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This is the Caravaggio painting 'The Decapitation(or Beheading) of St John the Baptist'
He has been accredited with being a user of the Camera Obscura. His paintings certainly do have a mathmatical correctness about them.
This is the only painting he signed , he signed his name using paint he uses to represent the bloody outflow from the ongoing severance of the head.
Its the third painting he did that associates with chopping heads off. Nice. A bit of a fetish going on there , perhaps!
Always strikes me that artists of any time seem to paint images of the past , fact or fiction , in the style of thier present day .
The story of the shot/ painting is that Herod wanted rid of St John , aka Henry VIII style and reason , and a situation was created where he could legitimately present St Johns head on a silver platter to some woman who on dancing well was allowed to choose a present for the accomplishment .
Not suprisingly ??!! she chose St Johns head ! it is what any fullsome dancing girl would go for if she could chose owt in the world from a powerful and rich King...
Herod was then duty bound by the promise to deliver , damnation ,what a waste of a perfectly decent Saint , ah well ,he must have thought , what will be will be !
Off with his head!
Religion eh ...good stuff !
:-)
PS I did not take this shot , I lifted off Wiki , I just wanted you to see it for completion of what is at the St John the baptist cathedral
so i built this light tent thing and this was a fun was to test it out. i decided that i need a reflector in the front too.
Its been a bad week...
inspired by the oh-so-amazing Nizaad (who is constantly my inspiration) and her photo:
www.flickr.com/photos/nizaad/6030852826/in/set-7215762591...
- although my own image is a poorly done replica
Day 8 of 100 days of summer
I had no ideas for this week's picture, so you get my pale feet on a small coffee table on a balcony. HBM!
The Swedish windows are located in the area immediately to the left of the great tapestry by the stairwell leading to the undercroft (and nowadays the main visitor route into the cathedral). They were the gift of the people of Sweden and made in the country by artist Einar Forseth (who also designed the mosaic floor of the Chapel of Unity).
The theme of the windows is the work of British missionaries in bringing the faith to Scandinavia, represented in the first three figurative windows, whilst the remaining two feature national and Christian symbols. The bright colouring and style set them apart from the other, more painterly windows in the Cathedral.
Coventry's Cathedral is a unique synthesis of old a new, born of wartime suffering and forged in the spirit of post-war optimism, famous for it's history and for being the most radically modern of Anglican cathedrals. Two cathedral's stand side by side, the ruins of the medieval building, destroyed by incendiary bombs in 1940 and the bold new building designed by Basil Spence and opened in 1962.
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© 2013 Annamaria Amura
Canon EOS 50D Obiettivo Canon EF 70/200mm f/4.0
Lavori eseguiti durante il corso specialistico in fotografia per i beni culturali presso l'Istituto per le Industrie Artistiche di Urbino. 2012/ 2013
Mamiya 7ii, Ancient Tri-X, Mamiya 65mm f/4 L
This is just down from the rather splendid Angel which was the frame before this. Interestingly that snap went all viral in the disturbing teen goth community on my Tumblr which amused me greatly. Do check out the names of the other Tumblrs in the "notes" , I assume they'll grow out of it.
On reflection the two-for-one deal of the cross *and* the Angel does result in all the style and grace of a teasmaid. Victorian grief was deep indeed.
The things my kids leave lying around on the floor...
Week 1 of 52 weeks. Lets see if I can keep up with one self portrait a week since I failed at 365.
It rarely rains during 3rd shift, so of course, when I brought my laptop and GPS to work with me because I was going to go geocaching immediately afterwards, it ends up pouring and cancelling my plans. HBM anyway!
about to cut Dick Cheney's head off!
photos of Gwar @ Sunset Station in San Antonio, TX on November 29, 2005.
I've had pigeon several times before, in Hong Kong and Malaysia, even in Boston a few times. All occasions the bird was presented in a more appropriate manner. This time I just couldn't do it. I'm still not sure if it was the head or the leg with the "dead as a doornail"-style curled foot that did it. The iron stomach was not prepared for a head cut perfectly in half...