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"People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle."
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This picture considers a number of issues affecting Scotland at the moment. The dominant industry in North East Scotland is the Oil and gas industry and growing with no shortage of controversy is the renewable industry . Many feel that Aberdeenshire has far too many wind farms . However if I had a choice I think I would feel safer with the wind turbines especially near to the fragile ecosystems that exist in this stunning part of the country. The geese in the foreground are amongst the many wintering geese that make for this part of the world. (many farmers want them culled) As we approach the referendum this picture contains a number of key questions about the kind of country we want and how we balance our energy needs with the desire to keep a beautiful and sustainable country
La Rumeur (Hip Hop) @ la bifurk, Grenoble.
La Rumeur se considère comme un groupe de rap underground hardcore, souhaitant se différencier en cela du milieu du rap français qui, en grande partie selon eux, adapte ses textes aux exigences des radios, quitte à perdre son caractère subversif (cf Nous sommes les premiers sur... sur l'album Regain de Tension). Aussi, ils refusent d'atténuer leurs textes pour être diffusés sur des radios commerciales telles Skyrock ou Fun Radio.
La Rumeur et Anfalsh sont assez proches dans leurs rapports aux médias, et dans leur conception du rap. Ils ont d'ailleurs écrit et interprété plusieurs morceaux ensemble. Ils définissent leur rap comme du Rap de Fils d'Immigrés par opposition au rap français.
La Rumeur est proche aussi de certains groupes de rock. Ainsi Serge Teyssot-Gay, guitariste de Noir Désir, apparaît sur deux albums du groupe. De même, Hamé a collaboré avec Casey et le groupe Zone Libre, sur l'album L'Angle mort, qui croise rock expérimental et rap hardcore.
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I thought about making this quickly with a digital, but that would have been a bummer, right?!
So, this is done with my Kiev/Hartblei 60, a Biometar 120/2.8, Fuji Acros and Caffenol. As usual.
Here are some of the shots I consider highlights from the event, the whole gallery, with several images per each fight can be found here : riccardomantero.smugmug.com/Milano-in-the-Cage-2014
Sport and fast action photography aren't exactly my kind of photography really far away from my comfort zone, but I like challenges, a lot. Then, not without concerns, I have accepted the assignment to be one of the official photographers of the international event "Milano In The Cage 2014", one of those with unlimited access to the ring and to the backstage. The sport, based on fighting with mixed martial arts is really hard and spectacular, and offers to a photographer fascinated by any anthropologic manifestation, some interesting opportunities. In the whole human history, fighting has always been considered as a fundamental and dominating part of being human, and, like in this case if well regulated and really fair played, has been a really interesting and stimulating experience. Thanks to the BTF (www.borntofight.biz) organization for the trust and for giving me this opportunity. It was the first time I was shooting such kind of subjects and activity but I think that overall the result isn't bad.
I normally consider wind turbines to be a blot on the landscape but today I viewed things slightly differently thanks to someone who had given a little consideration to the positioning of these turbines.
Will this change my thinking in the future? I doubt it.
Considerado por muitos o "Presépio" da Beira, Penha Garcia situa-se na encosta da Serra com o mesmo nome, ramificação da Serra da Malcata e na margem direita do rio Pônsul.
Do castelo, edificado pelos Templários sobre o castro romano, restam fragmentos de muralhas em bom estado de conservação. A partir daqui, desfruta-se de uma vista sobre toda a campina Raiana, barragem e Vale Feitoso.
from Jubilate Agno
BY CHRISTOPHER SMART
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.
For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him.
For at the first glance of the glory of God in the East he worships in his way.
For this is done by wreathing his body seven times round with elegant quickness.
For then he leaps up to catch the musk, which is the blessing of God upon his prayer.
For he rolls upon prank to work it in.
For having done duty and received blessing he begins to consider himself.
For this he performs in ten degrees.
For first he looks upon his forepaws to see if they are clean.
For secondly he kicks up behind to clear away there.
For thirdly he works it upon stretch with the forepaws extended.
For fourthly he sharpens his paws by wood.
For fifthly he washes himself.
For sixthly he rolls upon wash.
For seventhly he fleas himself, that he may not be interrupted upon the beat.
For eighthly he rubs himself against a post.
For ninthly he looks up for his instructions.
For tenthly he goes in quest of food.
For having consider'd God and himself he will consider his neighbour.
For if he meets another cat he will kiss her in kindness.
For when he takes his prey he plays with it to give it a chance.
For one mouse in seven escapes by his dallying.
For when his day's work is done his business more properly begins.
For he keeps the Lord's watch in the night against the adversary.
For he counteracts the powers of darkness by his electrical skin and glaring eyes.
For he counteracts the Devil, who is death, by brisking about the life.
For in his morning orisons he loves the sun and the sun loves him.
For he is of the tribe of Tiger.
For the Cherub Cat is a term of the Angel Tiger.
For he has the subtlety and hissing of a serpent, which in goodness he suppresses.
For he will not do destruction, if he is well-fed, neither will he spit without provocation.
For he purrs in thankfulness, when God tells him he's a good Cat.
For he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon.
For every house is incomplete without him and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.
For the Lord commanded Moses concerning the cats at the departure of the Children of Israel from Egypt.
For every family had one cat at least in the bag.
For the English Cats are the best in Europe.
For he is the cleanest in the use of his forepaws of any quadruped.
For the dexterity of his defence is an instance of the love of God to him exceedingly.
For he is the quickest to his mark of any creature.
For he is tenacious of his point.
For he is a mixture of gravity and waggery.
For he knows that God is his Saviour.
For there is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest.
For there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion.
For he is of the Lord's poor and so indeed is he called by benevolence perpetually—Poor Jeoffry! poor Jeoffry! the rat has bit thy throat.
For I bless the name of the Lord Jesus that Jeoffry is better.
For the divine spirit comes about his body to sustain it in complete cat.
For his tongue is exceeding pure so that it has in purity what it wants in music.
For he is docile and can learn certain things.
For he can set up with gravity which is patience upon approbation.
For he can fetch and carry, which is patience in employment.
For he can jump over a stick which is patience upon proof positive.
For he can spraggle upon waggle at the word of command.
For he can jump from an eminence into his master's bosom.
For he can catch the cork and toss it again.
For he is hated by the hypocrite and miser.
For the former is afraid of detection.
For the latter refuses the charge.
For he camels his back to bear the first notion of business.
For he is good to think on, if a man would express himself neatly.
For he made a great figure in Egypt for his signal services.
For he killed the Ichneumon-rat very pernicious by land.
For his ears are so acute that they sting again.
For from this proceeds the passing quickness of his attention.
For by stroking of him I have found out electricity.
For I perceived God's light about him both wax and fire.
For the Electrical fire is the spiritual substance, which God sends from heaven to sustain the bodies both of man and beast.
For God has blessed him in the variety of his movements.
For, tho he cannot fly, he is an excellent clamberer.
For his motions upon the face of the earth are more than any other quadruped.
For he can tread to all the measures upon the music.
For he can swim for life.
For he can creep.
I am going to talk about a topic most would consider to be very sensitive and that is pornography. So if you don’t feel comfortable reading about it please stop whenever you like to. Of course I will talk about it from my personal experience. I will try not to focus on porn or talk about it in details, as my goal is not to assist others to indulge in sin but to glorify God for the freedom He has given me. I will start by talking about the photo first.
First of all I want to say that talking about being addicted to porn is not easy. I had considered talking about for some time but didn’t really want to do so. So I decided, like I do often, is to lie down and talk to God and think about why I didn’t want to write about it. The reason was simple: I didn’t want people to have a bad idea about me. The final point was: I wanted to keep my image “clean” like so many of us Christians like to do. However, after some thought I came to this conclusion:
1) I was born a sinner and I am as sinful in my nature as anybody else ever lived on earth, so there is no point in acting like I am better than anybody else.
2) I am who I am because of who I am in Christ, and that’s because of His perfect and finished work on the Cross: His death for my sins. Not because of anything good in me or about me.
3) When I accepted Jesus I basically gave Him ownership over me. In other words, there is no more “my reputation”, “my name”, “my this” and “my that”. Everything belongs to Him now. Of course I thought that I could simply avoid talking about this topic and “act” as if there is something special about me. But the truth is that He is special and I am special only because the Holy Spirit, who is special, lives in me.
4) For Christ to be lifted through me I must be lowered. For Him to be glorified I must tell the world about who I was before Christ.
5) I didn’t want to be a hypocrite! Of course, as we all know, being a hypocrite is much easier than a lot of things in life. (And believe me it is much easier to be a hypocrite than to live the Christian life, but only through living the Christian life we can find true fulfillment in Jesus.) But if I claim that I belong to Christ and that my identity is wrapped up in who I am in Him, a prince and a child of the living and holy One, then I have to act upon this claim. Otherwise I am simply being a hypocrite. I cannot say that my value and worth are in Him, when I value myself in how others see me.
So I will start my story now…
When I was in my teens back home, and I would be taking the bus in the evening sometimes I would look at my hand and be completely amazed by the orange sun light reflecting off of it, especially the amount of details God has put in the skin! And because I like to draw, shadows have always amazed me. Until now I try to emphasize shadows and contrast in my photos. So a couple of days ago I was studying when it was sunset and I looked at my hand and again I loved the amount of details in the skin. So I took few photos and after some editing, I realized this photo can be very fitting to talk about Jesus Christ’s favour in setting us free from sin. So here is my final product. I hope you like it. (Special thanks to Gimp!)
I didn’t soak the hand with orange colour and dark shadows because I want to talk about a light that’s brighter than the sun’s: the light of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. That’s why I kept the light white.
I was not familiar with pornography until I came to Canada, and especially after I bought my first computer. Like so many others I started watching porn because of curiosity. I accepted Jesus in my life before I came to Canada though. Being still an immature Christian, spiritually like a few days old infant, I was an easy prey to Satan’s lies.
Then porn turned to more than just curiosity—it became a habit. Then from a habit it became an addiction. It pretty much consumed hours of my daily life, and all my energy. It cost me a lot in school as my marks dropped dramatically. My relationship with God was reduced to “hi” and “bye”!
I tried to quit many times but I couldn’t. I knew it was wrong but by then it was too strong of an addiction to break free from. I hated it and loved it at the same time. I hated it because it ruined every aspect of my life. I loved it because I was emotionally dependent on it: it was my idol. (For more on Idols you might be interested in reading: www.flickr.com/photos/001fj/2334638980/
Pornography was a very strange affair. I mean, when I went out I tried not to lust after women but when I came home I entertained the worst thoughts for hours! One of the worst things about porn is that it gets worse overtime. You never start at a low level and stay there; you stoop to lower levels because after a while those materials are not satisfying anymore. Can you imagine the helplessness people who are addicted to porn feel? Can you imagine the feeling of entrapment? Can you imagine not only seeing yourself in a very bad situation but also seeing yourself heading toward a worse situation and you are going by your own will simply because you couldn’t resist doing the thing that is hurting you and eventually will destroy you!
It is like standing in a hole and digging it to make it deeper and deeper and deeper.
One summer break I spent it pretty much editing photos using Photoshop and listening to Dr. Charles Stanley. In one sermon he was talking about how God sets us free and the bottom line was that we have to:
1) Realize and admit our situation and helplessness
2) Trust that God can free us
3) Surrender ourselves, lives and hearts to Him
So I tried it. I went to pray and told God all those three points and I meant them—I truly believed and knew that I couldn’t free myself from this sin, and I knew that God was a good God who loved me and cared about me….but, I didn’t know how to surrender! I mean if I was in a war then I could take a piece of white cloth and put it on a stick, raise it up and walk toward the enemy. They would see the white piece of cloth and would know that I am surrendering, but how do you do that spiritually? I mean, it is more than words just as in the scenario of the battlefield above: I have to raise (action word) the stick, and walk (another action word) toward the enemy. But how do you surrender spiritually?
Needless to say after that prayer I went back to pornography as if I had not even prayed it! I knew Dr. Stanley is a godly man so I knew he wouldn’t teach something false, but I simply didn’t know how to apply it. So I kept trying to break free from pornography using all methods I knew from self-control (emphasis on the word “self”; I am not talking about the self-control we have by focusing on Christ and putting Him first in our lives), to using filters to always keeping the windows and door open, etc…nothing worked.
God wasn’t completely silent in those couple of years when I was addicted to porn. I can recall some other time when God completely cut all communication with me until I obeyed Him in a certain matter (thank God He did that!), but that was not the case in those two years. I think God knew that I was helpless against breaking free from porn. He knew I was too young spiritually to abandon me completely to my weakness and leave me completely at Satan’s mercy (as if he has any!)
A particular scary moment was when one night after indulging in sin for hours I stood and planned to go carry out a sinful act. After a couple steps it was as if God slapped me so hard that He woke me up from a nightmare; the only thing is that I was not dreaming--it was real life! I had so foolishly bought Satan’s lies to the degree that I was going to carry them out! I froze and couldn’t move for few seconds because it was as if God had blocked my way. Then I realized that I was basically a slave of Satan if I kept believing what he told me. I was like a zombie having all sense sucked out of me and so dead in my sins.
Nothing can explain God's intervention in that moment better than this song:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_SjhKJgqGg
I also realized that I was not so different from Ted Bundy or any other serial killer and rapist. I was a step away from going that road if it wasn’t for God mercy, grace, love and compassion. I can never be thankful enough for Him for intervening in that moment. We were all born sinners, and according to God holiness that demands divine justice we all deserve the death penalty. That’s why our Lord had to die for our sins to be forgiven. So please, next time you hear about a criminal so “evil” ask yourself those two questions: 1) Can Jesus’ blood forgive all his sin? Yes, or no? 2) Can God change him? Yes, or no? The answer is yes to both questions. (Check this man’s testimony if you like to: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIfQ-aBham4
One time I managed to stay away from pornography for 18 days! I was so happy but when I fell to sin again I was more miserable than ever before! I knew that I couldn’t do better than that. That was about half a year after listening to Dr. Stanley’s message.
So sometime in March of 2003 I went to pray at night. And I basically told God that I had enough and that I wasn’t going to pray anymore. I was ending my relationship with Him! I didn’t know better at the time that He paid a high price to adopt me into His family and He wasn’t just going to let me go! I was so tired of pretending that my religion works when it didn’t! I became a Christian not looking for a religion, but because the God of the Bible was so real I wanted to know Him…I wanted to experience what He did and said He would do. But it was not working! It was also so repulsive to me to come pray to God when I had so disgustingly disobeyed Him! It was like lusting after women all day long then going home and kissing my wife and pretending that everything is “fine”, (by the way, it is NOT “fine” with God and His opinion is the only opinion that matters if not now then later!). I simply couldn’t carry a relationship with a Holy God when I was so steeped into sin. I was crying when I told Him “good-by” because I had really wanted Christianity to work since it was the only faith that held its own claims and its God was so real that it would require more faith for me not to believe in Him than to believe in Him! (How much faith does it take to believe in gravity? None, because we know it exists! That’s the same case with our God.) So I told Him that I don’t care anymore. I give up. I can’t break free from pornography’s hold on me, and He isn’t helping me. So I give up and won’t try to resist porn anymore. I was too tired to try to please a God who wasn’t willing to help me with my burdens.
I don’t remember exactly what day it was that I prayed that prayer but I know it was in the last 10 days of March, 2003. So I stood up and thought that was the end…that all those prayers I had prayed and He answered, the peace He has given me, the joy, and the awesome awareness of His presence I had experienced before…were all things I had imagined.
Next day I didn’t watch porn, and I thought because I was busy with school work. The day after I didn’t watch porn either and I thought because the whole week was a busy week with school work! After a week I realized that I didn’t watch porn for the last week nor did I think about it or desired to watch it! That’s when it hit me: I was free! Hallelujah, Jesus set me free! Christianity works! My wonderful God is real! Everything He did before was real! So I went to pray again, and asked Him what I should do now! He put on my heart to go to www.settingcaptivesfree.com/home/our_courses.php and register! So I did, and went through the online program for 2 months. And I have been free from pornography since that March night until today. I had a friend in high school was struggling with pornography too. He was from Pakistan and when I told him that I was free he didn’t understand how. I couldn’t explain it more to my friend than the blind man, whom our Lord Jesus healed, answered in John 9:25:
He replied, "…One thing I do know. I was blind but now I see!"
It took me a while to realize that the Biblical principle in Dr. Stanley’s sermon works! What I did in that prayer is simply I gave up: surrendered. I stopped trying to do it in my own strength. I stopped trying to fight God’s war for Him. I stopped trying to earn His favour. I stopped trying to win my way according to my timing. I ceased striving.
