ARTS AND MINIATURES: SINTRA - A source of inspiration

quinta-feira, 18 de março de 2010

SINTRA - A source of inspiration

thFrom this Blogger world - from the blog a miniature life Anthoula asked me what could she visit in my Country, and I remembered to put here some photos of my archive albums, (these are not recent photos) and advise her to visit the beautiful Villa of Sintra nearby Lisbon. So enjoy your visit Anthoula.

"Palácio da Vila" - with lovely interiors to visit

Monserrate, and Palácio da Pena on the horizon

Palácio de Monserrate - with beautiful gardens to visit

A cascade - you are going to find several in the gardens

Several beautiful architectural monuments

Charming private houses

Lovely perspectives to take photos

Cozy tearooms to take a cup of tea and the so well known "queijadas e travesseiros"

Nostalgic architectural details to keep

Palácio da Pena - Also worthwhile to visit the interiors

And please don´t forget to visit the Toy Museum - "MUSEU DO BRINQUEDO"

17th Century interior - Museum Collection

And at the end some of my miniature paintings inspired on this lovely Villa

Oil on canvas - Palácio da Vila

Oil on canvas - Palácio da Pena

The same Palace - Watercolour

Palácio da Pena - oil on canvas

Sintra - Oil on canvas

9 comentários:

Anthoula18 de março de 2010 às 13:42
This is a wonderful post Ana!
I just hope I will be able to see as many things as possible during my stay! ;-))
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Sofia18 de março de 2010 às 13:46
O nosso país ainda fica mais bonito através da tua lente.
Estou a adorar ver este blog crescer.

Muitos beijinhos

Sofia
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Ana18 de março de 2010 às 13:53
Thank you to Anthoula e obrigada Sofia, beijinhos para ti.
Ana
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Lize18 de março de 2010 às 22:04
Lovely photographs and your little paintings are beautiful!
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Unknown19 de março de 2010 às 00:59
OMG!!!!! Where is this place??? It's absolutely gorgeous!!
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synnøve19 de março de 2010 às 01:41
O Ana how wonderful to see this beautiful town!!!!
I have a younger brother who's been living in Sintra for a couple of years. ( he did actually live in Portugal for about 5 years) Sadly enough I never had the money at that time to visit him. My mother vent down though, and told me about the town. She's a bad photographer, so she did not take any, just some post cards!!!
It looks soo nice!!!
And those wonderful painted pictures you make!!! The last one though; my absolute favorite, it gives me a nice feeling of a warm summer evening:-)
Thank you so much for sharing!!!
Synnøve x
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Roberta19 de março de 2010 às 06:06
Lovely blog, really!!!And lovely pictures...this town could be very nice, with a lot of romantic places!
Have a good week-end
Roberta
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Merry Jingle19 de março de 2010 às 06:06
What a wonderful looking town! Looks just like a place where you sit with your coffee and don't have to hurry anywhere :)

And love your paintings,

Ira
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Ana19 de março de 2010 às 10:22
Thank you all, really Sintra is a lovely place to visit and is classified by UNESCO as Cultural Landscape. It´s a Villa charged with History, and was loved by Artists and Poets in the 19th Century.
Ana
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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.

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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.