tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48816076341105308822024-02-22T13:10:52.045-08:00The Roving MedievalistCelebrating the beauty of life, the glory of art, and the miraculous wonders of humanity, while declaring war on fusspots and prisspots everywhere, and having a lot of fun in the process.Jeffrey Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05765959701992923298noreply@blogger.comBlogger786125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4881607634110530882.post-12332404873103469412011-05-25T16:23:00.000-07:002011-05-25T16:26:06.369-07:00St. Lorenz, Nuremberg<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh97K24hJZwFYqsGUvNY6NWwCYc-Q5jO4Zt08Krq1wtQsCIaJGR46mWnQdvGSXVS26vZFmn54Rvj5ikuEcSXihkJBn9RrACE85WZdbB4yEuWMnFoXTbkG66ix3tLcbQkkcDYrQvuCJuAMCy/s1600/StLNuremberg.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 261px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh97K24hJZwFYqsGUvNY6NWwCYc-Q5jO4Zt08Krq1wtQsCIaJGR46mWnQdvGSXVS26vZFmn54Rvj5ikuEcSXihkJBn9RrACE85WZdbB4yEuWMnFoXTbkG66ix3tLcbQkkcDYrQvuCJuAMCy/s400/StLNuremberg.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610798816312034930" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPCfe9oZUEm1XZGfi3URdpZq5v_f4UFmlan0ctqFeOShJzRYHnmhqxSy1CUfyxt99E8NczJAZuGVw6jOSLahdGS3uSLxWlil_Z3Qs581vHqRsrvqAPz0FFaognkD-tVHLACLLcisRKGqeh/s1600/StLNuremberg2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 261px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPCfe9oZUEm1XZGfi3URdpZq5v_f4UFmlan0ctqFeOShJzRYHnmhqxSy1CUfyxt99E8NczJAZuGVw6jOSLahdGS3uSLxWlil_Z3Qs581vHqRsrvqAPz0FFaognkD-tVHLACLLcisRKGqeh/s400/StLNuremberg2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610798810865768338" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYxcHzUXlqFJhn0Rkv-Y_cjNCEX5-S7JYGuAW2swYXn5KYck5syXRI68X8O9FLyu29qXroLrg8gQDSrsUzzYb6TSkAeex5DV4GJz7sf2AHo7xyfB16waZxXcs7LTfleHrtFVP9EJQT30pH/s1600/StLNuremberg3.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 260px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYxcHzUXlqFJhn0Rkv-Y_cjNCEX5-S7JYGuAW2swYXn5KYck5syXRI68X8O9FLyu29qXroLrg8gQDSrsUzzYb6TSkAeex5DV4GJz7sf2AHo7xyfB16waZxXcs7LTfleHrtFVP9EJQT30pH/s400/StLNuremberg3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610798806463115266" border="0" /></a>Jeffrey Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05765959701992923298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4881607634110530882.post-70559006615448800572011-05-25T16:20:00.001-07:002011-05-25T16:23:36.236-07:00Saint Trophime, Arles<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjaIMet0boGnhHi4bWpkYIf44PCHm00tEsZpsk-0Rko4OO1xuz-SOoaWGvTSXmpZjWIDBdfnqykM6JLOgSmvAuicqdrj2-0usIANRgmWwRIgQyuEYBViB_LLxDiKHn4JumNOPsqqCLa3rF/s1600/sttrophime3.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 257px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjaIMet0boGnhHi4bWpkYIf44PCHm00tEsZpsk-0Rko4OO1xuz-SOoaWGvTSXmpZjWIDBdfnqykM6JLOgSmvAuicqdrj2-0usIANRgmWwRIgQyuEYBViB_LLxDiKHn4JumNOPsqqCLa3rF/s400/sttrophime3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610798187399924418" border="0" /></a>Jeffrey Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05765959701992923298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4881607634110530882.post-12606763410166374592011-05-25T16:10:00.001-07:002011-05-25T16:19:59.381-07:00Fiddling<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidGUNo9lR080gFPK6_uTnoqIqx4-VWf1tdCsfAkH45D6si5d-t11s82SCjwF7WiRICKtNWAwTltw5yM81pKqW7Pqsk_pIX9rDGcLWi73lEqa3mkh96_mAae4iyIitKKPIMCvmpOf45NxNu/s1600/DSC09379.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidGUNo9lR080gFPK6_uTnoqIqx4-VWf1tdCsfAkH45D6si5d-t11s82SCjwF7WiRICKtNWAwTltw5yM81pKqW7Pqsk_pIX9rDGcLWi73lEqa3mkh96_mAae4iyIitKKPIMCvmpOf45NxNu/s400/DSC09379.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610795276058232002" border="0" /></a>If you're looking for the links that were in the overcrowded sidebar, look up. They're now on separate pages, linked from under the header. I've been sick of that damn sidebar for months. Transferred the Babelfish and Paypal buttons to the bottom of the page while I was at it. They look ruddy awful down there, but they can stay until this blog becomes a full-scale website devoted to my opinionated view of the medieval world. Hopefully, if all the fur and feathers settle in the right way, that should be by the end of 2011.Jeffrey Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05765959701992923298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4881607634110530882.post-6024034186723424502011-04-27T10:56:00.000-07:002011-04-27T10:58:34.711-07:00Avignon<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV3kQ4eLqp65Gd1u162LMPFPDymV9cArYBI1CMDGgleHk4exr8O7u9deMcjXskZCPyhLOmGHhKGmaLRn2phg7mkj8bzM6igEWE87FOLvIoayJkoZAZgDQiw1E5B7wMoML7Fm1OFoVVcbx3/s1600/avignonwall.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 246px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV3kQ4eLqp65Gd1u162LMPFPDymV9cArYBI1CMDGgleHk4exr8O7u9deMcjXskZCPyhLOmGHhKGmaLRn2phg7mkj8bzM6igEWE87FOLvIoayJkoZAZgDQiw1E5B7wMoML7Fm1OFoVVcbx3/s400/avignonwall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600324260493008418" border="0" /></a>Jeffrey Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05765959701992923298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4881607634110530882.post-53911344984048129882011-04-27T10:54:00.000-07:002011-04-27T10:56:33.969-07:00Saint Trophime, Arles<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1WQDQnuoRH7-SOPZs36ZRLhxSCa2pVq_d_Rewcab7n5i2QP-lav2eyOInOSkrUn3SSSC0tR7SA2YeQcvnml2S0hNP34Qw6j8GSsoLsHlqXS7HmGWTgvis52RLUQQNbRlA4yGer3J9140y/s1600/Sttrophime3.