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Home Page Photo Archive from January 2009

 

Some of the photos and captions that have appeared on the Home Page of Paradoxplace since early 2009

(the dates refer to when the photo was on the home page, not when the photo was taken). 

 

Link to photos which appeared on the Paradoxplace Home Page in 2007 and 2008.

 

Food photos from the home page can be found in "Simply the Best Meals"

 

 

Places included in the links below:

 

Italy:  San Marco (Florence); Sant'Apollinare Nuovo (Ravenna); San Galgano (Tuscany); The Ponte Vecchio (Florence); Sansepolcro and the Piero Trail;

 

France:  Ste-Madeleine, Vézelay (Burgundy); Chartres Cathedral; Cluny Museum (Paris); St-Lazare, Autun (Burgundy) St-Lazare, Avallon (Burgundy); St-Gatien, Tours Ste-Foy, Conques

 

Spain:  Convent of Rabida, AndaluciaSantes Creus (Cistercian)

 

Portugal

 

Britain:  St Laurence, Ludlow; Canterbury Cathedral Christchurch Priory, Dorset Worcester Cathedral

 

Portraits: 

 

 

 

 

Romsey Abbey (Hampshire)

 

March 2010

 

 

 

 

Foot warming in February - Chartres Cathedral Zodiac window

 

February 2010

 

Links to Paradoxplace pages about medieval illustrations of Labours of the Month, Zodiac Signs, Cardinal Virtues and Sins in Western European churches.

 

 

Donatello de'Bardi

 

 

Donatello de' Bardi (Louvre, Paris)

 

January 2010

 

 

 

 

St Mary Magdalene, Eardisley (Herefordshire)

 

January 2010

 

More Paradoxplace Baptismal Fonts

 

 

 

 

St George, Anstey (Hertfordshire)

 

December 2009

 

 

 

 

The Magi in Autun, Burgundy

 

January 2010

 

 

 

 

Cathédrale Ste-Foy, Conques

 

December 2009

 

 

 

Sagittarius (November 23 to December 21) Chartres Cathedral Zodiac Window

 

December 2009

 

 

 

 

Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris

 

December 2009

 

 

 

Cistercian Reial Monastir de Santes Creus, Catalonia (Spain)

 

December 2009

 

 

 

 

Oct / Nov is Tartufo Bianco Time

 

November 2009

 

 

 

 

Worcester Cathedral

 

November 2009

 

 

 

 

Remembrance Day

11 November 2009

Dr Jimmy Fletcher      Brig J C Sproule

Grandfathers Paradox

 

November 2009

 

 

 

 

The Empress Theodora in Ravenna

 

October 2009

 

 

 

 

St Nicholas, Barfreston Corbel in Bellatrovata

 

October 2009

 

 

 

Libra "Le Balance", September 23 – October 23 - Chartres Cathedral

 

October 2009

 

 

 

Chartres Cathedral

 

October 2009

 

 

 

 

Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome

 

September  2009

 

 

Reima Cathedral

 

 

Reims Cathedral, Champagne

 

June 2009

 

 

 

Annunciations

 

August  2009

 

 

 

 

"The Plumber"

 

Christchurch Priory, Dorset

 

June 2009

 

 

 

 

Leo (July 23 - August 23) in a floor roundel in Canterbury Cathedral

 

August  2009

 

 

 

 

St-Lazare, Avallon (Burgundy)

 

Summer Solstice (21 June) in the north is Winter Solstice down in Sydney, where it's presently bloody cold.

 

June 2009

 

 

 

 

La Foce - one of our new photos from South of Siena

 

June 2009

 

 

Astrolabe

 

 

Christopher Columbus and the Age of Exploration

 

July 2009

 

 

 

 

Summer Solstice - Sunday 21 June 2009

 

 

 

Above - St-Lazare, Autun (Burgundy)

 

 

 

Below - Ste-Madeleine, Vézelay (Burgundy)

 

 

 

 

 

The Gemini Twins (May 22 - June 21) -  in the Cluny Museum, Paris

 

June 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Gemini Twins (May 22 - June 21) - Cathédrale St-Lazare, Autun, Burgundy and the Cluny Museum, Paris

 

June 2009

 

 

Magi King, Tours Cathedral

 

 

