ARTS AND MINIATURES: LISBON

domingo, 17 de janeiro de 2010

LISBON - My City

Fountain at Rossio

Portuguese tiles

Stained Glass

Another detail of the same fountain at Rossio

Fountain at Rossio

One of my paintings - oil on canvas - 1,20m x 60cm,. I love this perspective of the river and I went there often to take sketches inspired by this vue

Towboats on River Tagus

Beautiful Gardens at Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga

A Brasileira - Famous Restaurant and Tea Room

When I started this Blog I thought that I would like to include several posts dedicated to the city where I was born, now I live 25km from Lisbon, not very far, but sometimes I miss the life of the City, so this is a small contribution to the city where I was born, and I will profit the opportunity to share with you beautiful images that I like to collect.

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Welcome to my new Blog

I hope that you will enjoy my new Blog, I intend to organize it in a diferent way of the others, I will mix images of my work regarding miniatures and other forms of art like artistic paint, but I will also include lots of photos , because I have a passion to photograph, although I know very litttle about it, but I have my artistic filling to choose interesting matters. All the photos in this Blog shall be mine.

In which concerns my miniatures all of them are hand painted, and that´s a work that I love to do, enjoy it.

You are also invited to visit my other blog:

http://am-ambientes-em-miniatura.blogs.sapo.pt/

http://am-artes-e-miniaturas.blogs.sapo.pt/

http://am-bonecas-e-companhia.blogs.sapo.pt/

AM

HERCOLANEUM AND POMPEII

Hercolaneum was founded by Hercules according to mythological tradition . In 63A.D. the town was hit by a earthquake which attended all the Campania, and a few years later in 79 A.D. was devasted by the eruption of Vesuvios. When the eruption ended Hercolaneum was covered with a thick layer of mud (at some points over 10 meters deep). Abandoned by its inhabitants this town was never rebuilt.

The same happened to Pompeii, the reconstruction work that followed the earthquake was not yet completed when on August 24th, 79 AD Vesuvius unexpectedly awoke, submerging the countryside with ashes,, cinder and eruptive material, while rivers of lava mixed with mud followed down.

In 20 AD the Volcano was considered extinct by Strabone a geographer, therefore the population was taken by surprise and many of them were killed trying to escape. The eruption of the Volcano was so imense that the top part of the crater collapsed forming the present caldera.

This tragedy that lasted for three long days arrived to us through the letters of the writter Pliny the Younger to Tacitus.
Pompeii remained buried under a layer of ash with more than six meters deep preserving all the evidence of life by that moment, which came mericulously to light more than two centuries ago.