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 260px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1WQDQnuoRH7-SOPZs36ZRLhxSCa2pVq_d_Rewcab7n5i2QP-lav2eyOInOSkrUn3SSSC0tR7SA2YeQcvnml2S0hNP34Qw6j8GSsoLsHlqXS7HmGWTgvis52RLUQQNbRlA4yGer3J9140y/s400/Sttrophime3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600323510731009826" border="0" /></a>Jeffrey Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05765959701992923298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4881607634110530882.post-74631913406212167912011-04-27T10:53:00.000-07:002011-04-27T10:54:20.566-07:00Mont-Saint-Michel<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgemwcowL42iV3tlFASrpnhRzQoJ5vIVJ9q2HLx74wj6yRi8I7BA6_rieThZS7R3SEL7sXxzgcOAi053GEwljpuznuAt2TnOuUqwXkhYiil84-LWsbcdwO99XnTbxVABzS68B9EdraQhV2b/s1600/MSM2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 242px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgemwcowL42iV3tlFASrpnhRzQoJ5vIVJ9q2HLx74wj6yRi8I7BA6_rieThZS7R3SEL7sXxzgcOAi053GEwljpuznuAt2TnOuUqwXkhYiil84-LWsbcdwO99XnTbxVABzS68B9EdraQhV2b/s400/MSM2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600323086848821554" border="0" /></a>Jeffrey Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05765959701992923298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4881607634110530882.post-67081058027964711212011-04-27T10:16:00.000-07:002011-04-27T10:17:18.923-07:00Quote of the Day"There is not, and there never was on this earth, a work of human policy so well deserving of examination as the Roman Catholic Church. The history of that Church joins together the two great ages of human civilisation. No other institution is left standing which carries the mind back to the times when the smoke of sacrifice rose from the Pantheon, and when camelopards and tigers bounded in the Flavian amphitheatre. The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, when compared with the line of the Supreme Pontiffs. That line we trace back in an unbroken series, from the Pope who crowned Napoleon in the nineteenth century to the Pope who crowned Pepin in the eighth; and far beyond the time of Pepin the august dynasty extends, till it is lost in the twilight of fable. The republic of Venice came next in antiquity. But the republic of Venice was modern when compared with the Papacy; and the republic of Venice is gone, and the Papacy remains. The Papacy remains, not in decay, not a mere antique, but full of life and youthful vigour. The Catholic Church is still sending forth to the farthest ends of the world missionaries as zealous as those who landed in Kent with Augustin, and still confronting hostile kings with the same spirit with which she confronted Attila. The number of her children is greater than in any former age. Her acquisitions in the New World have more than compensated for what she has lost in the Old. Her spiritual ascendency extends over the vast countries which lie between the plains of the Missouri and Cape Horn, countries which a century hence, may not improbably contain a population as large as that which now inhabits Europe. The members of her communion are certainly not fewer than a hundred and fifty millions; and it will be difficult to show that all other Christian sects united amount to a hundred and twenty millions. Nor do we see any sign which indicates that the term of her long dominion is approaching. She saw the commencement of all the governments and of all the ecclesiastical establishments that now exist in the world; and we feel no assurance that she is not destined to see the end of them all. She was great and respected before the Saxon had set foot on Britain, before the Frank had passed the Rhine, when Grecian eloquence still flourished at Antioch, when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca. And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul’s." -- Thomas Babington MacauleyJeffrey Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05765959701992923298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4881607634110530882.post-41899121621410768062011-03-25T09:39:00.000-07:002011-03-25T09:53:56.568-07:00Annunciation<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjNMORSK7p4St1z_4eWD6t3TyytOpSU_dqt6JxLuLm41b1qoa29sTj2-vNTlXkaixOFrHUtNdlcOnOQYR7THgQm8_aONCSGIwd5BmDQbmq78Hs5sIQL49gbHlI6NWaajhaLWnJgTIDxwhz/s1600/649px-Rogier_van_der_Weyden_030.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 369px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjNMORSK7p4St1z_4eWD6t3TyytOpSU_dqt6JxLuLm41b1qoa29sTj2-vNTlXkaixOFrHUtNdlcOnOQYR7THgQm8_aONCSGIwd5BmDQbmq78Hs5sIQL49gbHlI6NWaajhaLWnJgTIDxwhz/s400/649px-Rogier_van_der_Weyden_030.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5588060645863540674" border="0" /></a>Rogier van der Weyden<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-9m_Jg6FpZcDgMa_y7Q2aKRSZpR7uTWIU6z_atyAsSiOuPoPgTt-wYOp0DYs9N0BIJ-S3kFOzMYM79jHekXxfABfrVXoRhYkD5yA2sRUpXrSI8rDw9KFKDHXoD4dJshKqwKH8vCfbcOAL/s1600/800px-Pietro_Cavallini_013.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 242px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-9m_Jg6FpZcDgMa_y7Q2aKRSZpR7uTWIU6z_atyAsSiOuPoPgTt-wYOp0DYs9N0BIJ-S3kFOzMYM79jHekXxfABfrVXoRhYkD5yA2sRUpXrSI8rDw9KFKDHXoD4dJshKqwKH8vCfbcOAL/s400/800px-Pietro_Cavallini_013.