Light & Beauty

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CIGAR SMOKES TO MATCH CLOUDS THAT ARE DIFFERENT - JOHN BALDESSARI, 1972

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MAN AT HIS BATH - GUSTAVE CAILLEBOTTE, 1884

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LOUIS EILSHEMIUS, NEW YORK AT NIGHT (WITH DETAIL), C. 1910

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NAUM GABO, OPUS 5, 1953

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Oh My!

http://vimeo.com/lucafinotti/triton

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Organ in the Dresden Frauenkirche, rebuilt in 2005 by Daniel Kern behind a reconstruction of the original facade of the 1736 organ of Gottfried Silbermann.

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"First Snow #2"
by David C. Schultz
http://www.westlightimages.com

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Organ in the Dresden Frauenkirche, rebuilt in 2005 by Daniel Kern behind a reconstruction of the original façade of the 1736 organ of Gottfried Silbermann.

With my wife and her two womanfriend (they was baptized together) I went regularly to the Freiberg temple. (I was the chauffeur only...) It was a 8 day tour, from Monday to Monday.
Near every afternoon we made an excursion in the 30-40 km neighbourhood - Dresden is 30. (During the day, while they were in the temple, I bicycled inside 10 km around.) On Saturdays, we extended the radius.

Frauenstein, Silbermannstadt. 19 km from Freiberg.

In Freiberg, there are a Silbermann organ in the cathedral.
[#img] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... norgel.jpg[img]

During rainy days, I used to listen gratis concerts - and exercise of organists - there, and in Jakobikirche (another Silbermannorgel).
[#img] http://www.freiberg-service.de/typo3tem ... 10a342.jpg[img]

You can listen that organ (3:11)...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=444nBV6qohc

Or, if You have 1:00:34, then http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR4qCXq3H8M
(Youtube search "silbermann orgel freiberg" gives five page of matches.)


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by the way
Music gives us Light & Beauty


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by the way again
As an architect (beauties was created by architects, 500-1000-2000-more years before):

Please look at the ceiling of Freiberger Dom:
[#img] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... _cossa.jpg[img]

with the organ:
[#img] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... _Orgel.jpg[img]


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by the way last but not least...
I used to see the Dresden Frauenkirche before rebuilding.
[#img] http://www.cleanme.us/wp-content/upload ... bombed.jpg[img]

As Canaletto used to see it:
[#img] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... 29_006.jpg[img]

The Dresden Frauenkirche wiki page is worth to read.

On 13 February 1945, Anglo-American allied forces began the bombing of Dresden. The church withstood two days and nights of the attacks and the eight interior sandstone pillars supporting the large dome held up long enough for the evacuation of 300 people who had sought shelter in the church crypt, before succumbing to the heat generated by some 650,000 incendiary bombs that were dropped on the city. The temperature surrounding and inside the church eventually reached 1,000 degrees Celsius.[1] The dome finally collapsed at 10 a.m. on 15 February. The pillars glowed bright red and exploded; the outer walls shattered and nearly 6,000 tons of stone plunged to earth, penetrating the massive floor as it fell.

The altar, a relief depiction of Jesus’ agony in the Garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives by Johann Christian Feige, was only partially damaged during the bombing raid and fire that destroyed the church. The altar and the structure behind it, the chancel, were among the remnants left standing. Features of most of the figures were lopped off by falling debris and the fragments lay under the rubble.

The building vanished from Dresden's skyline, and the blackened stones would lie in wait in a pile in the centre of the city for the next 45 years as Communist rule enveloped what was now East Germany. Shortly after the end of World War II, residents of Dresden had already begun salvaging unique stone fragments from the Church of Our Lady and numbering them for future use in reconstruction. Popular sentiment discouraged the authorities from clearing the ruins away to make a car park. In 1966, the remnants were officially declared a "memorial against war", and state-controlled commemorations were held there on the anniversaries of the destruction of Dresden.

In 1982, the ruins began to be the site of a peace movement combined with peaceful protests against the East German regime. On the anniversary of the bombing, 400 citizens of Dresden came to the ruins in silence with flowers and candles, part of a growing East German civil rights movement. By 1989, the number of protesters in Dresden, Leipzig and other parts of East Germany had increased to tens of thousands, and the wall dividing East and West Germany toppled. This opened the way to the reunification of Germany.
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Günter Blobel, a German-born American, saw the original Church of Our Lady as a boy when his refugee family took shelter in a town just outside of Dresden days before the city was bombed. In 1994, he became the founder and president of the nonprofit "Friends of Dresden, Inc.", a United States organization dedicated to supporting the reconstruction, restoration and preservation of Dresden's artistic and architectural legacy. In 1999, Blobel won the Nobel Prize for medicine and donated the entire amount of his award money (nearly US$1 million) to the organization for the restoration of Dresden, to the rebuilding of the Frauenkirche and the building of a new synagogue. It was the single largest individual donation to the project.