If you read Gideon’s story, the story Dr. Stanley based his sermon outlines on, you will realize God did the same thing with Gideon and His army. I truly encourage you to read it. You can find it in the book of Judges.
Why did God free me this way? Well there are many reasons, here are some:
1) He wants to bring Himself the glory. If we do it on our own and succeed what does that tell the world about Him? Nothing. Then I could’ve written this whole story without a mention of Him. But the fact is I couldn’t break free from pornography on my own in a million years. It was all His work.
2) He desires to grow our faith. My faith wouldn’t have grown in a God that stands idle while I did everything myself. But now I know He is more than able to do everything He said will do.
3) God wants us to trust Him and know that He can handle His own affairs and wars. It is good to defend God and fight for Him, but we must let Him fight His own battles so the world to know that He is a mighty and powerful God, and that He is real.
Let me ask you some questions: if you are always fighting for your god, protecting it, speaking on its behave, defending it, what makes you think it is a real god? If your god can’t speak, what makes you so convinced it could create your mouth? If your god can’t fight its own battles against evil, what makes you think it can give you victory? If your god can’t defend itself, what makes you think it can protect you?
4) For others to see, hear, believe and come to know Him. If I was able to free myself from porn by myself, how would that draw people to Him?
You can say whatever you want about God. You can say that you don’t like Him. That you don’t believe in Him. You can say that you would rather live your life without Him, and spend eternity in Hell than in Heaven with Him. But you can’t tell me that I was not addicted beyond human hope to pornography and He freed me from it. You can’t tell me that my God isn’t real or that He is dead. You can’t tell me that my God is not powerful, or that He doesn’t love me and cares about me.
I remember a couple of years ago I was waiting for the bus (isn’t it strange how I realize a lot of things while waiting for the bus!), and thought to myself, “What is so horrible about pornography anyway?” (That was a couple of years after God freed me from it!) Then suddenly I had this very empty feeling in my chest when I remembered how spiritually thirsty I was when I was addicted to porn. I remember how horrible it felt to chase after something that does not satisfy and that it leads to more chasing…but it still does not satisfy! Ever since then until now, I would like to think that I have a healthy fear of pornography, and sin in general. (Remember, God created fear to protect us, just like pain. But how we view fear and respond to is what makes the difference between a protective fear and an enslaving fear.) Of course, porn’s destruction is much more than the chasing after something that does not satisfy. But I won’t go into how much it has actually ruined countless lives, because many websites and statistics are available for those who are truly seeking to know the truth about porn’s destructive power.
1 John 4:4 says:
“You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.”
It is sad how many Christians have opinions about sin that are not based on God Word. I read things such as, “It is my motives that count…so even though I do this and that, I do them without lusting…” Really? Where does the Bible teaches that? When our Lord talked about motives he was talking about fasting, praying, and giving to the poor not about sin! You can’t sin with pure motives! It doesn’t make sense! You can fool me, and you can fool your church congregation! But how can you live with yourself knowing that you are lying to yourself! And how are you going to fool God? Rather, how are you going to face Him?
And some Christians even say “it is natural to do so and so”. Yes, you are correct, but since when does the Bible talk about our nature as if it is holy! Our nature is corrupt and sinful, so why do we say “natural” as if it is a good thing! It is natural to get angry and want to get revenge; it is natural to lie when accused of something; it is natural to cheat when we want to get our way…but what does the Bible teach about all those examples of “natural behaviour”? They are all sin and do not fit us as sons and daughters of the living God!
No, I am not talking about people who are addicted to drugs, porn, alcohol, and so on. I am not even talking to the unbelieving world here. I am talking to us, Christians. I truly believe that there is a huge difference between someone who is sinning—because he or she are addicted to a certain sin, regardless of how they got themselves into this mess—but they absolutely hate that sin and want to be free from it, and between someone who knows he is sinning but has no problem with it--welcomes sin in his life.
I am going to say something here that I think will make a lot of people dislike me, but I am going to say it anyway and hope that you take it with an attitude knowing that I am not judging anybody here:
If you are a woman who has Christ in her life, please re-consider the way you dress. Not according to my standards, or the church you attend. Certainly not according to the standards of the latest fashion or to “that is the only thing available in stores nowadays”. Don’t go to someone else asking their opinion or read an article about it. Go directly to God’s Word and ask God directly, and if you are honestly seeking to follow Him He will show you His way. But I must warn you: once He makes His will clear you won’t have peace until you obey Him.
You might be wondering why I am talking about women’s dressing in a topic about porn! Well, men are very visual so they sin by lusting (even women do that, but I am not sure they do so as much as men do) and so porn is a naturally attractive sin to them. Women desire to feel beautiful, desired, wanted and so she tries to meet those need by dressing in a way that attracts men’s attention. And that’s how she gets her momentarily (short-lived: like all the promises Satan makes in regard to sin) emotional high by noticing a man looking at her. But what I want to ask you is this: if you go home and you are all by yourself and have nothing to do, how do you feel: empty, far from your heavenly Father; or peaceful and your heart is flowing with love and adoration for Him?
Causing to Sin, Mark 9:42-50:
"And if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a large millstone tied around his neck. If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, where the fire never goes out. And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell. And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell, where
" 'their worm does not die,
and the fire is not quenched.' Everyone will be salted with fire.
"Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with each other."
If you are a man who has Christ in his life, please take some time, be quiet with God, and think about where you were yesterday spiritually, where you are today, and where you are heading tomorrow! Evaluate your life. Evaluate your ways. Seek to know God better. Make decisions, daily decisions, to live for Him. Live a pure life starting with your heart and mind. Think about your future wife (or present wife), think about your kids. You are going to be the leader of the house who represents Christ to the whole household! Will they see Him through you? Or will your daughters grow up thinking that they have to look beautiful, sexy, and act in certain ways to get a man’s attention and love? Think about God’s awesome and wonderful purpose that He desires to accomplish through you. Think about God’s reputation among the people who know you. Please don’t settle for less. We are not going to be given another chance after this life!
“Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment” (Hebrews 9:27)
If you realize you are sinning against God while you are on your way home then repent right away and seek to follow Him! It is never too late to make a decision to live for Him, even if you just realized that at the end of the day. Daily surrender yourself to Him if that’s what it takes for you to live a pure and blameless life.
I will stop here. All I ask is that if you claim to believe something about God put it into practice. Whether in regard to your identity in Him, your personal agendas vs. His plans and purposes, or if you claim to believe that Christ died for someone else’s sin then why not forgive them? Remember, John 13:17:
“Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.”
What things? The things that are written in God’s Word, and the Holy Spirit reveals to you.
And don't ever lose focus of this fact: all things are done through His goodness, grace and mercy—it, life here on earth and eternal life, is all about Him. However, for Him: it is all about you. It is the "Lord's favour" and not our own works whether in being saved or the power to live for Him: it is all about His grace.
Nothing But the Blood
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(Toronot, ON; winter 2008.)
El templo de Lúxor, situado en el corazón de la antigua Tebas, fue construido esencialmente bajo las dinastías XVIII y XIX egipcias. Estaba consagrado al dios Amón bajo sus dos aspectos de Amón-Ra (Ra, era considerado el dios del cielo, dios del Sol y del origen de la vida en la mitología egipcia). Las partes más antiguas actualmente visibles remontan a Amenhotep III y a Ramsés II. Seguidamente, nuevos elementos fueron añadidos por Shabako, Nectanebo I y la dinastía ptolemaica. En época romana, el templo fue parcialmente transformado en campo militar. El edificio, uno de los mejores conservados del Nuevo Imperio egipcio, aún mantiene numerosas estructuras. Además del gran pilono, el visitante puede también atravesar dos grandes peristilos y la columnata monumental que enlaza estos dos patios. El santuario propiamente dicho, residencia del Amón de Opet, al igual que las salas que conservan una gran parte de sus baldosas.
Forma parte del conjunto denominado Antigua Tebas con sus necrópolis, declarado Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco en 1979.
La construcción fue ordenada por Amenofis III a su arquitecto Amenhotep (hijo de Hapu). Este último edificó un templo completo: naos, santuario de la barca, sala de ofrendas y antecámara, esta última flanqueada de capillas destinadas a la tríada tebana. Todo está precedido de una sala hipóstila abierta a un gran patio cuadrado, el «patio solar», rodeado por tres de sus lados de una doble hilera de sesenta y cuatro columnas papiriformes. Las salas de culto, al igual que la sala hipóstila, se elevan sobre una plataforma con una gran inscripción dedicatoria.
El conjunto, con proporciones imponentes pero armoniosas, fue completado por una columnata procesional de acogida de unos veinte metros, formando un grupo monumental que marcaba la entrada del templo. El programa arquitectónico se ejecutó probablemente en tres fases sucesivas y ocupó todo el reinado.
Como hizo en Karnak para el patio de su padre, Amenhotep III destruyó sin duda un templo más antiguo delante del cual debía encontrarse la capilla edificada por Hatshepsut. De hecho, la estructura interna está en parte constituida con bloques reutilizados provenientes de un edificio anterior. Difícilmente accesibles, estos bloques son todavía visibles en la zonas orientales del templo que fueron modificadas en la época greco-romana. Aquí se ha encontrado cartuchos grabados de Tutmosis IV.
Ejecutado en el más puro estilo de la XVIII dinastía egipcia, el Opet del sur constituye un raro ejemplo de edificio religioso del Nuevo Imperio bien preservado, aunque los muros que rodean las diferentes partes del monumento se hayan derrumbado o sus materiales hayan sido reutilizados en épocas posteriores - lo que nos permite admirar las columnas desde el exterior del monumento.
El templo fue descuidado, incluso maltratado durante el reino del faraón «herético» Akenatón. Los trabajos recomenzaron bajo Tutankamón y Ay, quienes acabaron la decoración de los muros de la columnata procesional, añadiendo especialmente las escenas de la Fiesta de Opet.
Ramsés II, el otro gran constructor en Tebas, añadió el pilono, cuya plaza estaba adornada con seis colosos de Ramsés II, cuatro de pie y dos sentados, todos con su nombre, además de dos obeliscos, y un segundo patio con pórticos, de un estilo típico de la XIX dinastía, con columnas macizas que recuerdan a la sala hipóstila de Karnak. Lo adornará también con estatuas alternando con las columnas. Otros dos colosos sentados, con su imagen, precedían la entrada de la columnata procesional de Amenhotep III.
Para edificar este nuevo patio, el arquitecto de Ramsés tuvo en cuenta la existencia de una triple capilla de Hatshepsut, lo que explica que el eje del monumento esté dirigido hacia Karnak. No se percibe a primera vista, pero es imposible tener desde el pilono una vista axial del templo, ya que la perspectiva está rota. El conjunto está sin embargo muy bien concebido para que esta particularidad no afecte a la armonía de las proporciones; incluso los obeliscos, de medidas diferentes, fueron emplazados desfasados de tal manera que cuando nos situamos frente al pilono, no se note la diferencia.
Los dos obeliscos fueron ofrecidos en 1830 a Carlos X de Francia por Mehemet Ali, pero sólo el de la derecha fue derribado y transportado a Francia. Jean-François Champollion fue quien eligió, por mandato del rey, el primero de los dos obeliscos, en parte cubiertos de arena. La leyenda dice que se decidió por el de la derecha, entrando en el templo, el más pequeño y el más dañado. El obelisco fue erigido con una gran fiesta en París, dónde se erige después de 1836 en el centro de la plaza de la Concordia. En agradecimiento, Luis Felipe I de Francia ofreció un reloj que hoy día adorna la mezquita de Mehemet Ali en el Cairo, pero se estropeó en el camino y nunca funcionó. El segundo obelisco, que nunca salió de Egipto, fue oficialmente «devuelto» por Francia en 1981, al principio del primer mandato de François Mitterrand.
El agrandamiento del templo continuó en el periodo tardío de Egipto. Los faraones nubios de la XXV dinastía añadieron el muro de recinto además de un grupo arquitectónico de columnas formando un ante-patio. El recinto fue reacondicionado o restaurado por Nectanebo II, faraón de la XXX dinastía, al igual que todos los templos de Tebas. Construirían igualmente la avenida de esfinges que unía el templo de Luxor al de Karnak, además de un pequeño templo dedicado a Isis.
Tebas parece haber sido abandonada y maltratada por los conquistadores sirios y persas, y el desarrollo del templo fue abandonado. Alejandro Magno reacondicionó la sala de la barca, haciendo erigir las cuatro columnas que sostenían el techo. Todavía se puede ver el emplazamiento de las bases de estas columnas sobresaliendo de los cimientos de esta capilla. Esta forma, con la capilla que Filipo III de Macedonia hizo construir para el templo de Amón-Ra en Karnak es un ejemplo irreemplazable de arquitectura religiosa de este periodo de transición histórico para la ciudad de Tebas.
De igual manera, desde el comienzo de la época griega, se puede constatar cuanta atención aportaron los primeros monarcas de la nueva dinastía a los santuarios de la ciudad santa.
Finalmente, en la época romana, el templo fue convertido en edificio militar. En esta época, los sacerdotes enterraron piadosamente una serie de imágenes de dioses y reyes en una favissa que habían habilitado en el gran patio solar de Amenhotep III. Estas estatuas, algunas únicas en su género, fueron descubiertas en 1989 y están actualmente expuestas en el museo de Luxor.
En su versión final, el templo de Luxor medía más de 260 metros de largo y 50 de ancho.
El templo de Luxor es el complemento meridional del gran templo de Amón en Karnak, en la medida en que estaba dedicado a la tríada tebana pero, sobre todo, al Ka de la fuerza progenitora del dios dinástico representado bajo el aspecto de Amón-Min. Situados a poco más de dos kilómetros el uno del otro, los dos templos estaban unidos por un dromos bordeado de setecientas esfinges con cabeza de carnero y de estaciones o capillas donde se paraban las barcas de la tríada tebana en la gran Fiesta de Opet. Bajo el reino de Nectanebo I, esta avenida ceremonial fue adornada con esfinges de cara humana (androesfinges) del lado del templo de Luxor. El dromos constituía la articulación principal de la ciudad que la atravesaba de norte a sur, dividiéndola en un barrio occidental que bordeaba el Nilo dónde se encontraba el puerto, los barrios populares y el de los artesanos, y un barrio oriental probablemente más residencial que se extendía entre los grandes templos y contenía numerosos santuarios repartidos a lo largo de las grandes avenidas adoquinadas que cuadriculaban la ciudad.
Construido alrededor del santuario de Amón-Min y de la capilla que acogía la barca sagrada que portaba la efigie de Amón durante su procesión anual. En ella el dios dejaba su residencia en Karnak en compañía de su esposa Mut y su hijo Jonsu, el dios lunar, para ir vía fluvial a Luxor. Allí, el dios alcanzaba su aspecto fértil, como Amón-Min. Entonces, al final de la fiesta que duraba once días originalmente,7 volvía, siempre en compañía de su familia divina, a Karnak, esta vez por el gran dromos. La ceremonia estaba encabezada por el faraón, que presidía también el ciclo de renovación eterno simbolizado por la llegada de la crecida del Nilo.
El templo sufrió las iras del periodo amarniense, ya que era el edificio central que albergaba a la vieja divinidad de Tebas. Los faraones que siguen a Akenatón se dedicaron a atenuar los desperfectos restaurando, algunas veces torpemente, los relieves estropeados, pero el amartillado de los relieves fue tan intenso que todavía son visibles las trazas en los arquitrabes de la gran columnata dónde el nombre y la imagen de Amón habían sido borrados del cartucho de Amenhotep.
El templo de Luxor era un elemento esencial del urbanismo religioso de Tebas además de para la teología amoniense, a tal punto que cuando los faraones de la XXI dinastía eligieron Tanis como nueva capital, quisieron edificar su ciudad con el mismo modelo, previendo en el sur del conjunto un nuevo templo dedicado a Amón de Opet, el cual también estaba unido al templo consagrado a Amón-Ra al norte.
Como los otros santuarios de la ciudad, Luxor recibió atención por parte de los últimos Ptolomeos a quienes podemos atribuir el pequeño templo de Serapis que acoge al visitante que recorre el dromos. Es a partir de la época romana cuando el declive del templo comienza. De hecho, desde los primeros años de la kratesis, una guarnición romana se instala en Luxor. Una capilla en honor de Augusto es habilitada en la habitación del rey divino y, en esta ocasión, el acceso a las salas es modificado, siendo la función inicial de templo transformada irremediablemente. Las puertas axiales son tapiadas y se crea un ábside para albergar la estatua del emperador. Se realizó una nueva decoración en los muros de la sala, añadiendo una capa de estuco pintado con figuras de estilo puramente greco-romano. Estos frescos, que eran visibles hace una decena de años, resisten mal a la subida del nivel freático que amenaza el lugar, haciendo que el estuco se caiga poco a poco, dejando ver los relieves originales de la XVIII dinastía, cubiertos desde hace 2000 años.