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5588060637087941090" border="0" /></a>Pietro Cavallini<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkBos3QmiGG2f3du__gaKf5RyKS7qugQOgUOgUIKJ9WWAfm_D4xXShjge3Ax7dWd9a0IHkD3lR-Spjsxrns6C8VWQgyEZXiTVRyqh35qdmzj2fp0OPGt0K3qYR04chcP3dlw_yYmhbi_of/s1600/450px-Don_Lorenzo_Monaco_016.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 301px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkBos3QmiGG2f3du__gaKf5RyKS7qugQOgUOgUIKJ9WWAfm_D4xXShjge3Ax7dWd9a0IHkD3lR-Spjsxrns6C8VWQgyEZXiTVRyqh35qdmzj2fp0OPGt0K3qYR04chcP3dlw_yYmhbi_of/s400/450px-Don_Lorenzo_Monaco_016.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5588060629361683922" border="0" /></a>Lorenzo Monaco<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFiv2QQpuWBIkf_5nSjgnVDVEgcQJTmCUWgWYa0FPwItyBOkerkHym7RxmNInpvgp3-gs35yKLlDtOPKsLJGR7ohUoSCqNJvtJ2_9cgWCvcffsabl4VFSUH5KefTXx579EtTpFM_mYAqc5/s1600/500px-Jan_van_Eyck_095.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 333px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFiv2QQpuWBIkf_5nSjgnVDVEgcQJTmCUWgWYa0FPwItyBOkerkHym7RxmNInpvgp3-gs35yKLlDtOPKsLJGR7ohUoSCqNJvtJ2_9cgWCvcffsabl4VFSUH5KefTXx579EtTpFM_mYAqc5/s400/500px-Jan_van_Eyck_095.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5588059058650043650" border="0" /></a>Jan van Eyck<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjajoej03KcUz0jxJdPGq0LLPaPDaNaOFSKGz7Bm8emz9Omx6R9MDLYgthgDwl4LoXXVSQqA_083Gw5DWuGKYjl2jsO1Ej62hmc81-QyfIpkkwxCxE-B59ntEni2M2qYYvROjUdP2oIp_Y6/s1600/586px-Robert_Campin_011.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 391px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjajoej03KcUz0jxJdPGq0LLPaPDaNaOFSKGz7Bm8emz9Omx6R9MDLYgthgDwl4LoXXVSQqA_083Gw5DWuGKYjl2jsO1Ej62hmc81-QyfIpkkwxCxE-B59ntEni2M2qYYvROjUdP2oIp_Y6/s400/586px-Robert_Campin_011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5588059053190391266" border="0" /></a>Robert Campin<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9lEUk1inQN0XkS-JL7yG6DWy5sXcpWefmwof9qtzre3u19_ugAEcWIkXirikDxrcxAnV_OGfgZLDSwg2IEYrQ9B0GpPJ-rTYBnYV6Q4rb-lZI9k_Tnx8inzQZ5lItYpv1qR5x8KOB0vMu/s1600/470px-Gerard_David_005.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 314px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9lEUk1inQN0XkS-JL7yG6DWy5sXcpWefmwof9qtzre3u19_ugAEcWIkXirikDxrcxAnV_OGfgZLDSwg2IEYrQ9B0GpPJ-rTYBnYV6Q4rb-lZI9k_Tnx8inzQZ5lItYpv1qR5x8KOB0vMu/s400/470px-Gerard_David_005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5588059050035453730" border="0" /></a>Gerard David<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2q966hfiY6DFJOhbe9RS68Shyphenhyphenc-jaEisC0oC8cOBzyxlGdld881eDr1rjrCRSuWNvU0PtE3IYtv2_sCBMKBtlrtxBaaPIuQGAdFRiWXQMJsjCw4XnnDhr8HAG21X58JdZTGJcAvbZTgU-/s1600/687px-Barth%25C3%25A9lemy_d%2527_Eyck_002.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 349px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2q966hfiY6DFJOhbe9RS68Shyphenhyphenc-jaEisC0oC8cOBzyxlGdld881eDr1rjrCRSuWNvU0PtE3IYtv2_sCBMKBtlrtxBaaPIuQGAdFRiWXQMJsjCw4XnnDhr8HAG21X58JdZTGJcAvbZTgU-/s400/687px-Barth%25C3%25A9lemy_d%2527_Eyck_002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5588059042075841058" border="0" /></a>Barthelemy d'Eyck<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAp6Tf5RKLmQSiz8Mw2ML1nTzNtAEckkQzh7S9yMbhnODhd6MuHj4TllGmXT0g318fezZAr3bg2P5im0kt9UxroHYszWBXJ0MZWA1wodx016tG_nkhs2kyywdNsJcWUSH6rC8M3WaCTvOw/s1600/451px-Conrad_von_Soest_005.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 301px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAp6Tf5RKLmQSiz8Mw2ML1nTzNtAEckkQzh7S9yMbhnODhd6MuHj4TllGmXT0g318fezZAr3bg2P5im0kt9UxroHYszWBXJ0MZWA1wodx016tG_nkhs2kyywdNsJcWUSH6rC8M3WaCTvOw/s400/451px-Conrad_von_Soest_005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5588059037773135026" border="0" /></a>Conrad von Soest<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW4ARV_Y9yDzAkegyHzh6HHxq4C6-pLJKx8pyPfSdypEpb3OirSTvPd5YBwN80Ytp8LHSVpCfDtWdT3j606A9g-bohyc4XDkEoy61R1FpcqXtSpt5jAeA-Zat3fhrKR7QDKx9aNj3YVxwv/s1600/723px-Gentile_da_Fabriano_079.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 331px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW4ARV_Y9yDzAkegyHzh6HHxq4C6-pLJKx8pyPfSdypEpb3OirSTvPd5YBwN80Ytp8LHSVpCfDtWdT3j606A9g-bohyc4XDkEoy61R1FpcqXtSpt5jAeA-Zat3fhrKR7QDKx9aNj3YVxwv/s400/723px-Gentile_da_Fabriano_079.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5588058179329319250" border="0" /></a>Gentile da FabrianoJeffrey Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05765959701992923298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4881607634110530882.post-46452529780774388802011-02-03T09:37:00.000-08:002011-02-03T09:45:00.664-08:00Candlemas<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpFruFBogauUFbXYIjnrmVp3abZgeFZwxZdxwFyabf7Sji9ApV1n6GqZa8PDR9J8nNSiGAIgopdpq0qdgvyThtnEBDUqrUpJBmUzhbBtpMfZVg1YqcpzObJAFJx5QW7ksXv2y9RZJLMWxK/s1600/Stefan_Lochner_001.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 364px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpFruFBogauUFbXYIjnrmVp3abZgeFZwxZdxwFyabf7Sji9ApV1n6GqZa8PDR9J8nNSiGAIgopdpq0qdgvyThtnEBDUqrUpJBmUzhbBtpMfZVg1YqcpzObJAFJx5QW7ksXv2y9RZJLMWxK/s400/Stefan_Lochner_001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5569520445637231618" border="0" /></a>Stefan Lochner<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsY5h9F_z7VBwciQFkU6RQ2QJ8524X3SgZkPi5MDTJFMaBp43TXoAMiZGON2lCjD_AknmmjHvxI3jtVhIlcQHHlX7Nw0yqcb0SeQBd-izs4GdqSdoKJIBfKtTA1r4BfHiIeBSCoSw7xzMs/s1600/Meister_des_Marienlebens_candlemas.