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A cornfield near Rathen. A painter couldn't have composed that colourway better, in my opinion. While the audience is standing at the side cheering, a procession of cornflowers and poppies passing by. What a felicitous day that was.
Ein Getreidefeld in der Nähe von Rathen. Ein Maler hätte diese Farbkombination, denke ich, nicht besser komponieren können. Während die Zuschauer am Rand stehen und jubeln zieht eine Prozession aus Mohn- und Kornblumen vorbei. Was war das für ein gelungener Tag.
A view from the Generalife of the buildings that make up the Alhambra in Granada, including the Nasrid Palaces and fortified wall of the Alcazaba, constructed in the 13th century on the right (north), the large Palacio de Carlos V (built between 1527 and 1637, but never completed) in the center, and the Iglesia de Santa María de la Encarnación (church toward the left) built between 1581 and 1618.
The Generalife is a mix of gardens and summer houses of the Nasrid Sultans who ruled over Granada from the 11th century to 1492. The name is derived from the Arabic word meaning Garden of the Felicitous Kingdom. The buildings of the Generalife are not ornamented as intricately as the Nasrid Palaces, but their arrangement around gardens and fountains (most of recent origin) provides the same serene atmosphere.
Note the flowers and green leaves, hinting at the temperate weather in mid-November. I think Boulder got its first decent snowfall around this time, which we were happy to miss ;-)
July 05, 2016
Felicitous:
[fi-lis-i-tuh s]
adjective
1. well-suited for the occasion, as an action, manner, or expression; apt; appropriate.
2. having a special ability for suitable manner or expression, as a person.
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Something simple seemed appropriate for a complicated and frustrating day.
That, and I like daisies. Simple and a classic, they're always lovely to see in the yard.
Otherwise, not too much else going on today.
Hope everyone has had a good day.
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The arrangement of the gnarled and tendriled branches was so felicitous that it seemed nature itself had lent a hand-long branches bearing buds and long sterns swayed at the sides with the slightest motion.
—Walter Benjamin
An eastern bluebird perches on a small branch, in...
Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve
DeKalb County (Medlock Park), Georgia, USA.
1 December 2022.
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▶ "The eastern bluebird (Sialia sialis) is a small North American migratory thrush inhabiting open woodlands, agricultural fields, pastures, and suburban parks. It is found east of the Rockies, southern Canada to the Gulf states, and southeastern Arizona to Nicaragua.
The bird measures 6-8 inches long (16–21 cm), span 10-12 ½ inches across the wings (25–32 cm), and weigh 0.95–1.20 ounces (27–34 g). Male bluebirds have a bright head, back, and wings. Their breast is brownish red. Females are lighter, with gray on the head and back, some blue on their wings and tail, and a more orange breast."
— Wikipedia.
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▶ Photographer's note.
I'm no birder! I didn't pack a lens long enough to closely catch this handsome fella. But, with a felicitous crop, there he is.
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There are few phrases more felicitous in the English language than, "Let's go grab a pint at the pub," or something to that effect. And better yet, said alfresco under a late-afternoon's sun.
Avondale Estates, Georgia, USA.
24 February 2021.
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The Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) is an slim gray bird with flashy white wing patches and white edges on its long tail. Its scientific name is more felicitous than its common name: the bird mimics perfectly the sounds of many other birds (and inanimate objects),
and it is associated with the American south, where it had its roots. The mockingbird's Latin name, Mimus polyglottos, means many-tongued mimic.
Well...maybe not quite, but chest high is more than sufficient and I believe this adventure has gone quite far enough...
A Felicitous Furry and Frosty Friday to you all...
“The pause-that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence, which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it”
Mark Twain quotes
7.) Felicitious: Marked by happiness or good fortune.
“The pause-that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence, which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it”
-Mark Twain
This is the beautiful Sam from the photoshoot we did on Sunday. The stuff on her arms and face is actually paper-mached newspaper and it looked awesome (I might post close-ups later.) And it was a perfect day for photography.
And I chose this shot because I loved the composition. It was something about the lushness and brightness in the trees on the left side versus the barrenness on the right. And, of course, the way the light seemed to illuminate the world.
And hey, I have a fanpage ;)
Well, but at least I don`t have to answer any personal questions this time. My Ipod will do it for me. I have to remark that my Ipod comes from my father and it`s mostly his music on there. But we have a very similiar taste of music.
1) WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY? I`ll be your baby tonight - Robert Palmer (LooooooooL)
2) WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL? The Road to hell - Chris Rea (Hahaha, this is so cool)
3) WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE? Ju`s Reach - Galliano
4) WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO? Why should I cry for you? - Sting
5) WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU? Listening Guid: 3. Can she excuse my wrongs? - Sting & Edin Karamazov
6) WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT OFTEN? The Kettle - Colloseum (Hey, but only in winter :-)
7) WHAT IS 2+2? Sardinia Memories (After Hours) - Geoffrey Oryema (This is so felicitous)
8) WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND? Big Bad Bill is Sweet William Now - Ry Cooder (Hahaha)
9) WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE? Twisted (Everyday hurts) - Skunk Anansie
10) WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY? New York Telephone Conversation - Lou Reed
11) WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP? After All - David Bowie
12) WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE? Buzzthrill: Everybody in the house - Fatboy Slim
13) WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU? Born Under a bad sign - Cream (LoooooL)
14) WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING? Time and Time Again - Counting Crows (Hmmm nice song, but I dunno ...)
15) WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL? Sueno sólo con tu amor - Charlie Haden (Wow, fits so well)
16) WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST? Midnight on the Water/Two Sisters - Northern Lights
17) WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS? Desire develops an edge - Kip Hanrahan
18) WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN? Tres Apitos - Maria Bethânia
19) HOW WILL YOU DIE? Just You, Just Me - Lester Young, Oscar Peterson
20) WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET? What happened yesterday - Neil Young
21) WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH? Tall Trees - Crowded House
22) WHAT MAKES YOU CRY? Jingo - Manu Dibango
23) WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED? Piny Runa Woko - Geoffrey Oryema (Alles Klar???)
24) WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST? More than this - Peter Gabriel
25) DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU? Spliff Jingle - Spliff
26) IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE? I am cold and I am not - Rainbirds
27) WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW? Nanfoulen - Mory Kante
For the ongoing of this nice game I will tag:
Ianmacgirl
la_bella_polenesiana
Nicsop
Yu Fen
desertdragon
Well, I think that`s enough. Hope you all have an Ipod. :-)
As a savory sun sank slowly below the cypress, a Red shouldered hawk claimed a distant nest box, placed deep within the ibis-filled swamp. A man passed by and uttering some advice. ”That’s some tough light, there,” he exclaimed. I nodded my head in gracious recognition and returned to watching the golden rays felicitously silhouette the raptor against a shaded tree line. I mused, “the best light of the day! And caressing this wondrous bird! It may be my favorite photo of the day.” And so an old adage holds true… that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Riding up the West Side Highway, I saw the way the clouds and blue sky occupied the facades of the ultra-modern buildings that have shot up over the past few years like mushrooms, as it were.
But I also noticed that the car next to the one I was riding in appeared to have no driver--or any occupants whatsoever.
I could have cropped it out of the image before posting, but thought you might be fascinated by it as much as I am...
Creepy, no??!!!
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Upper West Side, Manhattan
New York City, USA
Title created for the group Six Word Story.
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The challenge for Saturday 28th January is alleyways and passageways.
Some weeks it happens that before I’ve even thought about the shot, a felicitous title floats into my mind, which immediately prompts an idea, and it’s all downhill from there. And that happened this week, because ‘Passage’ prompted ‘to India’ in my mind, and I immediately remembered that right beside our village’s Indian restaurant there’s this passageway. It runs alongside the restaurant’s kitchen where the tasty meals we enjoy are prepared, tandoori chicken, chicken dhansak, pilau rice, aloo - stop Don, you’re licking your lips and getting carried away! Anyway, the title has to be ‘Passage to India’, the title prompted these comments, and last of all, going out and actually taking the photo. Oh yes, and maybe ordering a take-away, now you mention it!
(There are of course some Indian restaurants actually called ‘Passage to India’, but none in this area; had there been, they might have offered an interesting interpretation of the challenge!)
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I could hardly figure out where to look first! I was happy to have a second pair of eyes there with my camera, so I could look at one thing while the lens and attached remote looked at something else! Every 10 minutes the clouds moved and the light changed, creating a different scene as I snapped away in bliss.
You can feel the morning humidity hanging on the air over the lagoon. It was a little after 5 in the morning at Angkor Wat, and a small Cambodian girl had brought me a little chair to sit down in by the water. She also brought coffee and condensed milk, refilling me every 20 minutes or so. I think the chair and the coffee was the the best $2 I ever spent!
from the blog at www.stuckincustoms.com
One can meditate or speculate indefinitely on transcendent truths and their applications (that is moreover what the author of this book does, but he has valid reasons for doing it, nor does he do it for himself). One can spend a whole lifetime speculating on the suprasensorial and the transcendent, but all that matters is the "leap into the void" which is the fixation of spirit and soul in an unthinkable dimension of the Real; this leap, which cuts short-and completes in itself the endless chain of formulations, depends on a direct understanding and on a grace, not on having reached a certain phase in the unfolding of the doctrine, for this unfolding, we repeat, has logically no end.
