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The beautiful bright sunlight falling on the two porch doors to the pretty little church of St Arilda in Oldbury-on-Severn caught my eye, particularly the way that it seemed to bring the burgeoning springtime colours and growth into the church itself.
Two pieces of wood, both with half a pine cone in them.
My dad was doing some work on the house, and found that one of the offcuts (on the left here) had a pine cone stuck in it. He subsequently mounted this piece, believing the other part to be in the rubbish, or otherwise gone. Twenty years later (earlier this year), he was taking apart the shower for renovations, and discovered the second piece in the skirting board of the shower (the pine cone was in contact with the concrete below, but there was no water damage, so it's still in its original condition).
The real question here is, how did the pine cone get to be in that block of wood in the first place?
"When the first Duke of Buckingham acquired this painting and one of Johannes Froben, from Michel Le Blond in c.1625, it seems that they were a diptych, joined together with a hinge. By the time the Duke presented them to Charles I they were two distinct panels and they have been separate ever since. It is thought that Charles I ordered the works to be enlarged and that he commissioned Hendrick van Steenwyck the Younger (c.1580-1649) to add perspectival backgrounds to both portraits. Steenwyck had come to London in 1617 from Antwerp, and under the patronage of Charles I created fanciful architectural backgrounds for works by celebrated artists (such as van Somer, Mytens and Van Dyck). During conservation in 1927 the Steenwyck background was removed from portrait of Froben, but the overpainted alteration remains on the present work. The portrait of Erasmus is most likely a loose copy, by a follower, of Holbein’s original of 1523 (private collection, on loan to the National Gallery, London). Numerous versions of this composition exist showing the scholar in a study-like interior, thereby drawing comparison with Renaissance depictions of the scholarly St Jerome. Of all Holbein’s sitters, Erasmus was portrayed most often. X-rays have revealed that originally the portraits of both Froben and Erasmus shared the same green curtain in the background. This may indicate that the Erasmus portrait was painted specifically to act as a pair to Froben. Consequently, it is possible that the original owner of both portraits was Froben himself, and that he wanted to create a ‘friendship diptych’, a popular notion at the time to demonstrate a personal bond by pairing portraits. Johannes Froben was a successful printer and worked closely with Holbein. The humanist and scholar Desiderius Erasmus lived with Froben in Basel from 1514. Froben was responsible for printing all his written works after that date. Catalogue entry adapted from The Northern Renaissance. Dürer to Holbein, London 2011
Provenance
Purchased, together with RCIN 403036, by the 1st Duke of Buckingham from Michel Le Blond and presented to Charles I; recorded in the Cabinet Room at Whitehall in 1639 (no 49); sold for £100 to Milburne from St James's (no 67); recovered at the Restoration and listed in the King's Closet at Whitehall in 1666 (no 336)" Royal Collection Trust.
Old wooden hinge on a window shutter found on a cabin in the Great Smokey Mountiains National Park, Tennessee, USA. See the next photo for an overall view of the window shutter..
The font is a huge edifice in one of the side aisles, with ornately carved doors enclosing it. This is a little detail. Ref: D326-078
detail of paint stripper at work on an old cabinet door. a hinge in the background, goopy paint stripper in the foreground.
I'm happy with this. This tree was leaning out over the ditch and its trunk was facing entirely the wrong way and stuck to a bunch of other trunks.
And here it is, not snapped, twisted round on a perfectly good hinge into line.
Go me.
....at the Midwest Railway Preservation Society in the Cleveland Industrial Flats, Cleveland, Ohio USA
First blood, part one. Béo vs. the door hinge. Proudly wearing the mark of receiving an upper cut blow to the eyebrow.The purple marking is gentian violet, not blood.
(Now about ten and a half months, with lots of personality :-)
Rusty hinge and old bracket on a window shutter, next to my old house.
See my website: www.photographer-john.co.uk
This bearing sits at the center of the aft spar of the horizontal stabilizer and between the control arms of the two elevators. There's just three parts and none of them get primed, so I got to do some early riveting on the HS. A slave to symmetry, I alternated rivet directions.
For more details about the construction of the horizontal stabilizer, see the build log.