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 307px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsY5h9F_z7VBwciQFkU6RQ2QJ8524X3SgZkPi5MDTJFMaBp43TXoAMiZGON2lCjD_AknmmjHvxI3jtVhIlcQHHlX7Nw0yqcb0SeQBd-izs4GdqSdoKJIBfKtTA1r4BfHiIeBSCoSw7xzMs/s400/Meister_des_Marienlebens_candlemas.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5569520444734550690" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTGGOegtAKrvkBRziRhrkdBKjJIh8G54lZR1m6yFqgz7VZt2RdNUaO4jOAjNl6e6g_qVAnAONpxP67ZzLnNnO1rBen2ktxvM7mNd7YrdcsubAy0cQOtQSLbt6xYhyphenhyphenwAyAgm8xub3gK8DyJ/s1600/Rogier_van_der_Weyden_010.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 198px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTGGOegtAKrvkBRziRhrkdBKjJIh8G54lZR1m6yFqgz7VZt2RdNUaO4jOAjNl6e6g_qVAnAONpxP67ZzLnNnO1rBen2ktxvM7mNd7YrdcsubAy0cQOtQSLbt6xYhyphenhyphenwAyAgm8xub3gK8DyJ/s400/Rogier_van_der_Weyden_010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5569520437467099090" border="0" /></a>Rogier van der Weyden<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-C6mgIfSuhuDMenSPbt8a6kVF5x3G96irW4KoTbJmmF2qsowuvju7HL4TFIUlAefRYWdD7XlpVwMCDCCt-y0cytiZHs9s6mRaTSyhVskXrdEmhT8ljo_KblncX2HVoUqKrTdF4XGMC5xw/s1600/Presentation_in_the_Temple._Bartolo_di_Fredi..jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 287px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-C6mgIfSuhuDMenSPbt8a6kVF5x3G96irW4KoTbJmmF2qsowuvju7HL4TFIUlAefRYWdD7XlpVwMCDCCt-y0cytiZHs9s6mRaTSyhVskXrdEmhT8ljo_KblncX2HVoUqKrTdF4XGMC5xw/s400/Presentation_in_the_Temple._Bartolo_di_Fredi..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5569520433364817010" border="0" /></a>Bartolo di Fredi<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPFesKBc98rGusCFMEEEvNjEemllj0o15K_3ijWDBqZW9yn6FgEkaxMALF-wTHSLKvpKB2EBTT1yk0r1xUf-8tvQPS06iH2zbDMgjE7VMT672NSLIxcr6-eYpP-WX4jYQL2sZ_aaoNdlfo/s1600/Meister_der_Pollinger_Tafeln_001.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 274px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPFesKBc98rGusCFMEEEvNjEemllj0o15K_3ijWDBqZW9yn6FgEkaxMALF-wTHSLKvpKB2EBTT1yk0r1xUf-8tvQPS06iH2zbDMgjE7VMT672NSLIxcr6-eYpP-WX4jYQL2sZ_aaoNdlfo/s400/Meister_der_Pollinger_Tafeln_001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5569520424135717058" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhirszeV5VNla8B5-bzTB8uFDbAj4lZTTdH0R52tZmDxOf6Zoy4bQdEO_rogK41vlacCk8KehB2mxRu5My2MjBlEDjtr0zJP14IwSMrJkJ2iF5chx4Te3JQpBoyS5_VUc_6bZGKazu8cAFt/s1600/Presentation_of_Jesus_at_the_Temple_by_Fra_Angelico_%2528San_Marco_Cell_10%2529.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 345px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhirszeV5VNla8B5-bzTB8uFDbAj4lZTTdH0R52tZmDxOf6Zoy4bQdEO_rogK41vlacCk8KehB2mxRu5My2MjBlEDjtr0zJP14IwSMrJkJ2iF5chx4Te3JQpBoyS5_VUc_6bZGKazu8cAFt/s400/Presentation_of_Jesus_at_the_Temple_by_Fra_Angelico_%2528San_Marco_Cell_10%2529.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5569519213847206578" border="0" /></a>Fra Angelico<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJwDsWVDoxGaOdfx20DI40oKucjChe90sB8TpzXz6T2PyTxzTIVKdkMCNd0Lx2e3gXPZReUG5qv3NkVHX-ffoGB2p_tKSaxHJhtUM92o1_CZF6g9fXGJ7s7pCjWEQOby0rE69x11wOCZQd/s1600/Menologion_of_Basil_037.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJwDsWVDoxGaOdfx20DI40oKucjChe90sB8TpzXz6T2PyTxzTIVKdkMCNd0Lx2e3gXPZReUG5qv3NkVHX-ffoGB2p_tKSaxHJhtUM92o1_CZF6g9fXGJ7s7pCjWEQOby0rE69x11wOCZQd/s400/Menologion_of_Basil_037.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5569519207433515266" border="0" /></a>From the Menologion of Basil II<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1szzQp5rWNRN9H2QaAT4gUbLI1l3GCuhFqp4um2xP2S7gfEDlCvbM-dDQv0Uw3Q1CBqdj24A-MxEPsTtYUb0_rXdx2vHIPN1pdNVs3-UdV2I6kL1qQYji34c3zpRlaBDM7qjwe7F40p0-/s1600/Lorenzetti_Ambrogio_presentation-in-the-temple-_1342..jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 270px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1szzQp5rWNRN9H2QaAT4gUbLI1l3GCuhFqp4um2xP2S7gfEDlCvbM-dDQv0Uw3Q1CBqdj24A-MxEPsTtYUb0_rXdx2vHIPN1pdNVs3-UdV2I6kL1qQYji34c3zpRlaBDM7qjwe7F40p0-/s400/Lorenzetti_Ambrogio_presentation-in-the-temple-_1342..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5569519199399856482" border="0" /></a>Ambrogio Lorenzetti<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS2h9Y0_zqj2L4FnJwmZm_j-CNoxhPY_E1oogW85NAoSX8tbwAa_uT38JW1NOyHv4AgqeVIMcXQiA5luN0LBpWhmqKFLzWb0udUwjJ7fOnoNEjsGY3gdPscr5FPEnVK-HJVzfD7ZQWuhWa/s1600/Hans_Memling_029.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 253px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS2h9Y0_zqj2L4FnJwmZm_j-CNoxhPY_E1oogW85NAoSX8tbwAa_uT38JW1NOyHv4AgqeVIMcXQiA5luN0LBpWhmqKFLzWb0udUwjJ7fOnoNEjsGY3gdPscr5FPEnVK-HJVzfD7ZQWuhWa/s400/Hans_Memling_029.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5569519194434801378" border="0" /></a>Memling<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3m3GjPzavH0sO8_Xqfi4jTrp5QtJhQ4pCO98rt9hITpVdlQMre3ECYIMNW_emfwveh31nyYPKHOf8KH4aU9Dt8vnHibNn1VJFiG3lbImtHp9XIu8Qc3H0ND9rk3n9zbC0mkznhebezkFM/s1600/Duccio_di_Buoninsegna_061.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 394px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3m3GjPzavH0sO8_Xqfi4jTrp5QtJhQ4pCO98rt9hITpVdlQMre3ECYIMNW_emfwveh31nyYPKHOf8KH4aU9Dt8vnHibNn1VJFiG3lbImtHp9XIu8Qc3H0ND9rk3n9zbC0mkznhebezkFM/s400/Duccio_di_Buoninsegna_061.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5569519188717102770" border="0" /></a>DuccioJeffrey Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05765959701992923298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4881607634110530882.post-16338563501779204152011-01-16T08:51:00.000-08:002011-01-16T08:56:36.845-08:00Glastonbury<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_DNAp3yZfzUdeWsD_kCxUGUt7WngWezgiL_-630DyImbmJiWcA5T2jWS9iLwkGfUVWbp8UOgOdAa1ayDBElbuW1eKpWGcAyE0PetgyELB2HlkoiDa0AvUVvrpNfkXVCMCCiwyByznxIaW/s1600/800px-Glastonbury_Abbey_Lady_Chapel_c1900.