Repousse copper earings made by me for my wife for Xmas some years ago - showing signs of wear and tear after years of use

“Macro Mondays” “Handmade”.

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Fort-Dauphin (Madagascar) - Le vieux port français n’est constitué que d’un simple quai. Il a longtemps été délaissé au profit d’un port plus moderne en eau profonde, construit à plusieurs kilomètres au sud de la ville.

Les pêcheurs avaient pris l’habitude d’amarrer leurs pirogues sur le sable à proximité du quai de l’ancien port colonial. Une petite communauté de sans-abri squattait les quelques baraquements délabrés. Une micro-société, tolérée par les autorités locales, animait discrètement le lieu.

La récente reprise de l’activité commerciale du port a repoussé un peu plus loin ces « résidents informels ». Désormais, ils cohabitent avec les dockers, les marins et les camionneurs. En étant un peu attentif, il est possible de les repérer. Pendant les embarquements, la vie continue.

Fort-Dauphin (Madagascar) - The old French port consists of only a simple quay. It has long been neglected in favor of a more modern deep-water port, built several kilometers south of the city.

The fishermen had gotten into the habit of mooring their canoes on the sand near the quay of the old colonial port. A small community of homeless people had squatted in the few dilapidated shacks. A micro-society, tolerated by the local authorities, discreetly animated the place.

The recent resumption of commercial activity at the port has pushed these “informal residents” of the port a little further. They now live alongside dock workers, sailors and truckers. During boardings, life goes on.

This sterling silver hairbrush made in Birmingham in 1903 is just one piece out of a very substantial dressing table set that includes hairbrushes, mirrors, a looking glass, a tray, a comb, clothes brushes, perfume bottles, a glove hook, a perfume bottle opener, a boot hook, a shoe horn, a manicure set, powder pots, a needle case, an appointment book, a miniature Bible, a hair tidy, a hatpin container, an appointment book and even a letter opener, all of which belonged to one of my Great, Great Aunts. All of them feature elegant and ornate repoussé work of a very high standard. Each item depicts a beautiful Art Nouveau maiden in profile with long flowing tresses that twist and curl about her as she stands amid some sunflowers, plucking blooms. This style of design is typical of the curvilinear floral and female motifs so popular during the Art Nouveau period, epitomised by artists like Alphonse Mucha and Gustav Klimt. As a child, I called the Art Nouveau lady on these pieces, Clytie, after the Greek mythological legend of Clytie the sea nymph who fell in love with Apollo and was transformed into a sunflower.

The theme for the 11th of December “Looking Close… on Friday” is “brush”. I thought this silver backed hairbrush made by the Birmingham silversmiths Levi and Salaman in 1903 was an elegant choice. I hope that you will agree. The hairbrush features a pad of boar bristles which were stiff enough to brush the thick and long hair grown by Edwardian women to form the ornate and stylish ‘transformations’ (hairstyles) of the first decade of the Twentieth Century.

This hairbrush is hallmarked with the initials “L.&S.” which are the initials for the silversmiths Levi and Salaman. Founded in 1870 by Phineas Harris Levi in partnership with Joseph Wolff Salaman the two men established a silversmiths firm. They later became proprietors of the Potosi Silver Company in 1878. The firm became Levi and Salaman in the early Twentieth Century and became Levi and Salaman Ltd. in 1910. In 1921 the firm was amalgamated into Barker Brothers Silversmiths Limited.

fr: Une après-midi ensoleillée au village de Eus, Conflent, Pyrénées Orientales, France

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Cyanotype N°87 - Tonifié au maté + café / yerba maté + cofee toned

Papier - Moulin du coq - le rouge

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A 15 000 années-lumière de la Terre dans la constellation de la Flèche ou du Sagittaire (Sagittarius), l'étoile Wolf-Rayet 124 (WR 124), massive et super brillante, fait 30 fois la masse du Soleil et a perdu 10 soleils de matière jusqu'à présent (la nébuleuse annulaire de matière expulsée est dite M1-67). Lorsque le gaz éjecté s'éloigne de l'étoile et se refroidit, de la poussière cosmique se forme et brille dans la lumière infrarouge.

La caméra proche infrarouge de Webb (NIRCam) équilibre la luminosité du noyau stellaire de l'étoile WR 124 et les détails noueux dans le gaz environnant plus faible. L'instrument infrarouge moyen du télescope (MIRI) révèle quant à lui la structure agglomérée de la nébuleuse de gaz et de poussière du matériau éjecté entourant maintenant l'étoile.

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Une étoile proéminente à huit branches brille d'un blanc éclatant au centre de l'image composite. Un nuage de matière agglomérée l'entoure cette, avec plus de matière au-dessus et en dessous que sur les côtés, permettant suivant certains endroits de voir à travers les étoiles d'arrière-plan. Le matériau nuageux est d'un jaune foncé près de l'étoile et vire au violet rosé sur ses bords extérieurs. Ensemble, l'étoile centrale et son nuage ressemblent aux délicats pétales d'une fleur de cerisier, le fond noir comportant de nombreuses petites étoiles blanches dispersées partout.

L'étoile chaude et lumineuse Wolf-Rayet 124 (WR 124) est proéminente, combinant des longueurs d'onde de lumière proche infrarouge et moyen infrarouge. Elle affiche les pics de diffraction caractéristiques de la caméra proche infrarouge de Webb (NIRCam), causés par la structure physique du télescope. Cette caméra équilibre efficacement la luminosité de l'étoile avec le gaz et la poussière plus faibles qui l'entourent, tandis que l'instrument infrarouge moyen (MIRI) révèle la structure de la nébuleuse.

Plutôt que de coquilles lisses, celle-ci est formée d'éjections aléatoires et asymétriques. Des touffes lumineuses de gaz et de poussière apparaissent comme des têtards nageant vers l'étoile, avec des queues qui s'écoulent derrière eux, repoussées par le vent stellaire (cf. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team).

Pour situer l'étoile Wolf-Rayet WR 124 dans sa constellation de la Flèche ou du Sagittaire (Sagittarius) :

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La basilique Notre-Dame de Fourvière, un trésor d’humanité et le symbole fort de l’attachement de toute une ville à la Vierge Marie.

