David

Bathsheba (Israel)
Aquae Sulis 
Solano 
Bath (Roman)
Colorado Springs

Task 

Tarea 

Job

Landscape  

Job 22:21
“Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.” 

 

 

Bathsheba with David's messenger, as the king watches from his roof, 1562 Jan Massys

"𝐼𝑓 𝑉𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑘'𝑠 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑛𝑜 𝑝ℎ𝑦𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒑𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒇𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒆.. 𝐼𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑛𝑜 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑔𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑝𝑝𝑒 𝑎𝑛 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑, 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑐𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟. 𝐼𝑛 𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑢𝑛𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑟 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑝𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑛𝑜 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑔𝑙𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑠."~~~~~~𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐀. 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫: 𝐀𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐊𝐀. 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡  

Varnak

The Nightingale 

Chess: "Aquae Sulis" "Solano" "Bath" "Colorado Springs" "Task" "Tarea" "job" "Landscape"

Pont du Gard

Pont du Gard

Sacramento

Veil
Maison carrée
La Fontana di Trevi
Roman 🕯

Psalms 18:28
“For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.”

 

 

 

 

Britt Manuela 

 

 'Nay, the same Solomon the king, although he excelled in the glory of treasure and magnificent buildings, of shipping and navigation, of service and attendance, of fame and renown, and the like, yet he maketh no claim to any of those glories, but only to the glory of inquisition of truth; for so he saith expressly, “The glory of God is to conceal a thing, but the glory of the king is to find it out”; as if, according to the innocent play of children, the Divine Majesty took delight to hide his works, to the end to have them found out; and as if kings could not obtain a greater honour than to be God’s play-fellows in that game.'— Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning (1605)

 

 

 

Maison carrée
 

 

 

 

 

Pont du Gard 

 

 

"They fostered in him a vigorous expression of his intellectual precocity"~~~Erik Erikson

 

 

 

 

 

 

"The obstacles to discovery — the illusions of knowledge — are also part of our story. Only against the forgotten backdrop of the received common sense and myths of their time can we begin to sense the courage, the rashness, the heroic and imaginative thrusts of the great discoverers."~~~Daniel Boorstin : THE DISCOVERERS. A note to the readers 

 

 

 

 

Chess: "Pont du Gard" "Maison Carrée" "La Fontana di Trevi" "Roman"  "Sacramento" "Bride's Veil"

Top Gun

Roman
Romance
Roquefort

Samuel Colt 

Purdy

Sig Sauer

Beretta

"These fine old guns often have a romance clinging to them"~~~Richard Jefferies

 

 "the passionate belief in sanctity"~~~Kenneth Clark

1 John 5:12

“He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.” 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chess: "Roman" "Romance" "Roquefort"  "Purdy" "Samuel Colt" "Sig Sauer" "Beretta"

London Tower Bridge

Kingston

Bridge
Italian
Roman
Pizza
London Tower Bridge

EsKazú

Moscow Mule

Psalms 90:17
“And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.”

 

 

 

London Tower Bridge

 

 

 

 

Dua Lipa in "Kingston"  😉
 

Chess: "Kingston" "Bridge" "Italian" "Roman" "Pizza" "London Tower Bridge" "EsKazú" "Moscow Mule"

Beans

Beans

Twenty Towers

Jack and the Beanstalk

Almagro

Eagle

Roman

 

Eccles.3:2

"A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;"

"Where be those roses gone which sweetened so our eyes"~~~Philip Sidney

Chess:  "Beans" "Twenty Towers" "Jack and the Beanstalk" "Almagro" "Eagle" "Roman"

Romanesque

Romanesque
Roman
Pisa
Alfred Waterhouse

Psalms 8:4

“What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?”

Psalm 32:6

"For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him."

St Andreas' west door Archbishop Bruno, Duke, the brother of Emperor Otto I (the Great) founded the collegial-church of St. Andrew, Cologne in the second half of the 10th century. It was an early Romanesque church with a crypt.

 Classic Romanesque Architecture. Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of Medieval Europe characterized by semi-circular arches.

 The Pisa Cathedral in Italy is a masterpiece of Romanesque architecture.

 The Natural History Museum of London. It was built from 1873-1880 by Alfred Waterhouse after the original designer Francis Fowke died. As can be seen from these columns, Waterhouse added his own Romanesque touches.

Natural History Museum, London ~ architect Alfred Waterhouse. Detail of fabulous tile & stonework of this Victorian Romanesque building.

"El encanto de estas iglesias rurales románicas, que no obligan al espectador a admirarlas por su enorme magnitud, como sucede con las grandes catedrales de las ciudades, reside principalmente en lo humano de sus medidas. A ello debe de añadirse el distanciamiento del ajetreo mundanal, del que parte un efecto tranquilizador."~~~Rolf Toman

A Romanesque church in a cementery surrounded by countryside- such peaceful places give us a feeling of historical continuity. This, or something like it, one thinks, is what it looked like in the Middle Ages, when the church was built. The attraction of these

Romanesque country churches has something to do with their human proportions; they do not compel admiration by means of their imposing size, as city cathedrals do. And In addition, they are well away from the hurly-burly of everyday existence, and this sense of seclusion is reassuring."~~~Rolf Toman

Psalms 8:4

“What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?”

"The Middle Ages exhibit life and color and change”~~~Charles H. Haskins

“séances…at which good and holy spirits manifested.”~~~Hawthorne

Laura 

Chess: "Romanesque" "Roman" "Alfred Waterhouse" "Pisa"

Roman

Roman
Cutlass
Knife
Chester's Mill
Prov.28:9
"He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination."

 Cutlass

A 19th-century French naval cutlass

 Ancient Roman Augustus of Prima Porta, 1st century, white marble

 Oath of the Horatii, Jacques Louis David

Chess:  "Roman" "Cutlass" "Knife" "Chester's Mill"