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 297px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_DNAp3yZfzUdeWsD_kCxUGUt7WngWezgiL_-630DyImbmJiWcA5T2jWS9iLwkGfUVWbp8UOgOdAa1ayDBElbuW1eKpWGcAyE0PetgyELB2HlkoiDa0AvUVvrpNfkXVCMCCiwyByznxIaW/s400/800px-Glastonbury_Abbey_Lady_Chapel_c1900.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562828642167970546" border="0" /></a>Jeffrey Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05765959701992923298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4881607634110530882.post-3143557335261224392011-01-07T15:59:00.000-08:002011-01-07T16:56:38.796-08:00The Adoration of the Magi<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt_8f1X6uXIymXfCDEvcTw9b2qk4feMNb6wswU7p1Bkn5DO3EH50yh2-_G50iMPcQ1RSsBZVGJu-9h6TsQkBac021cLrksRMwk3-j_lDFBiSOwXOTizSqzywUi-LVx9Xky7UcbQKPUq3tD/s1600/545px-Jacques_Daret_001.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 364px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt_8f1X6uXIymXfCDEvcTw9b2qk4feMNb6wswU7p1Bkn5DO3EH50yh2-_G50iMPcQ1RSsBZVGJu-9h6TsQkBac021cLrksRMwk3-j_lDFBiSOwXOTizSqzywUi-LVx9Xky7UcbQKPUq3tD/s400/545px-Jacques_Daret_001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559611976589674338" border="0" /></a>By Jacques Daret<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVaE0QiHb__3MWvh4Mq97P9MT0i53iXu9XHr49mpdKtODNoGZisk0BP-WhpcXPgmvldNUdVin4ne6HslRNOjjtzvdhZ3J44w3oHEbTM4gyoTseK5ynmu0Q9xGCTqhCMfynXUALWzrVNk08/s1600/Chirst-child.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 263px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVaE0QiHb__3MWvh4Mq97P9MT0i53iXu9XHr49mpdKtODNoGZisk0BP-WhpcXPgmvldNUdVin4ne6HslRNOjjtzvdhZ3J44w3oHEbTM4gyoTseK5ynmu0Q9xGCTqhCMfynXUALWzrVNk08/s400/Chirst-child.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559605176996768258" border="0" /></a>From the Hours of Henry VII, by Jean Poyer.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_bo7sBZ94udGOvjddxQLIoegDAULWhht5cMgoa5qU756qom353wpXD1LBRv2ZuygF-G7CjPMx1ZJtYPF1vx8UbU7-9144z9s062F8eFJACzIVIhQ2bpho2G7s06mGQkxbAijE7Qs933KS/s1600/426px-Boucicaut-Meister2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 284px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_bo7sBZ94udGOvjddxQLIoegDAULWhht5cMgoa5qU756qom353wpXD1LBRv2ZuygF-G7CjPMx1ZJtYPF1vx8UbU7-9144z9s062F8eFJACzIVIhQ2bpho2G7s06mGQkxbAijE7Qs933KS/s400/426px-Boucicaut-Meister2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559603580219731842" border="0" /></a>From the Hours of the Marechal de Boucicout.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib57qlrpsRCmR4aJRT64CdqX5YfbUe_RX1IfPE0WUgQyu6RdvPMLgT9tjlfOuUqj99LxiMXEE9UadZT4lL1PIvuW4y0Olf7IFHw2WeADGG20yroIJTuSzehSZMHTXRT7MjwieMvOBRpuEm/s1600/L_Adoration_des_Mages.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 289px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib57qlrpsRCmR4aJRT64CdqX5YfbUe_RX1IfPE0WUgQyu6RdvPMLgT9tjlfOuUqj99LxiMXEE9UadZT4lL1PIvuW4y0Olf7IFHw2WeADGG20yroIJTuSzehSZMHTXRT7MjwieMvOBRpuEm/s400/L_Adoration_des_Mages.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559602406307917618" border="0" /></a>From the Hours of Etienne Chevalier, by Jean Fouquet.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYPne_v3Qbwti9E2f1JXp0aCEfz-9GCGhxZhgIcAoWhbO_9R3hdybBqubEdYVxjx1cuz_HV2XIUf774AUctxy4ULt7dnJOs4B72riojkqHyWSN0dYWtE18ZWH2He1qX5hMS7RaiBzMj5g7/s1600/783px-Vitrail_Notre-Dame_de_Paris_191208_02.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 307px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYPne_v3Qbwti9E2f1JXp0aCEfz-9GCGhxZhgIcAoWhbO_9R3hdybBqubEdYVxjx1cuz_HV2XIUf774AUctxy4ULt7dnJOs4B72riojkqHyWSN0dYWtE18ZWH2He1qX5hMS7RaiBzMj5g7/s400/783px-Vitrail_Notre-Dame_de_Paris_191208_02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559601945881558178" border="0" /></a>From Notre Dame de Paris.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7UWI61-6Fgu8Hk5-CSOFxfEHrUs-lWXhnw3x5WjG0J_NWpLgUC4wGFJU3huWAVfUcOF5s3yFIw52Il7103xbSPdKO_cq71vwxCi0_CGUW0MF9lt39Vr8hrZenS-g9njbFfXNIY6lRF3cn/s1600/Siysky_Gospel_01.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 280px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7UWI61-6Fgu8Hk5-CSOFxfEHrUs-lWXhnw3x5WjG0J_NWpLgUC4wGFJU3huWAVfUcOF5s3yFIw52Il7103xbSPdKO_cq71vwxCi0_CGUW0MF9lt39Vr8hrZenS-g9njbFfXNIY6lRF3cn/s400/Siysky_Gospel_01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559601191138504482" border="0" /></a>From the Siysky Gospel, 1339.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0S3cLKs6RN3gbYN-ioLWh8A61DWNTkm6vBNub3jYDreAo-IRyBwrM8Kyuymtw_B18ujU2kSWAvqQhegb80UeHohxbGAahzPgggqFEsDQdAeQSmPk1X-qXcvKQjRVRP9nWclgzK6-EpH8f/s1600/800px-Vitrail_Saint-Urbain_Troyes_110208_03.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0S3cLKs6RN3gbYN-ioLWh8A61DWNTkm6vBNub3jYDreAo-IRyBwrM8Kyuymtw_B18ujU2kSWAvqQhegb80UeHohxbGAahzPgggqFEsDQdAeQSmPk1X-qXcvKQjRVRP9nWclgzK6-EpH8f/s400/800px-Vitrail_Saint-Urbain_Troyes_110208_03.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559600516453662050" border="0" /></a>From Saint-Urbain, Troyes.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0WzNzq3mtYocjB60C6uUcKXIRMAj7-rbr-WWxv4MKgntqsTQYAIgqaAtont-1tyhI10cXdbZqt4wMhS8E2lIWf-_v3I9DBIIAbrpz4_ifP_qSQfr2eP1_SoOQKT8TqStKdK1VqzO8spHH/s1600/Hieronymus_Bosch_065.