This "leap into the void" we can call "faith"; it is the negation of this reality that is the source of all philosophy of the type that may be described as "art for art's sake", and of all thought that believes it can attain to an absolute contact with Reality by means of analyses, syntheses, arrangements, filtrations, and polishings - thought that is mundane by the very fact of this ignorance and because it is a vicious circle which not merely provides no escape from illusion, but even reinforces it through the lure of a progressive knowledge which in fact is inexistent.
In view of the harm that the prejudices and tendencies of ordinary piety can sometimes do to metaphysical speculations, we might be tempted to conclude that piety should be abandoned on the threshold of pure knowledge, but this would be a false and highly pernicious conclusion; in reality, piety, or faith, must never be absent from the soul, but it is only too clear that it must be on a level with the truths that it accompanies, which implies that such an extension is perfectly in its nature, as is proved by the Vedantic hymns, to take just one particularly conclusive example ...
The sense of the sacred: this word felicitously expresses a dimension which should never be absent either in metaphysical thought or in everyday life; it is this which gives birth to the liturgies, and without it there is no faith. The sense of the sacred, with its concomitances of dignity, incorruptibility, patience, and generosity is the key to integral faith and to the supernatural virtues which are inherent in it.
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From Stations of Wisdom by Frithjof Schuon
103/365 Before her inexplicable October break ended, Daughter #2 and I went on a photowalk. We didn't go far -- just over to her old elementary school -- but it was a beautiful day to be out taking photos. I'm trying to savor every shiny golden minute before the "world goes gray", to use Meshl's felicitous turn of phrase.
There is a land of the living
and a land of the dead
and the bridge is LOVE.
(Thornton Wilder)
We take leave ..... again!
I enjoyed Today with ; el-Fr5 (L)_(L) , amna , fa6ma , moh & zaz <33 lovekm ;P today we took a Image collective was awesome time , our faces was felicitous and funny at the same time XP after that we front the pictures aw aw I did not expect that the formality was so funny :O lol . i love you (K)__(K)
P,s : RWAN LOve you ;)
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A felicitous rainbow by the roadside in the highlands near Mödruladur.
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Cima da Conegliano, nickname for Giovanni Battista Cima (Conegliano, 1459/1460 - Conegliano, 1517/1518) - Theseus Killing the Minotaur (1505) - tempera on panel 38.2 x 30.8 cm. - Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan
Questo splendido frammento fu acquistato nel 1972 dalla Pinacoteca di Brera alla vendita Finarte del 30 maggio a Milano e affidato in deposito al Museo Poldi Pezzoli. Esso è eseguito su di una tavola oggi ridotta di spessore e sostenuta sul dorso da una parchettatura in legno, ma ancora conserva, lungo il bordo superiore e quello inferiore, gli antichi margini di battuta. Il dipinto porta al centro la traccia di una frattura orizzontale ed è lievemente svelato da antiche pitture. L'opera raffigura Teseo nell’atto di abbattere il Minotauro all’interno del labirinto. La raffigurazione del mostro cretese con il corpo taurino e il busto umano, e non, come nella leggenda, con la testa di toro e le altre membra d’uomo, appare alquanto singolare. Non si tratta, tuttavia, di un caso unico: ritroviamo la medesima iconografia, ad esempio, in una miniatura di Benedetto Bordon, conservata alla Biblioteca Laurenziana di Firenze, che precede di un ventennio il dipinto di Cima. Appare interessante, inoltre, il modo nel quale il pittore risolve il problema della raffigurazione della lotta all’interno della prigione che rinchiudeva il Minotauro: l’artificio del muro rotto, sulla sinistra, svela la scena e il labirinto è immaginato come una costruzione a cerchi concentrici, o a spirale, a cielo aperto. Il dipinto, recentemente restaurato, è di qualità assai elevata. Cima, ispirandosi a modelli classici, riesce a rendere in modo efficace il moto dei corpi nella concitazione della lotta: Teseo balza in avanti con la spada alzata per colpire ancora una volta il Minotauro che, in una delle invenzioni più felici del dipinto, volge indietro la testa con uno scatto repentino, sottolineato dallo scompigliarsi della chioma. L’uso di una luce naturale, dall’intonazione calda, è quello caratteristico della maturità di Cima, che sviluppa in modo originale la lezione naturalistica di Giovanni Bellini. La tavola faceva probabilmente parte del medesimo ciclo, destinato a ornare un cassone o la testata di un letto, cui appartengono anche le Nozze di Bacco e Arianna (inv. 1596), opera anch’essa conservata al Museo Poldi Pezzoli. La datazione per entrambe le tavole è probabilmente da situarsi intorno al 1505.