Une basilique emblématique.

La basilique Notre-Dame de Fourvière, de style Néo-Byzantin, est l’œuvre des architectes Pierre Bossan et Louis Sainte-Marie Perrin. Elle est édifiée à partir d’une souscription publique en 1870 et consacrée en 1896.

Du haut de “la colline qui prie”, la basilique dédiée à la Vierge Marie est classée monument historique. Elle fait partie du site lyonnais inscrit au Patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO. Aujourd’hui, emblème de la ville de Lyon, la basilique accueille chaque année plus de 2,5 millions de pèlerins et visiteurs.

Avant la basilique : La Chapelle Saint-Thomas, un édifice médiéval.

En 1168, sur les ruines du forum romain, une chapelle est construite à Fourvière par Olivier de Chavannes, un chanoine de Saint-Jean. La petite chapelle, édifiée « apud forum Venerisnote.", est dédiée tout d'abord à saint Thomas puis à la Vierge. Elle est richement dotée, et confiée au chapitre de Saint-Jean qui la dessert. L'archevêque Jean Belles-mains la dote en 1192 d'un chapitre propre, comptant quatre chanoines. Cette générosité lui permet également d'avoir les mains libres pour le chantier de la primatiale.

Au xviie siècle, Lyon est frappée plusieurs fois par des épidémies de peste, notamment en 1628 (la plus dévastatrice), 1631, 1637, 1639 et 1642. Face à ce fléau, les échevins du consulat font appel à la Vierge, probablement à l'inspiration du prévôt des marchands Alexandre de Mascrany. Le 5 avril 1642, un vœu est décidé : une procession à Notre-Dame aura lieu deux jours plus tard vers Fourvière, afin d'implorer la délivrance de la peste. Ce pèlerinage ayant eu lieu, il est choisi de le perpétuer annuellement. Le 12 mars 1643, un vote de la même assemblée voue la ville entière à Marie, et entérine un pèlerinage annuel, placé le 8 septembre, jour de la Nativité de Marie.

La statue de Marie :

Au milieu du xixe siècle, l'église de Fourvière menace de tomber en ruine. Des constatations faites par André Flachéron révèlent en particulier l'état de vétusté du vieux clocher. Le remplacement de cet édifice est confié à l'architecte diocésain Alphonse-Constance Duboys, et commence au mois d'août 1849. Ce clocher à base carrée conserve un premier étage médiéval, surmonté de deux étages datant de 1849 ; le troisième étage est de plan octogonal, et se termine par une coupole.

Sur cette dernière est placée en 1852 une statue de la Vierge réalisée par Joseph-Hugues Fabisch, dont la construction a été autorisée en 1851 par le cardinal de Bonald. C’est une statue de 5,60 mètres et de plus de 3 tonnes, située à plus de 300 mètres de hauteur au-dessus de la ville de Lyon. Ses mensurations sont volontairement disproportionnées (mains et visage trop grands par rapport à son corps), afin d'apparaître idéalement lorsqu’on la regarde d’en bas.

L'inauguration, en souvenir du vœu des échevins, est prévue pour le 8 septembre 1852, mais les intempéries frappant le nord-est de la France provoquent une inondation de la Saône et un retard de la livraison de la statue. La fête est repoussée au 8 décembre, date (alors non officiellement approuvée) de la fête de l'Immaculée Conception, dogme qui sera proclamé deux ans plus tard par Pie IX. À cause du mauvais temps de début décembre, un report au 12 du mois est envisagé ; mais le ciel se dégage au cours de l'après-midi du 8. En signe de piété, les Lyonnais allument des lumignons et les posent sur les appuis de fenêtre : c'est la naissance de la Fête des Lumières.

🇫🇷 Les petits secrets de la forêt en hiver

L'hiver, lorsque la météo repousse toute envie de sortir au-dehors, la forêt garde pourtant quelques charmes secrets vers lesquels il faut se pencher comme pour découvrir de petits trésors. La🌳hêtraie-chênaie🌳n'est pas avare en la matière et elle sait offrir à qui veut bien les prendre ces joyaux de formes et de lumières. Une feuille de houx parmi tant d'autres offre de quoi satisfaire la contemplation des moins pressés d'entre nous.

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🇺🇸 ️The little secrets of the forest in winter

In winter, when the weather puts off any desire to go outside, the forest nevertheless keeps a few secret charms to which you should lean as if to discover little treasures. The🌳beech-oak grove🌳 is no slouch in this respect, and it knows how to offer these gems of form and light to whoever is willing to take them. A holly leaf among many others is enough to satisfy the contemplation of the less hurried among us.

Milieu naturel, écosystème : 🌳 Chênaie - hêtraie 🌳

Natural environment, ecosystem: 🌳 Oak - beech grove🌳

Lieu / Location : Forêt de Fontainebleau / Seine-et-Marne / France

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Inspirée du style des églises de Moscou, l'intérieur possède une décoration très riche, orné de multiples icônes, de fresques, de boiseries sculptées et d'une iconostase en métal repoussé et ciselé.

La cathédrale St-Nicolas fut édifiée au début du XXe siècle sous le patronage du dernier Tsar Nicolas II et de sa mère l'Impératrice douairière Marie Feodorovna. La cathédrale est le plus bel édifice religieux de ce rite en dehors de Russie et la plus parfaite représentation de l'art religieux russe à l'étranger.

Inspired by the style of the Moscow churches, the interior has a very rich decoration, adorned with multiple icons, frescoes, carved woodwork and an iconostasis in metal repoussé and chiseled.

St. Nicholas Cathedral was built in the early twentieth century under the patronage of the last Tsar Nicholas II and his mother Empress Dowager Marie Feodorovna. The cathedral is the most beautiful religious building of this rite outside of Russia and the most perfect representation of Russian religious art abroad.

. . or more correctly, it's belly. Thailand's Erawan Museum: interior of the "earth", the domed building.

