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Der barocke, achtseitige Turm zwischen den steilen Walmdächern wurde 1755 errichtet und trägt das bekannteste Ausstattungsstück des Jenaer Rathauses – die schmuckvolle Kunstuhr, die als zentrale Figur den „Schnapphans“ enthält. Die Büste aus koloriertem Eichenholz wurde um 1500 gefertigt und schnappt seit jeher bei jedem Glockenschlag zur vollen Stunde vergeblich nach einer goldenen Kugel. Mit der Verlegung des Schnapphans in den Rathausturm erhielt der auch „Hans von Jhene“ genannte Kopf seine heutigen Begleiter – einen Pilger, der ihm die Kugel hinhält, während ein Engel ein Glöckchen läutet.
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The Baroque, eight-sided tower between the steep hipped roofs was built in 1755 and bears the most famous piece of equipment in Jena's City Hall - the ornate art clock, which contains the ‘Schnapphans’('Snapping Hans') as its central figure. The bust made of coloured oak wood was crafted around 1500 and has always been snapping in vain for a golden ball every time the bell chimes on the hour. When the Schnapphans was moved to the town hall tower, the head, also known as ‘Hans from Jhene’, was given his current companions - a pilgrim who holds the ball out to him while an angel rings a little bell.
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Currently, my most interesting/viewed/favorited photo. Actually, it's also the one portrait I personally like most of all the thousands I've taken.
I`m Currently trying to get over knee surgery and got invited upto Hopetoun House to a country Farye.There where plenty of Birds of Prey there and here is 1 of the shots.
España - Ciudad Real - Viso del Marqués - Palacio del Marqués de Santa Cruz
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ENGLISH:
It was built at the end of the 16th century by Álvaro de Bazán, first Marquis of Santa Cruz. It is currently the headquarters of the General Archive of the Navy.
It is one of the two palaces built by this sailor, knight of the Order of Santiago, captain of the Ocean Sea and admiral of the Spanish Navy. It is located next to the church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, and since 1948 it has been rented by its owners, the Marquises of Santa Cruz, to the Spanish Navy, who first used it as a Museum of the Spanish Navy and later expanded its functions by also establishing the General Archive of the Navy.
The building was frequented by the first marquis thanks to its location, halfway between Madrid, where the Court was, and Seville, whose port he often went to as the Spanish Navy was anchored there, of which he was admiral during the reign of Philip II.
The palace was nearly destroyed by the Austrian troops of Edward Hamilton during the War of the Spanish Succession at the beginning of the 18th century, but was saved by the actions of the Marquis's chaplain, the poet Carlos de Praves, thanks to whom we can admire it today. It suffered some damage due to the Lisbon earthquake in 1755, which collapsed the ceiling of the hall of honour, where the great fresco depicting the Battle of Lepanto had been painted, and toppled the four corner towers, which the chronicles of Philip II described as magnificent.
In it we can find maritime objects from the period. A figurehead belonging to a ship commanded by the Marquis is noteworthy. During the War of Independence, the French razed it, and by the time the Civil War came it had served as a granary, school, stable, prison and hospital, until in 1948 and at the request of Julio Guillén Tato, director of the Naval Museum, Mrs. Casilda de Silva Fdez. de Henestrosa, descendant of Álvaro de Bazán, rented it to the Navy for 90 years as a museum-archive, which is its current function. Also, in the adjoining parish church there is a 4m long stuffed crocodile attached to one of the vaults, which was offered by the Marquis as a votive offering upon his return from one of his voyages.
Between March and April 1823, King Ferdinand VII spent the night there, after leaving Madrid for Seville, before the entry of the French contingent called the Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis, about whose stay Ferdinand VII did not write a word in his travel diary. The palace was declared a National Monument in 1931 and was restored from 1948 by the Navy under the direction of Admiral Guillén.
The palace was built between 1564 and 1586 with subsequent modifications. It is a square-shaped building in the Renaissance style, built around a Renaissance atrium with a recumbent tomb. The walls and ceilings are covered with frescoes with two themes: mythological scenes on the one hand and naval battles and Italian cities related to the military career of the Marquis and his family on the other. The frescoes are by Italian Mannerist painters, the Péroli family. Upon seeing them, Philip II commissioned them to do work for El Escorial and the Alcázar of Toledo.
For its construction, the Marquis hired a team of architects, painters and decorators who worked on the building from 1564 to 1586. For some, the design of the building was due to the Italian Giovanni Battista Castello, known as the Bergamasco, who later worked in El Escorial; for others, it was designed, at least in its original plan, by Enrique Egas el Mozo.