This splendid fragment was purchased in 1972 by the Pinacoteca di Brera at the Finarte sale on May 30 in Milan and entrusted on deposit to the Poldi Pezzoli Museum. It is executed on a panel that is now reduced in thickness and supported on the back by a wooden parquet, but still retains, along the upper and lower edges, the old margins of the panel. The painting bears in the center the trace of a horizontal fracture and is slightly revealed by ancient paintings. The work depicts Theseus in the act of knocking down the Minotaur inside the labyrinth. The depiction of the Cretan monster with the taurine body and the human torso, and not, as in the legend, with the head of a bull and the other limbs of a man, appears rather singular. This is not, however, a unique case: we find the same iconography, for example, in a miniature by Benedetto Bordon, preserved in the Laurentian Library in Florence, which precedes Cima's painting by twenty years. It is also interesting to note the way in which the painter resolves the problem of depicting the struggle inside the prison that held the Minotaur: the artifice of the broken wall on the left reveals the scene and the labyrinth is imagined as a construction in concentric circles, or a spiral, in the open air. The painting, recently restored, is of very high quality. Cima, inspired by classical models, succeeds in effectively rendering the movement of the bodies in the excitement of the struggle: Theseus leaps forward with his sword raised to strike the Minotaur once again who, in one of the most felicitous inventions in the painting, turns his head back with a sudden jerk, emphasized by the mussing of his hair. The use of a natural light, with a warm tone, is characteristic of Cima's maturity, which develops in an original way the naturalistic lesson of Giovanni Bellini. The panel was probably part of the same cycle, destined to decorate a chest or the headboard of a bed, to which also belong the Marriage of Bacchus and Ariadne (inv. 1596), a work also conserved at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum. The date for both panels is probably around 1505.
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what an amazing dusk. I was just having my dinner, when I noticed, that there´s somthing very colorful outside. And this is, what I´ve seen. I think, it´s a felicitous photo
This was one of those mornings where I stood for what seems like hours waiting for some nice light. It was bitterly cold and the warmth of home and a cup of coffee was beckoning. Luckily when the sun broke through the clouds a passing storm cloud dropped a bit of rain and it lit up as a nice little rainbow.
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This looks nice: Large on Black
Whenever I shoot San Francisco, I think it JUST might be the very last shot before the big one hits. They say they pyramidal Transamerica building is fairly earthquake-proof, but I don't really believe it.
I think if there was a big one, I would just climb out the window and slide down the outside, just in case. That seems like a pretty solid plan.
60054 passes Old Sodbury whilst working the 6B33 13.00 Theale-Robeston discharge tanks. Although this working left Theale almost 40 minutes late, it passed here running near on-time as it missed many of it's booked pathing stops.
Although masts have now been erected along most of the 'Top Road', the only evidence here at this time was the recently excavated piling bases. However, masts have been erected in Chipping Sodbury Tunnel (background) and by the New Year they had reached here as well. Another good location now gone, although a shot may be obtainable by virtue of felicitous framing of the train loco.
"Have you ever noticed how few sitting places you find in private gardens?
How seldom the versatility and importance of benches is considered? True
gardeners, with their peerless taste, dexterity and inspired planting, never stop ...
To sit is almost an offence, a sign of depravity and an outrage towards every
felicitous refinement that has gone into making a garden."
- Mirabel Osler
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I don't really upload many of these do I? I mostly like photos of things other than myself, but this one is kinda both, and I think I would have uploaded even if there was someone else in the shot. I don't know... I've lost all objectivity about certain things, so in the face of absolute confusion, I've simply pressed the upload button this Sunday!
See it large on the blog at stuckincustoms.com/2008/06/01/self-portrait-in-paris-at-t...
Non-felicitous use of articles (or "of the\an article"?), which is not a big deal really when you're in the midst of woods by the shore of Chusovaya River.