The two pillars on either side are made of tin repoussé by expert craftsmen from Nakornsrithammarat and Chiangmai. There are four pillars in all, representing the gratefulness and four principal religions supporting the world. The materials in the repoussé include flat tin sheet, resin and wax, lead wire and plasticine (to allow punching the tine for detail).

Stained glass is the art of Western Culture which has been used to decorate the ceiling of the Dome building or the Earth level below the "beast", the elephamt itself. The stained glass work is in semi-abstract form presenting the Earth with five continents, the sun and the twelve signs of the Zodiac.

The interior beautifully molded stucco inside the Museum used natural materials because ancient stucco dries slowly so making decorative lines is easier than on cement. Bencharong (five coloured porcelain) complements the artwork. Stucco is made from fluorite stone, lime, red sand stone, lime mixed with turmeric and water, glue made from buffalo skin cane sugar, sticky rice, straw paper dipped in water, fine sand.

The result: a 29 metres high, 39 metres long, 12 metres wide, 250 ton three headed elephant that you can enter!

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The Statue of Liberty is an icon, a national treasure, and one of the most recognizable figures in the world. Each year millions who cherish her ideals make the journey to experience her history and grandeur in person. She is the Statue of Liberty, a symbol of freedom, inspiration, and hope.

The Statue of Liberty was built in France between 1875 and 1884. The 225 Ton statue was disassembled and shipped to New York City in 1885. The statue was reassembled on Liberty Island in 1886, although the torch has been redesigned or restored several times since its installation. The statue would undergo many changes and improvements over the years. In 1907, the first elevator was installed inside it, and in 1916, it was illuminated for the first time after being converted to electric power. It would go dark for two years during World War II, due to blackout regulations. The torch was replaced entirely in the 1980s.

In 1865 Frenchman , a political intellectual , Édouard de Laboulaye proposed the idea of presenting a monumental gift from the people of France to the people of The United States. Sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi was in attendance for Laboulaye’s proclamation. Of like mind with Laboulaye’s cause, Bartholdi began conceptualizing the colossal structure that would soon be known as Liberty Enlightening the World. Bartholdi was designing the Statue, he also took a trip to the United States in 1871. During the trip, Bartholdi selected Bedloe's Island as the site for the Statue. Although the island was small, it was visible to every ship entering New York Harbor, which Bartholdi viewed as the "gateway to America.

A huge amount of cash was required to build her. The Fund raising process begun. Despite these efforts, fundraising for the pedestal went slowly. To spark public action, in 1885, Joseph Pulitzer placed an ad in his paper the New York World inviting readers to donate to the cause. In exchange, Pulitzer printed each donor’s name in the newspaper. The public rose to the challenge with 120,000 people donating over $100,000 and securing the remaining funds needed for the Statue’s pedestal.

In 1876, French artisans and craftsmen began constructing the Statue in France under Bartholdi's direction. The arm holding the torch was completed in 1876 and shown at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. The head and shoulders were completed in 1878 and displayed at the Paris Universal Exposition. The entire Statue was completed and assembled in Paris between 1881 and 1884. Also in 1884, construction on the pedestal began in the United States.

After the Statue was presented to Levi P Morton, the U.S. minister to France, on July 4, 1884 in Paris, it was disassembled and shipped to the United States aboard the French Navy ship, Isère. The Statue arrived in New York Harbor on June 17, 1885, and was met with great fanfare. Unfortunately, the pedestal for the Statue was not yet complete and the entire structure was not reassembled on Bedloe's Island until 1886.

Once the pedestal was completed in 1886, the Statue was reassembled with surprising speed by a fearless construction crew - many of whom were new immigrants. The first piece of the Statue to be reconstructed was Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel's iron framework. The rest of the Statue's elements followed without the use of scaffolding - all construction materials were hoisted up by steam driven cranes and derricks. In order to sculpt the Statue's skin Eiffel used the repoussé technique developed by Eugene Viollet-le-Duc. This technique was the process of molding light-weight copper sheets by hammering them onto the Statue's hallowed wooden framework. Although Fort Wood remained on Bedloe's Island, it was not an obstacle in the design, construction, or reassembly of the Statue of Liberty. Instead, the star-shaped structure became a part of the Statue's base - the pedestal sits within its walls.

It was inaugurated on Oct. 28, 1886 with a ceremony presided by President Grover Cleveland and accompanied by a water parade of about 300 vessels. Cleveland saluted Bartholdi, the sculptor, as “the greatest man in America today.” The day's wet and foggy weather did not stop some one million New Yorkers from turning out to cheer for The Statue of Liberty. Parades on land and sea honored the Statue while flags and music filled the air and the official dedication took place beneath the colossus "glistening with rain." When it was time for Bartholdi to release the tricolor French flag that veiled Liberty's face, a roar of guns, whistles, and applause sounded.

The Statue of Liberty was designated a National Monument in 1924 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984. In 1956, Bedloe’s Island was renamed Liberty Island by a joint resolution in Congress.

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Wooden hexagonal pyxis decorated with repousse gold plates. Mycenae, Grave Circle A. 16th c. BC.

The National Archaeological Museum of Athens is the largest archaeological museum in Greece and one of the most important museums in the world devoted to ancient Greek art. It was founded at the end of the 19th century to house and protect antiquities from all over Greece, thus displaying their historical, cultural and artistic value.

The construction of the museum's building began in 1866 and was completed in 1889, with the initial plan conceived by the architect Ludwig Lange. It was later modified by Panages Kalkos who was the main architect, Harmodios Vlachos and Ernst Ziller.

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Jardin des Plantes Paris

En raison de la crise sanitaire, l'exposition initialement prévue au printemps 2021 avait été repoussée en septembre. Dans les brèves périodes d'ouverture des musées, le succès était tel que la billetterie saturait. L'exposition est prolongée jusqu'au 22 aout.

Nénuphar jaune.

Vent de NW avec des rafales de 70 à 100km/heure, l'eau de ce côté-ci l'étang est repoussée, laissant place à la grève par endroits.