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 204px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0WzNzq3mtYocjB60C6uUcKXIRMAj7-rbr-WWxv4MKgntqsTQYAIgqaAtont-1tyhI10cXdbZqt4wMhS8E2lIWf-_v3I9DBIIAbrpz4_ifP_qSQfr2eP1_SoOQKT8TqStKdK1VqzO8spHH/s400/Hieronymus_Bosch_065.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559600027182942434" border="0" /></a>By Heironymus Bosch.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBMnYorpzRmMGEbGxNzg1hS_uVYHMilXivRGrNkQPqipmSzvZh2r4ckMOuP0jYLfr7kdwpSOUmTD5pLXVNJSXsgyS5ER7mVCeqOgFLM9LS8ICcqXP3BTTW5O_n7RVvfdXWuVxUcfQDHAes/s1600/412px-Meister_Sigmaringen_Umkreis_Anbetung_der_K%25C3%25B6nige.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 275px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBMnYorpzRmMGEbGxNzg1hS_uVYHMilXivRGrNkQPqipmSzvZh2r4ckMOuP0jYLfr7kdwpSOUmTD5pLXVNJSXsgyS5ER7mVCeqOgFLM9LS8ICcqXP3BTTW5O_n7RVvfdXWuVxUcfQDHAes/s400/412px-Meister_Sigmaringen_Umkreis_Anbetung_der_K%25C3%25B6nige.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559598789177569474" border="0" /></a>By the Master of Sigmaringen. ( Translation from art history gobbldegook: "We don't know who he was, but we're getting tired of calling everyone Anonymous." )<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUEdw38TdHqW7ug3qdsOJGtsLYhrMTURZMKvf4bR2NNNb0qhI-kEXHVAqNMCbwcpU8zEs6dPQvH0L0DRvzk21CuTjPZ29HYB4LCGcFuYa_HawcrMMPyYfoNKXQ4uaXNXns2i-Pklvd6lWW/s1600/800px-Monforte_Altarpiece.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 260px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUEdw38TdHqW7ug3qdsOJGtsLYhrMTURZMKvf4bR2NNNb0qhI-kEXHVAqNMCbwcpU8zEs6dPQvH0L0DRvzk21CuTjPZ29HYB4LCGcFuYa_HawcrMMPyYfoNKXQ4uaXNXns2i-Pklvd6lWW/s400/800px-Monforte_Altarpiece.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559597942619858578" border="0" /></a>By Hugo van der GoesJeffrey Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05765959701992923298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4881607634110530882.post-62085050677609330662011-01-07T14:20:00.000-08:002011-01-07T15:29:36.575-08:00Let's Get Our Facts Straight: Tonantzin, Eh?<div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH6gELytPy0s3Yrz4U1XRwriE-5DIU55JQ9Oq52fUfENI60HCKHlK9RPykbdLu-ST85sQ3JouFkAVa1a2WVZzvvlXNHOIih93SQ1q9McaUDfYr6tPCXPp0Szr7OdzZP4tzFPqMCV0TvzSI/s1600/Virgen_de_Guadalupe.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 243px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH6gELytPy0s3Yrz4U1XRwriE-5DIU55JQ9Oq52fUfENI60HCKHlK9RPykbdLu-ST85sQ3JouFkAVa1a2WVZzvvlXNHOIih93SQ1q9McaUDfYr6tPCXPp0Szr7OdzZP4tzFPqMCV0TvzSI/s400/Virgen_de_Guadalupe.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559572892209647186" border="0" /></a><br /></div>Seriously, People! Does this.......<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-B1JSPDLdGd-82reqSVq5TGL7tuYcafIjvEDhsH1Y32mUFDWKMg-tefPDwhtji2AhpKEjSStzlv9fN_wIL0pIzrOoP1WeewUgLNBVUX160KFvNhjdljlFA5vr4kiequu-xUK8eTbX-3Yj/s1600/Coatlicue.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-B1JSPDLdGd-82reqSVq5TGL7tuYcafIjvEDhsH1Y32mUFDWKMg-tefPDwhtji2AhpKEjSStzlv9fN_wIL0pIzrOoP1WeewUgLNBVUX160KFvNhjdljlFA5vr4kiequu-xUK8eTbX-3Yj/s400/Coatlicue.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559572894811065730" border="0" /></a>.....have anything in common with this?<br /><p>If you think they look alike, I'd have to ask what you've been drinking. Yet both can be addressed as Tonantzin. Why? Because Tonantzin is an honorific, not a name. It means "our revered mother." I could easily address Our Lady of Guadalupe that way. On the other hand, I'd have no problem addressing Coatlicue, the tough looking customer in the bottom picture, as Tonantzin, either. Wouldn't want to end up as part of her necklace , now, would I?</p>All over cyberspace, we see Our Lady of Guadalupe presented as a syncretized version of "the Aztec goddess Tonantzin." Some accounts even rip the image off the tilma to create a beautiful, loving goddess who never existed. The truth is that there never was an "Aztec goddess Tonantzin." The story comes from shoddy research and overactive imaginations. All Aztec goddesses could be called Tonantzin because it was a title of respect.<br /><br />It was perfectly natural for Our Lady to be called Tonantzin; "Our Revered Mother." It wasn't syncretism, it was more a translation from Spanish to Nahuatl. It wasn't a case of an oppressed people hiding old beliefs under new forms, but of an oppressed people reaching out for new beliefs and adopting them as their own. It certainly wasn't a case of "imperialist" Spaniards forcing their religion on people who desperately wanted to cling to their beloved old gods. To insist on interpreting the devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe in that way, in the absence of any confirming evidence, is to imperialistically impose the notions of our own time on people who are no longer around to tell us we're off our gourd. As for them, all we can say with certainty is that they loved their new Tonantzin.Jeffrey Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05765959701992923298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4881607634110530882.post-48187509977232514282010-12-24T10:30:00.000-08:002010-12-24T10:31:32.933-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhQahpN0-Vzzprx5-rdfDCENQ__eni1-2saz7HfYEkn-3zaLE695PZg_HEaj6xTYV7dxokNiUSwKtMQx9LFPFQB4_jaoX0gpJ9oZ-0V6Rpy5mbkqXZFj7BRM3t_Oy3eNsSszlp-hn5zO68/s1600/Martin_Schongauer_001.