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St Martin’s Church in Zillis, Canton Graubünden, CH
The earliest preserved, figuratively painted wooden ceiling in Europe can be seen above the nave of St Martin's Church in Zillis. Today only three other painted ceilings from the Middle Ages remain: they are located in Hildesheim (St Michael's), in Peterborough Cathedral and in Dadesjo (Sweden). The Swedish church in Sodra Rada was destroyed by fire in 2001.
The ceiling paintings in Zillis demonstrate such a rich variety of form and contents as is only found in great works of art.
And so today the ceiling serves to illustrate the Gospel, Sunday for Sunday, from spring to autumn. In winter the parishioners do without heating in the church for the sake of the paintings and hold their services in the parish hall. Only funeral services and the school Christmas celebrations on Christmas Eve take place in the moderately heated church during the cold season.
St Martin's Church is situated below the historic centre of Zillis. At first, the church possibly stood directly above the wide bed of the Hinterrhein River. Zillis is one of the two settlements nestling at the bottom of the Schams Valley (Romansh: Val Schons), an inner-Alpine valley basin, through which a route has traversed the Alps at least since the Roman era. It used to link Bregenz with Milan, Lake Constance with Lakes Como and Maggiore. The Schams is the secondhighest section of the Hinterrhein Valley. It lies directly south of the Viamala Gorge, which on the northern side of the Alpine ridge represented the main obstacle on the route from Chur over the Splugen Pass to Chiavenna, resp. over the San Bernardino Pass to Bellinzona and Locarno. Throughout all the centuries Zillis occupied a very peripheral position on the inner border of the Alps, but was always on a route connecting the major settlements flanking the Alpine ridge.
THE PAINTED CEILING
THE CONCEPT OF THE PAINTED CEILING
The Zillis ceiling comprises 153 painted panels. They are slotted into longitudinal battens, which until 1938 were attached to the ceiling beams by long nails. Cross-battens are inserted between the painted panels as a connecting link, forming a regular grid. Doubled longitudinal and cross-battens accentuate the junctions of the grid, creating the shape of the cross.
The ceiling is enhanced by a meander frieze which was created at the same time; the greater part of the frieze was restored in 1938-1940. In the frieze we see female busts, representing the Classical sybils, whose prophesies were taken fro(ll late Antiquity onwards as a reference to the Advent of Christ.
The 153 panels are arranged as on a medieval map of the world. There is a border representing the ocean surrounding the Continent, on which the Life of Christ and the legend of St Martin are portrayed.
The border
At the edges of the ceiling, resp. on the borders of the world, swim mythical fish-tailed creatures; there are even some manned boats and music-making sirens on a continuous band of wavy lines, which represent the sea in a simplified and abstract form. Only the angels sounding their horns in the corners, marked as the south wind Auster and the north wind Aquilo, stand on firm land.
The inner cycle
On the interior fields, i.e. the Continent, the Life of Christ is depicted on 98 panels. One half describes Christ's childhood and youth, the other half recounts his miracles, his teaching and Passion. The individual scenes frequently continue over several successive panels. Each half has seven rows with seven panels. The last row of the interior panels is dedicated to the church patron St Martin.
The choir is the best place from which to view the first half of the cycle portraying the Life of Christ. Since the 1940 rearrangement the visitor has been able to «read» the pictures like a text from this vantage point, in rows running from left to right. The cycle begins with a gallery of Christ's ancestors, the Kings of the Old Testament, and the personifications of Synagogue and Ecclesia. The story of Christ's Life begins with the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin, followed by Joseph's Dream, the Visitation and the four panels on the Nativity.
15 panels describe the Journey of the Three Magi. This is followed by the Purification and the the Presentation of the Infant Jesus in the Temple, the Flight into Egypt and the Massacre of the Innocents in Bethlehem, the Miracle of the Clay Pigeons, the 72-year-old Jesus in the Temple and the Sermons of St John the Baptist.
The second part of the Christological cycle begins with the Baptism of Christ and the Temptation by the Devil. These are followed by cases of miraculous Healings: in addition to the Wedding Feast in Cana and the Raising of Lazarus, we see the Healing of physically and mentally sick persons. The mentally disturbed were considered to be possessed by demons. After the miracles follow the Teachings of Jesus, the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor, the Entry into Jerusalem and the Expulsion of the Moneychangers from the Temple, the Last Supper, the MOunt of Olives, the Betrayal by Judas, Christ before Pilate, the Mocking of Christ and the Crowning with Thorns.