L'Alfa Romeo Giulietta, d'abord connue sous le nom de projet 149, puis sous l'appellation provisoire Milano (finalement repoussée pour cause de délocalisation de l'usine se trouvant à Milan), est une automobile de type berline compacte du constructeur italien Alfa Romeo, remplaçante de l'Alfa Romeo 147 dans le segment des compactes à 5 portes. Son nom de code en interne est ZAR 940.

Sa présentation repoussée plusieurs fois en raison de la crise financière, l'Alfa Romeo Giulietta a été présentée en avant-première mondiale le 2 décembre 2009 et finalement dévoilée au Salon de l'automobile de Genève en mars 2010. Elle est la voiture du centenaire de la marque au trèfle. Elle est assemblée à Cassino en Italie. On peut parler de succès commercial pour ce modèle puisque de la date de commercialisation jusque fin 2010 Alfa Romeo a écoulé 3904 modèles en France, surtout que ce n'était pas une année pleine.

L'Alfa Romeo Giulietta inaugure une toute nouvelle plateforme baptisée Compact-Evo. La face avant de cette nouvelle Alfa Romeo reprend le style de la supercar 8C Competizione et de la petite Alfa Romeo MiTo. Le dessin de la voiture est dû au Centro Stile Alfa Romeo. Tous les éléments caractéristiques de la marque sont présents, comme le fameux Scudetto, la mythique calandre de la marque. D'un prix de base indicatif de 21 500 €environ, l'Alfa Romeo Giulietta est en concurrence avec plusieurs modèles premium comme l'Audi A3 ou la BMW Série 1. Ce prix pas vraiment low cost s'explique par une qualité de fabrication de bon niveau (et en très net progrès par rapport à la 147, mais n'atteignant pas les ténors de la catégorie) et par un équipement de base assez complet. Cette Giulietta de troisième génération est devenue une compacte depuis sa réapparition en mai 2010 en Europe, alors que les deux précédents opus étaient des familiales.

L'Alfa Giulietta est équipée de moteurs utilisant le système Multiair (brevet Magneti-Marelli) développant 170 ch. Une version sportive, baptisée Quadrifoglio Verde, équipée du 1750 TBi développant 235 ch, vient coiffer la gamme. Une version GTA pourrait bientôt venir également. L'entrée de gamme est représentée par le Tjet 120 ch.

En 2013, la Giulietta a été restylée en recevant des phares et des boucliers à LED avec une nouvelle calandre à barrettes, puis en 2016, avec une calandre plus large en nid d'abeilles, le bouclier bas qui adopte un insert et des phares avec des masques noirs. Le second lifting de cette voiture est présent au Salon de Genève 2016.

Pas évident de photographier mes moutons pour le moment, en raison de la chaleur elles ne sortent que tôt le matin ou tard le soir. Néanmoins Pâquerette, probablement à cause de sa couleur blanche, sort un peu plus que les autres. Elles sont particulièrement jolies pour le moment, leur laine a déjà un peu repoussé depuis la tonte et on dirait du velours.

Not easy to photograph my sheep for the moment, because of the heat they only come out early in the morning or late at night. Nevertheless Pâquerette, probably because of her white colour, is more often outdoor than the others. They are particularly pretty for the moment, their wool grew a little since the shearing, it looks like velvet.

The pectoral has a semicircular shape with rounded edges and a vertical collar.' Preserved at both ends of the collar are parts of the hinges for the two elements (one is partially preserved) that served to clasp the pectoral at the back. The iron base is covered with gilded-silver plate with relief decoration, attached to it by means of a silver band run through holes along the periphery. Traces of fabric and leather are preserved on the lower surface of the pectoral. It was probably worn together with a composite corselet.

The decoration is executed in the repoussé technique by means of punches or a matrix. The collar is decorated with a row of lions' heads, with an arc above each and fernlike palmettes in the spaces between the heads; the space beneath the lions' heads is dotted. The crescent-shaped part is decorated with five concentric bands, which are separated by raised borders with a fishbone pattern. The innermost border consists of fernlike palmettes, alternately turned up and down and separated by S-shaped spirals. The second band consists of schematically rendered facing human heads. The central zone is decorated with wavelike rinceaux springing from an acanthus cup with a female head in the middle. From each coil of the rinceaux, spiral-shaped twigs emerge with a four-petal flower, alternating to the left and right. Fernlike palmettes spring from the offshoots of the twigs.

The next band consists of buds alternately turned up and down, and the outermost band is again of human heads. The ends of the pectoral are decorated with a fish-scale pattern with dots in the middle.

The Mezek pectoral is one of thirteen known examples, eight of which were discovered in rich Thracian burials: from Mezek, Varbitsa, Yankovo; the tumuli of Ostrusha, Tsvyatkova, and Golyama Arsenalka, near Kazanlak; Dolno Izorovo; and Dolna Koznitsa. Four others are from Macedonia: examples from Vergina (Tombs II and Ill), Katerini, and Pydna, as well as one without a documented findspot, now in New York. Their chronology likely spans the period 350-275 BCE. The shape of the pectoral is reminiscent of those made of scales sewn on a leather base but represents another stage in the development of this type of armor.

The decoration displays a composite style with elements originating in the toreutic traditions of Greece, Thrace, and the Greek cities in Magna Graecia. Some scholars attribute them to workshops in the Greek colonies on the Thracian coast, while others suggest they are the work of itinerant craftsmen or workshops active in Thracian centers in the 4th century BCE or even of local Thracian craftsmen.

ca. 350 BCE, iron and gilded silver. Found in the Mal-tepe Tumulus, Mezek, Haskovo Province, Bulgaria.

Sofia, National Archaeological Institute with Museum (6401)

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Photographed at the Getty Villa Museum, at the exhibition 'Ancient Thrace and the Classical World: Treasures from Bulgaria, Romania, and Greece'

oil on canvas 2009

"Quien muera usando el escapulario no sufrirá el fuego eterno"

In this work I have tried to combine elements of Spanish Baroque and Filipino Baroque, using the paint to create a rich effect reminiscent of the repousse work found on carozzas in both Filipino and Spanish processions.

Paranapiacaba - cobre.

Paranapiacaba - copper.

A wooden and metal repousse worked comb set with semi precious stones , garnets , carnelian and turquoise .