The architecture is perceived as typically Spanish, without Italian arches, with smooth walls and square towers at the corners, influenced by the austerity of El Escorial and the Alcázar of Toledo, within the harmonious relationships characteristic of the Renaissance. The central space is occupied by a porticoed courtyard that, together with the staircase, forms a typically mannerist ensemble understood as an elegant and courtly style that goes beyond the merely architectural framework.
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ESPAÑOL:
Fue construido a finales del siglo XVI por Álvaro de Bazán, primer marqués de Santa Cruz. Actualmente es la sede del Archivo General de la Marina.
Se trata de uno de los dos palacios construidos este marino, caballero de la Orden de Santiago, capitán del Mar Océano y almirante de la Marina española. Está situado al lado de la iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, y desde el año 1948 es alquilado por parte de sus propietarios, los marqueses de Santa Cruz, a la Armada Española, quien primero lo destinó a Museo de la Marina Española y más tarde amplió sus funciones estableciendo también el Archivo General de la Marina.
El edificio era frecuentado por el primer marqués gracias a su ubicación, a medio camino entre Madrid, donde estaba la Corte, y Sevilla, a cuyo puerto acudía a menudo al mantener allí anclada la Armada Española, de la cual fue almirante durante el reinado de Felipe II.
El palacio estuvo a punto de ser destruido por las tropas austracistas de Edward Hamilton durante la Guerra de Sucesión Española a principios del siglo XVIII, salvándose por la actuación del capellán del marqués, el poeta Carlos de Praves, gracias a lo cual hoy podemos admirarlo. Sufrió algunos daños a causa del terremoto de Lisboa en 1755: el cual hundió el techo del salón de honor, donde se había pintado el gran fresco que representaba la batalla de Lepanto, y desmochó las cuatro torres de las esquinas, que las crónicas de Felipe II describían como magníficas.
En él podemos encontrar objetos marineros de la época. Llama la atención un mascarón de proa perteneciente a una nave que dirigió el marqués. Durante la Guerra de la Independencia, los franceses lo arrasaron, y para cuando llegó la Guerra Civil había servido de granero, colegio, establo, cárcel y hospital, hasta que en 1948 y a instancias de Julio Guillén Tato, director del Museo Naval, doña Casilda de Silva Fdez. de Henestrosa, descendiente de Álvaro de Bazán se lo rentó a la Armada por 90 años como museo-archivo, que es en la actualidad su función. Asimismo, en la iglesia parroquial aledaña hay un cocodrilo disecado de 4m de largo adosado a una de las bóvedas, que fue ofrecido por el marqués como exvoto al regreso de uno de sus viajes.
Entre marzo y abril de 1823, el rey Fernando VII pernoctó allí, tras abandonar Madrid rumbo a Sevilla, ante la entrada del contingente francés llamado los Cien Mil Hijos de San Luis, de cuya estancia Fernando VII no escribió ni una palabra en su diario del viaje. El palacio fue declarado Monumento Nacional en 1931 siendo restaurado a partir de 1948 por la Armada bajo la dirección del Almirante Guillén.
El palacio fue construido entre 1564 y 1586 con modificaciones posteriores, y se trata de un edificio de planta cuadrada y estilo renacentista articulado en torno a un atrio renacentista con una tumba yacente. Los muros y techos se hallan cubiertos de frescos de doble temática: por un lado, escenas mitológicas y, por otro, batallas navales y ciudades italianas relacionadas con la trayectoria militar del marqués y de sus familiares. Los frescos se deben a unos pintores manieristas italianos, los Péroli. Al verlos, Felipe II les encargaría trabajos para El Escorial y el Alcázar de Toledo.
Para su construcción, el marqués contrató a un equipo de arquitectos, pintores y decoradores que trabajaron en la obra desde 1564 hasta 1586. Para algunos, el diseño del edificio se debió al italiano Giovanni Battista Castello, conocido como el Bergamasco, que más tarde trabajó en El Escorial; para otros lo trazó, al menos en su plan original, Enrique Egas el Mozo.
La arquitectura se percibe como típica española, sin las arquerías italianas, con paramentos lisos y torres cuadradas en las esquinas, influidos por la austeridad de El Escorial y el Alcázar de Toledo, dentro de las relaciones armónicas características del Renacimiento. El espacio central está ocupado por un patio porticado que junto con la escalera forma un conjunto típicamente manierista entendido como estilo elegante y cortesano que desborda el marco meramente arquitectónico.
from my current body of work entitled 'cousins'.
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Rainy day today, quiet around the house, miss my own home, worn but well.
