Santuario di Greccio / Sanctuary of Greccio, Italia by Anita Pravits
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Die Quintinskirche wurde um 1300 auf den Grundmauern der ältesten schon 775 bezeugten Mainzer Pfarrkirche dieses Namens erbaut.
Sie besitzt eine ungewöhnliche Weihnachtskrippe, die auch eine Darstellung der Vertreibung aus dem Paradies und einer Predigt des Johannes beinhaltet.
Die Quintinskirche wurde um 1300 auf den Grundmauern der ältesten schon 775 bezeugten Mainzer Pfarrkirche dieses Namens erbaut.
Sie besitzt eine ungewöhnliche Weihnachtskrippe, die auch eine Darstellung der Vertreibung aus dem Paradies und einer Predigt des Johannes beinhaltet.
Die Quintinskirche wurde um 1300 auf den Grundmauern der ältesten schon 775 bezeugten Mainzer Pfarrkirche dieses Namens erbaut.
Sie besitzt eine ungewöhnliche Weihnachtskrippe, die auch eine Darstellung der Vertreibung aus dem Paradies und einer Predigt des Johannes beinhaltet.
Die Quintinskirche wurde um 1300 auf den Grundmauern der ältesten schon 775 bezeugten Mainzer Pfarrkirche dieses Namens erbaut.
Sie besitzt eine ungewöhnliche Weihnachtskrippe, die auch eine Darstellung der Vertreibung aus dem Paradies und einer Predigt des Johannes beinhaltet.
Die Quintinskirche wurde um 1300 auf den Grundmauern der ältesten schon 775 bezeugten Mainzer Pfarrkirche dieses Namens erbaut.
Sie besitzt eine ungewöhnliche Weihnachtskrippe, die auch eine Darstellung der Vertreibung aus dem Paradies und einer Predigt des Johannes beinhaltet.
Die Quintinskirche wurde um 1300 auf den Grundmauern der ältesten schon 775 bezeugten Mainzer Pfarrkirche dieses Namens erbaut.
Sie besitzt eine ungewöhnliche Weihnachtskrippe, die auch eine Darstellung der Vertreibung aus dem Paradies und einer Predigt des Johannes beinhaltet.
Crib in Piazza Unità d'Italia, Trieste, Italy, 6 Dec 2024
52 weeks of 2024
Week #51 ~ Chiaroscuro
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A photo from my archives, reprocessed with dodging and burning-in.
Camera: Pentax K-1
Lens: probably Pentax, possibly Takumar ; )
Hand-carved figures by Peter Staffler, Gröden/Vienna
A very happy Christmas and holiday season!
May peace reign!
Three-storey retablo, a distinctive nativity scene from Peru, seen in the Museum Würth during an exhibition of cribs from all over the world, Gaisbach, Franconia (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Some backrground information:
Retablos are a sophisticated Peruvian folk art in the form of portable boxes which depict religious, historical, or everyday events that are important to the Indigenous people of the highlands. The Spanish word retablo comes from the Latin retro-tabulum ("behind the table or altar"). This is a reference to the fact that the first retablos were placed on or behind the altars of Catholic churches in Spain and Latin America. They were three-dimensional statues or images inside a decorated frame.
Retablos probably originated with the Christian knights of the Crusades and the Spanish reconquista (the 700-year struggle against the Moors on the Iberian Peninsula). The Christian warriors, who frequently found themselves far away from their home churches, carried small portable box-altars for worship and protection against their enemies. These earliest retablos usually featured religious themes, especially those involving Saint James, the patron saint-warrior in the fight against the Moors.
Retablos came to the New World as small portable altars depicting nativity scenes and other religious topics used by the early priests to evangelize the Indigenous. In a syncretic process, the early retablos brought by the Spanish merged with Indigenous beliefs in the Andean region to acquire certain magical or symbolic properties which had been the attributes of local spirits before the conquest. These early South and Central American retablos were wooden boxes with figures inside carved from stone, ivory or wood.
Later, retablos evolved to include daily scenes in the lives of the Andean people, such as harvests, processions, feasts, and tableaux depicting shops and homes. The use of wood for the outside box remained, but other materials, such as gypsum, clay, or a potato-gypsum-clay paste mix, were increasingly used for the figures because of their ease of handling and durability.
As you can see, the retablo in this picture shows the Nativity in its top floor. In the middle floor some kind of celebration is shown, with lots of female and male musicians playing traditional Peruvian instruments. And in the bottom floor, a hat shop is depicted. The hats there bear a close resemblance to the typical North American ten-gallon hats. The three-storey box is carved from wood, while all figures inside are made from clay. I guess that the whole ensemble has a height of 80 centimetres, which means that it’s definitely no pocket size retablo, but one that was perhaps used as some kind of home altar.
In the 1940s more and more artists were using retablos as a vehicle for affirming and recording the distinct identity of the Indigenous people of the Andean region. They are also a defense of Indigenous culture and values in the face of the modernization and the penetration of their culture by the one of the white Hispanic elites of Lima.
If you drive through the countryside of the rural district of Hohenlohe with its pastures and little villages in the northeast of the federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, you wouldn’t expect an art museum of international reputation being located in this area. However the museums Würth 1 and Würth 2 are and that has a particular reason: Both museums are attached to the headquarters of Würth Group, a multinational company and the biggest producer of screws in the world.
In 1954, the German billionaire Richard Würth took over a two-man business from his father at the age of 19 and made it a successful worldwide concern with almost 86,000 employees today. In the 70s, Würth began to collect art. Since then, he has collected roughly 18,500 works of art. His passion for collecting art even resulted in art becoming an important element of the Würth company culture. The most important works of art are made publicly available in altogether five museums of the Würth Group. All of them are freely accessible.
A Merry Christmas 2024 to all of you! Have a great festive season together with your families and friends!