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 307px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhQahpN0-Vzzprx5-rdfDCENQ__eni1-2saz7HfYEkn-3zaLE695PZg_HEaj6xTYV7dxokNiUSwKtMQx9LFPFQB4_jaoX0gpJ9oZ-0V6Rpy5mbkqXZFj7BRM3t_Oy3eNsSszlp-hn5zO68/s400/Martin_Schongauer_001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5554318166340899762" border="0" /></a>By Martin SchongauerJeffrey Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05765959701992923298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4881607634110530882.post-45624705363134776622010-12-24T09:58:00.001-08:002010-12-24T09:58:56.211-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiypEncz0GwgP37sJQnBh5FoqAWcNpbwZWp3JSL4lg5Jl6_9etDmyx2gyyl-LD1vht8DjEUyfot_OBGGjNsYg7QwUJC1tWr3LYyC5AuK3rOXG-JdyrEQatkzZnmpbLU64CHpUErXf5jutam/s1600/Duccio_di_Buoninsegna_002.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 394px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiypEncz0GwgP37sJQnBh5FoqAWcNpbwZWp3JSL4lg5Jl6_9etDmyx2gyyl-LD1vht8DjEUyfot_OBGGjNsYg7QwUJC1tWr3LYyC5AuK3rOXG-JdyrEQatkzZnmpbLU64CHpUErXf5jutam/s400/Duccio_di_Buoninsegna_002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5554309707262636050" border="0" /></a>By Duccio di BouninsegnaJeffrey Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05765959701992923298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4881607634110530882.post-32408123497696842892010-12-24T09:54:00.000-08:002010-12-24T09:55:13.046-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidP7qntZhZQrMn11RlIPIqXOr_ThWFNpY4B-c2UcNW4a1APL-5G2lsbxOHpvlsKhOf8EmqQ0TIIEGr68_9z5JrrMkPVJWkJEo_W2sGbgKVV9gNbjv8XP18WI5qszlZLhDEp6vSxTWfPWZk/s1600/Pfarrkirche_Weitnau_Hochaltar_linker_Fl%25C3%25BCgel_Geburt_Christi_edited.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 261px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidP7qntZhZQrMn11RlIPIqXOr_ThWFNpY4B-c2UcNW4a1APL-5G2lsbxOHpvlsKhOf8EmqQ0TIIEGr68_9z5JrrMkPVJWkJEo_W2sGbgKVV9gNbjv8XP18WI5qszlZLhDEp6vSxTWfPWZk/s400/Pfarrkirche_Weitnau_Hochaltar_linker_Fl%25C3%25BCgel_Geburt_Christi_edited.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5554308713589329170" border="0" /></a>By Max Bentele, St. Pelagius' Church, Weitnau.Jeffrey Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05765959701992923298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4881607634110530882.post-53966842933270366962010-12-24T09:45:00.000-08:002010-12-24T09:48:58.199-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqTbVJkf6_9IMcDtTaiYMG53iMa_nOaFrF3MDXz9VE9g-b7GMr-eiW8aEEWca38R97EnMwYC-Rl_wfxTW4I277zN37A2ejW4Cf9wbKSgELFLJqlpIP_KKGT7GKCHqeTfQk9ScsH6kLg6sL/s1600/800px-LaVerna_SantaMaria3.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 279px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqTbVJkf6_9IMcDtTaiYMG53iMa_nOaFrF3MDXz9VE9g-b7GMr-eiW8aEEWca38R97EnMwYC-Rl_wfxTW4I277zN37A2ejW4Cf9wbKSgELFLJqlpIP_KKGT7GKCHqeTfQk9ScsH6kLg6sL/s400/800px-LaVerna_SantaMaria3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5554307148600441490" border="0" /></a>By Giovanni della Robbia, La Verna, Chiusi<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiUpR0VoyHF2QpsJK8FCe6Ih0wzOapmPHkPcLcvBYtU4eepY6wa_Odwt3HxBQFjJP4hNVlvfVFqdV9L-R6NLnbqfKbztz-i5n96beis3srX32pDVoY6sWpwWNW_FN66iDIVDYCUueiYGdn/s1600/La_Verna_Andrea_della_Robbia4.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiUpR0VoyHF2QpsJK8FCe6Ih0wzOapmPHkPcLcvBYtU4eepY6wa_Odwt3HxBQFjJP4hNVlvfVFqdV9L-R6NLnbqfKbztz-i5n96beis3srX32pDVoY6sWpwWNW_FN66iDIVDYCUueiYGdn/s400/La_Verna_Andrea_della_Robbia4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5554306578354607090" border="0" /></a>By Andrea della Robbia, La Verna, Chiusi.Jeffrey Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05765959701992923298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4881607634110530882.post-20649900838352563062010-12-24T09:39:00.000-08:002010-12-24T09:40:26.293-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh12fyUoLuANXyXkHN5bqj5kIu0BD40MOAXA3qsXZ0rj2XMIKY64rjJrqNqUDh4aV7rb7XGe74MXZyflRNUhWaqHfYZBGgDUAj5wqFMzRuu6eEYxsI5uF2pM7l8jCLgEvLhajmxvutp2SPS/s1600/Nativity_alabaster_MNMA_Cl23755.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh12fyUoLuANXyXkHN5bqj5kIu0BD40MOAXA3qsXZ0rj2XMIKY64rjJrqNqUDh4aV7rb7XGe74MXZyflRNUhWaqHfYZBGgDUAj5wqFMzRuu6eEYxsI5uF2pM7l8jCLgEvLhajmxvutp2SPS/s400/Nativity_alabaster_MNMA_Cl23755.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5554304893994440370" border="0" /></a>Polychrome alabaster. English, c1400. Cluny, Paris.Jeffrey Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05765959701992923298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4881607634110530882.post-53866887360518032832010-12-24T09:35:00.000-08:002010-12-24T09:37:08.604-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYw3pIh_VZ_1qAGDfhojXjp4o3U_AA8okCK6HRsAc-x6Cfo7ZfjKOJ4z7zovOWyciPc4PGnIx5vhdiN8h6jAyVGqdPBxRAmgi36UPY_ke9fQsSHTmPh8uZwY3PPwuOWZJ69ovTxWEA-XdH/s1600/Elfenbeinrelief_Anbetung_der_Hirten_M%25C3%25BCnchen_um_1700_BNM.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 369px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYw3pIh_VZ_1qAGDfhojXjp4o3U_AA8okCK6HRsAc-x6Cfo7ZfjKOJ4z7zovOWyciPc4PGnIx5vhdiN8h6jAyVGqdPBxRAmgi36UPY_ke9fQsSHTmPh8uZwY3PPwuOWZJ69ovTxWEA-XdH/s400/Elfenbeinrelief_Anbetung_der_Hirten_M%25C3%25BCnchen_um_1700_BNM.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5554304076901986018" border="0" /></a>c1700, Bavarian National Museum, Munich.Jeffrey Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05765959701992923298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4881607634110530882.post-69792423657716723262010-12-24T09:22:00.000-08:002010-12-24T09:23:40.208-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkGpT2u01zmCj4a6erPWT8zihRiL3WjhXAR7wXspucZcJZ7fp7lOnqnym6Lw3aKxfdsFRSJHiWm8ZN0XED0xgOg32xcWP1TWuLmHkJEJzPI7eMaLwk2lTlX6N2XfUyLOg_2UMdRLDFWhDw/s1600/Adorazione_del_Bambino_-_Beato_Angelico.