"During this time, the three grown daughters of a formerly rich inhabitant were in danger of being sold into slavery because of their father’s pennilessness. Hearing of this, young Nicholas secretly visited the man’s house at night and threw gold in at the window to provide a dowry for one of the girls. The eldest daughter was soon married, and Nicholas again made clandestine donations for the other two daughters, with equally felicitous results. Modern children who awake to an orange or to gold-foiled chocolates in their stockings reenact this story because, by all accounts, one of Nicholas’ gifts landed in a sock that was hanging by the fire to dry."
– from this article on St Nicholas.
Today, 6 December, is his feast day.
Stained glass window in Lille Cathedral.
What a Heaven!
(J. A. James, "The Practical Believer Delineated")
Heaven will consist of . . .
the moral perfection of the soul,
perfect knowledge,
perfect holiness,
perfect love,
perfect likeness to Christ,
perfection of the body in . . .
incorruptibility,
immortality,
glory, and
spirituality;
the presence of God in the full manifestation of His glory,
the beatific vision of Christ,
the fellowship of angels and all the redeemed,
the joint worship of the heavenly multitudes,
the perfect service of Christ, without . . .
interruption,
imperfection, or
cessation,
complete freedom from . . .
pain,
toil,
hunger,
thirst,
anxiety,
fear,
sorrow,
death!
Such is the substance of heavenly felicity. Take
any one of them by itself — and each is a Heaven!
Add them altogether — and what a Heaven!
How pure! How elevated! How felicitous!
Quran: "Alike are not the inmates of Hell and the residents of Paradise. The men of Paradise will be felicitous" ( Al-Hashr 20 )
Well, blow me down with a flat iron (to use one of my late mother's expressions): who could have foreseen that 36 years, on the nose, after taking this photograph I'd be "uploading" it to the "internet" for the world's delectation and improvement. Yes, on Tuesday 16th May 1978 I was snapping away at Kirkcaldy Bus Station, in this case at one of Alexander Fife's ageing Bristol FS Lodekkas, its roof panels doubtlessly ticking and clicking with the stresses of expansion in the spring sunshine. The interior would have been nicely "fragranced" with the aroma of sun-warmed, dust-cured moquette, mellowed for fourteen summers.
The season, I have found, is a week or two behind southern England. In June I have seen hawthorn in full flower; in England it is "May blossom". To me, the new style Lodekka grille never looked quite right on rear-entrance versions of the chassis ...probably because this combination didn't exist in my "home" fleet. The squarer front profile of the forward-entrance Lodekka was a more felicitous pairing with the re-designed grille.
Galería Estatal Tretiakov - State Tretyakov Gallery - Государственная Третьяковская галерея
Tsar Alexei chooses his bride, by Grigory Sedov (the winner of the Tsardom-wide contest organized by Boris Morozov was his relative Maria Miloslavskaya).
Alexei's first marriage to Miloslavskaya was harmonious and felicitous. She bore him thirteen children (five sons and eight daughters) in twenty-one years of marriage, and died only weeks after her thirteenth childbirth. Four sons survived her (Alexei, Fyodor, Semyon, and Ivan), but within six months of her death, two of these were dead, including Alexei, the 15-year-old heir to the throne.
(El Zar Alexei elige a su novia, por Grigory Sedov (el ganador del concurso de toda la Tsardom organizado por Boris Morozov fue su pariente Maria Miloslavskaya).
El primer matrimonio de Alexei con Miloslavskaya fue armonioso y feliz. Le dio a luz trece hijos (cinco hijos y ocho hijas) en veintiún años de matrimonio, y murió sólo semanas después de su decimotercer parto. Cuatro hijos sobrevivieron a ella (Alexei, Fyodor, Semyon e Ivan), pero a los seis meses de su muerte, dos de ellos habían muerto, incluyendo a Alexei, el heredero de 15 años del trono.)
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Grigory Semyonovich Sedov (Russian: Григорий Семёнович Седов; (12 January 1836, Moscow - 15 April 1884, Moscow) was a Russian painter; known primarily for historical scenes and religious murals.
He was born to a family of merchants. His first art studies were at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, followed by enrollment at the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1857. While there, he received several medals for his work, including gold medals in 1864 and 1866, when he was also awarded the title of "Artist", first-class, and given a stipend to study abroad for six years for his depiction of the Grand Duchy of Vladimir being converted to Christianity.
From 1867 to 1870, he lived in Paris, where he not only painted oils but also created a mural of the Holy Trinity for the altar dome at the new Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. During that time, he also went blind in one eye. Combined with his inability to master the French language, this made his life there too difficult.