En el siglo III, el templo de Luxor es transformado en castrum, albergando la legión encargada de defender los limes situado al sur en Asuán contra los blemios, pueblo nómada. El muro es reconstruido y se añaden puertas fortificadas reutilizando elementos del templo. Se llega incluso a cortar un coloso de Ramsés II para obtener bloques destinados a servir de dintel y de arquitrabes a las puertas que defienden la fortaleza. Una verdadera ciudad de guarnición se desarrolla en el interior del recinto, con sus vías cortándose en ángulo recto y delimitando los barrios o insulae, en los cuales son edificados el Foro romano y basílicas. El templo, convertido en santuario romano, debía entonces albergar las estatuas del culto imperial.
Cuando el imperio romano adopta el cristianismo, se construyen numerosas iglesias en el recinto, una en el patio de Ramsés II. Todavía se puede ver un tabique, constituido de gruesos bloques provenientes sin duda de los muros desmantelados del templo de Amenofis III. Después de la conquista musulmana, se construyó encima de la iglesia una mezquita en honor del santo local, Abu el-Hagag, dónde se conservan sus reliquias.
El templo de Luxor es uno de los más antiguos lugares de culto del mundo. De hecho, se ha realizado diversas prácticas religiosas en este lugar durante más de 3500 años. A varias horas del día, y sobre todo los viernes, la llamada al rezo del muecín resuena entre las columnatas de estas viejas ruinas de Tebas.
The society considers that man folk is higher in status than woman folk. But practically, equal responsibility of duties is shared by both in the field, home and the family affairs. Apatani woman carries out the duties of gathering of both wild and kitchen garden vegetables, cooking, fetching of water, pounding of rice, cleaning of houses, washing of clothes and utensils, nursing and looking after infants and children, preparation of rice beer, ginning and spinning of cotton and other jobs associated with the house hold. In the field, the Apatani woman carries out the tasks like gardening, seedling, transplanting of paddy and millet, padding, weeding of fields and or the activities. In a home managed family incomes internally controlled by a woman.
Actualy, I don't even have one in my room. I prefer spending my time reading, browsing the web or practing some sport or yoga. "I'm not audience for solitude". But I love movies. Indepent and alternative ones, I've got lots of them in DVD.
Since I've taken dozens of shots for week 6, consider this a "week 6 1/2". Credits and mini tutorial on comments. Large on black looks good.
This is specially form my new group: Insolitus Portraiture, a place for exotic portraits. Join us!
Avistar Russia considers the most popular dessert in its country to be a birthday cake. It is the culmination of any celebration. Inspired by de la Prada's "confectionery" collection, on a wave of positive and vivid emotions, Avistar Russia decided to make her own culinary masterpiece using designer finds.
Playing the role of a cake topper in the form of a doll in the LOVE Fashion bodysuit made of sweet fudge, she decorated the outfit with a two-tier SalMoNoF cream skirt. Her playful KUNI hairstyle was crowned with a Lamu Fashion hat made of ice cream with colorful dragees. On her feet were shoes *Epic* made of cream. There are ALB LEONI sugar bears around the neck and **RE** cake decorations on the wrists.
To create a festive atmosphere, Avistar Russia used an arch of bright SuSu balloons. With her culinary masterpiece, she gives everyone present a festive mood.
Hair | KUNI - Fran
Hat | -Lamu Fashion - Funny Ice Cream
Bodysuit | LOVE Fashion - Sweetie
Sleeves | {le fil casse} - Maeve
Skirt | SalMoNoF - TORT
Heels | *Epic* - Lost Sweet
Earrings | Fortuna - Pearl
Necklace | ALB LEONI - bear w sugar
Rings & Bracele | **RE** - Sweety
Nails | [Dreamlight] - "Sweet Candy"
Eyelashes | WarPaint* - Charmed
Eyeshadow | *Eva Store* - Mary
Lipstick | alaskametro<3 - "Cyberspace"
Face stars | Senune - pastel neon
Decoration:
ninety - Popsicle
Happy Bithday - Teddy Bear
[PR] Ground Light Roses & Petals
.:ABEDUL:. Glitter Floor
TIS Hexascan
Pose: *PosESioN* Elruna 5
Place: *VIP Cafe *MaSSoLit*
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“...they do not work or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these! And if this is how God clothes the wild grass, which is here today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven, how much more will he clothe you, you people of little faith!”
-Luke 12:27-28 NET
Yanbaru forest crab
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Look close - the mother caries her young
Kunugami village ,Okinawa
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I recognise some of those megalomaniacal male tendencies you are describing, and why wouldn’t I (DUH!)? I know that ‘lost boy’ behaviour. It’s even attractive until one reaches a certain age, then it slopes off through unfortunate, and heads downhill rather swiftly towards downright tragedy. Applying the brakes at that stage is no party, let me tell you. Sometimes I feel as if I had been worn down up to the knees, a would-be demi-legged, own-trumpet-blowing, Falstaff, (if only those Jesuits had gotten hold of me) but then this isn’t about me. All these men searching for mammies, what can I say other than sorry about my gender, and thank Yahweh that I am a cis-gender homo (can I call myself that anymore?).
I think you can tell that I have arrived at the point that I am at, now, not at all sure what I am, or am not, permitted to call myself. I fear that I, at last, know what and who I am, but I am not at all sure if being that is acceptable in an evolving world. Luckily, we will all be dead soon enough. Now that’s something to really look forward to for the terminally bewildered. I like the idea of ‘A Death’ as the inflection point of this ‘Comedy’ we are constructing. I have that funny death story to tell yet properly. That one where Jeffrey suddenly shot upright, screaming at his parents who were quibbling over what to watch on the TV. He screamed fiercely at them “I’m dying, I get to choose the video!”. It was gloriously well said. I do love the tyranny of the dying. I do love the abject tyranny of the victim (my specialty). Feck it, I will go the whole hog. I do love tyranny. I also love saying ‘Feck’, when everyone understands that you are insinuating another vowel in the place of that ‘e’. I love that feck is proper and Irish, a softening of that blow, like a dropped ‘h’, that sort of softening and lilting.
He chose 'Singing in the Rain' and collapsed back into bed raving madly about having to make three different types of pies to prepare for some party or other in his head.
I did my job. I pressed the button and released more morphine, through the catheter in his chest, awash in the 'poor meeees'.
mea culpa, mea culpa,mea máxima culpa.
Later, I made a drawing about his wonderful, life-affirming, self-assertion. I photographed myself beside it, the drawing that is, but discovered, whilst looking at it later, that I seemed to have disappeared.
I guess that's how things go. (Secretly, I love removing myself (with photoshop), but don't tell anyone).
John: A fine eulogy, full of life.
Ruin: I want to reply to this, a little later. I might even have to go into the third person, to get a little distance from the answer, and what it means. This will be an important part of 'the book'. I am putting this here as a sort of commitment.
Anyway, to start, another extended version of this 'story' begins under this photo (the title in parentheses below) below this. It starts with “I’m dying, I get to choose the video”, about halfway down. But I now want to write something a lot more personal, a lot more 'private' perhaps. So far I have been writing about what I call the 'Wild Geese', a recognised phenomenon in Irish history and culture. Now I want to talk about something a little more close to home, and that's the cuckoo gene. That born out of desperation taking up domicile in the 'nests' of other birds, that type of 'taking over'. I think of it slightly relative to that 'banquet idea' that excess, like a pheasant being stuffed with a quail, and the quail in turn being stuffed with a starling, or any smaller bird, that decadence. Anyway, I want to look at that goose initially stuffed with a cuckoo, that idea of the self as a desperate exploiter, but also looking at it as a survival strategy, a Darwinian ploy, even. I am still brewing it in my head, so it will stutter along.
‘On Universal Innocence and The Forgiveness of Freckles’.
But back to Geese and cuckoos.
‘The Rôti Sans Pareil Is 17 Birds Stuffed Inside Each Other and It Is Delicious’. So ran the headline.
"The recipe calls for a bustard stuffed with a turkey stuffed with a goose stuffed with a pheasant stuffed with a chicken stuffed with a duck stuffed with a guinea fowl stuffed with a teal stuffed with a woodcock stuffed with a partridge stuffed with a..."
There is a sort of madness there, manifesting, perhaps, one of the reasons we don't deserve to be here at all. Not that deserving has anything to do with it anyway.
Chickenman, Wild Geese, and now Cuckoo, this sounds like I am on a type of fowl trajectory. Here's to soaring, or swansonging, or attempting both, even!
John: The cuckoo was a popular metaphor in the 1950s, quite possibly in response to the aftermath of WWII and your revival gives it greater depth. One of the explorations of Bernard Malamud and Saul Bellow was the impossibly undermined reconstruction of male identity, no matter what roots they sought to revive. The cuckoo, with its echo of cuckold, the returners from war rewarded with the ghost of doubt of paternity, puts all into those same murky depths of identity which artists equally embrace or flee. As ancient mythology evidences, we have always had a need to understand and belong. Post-wars and natural disasters our need for the perceived solidity of information is greatly enhanced. Technically, having a family formed of my partner's and her ex's three daughters, I am a cuckoo.
Apart from the actual people (greatly rewarding) I have also wondered if I was defying my sense of unbelonging by consciously electing to be the cuckoo, which, unlike being an artist, is I believe a choice.
Ruin: Yes, that would be true, that returning soldier thing. I would guess it has always been the case, have soldiers not been returning since time immemorial? I didn't make the connection between cuckoo and cuckold, a 'duh!' moment for me. Of course, it is there. I particularly like the cuckold personage. If I was going by the evidence of Reddit, or wherever, cuckolding seems to be enjoying a huge revival in the fetish world currently. I would guess it was all part and parcel of dealing with the diminished, and further diminishing, male, that area of 'twixt and 'tween being generated by an excess of hormone disruptors now in the environment (in plastics and whatever). But I have a whole theory about that relative to the possibility of the human animal evolving from sexual reproduction to bifurcatory splitting, that laboratory-assisted dividing known as cloning, the copying of the self, whilst we are at that point of the Y chromosome being, apparently, at 3% of its former glory. Scientists tell us that it appears to be stable at 3%, but infinity is funny like that relative to stability.
The only place we would differ on here is that "unlike artist", which I am pretty sure we might partially agree on anyway. I don't see making art (or writing, even), any form of communication really, as a 'choice'. I see it both as an instinct and a compulsion, and for the most part a disruptive nuisance, an itch. I would have to fight very hard to resist it, that scratching called art making or communicating. I would have to go totally against my 'natural' self.
But this is something I will continue to work out until I no longer can, compulsively, this awful/wonderful itch. I like writing here, simply because it is immediate communication, and sometimes the feedback like yours is invaluable. There is this idea that writing needs to be done alone, like art, but I don't think that is necessarily 'true'. I think you have to work it out the best way you can, and there are no rules.
When I quote you, should I call you John Seven, or just John? I have been calling you John, but thought I should ask. As in "John: A fine eulogy, full of life." Would you prefer John Seven?
John: Well, I don't know what went wrong with my sentence construction there, as I intended to state that artist is not a choice (nor a guarantee of quality). Now amended. Regarding my name - John used to be the skinhead universal form of address, as in "Y'want bovver Jon?"
It was also, in the the year I was born, the Mohamed, It was also, in the year I was born, the Mohamed, Muhammad, Muhamad, or Mohammad of its day, the most common male name in the world. In its many forms - Ian, Iain, Ifan, Sean, Shaun, Shane, Jens, Jean, Joan, Johan and so on.
I am happy with whatever you choose.
Ruin: I guessed we were on the same page relative to art, or writing, this 'fever' to communicate is uncontrollable. It’s not a choice at all. But I feel the same about this cuckoo behaviour and this catfishing too. I see them both as survival manoeuvres, generated mostly out of desperation. Anyway, that's the point I will be starting from for this 'chapter'. I will be using the text generated here, and pulling it through the pronoun mangle, writing it in the third person, to get some distance, some overview.
Blimey, he realised, his behaviour had been stark raving cuckoo. He found it as difficult to think about as to write about this, but felt in the writing of it, that some liberation might be found there. The working out of it was going to have to be in the present, but there would be references and stories that harked back to his ‘Wild Goose’ history, his wandering, his running away. He knew too that he was going to have to stop playing with words, stop trying to entertain, this was not the way to go. By this he meant that “meself” as opposed to myself, that ‘cod Irish’, that “at all, at all”. That would naturally fall away anyway, as he moved away from childhood, as he learnt to speak, to communicate, even. His leaving Ireland was, in a way, his learning to talk. Before that period, he had been that oft-described stuttering, nervous entity, floundering between church-generated guilt and maintaining his secret—that abuse, that incest, that familial interference that could only serve to completely sunder him from family, and any semblance of security, of a feeling of belonging or of ever having been nurtured. It was nobody’s fault. Those who haven’t been nurtured have no idea how to nurture, and similarly those who have never been protected have no way of knowing how to proffer protection. Both his parents had, in their turn, been abandoned as children. It was all they knew. This was somehow part and parcel of the history of that emerald island, that history of hundreds of years of abuse. That this abuse caused Irish literature to blossom, in that foreign tongue, English, is one of those creative offshoots of abuse, one of those ‘miracles’, as his mother used to say, describing anything good or beneficial, a silver lining around those multi-generational deadening clouds.
He was angry, sad, and excited when he discovered that he had to leave to survive, that he had to give up everything and everyone he had ever known, and set out alone for that pagan land on the other side of the Irish Sea. Looking back, he liked that this cuckoo also described a sort of madness; other than the survival instinct it became somewhat renowned for, it also described that ‘stark raving’ idea, that there had always been this connection we humans make about this misunderstood creature, and its development of certain Darwinian characteristics generated by its struggle to survive.
Stealing somewhat from the title of the book by Mr Foster Wallace (of the multiple footnotes on footnotes), he suspected that he had come to that point where he might, at last, ‘Consider the Cuckoo’.
John: This riffing on a thought, expanding out to discover surprises and similarities is a thing of wonder.
Ruin: It's a bit strange to be working it out in 'real time' here. I am literally working it through in my head as I write it. It becomes a self-justification, of sorts, I guess. I will tie it in, somehow, to the main theme. I am coming out of that chapter which has to do with childhood, and heading towards London, via a year in Liverpool—that age-old Irish route—through Aristophanes' The Birds, from which the expression 'Cloud Cuckoo Land' comes, through Mr Darwin, on the way towards New York, and 'Rack and Ruin'.
But yes, he was heading for ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land’, only inasmuch as it was to be totally unfamiliar; there was the madness there of difference, a way of thinking that was foreign to everything he knew. The old rules just didn’t apply, but there were also new rules to learn.
On Universal Order
Or blessed lack thereof.
Dear Rack,
I suspect we have both had our moments with each other, compassionate and understanding, and the opposite. I have never felt particularly worthy, but that’s a universal, some dreadful leftover from a hideously insecure childhood, neglectful parents, an absent alcoholic father and an abusive uncle—all that palaver, that stuff of amateur melodrama, probably endemic, commonplace even, on that little emerald jewel called ‘home’. The thing is, or the pedestrian tragedy is, that you don’t really realise what you are carrying with you when you set off into the world alone; when you put on your walking shoes, you have no idea what your coping mechanisms are, how skew-whiff they might be relative to a world out there, a place that has most likely generated another type of abuse, a foreign variant, one which you have no experience of at all. It’s not unlike our beloved Omicron, another spiked battering ram, something that you might survive or not.
Yes, it’s the same old same old, those ‘Wild Geese’ setting off, full of youthful energy and dreams of conquest, already weighed down by their own undoing. Compassion was easy for me when we met. You had, apparently, fallen at the first hurdle, or so it seemed. I was very wrong about that. Wrecked Rack was phoenix-like. I didn’t know that then, though that constant re-igniting can work a certain ruin on the old cadaver. I notice a chemical smell in my urine, and I was wondering if you do too. We are now part chemical; a bit like our beloved de Selby’s part bicycle, part human. We have been absorbing chemicals now for decades, and you even two decades more than I have. One cannot help but wonder how they have an effect on our very DNA, our day-to-day thoughts, our moods and our hopes, or despairs. But, butt, chicken butt, as I like to say, I have decided to make their influence positive. We are a hybrid, a new man and woman, a chemically enhanced super-breed of survivors.
How’s that for famous last words?