Middle eastern origin , date unknown .

An item found while looking for something else .

Personal collection .

Brisbane

The statue named "Portlandia" sculpted by Raymond Kaskey looks over 5th Avenue in Portland Oregon.

I remember when they put Portlandia on the entrance to the Portland Building in 1985, I was 12.

The statue is based on the design of the city seal. It is the second largest copper repoussé statue in the United States, after the Statue of Liberty. Portlandia is 34 feet 10 inches high.

The yellow box on the left is, I think, what is called repoussé, or “embossed” metal, and it’s got to be brass, judging by the color, or perhaps an alloy with a lot of brass in it. It is very heavy and was made in the 1880s. It comes from my grandmother. The round thing in the center is a unusual lacquered wood and ceramic (the blueish part on top) Chinese box for opium and is supposedly 17th century. I was told once by a curator at the Musée Guimet in Paris that it is museum-caliber.

The other round thing, the one on the right, is extremely heavy (almost 3 kilos) and comes from Nepal. I reckon it is bronze. It is a set of measuring cups that fit into one another for storage like Russian dolls.

In the back, the black and gold thing is a kintsugi piece done by my wife. Kintsugi is the Japanese art of fixing broken items of pottery or china with a lacquer called urushi, mixed with powdered gold. Thus, what was broken is made whole again, and owing to its scars, more valuable than it was before —very symbolically Japanese.

The rusty, larger box is a personal lockbox from the late Middle Ages or early Renaissance. It is made of iron. It is essentially a small safe for jewellery and other precious personal belongings. It opens with a key but the location of the lock is very cleverly concealed. It has lost its front overlapping part, unfortunately, and so isn’t worth much, even though it is a period piece.

And as I felt the need for an item of color to top it off, the little round orange thing is a cardboard box from Hermès, in which they sell the small silk scarves they call “twillies”.

I only upload a small sized version here, but the full-size 8,300-pixel TIFF file has details that blow you away! This Z-mount 105 macro really is something!

Strobist and technical: One Phottix Pro Indra500 monolight on a Profoto light stand in lateral position to camera left, 1 meter from subject and 0.5 meter above it, firing at ¼ power through a Phottix Pro 150–cm Raja Deep parabolic softbox with double diffuser; and another Indra500 studio strobe on a Profoto light stand in Rembrandt position to camera right, 1.5 meters from subject and at about the same height, firing at ¼ power through a Phottix Pro 110–cm Luna octabox with double diffuser. Black paper backdrop.

Strobes set and triggered via Phottix Pro Odin II radio controller on the camera’s hot shoe, manual mode. Sekonic L–858D light meter used to balance light sources. Gitzo GT3543 XLS tripod with Arca–Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Nikon Z7 II camera body, Micro-Nikkor Z MC 105mm ƒ/2.8 macro lens.

Composite shot made of 16 focus-stacked exposures set using the built-in function in the camera. Stack processed with Helicon Focus software, Method B.

From last year's PDX adventure.

National Register of Historic Places reference No.: 11000770

Gold cups with repousse scenes of cupturing bulls. Vapheio, Laconia, Tholos Tomb. 15th c. BC.

These are two masterpieces of Creto-Mycenaean metalwork, found together with other precious objects in the Vapheio tholos tomb. On the first cup (left) a bull is captured by peaceful means: a man ties a rope around the bull's leg, while the animal mates with a cow; three grazing bulls complete the composition. The second cup (right) shows one bull caught in a net while another attacks two hunters as a third hunter flees. Both cups were probably made by the same craftsman, although the first cup is more carefully executed.

The National Archaeological Museum of Athens is the largest archaeological museum in Greece and one of the most important museums in the world devoted to ancient Greek art. It was founded at the end of the 19th century to house and protect antiquities from all over Greece, thus displaying their historical, cultural and artistic value.

The construction of the museum's building began in 1866 and was completed in 1889, with the initial plan conceived by the architect Ludwig Lange. It was later modified by Panages Kalkos who was the main architect, Harmodios Vlachos and Ernst Ziller.

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Athens, Greece

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"Soul Service Station"

artist: Alison Saar

Desert X 2025

Desert Hot Springs, CA

Drawing inspiration from gas stations that have populated the American West, including the Coachella Valley, Saar’s station offers more than practical services; it provides fuel for the soul. She invites weary travelers to get “their blues flushed, spirits inflated, hearts charged, and souls filled.”

Inside the station, a sculptural assemblage handcrafted by Saar contains a collection of devotional objects. Saar has collaborated with Coachella Valley students to create foil repoussé medallions expressing prayers and wishes for healing and hope. These community-crafted elements, combined with furnishings made from salvaged materials, form a sanctuary that merges collective dreams with Saar’s vision of a spiritual oasis. At the center stands a life-size, hand-carved female figure, the guardian and healer of the site, exuding strength and protection.

Inspirée du style des églises de Moscou, l'intérieur possède une décoration très riche, orné de multiples icônes, de fresques, de boiseries sculptées et d'une iconostase en métal repoussé et ciselé.

La cathédrale St-Nicolas fut édifiée au début du XXe siècle sous le patronage du dernier Tsar Nicolas II et de sa mère l'Impératrice douairière Marie Feodorovna. La cathédrale est le plus bel édifice religieux de ce rite en dehors de Russie et la plus parfaite représentation de l'art religieux russe à l'étranger.

Inspired by the style of the Moscow churches, the interior has a very rich decoration, adorned with multiple icons, frescoes, carved woodwork and an iconostasis in metal repoussé and chiseled.

St. Nicholas Cathedral was built in the early twentieth century under the patronage of the last Tsar Nicholas II and his mother Empress Dowager Marie Feodorovna. The cathedral is the most beautiful religious building of this rite outside of Russia and the most perfect representation of Russian religious art abroad.

A travers l'hiver.

