- Benedict XVI (via summermornings)
via Tumblr http://ift.tt/1B82yhc
A blog focusing on baroque music and art, alongside contemporary ideals. A Sirnot Ett blog.
Castle of Sammezzano in Reggello, Tuscany
The castle has 365 rooms, one for every day of the year and each room has its own name and differs from the others.
Don’t use the sharpness of your tongue on the mother who taught you to speak.
لا تستعمل حدة لسانك مع أمك التي علمتك كيف تتكلم.
quote of the day. (via loneliness-and-silence)
Quote by Amir ul-Mu’minin Ali ibn Abi Talib (AS)
'the properties of beasts'
Bartholomeus Anglicus, ‘Livre des propriétés des choses’ (French translation of Jean Corbechon), Paris 1447.
Amiens, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 399, fol. 241r
The Book of Miracles that first surfaced a few years ago and recently made its way into an American private collection is one of the most spectacular new discoveries in the field of Renaissance art. The nearly complete surviving illustrated manuscript, which was created in the Swabian Imperial Free City of Augsburg around 1550, is composed of 169 pages with large-format illustrations in gouache and watercolor depicting wondrous and often eerie celestial phenomena, constellations, conflagrations, and floods as well as other catastrophes and occurrences. It deals with events ranging from the creation of the world and incidents drawn from the Old Testament, ancient tradition, and medieval chronicles to those that took place in the immediate present of the book’s author and, with the illustrations of the visionary Book of Revelation, even includes the future end of the world.
Ambulatory in the Colosseum, Rome, Italy.
Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of the Annunciation of Moulins; stained glass window of St. Catherine, late 15th century. Detail of Charlemagne.
The Coat of Arms of Pope Gregorius XIII, ceiling of the church Santa Maria in Aracoeli, detail, Rome, Italy.
Charlemagne and Louis XV crowns.
Musée du Louvre.
Francesco del Cossa
The Annunciation
1470s
Alchemical and Rosicrucian compendium c1760. Over the dragon, breathing fire into the flask, is the Latin for “Multiplication Fermentation.”
Scent or Ionic Order; perspective view of a street with a terrace in left foreground, a woman seated at the bottom of the stairs and smelling a flower.
After the engraving by Hendrick Hondius who worked after a design by Paul Vredeman de Vries.
Engraving
Scherzo di Follia
Pierre-Louis Pierson
(French, 1822–1913)
Master of Cappenberg (Jan Baegert?) - The Coronation of the Virgin (1520)
Odilon Redon (1840–1916)
The Golden Cell
1892
Splendor Solis, Emblem 2:
Philosopher with flask
A philosopher stands holding in his right hand a flask containing liquid. He points to this with his left.
Odilon Redon, The Monster
Unknown date
Hans Vredeman de Vries
Architectural Capriccio of a Palace with Figures and Allegorical Scene
17th century
Odilon Redon
Closed Eyes
1890
Imperial regalia of Austria, including sceptre and orb.