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 336px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkGpT2u01zmCj4a6erPWT8zihRiL3WjhXAR7wXspucZcJZ7fp7lOnqnym6Lw3aKxfdsFRSJHiWm8ZN0XED0xgOg32xcWP1TWuLmHkJEJzPI7eMaLwk2lTlX6N2XfUyLOg_2UMdRLDFWhDw/s400/Adorazione_del_Bambino_-_Beato_Angelico.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5554300661820669106" border="0" /></a>By Fra AngelicoJeffrey Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05765959701992923298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4881607634110530882.post-13671559798130641762010-12-24T09:19:00.000-08:002010-12-24T09:20:21.198-08:00Reliquary of Christ's Cradle, Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPmcEuJPKI7bleJD59YF52cjRbusmyZgCGuTCQZ30ZNYGT2sR90WO8zP_jlHQoP9jhWHOr1ud_VGTXwtp0cLMtqMSVxoxdMy4ZvZ85zaq-FVVV6nH6PnoNP4InPG-mwPAfRdQSyc9horeP/s1600/Sacra_culla.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPmcEuJPKI7bleJD59YF52cjRbusmyZgCGuTCQZ30ZNYGT2sR90WO8zP_jlHQoP9jhWHOr1ud_VGTXwtp0cLMtqMSVxoxdMy4ZvZ85zaq-FVVV6nH6PnoNP4InPG-mwPAfRdQSyc9horeP/s400/Sacra_culla.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5554299740978793266" border="0" /></a>Jeffrey Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05765959701992923298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4881607634110530882.post-42161158268940247982010-12-24T09:15:00.001-08:002010-12-24T09:15:38.924-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfKzbwHNoVlWH-eBNHtMvb1-Ld6NDKHWZxCHn92Ot9Y4KMYmhIEILTQ3A6JD6L92i1BrPylSHhPJPQpv8FYSE7t6dpBkuiF13Yp9ttNSosVOKU7hR2QFWruYthUGC07I3JpXJMW48wFPDY/s1600/Nativity.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfKzbwHNoVlWH-eBNHtMvb1-Ld6NDKHWZxCHn92Ot9Y4KMYmhIEILTQ3A6JD6L92i1BrPylSHhPJPQpv8FYSE7t6dpBkuiF13Yp9ttNSosVOKU7hR2QFWruYthUGC07I3JpXJMW48wFPDY/s400/Nativity.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5554298645963662754" border="0" /></a>Jeffrey Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05765959701992923298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4881607634110530882.post-79047876723752419562010-12-24T08:43:00.000-08:002010-12-24T08:54:56.559-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcFVnACaG_V-UelZLAVhOPsXhuVy6pp1immFuCmLnJrGnJkmPrZbsJDlCygk8hDQjqgCOxdaLAfX0WC76YOxxAvxEUge9UyjO6q6HtQt9u_7o_6L-8jnd-AajSmL7nFzl2x1VgA38NL82z/s1600/xmas2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 254px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcFVnACaG_V-UelZLAVhOPsXhuVy6pp1immFuCmLnJrGnJkmPrZbsJDlCygk8hDQjqgCOxdaLAfX0WC76YOxxAvxEUge9UyjO6q6HtQt9u_7o_6L-8jnd-AajSmL7nFzl2x1VgA38NL82z/s400/xmas2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5554293313286104626" border="0" /></a>Jeffrey Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05765959701992923298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4881607634110530882.post-61357471283080490312010-12-08T19:04:00.000-08:002010-12-08T19:06:47.030-08:00Truro<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTRR3OFExevryvd2ry9X5QluxUKTGXRTgZj9SopQK6I8grAji0DTvyLj7h0oayJEPLFoe2P2g8ZskxxoBtW5btscdeqJz9Ix8KGH0EEh08wPZZMcBF5TcpDXBi3lY1vyzIvRdGIspLAvmd/s1600/truro.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 254px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTRR3OFExevryvd2ry9X5QluxUKTGXRTgZj9SopQK6I8grAji0DTvyLj7h0oayJEPLFoe2P2g8ZskxxoBtW5btscdeqJz9Ix8KGH0EEh08wPZZMcBF5TcpDXBi3lY1vyzIvRdGIspLAvmd/s400/truro.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548513580711740834" border="0" /></a>Jeffrey Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05765959701992923298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4881607634110530882.post-29131372647780594382010-12-08T19:02:00.000-08:002010-12-08T19:03:46.119-08:00Exeter<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjW6GnBym4PFKtZSyNid8FuPtVatHxujQjh5QQxpK5OyKExkNjg9Ekh-DyN6lfIgwgIUXiptto9RjeqDR04jjAynFThF9iy9EqO3OuCc0vqRMz7R0XneBjPf3g9EpWTOpvZ8Jqq1HXP0eC/s1600/exeter2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 252px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjW6GnBym4PFKtZSyNid8FuPtVatHxujQjh5QQxpK5OyKExkNjg9Ekh-DyN6lfIgwgIUXiptto9RjeqDR04jjAynFThF9iy9EqO3OuCc0vqRMz7R0XneBjPf3g9EpWTOpvZ8Jqq1HXP0eC/s400/exeter2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548512790193232450" border="0" /></a>Jeffrey Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05765959701992923298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4881607634110530882.post-49476159504298503252010-12-08T19:00:00.000-08:002010-12-08T19:01:40.096-08:00Reliquary of St. James, Santiago de Compostela<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCCUbMvA6-2t1XYZKMGpb4Se6Ixux9OYkyTKCcv0VJihhCsOMqOAEZFb9Sao9KWJa_FBmWlSbPGtRbwDoEpviQGgHllF5TOcV4pIFUSwRCAiJ8kg4IhyHJko5DXNuK7ZgZx3UisViS_7JR/s1600/santiago.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 253px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCCUbMvA6-2t1XYZKMGpb4Se6Ixux9OYkyTKCcv0VJihhCsOMqOAEZFb9Sao9KWJa_FBmWlSbPGtRbwDoEpviQGgHllF5TOcV4pIFUSwRCAiJ8kg4IhyHJko5DXNuK7ZgZx3UisViS_7JR/s400/santiago.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548512050720085138" border="0" /></a>Jeffrey Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05765959701992923298noreply@blogger.com0