We are like no one else, though this is true of everyone. Now we have the added input of our screens, our hard-drives and external devices, all brain-enhancers and exploitable. These are our external memories, as that innate ability to remember slopes off, and it’s nothing less than a frigging ‘Universal Superhighway’. Nobody has had that before, though I would question as to whether this is a recurring phenomenon, forgotten but recurring, on an infinite, ever-expanding loop (call me loopy). Heloise and Abelard could have done with a bit of that, but they managed anyway, so how can we not rape and pillage the universe with this magnificent, unimaginable tool at our disposal? The only thing that holds us back is our massive insecurity, and our excuses. But the proffering of these to each other, the unashamed exposing of them, is the beginning of this Knausgaardian ‘struggle’, and we have been doing this for almost 30 years. We have the capacity to cross-germinate, to percolate Sontag’s ‘Camp’ through Knausgaard’s, and the other tyrant’s, ‘Kampf’—that tragedy and camp comedy combined. I would like a little more of that ‘fun’ back, the laughing at the absurdity of it all combined with the realisation of what we wrought, and how blindly reactive it was, and we were.
It would be wonderful to laugh, and scream, together again.
"But I wonder if you share my feeling that to write anything sufficiently accurate and engaging, and actually get it over all the hurdles of publication, and risk the ultimate disappointment of remaindering ... Oh, I could not do it now."
No, I have no intention of 'publishing', or even presenting what I am writing and thinking about, other than on Flickr. I find that I do things in 4-year tranches. The idea is just to sort out some of the mess I made, that cacophony of images I generated whilst trying to understand.
I am looking for where I didn't manage to communicate, although some of it ended up in museums (with appropriate puffing out of chest). A 4-year tranche is a challenge, a challenge because of age and the dragging of another 'fatal' disease along with one through a pandemic. Blissfully, science has intervened yet again, somewhat offering respite, temporarily, from the Horsemen. I got that second AstraZeneca yesterday, but am still jealous of those enjoying the intervention of the mRNA vaccines into the livestream of their DNA. If we are going to be so interfered with in that way, I want to be one of the first on that cutting edge of the glorious new Science religion (that I love)! I would have loved to have been the Musk of death, that space pioneer and not the smell. Although, one appears to have missed that boat, along with many others, for now. But there is an acute awareness of their fetlocks and broomsticks—of those aforementioned Horsemen, that is, and their Woo and Woe.
Publishers, Bookshops, Museums and Galleries are over. Didn't you get the memo?
At the same time, that remainder bin is essential. It is, more or less, where we all end up, the good and the bad, those who write with clarity and those who lick and salve their purple wounds in public.
You know that I love purple, in a hate purple sort of way. Don't start me on Orange.
On considère les mini Ananas en pot comme de la décoration au lieu de les manger comme des fruits. Il propose néanmoins de toutes petites fleurs bleutées. Attention quand même à ne pas se blesser avec les feuilles qui entourent le fruit fleur car celles-ci présentent de nombreuses épines. #Macro #MacroMondays #UnusualPatterns
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Quite a sedate Saturday in Leeds, in preparation for the main event on the Sunday.
Hotel room ready to go out.
Conhecida como Cidade dos Barões, Vassouras tambem é considerada cidade Imperial juntamente com Petropolis, pois parte da Familia Imperial tambem se instalou nesta cidade.
Ela ja foi no seu apogeu historico a maior produra de cafe do mundo, tinha o apelido de "Princesinha do Café", por isto estão em Vassouras 90% de todas as Fazendas utilizadas em produçao de epoca ou não de Novelas, Filmes e Mini Series da Globo , Record e outras produtoras.
O nome Vassouras foi dado em razão de um arbusto que era abundante na região e utilizado para confecção de vassouras. Esta vegetação pertence à família das escrofularíneas e são popularmente conhecidos como “tupeiçaba”, “guaxima” ou "vassourinha de varrer
Basicamente todos os meus primos casaram ou nesta igreja de Vassouras ou na Igreja do Colegio Marista em Mendes que tem um dos interiores de igrejas mais lindos que ja vi...
* Apenas as fotos da segunda sequencia estão ABERTAS, pois já foram publicadas ANTERIORMENTE
Foto: Eu - Me - Alto da Colina da Praça Barão do Campo Belo - Vassouras - Rio de Janeiro
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Conforme a Lei 9.610/98, é proibida a reprodução total e parcial ou divulgação comercial ou não sem a autorização prévia e expressa do autor (artigo 29). ® Todos os direitos reservados.
While I consider myself outdoorsy and would love to go backpacking, sleeping in tents under the stars, that’s just not in the cards for my outdoor time.
I have a chronic illness, and roughing it can unfortunately cause flare ups for me. As hard as it was, I’ve learned to respect my limits and having a van will help me to travel comfortably while giving me peace of mind.
If I do have a flare up while traveling, I now have a comfortable place to rest no matter where we are. I’ve learned to manage my illness quite well and those incidences have become fewer, but no matter how well you travel, it’s always a bit stressful and stress is one of my biggest triggers.
I’m extremely grateful (and, I recognize, privileged), to have this van. While it’s just a thing, it’s something that gives me freedom to satisfy my wanderlust, have new adventures, and create memories with Mike.
Unrelated note- our old van had an outdoor shower, but it was stored inside the back door & was a pain to get out. We never used it because of that. This van has it on the driver’s side (the panel next to the door) and it’ll come in handy when we need to clean off dirty things. It’s much better quality and a breeze to get out. Quite nice!
Integratore di Ginkgo Biloba
Il Ginkgo biloba è uno degli alberi più antichi del pianeta. Il Ginkgo è considerato un "fossile vivente", nel senso che ha continuato a sopravvivere anche dopo grandi eventi di estinzione.
Gli alberi di Ginkgo hanno proprietà molto particolari: sono in grado di crescere più di 130 piedi e possono vivere per più di mille anni. In realtà, in Cina ci sono alcuni esemplari che hanno più di 2500 anni.
Il suo estratto ha molte proprietà terapeutiche e contiene alti livelli di flavonoidi e terpenoidi, antiossidanti che assicurano una protezione contro lo stress ossidativo causato dai radicali liberi.
Negli ultimi anni, gli integratori di Ginkgo sono diventati sempre più popolari: attualmente sono tra i fitoterapici più venduti. L'estratto di Ginkgo biloba (GBE) viene raccolto dalle foglie verdi essiccate della pianta ed è disponibile come estratti liquidi, capsule, e compresse.
Le foglie secche della pianta possono essere utilizzate anche per fare il tè.
Il Ginkgo è stato utilizzato ed è ancora usato per una grande quantità di problemi di salute e di malattie. Le sue proprietà principali sono il suo utilizzo come antibatterico, antimicotico, antiossidante, antitosse, espettorante, astringente, stimolante circolatorio, ringiovanente e sedativo.
L'effetto più apprezzato del Ginkgo è quello sul sistema circolatorio. I flavonoidi del Ginkgo dilatano direttamente il più piccolo segmento del sistema circolatorio, i capillari, che aumentano i livelli di circolazione del sangue e di ossigeno nel corpo. Questo è uno dei motivi principali per cui è così efficace in alcuni disturbi. Il Ginkgo contiene anche componenti che inibiscono attività di fattore piastrinico (PAF), che è un costituente del nostro corpo. Lo stress fisico, e la cattiva alimentazione possono però stimolare maggiormente la produzione di PAF; in altre parole la coagulazione del sangue. Le piastrine diventano eccessivamente adesive causando la loro aggregazione. Il coagulo così formato può rimanere attaccato al vaso sanguigno o staccarsi e rimanere in circolo fintanto che non incontrano un vaso troppo stretto attraverso cui non può passare. La coagulazione del sangue può essere responsabile di una grande varietà di malattie devastanti.
Il Ginkgo agisce in modo simile all'aspirina riducendo la viscosità del sangue.
Qui di seguito ci sono diversi casi in cui il Ginkgo biloba è stato efficace in alcuni problemi di salute e malattie.
Il Ginkgo biloba è molto ricercato per le sue proprietà medicinali e la capacità di migliorare il funzionamento della mente.
Per capire il motivo per cui il Ginkgo è efficace nel trattamento di queste malattie, dobbiamo prima capire che cosa provoca la malattia. Pertanto, ogni malattia sarà seguita da una breve descrizione della causa e poi una spiegazione di come e perché il Ginkgo è efficace.
Il Ginkgo biloba è molto ricercato per le sue proprietà medicinali e la capacità di migliorare le capacità mentali. Nelle malattie degenerative legate all'età come l'Alzheimer, oltre a migliorare le attività mentali semplici è in grado di supportare la memoria a breve termine.
La malattia di Alzheimer
La malattia di Alzheimer è una malattia neurodegenerativa che si manifesta con un progressivo deterioramento mentale, perdita di memoria e declino delle funzioni cognitive, e l'incapacità di portare a termine le attività della vita quotidiana. Questi sintomi sono spesso indicati come demenza. Negli Stati Uniti, il 5% della popolazione di età superiore ai sessantacinque anni soffre di demenza grave, mentre un altro 10% della popolazione soffre di demenza da lieve a moderata. Anche se ci sono molti studi sulla causa dellla malattia di Alzheimer, ce ne sono principalmente due che sono trattabili con il Ginkgo: i danni causati dai radicali liberi e il danno ossidativo. Grazie alle sue proprietà antiossidanti il Ginkgo migliora la circolazione sanguigna e aumenta i livelli di ossigeno nei tessuti cerebrali. Questi antiossidanti fungono da scavenger e combattono i radicali liberi (sostanze chimiche altamente reattive che attaccano le molecole cruciali per la funzione delle cellule causando danni nel cervello e in altri tessuti). Questo risulta in una aumentata longevità cellulare e in una migliore stabilità della membrana. Inoltre, aumenta il metabolismo e regola i neurotrasmettitori che sono direttamente correlati alla funzione cerebrale. Altri effetti sono stati dimostrati in uno studio in doppio cieco con EEG (test utilizzato per rilevare e registrare l'attività elettrica generata dal cervello). Questo studio ha dimostrato che il Ginkgo aumenta le onde alfa (associate alla prontezza mentale) e diminuisce le onde theta (correlate alla mancanza di attenzione) negli anziani che mostravano segni di deterioramento mentale. Altri studi hanno dimostrato che l'estratto di Ginkgo non solo è in grado di aumentare la capacità funzionale del cervello, ma normalizza anche i recettori nell'ippocampo (la zona del cervello più colpita dalla malattia di Alzheimer) e aumenta la trasmissione colinergica, deficitaria nell'Alzheimer.
L'efficacia clinica dell'estratto di Ginkgo EGb 761 in caso di demenza come l'Alzheimer è stata confermata in uno studio pubblicato sulla rivista Pharmacopsychiatry (Kanowski S et al., Proof of efficacy of the ginkgo biloba special extract EGb 761 in outpatients suffering from mild to moderate primary degenerative dementia of the Alzheimer type or multi-infarct dementia. Pharmacopsychiatry. 1996 Mar;29(2):47-56.)
-Un altro studio, pubblicato su JAMA, allo stesso modo ha scoperto che EGb 761 "era sicuro e sembra in grado di stabilizzare e, in un numero considerevole di casi, migliorare le prestazioni cognitive e la socializzazione dei pazienti affetti da demenza da 6 mesi a 1 anno.".
(Le Bars PL et al. A placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomized trial of an extract of Ginkgo biloba for dementia. North American EGb Study Group, JAMA 1997 Oct 22-29;278(16):1327-32.)
Miglioramento cognitivo e della memoria
Dal momento che il Ginkgo aumenta il flusso di ossigeno al cervello, aumenta l'assorbimento e l'utilizzo di glucosio (stimolando il metabolismo del cervello e l'energia), è anche oggetto di ricerca per il suo ruolo nella senilità, nella perdita di memoria, mal di testa, e nel miglioramento delle prestazioni mentali.
Hindmarch (1988) ha riferito sugli effetti della somministrazione orale di un estratto standardizzato di Ginkgo biloba (GBE) sulla memoria a breve termine di giovani volontari sani di età 25-40 anni. In uno studio in doppio cieco cross-over, Hindmarch ha scoperto che, un'ora dopo una singola dose orale di 600 mg di GBE, parametri di memoria a breve-termine sono risultati significativamente migliorati rispetto ai controlli. Secondo Hindmarch, i test indicano una specifica attività sui processi cognitivi centrali e propone l'uso di GBE nei casi di deficit di memoria.
Il Ginkgo è spesso aggiunto a frullati di frutta e altri snack sani al fine di raggiungere risultati come migliorare le capacità cognitive e la memoria.
Malattia vascolare o claudicatio intermittens
Le malattie vascolari si riferiscono alle malattie dei vasi sanguigni al di fuori del cuore e del cervello. Ci si riferisce spesso ad un restringimento dei vasi che portano il sangue alle gambe, allo stomaco, alle braccia o ai reni. A causa del restringimento dei vasi il flusso di sangue alle gambe diminuisce e la malattia altera la capacità di camminare causando un forte dolore alle gambe.
La claudicazione intermittente è simile alla malattia vascolare in quanto anche essa è causata da insufficiente flusso di sangue (e quindi di apporto di ossigeno) ai muscoli delle gambe. Essa si verifica comunemente durante l'esercizio fisico o stando in piedi. I sintomi sono dolore alle gambe, crampi muscolari e zoppia. Il semplice compito di camminare diventa insopportabile per alcuni.
A causa delle stesse proprietà antiossidanti che aiutano con le funzioni cerebrali, il ginkgo sembra offrire la stessa protezione dai disturbi vascolari. Aumenta il flusso di sangue, aiuta l'ossigeno ad essere distribuito più efficacemente dai vasi sanguigni al tessuto muscolare. Aiuta a mantenere l'integrità e la permeabilità delle pareti cellulari inibendo la perossidazione lipidica (lipidi che si rompono e formano radicali liberi). Migliora anche il tono e il nutrimento dei vasi sanguigni.
Anche altri disturbi della circolazione possono essere trattati con Ginkgo quali emorroidi, vene varicose, problemi di circolazione causati da ictus o trauma cranico.
Depressione e ansia
Una mente efficiente è molto importante nel controllo dell'umore e nei livelli di serotonina. La serotonina è un neurotrasmettitore chimico del cervello che controlla le emozioni, il comportamento e il pensiero.
Il Ginkgo può contribuire ad alleviare i sintomi dell'ansia.
Uno studio, pubblicato sul Journal of Psychiatric Research, ha evidenziato che le persone con disturbo d'ansia generalizzato che hanno assunto l'estratto di Ginkgo hanno sperimentato un maggior sollievo dall'ansia rispetto ai soggetti trattati con placebo.
(Woelk H et al., Ginkgo biloba special extract EGb 761 in generalized anxiety disorder and adjustment disorder with anxious mood: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. J Psychiatr Res. 2007 Sep;41(6):472-80. Epub 2006 Jun 30.)
Tinnitus
Negli Stati Uniti, si stima che 17 milioni di persone hanno o hanno avuto acufeni. L'acufene non è una malattia, si tratta di un sintomo di danni al sistema nervoso e di alcuni disturbi dei vasi sanguigni. Si crea la percezione di un suono, sibilo, o fischio nelle orecchie o nella testa quando nessun suono esterno è presente. Nel 1986, Christopher Hobbs ha dimostrato l'efficacia del Ginkgo come trattamento per gli acufeni. Il fischio è scomparso nel 35% dei pazienti testati, con un netto miglioramento in settanta giorni. Molti pazienti che assumono Ginkgo per l'acufene, sostengono che è poco costoso rispetto ad altri trattamenti disponibili e che ci sono pochi effetti collaterali.
Oftalmologia, glaucoma, cataratta e degenerazione maculare
L'assunzione regolare di ginkgo aiuta a migliorare la vista ed è in grado di proteggere gli occhi da una grave patologia oculare.
Il glaucoma è un termine usato per descrivere un gruppo di patologie oculari che coinvolgono di solito un aumento della pressione all'interno del bulbo oculare. Può essere correlato al danno del nervo ottico e della retina. Il glaucoma è solitamente una condizione che sopraggiunge con l'avanzare dell'età e può addirittura causare cecità.
Le cataratte sono definite come un appannamento o oscuramento della lente nell'occhio provocando visione sfocata, offuscata o distorta. È una condizione naturale negli anziani, ma può anche essere causato da sovraesposizione ai raggi ultravioletti.
La degenerazione maculare è un'anomalia di afflusso di sangue alla macula, cioè la parte dell'occhio sensibile alla luce. Come risultato, il deterioramento della macula avviene causando una perdita della visione centrale.
I flavonoidi contenuti nel Ginkgo aiutano a fluidificare il sangue: i globuli rossi possono muoversi con più facilità all'interno del torrente ematico e attraverso i sottili capillari, aumentando così l'apporto di sangue ai capillari retinici. Questo può rallentare il deterioramento della retina, che si traduce in un aumento di acuità visiva. Gli antiossidanti presenti nel ginkgo hanno anche una funzione di protezione per gli occhi.