The cycle then breaks off. There is no consensus among researchers on whether this was, in fact, the original end of the cycle or if the Crucifixion and the Rising from the Dead were formerly depicted on the north wall of the nave or in the former Romanesque choir.
The last seven panels of the interior fields describe episodes from the life of St Martin, commencing with the Sharing of the Cloak, probably the best-known element of the legend. This is followed by the Consecration and the Miracle of the Raising from the Dead. The conclusion comprises three panels on St Martin's Encounter with a King who pretended to be Jesus but turned out to be the Devil.
As mentioned above, the panels were rearranged on the ceiling in 1940, the 1938 sequence having been described by experts as «absurd» und «unsystematic». An attempt to reconstruct the original order, based on the sequence of the pictures before 1938, gives the following results: the panels were arranged to be read by following the rows in an S-shaped order. In the centre of the ceiling there was the depiction of Christ's Baptism; in front of this, the scenes with St John the Baptist; behind, the four panels on the Temptation of Christ by the Devil.
During the Reformation the sequence of the panels was probably altered. In the cycle depicting the Life of St Martin, the consecration scene was removed from the central axis. The sermons of St John the Baptist and the Temptation of Christ by the Devil disappeared from the central row and were replaced by the cases of miraculous healing and depictions of Christ's teachings. From the 16th century until 1938 the Expulsion of the Moneychangers from the Temple, as a symbol of one of the Reformation's main tenets, was set in the centre of the ceiling replacing Christ's Baptism.
The Group
When I first heard "The Foo" I viewed them as a pop-rock group. They had some early hits on the radio and they were a fun group to listen to. This was how I originally perceived them.
The Performance
Then I saw one of the greatest rock performances I had ever seen. The Foo with Dave Grohl belting out this very song titled, "times like these" on a TV performance. In a word, EXCEPTIONAL. I have seen many groups over the years, but this performance blew my mind.
This was a true performance. It wasn't just another show, it was a performance of a life time. It was as if he was playing for his life. Sports analogies of "leaving everything on the field" just don't come close to the performance Dave belted out. Completely changed my perception of the group and of Dave Grohl. I liked Dave in Queens of the Stone Age also.
The Calligraphy
This is my small tribute to the Foo and Dave Grohl! What you are looking at is a brand new typeface I just developed. A very tall and very narrow custom gothic calligraphic typeface. It has a very tight appearance. Shown are only the lowercase letters here, but fits perfectly with my other uppercase letters. Very aggressive, yet controlled, and somewhat elegant script. Mean looking yet clean. Perfect for a liquor bottle application. A line of solid text, or perhaps a block page of text would look so perfect with this typeface. I have also used my new cursive script for the name below. These two scripts look great against one another.
Cheers
Steve
I decided to do a piranha plant to replace the scheduled "pipe" block. To me it's not SMB without these piranha plants...
let's get this out there: I'm a Christian. I voted no on 8. why? because no matter what the Bible says about homosexuality, we're all sinners. your pastors and priests are sinners according to the Bible. ("ALL have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" does anyone remember Sunday School AT ALL?) so how can you judge someone who is, as far as God is concerned, your exact equal? I won't lie, it's written in Leviticus that you shouldn't lie with another man. however, let he who has no sin cast the first stone. it isn't our place to judge others. if they're sinning, that's their problem, and you don't have to deal with it. they'll be dealt with, for lack of a better phrase, by God in due time. embrace the sinner, but don't embrace the sin. don't forget, in Matthew 7 it's written "For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged."
to everyone who voted Yes on prop 8, you should be ashamed of yourself. you helped to take away the rights of millions of Californians, including people you probably work with, are friends with, live next door to, go to school with, or eat with. in spite of your religious affiliation, you should have read the text on your ballot. the very first words were "Takes away the right." okay, stop. ANYTHING that takes away a RIGHT is INHERENTLY WRONG.
