Florence

Brunelleschi's Dome
Olive Oil
Dutch Tulip

English Muffin
Básico 
Base
Alcestis 

1 John 4:7
“Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.” 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chess: "Brunelleschi's Dome" "Olive Oil" "Dutch Tulip" "Básico" "Base" "Alcestis" "English Muffin"

Giotto

Giotto

Giotto's "O"

Magister

Magisterial

Maestro

Magistral

Master

Travel

Chase Manhattan

Florence

Robert Burns

Botafumeiro

 

Psalm 66:15 

"I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah"

 

 

 "I saw...that the practical teaching of the masters of Art was summed up by the O of Giotto"~~~Ruskin: Queen of the Air, iii.

 

 

 

 

 Giotto - Compianto sul Cristro morto (1304-1306)

Lamentation over Christ

 

 

 

 "I saw...that the practical teaching of the masters of Art was summed up by the O of Giotto"~~~Ruskin: Queen of the Air, iii.

 

 

 

 "There is a great story about the Renaissance painter Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337) who is said to have won a Vatican contract from Pope Benedictus XII by submitting nothing more than a perfectly executed hand-drawn circle. The circle became famously known as the “O of Giotto”, and remains to this day part of artistic lore. But it is not famous for its realism; realism, as an aesthetic pursuit, was not yet a virtue in Giotto’s time, even if Giotto did much to usher that virtue in. It is famous, rather, for its symbolism: the idea of perfection. The perfect circle, we know, has had a long history of expressing the perfect, the ideal, and thus the divine. Giotto’s O becomes emblematic of a Renaissance obsession with symmetry, with the aesthetics of geometry, with the unity of the whole, and with the spiritual features of the circle. And we can see this worked out in the many Roman arches and halos that Giotto painted for churches and ecclesiastical patrons. But it was more. It also became emblematic of the human aspiration to master an ideally integrated world, one in which the divine imprint on the created order not only could be perceived with the eye and the mind, but also – and this the Renaissance championed most expressly – could be replicated by an aesthetic gesture. This gesture, perfectly rendered, is what so obviously endeared Giotto to the Pope, and allowed Giotto his celebrated career. His O was an immaculate sign of a higher order – indeed, the highest."~~~Posted by Andrew W. Hass in Critical Religion, University of Stirling

 

 

 

 

Santiago de Compostela, Galicia
 

 

Stela H, a high-relief in-the-round sculpture from Copán in Honduras

 

 Robert Burns Cottage.

 

 

 

 

 Giotto, Kiss of Judas

Wonderful Bharatiya woman Hair style on a statue at Sri Bhuvaraha Swamy Temple in Srimushnam, Cuddalore district of Tami Nadu.

 

Chess: "Giotto" "Giotto's "O" "Magister" "Magisterial" "Maestro" "Magistral" "Master" "Travel" "Chase Manhattan" "Florence" "Robert Burns"

 

 

 Robert Burns Cottage.

This is the house in Alloway Ayrshire where Robert Burns was born on the 25th of January 1759, he grew up to be one of Scotland’s most beloved and celebrated poets, his works included Auld Lang Syne, Scots Wha Hae, Tam o’ Shanter and To a Mouse.

Poem.

To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough,

Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie,

O, what a pannic's in thy breastie!

Thou need na start awa sae hasty,

Wi' bickering brattle!

I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee,

Wi' murd'ring pattle!

I'm truly sorry man's dominion,

Has broken nature's social union,

An' justifies that ill opinion,

Which makes thee startle

At me, thy poor, earth-born companion,

An' fellow-mortal!.

Golfo Dulce

Florence
Golfo Dulce
Benjamin Franklin
Thanksgiving
Architecture
Archaic Smile

Prov.13:19
"The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil."

"But of course, an architectural style cannot take root unless it satisfies some need of the time. Brunellesco's style satisfied the need of the clear-headed, bright-minded men who appeared on the Florentine scene at the moment when the discipline of trade and banking, in its most austere form, was beginning to be relaxed and life-a full use of human faculties-became more important than making money."~~~Kenneth Clark: Civilisation, Ch.4 Man-the Measure of all Things

Donatello, St. George 

Catalina Freer, Antigua

Benjamin Franklin 

 Kayak fishing, Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica

 

  Kayak fishing, Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica

  Kayak fishing, Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica

 

 Architecture: Preston Hollow Residence, Dallas, Texas  

 The archaic smile was used by sculptors in Archaic Greece, especially in the second quarter of the 6th century BCE, possibly to suggest that their subject was alive and infused with a sense of well-being. One of the most famous examples of the Archaic Smile is the Kroisos Kouros, and the Peplos Kore is another.

 

 The Rampin Rider or Rampin Horseman (c. 550 BC) is an equestrian statue from the Archaic Period of Ancient Greece. The statue was masterfully made of marble and has traces of red and black paint.

Chess:  "Florence" "Golfo Dulce" "Benjamin Franklin" "Thanksgiving" "Architecture" "Archaic Smile" "Malady" "Miasma"

Texas

Texas
Florence
Florida 
Fleur
Flor
Flower
Ambo
Ambulance
Roof
Hard hat.

Psalm 91:10
"There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling"

TEXAS: Florence

The Madonna of Mercy - Detail
At the bottom, the oldest representation of Florence, fresco, 14th century

 The Loggia of Bigallo, built in the mid 14th century for the Compagnia della Misericordia together with the neighbouring oratory, became in 1425 the seat of the Compagnia del Bigallo, named after the hospital it directed at Santa Maria a Fonteviva that was known as Hospital of Bigallo.

Ambo

  A little-known fact about this period, reported by Peter Drucker in Managing in the Next Society, is that Kafka invented the first civilian hard hat. He received a medal for this invention in 1912 because it reduced Bohemian steel mill deaths to fewer than 25 per thousand employees.

“I ambled along, looking in store windows” ~~~John Howard Griffin

“I am not ambitious of ridicule” ~~~Burke

Ambulance

Flor

Chess: "Texas" "Florence" "Florida" "Ambo" "Ambulance" "Fleur" "Flor" "Flower" "Roof" "Hard hat"


 Ps91:10 


10non accedet ad te malum et lepra non adpropinquabit tabernaculo tuo

10Aucun malheur ne t'arrivera, Aucun fléau n'approchera de ta tente.  

10 no te sobrevendrá mal ni plaga tocará tu morada,  

10non ti accadrà alcun male, né piaga alcuna si accosterà alla tua tenda. 

 ¹⁰ Darum wird dir nichts Böses zustoßen, kein Unglück wird dein Haus erreichen.

Ps.91