Anti-impotenza
Questo è un altro malfunzionamento del corpo causato da insufficiente flusso di ossigeno nel sangue e aterosclerosi (indurimento e ostruzione delle arterie) del pene.
Ci sono stati diversi studi negli ultimi 15 anni per studiare gli effetti del Ginkgo su questo disturbo. Ad esempio, nel 1991, uno studio pubblicato sul Journal of Sex Education and Therapy ha valutato l'effetto dell'estratto di foglie di Ginkgo nel trattamento della disfunzione erettile in cinquanta pazienti. Gli uomini con diagnosi di impotenza erettile arteriosa hanno ricevuto 240 mg di estratto di foglie di ginkgo al giorno per un periodo di nove mesi. I pazienti sono stati divisi in due gruppi in base alla loro risposta alle terapie convenzionali. Nel primo gruppo di 20 pazienti erano state precedentemente sperimentate con successo terapie farmacologiche convenzionali. Il secondo gruppo (30 uomini) non aveva raggiunto l'erezione dopo le terapie convenzionali. In seguito al trattamento con l'estratto di foglie di ginkgo, tutti i pazienti del primo gruppo hanno riguadagnato piena, sufficiente, e spontanea erezione dopo sei mesi di trattamento. Il miglioramento è proseguito durante il periodo di trattamento di nove mesi. Nel secondo gruppo 19 su 30 pazienti hanno risposto positivamente al trattamento, mentre 11 sono rimasti impotenti. Nessun effetto collaterale è stati riportato nello studio. Questo era solo il secondo studio pubblicato sull'uso di estratti di foglie di ginkgo nel trattamento dell'impotenza. (Sohn, M. and Sikora, R. Ginkgo biloba extract in the therapy of erectile dysfunction. J. Se Educ. Ther. 17:53-61, 1991)
In un altro studio, esami ecografici di 60 uomini impotenti trattati con Ginkgo biloba hanno mostrato un miglioramento della circolazione sanguigna del pene dopo appena sei settimane. Dopo sei mesi, il 50% dei pazienti aveva riacquistato la potenza sessuale. Gli studiosi continuano a proporre il Ginkgo per il trattamento dell'impotenza con risultati soddisfacenti.
Migliora l'asma
L'asma è una malattia polmonare, che può provocare affanno e difficoltà di respirazione. Di solito è di origine allergica.
Il Ginkgo è stato utilizzato per trattare l'asma in Cina da molto tempo. Il Ginkgo inibisce l'attività degli eosinofili (un tipo di globuli bianchi attivi nella lotta contro i parassiti e le allergie); un'azione attribuita al Ginkgolide B. sembra alleviare gli spasmi delle vie respiratorie e dispnea associati a questa malattia polmonare. In uno studio condotto in Belgio, 6 su 10 bambini con asma severa hanno ottenuto sensibili miglioramenti entro i primi 3 o 4 giorni di assunzione di Ginkgo. Altri 3 in questo stesso gruppo hanno fatto enormi progressi, ma sono ancora necessarie altre terapie.
Il Ginkgo è raccomandato per il trattamento dell'asma, ma non nel caso di un attacco acuto.
Riduce il rischio di infarto o ictus
Un attacco di cuore è la morte del muscolo cardiaco a causa di mancato afflusso di sangue. Il mancato afflusso di sangue è di solito causato da blocco completo di un'arteria coronaria, che porta il sangue al cuore. Un attacco di cuore è spesso fatale.
Inibendo la formazione di coaguli di sangue causati dall'aggregazione dalle piastrine, e aumentando il flusso sanguigno e l'ossigenazione generale, il Ginkgo è una pianta ideale per la prevenzione e il trattamento di un attacco di cuore. Il Ginkgo non è consigliato per fermare un attacco cardiaco acuto, ma come trattamento preventivo.
Un ictus si verifica quando un'arteria nel cervello si blocca o quando si rompe vaso sanguigno, interrompendo il flusso di sangue in un'area del cervello. Quando si verifica un ictus, le cellule cerebrali nella zona circostante muoiono per il mancato apporto di ossigeno. Queste cellule cerebrali possono controllare funzioni differenti, come il movimento di un arto o il linguaggio. Quando queste cellule nervose si danneggiano, si perde la funzione che svolgevano.
Inibendo la formazione di coaguli di sangue dovuta all'aggregazione delle piastrine e aumentando il flusso sanguigno e l'ossigenazione generale, il Ginkgo è una pianta ideale per prevenire e curare infarto e ictus. Il Ginkgo non è consigliato per fermare un ictus, ma per prevenirne la comparsa.
Altre e nuove scoperte
Grazie all'utilizzo di Ginkgo biloba, recentemente sono state scoperte nuove funzioni. Altre malattie sono attualmente oggetto di studio con Ginkgo biloba: ad esempio la Vitilgo, una comune malattia auto-immune della pelle, la protezione dal danno cerebrale indotto dal telefono cellulare, azione anti-age, miglioramento dei comportamenti sociali, e prevenzione del rigetto di organi trapiantati.
Storia del Ginkgo biloba
Il Missouri Botanical Garden sostiene che il Ginkgo biloba è "l'unico membro ancora esistente di un gruppo di piante antiche che si ritiene abbiano abitato la terra, da 150 milioni di anni fa."
Introdotti molto presto nella storia umana, gli alberi sono stati originariamente coltivati come una medicina tradizionale.
Il Ginkgo biloba è stato utilizzato per le sue proprietà medicinali nella Cina antica. I cinesi hanno utilizzato il ginkgo per i suoi benefici effetti cognitivi e per alleviare i sintomi dell'asma.
Il Ginkgo biloba in Occidente
Engelbert Kaempfer fu il primo europeo a scoprire il Ginkgo, verso la fine del 1600. Nel 1771 Linneo finalmente da il nome all'albero di Ginkgo Biloba che si traduce in "pennacchio d'argento con due lobi."
Nel 1784 il Ginkgo è stato portato in America per il giardino di William Hamilton.
Interazioni farmacologiche del Ginkgo biloba
I pazienti con disturbi della circolazione sanguigna o individui in trattamento con anticoagulanti, come l'aspirina, sono a rischio di sperimentare effetti indesiderati dopo l'assunzione di ginkgo.
Inoltre, se si assumono antidepressivi si consiglia vivamente di non prendere il Ginkgo in quanto inibisce la monoamino ossidasi, riducendo l'efficacia dei farmaci (come gli inibitori della ricaptazione della serotonina e gli inibitori della monoamino ossidasi).
Possibili effetti collaterali del ginkgo biloba:
Nausea
Diarrea
Vertigini
Mal di testa
Mal di stomaco
Irrequietezza
Vomito.
Precauzioni d'uso del Ginkgo biloba
Le foglie di ginkgo contengono alchilfenoli a catena lunga, che sono altamente allergenici. Pertanto si consiglia alle persone che sono allergiche agli alchilfenoli e alle piante di edera di evitare completamente di assumere il ginkgo. www.b2s.pm/xih73T
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Basílica da Sagrada Família
Texto, em português, da Wikipédia, a enciclopédia livre:
Templo Expiatório da Sagrada Família
Templo Expiatório da Sagrada Família, e também conhecido simplesmente como Sagrada Família, é um grande templo católico da cidade catalã de Barcelona (Espanha), desenhado pelo arquiteto catalão Antoni Gaudí, e considerado por muitos críticos como a sua obra-prima e expoente da arquitetura modernista catalã. Financiado unicamente por contribuições privadas , o projeto foi iniciado em 1882 e assumido por Gaudí em 1883, quando tinha 31 anos de idade, dedicando-lhe os seus últimos 40 anos de vida, os últimos quinze de forma exclusiva. A construção foi suspensa em 1936 devido à Guerra Civil Espanhola e não se estima a conclusão para antes de 2026, centenário da morte de Gaudí.
A construção começou em estilo neogótico, mas o projeto foi reformulado completamente por Gaudí ao assumi-lo. O templo foi projetado para ter três grandes fachadas: a Fachada da Natividade, quase terminada com Gaudí ainda em vida, a Fachada da Paixão, iniciada em 1952, e a Fachada da Glória, ainda por completar. Segundo o seu proceder habitual, a partir de esboços gerais do edifício Gaudí improvisou a construção à medida que esta avançava. O templo, quando estiver terminado, disporá de 18 torres : quatro em cada uma das três entradas-portais, a jeito de cúpulas; irá ter um sistema de seis torres, com a torre do zimbório central dedicada a Jesus Cristo, de 170 metros de altura, outras quatro ao redor desta, dedicadas aos evangelistas, e um segundo zimbório dedicado à Virgem. O interior estará formado por inovadoras colunas arborescentes inclinadas e abóbadas baseadas em hiperboloides e paraboloides buscando a forma ótima da catenária. Estima-se que poderá levar no seu coro 1500 cantores, 700 crianças e cinco órgãos. Em 1926, ano em que faleceu Gaudí, apenas estava construída uma torre. Do projeto do edifício só ficaram planos e um modelo em gesso que resultou muito danificado durante a Guerra Civil Espanhola. Desde então prosseguiram as obras: atualmente (2015) estão terminados os portais da Natividade e da Paixão, e foi iniciado o da Glória, estando em construção as abóbadas interiores.
A obra que realizou Gaudí - a fachada da Natividade e a cripta - foi incluída pela UNESCO em 2005 no Sítio do Patrimônio Mundial com o título «Obras de Antoni Gaudí».
História
O propósito de construir um templo expiatório dedicado à Sagrada Família em uns novos terrenos do Eixample barcelonês foi do livreiro Josep Maria Bocabella, para o que fundou a Associação de Devotos de São José. Para isso foi adquirido um quarteirão inteiro do Eixample num lugar conhecido como El Poblet, perto do Camp de l'Arpa, em Sant Martí de Provençals, entre as ruas Provença, Maiorca, Marina e Sardenya.
O projeto foi entregue em primeiro lugar a Francisco de Paula del Villar y Lozano, que propôs um conjunto neogótico, recusando a sugestão de Bocabella de fazer uma réplica do Santuário da Santa Casa de Loreto . O projeto de Villar consistia numa igreja de três naves, com os elementos típicos do gótico, como os vitrais alveolados, os contrafortes exteriores e um alto campanário em forma de agulha. A primeira pedra foi colocada a 19 de Março de 1882, dia de São José, com a presença do então bispo de Barcelona José María Urquinaona. Gaudí assistiu à cerimônia, já que tinha trabalhado como ajudante de Villar em vários projetos. As obras não se iniciaram até 25 de Agosto de 1883, sendo adjudicadas ao empreiteiro Macari Planella i Roura.
Em 1883, Villar renunciou por desavenças com Joan Martorell, arquiteto assessor de Bocabella. O projeto foi oferecido ao próprio Martorell, mas, ao recusar, este foi oferecido a um jovem Gaudí de 31 anos; Gaudí fora ajudante de Martorell em várias construções, fato que motivara a recomendação de Gaudí, que ainda não executara grandes obras. Ao encarregar-se Gaudí do projeto, modificou-o por inteiro - salvo a parte já construída da cripta -, imprimindo-lhe o seu estilo peculiar. Durante os remanescentes 43 anos da sua vida trabalhou intensamente na obra, os últimos 15 anos de forma exclusiva. Esta dedicação tão intensa tem a sua explicação, para além da magnitude da obra, pela circunstância de Gaudí definir muitos aspetos à medida que a construção avançava, em lugar de os ter concretizado previamente nos seus planos e instruções. Por isso a sua presença pessoal na obra era de grande importância.
Durante a vida de Gaudí somente foi feita a fachada da Natividade , com escultura de Carles Mani, Llorenç Matamala e Joan Matamala, contando com os desenhos de Ricard Opisso; Gaudí apenas chegou a ver coroada a torre de São Barnabé antes do seu falecimento. À morte de Gaudí encarregou-se das obras o seu ajudante Domènec Sugrañes, durante os anos 1926-1936, acabando as três torres que ficavam na fachada da Natividade.
Durante a Guerra Civil Espanhola ficou destruída na sua maior parte a oficina na qual Gaudí trabalhara, e onde se encontravam os seus croquis, maquetes e modelos . Por esta causa e pela particular maneira de trabalhar Gaudí, não ficaram planos nem diretrizes a respeito de como devia terminar-se o templo. Portanto, quando em 1944 prosseguiu a construção da Sagrada Família, teve de definir-se em primeiro lugar como devia proceder-se, para edificar o templo da forma mais fiel aos princípios de Gaudí.
À frente desta gigantesca tarefa estiveram os arquitetos Francesc Quintana, Isidre Puig i Boada e Lluís Bonet i Garí, enquanto da obra escultórica se encarregou Jaume Busquets. Posteriormente, quando se construiu a fachada da Paixão, o conjunto principal das figuras escultóricas foi encarregado a Josep Maria Subirachs . As obras deste último originaram certa polêmica, devido a ter criado esculturas totalmente contemporâneas afastadas do estilo realista que Gaudí incluiu na fachada da Natividade. O escultor japonês Etsuro Sotoo colaborou em algumas esculturas da fachada da Natividade . Desde 1987 que as obras estão sob a direção do arquiteto Jordi Bonet i Armengol.
Projeto de praça estrelada para a Sagrada Família (1916).
Um dos pontos que suscitou maior controvérsia em relação ao templo é a sua situação no tecido urbanístico de Barcelona: quando começaram as obras encontrava-se num descampado, mas rapidamente ficou integrado no rápido desenvolvimento da cidade em princípios do século XX. Em 1905 Gaudí realizou um projeto para englobar a Sagrada Família dentro do Plano Jaussely, o novo projeto de alargamento barcelonês: concebeu situar o templo dentro de uma zona ajardinada em forma de estrela octogonal, que teria proporcionado uma excelente visão do templo a partir de todas as zonas circundantes. Finalmente, devido ao custo dos terrenos, reduziu o projeto a uma estrela de quatro pontas, que permitia uma ampla visão de todos os vértices. Contudo, o plano de Gaudí não se levou a cabo: em 1975 o Município de Barcelona realizou um estudo urbanístico que previa reabilitar uma zona em forma de cruz em torno da Sagrada Família, com quatro praças ajardinadas em cada extremo do templo ; mesmo assim, atualmente existem apenas duas destas praças, e a criação das novos espaços implicaria demolir vários edifícios, pelo qual ainda se estuda a solução ideal para enquadrar a Sagrada Família numa envolvente apropriada.
O Templo da Sagrada Família teve vários eventos destacados: em 1920 celebrou-se o Ano Jubilar de São José com procissões, peregrinações e missas, e cantou-se o Aleluia de O Messias de Händel por mil cantores de orfeões vindos de toda a Catalunha, dirigidos por Lluís Millet. Em 1953, por ocasião do 35º Congresso Eucarístico Internacional celebrado em Barcelona, foi inaugurada a iluminação artística da fachada da Natividade. Em 1981 abriu-se a praça Gaudí frente à Sagrada Família, com um projeto de jardins de Nicolau Maria Rubió i Tudurí, onde se destaca o tanque, em cujas águas fica refletido o templo. Ao ano seguinte, por ocasião do centenário da colocação da primeira pedra, o templo recebeu a visita do Papa João Paulo II. Igualmente, a 18 de Março de 2007 foi comemorado o 125.º aniversário da colocação da primeira pedra do templo com uma festa, concertos e bailando uma sardana em redor de todo o templo. O templo é palco habitual de numerosos atos culturais e encontros religiosos.
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The basilica Sagrada Familia
Antoni Gaudí's life work is an UNESCO world heritage
The Sagrada Familia is one of the most famous landmarks in Barcelona. Since 1882 it was built at the church in the district Eixample built. From 1883 the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí took over the leadership of the works until his death in 1926. The building is significantly influenced by him. The church is such a huge size, so they often referred it as "cathedral", but without having a bishop's seat. Pope Benedict XVI. inaugurates the Sagrada Familia on November 7, 2010. The church building is raised to a basilica.
Much time should allow for the visit of the details of the facades, where many embassies and biblical stories are hidden.
With the completion in 2026 expected, the construction is financed solely from donations and ticket money. Currently, 8 out of 12 about 100 meters tall bell towers are completed. The higher towers of the facade of the glory will be built and the central dome with a height of over 170 meters. Currently, part of the cloister is the building of the apse dome.
The start of construction of the Sagrada Familia.
Mid-19th Century the booksellers José María Boca Bella , Chairman of the Holy Brotherhood, planned a church in Barcelona to build and to devote the Holy Family ( "Sagrada Familia"). The land he choose was a parcel within the "Poblet (village). He preferred a fundamental step closer to the city centre out. Because of the already high land prices this was not possible.
