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Photo Hunt 2018 No. 12 - Painting(s)

Kathy (Trekcapri)

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This week’s Photo Hunt No. 12 (Week of March 25, 2018) – Painting

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I really loved seeing the many beautiful Gardens around the world in everyone’s photos.

Upcoming Photo Hunt Themes:
Photo Hunt No. 13 (Week of April 1, 2018) – Fountain(s)
Photo Hunt No. 14 (Week of April 8, 2018) – Famous Places
Photo Hunt No. 15 (Week of April 15, 2018) – Beautiful Light

On my recent visit to Rome, we signed up for a tour at the Vatican Museum which included a nice buffet breakfast and an early 30 minute entrance. Although we couldn’t linger too long to soak in the many beautiful paintings in the museum it was still wonderful to see them again, especially those painted by Michelangelo. I believe that this is one of the paintings he inserted himself in.

 
At a cafe in Tel Aviv :


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Something different - the beautiful fresoes on the ceiling of the Abbey of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe in France. The first shows the building of the tower of Babel.
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I loved Noah's Ark complete with animals and drowned bodies...
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I am fascinated by the beautiful wall paintings found in churches and have been amazed at how many have survived in English churches. This is St Peter ad Vincula Church in South Newington in Oxfordshire.
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The paintings above the arches are C15th and are a bit like a comic strip representation of the Passion and Death of Christ. They are best described as 'rustic' in style and are great fun. They begin with Christ entering Jerusalem on a donkey. The middle picture is the Garden of Gethsemane with Christ holding a cup and two sleeping disciple. This is followed by the betrayal and arrest.
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The next series of three pictures begins with the flagellation with Christ covered with spots of blood, which makes him look as if he has chicken pox. He is then shown carrying his cross with the Virgin Mary watching. The third picture is the Crucifixion.
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The next picture is badly damaged but probably represent the entombment. These are followed by Christ rising from the dead (the tomb looks remarkably like a bath) with the sleeping figures of the Roman soldiers. The final scene is again in poor condition but would be the Ascension into Heaven.
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They are a wonderful example of the telling of the Bible Stories to an illiterate congregation.
 
This is the Painted Room in Ledbury in Herefordshire. It is a rare survivor and one of the best examples of Elizabethan domestic paintings in Britain.
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In the C16th, the rich had tapestries on their walls, as decoration and also draught excluders. Less wealthy used hessian which could be painted. Others who were unable to afford these, painted their walls instead.

The painting are a typical Tudor design of interwoven lines representing the paths and hedges of a knot garden, a popular pattern at the time. Between are flowers, fruits and leaves set on a dark blue or black background. The texts fcome from either the Bible or a C16th psalter.
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