And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Considering that it was all done without computers and power tools, the architectural design and craftsmanship of those times is simply mindbending to behold..
The painting is called either/and/or "Wings of Desire", "L'Esperance", and "The Hope", by Diogène Ulysse Napoléon Maillart, and is located in Chateau de Chantilly, in Chantilly, France.
Here is the URL for the highest resolution version:
There has been nothing done in the modern world with computers and power tools that compares with local churches and cathedrals all over Europe, from Portugal to Poland and Greece to Ireland. Nothing.
Considering that it was all done without computers and power tools, the architectural design and craftsmanship of those times is simply mindbending to behold..
ReplyDeleteNick Danger ... sounds like a complete tool.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Nancy..
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ReplyDeleteNot an insult - more an inside joke. Foreward into the past...
DeleteAre we sure it wasn't a "Paint-By-Numbers" project?
ReplyDeleteWow! That is some painting! Where would I go to see it?
ReplyDeleteThe painting is called either/and/or "Wings of Desire", "L'Esperance", and "The Hope", by Diogène Ulysse Napoléon Maillart, and is located in Chateau de Chantilly, in Chantilly, France.
ReplyDeleteHere is the URL for the highest resolution version:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6f/bf/61/6fbf61b025611e37d75f33c905d8c66e.jpg
Thank you! It's appreciated...
DeleteThere has been nothing done in the modern world with computers and power tools that compares with local churches and cathedrals all over Europe, from Portugal to Poland and Greece to Ireland. Nothing.
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