Archive for the 'Art' Category
Filed under Art, Faith Foundations, Heritage
Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane
6 Comments CherryPie on Apr 2nd 2015
Filed under Art, Heritage, Holidays, Oxford 2014
Two Kings
West wall of the of the Shrine of King Taharqa
King Taharqa and the gods of Gamaten (the temple at Kawa). Taharqa offers a loaf, a necklace, a pectoral and a figure of Ma’at (symbol of cosmic order) to the ram-headed god Amun-Re. Behind god’s throne stand the goddesses Anukis Nethy, Satis and Anukis Ba.
North wall of [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Mar 31st 2015
Filed under Art, Gardens, Science & Nature
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.
William Blake
16 Comments CherryPie on Mar 29th 2015
Filed under Art, Holidays, Oxford 2014
Stone Carvings on the Bodleian Library
14 Comments CherryPie on Mar 21st 2015
Filed under Art, Heritage, Holidays, Oxford 2014
King James
Anthony Wood has given us, along with a detailed description of the carvings, the sad story of the shabby treatment which this magnificent spectacle received at the King’s hands.” ‘The effigies of King James’ he writes’ was cut very curiously in stone, sitting in a throne and giving with his right hand a book to [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Mar 19th 2015
Filed under Art, Out & About
Mass
noun
1: a large body of matter with no definite shape.
“the sun broke out from behind a mass of clouds”
synonyms:
pile, heap, stack, clump, cloud, bunch, bundle, lump
2: a large number of people or objects crowded together.
“a mass of cyclists”
synonyms:
large number, abundance, profusion, multitude, group, crowd, mob,rabble, horde,
barrage, throng, huddle, host, troop, army, herd, flock,drove, swarm, pack, press,
crush, mountain, flood
“a mass of cyclists”
adjective
1: involving or affecting large numbers of people or things.
“the film has mass appeal”
synonyms:
wholesale, universal, widespread, general, large-scale, extensive, pandemic
“mass hysteria”
verb
1: assemble [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Mar 6th 2015
Filed under Art, Heritage, Out & About
My Name is Keeper
From The Royal Armouries website:
A tradition of displaying British military strength by creating trophies from masses of weapons has long existed at the Tower. From about 1700 visitors to the Grand Storehouse were stopped in their tracks by John Harris’s stunning displays and models, including a serpent and a seven-headed hydra, which he created from [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Mar 5th 2015
