The ruins of the Yuen-Ming Yuen

 

In 1747  father Giuseppe Castiglione (S.J.) and father Michel Benoist (S.J.) were asked by the Manchu emperor Qian Long to design the Yuen-Ming Yuen in Beijing.

The Yuen-Ming Yuen stands now as a ruin to blame ignorant foreigners.  In 1860 the beautiful palace was sacked and burned by French and British troops. V.Hugo wrote: "'Two robbers breaking into a museum, devastating, looting and burning, leaving laughing hand-in-hand with their bags full of treasures; one of the robbers is called France and the other Britain.”

Ucraina: le guerre del novecento non sono ancora finite

Franz Ferdinand's uniform

Western Zhou Dynasty, China, Jade Figures,c.950 BC

walter kirtland hancock

Stai sereno, amico mio

Fuori scala, dopo tutto quel tempo. Mose fuori scala

esci da questo corpo

Ahn Jun, Self - Portrait, 2008

Papa Francesco : «Gesù non è venuto a insegnarci le buone maniere, maniere da salotto! Per questo non c'era bisogno che scendesse dal Cielo e morisse sulla croce>>

Gott mit uns

Qu Ding, Summer Mountains

coffee from japan

Pisa

villa adriana

Bird and Fruits (果熟来禽图) by Lin Chun, Song dynasty (960-1279 A.D)

Masami Teraoka - McDonald’s Hamburgers Invading Japan/Geisha and Tattooed Woman, 1975

Shiko Munakata (Japanese: 1903-75), Lady with musical instrument, 1962.

Asian beauty

Lion dancer,Taipei 1969

Arp, Chinese Shadow, 1947

Xenophanes

Wu Yao-Chung 1962

Bacon nel suo studio

Father B.Gracian (S.J.) on Imagination

"Keep the Imagination under Control;

sometimes correcting, sometimes assisting it.

For it is all-important for our happiness, and

even sets the reason right. It can tyrannise,

and is not content with looking on, but

influences and even often dominates life,

causing it to be happy or burdensome according

to the folly to which it leads. For it

makes us either contented or discontented with

ourselves. Before some it continually holds

up the penalties of action, and becomes the

mortifying lash of these fools. To others it

promises happiness and adventure with blissful

delusion. It can do all this unless the most

prudent self-control keeps it in subjection"

Wu Guanzhong (吳冠中)

bandinelli by makos 1960

 

il colosso

Tibet

Qian Long's Armour

The Qian Long Emperor in Ceremonial Armour ( 1732) by Giuseppe Castiglione (S.J.)

witkin, l.lyon

gary cooper at his best

The Qian Long Emperor by Giuseppe Castiglione S.J.

I'll shave it

i do not need google

witkin, venus in chain