The planning of the church began with the architect of the Diocese Francisco del Villar. He designed a church in Gothic style and began in 1882 with the construction of the crypt. Because of fundamental disagreements with Boca Bella he had to resign from his job. A few months later in 1883, the young architect Antoni Gaudí took over his work.
Gaudí took place in the Sagrada Familia his life's work. He worked until his death on 10th June 1926.
Under Gaudí the church won because of their extensive dimension and its lush design with such importance that they soon called it "the Cathedral". Also Gaudí even called it, although they do not house a bishop. He was convinced that one day the city would be known as "his" church.
Gaudí shaped espacially the Sagrada Familia . Many new parts are built according to plans, which are hardly ever received and often depend on assumptions as the great architect had originally planned. Of course everyone is sure of one thing: the Church Sagrada family in case of completion in respect to all previously built churches of Christendom will surpass all in greatness.
As a church, the Sagrada Familia should not only be seen in the artistic point of view. It must be the consideration of building facades with its towers and even religion.
Tips for visiting the Sagrada Familia.
The Sagrada Familia is the most visited monument in Spain. At peak times therefore sometimes one can queue in front of the house and cash in on the elevators of the towers which go up, on the other. The largest are the queues in the late morning. So if you dont want to stay in the queue, use the time to the cathedral from a distance, the two places right and left of the Sagrada Familia from them.
On the rear lifts, in the towers of the facade of the birth of Christ which goes up, the queue is much shorter. Do not return to down the lifts, use the stairs. Only then do you see the absolutely stunning spiral staircase.
Basílica da Sagrada Família
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Templo Expiatório da Sagrada Família
Templo Expiatório da Sagrada Família, e também conhecido simplesmente como Sagrada Família, é um grande templo católico da cidade catalã de Barcelona (Espanha), desenhado pelo arquiteto catalão Antoni Gaudí, e considerado por muitos críticos como a sua obra-prima e expoente da arquitetura modernista catalã. Financiado unicamente por contribuições privadas , o projeto foi iniciado em 1882 e assumido por Gaudí em 1883, quando tinha 31 anos de idade, dedicando-lhe os seus últimos 40 anos de vida, os últimos quinze de forma exclusiva. A construção foi suspensa em 1936 devido à Guerra Civil Espanhola e não se estima a conclusão para antes de 2026, centenário da morte de Gaudí.
A construção começou em estilo neogótico, mas o projeto foi reformulado completamente por Gaudí ao assumi-lo. O templo foi projetado para ter três grandes fachadas: a Fachada da Natividade, quase terminada com Gaudí ainda em vida, a Fachada da Paixão, iniciada em 1952, e a Fachada da Glória, ainda por completar. Segundo o seu proceder habitual, a partir de esboços gerais do edifício Gaudí improvisou a construção à medida que esta avançava. O templo, quando estiver terminado, disporá de 18 torres : quatro em cada uma das três entradas-portais, a jeito de cúpulas; irá ter um sistema de seis torres, com a torre do zimbório central dedicada a Jesus Cristo, de 170 metros de altura, outras quatro ao redor desta, dedicadas aos evangelistas, e um segundo zimbório dedicado à Virgem. O interior estará formado por inovadoras colunas arborescentes inclinadas e abóbadas baseadas em hiperboloides e paraboloides buscando a forma ótima da catenária. Estima-se que poderá levar no seu coro 1500 cantores, 700 crianças e cinco órgãos. Em 1926, ano em que faleceu Gaudí, apenas estava construída uma torre. Do projeto do edifício só ficaram planos e um modelo em gesso que resultou muito danificado durante a Guerra Civil Espanhola. Desde então prosseguiram as obras: atualmente (2015) estão terminados os portais da Natividade e da Paixão, e foi iniciado o da Glória, estando em construção as abóbadas interiores.
A obra que realizou Gaudí - a fachada da Natividade e a cripta - foi incluída pela UNESCO em 2005 no Sítio do Patrimônio Mundial com o título «Obras de Antoni Gaudí».
História
O propósito de construir um templo expiatório dedicado à Sagrada Família em uns novos terrenos do Eixample barcelonês foi do livreiro Josep Maria Bocabella, para o que fundou a Associação de Devotos de São José. Para isso foi adquirido um quarteirão inteiro do Eixample num lugar conhecido como El Poblet, perto do Camp de l'Arpa, em Sant Martí de Provençals, entre as ruas Provença, Maiorca, Marina e Sardenya.
O projeto foi entregue em primeiro lugar a Francisco de Paula del Villar y Lozano, que propôs um conjunto neogótico, recusando a sugestão de Bocabella de fazer uma réplica do Santuário da Santa Casa de Loreto . O projeto de Villar consistia numa igreja de três naves, com os elementos típicos do gótico, como os vitrais alveolados, os contrafortes exteriores e um alto campanário em forma de agulha. A primeira pedra foi colocada a 19 de Março de 1882, dia de São José, com a presença do então bispo de Barcelona José María Urquinaona. Gaudí assistiu à cerimônia, já que tinha trabalhado como ajudante de Villar em vários projetos. As obras não se iniciaram até 25 de Agosto de 1883, sendo adjudicadas ao empreiteiro Macari Planella i Roura.
Em 1883, Villar renunciou por desavenças com Joan Martorell, arquiteto assessor de Bocabella. O projeto foi oferecido ao próprio Martorell, mas, ao recusar, este foi oferecido a um jovem Gaudí de 31 anos; Gaudí fora ajudante de Martorell em várias construções, fato que motivara a recomendação de Gaudí, que ainda não executara grandes obras. Ao encarregar-se Gaudí do projeto, modificou-o por inteiro - salvo a parte já construída da cripta -, imprimindo-lhe o seu estilo peculiar. Durante os remanescentes 43 anos da sua vida trabalhou intensamente na obra, os últimos 15 anos de forma exclusiva. Esta dedicação tão intensa tem a sua explicação, para além da magnitude da obra, pela circunstância de Gaudí definir muitos aspetos à medida que a construção avançava, em lugar de os ter concretizado previamente nos seus planos e instruções. Por isso a sua presença pessoal na obra era de grande importância.
Durante a vida de Gaudí somente foi feita a fachada da Natividade , com escultura de Carles Mani, Llorenç Matamala e Joan Matamala, contando com os desenhos de Ricard Opisso; Gaudí apenas chegou a ver coroada a torre de São Barnabé antes do seu falecimento. À morte de Gaudí encarregou-se das obras o seu ajudante Domènec Sugrañes, durante os anos 1926-1936, acabando as três torres que ficavam na fachada da Natividade.
Durante a Guerra Civil Espanhola ficou destruída na sua maior parte a oficina na qual Gaudí trabalhara, e onde se encontravam os seus croquis, maquetes e modelos . Por esta causa e pela particular maneira de trabalhar Gaudí, não ficaram planos nem diretrizes a respeito de como devia terminar-se o templo. Portanto, quando em 1944 prosseguiu a construção da Sagrada Família, teve de definir-se em primeiro lugar como devia proceder-se, para edificar o templo da forma mais fiel aos princípios de Gaudí.
À frente desta gigantesca tarefa estiveram os arquitetos Francesc Quintana, Isidre Puig i Boada e Lluís Bonet i Garí, enquanto da obra escultórica se encarregou Jaume Busquets. Posteriormente, quando se construiu a fachada da Paixão, o conjunto principal das figuras escultóricas foi encarregado a Josep Maria Subirachs . As obras deste último originaram certa polêmica, devido a ter criado esculturas totalmente contemporâneas afastadas do estilo realista que Gaudí incluiu na fachada da Natividade. O escultor japonês Etsuro Sotoo colaborou em algumas esculturas da fachada da Natividade . Desde 1987 que as obras estão sob a direção do arquiteto Jordi Bonet i Armengol.
Projeto de praça estrelada para a Sagrada Família (1916).
Um dos pontos que suscitou maior controvérsia em relação ao templo é a sua situação no tecido urbanístico de Barcelona: quando começaram as obras encontrava-se num descampado, mas rapidamente ficou integrado no rápido desenvolvimento da cidade em princípios do século XX. Em 1905 Gaudí realizou um projeto para englobar a Sagrada Família dentro do Plano Jaussely, o novo projeto de alargamento barcelonês: concebeu situar o templo dentro de uma zona ajardinada em forma de estrela octogonal, que teria proporcionado uma excelente visão do templo a partir de todas as zonas circundantes. Finalmente, devido ao custo dos terrenos, reduziu o projeto a uma estrela de quatro pontas, que permitia uma ampla visão de todos os vértices. Contudo, o plano de Gaudí não se levou a cabo: em 1975 o Município de Barcelona realizou um estudo urbanístico que previa reabilitar uma zona em forma de cruz em torno da Sagrada Família, com quatro praças ajardinadas em cada extremo do templo ; mesmo assim, atualmente existem apenas duas destas praças, e a criação das novos espaços implicaria demolir vários edifícios, pelo qual ainda se estuda a solução ideal para enquadrar a Sagrada Família numa envolvente apropriada.
O Templo da Sagrada Família teve vários eventos destacados: em 1920 celebrou-se o Ano Jubilar de São José com procissões, peregrinações e missas, e cantou-se o Aleluia de O Messias de Händel por mil cantores de orfeões vindos de toda a Catalunha, dirigidos por Lluís Millet. Em 1953, por ocasião do 35º Congresso Eucarístico Internacional celebrado em Barcelona, foi inaugurada a iluminação artística da fachada da Natividade. Em 1981 abriu-se a praça Gaudí frente à Sagrada Família, com um projeto de jardins de Nicolau Maria Rubió i Tudurí, onde se destaca o tanque, em cujas águas fica refletido o templo. Ao ano seguinte, por ocasião do centenário da colocação da primeira pedra, o templo recebeu a visita do Papa João Paulo II. Igualmente, a 18 de Março de 2007 foi comemorado o 125.º aniversário da colocação da primeira pedra do templo com uma festa, concertos e bailando uma sardana em redor de todo o templo. O templo é palco habitual de numerosos atos culturais e encontros religiosos.
Veja o texto completo no site pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Templo_Expiat%C3%B3rio_da_Sagrada_F...
A text, in english, from barcelona.de/en/barcelona-sagrada-familia.html
The basilica Sagrada Familia
Antoni Gaudí's life work is an UNESCO world heritage
The Sagrada Familia is one of the most famous landmarks in Barcelona. Since 1882 it was built at the church in the district Eixample built. From 1883 the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí took over the leadership of the works until his death in 1926. The building is significantly influenced by him. The church is such a huge size, so they often referred it as "cathedral", but without having a bishop's seat. Pope Benedict XVI. inaugurates the Sagrada Familia on November 7, 2010. The church building is raised to a basilica.
Much time should allow for the visit of the details of the facades, where many embassies and biblical stories are hidden.
With the completion in 2026 expected, the construction is financed solely from donations and ticket money. Currently, 8 out of 12 about 100 meters tall bell towers are completed. The higher towers of the facade of the glory will be built and the central dome with a height of over 170 meters. Currently, part of the cloister is the building of the apse dome.
The start of construction of the Sagrada Familia.
Mid-19th Century the booksellers José María Boca Bella , Chairman of the Holy Brotherhood, planned a church in Barcelona to build and to devote the Holy Family ( "Sagrada Familia"). The land he choose was a parcel within the "Poblet (village). He preferred a fundamental step closer to the city centre out. Because of the already high land prices this was not possible.
The planning of the church began with the architect of the Diocese Francisco del Villar. He designed a church in Gothic style and began in 1882 with the construction of the crypt. Because of fundamental disagreements with Boca Bella he had to resign from his job. A few months later in 1883, the young architect Antoni Gaudí took over his work.
Gaudí took place in the Sagrada Familia his life's work. He worked until his death on 10th June 1926.
Under Gaudí the church won because of their extensive dimension and its lush design with such importance that they soon called it "the Cathedral". Also Gaudí even called it, although they do not house a bishop. He was convinced that one day the city would be known as "his" church.
Gaudí shaped espacially the Sagrada Familia . Many new parts are built according to plans, which are hardly ever received and often depend on assumptions as the great architect had originally planned. Of course everyone is sure of one thing: the Church Sagrada family in case of completion in respect to all previously built churches of Christendom will surpass all in greatness.
As a church, the Sagrada Familia should not only be seen in the artistic point of view. It must be the consideration of building facades with its towers and even religion.
Tips for visiting the Sagrada Familia.
The Sagrada Familia is the most visited monument in Spain. At peak times therefore sometimes one can queue in front of the house and cash in on the elevators of the towers which go up, on the other. The largest are the queues in the late morning. So if you dont want to stay in the queue, use the time to the cathedral from a distance, the two places right and left of the Sagrada Familia from them.
On the rear lifts, in the towers of the facade of the birth of Christ which goes up, the queue is much shorter. Do not return to down the lifts, use the stairs. Only then do you see the absolutely stunning spiral staircase.
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La Iglesia de Santa María de Tahull está situada en el Valle de Bohí, Lleida, España, en el centro de la población. Es de estilo románico lombardo, construida a principios del siglo XII (se consagró en 1123, al día siguiente de la de Sant Climent). Es de planta única con tres naves separadas por pilastras circulares sobre las que apoyan los arcos formeros de medio punto que soportan una cubierta de madera a dos aguas, su cabecera está formada por tres ábsides semicirculares, el campanario es de planta cuadrada con cuatro pisos e integrado en la planta de la iglesia. En el siglo XVIII sufrió severas modificaciones convirtiendo sus dos naves laterales en capillas para soportar una bóveda de cañón que cubría la nave central, y sobre esta una cúpula con cimborrio. En la década de 1970 se realizaron reformas para devolverle su aspecto original. La mayor riqueza del templo está constituida por las pinturas murales del ábside, aunque las que se exhiben son copias y los originales se exponen en el MNAC de Barcelona. Más fotografías en el álbum Santa María de Tahüll, Vall de Boí.
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La Catedral de Chihuahua es el templo sede de la Arquidiócesis de Chihuahua y es considerada como el más importante monumento religioso de estilo barroco en el norte de México. Dedicada a la La Santa Cruz desde su elevación a catedral en 1891; fue construida a partir de 1725 como templo parroquial dedicado a San Francisco de Asís y Nuestra Señora de la Regla.
La primera piedra de la catedral se colocó en el año de 1725, por Benito Crespo y Monroy, Obispo de Durango; éste al ver que las obras de la catedral avanzaban lentamente, decidió informar a las autoridades de comercio y minería para que, en consecuencia, se aplicara una contribución voluntaria a comerciantes y mercaderes.
Las obras fueron dirigidas originalmente y hasta el año de 1734 por el alarife José de la Cruz, quién fue también el encargado del diseño de los planos. Al fallecimiento de éste las obras fueron continuadas por varios más, y debido a varios contratiempos, no fue terminada hasta el año de 1826, 54 años después, por Ignacio Morín y Juan Pagaza y Nicolás. Las torres fueron levantadas por Bernardo del Carpio y sus campanas izadas y colocadas en su lugar por Melchor Guaspe.
La portada principal de la catedral, tallada en la misma cantera ocre de todo el edificio fue realizada por el escultor Antonio de Nava, quien para ello modificó el proyecto original. Dicho proyecto proponía una amplia portada de siete calles —calle es el espacio existente entre columna y columna—, reduciéndolo a cinco, logrando con ello la esbeltez que caracteriza a toda la catedral. Aun con la reducción en el número de calles, la amplitud de la portada no tenía parangón en la Nueva España al momento de ser construida.
La portada consta de tres cuerpos superpuestos y claramente diferenciados por cornisas y sobre todo por el diseño de sus columnas, todas ellas estípites que se engrosan en el centro en relación a su basa y capitel. Los primeros dos cuerpos cuentan con seis columnas, tres a cada lado de la calle central; mientras que el tercer cuerpo solo tiene una a cada lado ya que la portada reduce su ancho a manera de remate. Entre cada columna en las dos calles laterales se encuentran nichos que albergan las estatuas de los doce apóstoles, pero excluyendo a San Matías e incluyendo a San Pablo.
Las columnas del primer cuerpo se levantan sobre recios pedestales decorados con motivos vegetales, su basa y su capitel son de orden corintio, sin embargo su fuste presenta en sus extremos superior a inferior brazaletes de follaje, mientras que al resto lo decoran canales y contra canales y un anillo hundido en su centro. Las columnas del segundo cuerpo, también sobre pedestales con follaje, presentan en el centro de su fuste guirnaldas onduladas acompañadas en los extremos superior e inferior por estrías zigzagueantes, que en conjunto y desde la posición de los observadores a nivel del suelo dan una impresión salomónica. Finalmente las columnas del tercer cuerpo presentan un pedestal estriado y el fuste salomónico, como en todas el capitel es corintio, y rematan ambas columnas medallones donde se indica la fecha de conclusión de la portada —AÑO Đ 1741— y pilastras toscanas con remates piramidales.