Enjoying being artful again, even if it is only a little. Hopeful that I will get to dig in and be wrist deep in paint and glue this weekend. Need some studio time badly...have some mixed media pieces, collages, in mind and my muse is burning so brightly she is threatening to scorch my insides out just to be free...
The last remaining Ancient Yew that was once part of a ring of Ancient trees that surrounded the old Church. Some time during the building of the current church it was sadly decided to remove and landscape the Ancient Yews with new young trees which i suppose is better than none but sadly ill informed and negligence in understanding the life cycles of the Common Yew mean these mistakes are still made today.
These are all my moleskine notebooks. I have six filled, I'm currently working on filling up two more then I have four that I need to work on.
near to far. grey. off white, white, black, navy, blue, green, red, pink, yellow, orange, golden tan, tan, chocolate & Brown. White with red laces enroute :)
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Today, the 22nd of July, I took
care of my last appointment.
The government has now opened up
the "local" healthcare in order to give
everybody, including foreigners their
covid boosters. Remember around
the end of last year I was taken a
very long ways away twice to get
the first two injections of Pfizer.
So mid morning my brother-in-law
took me over for a booster. Found
out I need two more injections ;-0-
Well today was my third injection.
Thailand is having a large up tic
in covid cases and is once
again trying to catchup.
Horse is already out of the barn !
So what does all this mean you ask ?
It means soon as this's uploaded
I'm going to take a long nap ;-)
But first lets discuss more important stuff.
Wednesday, early morning, we were in
the m/c field and it was a soggy disaster.
At 11:AM that same morning it started
monsoon raining cats and dogs ;-0--
And it has not let up even a little bit.
The river is way high, and way fast !
Many provinces have flood warnings.
So I'm thinking maybe tomorrow
early morning would be a blast
2 push our luck at the m/c field.
Haven't told no# 1 about this plan yet.
Probably wait till we're leaving to
let her know about the plan.
Anyway, I'm burning out fast.
Catch ya on the rebound ;-)
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Jon&Crew.
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This current series of images have all been taken on a month-long tour across central India. If you enjoy them and would like to read the rest of the narrative, visit www.dearsusan.net.
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Clockwise from top right - Life booklet of index cards bound in leather; green postcard bag; large Midori Traveler's notebook with Blackwing pencil; dark brown Life notebook cover (for books and iPad); Kaweco rollerball pen with leather case; MT washi tape; Traveler's stamp; golden clip from Japan; Faber-Castell Ambition fountain pen in Pearwood
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A non-365 selfportrait taken yesterday. I like taking reading-related SP's and tried a different angle yesterday.
I'm reading "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides now.
Well, just wanted to upload that one. I'm off to Zeeland now! Until tomorrow or tuesdayevening!
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currently on transfer to East/West Scotland from Dover, via repaint at Bus & Coach World, Blackburn.
Safe on the highway to reach Long Sault and it’s access currently no snow of ice where I stoped here and walked safely too. Here 2 days, weather: 9 yesterday and 4 today. Soon -5, impossible to scooter.
Lots snow and ice decreasing. Water is opening.
Another view below, bit more snow, but minor…
My current collection of Pentax cameras and lenses.
It took me a total of more than 2 days to take this photo.
I first had to gather all my cameras and lenses from closets, drawers and camera bags.
Immediately tested and cleaned everything.
All cameras work, except for 3 of them where the light meter does not work.
From leftover oak wood I made the stands for the cards and then I wrote all the cards.
Then I made the background and the setup from wooden planks that I had cut earlier today for this.
The swollen Current River in Van Buren Missouri by Notley Hawkins Photography. Taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark IV camera with a Canon EF16-35mm f/4L IS USM lens at ƒ/18.0 with a 3.2 second exposure at ISO 200. Processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.
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Yes, it has happened before! This is very interesting and so relevant to our current circumstances.
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The new archbishop entered upon his office in a time of grave crisis. Philip Augustus, having illegally repudiated his Danish wife, Ingelburga, and imprisoned her, had married, in 1196, Agnes of Marania. Innocent III had warned him, under pain of interdict, to dissolve this adulterous union and take back his true wife. Philip Augustus made a futile attempt to evade the orders of the Legate, Philip of Capua. But the papal machinery, under Innocent III, worked with inexorable smoothness and efficacy. On December 12, at midnight, the bishops assembled at Dijon filed into the cathedral by the lurid glare of torches. As the deep bell of Saint Benigne tolled slowly in the night the flaring pitch cast fantastic shadows along the bare walls of the great cold church that had been emptied of the sacramental Christ. All the crosses and statues were covered with purple veils. The relics of the saints had been hidden in the crypts. The sacred hosts had been consumed and the last fragments and particles had been burned. In the terrible, torch-lit silence that fell upon the grim assembly, Philip of Capua thundered the papal order that closed the churches of France and drove Christ from the domains of an adulterer, leaving the people to famish for the sacraments and for the life-giving sacrifice. The people of the Middle Ages had a keen sense of certain spiritual realities, and they realized that the emptying of the tabernacles and the closing of the church doors meant that they were being handed over, as Saint Paul said, to the devil, unto the death of their flesh, that their spirit might be chastened and live.
