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 (only updated occasionally!):
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; Barfreston (Kent); Christchurch Priory, Dorset; Worcester Cathedral
Portraits:
Scything Hay and Leo (July 23 – August 23) - Chartres Cathedral Zodiac Window
August 2010
Le Cancer (The Crab) (June 22– July 22)
Roundel in Canterbury Cathedral
July 2010
Cistercian Abbazia di Chiaravalle della Colomba (near Fidenza in Emilia-Romagna)
Corpus Domini Infiorata
June 2010
The Gemini Twins, now in the Cluny Museum (Paris)
Les Gémeaux - May 22 to June 21
June 2010
Magna Carta was signed in Runnymead
795 years' ago on
15 June 1215
The Paschal Candelabrum in the Abbey of San Clemente a Casauria
May 2010
May 2010
An Italian "Anzac Day" - the Bersagliere on parade
May 2010
Pentecoste in Castello, Venice
Pentecoste Sunday - 23 May 2010
May 2010
May 2010
Cistercian Abbey of Rueda (Our Lady of the Water Wheel), Aragon
May 2010
Last Suppers in the Renaissance Refectories of Florence
Easter - April 2010
May Day 2010
May Day in Salamanca (Spain) May Day in San Pietro in Vaticano (Rome)
Anzac Day - 25 April 2010
St George's Day Saint George, Brinsop
April 23 2010
Detail - Passion Window in Chartres Cathedral
Easter - April 2010
Le Bélier (The Ram) - Roundel in Canterbury Cathedral
April 2010
April 2010
Tympanum Queen - Barfreston (Kent)
March 2010
Font - St Mary Magdalene, Eardisley (Herefordshire Romanesque School)
More Paradoxplace Baptismal Fonts
March 2010
Pisces - February 19 – March 20
February 2010
Links to Paradoxplace pages about medieval illustrations of Labours of the Month, Zodiac Signs, Cardinal Virtues and Sins in Western European churches.
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 (Louvre, Paris)
January 2010
St Mary Magdalene, Eardisley (Herefordshire)
January 2010
More Paradoxplace Baptismal Fonts
St George, Anstey (Hertfordshire)
December 2009
January 2010
December 2009
Sagittarius (November 23 to December 21) Chartres Cathedral Zodiac Window
December 2009
December 2009
Cistercian Reial Monastir de Santes Creus, Catalonia (Spain)
December 2009
Oct / Nov is Tartufo Bianco Time
November 2009
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
October 2009
September 2009
June 2009
August 2009
"The Plumber"
June 2009
Leo (July 23 - August 23) in a floor roundel in Canterbury Cathedral
August 2009
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
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
Medieval Stained Glass in the Cathedral St-Gatien, Tours
June 2009
Magna Carta Memorial, Runnymede - Magna 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
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
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
Fra Angelico Annunciations: San Giovanni Val d'Arno, Cortona, Madrid, & San Marco, Florence
April 2009
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
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
Balthazar - Basilica di Sant Apollinare,
Fra Angelico captures the Magi in Cell 39 of the Dominican Convent of San Marco, Florence
The Magi dropped in on 6 January - Epiphany
Capricorn - Parisian Abbey Church of Ste-Geneviève (now gone) - Cluny Museum (Paris)
December 2008 - January 2009
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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