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Category Archives: On the road
31 December 2011
The Feeder Feed: Theban Sphinx Edition
You know the story of Oedipus.
Here is a terracotta bell-krater from Paestum in S Italy. It is attributed to Python in the last quarter of the 4th c. BC.
Closer.
Closer.
In S Italy the tragic Oedipus was sometimes depicted in the … Continue reading
Posted in On the road, The Feeder Feed, What Fr. Z is up to
Tagged Oedipus, Sphinx, Thebes
4 Comments
Fortune Cookie Report: Franciscan Edition
I am still puzzling over what happened in that fortune cookie factory.
And the wontons in chile oil were great!
Technorati Tags: Fortune Cookie
30 December 2011
The Feeder Feed: Rose Without Thorns Edition
Here is a lovely statue of Mary, portrayed as a Queen, with her scepter of a stem of roses. She was made in about 1350. This statue is related to one in silver given by Jeanne d’Evreux to the … Continue reading
Posted in Just Too Cool, On the road, The Feeder Feed, What Fr. Z is up to
Tagged Christological Goldfinch, Cloisters
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29 December 2011
Impossible lunch
I came today to Veselka in the East Village. It is jammed but I slid into a seat at the counter. I am across from the grill where a very competent fellow is doing well. It brings … Continue reading
28 December 2011
The Feeder Feed: Venetian Christological Goldfinch Edition
At the Met in NYC there is a nice exhibit of paintings and drawings of the Venetian school.
Here is a Madonna and Child Enthroned by Lorenzo Veneziano (+1372), obviously a Venetian painter.
There are touches of the byzantine in this portrayal.
Here … Continue reading
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27 December 2011
Catholic League’s 5th Ave Nativity Scene
I posted some time ago about the Catholic League’s Creche or Nativity Scene in New York City.
I went to find it today.
Many people stopped to look qt it and take photos.
I added a FourSquare location when I saw that nobody … Continue reading
26 December 2011
The Feeder Feed: Met “Hoopoe” Edition
In the new Near East section at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, you are able to view “The Concourse of the Birds”, which is on a folio of the Mantiq al-Tair (Language of the Birds) of ‘Attar, painted in about … Continue reading
23 December 2011
The Feeder Feed: tortured dove edition
I am at the Metropolitan Museum in NYC, before a painting by Rubens (+1640) of the Holy Family with Sts John, Elizabeth, and a dove.
Rubens has returned from some time in Italy, which affected his colors and composition, and probably … Continue reading
A favorite place in NYC
Bryant Park has made its way onto my list of favorite places in New York. Surrounded by interesting architecture and with great sightlines between the buildings, there are always interesting things going on in different seasons.
Right now people are … Continue reading
Posted in On the road, What Fr. Z is up to
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7 November 2011
Some fruits of the Big Apple
Some of the high points of New York City so far.
Three new Met button colors of the sixteen possible!
I couldn’t get out to the Bronx Zoo, so I went down to Zuccotti Park instead.
Just nice!
Central Park.
A snack on exiting the … Continue reading
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17 Comments
5 November 2011
Of buns and of bagels and of birds with a prize!
???? … not as good as those I often have in St. Paul, but pretty good!
Meanwhile, I had my necessary bagel. Onion, this time.
These minor delights leave me as happy as a bird with its own french fry. And as … Continue reading
Posted in Just Too Cool, On the road, SESSIUNCULA, What Fr. Z is up to
Tagged bagels, xiao long bao
19 Comments
4 November 2011
If you are what you eat…
… I’m crabby in Chinatown!
Technorati Tags: soft-shell crabs
2 November 2011
The Feeder Feed: Christological Finch Edition
The Met in New York has a new acquisition. It is a splendid painting by Perino del Vaga, a student of Raphael, who was very active in Rome and Genoa.
The painting was recently cleaned.
Here is His little Goldfinch.
From another era … Continue reading
1 November 2011
New wish list item
I couldn’t find a way to put this on my wish list, so I am putting it here.
Posted in I'm just askin'..., Just Too Cool, Lighter fare, On the road, SESSIUNCULA
17 Comments
29 October 2011
What one does on flights.
I am reading this 2010 book sent by a reader here about Constantine by Paul Stephenson at the suggestion of His Hermeneuticalness the great P.P. of Blackfen and Dean of Bexley.
Technorati Tags: Airplanes
