Saxons built St Andrew's Church next to the River Lugg. Following the Norman conquest of Wales, when the majority of the church was damaged during an attack by the Welsh, the Normans constructed a church incorporating the Anglo-Saxon north aisle. In the 12th–13th centuries the church was enlarged and a bell tower was constructed with a new nave and south aisle constructed by canons from Wigmore Abbey.
In 1868, a restoration of the church financed by Sir Richard Green-Price and undertaken by Sir George Gilbert Scott was carried out. Inside he repaired the original roof and wooden belfry but removed the west gallery and added a new nave, chancel and sanctuary. On the exterior, he changed the design to reflect the popular Gothic Revival architecture at the time. In doing so he added a vestry, transepts and a new spire for the bell tower.
A memorial to Joseph Baker, for whom Mount Baker in Washington state, United States is named, was installed in the chapel of the church as he had retired to Presteigne. A 13th-century coffin lid, possibly from a member of the Mortimer Family, is also installed in the north side of the church. It was granted Grade II*-listed status in 1985 for being "a virtually complete example of the rural work of Sir George Gilbert Scott's office; whilst the church does retain significant medieval fabric, the consistency and coherence of its restoration make it a remarkably clear statement of Ecclesiological principles."
In 1914, the Welsh Church Act 1914 was passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom to disestablish the Church in Wales from the Church of England. Owing the enactment of the disestablishment being delayed by the Suspensory Act 1914, in 1915 seventeen parishes (including Presteigne with Discoed) were balloted by the Welsh Church Commissioners in a referendum as to whether they wanted to remain part of the Church of England or join the Church in Wales. These parishes were given the choice because their parish boundaries crossed the geographical borders between England and Wales. St Andrew's parishioners voted 595–289 to remain part of the Church of England despite the church being located in Wales. As a result of the decision in the referendum, St Andrew's Church remained a part of the Diocese of Hereford.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
The Milky Way rises over Cape Forchu Lighthouse in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
Digging into my archives, this shot has been on my drive since 2016 waiting for me to edit it. Finally got around to it today.
Nikon D810A with Sigma 50mm f/1.4 Art lens.
Sky: Star stack of 10 exposures at f/2, ISO 12,800 (way higher than needed I later learned), for 3 seconds each. Stacked in Starry Landscape Stacker for low noise and pinpoint stars. These days I probably would take 20 exposures for even lower noise.
The lighthouse and buildings were blended in from another exposure at f/5.6, ISO 1600, for 20 seconds, to get a sharper exposure for the tower with better color and without the white paint completely overexposed.
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Check out my book! Night Sky Photography: From First Principles to Professional Results