segunda-feira, setembro 23, 2013
segunda-feira, setembro 16, 2013
domingo, setembro 15, 2013
A Georgian monk Maxim has been living on a 40 meters high limestone monolith in Imeretia for twenty years. Katshiysky Pillar has been worshipped by locals since pre-Christian times as a place where a human being can become closer to God. The church on the mountain was built between the VI and VIII centuries. It was found out in 1944 when only the foundation remained from all the structure.
The silence prevailing here lets you feel God.
The new church was built here mainly thanks to monk Maxim that is why it was named after Maximus the Confessor. Maxim is spending day after day, year after year in the silence of this place. It takes him twenty minutes to come down from the Pillar and even longer to go upstairs.
Maxim became a monk after being liberated from a prison. He wished to change and revive the traditions of pillar ascents which had been living there before the invasion of ottomans in the XV century.
The ruins of the ancient temple were found on the Pillar only in 1944 by a research group.
Maxim’s loneliness is interferred only by priests and troubled teens who gather at the foot of Katshiysky Pillar.
Being young he used to drink much and sell drugs which led him to prison. It’s when he realised he had to change. He knew about Katshiysky Pillar cause he had often drunk wine there with friends being young. And he knew the place was inhabited by monks.
In 1993 he climbed the Pillar of Katskhi and lived the first two years there hiding from bad weather under a canvas awning.
Then the local Christian community built the church, the stairs and a little cell for Maxim there.
Today he is visited by those who have some difficult situations and need his advice. Maxim comes down from the pillar twice a week to talk to such people and console them.
via ridus
The construction site.
Big sewage pipes.
This is an administrative complex: here will be a police station, a medical station, rental of tourist equipment, shops.
The guest house.
On of them will be ready by the end of the year, two others – this summer.
That building to the right is a restaurant for 200 people connected with a hotel complex by a glass passage.
The workers are building the fourth hotel. There will be five hotels in general.
All the hotels are finished in the same style – with brown and white tiles.
A hundred meters away is ropeway of a gondola type.
It is the longest gondola ropeway in Russia, its length is more than 2000 meters. It lifts tourists 2200 meters high; the ropeway’s capacity is – 2400 people per hour.
There are two ski slopes here – 3500 and 1500 meters high. One more is going to be made for tourists – it is planned to lift tourists up to the height of 2900 meters – on the very gorge – the pass of Fedoseev.
It’s not the only ropeway in the settlement: the chair lift ropeway had been the first to be put into service.
One can get onto some slopes by car.
sábado, setembro 14, 2013
O Parisiense Antoine-Jean-Baptiste Thomas (1791-1833) deixou belos testemunhos da sua presença em Itália.
Antoine-Jean-Baptiste Thomas (1791-1833)-'the floral'-lithography from 'un an a Rome et dans ses environs, Firmin Didot, Paris 1825'
Antoine-Jean-Baptiste Thomas (1791-1833)-'rober'-lithography from 'un an a Rome et dans ses environs, Firmin Didot, Paris 1825'
Antoine-Jean-Baptiste Thomas (1791-1833)-'the return of grape harvest'-lithography from 'un an a Rome et dans ses environs, Firmin Didot, Paris 1825'
Antoine-Jean-Baptiste Thomas (1791-1833)-'the swing' -lithography from 'un an a Rome et dans ses environs, Firmin Didot, Paris 1825'
Antoine-Jean-Baptiste Thomas (1791-1833)-'villagers assembled a day of celebration on the left of the fountain'-drawing-1821
13.9.13
Themes by Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Vinchon
The Frenchman Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Vinchon (1789-1855) painted several themes, some of which related to his stay in Italy.
O francês Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Vinchon (1789-1855) pintou vários assuntos, alguns dos quais relacionados com a sua permanência em Itália.
Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Vinchon (1789-1855)-'an artist painting a model of Venus and Cupid in his studio'-oil on canvas Private collection
Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Vinchon (1789-1855)-'a house near Lake Vietry (in reality it is the Gulf of Salerno, not a Lake!)'-oil on paper laid on canvas-1818 Private collection
Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Vinchon (1789-1855) and Nicolas Gosse (1787-1878)-'cynic Philosopher with his dog'-1827 Paris-Musée du Louvre
Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Vinchon (1789-1855)-'view of the Tiber river'-oil on canvas Private collection
Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Vinchon (1789-1855)-'the dedication of the young Mazet'-oil on canvas Autun-Musée Rolin
O francês Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Vinchon (1789-1855) pintou vários assuntos, alguns dos quais relacionados com a sua permanência em Itália.
12.9.13
Turkey by Germain-Fabius Brest
The Orientalist Germain-Fabius Brest (1823-1900) painted many Muslim motifs of the Ottoman Empire.
O Orientalista Germain-Fabius Brest (1823-1900) pintou muitos temas Islâmicos do Império Otomano.
Germain-Fabius Brest (1823-1900)-'outside the Mosque'-oil on canvas Private collection
Germain-Fabius Brest (1823-1900)-'view of Constantinople'
Germain-Fabius Brest (1823-1900)-'Boïcos in the Bosphorus'-oil on canvas Private collection
Germain-Fabius Brest (1823-1900)-'Constantinople'-oil on canvas-1874 Private collection
Germain-Fabius Brest (1823-1900)-entrance to the Mosque'-oil on canvas-ca 1868
O Orientalista Germain-Fabius Brest (1823-1900) pintou muitos temas Islâmicos do Império Otomano.
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