In 1870, he returned to Russia and spent the last three years of his stipend period working in Moscow; mostly painting for churches. He was also named an "Academician" for his portrayal of Ivan the Terrible with Malyuta Skuratov. In 1876, his painting of Ivan with Vasilisa Melentyeva won him critical acclaim at an Academy exhibition. Later, he painted a "Baptism of Saint Olga" for the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. His eye problems prevented him from working for long periods and his total output is relatively small.
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(Grigory Semyonovich Sedov (en ruso: Григорий Семёнович Седов; (12 de enero de 1836, Moscú-15 de abril de 1884, Moscú) fue un pintor ruso; conocido principalmente por escenas históricas y murales religiosos.
Nació de una familia de comerciantes. Sus primeros estudios de arte fueron en la escuela de pintura, escultura y arquitectura de Moscú, seguida de la inscripción en la Academia Imperial de las artes en 1857. Mientras estaba allí, recibió varias medallas por su trabajo, incluyendo medallas de oro en 1864 y 1866, cuando también fue galardonado con el título de "artista", de primera clase, y dado un estipendio para estudiar en el extranjero durante seis años por su representación del Gran Ducado de Vladimir siendo convertido al cristianismo.
De 1867 a 1870, vivió en París, donde no sólo pintó aceites sino que también creó un mural de la Santísima Trinidad para la cúpula del altar en la nueva catedral de Alexander Nevsky. Durante ese tiempo, también se volvió ciego en un ojo. Combinado con su incapacidad para dominar el idioma francés, esto hizo que su vida allí fuera demasiado difícil.
En 1870, regresó a Rusia y pasó los últimos tres años de su período de estipendio trabajando en Moscú; sobre todo pintando para las iglesias. También fue nombrado "académico " por su interpretación de Iván el terrible con Malyuta Skuratov. En 1876, su pintura de Iván con Vasilisa Melentyeva le valió la aclamación de la crítica en una exposición de la Academia. Más tarde, pintó un "bautismo de Santa Olga" para la Catedral de Cristo Salvador. Sus problemas oculares le impedían trabajar durante largos periodos y su producción total es relativamente pequeña.)
La Galería Estatal Tretiakov (en ruso: Государственная Третьяковская галерея [Gosudárstvennaya Tret'yakóvskaya galereya]) es una galería de arte ubicada en Moscú, Rusia, considerada el principal depositario de bellas artes rusas en el mundo.
Fue fundada en (1856) por el comerciante moscovita Pável Tretiakov (1832-1898), quien adquirió varias obras de artistas rusos contemporáneos, con el objetivo de crear una colección artística, que devino finalmente en este museo de arte nacional. En 1892, Tretiakov presentó su ya famoso repertorio a la nación rusa.
La fachada del edificio que alberga la galería, fue diseñada por el pintor Víktor Vasnetsov, al estilo típico de un cuento de hadas ruso. Fue construido entre 1902 y 1904 al sur del Kremlin de Moscú. Durante el siglo XX, la galería se extendió hacia varios inmuebles adyacentes, incluyendo la Iglesia de San Nicolás en Jamóvniki. Una edificación nueva, localizada en el Krymski Val, es usada para la promoción de arte ruso moderno.
La colección está conformada por más de 130 000 obras de arte, del rango de la Virgen de Vladímir y la Trinidad de Andréi Rubliov, hasta la monumental Composición VII de Vasili Kandinski y el Cuadrado Negro de Kazimir Malévich. En 1977, la galería contenía una significativa parte de la colección de George Costakis. Además, figuran otras obras igualmente importantes de los artistas Iván Aivazovski, Iván Argunov, Vasili Súrikov, Abram Arkhipov, Andréi Kolkutin, Orest Kiprenski, Valentín Serov, Vasili Polénov, Dmitri Levitski, Iliá Repin, Mijaíl Nésterov, Iván Shishkin y Marc Chagall.
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The State Tretyakov Gallery (Russian: Государственная Третьяковская Галерея, Gosudarstvennaya Tretyâkovskaya Galereya; abbreviated ГТГ, GTG) is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, the foremost depository of Russian fine art in the world.
The gallery's history starts in 1856 when the Moscow merchant Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov acquired works by Russian artists of his day with the aim of creating a collection, which might later grow into a museum of national art. In 1892, Tretyakov presented his already famous collection of approximately 2,000 works (1,362 paintings, 526 drawings, and 9 sculptures) to the Russian nation.
The façade of the gallery building was designed by the painter Viktor Vasnetsov in a peculiar Russian fairy-tale style. It was built in 1902–04 to the south from the Moscow Kremlin. During the 20th century, the gallery expanded to several neighboring buildings, including the 17th-century church of St. Nicholas in Tolmachi.