Last week in my parent’s garden I was surprised to see this kind of spiral pyramid growing up from the floor... Hey, it was a cut leek whom decided to rebirth!

fr: Les maisons sur la colline, village de Eus, Conflent, Pyrénées Orientales, France

HDR from 3 different exposures - the final image is a mix of 2 different tone-mapping settings - various curves and saturation adjustments

See it with more detail BIGGER On Black

More of the set Pittoresques Villages de France | More of the Set Pyrénées

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She kneels down,

and from the quietness

of copper

reaches out.

We take that stillness

into ourselves,

and somewhere

deep in the earth

our breath

becomes her city.

If she could speak

this is what

she would say:

Follow that breath.

Home is the journey we make.

This is how the world

knows where we are.

— Ronald Talney, 1985

Portlandia is a 1985 copper repoussé statue by sculptor Raymond Kaskey, his work commissioned by the City of Portland.

National Register of Historic Places reference No.: 11000770

My early 1990s photograph of Portlandia: flic.kr/p/2mP39ns

Québec, Canada

Peinture à l'huile de 1881 de Robert Gibb : The Thin Red Line.

The Thin Red Line est un épisode de la bataille de Balaklava du 25 octobre 1854, pendant la guerre de Crimée. Lors de cette bataille, environ 500 hommes du 93e régiment d'infanterie, aidés par une petite force de 100 blessés légers, de 40 soldats, et soutenus par une force substantielle de fantassins turcs, dirigés par Sir Colin Campbell, ont repoussé une cavalerie russe beaucoup plus nombreuse.

Une force de cavalerie russe de 2 500 hommes, commandée par le général Ryzhov, avançait vers le camp de la cavalerie britannique. Colin Campbell, 1er Baron Clyde, aurait dit à ses hommes : « Il n'y a pas de retraite possible ici, les gars. Vous devez mourir sur place. », L'aide de camp de Sir Colin, John Scott, aurait répondu : « Oui, Sir Colin. S'il le faut, nous le ferons. » Campbell plaça le 93e régiment en une ligne de deux rangs de profondeur - la Thin Red Line. Par convention, la ligne devait avoir quatre rangs de profondeur. Cependant, Campbell estima qu'il n'avait pas suffisamment d'hommes entraînés pour former un carré, et décida d'affronter la charge russe avec une double ligne de tir. À l'approche de la cavalerie russe, les Turcs sur les flancs se rompent et s'enfuient. Le 93e régiment a tiré deux volées : à 800 et 500 mètres respectivement. Ils n'eurent pas l'occasion d'en tirer une à bout portant, car les Russes se replièrent.

Plus de Croix de Victoria ont été remises aux soldats des Highlands à cette occasion qu'à toute autre. L'événement a été porté aux nues par la presse britannique et est devenu une icône des qualités du soldat britannique dans une guerre qui était sans doute mal gérée et de plus en plus impopulaire.

L'expression Thin Red Line est devenue une expression anglophone pour désigner toute unité militaire peu nombreuse qui tient bon face à une attaque. L'expression a également pris le sens métaphorique de la barrière que les forces armées relativement limitées d'un pays présentent aux attaquants potentiels. L'expression Thin Red Line a ensuite fait référence aux Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders et à leur mission de défense de l'Empire britannique et du Royaume-Uni après l'incorporation des Argylls et des Sutherlands en un seul régiment désormais connu sous le nom de bataillon Argyll and Sutherland du Royal Regiment of Scotland.

1881 oil painting by Robert Gibb: The Thin Red Line.

The Thin Red Line is an episode of the Battle of Balaklava on October 25, 1854, during the Crimean War. In this battle, about 500 men of the 93rd Regiment of Foot, aided by a small force of 100 lightly wounded, 40 soldiers, and supported by a substantial force of Turkish infantry, led by Sir Colin Campbell, repelled a Russian cavalry much more numerous.

A Russian cavalry force of 2,500 men, commanded by General Ryzhov, was advancing towards the camp of the British cavalry. Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde, reportedly told his men, "There's no retreat here, lads. You must die on the spot.

Sir Colin's aide-de-camp, John Scott, reportedly replied, "Yes, Sir Colin." If necessary, we will. Campbell placed the 93rd Regiment in a line two ranks deep - the Thin Red Line. By convention, the line had to be four rows deep. However, Campbell felt he did not have enough trained men to form a square, and decided to meet the Russian charge with a double line of fire. As the Russian cavalry approached, the Turks on the flanks broke and fled. The 93rd Regiment fired two ends: at 800 and 500 meters respectively. They didn't have a chance to fire one at close range, as the Russians fell back.

More Victoria Crosses were presented to Highland soldiers on this occasion than on any other. The event was praised by the British press and became an icon of the qualities of the British soldier in a war that was arguably badly managed and increasingly unpopular.

The expression Thin Red Line has become an English expression to designate any small military unit that stands firm in the face of an attack. The phrase has also taken on the metaphorical sense of the barrier that a country's relatively small armed forces present to potential attackers. The phrase Thin Red Line later referred to the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and their mission to defend the British Empire and the United Kingdom after the incorporation of the Argylls and Sutherlands into a single regiment now known as the Argyll and Sutherland Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland.

Par cette toute dernière photo de Figaro, je voudrais vous remercier pour vos gentils témoignages de sympathie. Figaro était aimé par tous ceux qui l'ont connu, que ce soit en vrai ou virtuellement.

Pour les personnes qui penseraient en voyant cette photo, qu'il était encore en forme, et bien en fait il n'était pas malade et était encore très bien dans sa tête. Malheureusement ses vieilles pattes ne le portaient plus du tout. J'ai repoussé la décision autant que j'ai pu, mais continuer ainsi aurait été cruel. Il s'est endormi sereinement sous mes caresses et celles de sa vétérinaire qu'il aimait beaucoup.

Je serai absente de Flickr pendant quelques jours, j'ai besoin de prendre un peu de distance.

With this very last photo of Figaro, I would like to thank you for your kind expressions of sympathy. Figaro was loved by all who knew him, in real life or virtually.

For those who might think, seeing this photo, that he was still doing fine, well in fact, he wasn't sick and was still very well mentally. Unfortunately, his old legs were no longer carrying him at all. I put off the decision as long as I could, but continuing like this would have been cruel. He fell asleep peacefully under my hugs and those of his vet, whom he loved very much.