Medieval Stained Glass in the Cathedral St-Gatien, Tours

 

June 2009

 

 

 

 

Magna Carta Memorial, Runnymede - Magne Carta was signed somewhere around here on 15 June 1215

 

June 2009

 

 

 

 

Cosimo I de'Medici - Grand Duke of Tuscany, by Cellini (Bargello)

 

June 2009

 

 

 

 

Corpus Domini (11 / 14 June 2009) at the Cistercian Abbazia di Chiaravalle della Colomba near Piacenza 

 

Pentecoste (31 May 2009) in Venice

 

May 2009

 

 

Piero della Francesca - Resurrection - Sansepolcro

 

 

The Piero della Francesca Trail and his famous painting of the Resurrection in Sansepolcro - dubbed by Aldous Huxley "The Best Picture in the World"

 

May 2009

 

 

 

 

Taurus the Bull (April 21 to May 21) - l'Eglise St-Lazare, Avallon (Burgundy)

 

May 2009

 

 

 

 

May 1 is May Day - a public holiday in much of Europe and time to give the Hammer and Sickle (remember that?) a burl.

 

May 1 2009

 

 

 

 

Ludlow Castle

 

 

Sat April 25 is Anzac Day in Australia.  This is a photo of my late father (Michael Fletcher) in Egypt in 1941, when he was a Captain in the British 8th Army.

 

 

His birthday was on April 23 - Saint George's Day.  On the left, the Saint George Ensign flies over Ludlow Castle (South Shropshire).

 

April 25 2009

 

Cosimo de'Medici, il Vecchio

 

Fra Angelico, Annunciation

 

Montecassino & WW II in Italy

 

 

 

Cosimo il Vecchio (de'Medici)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fra Angelico Annunciations: San Giovanni Val d'Arno, Cortona, Madrid, & San Marco, Florence

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WW II in Italy

 

 

April 2009

 

 

Cistercian Nunnery of Santa Maria del Salvador, on the Spanish Camino at Canas (La Rioja), which contains the famous tomb of Abbess la Beata Urraca Lopez de Haro.

 

Cistercian Abbey of Santa Maria del Salvador, Canas, la Rioja

Last Supper and Tomb of  Abbess La Beata Urraca Lopez de Haro - Cistercian Nunnery of Santa Maria del Salvador, Canas (La Rioja), Spanish Camino

 

Last Suppers in the Renaissance Refectories of Florence

 

Masaccio - "Trinita"

Seminal Renaissance Fresco in Santa Maria Novella, Florence

 

 

EASTER WEEK APRIL 2009

 

The Passion Window from Chartres Cathedral

 

 

 

 

Niña , Pinta , and Santa María - Columbus' little boats at Rabida, Andalucia

 

April 2009

 

 

 

 

The Ponte Vecchio (Florence) on a November evening

 

April 2009

 

 

 

 

L'Abbazia di San Galgano (Tuscany)

 

March 2009

 

 

 

 

Aquarius the Water Carrier - Cathédrale St-Lazare, Autun, Burgundy

 

January 2009

 

 

 

 

The Lord of Misrule - St Laurence, Ludlow

 

January 2009

 

 

 

 

 

Images for Australia Day

 

26 January 2009

 

 

The Magi in Perse, Nr Espalion

 

The Magi in Autun, Burgundy

 

Balthazar - Basilica di Sant Apollinare,

Ravenna

 

Fra Angelico captures the Magi in Cell 39 of the Dominican Convent of San Marco, Florence

 

 

 The Magi dropped in on 6 January - Epiphany

 

MORE MAGI IN MEDIEVAL ART

 

 

 

 

Capricorn - Parisian Abbey Church of Ste-Geneviève (now gone) - Cluny Museum (Paris)

 

December 2008  - January 2009

 

 

 

 

The three faces of the New Year (Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow) alongside Aquarius (Chartres Cathedral)

 

New Year 2009

 

 

 

 

The shepherds are given the news of Christmas (Chartres Cathedral)

 

December 2008

 

Links to Medieval & Renaissance Nativity Scenes - a new page for Christmas

 

 

 

 

Sagittarius at Ste-Madeleine, Vézelay

 

November - December 2008

 

 

Link to photos which appeared on the Paradoxplace Home Page in 2007 and 2008.

 

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