The collection contains more than 130,000 exhibits, ranging from Theotokos of Vladimir and Andrei Rublev's Trinity to the monumental Composition VII by Wassily Kandinsky and the Black Square by Kazimir Malevich.
In 1977 the Gallery kept a significant part of the George Costakis collection.
In May 2012, the Tretyakov Art Gallery played host to the prestigious FIDE World Chess Championship between Viswanathan Anand and Boris Gelfand as the organizers felt the event would promote both chess and art at the same time.
Pavel Tretyakov started collecting art in the middle of 1850. The founding year of the Tretyakov Gallery is considered to be 1856, when Tretyakov purchased two paintings of Russian artists: Temptation by N. G. Schilder and Skirmish with Finnish Smugglers by V. G. Kudyakov, although earlier, in 1854–1855, he had bought 11 drawings and nine pictures by Dutch Old Masters. In 1867 the Moscow City Gallery of Pavel and Sergei Tretyakov was opened. The Gallery’s collection consisted of 1,276 paintings, 471 sculptures and 10 drawings by Russian artists, as well as 84 paintings by foreign masters.
In August 1892 Tretyakov presented his art gallery to the city of Moscow as a gift. In the collection at this time, there were 1,287 paintings and 518 graphic works of the Russian school, 75 paintings and eight drawings of European schools, 15 sculptures and a collection of icons. The official opening of the museum called the Moscow City Gallery of Pavel and Sergei Tretyakov took place on August 15, 1893.
The gallery was located in a mansion that the Tretykov family had purchased in 1851. As the Tretyakov collection of art grew, the residential part of the mansion filled with art and it became necessary to make additions to the mansion in order to store and display the works of art. Additions were made in 1873, 1882, 1885, 1892 and 1902–1904, when there was the famous façade, designed in 1900–1903 by architect V. Bashkirov from the drawings of the artist Viktor Vasnetsov. Construction of the façade was managed by the architect A. M. Kalmykov.
In early 1913, the Moscow City Duma elected Igor Grabar as a trustee of the Tretyakov Gallery
On June 3, 1918, the Tretyakov Gallery was declared owned by Russian Federated Soviet Republic and was named the State Tretyakov Gallery. Igor Grabar was again appointed director of the museum. With Grabar’s active participation in the same year, the State Museum Fund was created, which up until 1927 remained one of the most important sources of replenishment of the gallery's collection.
In 1926 architect and academician A. V. Shchusev became the director of the gallery. In the following year the gallery acquired the neighboring house on Maly Tolmachevsky Lane (the house was the former home of the merchant Sokolikov). After restructuring in 1928, it housed the gallery's administration, academic departments, library, manuscripts department, and funds and graphics staffs. In 1985–1994, an administrative building was built from the design of architect A. L. Bernstein with two floors and height equal to that of the exposition halls.
In 1928 serious renovations were made to the gallery to provide heating and ventilation. In 1929 electricity was installed.
In 1929 the church of St. Nicholas in Tolmachi was closed, and in 1932 the building was given to the gallery and became a storage facility for paintings and sculptures. Later, the church was connected to the exposition halls and a top floor was built which was specially designed for exhibiting a painting by A. A. Ivanov,The Appearance of Christ to the People (1837–1857). A transition space was built between rooms located on either side of the main staircase. This ensured the continuity of the view of exposure. The gallery began to develop a new concept of accommodating exhibits.
In 1936, a new two floor building was constructed which is located on the north side of the main building – it is known as the Schusevsky building. These halls were first used for exhibitions, and since 1940 have been included in the main route of exposure.
From the first days of the Great War, the gallery's personnel began dismantling the exhibition, as well as those of other museums in Moscow, in preparation for evacuating during wartime. Paintings were rolled on wooden shafts, covered with tissue paper, placed in boxes, and sheathed with waterproof material. In the middle of the summer of 1941 a train of 17 wagons traveled from Moscow and brought the collection to Novosibirsk. The gallery was not reopened in Moscow until May 17, 1945, upon the conclusion of the Great War.
In 1956, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Alexander Ivanov Hall was completed.
From 1980 to 1992, the director of the Tretyakov Gallery was Y. K. Korolev. Because of the increased number of visitors, Korolev was actively engaged in expanding the area of exposition. In 1983, construction work began to expand the gallery. In 1985 the Depository, a repository of works of art and restoration workshops, was commissioned. In 1986 renovations began on the main building of the Tretyakov Gallery. The architects I. M. Vinogradsky, G. V. Astafev, B. A. Klimov and others were retained to perform this project. In 1989, on the south side of the main building, a new building was designed and constructed to house a conference hall, a computer and information center, children's studio and exhibition halls. The building was named the "Corps of Engineers", because it housed engineering systems and services.
