Meanwhile, BLACK to move and win.
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When you say Black to move and win, do you mean one move to win, or it’s Black’s turn to move and in a few moves will win?
mbarry: It might take a series of moves. See if you can come up with something that will give you a winning position.
Would someone be able to explain the artwork above the confessional. It’s beautiful but I haven’t a clue who the figures are.
Thank you. I look forward to these every day.
The painting.
This is in the little Church S. Caterina della Rota, which is now the seat of the Confraternity that used to carry the sedia gestatoria. It is by Giovanni Antonio Galli, nicknamed “Lo Spadarino”. It depicts what its title expresses: “St Valeria brings her own head to St Martial after her beheading”. There are various cephalophoric saints, such as St. Denis, who walked about 6 miles with it, and St. Gemolo, who actually got on a horse and rode away. This is St. Valerie and the scene took place in Limoges
BTW… when you my dear Roman donors send me off to Rome again (pretty soon), I’ll be right across from this little church in my adoptive Regola neighborhood.
Speaking of chess, a chess club has started in our little town which meets every Wednesday evening at the library. I went to the meeting which was attended by 5 players. I learned a few things talking to them and playing one game which I lost, allowing myself to be subject to a fork of my queen and rook. The biggest takeaway is that I need to do a better job of scanning the board and checking for possible attacks. Also whenever my opponent moves, to ask myself why he made that move.
This puzzle was, perhaps, too hard. Too open ended. I worked on two lines:
1… Qh4
2. h3 f3
3. Kh2 f2
4. Bh6 Qxh6
And
… Qh4
2. Bxf4+ Qxf4
3. h3 Qf2+
4. Kh1 Qxb2
Both seem to lead to black having a winning position, I think. Salvo meliore iudicio.
Thank you for the explanation of the painting. My niece was born today, her name, Valerie!
My other niece was also born today, she’s Delphine.
Sacred art has aided my faith.
Thanks again
Thank you for photograph and explanation! I had not yet started to try to figure out how to attempt to discover which cephalophoric saint this was, depicted by whom, and where to be seen…
Reading that this is the seat of the Confraternity that used to carry the sedia gestatoria, I wonder if there might be some earnest play in their settling where the bearer of a Holy Head was honored?
Adventures across Wikipediae: looking up the Church of S. Caterina della Rota, I found a link in its German article to St. Valerie of Milan. Following that to her English article, I learnt that the Germans or their bots had messed that up, St. Valerie of Milan being someone quite different from St. Valerie of Limoges – but also got a chance to read the fascinating and joyful history of the relic of the arm of St. Valerie of Milan, and how St. Valerie became the Patroness of Thibodaux, Louisiana!
Venerator says: bearer of a Holy Head
ROFL! That’s really funny. I hadn’t thought of that. I am 95% sure that’s why they have this in this church. If memory serves the original is somewhere like in the Chapel of the Canons in St. Peter’s or maybe in the Museum by now. This is another version.