La calle central contiene en su primer cuerpo a la puerta principal, formada por un arco semioctagonal incrito en otro de medio punto y en cuya clave se encuentran sostenidos por dos querubines que flotan entre el follaje, la tiara papal y las llaves de San Pedro; las enjutas del arco están decoradas por los motivos vegetales que encontramos en toda la catedral y entre los cuales vuelan dos ángeles. El segundo cuerpo contiene la ventana del coro, de forma octagonal y rodeada por molduras de cantera con motivos vegetales y en la parte superior la imagen de San José con el niño Jesús en sus brazos, todo ello nuevamente rodeado por la decoración vegetal.
Door at 77 St Vincent Street to an 1870s building housing offices above shops by the London architect J.J. Stevenson. Respice Finem is a contraction of "quidquid agis, prudenter agas et respice finem" (whatever you do, do wisely, considering the end).
Curiosità e leggende
La Pernice bianca è considerata un simbolo di purezza, fedeltà e saggezza, per il suo piumaggio candido, il suo comportamento monogamo e la sua capacità di adattarsi alle stagioni.
Nella mitologia greca, la Pernice bianca era associata alla dea Artemide, protettrice della caccia e della natura selvaggia. Secondo una leggenda, la dea si trasformò in una pernice bianca per sfuggire alle avances di Zeus, e da allora questo uccello è diventato il suo animale sacro.
Nella tradizione celtica, la Pernice bianca era vista come un messaggero tra il mondo umano e quello spirituale, e come un portatore di buona fortuna e prosperità. Si credeva che se una Pernice bianca si posava sul tetto di una casa, significava che i suoi abitanti avrebbero avuto una vita felice e ricca.
Nella cultura popolare, la Pernice bianca è protagonista di una famosa canzone natalizia inglese, intitolata “The Twelve Days of Christmas”.
La canzone elenca dodici doni che un innamorato fa alla sua amata nei dodici giorni che vanno dal Natale all’Epifania. Il primo dono è appunto una Pernice bianca in un pero (a partridge in a pear tree).
❆ Se riuscirai ad aspettare senza stancarti di aspettare!
❆ if you can wait and not be tired by waiting!
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❆ Osservare tutto questo è un dono, innAMÒRarsene una ricchezza!
❆ observing Nature is a rare gift. for sure, falling in Love with it is a treasure worth even more!
❆ Avoir le don d’observer la Nature est un immense cadeau.
En tomber amoureux représente une richesse encore bien plus grande!
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❆ preoccupiamoci della Natura, il nostro futuro dipende da
essa!
❆ let's take good care of Nature, because our future depends
on it!
❆ préoccupons-nous de la Nature, notre avenir en dépend!
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❆ prendetevi del tempo per Sognare, ogni immagine racconta una lunga storia...
❆ take some time to dream, every image tells a long story...
❆ prenez le temps de Rêver, car chaque image raconte une
longue histoire...
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❆ ho cercato in ogni passo ciò che più desideravo!
❆ at each step I search what I most desire!
❆ À chaque pas que je fais, je cherche ce que je souhaite le plus trouver!
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Verkauf
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esultanza di Bellezza e Serenità, un tripudio di perfezione e pienezza.
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❆ Magica Terra, sei il simbolo della perfezione, sei il mio canto della Vita, sei il mio buongiorno di ogni di, non ho contato i miei passi sul tuo suolo poiché infinite sono le tue bellezze.
Mia terra, amare è assai poco, tu sei beneficiare di tutte le creature, tu sei una madre eccellente.
❆ ci sono giorni che la senti dentro la Natura...
❆ Le Montagne vivono solo dell' amore dell' uomo.
Dove le abitazioni, poi gli Alberi, poi l erba sono esaurite, nasce il regno sterile, selvaggio, minerale.
Tuttavia, nella sua estrema povertà, nella sua nudità, dispensa una ricchezza che non ha prezzo: la felicità che si scopre negli occhi di chi la frequenta.
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Zaino carico e pesante (quasi sempre) e, quando trasporti la
Fotocamera con obiettivo, la Sera avverti un dolore al
collo - Ma le Passioni, è noto, comportano sempre sacrifici!
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❆ il Cielo non racconta mai la stessa storia...
❆ farei qualsiasi cosa per un'Alba...
❆ In Natura non esistono malintesi esistono solo in ciò che l'uomo chiama ragione!
❆ ProteggiAMO tutto questo!
❆ Meravigliosa Natura!
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❆ InnAMÒRati della NATURA anche tu!
❆ Il mio tempo in Montagna!
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Vivre en Montagne, au quotidien, pour satisfaire la Curiosité de la Photographie de la Nature...
Valle d'Aosta - Vallée d'Aoste
(Une Montagne d'émotions...)
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Leonardo da Vinci.
Um texto, em português, da Wikipédia, a enciclopédia livre:
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (Anchiano, 15 de Abril (Calendário Juliano) ou 25 de Abril (Calendário Gregoriano) de 1452 — Cloux, Amboise, 2 de Maio de 1519) foi um pintor, escultor, arquiteto, engenheiro, fisiólogo, químico, botânico, geólogo, cartógrafo, físico, mecânico, escritor, poeta e músico do Renascimento italiano, vale ressaltar também como o precursor da aviação e da balística [1][2] . É considerado um dos maiores gênios da história da Humanidade, embora não tivesse nenhuma formação na maioria dessas áreas, como na engenharia e na arquitetura. Não tinha propriamente um sobrenome, sendo "di ser Piero" uma relação ao seu pai, "Messer Piero" (algo como Sr. Pedro), e "da Vinci", uma relação ao lugar de origem de sua família, significando "vindo de Vinci" .
Nascido numa pequena localidade de Anchiano próximo do município toscano de Vinci, Leonardo era filho ilegítimo de Piero da Vinci, um jovem notário e de Caterina. A mãe de Leonardo era provavelmente uma camponesa, embora seja sugerido, com poucas evidências, que ela era uma escrava judia oriunda do Oriente Médio comprada por Piero. O próprio Leonardo da Vinci assinava seus trabalhos simplesmente como Leonardo ou Io Leonardo. A maioria das autoridades refere-se aos seus trabalhos como Leonardos e não da Vincis. Presume-se que ele não usou o nome do pai por causa do estado ilegítimo
Leonardo da Vinci é considerado por vários o maior gênio da história, devido à sua multiplicidade de talentos para ciências e artes, sua engenhosidade e criatividade, além de suas obras polêmicas. Num estudo realizado por Catherine Cox em 1926 seu QI foi estimado em cerca de 180. Outras fontes mais precisas mencionam valores entre 220 e 250.
Na adolescência, Leonardo foi fortemente influenciado por duas grandes personalidades da época, Lorenzo de Médici e o grande artista Andrea del Verrocchio . Leonardo viveu em plena Renascença, nos séculos XV e XVI, e expressa melhor do que qualquer outro o espírito daquele tempo. Ao contrário do homem medieval, que via em Deus a razão de todas as coisas, os renascentistas acreditavam no poder humano de julgar, de criar e construir. Por isso a Renascença também é conhecida como a época do Humanismo e se caracteriza por enormes progressos nas artes, nas leis e nas ciências.
Suas obras mais conhecidas são o afresco A Última Ceia, pintado diretamente no refeitório da Igreja Santa Maria delle Grazie, em Milão, e o Retrato de uma modelo desconhecida, a La Gioconda (mais conhecida como a Mona Lisa), que ele demorou provavelmente três anos para terminar.
Prestando atenção, pode-se perceber em várias imagens um efeito característico da pintura de Leonardo: a delicada passagem de luz para a sombra, quando um tom mais claro mergulha em outro mais escuro, como dois belos acordes musicais. Esse procedimento recebe o nome de sfumato (esfumado, em português).
Lorenzo de Médici, um grande humanista e comunicador, inspirou Leonardo na parte da comunicação, fazendo com que começasse a fazer seus quadros mais “parlanti”, com maior animação gestual, o que o levou a se tornar mestre nesta arte. Em toda sua obra pode-se notar a iconografia das figuras ou personagens de seus quadros.
Em 1466, com quatorze anos, Leonardo mudou-se para Florença, e iniciou seu aprendizado no ateliê de Verrocchio. O artista, de grande prestígio da época, ensinou-lhe toda a base que mais tarde o levaria a se tornar um grande pintor. Leonardo também aprendeu escultura, arquitetura, óptica, perspectiva, música e até botânica.
Em 1472, com vinte anos, já era membro do grêmio dos pintores florentinos (Corporação de São Lucas) e a sua carreira começa a ficar independente do mestre Verrocchio. As pessoas da corte fazem encomendas directamente a Leonardo.
Em 1476, Leonardo da Vinci juntamente com mais três alunos do ateliê de Andrea del Verrocchio foram acusados de sodomia, segundo a acusação referente a Leonardo, teria ele tido relações homossexuais com um modelo de Florença muito popular mas, faltaram provas concretas que confirmassem semelhante acusação; então Leonardo é absolvido de toda e qualquer acusação possível.
Em 1482, Leonardo da Vinci trabalhou para Ludovico Sforza, Duque de Milão e manteve o próprio seminário com aprendizes. Foram usadas setenta toneladas de bronze que tinha sido colocado à disposição de Da Vinci para o Grande Cavalo, estátua de um cavalo, em armas pelo duque em uma tentativa de salvar Milão de ser subjugada pelo francês Carlos VIII em 1495.
Em 1498, Milão caiu sem uma batalha para o francês Luís XII. Da Vinci ficou em Milão durante algum tempo até que viu arqueiros franceses usando seu modelo de cavalo de barro em tamanho natural para o Grande Cavalo como alvo para treinamento partindo logo com o amigo Luca Pacioli para Mântua, mudando depois de dois meses para Veneza e se mudando novamente então para Florença no final de Abril de 1500.
Em 1502, ele ficou a serviço de César Bórgia (também chamado de Duque de Valentino e filho do Papa Alexandre VI) como arquitecto militar e engenheiro, nesse mesmo ano ambos viajaram pelo norte da Itália, é nessa viagem que Leonardo conhece Nicolau Maquiavel; no final do mesmo ano retorna novamente a Florença, onde recebe a encomenda de um retrato: a Mona Lisa.
Em 1506, voltou a Milão, então nas mãos de Maximiliano Sforza depois de mercenários suíços expulsarem os franceses.
De 1513 a 1516 morou em Roma, onde os pintores Rafael e Michelangelo eram, na ocasião, muito requisitados; porém, Da Vinci não teve muito contacto com estes artistas.
Em 1515 Francisco I da França retorna a Milão, e Da Vinci foi designado para fazer a peça central de um leão mecânico para as negociações de paz em Bolonha entre o rei francês e o Papa Leão X, onde provavelmente conheceu o rei.
Em 1516 ficou a serviço de Francisco I como primeiro pintor, engenheiro e arquiteto do Rei. Foi dado a ele o uso do Castelo Clos Lucé, próximo ao Castelo de Amboise, residência do Rei, junto com uma pensão generosa. Da Vinci e o Rei ficaram bons amigos.
Morreu em Cloux, França, e de acordo com o seu desejo, sessenta mendigos seguiram seu caixão. Leonardo da Vinci foi enterrado na Capela de São Hubert no Castelo de Amboise.
"De tempos em tempos, o Céu nos envia alguém que não é apenas humano, mas também divino, de modo que através de seu espírito e da superioridade de sua inteligência, possamos atingir o Céu."
— Giorgio Vasari
Leonardo sempre foi tido como um ser misterioso, devido aos muitos talentos que possuía; a sua capacidade e conhecimento em muitas áreas proclamaram-no como um dos Maiores gênios da humanidade.
Leonardo sabia que se os seus manuscritos fossem descobertos pela igreja, haveria grandes possibilidades de ser considerado herege (devido a conteúdos científicos considerados como feitiçaria pela mesma), e assim teria como castigo um final terrível, daí a idéia de escrever da direita para a esquerda (inverso da escrita), de modo que, somente mediante um espelho, seus manuscritos fossem decifrados. Outro método de transmitir mensagens para gerações futuras, que acreditava ele que estariam muito desenvolvidas (devido ao progresso racional dos seres humanos), foi a pintura; através desta Arte com ajuda do simbolismo, deixava mensagens muito comprometedoras, de tal modo que, mudaria talvez a convicção de pensar do homem. Ao mesmo tempo em que uma obra por ele pintada esconde um segredo, o também revela (ou vice-versa), um bom exemplo, é a Madona das Rochas, citada no Livro O Código Da Vinci, de Dan Brown.
O impossível de se imaginar, é como um homem que viveu em cerca de quinhentos anos atrás, fosse desenvolver teorias e técnicas em tantas áreas, desde a pintura, até mesmo a ciências modernas. Provavelmente o seu perfeccionismo em cada pintura, é um dos motivos por este possuir autoria de tão poucas obras; outro possível motivo é que algumas de seus quadros se perderam com o tempo (sendo roubados ou até mesmo destruídos), devido a sua maneira polêmica de retratar, desde cenas religiosas, até mesmo retratos, sendo um deles a Mona Lisa.
Alguns historiadores e especialistas concluem que Leonardo gostava muito de distorcer coisas como em um quebra-cabeça. Muitos acham que sua escrita invertida era um código e protegia seus esboços contra espiões. Segundo Bruce Peterson, da RYP Australia Major Projects, Leonardo da Vinci escrevia assim porque era canhoto[3] e não queria borrar os textos que criava febrilmente. Já historiadores acreditam que esta escrita era um sinal de que Leonardo da Vinci tinha dislexia, pois escrevia de forma embaralhada e ás vezes gostava de formar anagramas.
Na sua pintura Ginevra de' Benci, a mulher está posada diante um junípero. Na época o junípero era símbolo de castidade. Leonardo acabou incluindo mais uma referência. Em italiano a palavra junípero significa ginevra.
Uma de suas pinturas faz um anagrama, Mona Lisa, que vira Amon L'Isa ou Man An Oil (Homem em Forma de Óleo), mas essa hipótese é improvável, já que como iria criar anagramas de línguas distante do alcance de Leonardo (e particularmente Leonardo não tinha interesse em línguas).
Durante seu período em Milão com Francesco Sforza, ele projetou vários prédios com armas de guerra e reforços. Ele tinha habilidade para arquitectura militar e por isso ficou famoso entre os Sforza.
Entre seus mais formidáveis projetos militares está uma escada para uso numa torre fortificada. O projeto incluía quatro rampas independentes de outras. Assim, os soldados podiam subir e descer de 4 andares sem esbarar em grupos de soldados que iam em direção contrária.
Em 1502, Leonardo projetou um fosso interessante. Ele escondeu uma torre cilíndrica debaixo d'água com um teto levemente inclinado que saía um pouco da superfície da água. Os defensores que estivessem dentro da torre poderiam disparar suas armas através da superfície da água. Feno molhado cobria o teto da torre contra os danos causados pelos disparos.
Leonardo projetou também um castelo com sistema triplo de segurança. Um dos cantos dessa construção tinha duas fortificações: a primeira estendia-se até o canto do forte e a outra estendia-se sobre parte da parede externa.
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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (it-Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci.ogg pronunciation (help·info), April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the renaissance man, a man whose unquenchable curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention.[1] He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.[2] Helen Gardner says "The scope and depth of his interests were without precedent...His mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote".
Born as the illegitimate son of a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina, at Vinci in the region of Florence, Leonardo was educated in the studio of the renowned Florentine painter, Verrocchio. Much of his earlier working life was spent in the service of Ludovico il Moro in Milan. He later worked in Rome, Bologna and Venice and spent his last years in France, at the home awarded him by King François I.
Leonardo was and is renowned primarily as a painter. Two of his works, the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, are the most famous, most reproduced and most parodied portrait and religious painting of all time, their fame approached only by Michelangelo's Creation of Adam. Leonardo's drawing of the Vitruvian Man is also regarded as a cultural icon, being reproduced on everything from the Euro to text books to t-shirts. Perhaps fifteen of his paintings survive, the small number due to his constant, and frequently disastrous, experimentation with new techniques, and his chronic procrastination. Nevertheless, these few works, together with his notebooks, which contain drawings, scientific diagrams, and his thoughts on the nature of painting, comprise a contribution to later generations of artists only rivalled by that of his contemporary, Michelangelo.
