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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"
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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,
Andalucia; Santes Creus
(Cistercian);
Portugal:
Britain:
St Laurence, Ludlow;
Canterbury Cathedral;
Christchurch Priory, Dorset;
Worcester Cathedral
Portraits:
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Romsey Abbey (Hampshire)
March 2010
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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.
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Donatello de' Bardi (Louvre, Paris)
January 2010
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St Mary Magdalene, Eardisley
(Herefordshire)
January 2010
More Paradoxplace Baptismal
Fonts
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St George,
Anstey (Hertfordshire)
December
2009
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The Magi in Autun, Burgundy
January 2010
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Cathédrale Ste-Foy, Conques
December
2009
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Sagittarius
(November 23 to December 21) Chartres Cathedral Zodiac Window
December 2009
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Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris
December
2009
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Cistercian Reial Monastir de Santes Creus,
Catalonia (Spain)
December 2009
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Oct / Nov is
Tartufo Bianco Time
November
2009
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Worcester Cathedral
November 2009
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Remembrance Day
11
November 2009
Dr Jimmy Fletcher
Brig J C
Sproule
Grandfathers Paradox
November
2009
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The Empress Theodora in Ravenna
October 2009
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St Nicholas,
Barfreston
Corbel in Bellatrovata
October
2009
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Libra "Le Balance", September 23 – October 23 -
Chartres Cathedral
October 2009
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Chartres Cathedral
October
2009
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Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome
September 2009
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Reims Cathedral, Champagne
June 2009
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Annunciations
August 2009
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"The Plumber"
Christchurch Priory, Dorset
June 2009
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Leo (July 23 - August 23) in a floor
roundel in Canterbury Cathedral
August 2009
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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
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La Foce - one of our new photos from
South of Siena
June 2009
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Christopher Columbus and the Age of
Exploration
July 2009
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Summer Solstice - Sunday 21 June
2009
Above -
St-Lazare, Autun (Burgundy)
Below -
Ste-Madeleine, Vézelay (Burgundy)
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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
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Medieval Stained Glass in the Cathedral St-Gatien, Tours
June 2009
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Magna Carta Memorial, Runnymede
- Magne Carta was signed somewhere around here on 15 June 1215
June 2009
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Cosimo I de'Medici - Grand Duke of Tuscany, by
Cellini (Bargello)
June 2009
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Corpus Domini
(11 / 14 June 2009) at
the Cistercian
Abbazia di Chiaravalle della Colomba near Piacenza
Pentecoste (31
May 2009)
in
Venice
May 2009
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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
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Taurus the Bull (April 21 to
May 21) - l'Eglise St-Lazare, Avallon (Burgundy)
May 2009
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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
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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
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Cosimo il Vecchio (de'Medici)
Fra Angelico Annunciations: San Giovanni Val d'Arno,
Cortona, Madrid, &
San Marco, Florence
WW II in Italy
April 2009
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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.

Last Supper
and Tomb of
Abbess La Beata Urraca Lopez de Haro
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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
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EASTER WEEK APRIL 2009

The Passion Window from Chartres Cathedral
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Niña , Pinta , and
Santa María -
Columbus' little boats at Rabida,
Andalucia
April 2009
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The Ponte Vecchio (Florence) on a November evening
April 2009
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L'Abbazia di San Galgano (Tuscany)
March 2009
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Aquarius the Water Carrier - Cathédrale St-Lazare,
Autun, Burgundy
January 2009
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The Lord of Misrule -
St Laurence, Ludlow
January 2009
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Images for Australia Day
26 January 2009
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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
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The
Magi dropped in on 6 January - Epiphany
MORE MAGI IN MEDIEVAL ART
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Capricorn - Parisian Abbey Church of Ste-Geneviève
(now gone) - Cluny Museum (Paris)
December 2008 -
January 2009
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The three faces of the New Year (Yesterday, Today and
Tomorrow) alongside Aquarius (Chartres Cathedral)
New Year 2009
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The shepherds are given the news of Christmas
(Chartres Cathedral)
December 2008
Links to Medieval
& Renaissance Nativity Scenes - a new page for Christmas
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Sagittarius at Ste-Madeleine,
Vézelay
November - December
2008
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Link to photos which appeared on the Paradoxplace
Home Page in 2007 and 2008.
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