pictures labelled

another bit of tedious work is fulfilled: Ive labelled all my pictures now and arranged them into groups and subgroups in a huge shoebox (thanx to the donour and his amazing new hiking boots). I hope it makes sense how Ive put them, but then again, its not too important, as I will have to take them out all the time anyway to WORK on them. Additionally I think it would be a good idea to label the digital photos as well, at least with a place name, and to print out some of them at the photoshop to have it all in one medium.

other art of the 2nd 1/4 of the 12th C.

It would be really good to make a chronological list with all the sculpture and architecture Saint Martin can be compared to:

[1090/1100 San Vittore, Muralto, Locarno]

before 1100/1st half of C12th Saint Remi, Reims (chapterhouse sculpture)
1132-1140 Saint Denis (West), Paris (western narthex structure, capitals, west facade sculpture around portals)
1140-1144 Saint Denis (East), Paris (ambulatory and chapel structure)
1134-1147 Saint Pierre de Montmartre, Paris (? no pix yet)
before 1150/after 1163 Notre Dame, Paris (maybe sculpture on south portal of West facade, maybe capitals in ambulatory?)
1163 Saint Germain des Pres, Paris (capitals in ambulatory, chapels and Westportal, Archy structure in chapels)
1170 Saint Julien le Pauvre, Paris (probably some capitals, but not really)

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ok, now this jsut needs to be connected to some dates, if there happen to be any known...
(just added the information in, its from my great chart, more or less according to Anne Praches Romanesque Art of the Ile de France, 2/10/07)

Chiesa San Vittore, Locarno

of leopards and capitals

Ive just come back from a GREAT Swiss holiday of which Ive spent one day in Locarno (Lago Maggiore, filmfestival, leopards and t-shirts with that very same animal.. oh, and great yellow ice cream). As I was walking down a forgotten road to a cinema that would not show the film we wanted to see we STUMBLED upon this cute old thing (see picture above):

a romanesque church!
with a crypt!
with capitals!

with capitals that bear at least SOME similarity to what I like to call MY church these days (although i havent done so for quite a wile, as I was on holiday, for once even from art history). more about that soon...