Leonardo is revered for his technological ingenuity. He conceptualised a helicopter, a tank, concentrated solar power, a calculator, the double hull and outlined a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics. Relatively few of his designs were constructed or were even feasible during his lifetime, but some of his smaller inventions, such as an automated bobbin winder and a machine for testing the tensile strength of wire, entered the world of manufacturing unheralded. As a scientist, he greatly advanced the state of knowledge in the fields of anatomy, civil engineering, optics, and hydrodynamics.
Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452, "at the third hour of the night" in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci, in the lower valley of the Arno River in the territory of Florence. He was the illegitimate son of Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci, a Florentine notary, and Caterina, a peasant who may have been a slave from the Middle East. Leonardo had no surname in the modern sense, "da Vinci" simply meaning "of Vinci": his full birth name was "Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci", meaning "Leonardo, son of (Mes)ser Piero from Vinci".
Little is known about Leonardo's early life. He spent his first five years in the hamlet of Anchiano, then lived in the household of his father, grandparents and uncle, Francesco, in the small town of Vinci. His father had married a sixteen-year-old girl named Albiera, who loved Leonardo but died young. In later life, Leonardo only recorded two childhood incidents. One, which he regarded as an omen, was when a kite dropped from the sky and hovered over his cradle, its tail feathers brushing his face. The second occurred while exploring in the mountains. He discovered a cave and was both terrified that some great monster might lurk there, and driven by curiosity to find out what was inside.
Leonardo's early life has been the subject of historical conjecture. Vasari, the 16th century biographer of Renaissance painters tells of how a local peasant requested that Ser Piero ask his talented son to paint a picture on a round plaque. Leonardo responded with a painting of snakes spitting fire which was so terrifying that Ser Piero sold it to a Florentine art dealer, who sold it to the Duke of Milan. Meanwhile, having made a profit, Ser Piero bought a plaque decorated with a heart pierced by an arrow, which he gave to the peasant.
In 1466, at the age of fourteen, Leonardo was apprenticed to one of the most successful artists of his day, Andrea di Cione, known as Verrocchio. Verrocchio's workshop was at the centre of the intellectual currents of Florence, assuring the young Leonardo of an education in the humanities. Other famous painters apprenticed or associated with the workshop include Ghirlandaio, Perugino, Botticelli, and Lorenzo di Credi. Leonardo would have been exposed to a vast range of technical skills and had the opportunity to learn drafting, chemistry, metallurgy, metal working, plaster casting, leather working, mechanics and carpentry as well as the artistic skills of drawing, painting, sculpting and modelling.
Much of the painted production of Verrocchio's workshop was done by his employees. According to Vasari, Leonardo collaborated with Verrocchio on his Baptism of Christ, painting the young angel holding Jesus's robe in a manner that was so far superior to his master's that Verrocchio put down his brush and never painted again. This is probably an exaggeration. On close examination, the painting reveals much that has been painted or touched up over the tempera using the new technique of oil paint, the landscape, the rocks that can be seen through the brown mountain stream and much of the figure of Jesus bearing witness to the hand of Leonardo.
Leonardo himself may have been the model for two works by Verrocchio, including the bronze statue of David in the Bargello and the Archangel Michael in Tobias and the Angel.
By 1472, at the age of twenty, Leonardo qualified as a master in the Guild of St Luke, the guild of artists and doctors of medicine, but even after his father set him up in his own workshop, his attachment to Verrocchio was such that he continued to collaborate with him. Leonardo's earliest known dated work is a drawing in pen and ink of the Arno valley, drawn on August 5, 1473.
Court records of 1476 show that Leonardo and three other young men were charged with sodomy, and acquitted. From that date until 1478 there is no record of his work or even of his whereabouts, although it is assumed that Leonardo had his own workshop in Florence between 1476 and 1481. He was commissioned to paint an altarpiece in 1478 for the Chapel of St Bernard and The Adoration of the Magi in 1481 for the Monks of San Donato a Scopeto.
In 1482 Leonardo, who according to Vasari was a most talented musician, created a silver lyre in the shape of a horse's head. Lorenzo de’ Medici sent Leonardo, bearing the lyre as a gift, to Milan, to secure peace with Ludovico il Moro, Duke of Milan. At this time Leonardo wrote an often-quoted letter to Ludovico, describing the many marvellous and diverse things that he could achieve in the field of engineering and informing the Lord that he could also paint.
Leonardo continued work in Milan between 1482 and 1499. He was commissioned to paint the Virgin of the Rocks for the Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception, and The Last Supper for the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie. While living in Milan between 1493 and 1495 Leonardo listed a woman called Caterina among his dependents in his taxation documents. When she died in 1495, the list of funeral expenditure suggests that she was his mother.
He worked on many different projects for Ludovico, including the preparation of floats and pageants for special occasions, designs for a dome for Milan Cathedral and a model for a huge equestrian monument to Francesco Sforza, Ludovico's predecessor. Seventy tons of bronze were set aside for casting it. The monument remained unfinished for several years, which was not unusual for Leonardo. In 1492 the clay model of the horse was completed. It surpassed in size the only two large equestrian statues of the Renaissance, Donatello's statue of Gattemelata in Padua and Verrocchio's Bartolomeo Colleoni in Venice, and became known as the "Gran Cavallo". Leonardo began making detailed plans for its casting, however, Michelangelo rudely implied that Leonardo was unable to cast it. In November 1494 Ludovico gave the bronze to be used for cannons to defend the city from invasion by Charles VIII.
At the start of the Second Italian War in 1499, the invading French troops used the life-size clay model for the "Gran Cavallo" for target practice. With Ludovico Sforza overthrown, Leonardo, with his assistant Salai and friend, the mathematician Luca Pacioli, fled Milan for Venice, where he was employed as a military architect and engineer, devising methods to defend the city from naval attack.
On his return to Florence in 1500, he and his household were guests of the Servite monks at the monastery of Santissima Annunziata and were provided with a workshop where, according to Vasari, Leonardo created the cartoon of The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and St. John the Baptist, a work that won such admiration that "men and women, young and old" flocked to see it "as if they were attending a great festival". In 1502 Leonardo entered the service of Cesare Borgia, the son of Pope Alexander VI, acting as a military architect and engineer and travelling throughout Italy with his patron. He returned to Florence where he rejoined the Guild of St Luke on October 18, 1503, and spent two years designing and painting a great mural of The Battle of Anghiari for the Signoria, with Michelangelo designing its companion piece, The Battle of Cascina. In Florence in 1504, he was part of a committee formed to relocate, against the artist's will, Michelangelo's statue of David.
In 1506 he returned to Milan. Many of Leonardo's most prominent pupils or followers in painting either knew or worked with him in Milan, including Bernardino Luini, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio and Marco D'Oggione. However, he did not stay in Milan for long because his father had died in 1504, and in 1507 he was back in Florence trying to sort out problems with his brothers over his father's estate. By 1508 he was back in Milan, living in his own house in Porta Orientale in the parish of Santa Babila.
From September 1513 to 1516, Leonardo spent much of his time living in the Belvedere in the Vatican in Rome, where Raphael and Michelangelo were both active at the time.[8] In October 1515, François I of France recaptured Milan. On December 19, Leonardo was present at the meeting of Francois I and Pope Leo X, which took place in Bologna. It was for Francois that Leonardo was commissioned to make a mechanical lion which could walk forward, then open its chest to reveal a cluster of lilies. In 1516, he entered François' service, being given the use of the manor house Clos Lucé[nb 14] near the king's residence at the royal Chateau Amboise. It was here that he spent the last three years of his life, accompanied by his friend and apprentice, Count Francesco Melzi, supported by a pension totalling 10,000 scudi.
Leonardo died at Clos Lucé, France, on May 2, 1519. François I had become a close friend. Vasari records that the King held Leonardo's head in his arms as he died, although this story, beloved by the French and portrayed in romantic paintings by Ingres, Ménageot and other French artists, may be legend rather than fact. Vasari also tells us that in his last days, Leonardo sent for a priest to make his confession and to receive the Holy Sacrament. In accordance to his will, sixty beggars followed his casket. He was buried in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert in the castle of Amboise. Melzi was the principal heir and executor, receiving as well as money, Leonardo's paintings, tools, library and personal effects. Leonardo also remembered his other long-time pupil and companion, Salai and his servant Battista di Vilussis, who each received half of Leonardo's vineyards, his brothers who received land, and his serving woman who received a black cloak of good stuff with a fur edge.
Some twenty years after Leonardo's death, François was reported by the goldsmith and sculptor Benevenuto Cellini as saying: "There had never been another man born in the world who knew as much as Leonardo, not so much about painting, sculpture and architecture, as that he was a very great philosopher.
Leonardo commenced his apprenticeship with Verrocchio in 1466, the year that Verrocchio's master, the great sculptor Donatello, died. The painter Uccello whose early experiments with perspective were to influence the development of landscape painting, was a very old man. The painters Piero della Francesca and Fra Filippo Lippi, sculptor Luca della Robbia, and architect and writer Alberti were in their sixties. The successful artists of the next generation were Leonardo's teacher Verrocchio, Antonio Pollaiuolo and the portrait sculptor, Mino da Fiesole whose lifelike busts give the most reliable likenesses of Lorenzo Medici's father Piero and uncle Giovanni.
Leonardo's youth was spent in a Florence that was ornamented by the works of these artists and by Donatello's contemporaries, Masaccio whose figurative frescoes were imbued with realism and emotion and Ghiberti whose Gates of Paradise, gleaming with gold leaf, displayed the art of combining complex figure compositions with detailed architectural backgrounds. Piero della Francesca had made a detailed study of perspective, and was the first painter to make a scientific study of light. These studies and Alberti's Treatise were to have a profound effect on younger artists and in particular on Leonardo's own observations and artworks.
Massaccio's depiction of the naked and distraught Adam and Eve leaving the Garden of Eden created a powerfully expressive image of the human form, cast into three dimensions by the use of light and shade which was to be developed in the works of Leonardo in a way that was to be influential in the course of painting. The Humanist influence of Donatello's David can be seen in Leonardo's late paintings, particularly John the Baptist.
A prevalent tradition in Florence was the small altarpiece of the Virgin and Child. Many of these were created in tempera or glazed terracotta by the workshops of Filippo Lippi, Verrocchio and the prolific della Robbia family. Leonardo's early Madonnas such as the The Madonna with a carnation and The Benois Madonna followed this tradition while showing indiosyncratic departures, particularly in the case of the Benois Madonna in which the Virgin is set at an oblique angle to the picture space with the Christ Child at the opposite angle. This compositional theme was to emerge in Leonardo's later paintings such as The Virgin and Child with St. Anne.
Leonardo was a contemporary of Botticelli, Ghirlandaio and Perugino, who were all slightly older than he was. He would have met them at the workshop of Verrocchio, with whom they had associations, and at the Academy of the Medici.Botticelli was a particular favourite of the Medici family and thus his success as a painter was assured. Ghirlandaio and Perugino were both prolific and ran large workshops. They competently delivered commissions to well-satisfied patrons who appreciated Ghirlandaio's ability to portray the wealthy citizens of Florence within large religious frescoes, and Perugino's ability to deliver a multitude of saints and angels of unfailing sweetness and innocence.
These three were among those commissioned to paint the walls of the Sistine Chapel, the work commencing with Perugino's employment in 1479. Leonardo was not part of this prestigious commission. His first significant commission, The Adoration of the Magi for the Monks of Scopeto, was never completed.
In 1476, during the time of Leonardo's association with Verrocchio's workshop, Hugo van der Goes arrived in Florence, bringing the Portinari Altarpiece and the new painterly techniques from Northern Europe which were to profoundly effect Leonardo, Ghirlandaio, Perugino and others. In 1479, the Sicilian painter Antonello da Messina, who worked exclusively in oils, travelled north on his way to Venice, where the leading painter, Giovanni Bellini adopted the technique of oil painting, quickly making it the preferred method in Venice. Leonardo was also later to visit Venice.
Like the two contemporary architects, Bramante and Antonio da Sangallo the Elder, Leonardo experimented with designs for centrally planned churches, a number of which appear in his journals, as both plans and views, although none was ever realised.
Leonardo's political contemporaries were Lorenzo Medici (il Magnifico), who was three years older, and his popular younger brother Giuliano who was slain in the Pazzi Conspiracy in 1478. Ludovico il Moro who ruled Milan between 1479–1499 and to whom Leonardo was sent as ambassador from the Medici court, was also of Leonardo's age.
With Alberti, Leonardo visited the home of the Medici and through them came to know the older Humanist philosophers of whom Marsiglio Ficino, proponent of Neo Platonism, Cristoforo Landino, writer of commentaries on Classical writings, and John Argyropoulos, teacher of Greek and translator of Aristotle were foremost. Also associated with the Academy of the Medici was Leonardo's contemporary, the brilliant young poet and philosopher Pico della Mirandola. Leonardo later wrote in the margin of a journal "The Medici made me and the Medici destroyed me." While it was through the action of Lorenzo that Leonardo was to receive his important Milanese commissions, it is not known exactly what Leonardo meant by this cryptic comment.
Although usually named together as the three giants of the High Renaissance, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael were not of the same generation. Leonardo was twenty-three when Michelangelo was born and thirty-one when Raphael was born. The short-lived Raphael died in 1520, the year after Leonardo, but Michelangelo went on creating for another 45 years.
Within Leonardo's lifetime, his extraordinary powers of invention, his "outstanding physical beauty", "infinite grace", "great strength and generosity", "regal spirit and tremendous breadth of mind" as described by Vasari attracted the curiosity of others. Many authors have speculated on various aspects of Leonardo's personality. One such aspect is his respect for life evidenced by his vegetarianism and his habit, described by Vasari, of purchasing caged birds and releasing them.
Leonardo had many friends who are now renowned either in their fields or for their historical significance. They included the mathematician Luca Pacioli, with whom he collaborated on a book in the 1490s, as well as Franchinus Gaffurius and Isabella d'Este. Leonardo appears to have had no close relationships with women except for Isabella d'Este. He drew a portrait of her while on a journey which took him through Mantua, and which appears to have been used to create a painted portrait now lost.
Beyond friendship, Leonardo kept his private life secret. His sexuality has often been the subject of study, analysis and speculation. This trend began in the mid-16th century and was revived in the 19th and 20th centuries, most notably by Sigmund Freud.
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Está considerado como uno de los cementerios más hermosos de España tanto por su ubicación privilegiada en el promontorio de La Atalaya -lugar desde el que se obtienen unas magníficas vistas del mar y los acantilados-, como por los panteones modernistas y capillas funerarias que alberga. En este camposanto descansan los restos del ilustre luarqués D. Severo Ochoa, galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Medicina en 1959.
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Having recently rediscovered this dress, I have started wearing it a bit more often.
What in the hey is Lati trying to do to me?! I've never wanted a doll this size but wow! She is amazing!! I don't even know if I could handle this size!! I'm so used to the Yellows and I've never owned anything bigger than a Green!! I must be crazy to even consider her! But look at her and her beautiful outfit!!! She kinda reminds me of Lea's big sis or maybe even Lea if she were grown up ... maybe it's all the pie I ate today that is making me crazy?! IDK! I haven't even placed my Nutcracker order!!! >__<
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I consider this delta sacred. It is landmass being born. In a hundred years not much of the lake will be left - Øyeren lake -south Norway - Drone footage at about 100 meters above ground level.
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The EOS3 was Canon's last prosumer film camera. It had many features of the pro EOS1V but is less sturdily built. It can be fitted with an extra battery pack which I don't have and don't need. The one 2CR5 battery is enough.
The EOS3 is a very advanced SLR. It has 45 focus points and an eye-controlled system that selects the one you want. Just look at the part of the scene you want the focus to be on and half-press the shutter button. I have been playing around with mine and found the eye control to work very well, after several calibration runs. Those who don't like that can switch the eye control off and select the focus point with the control wheels.
There is also a way to combine the spot metering with the focus point, which I find very useful, but I haven't tried that. It means reducing the number of active focus points to 11.
I also don't know how the actual AF performs. With the Nikon F5 I was distinctly underwhelmed about the accuracy and speed. With the Canon I still need to try it outside. The dry runs seems OK, but that doesn't mean much.
The eye controlled AF was not taken over to the DSLRs but I heard it makes a comeback in the new EOS R line of MILCs.
In short, it is a very advanced and well endowed SLR that offers pretty much all the functionality of the EOS1V but is a lot lighter and cheaper. Mine is in near-mint condition, although it must be at least 12 years old. Production lasted from 1998-2007.
Shot with:
Canon EOS600D
Leica Bellows R (16860)
Leica 100mm f/4 Macro Elmar-R, bellows version (11230)