Tag Archives: Hagia Sophia

Back to the roots: Java Road conversion

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Dave

It would take a pilgrim months or years to study all the stone sculpture on the terraced mountain of Buddhist art in Java. The thousand plus year old shrine of Borobudur in Java forms nearly three miles of sculptured stonw … Continue reading →

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NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Dave

”THAT is no country for old men… caught in that sensual music all neglect, Monuments of unageing intellect.” W.B. Keats from Sailing to Byzantium. All the world’s wealth seemed to pour through the trade routes of the Levant, overland from … Continue reading →

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NOT OUR CROSS TO BEAR

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Dave

Between the material and the temporal, represented in Byzantium by the emperor and the imperial body politic, and the spiritual and the eternal, represented by the saints, there is the image forming world of the soul, the world of the … Continue reading →

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SAILING TO BYZANTIUM

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Dave

”They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony:they read, they praised, they compiled. but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action. In … Continue reading →

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WHERE THE WEST WAS WON

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Dave

The achievement of the Byzantines was to keep barbarians at bay, create a new art, preserve Western culture for a thousand years, and push a little further the limits of piety and depravity. It is only recently that the word … Continue reading →