I'm not asking anyone to 'like' homosexuality, but as Americans you should respect your fellow man [or woman]. personally, I think a gay couple making out in public is really uncomfortable. for that matter, I think a straight couple making out in public is really uncomfortable. but who am I, or anyone else, to say that one person isn't allowed to love another just like everyone else?
Marvel Tales / Heft-Reihe
Starring Spider-Man
> When Iceman attacks!
cover: John Romita
Reprint from The Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1963 series) #92 (January 1971)
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1976
ex libris MTP
Yes,
it is impossible
they say,
But true.
You are a ruthless man,
Absent of mercy.
Deceived to inform.
You do him wrong
Cocktails in the Horizon Room
On-The-Beach in Downtown Long Beach
530 East Ocean Blvd. at Atlantic Blvd.
Long Beach, California
70 Rooms - Conference Room - Heated Pool - Free TV - Inn-Room Coffee - Free Parking - Coffee Shop - Panoramic View
The Aristocrat
This is what I created for my partner for the 100,000th Swap =D Since she likes to read I've cross stitched a bookmark for her and I'm really happy about how it turned out.
Rachel even posted a pic of it on her blog blog.swap-bot.com/2011/11/08/100000th-swap-amazing/ =D
This one reminds me of another, "A Mime is a terrible thing..."
I classify mimes along with clowns...creepy and unnecessary. They make me inexplicably uneasy.
This rental center is along Route 38 in Mt. Laurel, NJ. They have two such signs and show 4 different messages on a regular basis. I should get a job there, eh?
Manuscript title: Johannes Cassianus, Collationes Patrum
Manuscript summary: This copy of Cassian's Collationes contains on 1r a two-line ownership note attributing the codex to Abbot Berchtold of Engelberg (1178-1197) as well as the beginning of a dedicatory poem to the Virgin Mary, the monastery's patron saint. Both inscriptions also appear verbatim in the volumes that were written under Berchtold's predecessor Frowin (1143-1178). Decorated initials introduce each of the collationes, and sometimes the chapter-lists; between the collationes the text is divided with red decorated capitals. Tears and holes in the parchment have been artistically sewn up; of particular note are those on 48v and 190v.
Origin: Engelberg (Switzerland)
Period: 12th century
Image source: Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 37: Johannes Cassianus, Collationes Patrum (www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/bke/0037).
This Sears store is a massive 277,218 square foot store, making it one of the largest Sears stores in the country. This store opened in 1956, one year before the rest of the shopping center. Sears seems to be fairly busy here. Also, the Walmart plans were thwarted by Sears when it was found that Sears still owns some land between the Lincoln Park and Allen Park sections of the shopping center.
The Lincoln Park Shopping Center opened in 1957 as one of the Detroit Area's largest shopping centers. The Sears opened the previous year and was once the top grossing Sears store. In the 2000s the shopping center became mostly empty besides Dollar Tree, Sears, and a Big Boy Restaurant on an out-parcel. Plans for a Walmart to open at the shopping center fell through twice.
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Podemos cambiar el mundo. Texto de A. López Borgoñoz, presidente de Amnistía Internacional España
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I thought others might appreciate these tidbits of forgotten history of People of Color.
Please feel free to leave any comments or thoughts or impressions... I look forward to reading them!
Alright well, I don't know if i like the text on this image... It makes it kind of cheesy, but it looked so bare without it ;0
SO feedback please!
And note to self, don't take photos after you over-slept because, they just don't turn out.
Damn, I had the most disturbing dream last night. What i remember, (I'm not going to bore you with the whole thing), but in the end, this lady was driving somewhere in a carriage, thing (this was in the 1800s, mind you) and her 2 kids, on the inside, asked her what they could eat because they were hungry. She told them there was a bag behind them full of food. I don't know WHY but the boy grabbed a water squirter... thing, that was full of some unknown substance and sprayed the substance in his mouth, then he did the same thing to his sister and after a while they started coughing uncontrollably. The mom didn't hear, and after about 10 minutes, the driver looked back and he goes 'Oh miss!' and she turns around and lets out the most disturbing scream, and that's when i wake up. kfdjgnfjlk It makes me shudder.
Getting to the point unknown thing about me #9:
My favorite colour is yellow. Mmn, yellow
Enjoy the photo
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