From 1986 to 1995, the Tretyakov Gallery in Lavrushinsky Lane was closed to visitors to accommodate a major renovation project to the building. At the time, the only museum in the exhibition area of this decade was the building on the Crimean Val, 10, which in 1985 was merged with the Tretyakov Gallery.
In 1985, the Tretyakov Gallery was administratively merged with a gallery of contemporary art, housed in a large modern building along the Garden Ring, immediately south of the Krymsky Bridge. The grounds of this branch of the museum contain a collection of Socialist Realism sculpture, including such highlights as Yevgeny Vuchetich's iconic statue Iron Felix (which was removed from Lubyanka Square in 1991), the Swords Into Plowshares sculpture representing a nude worker forging a plough out of a sword, and the Young Russia monument. Nearby is Zurab Tsereteli's 86-metre-tall statue of Peter the Great, one of the tallest outdoor statues in the world.
Near the gallery of modern art there is a sculpture garden called "the graveyard of fallen monuments" that displays statues of former Soviet Union that were relocated.
There are plans to demolish the gallery constructed in the late Soviet modernism style, though public opinion is strongly against this.
At a time of year when darkness greets the early morning riser, and accompanies the worker home from her/his labours, the greeting above must have been especially provided to cheer us up? While the general location and date have been established in advance, some questions arise from this image! What was the occasion to merit such a felicitous greeting? Is the stone walled avenue still in existence? What was the name of the horse? While I am tempted to say "answers on a postcard please?" we all know what happened the last time I did so we will settle for answers below!
And those answers filled in lots of blanks - confirming in particular that the banner was intended to celebrate the marriage of Sir William Henry Mahon (Baronet) to Edith Augusta Dillon (daughter of Lord Clonbrock and Lady Augusta Crofton/Dillon). We are - by this stage - very familiar with this extended family, and are delighted with the surprise invite to the big day :) When married, Sir William would have been pushing 50, and Edith in her latish 20s. They had 5 kids - several of whom we have met before. Please do take the time to check-out the other images and descriptions of the wedding that the community offers below.....
Photographers: Dillon Family
Contributors: Luke Gerald Dillon, Augusta Caroline Dillon
Collection: Clonbrock photographic Collection
Date: 25 January 1905
NLI Ref: CLON169
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Son extremadamente bendecidas! Mama con su niñita en Cusco. They are blessed! Mother and child in Cuzco.
Two-Faced Flower a wonderful model of Maria Sinayskaya :) The tutorial can be found in the book of Maria "Zen Origami", a very, very felicitous for me book :)
For me, our [Heathens] SIM is such a unique experience because of the felicitous blend of people!
Builders, creators, creative technologists, and artists from different fields who are united by common ideas in a brotherly team spirit. Looking forward to the things to come... feel free to join!
Volvo B9TL, Wrightbus Eclipse Gemini no. 901 (SN08 BXP) is now in all-over blue as part of a special fundraising campaign for the charity Prostate Scotland.
At the Baberton terminus, near to Wester Hailes, the eye-catching 901 works on Service 33 between Gorebridge and round this rather smart housing estate on the west of the city. There are very few Lothian termini I haven't been to and how nice to discover a proper turning circle - this is a real terminus!
During October 2012 we're supporting Prostate Scotland with a series of blue-themed events, including showing off 901 like this.
Nearly 50% of men in Scotland will be affected by prostate disease at some stage of their lives and one in 12 will go on to develop prostate cancer.
As well as this eye-catching blue bus, and advertisements for the charity throughout our fleet, on the 12th October our staff will have the opportunity to make a donation and wear blue clothing, plus our staff canteen will be serving a special blue menu and donating money from the
meals sold. Watch for the drivers in blue on Friday!
A raffle and quiz have also been organised with many prizes donated by local businesses, and Lothian Buses have pledged to match the money raised by blue-wearing staff. Finally, LB are holding a sponsored inter-depot five-a-side football tournament on the 14th October with teams from all of our four depots, head office and Travelshops.
Heavens! Imagine the fabulous Bill Devlin and Davie Cook against the felicitous Ian Craig and Steve Johnson? Place your bets now folks I'm running a book - all the money to Prostate Scotland of course.
P.S. Can I do the photos for the footie guys?