Grizzlegutweed the Bear
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700 year old ursine. The last English bear and last living member of the Royal menagerie. Resides as a crown pensioner in the Tower London.
The Tower of London
Joined February 2018
Here is the beautiful west rose window- a later (16th century) addition to the sainte Chapelle. Two thirds of the glass in the chapel is original- remarkable for something so fragile in a building with such a turbulent history
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The French 19thc architect and restorer Eugene Violett-Le - Duc reintroduced colour onto the walls and statuary of the sainte chapelle. Left, the coloured interior, right the original statue now in the Cluny museum of medieval art, Paris
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@art_life_you The contemporary English didn’t call the style gothic- a derogatory term invented by the Italians; the called it ‘French work’.
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A setting fit for the crown of thorns? The sainte Chapelle, Paris begun 1242 and completed in 6 years. The building made a lasting impact on western architecture
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An art nouveau lamp- Brussels. Art Nouveau (late nineteenth to early 20th century) was perhaps the last movement in European art to celebrate the female form.
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The green dragon pub, Lincoln- old and new cheek by jowl
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A painting in the castle museum Nantes, showing one of the more exotic lace bonnets of Brittany. In the past you could tell which region of Brittany a woman came from by the design of the bonnet
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French porcelain clock- first half of the 19th century
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Terracotta bust of King Charles ll. 17thc Royal collection
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Some Georgian houses opposite the abbey in Tewkesbury- do you suppose modern brick layers could create this curve?
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@JoshuaTCharles In Britain you would certainly stay as an Anglican if you valued smells and bell above doctrine
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