I will be away from Flickr for a few days, I need some distance.

Töle de fer découpée et repoussée.

Musée Le Secq des Tournelles, Rouen, France.

My museum collection : www.flickr.com/photos/9619972@N08/collections/72157702215...

Inspirée du style des églises de Moscou, l'intérieur possède une décoration très riche, orné de multiples icônes, de fresques, de boiseries sculptées et d'une iconostase en métal repoussé et ciselé.

La cathédrale St-Nicolas fut édifiée au début du XXe siècle sous le patronage du dernier Tsar Nicolas II et de sa mère l'Impératrice douairière Marie Feodorovna. La cathédrale est le plus bel édifice religieux de ce rite en dehors de Russie et la plus parfaite représentation de l'art religieux russe à l'étranger.

Inspired by the style of the Moscow churches, the interior has a very rich decoration, adorned with multiple icons, frescoes, carved woodwork and an iconostasis in metal repoussé and chiseled.

St. Nicholas Cathedral was built in the early twentieth century under the patronage of the last Tsar Nicholas II and his mother Empress Dowager Marie Feodorovna. The cathedral is the most beautiful religious building of this rite outside of Russia and the most perfect representation of Russian religious art abroad.

Portait painted of Julian Assange wikileaks at the Abode of Chaos by thierry Ehrmann

Wall-paint by Cart'1 @ the Abode of Chaos

(Creative Commons Paternity) original version free on Flickr 2592 x 3872

Tribute #1 to Julian Assange

Tribute #2 to Julian Assange

For those who have just arrived on Planet Earth, let me remind you that what we are experiencing since last Sunday evening is the “Pearl Harbor of Global Democracy” according to Hilary Clinton and the “9/11 of American Diplomacy” according to Barak Obama and his advisors. After 400,000 secret documents on the operating methods of the US army in Iraq, Assange has broken the sound barrier since Sunday with 250,000 diplomatic cables that concern 179 countries! Le Monde, Der Spiegel, El País, the Guardian and the New York Times… according to the latter, more than 1,200 journalists are picking their way through roughly half a billion words of extremely contemporary cables, the most recent of which dates from March 2010. For historians who normally have to wait 50 years before getting access to such material, this is a dream come true. In this case the diplomatic cables are not much older than 7 months. Their scope is colossal. Hence the US State Department’s cry of “murder”…

My dear little wolves and she-wolves, in truth, I tell you, Sunday night tens of thousands of writers put an end to their lives … Imagine you were a Sci-Fi or Anticipation writer, director of Sci-Fi – Fantasy Collection at Pocket, Denoël or Rivages.

According to Laurent COURAU, the mythical founder of the Spirale who is postponing his suicide, “Assange and Wikileaks have definitively relegated fiction to beneath reality and we are seeing a veritable incarnation of the cyber-punk imagination right now in this early 21st century”.

As I see it, Julian Assange is the natural son of Lorenz (Edward Norton), he is quite simply the “Black Swan” of the beginning of this century… he is breaking the seals one by one in the agora of the ethers that is Internet.

Last precaution: Julian Assange has placed a small encrypted file entitled Insurance History on the Swedish Server of Pirate Bay (specialist in the illegal download of music and film music). On Twitter, he recommends that his followers download the file and await his instructions…

thierry Ehrmann, www.ehrmann.org/en/propaganda.html

Abode Of Chaos / Demeure du Chaos 2010

Mur peint par Thomas Foucher @ la Demeure du Chaos

Hommage numéro 1 à Julian Assange . Wikileaks

Hommage numéro 2 à Julian Assange . Wikileaks

Peinture: Cart'1 photo Abode of Chaos (creative communs)

©2010 www.AbodeofChaos.org

courtesy of Organ Museum

Julian Assange « homme de l’année » pour Le Monde / Julian Assange named Man of the Year by Le Monde: lire le Blog de thierry Ehrmann/ read the Blog of thierry Ehrmann

thierry Ehrmann blog.ehrmann.org/

DemeureduChaos.org

The Abode of Chaos from Above,/La Demeure du Chaos vue du ciel:

www.flickr.com/photos/home_of_chaos/sets/72157624460145909/

Pour ceux qui arriveraient sur la planère Terre, je leur rappelle que, ce que nous vivons depuis dimanche soir, est le « Pearl Harbor de la Diplomatie mondiale » cqfd Hillary Clinton et selon Obama et ses conseillers le « 11 septembre de la diplomatie américaine ». Après 400 000 documents confidentiels, relatifs au mode opératoire de l’armée américaine en Irak, il passe le mur du son avec depuis dimanche soir, 250 000 dépêches diplomatiques qui frappent plus de 179 pays ! Le Monde, Der Spiegel, El PAis, the Guardian et New York Times. Selon ce dernier, plus de 1 200 journalistes sont jour et nuit sur une base de données de près d’un demi milliard de mots… sur des dépêches diplomatiques ultra-récentes donts les dernières datent de mars 2010. C’est le rêve de l’historien qui doit normalement patienter jusqu’à 50 ans pour pouvoir accéder à de tels trésors. Ici les dépêches diplomatiques ont à peine plus de 7 mois. Tout y passe. D’où le département d’état américain qui hurle à l’assassin…

Mes p’tits loups, mes p’tites louves, en vérité, je vous le dis, dimanche soir des dizaines de milliers d’écrivains se sont donnés la mort… Imaginez une seconde que vous soyiez écrivain de SF ou d’Anticipation, directeur de Collection SF – Fantasy chez Pocket, Denoël ou Rivages.

Selon Laurent COURAU, fondateur mythique de la Spirale qui repousse son suicide, il déclare : « Assange et Wikileaks relèguent définitivement la fiction loin derrière la réalité et l’on assiste à la véritable incarnation de l’imaginaire cyber-punk dans ce début de XXIème siècle ».

A mes yeux, Julian Assange est le fils naturel de Lorenz (Edward Norton), il est tout simplement le « Cygne Noir » du début de ce siècle, il brise les sceaux un par un dans l’agora des éthers qu’est l’Internet.

