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happy happy weekend! Annemarie:)

Wish you a beautiful serene week ahead.

..........Wish you a bright day and weekend:) Love AM

Wish you a sunny bright May week. Love

Wish you all a beautiful loooooooong weekend:) ****************************************** Igor Mitoraj (March 26, 1944 – October 6, 2014) was a Polish artist born in Oederan, Germany.[1] Mitoraj's sculptural style is rooted in the classical tradition with its focus on the well modelled torso. However, Mitoraj introduced a post-modern twist with ostentatiously truncated limbs, emphasising the damage sustained by most genuine classical sculptures. Exposed in Santa Maria degli Angeli e Martiri, Rome

Wish you a most beautiful weekend:) ***************************************** The National Roman Museum (in Italian: Museo Nazionale Romano) is a museum, with several branches in separate buildings throughout the city of Rome, Italy. Founded in 1889 and inaugurated in 1890, the museum's first aim was to collect and exhibit archaeologic materials unearthed during the excavations after the union of Rome to the Italian Kingdom. In 1901 the State granted the National Roman Museum the recently acquired Collection Ludovisi as well as the important national collection of Ancient Sculpture. Findings during the urban renewal of the late 19th century added to the collections. The reconversion of the environments of the ancient Bath-houses/Charterhouse into an exhibition space began on the occasion of the International Exhibition of Art of 1911; this effort was completed in the 1930s.

A most beautiful weekend for you:) ****************************************** Subsequently to the act of donation of Pope Clement VIII in 1595, construction began of a new convent which was built according to the canonical scheme of the Order: a large cloister, a small cloister and the small dwellings (houses) for the monks. The small cloister was obtained to the right of the chancel from the new church, in the place of the ancient natatio; the cells, however, were arranged on the western side, far from the exterior wall and along the perimeter of the cloister.

More of Rome; wish you a brilliant week ahead:) **************************************** This Cloister is commonly known as Michelangelo's Cloister, due to the widespread idea that the artist built it along with the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels and Martyrs; indeed, it is more likely that he made ​​the preparatory drawings but only participated in the initial stages of the construction, as his death occurred in 1564. With its 10,000 square metres and its wings of 100 metres, each rhythmically punctuated by 100 monolithic columns, the Cloister of Michelangelo is one of the largest in Italy; along the wings, originally conceived as covered walkways of the Charterhouse, are on display, as part of the permanent collection, sculptures, sarcophagi, altars as well as bases of statues of the Imperial age.

WISH YOU A PEACEFUL WEEKEND:) ****************************************** In 1561, Pope Pius IV granted the remains of the Bath-houses of Diocletian to the Carthusian monks, appointing them as conservators of the ruins. Subsequently to the act of donation of Pope Clement VIII in 1595, construction began of a new convent which was built according to the canonical scheme of the Order: a large cloister, a small cloister and the small dwellings (houses) for the monks. The large cloister, known as Michelangelo's, was inserted between the the central body of the Baths and the northern side of its enclosure.

Back to Rome, wish you a most happy rest of the week ahead. ***************************************** Original seat of the Museo Nazionale Romano (National Roman Museum) since its institution in 1889, the Baths of Diocletian are the most imposing thermal complex ever built in Rome. Erected between 298 and 306 CE, they spanned more than 13 hectares and could accommodate up to 3000 people at the same time, within a structure consisting of a series of environments such as gymnasia, libraries, a swimming pool of more than 3500 square metres and those rooms that were the heart of every thermal complex: the frigidarium (cold bath), the tepidarium (lukewarm bath) and the calidarium (hot bath). It was precisely these latter spacious rooms the ones converted by Michelangelo into the Basilica of Saint Mary of the Angels and the Christian Martyrs: in the other environments arose the Carthusian Monastery, conceived by the artist himself.

WISH YOU ALL A SERENE EASTER. HALLELUJAH. **************************************** Hallelujah is a transliteration of the Hebrew word הַלְּלוּיָהּ, which is composed of two elements: הַלְּלוּ (second-person imperative masculine plural form of the Hebrew verb hallal: an exhortation to "praise" addressed to several people[1]) and יָהּ (the names of God Jah or Yah). (Wiki)

ღ ஐ .-~*'¨ ¯¨'*·~-.¸ ღ ஐ .-~*'¨ HAPPY Equinox my friends ALL:) [will be away some days, working abroad.]

Huang Yong Ping, Exhibit, MAXXI .Wish you a most happy week ahead:D

Wish you a beautiful weekend. [fashion exhibit at the MAXXI] Bellissima. L’Italia dell’alta moda 1945-1968

HAPPY WEEK. ********************** The MAXXI, Italian: Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, or National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, is a national museum of contemporary art and architecture in the Flaminio quartiere of Rome, Italy. It was designed as a multidisciplinary space by Zaha Hadid and committed to experimentation and innovation in the arts and architecture.

.......a discussion, an exchange of opinions, intended to produce an agreement........................ ********************************************* Wish you all a wonderful weekend . HUGS.

10-Week Picture Projects: TREES, Wk 8 (Feb 23-March 01): Evergreen Tree(s) ******************************************************************************************************** PINE TREES under the snow:) In botany, an evergreen is a plant that has leaves throughout the year, always green. This contrasts with deciduous plants, which completely lose their foliage during the winter or dry season. There are many different kinds of evergreen plants, both trees and shrubs. Evergreens include: most species of conifers (e.g., hemlock, blue spruce, red cedar, and white/scots/jack pine), but not all (e.g., larch)live oak, holly, and "ancient" gymnosperms such as cycads most angiosperms from frost-free climates, such as eucalypts and rainforest treesclubmosses and relatives The Latin binomial term sempervirens (literally, "always green") refers to the evergreen nature of the plant.

Fresh snow on the Alps. Have a wonderful new week ahead! HUGS