As the last words of the Legate echoed along the stones, the hundreds of torches were all instantaneously thrown to the ground and the fire was trampled out of them. Then in the sudden and terrible darkness, the blackness as it were of hell, the city was filled with the wailing and shrieking of women and children. Thus the interdict descended upon France.
-Thomas Merton, OCSO In the Valley of Wormwood Cistercian Blessed and Saints of the Golden Age CISTERCIAN STUDIES SERIES: NUMBER TWO HUNDRED THIRTY-THREE
Some current project which required me to rebuild the Marina and Shrimp Shack... I should have bought the 32 x 32 tan baseplate that was available years ago if I'm not mistaken. But I guess blue will have to do. Am planning to expand the broad walk and maybe add a sandy beach area there on the right.
All belong to the same faction. The camo on the middle right is a Spetsnaz camo, with my own added twist. It will also go on the right guy. Not sure if I will put it on the legs. The left guys are more desert prepared, so I'm not sure if I should camo them. Knee pads by me.
Soon to be Modern Conflict Standards
-Sphinx
using "Airdroid" remote, this is a picture of the front camera, triggered online via wifi. It is the current-outlet of my lamp in the living room.
Joking! It is the dwarf star next to our sun. Just some lightyears away.
...in limbo with Canon...DH talking on phone to them now...busy with looking into rental for now. Fingers crossed that all will be well. Hopes up. Back soon...involved with all of this atm.
Taken not long before the big crash yesterday. The camera worked excellently, until it didn't. :)
***LATEST NEWS: Ten days from the time they get it...sooooo...overnight shipping here we come...and probably rental in the meantime...no more buying for my girls...DO hold me to that!
this electric rahi was hunted to extinction long ago. Many Matoran claimed to have seen a beast like this, but no evidence has been found.
Made for Bio-Cup 2018
I was really close to just calling this "The Electric Moose." It sounds like a kickstarter company.
Look who I bumped into in Oscars, Manchester last night. None other than Strictly judge Craig Revel Horwood. He was out with the whole cast of Snow White currently playing at the Manchester Apollo. It has to be said the bar was also full of small men called Grumpy etc etc. Manchester Tues 17th December 2019
It will be interesting to see the new floodlighting, which is currently being installed by the National Trust. The original lighting was installed as a consequence of lighting being brought to the nearby Chester Road. The new floodlights are supposed to feature the latest LED lamps which can be both varied in brightness, as well as change colour!
Although nearly everyone calls it 'Penshaw Monument', officially it is The Earl of Durham's Monument, built in 1844 on Penshaw Hill and dedicated to John Lambton (1792–1840), 1st Earl of Durham and the first Governor of the Province of Canada. It was largely paid for by public subscription. Hard to imagine such a thing being built today.
In this view, you may be able to make out the door at the base of the last but one column furthest away on the right. This column contains a spiral staircase that allows visitors the climb to the top of the monument. When you alight from that top column, you come out onto a channelled walkway. There is another walkway on the opposite side, but the only way to reach it is via the apexes of the porticoes at each end. Needless to say, visitors are not permitted to scramble over, but what is amazing is that, back in Edwardian times, they were! There are photographs of gentlemen sitting dangling their feet over the edge, seemingly oblivious of the dangers... it seems quite extraordinary. It seemed as though it was the proverbial accident waiting to happen. No surprise then when on Easter Monday 1926 a 15-year-old boy, Temperley Arthur Scott, fell to his death from the top of Penshaw Monument. It seems that the boy was with some friends and witnesses said that the group had already clambered round the roof walkway twice before deciding to make a third circuit. It was then that Scott fell while trying to avoid the other visitors by passing across one of the apexesl. After the incident, the spiral staircase to the roof was closed to the public. That was until quite recently, when the National Trust re-opened the staircase to supervised and limited access. You can book a visit (free to members) by visiting the National Trust website. The staircase is very narrow and it is very dark, the only lighting coming from a number of narrow slits cut into the column.