Avec la globalisation d’Internet, il faut s’attendre, selon mon vieux maître Paul Virillio à un accident général, un accident jamais vu, aussi étonnant que le temps mondial, ce temps jamais vu. Un accident général qui serait un peu ce qu’Epicure appelait « l’accident des accidents ».

Ce jour fut le 28 novembre 2010 où Internet est devenu l’incarnation de l’information à l’état brut, c’est aussi le jour où les citoyens du village “Glocal” de Mc Lhuan ont eu à leurs dispositions l’histoire en temps réel, apanage jusqu’à présent des puissants. C’est aussi la révélation de la phrase de Mathieu(x26) qui prends son plein sens “car il n’y a rien de caché qui ne doit être découvert ni de secret qui ne doivent être connu” …(page 183 Opus III Abode of Chaos Spirit)

Ultime précaution : Julian Assange a placé sur le serveur suédois de Pirate Bay (spécialisé dans les téléchargements illicites de musique et de films), un petit fichier crypté mystérieux, baptisé »Assurance historique ». Sur Twitter, il recommande à ses partisans de le télécharger et d’attendre les instructions.

thierry Ehrmann www.ehrmann.org/propaganda.html

DemeureduChaos.org

thierry Ehrmann blog.ehrmann.org/

The Abode of Chaos from Above,/La Demeure du Chaos vue du ciel:

www.flickr.com/photos/home_of_chaos/sets/72157624460145909/

Preview 2011 Borderline Biennial at the Abode of Chaos adult only version EN/FR

blog.ehrmann.org/2010/lypo2010_online.pdf

An intensely green patina has developed on this bronze repoussé relief depicting Dionysos and Ariadne, originally attached below the handle of an hydria (water jar), fragments of which were found with the relief.

Dionysos, on the left, is holding a cornucopia in his right hand, and leaning on something (an altar?) with his left hand. He is naked, save a himation, which has fallen from his hips, exposing his nudity. He is staring at Ariadne, on the right, who is holding her veil open and looking back towards her husband.

Hellenistic, from Chalke (Chalki, Χάλκη), near Rhodes, ca. 325-300 BCE.

British Museum, London (GR 1889.11-12.2, Bronze 311)

The Buddha Park of Ravangla, also known as Tathagata Tsal, is situated near Ravangla in South Sikkim district of the Indian state of Sikkim. It was constructed between 2006 and 2013, and features a 130-foot-high (40 m) statue of the Buddha, erected to mark the 2550th anniversary of the birth of Gautama Buddha, as its main attraction. The statue, built of 60 tonnes of copper, is an example of repousse work. Mount Narsing forms the backdrop to the statue. The site was chosen within the larger religious complex of Rabong Monastery, itself a centuries-old place of pilgrimage. Also nearby is Ralang Monastery, a key monastery in Tibetan Buddhism. Built and installed through the joint efforts of the government and people of Sikkim, the statue was consecrated on 25 March 2013 by the 14th Dalai Lama. The Buddhist circuit of the park was built under a state government project, intended to boost pilgrimage and tourism to the region. The Cho Djo lake is located within the complex, surrounded by forest. The park has a tranquil setting with spacious pathways, and there is a Buddhist conclave, a meditation centre and a museum with a spiral gallery. (Wikipedia)

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We probably spent an hour visiting this beautiful temple and park during our visit to Sikkim. The inside of the temple is covered in beautiful, colourful paintings telling the story of Buddha. Unfortunately, no photos allowed inside.

Ravangla, Sikkim, India. March 2016.

Asian Adventures.

Je vous salue, ruines solitaires, tombeaux saints, murs silencieux! c'est vous que j'invoque; c'est à vous que j'adresse ma prière. Oui! tandis que votre aspect repousse d'un secret effroi les regards du vulgaire, mon cœur trouve à vous contempler le charme des sentiments profonds et des hautes pensées. Combien d'utiles leçons, de réflexions touchantes ou fortes n'offrez-vous pas à l'esprit qui sait vous consulter! C'est vous qui, lorsque la terre entière asservie se taisait devant les tyrans, proclamiez déja les vérités qu'ils détestent, et qui, confondant la dépouille des rois avec celle du dernier esclave, attestiez le saint dogme de l'égalité. C'est dans votre enceinte, qu'amant solitaire de la liberté, j'ai vu m'apparaître son génie, non tel que se le peint un vulgaire insensé, armé de torches et de poignards, mais sous l'aspect auguste de la justice, tenant en ses mains les balances sacrées où se pèsent les actions des mortels aux portes de l'éternité.

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Saúdovos, ruínas solitarias, sagrados mausoleos, muros silenciosos! É a vós a quen invoco; a miña súplica só a vós se dirixe. Si! en canto o voso sombrío aspecto afasta as olladas do vulgo por un insólito e segredo pavor, atopa o meu corazón en vos contemplar o encanto de mil pensamentos e os atractivos dun sen número de novas ideas que me levan canda si con irresistible impulso. Que proveitosos documentos! Que fortes e tocantes reflexións ofrecedes ao espírito que vos sabe consultar! Sodes vós as que, mentres o Universo enteiro escravizado enmudecía ante os tiranos, proclamavades verdades que eles abominaban; e que confundindo os despoxos do Potentado cos restos do vil cativo, atestavades o santo dogma da igualdade! É ao pé do voso recinto onde, amante solitario da Liberdade, vin aparecer o seu xenio, non como o imaxina o vulgo insensible, armado de fachos e puñais, senón baixo o aspecto augusto da xustiza, portando nas súas mans as balanzas sagradas onde se pesan as accións dos mortais ás portas da eternidade.

Constantin-François Chassebœuf de La Giraudais, comte Volney (1757-1820), Les Ruines, ou méditation sur les révolutions des empires, 1791.

MÚSICA: Dover - King George

youtu.be/wbM9RtOGdKE

Cumdach (book shrine) of the Cathach, 1062–94 and late 14th century with later additions and repairs, bronze, gilt silver, wood, crystal, and glass, 19 x 25 x 5.25 cm (National Museum of Ireland)