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by the way I've said that would be the last
Landeshaupstadt Dresden - Fotogalerie Frauenkirche
Too many picture to show...

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Organ in the Dresden Frauenkirche, rebuilt in 2005 by Daniel Kern behind a reconstruction of the original façade of the 1736 organ of Gottfried Silbermann.

With my wife and her two womanfriend (they was baptized together) I went regularly to the Freiberg temple. (I was the chauffeur only...) It was a 8 day tour, from Monday to Monday.
Near every afternoon we made an excursion in the 30-40 km neighbourhood - Dresden is 30. (During the day, while they were in the temple, I bicycled inside 10 km around.) On Saturdays, we extended the radius.

So cool!

Frauenstein, Silbermannstadt. 19 km from Freiberg.

In Freiberg, there are a Silbermann organ in the cathedral.


During rainy days, I used to listen gratis concerts - and exercise of organists - there, and in Jakobikirche (another Silbermannorgel).


You can listen that organ (3:11)...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=444nBV6qohc

Or, if You have 1:00:34, then http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR4qCXq3H8M
(Youtube search "silbermann orgel freiberg" gives five page of matches.)


*******************
by the way
Music gives us Light & Beauty


*******************
by the way again
As an architect (beauties was created by architects, 500-1000-2000-more years before):

Please look at the ceiling of Freiberger Dom:


with the organ:



*******************
by the way last but not least...
I used to see the Dresden Frauenkirche before rebuilding.


As Canaletto used to see it:


The Dresden Frauenkirche wiki page is worth to read.

On 13 February 1945, Anglo-American allied forces began the bombing of Dresden. The church withstood two days and nights of the attacks and the eight interior sandstone pillars supporting the large dome held up long enough for the evacuation of 300 people who had sought shelter in the church crypt, before succumbing to the heat generated by some 650,000 incendiary bombs that were dropped on the city. The temperature surrounding and inside the church eventually reached 1,000 degrees Celsius.[1] The dome finally collapsed at 10 a.m. on 15 February. The pillars glowed bright red and exploded; the outer walls shattered and nearly 6,000 tons of stone plunged to earth, penetrating the massive floor as it fell.

The altar, a relief depiction of Jesus’ agony in the Garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives by Johann Christian Feige, was only partially damaged during the bombing raid and fire that destroyed the church. The altar and the structure behind it, the chancel, were among the remnants left standing. Features of most of the figures were lopped off by falling debris and the fragments lay under the rubble.

The building vanished from Dresden's skyline, and the blackened stones would lie in wait in a pile in the centre of the city for the next 45 years as Communist rule enveloped what was now East Germany. Shortly after the end of World War II, residents of Dresden had already begun salvaging unique stone fragments from the Church of Our Lady and numbering them for future use in reconstruction. Popular sentiment discouraged the authorities from clearing the ruins away to make a car park. In 1966, the remnants were officially declared a "memorial against war", and state-controlled commemorations were held there on the anniversaries of the destruction of Dresden.

In 1982, the ruins began to be the site of a peace movement combined with peaceful protests against the East German regime. On the anniversary of the bombing, 400 citizens of Dresden came to the ruins in silence with flowers and candles, part of a growing East German civil rights movement. By 1989, the number of protesters in Dresden, Leipzig and other parts of East Germany had increased to tens of thousands, and the wall dividing East and West Germany toppled. This opened the way to the reunification of Germany.
...
Günter Blobel, a German-born American, saw the original Church of Our Lady as a boy when his refugee family took shelter in a town just outside of Dresden days before the city was bombed. In 1994, he became the founder and president of the nonprofit "Friends of Dresden, Inc.", a United States organization dedicated to supporting the reconstruction, restoration and preservation of Dresden's artistic and architectural legacy. In 1999, Blobel won the Nobel Prize for medicine and donated the entire amount of his award money (nearly US$1 million) to the organization for the restoration of Dresden, to the rebuilding of the Frauenkirche and the building of a new synagogue. It was the single largest individual donation to the project.

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by the way I've said that would be the last
Landeshaupstadt Dresden - Fotogalerie Frauenkirche
Too many picture to show...

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