From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10834 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Friday, March 3 2023 Volume 14 : Number 10834 Today's Subjects: ----------------- 2023 Hell Arrives! ["Instant Genocide" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2023 16:00:50 +0100 From: "Instant Genocide" Subject: 2023 Hell Arrives! 2023 Hell Arrives! http://blastproof.shop/tgFyLD8AlGFbnK_GXTGlHDJd1tdS83asveXerCNvt57w1cFL http://blastproof.shop/py5RHTVUzLBRmzBfdGgLbrFS7NqhGa1XlGMfwj86n6VBcrKr8A Romanesque art is represented by an unusually large Limoges enamel reliquary in the common chasse shape, like a gabled house. This was made in about 1170 to hold relics of Saint Valerie of Limoges, a virgin-martyr of the Roman period who was the most important local saint of Limoges, a key centre for Romanesque champlevC) enamel. Her highly visual story is told in several scenes that use a wide range of colours, with the rest of the front face decorated in the "vermicular" style, with the space between the figure filled with scrolling motifs on a gold background. According to legend, St Valerie was a cephalophore saint, who after she was beheaded carried her own head to give to her bishop, Saint Martial, who had converted her. There are many more objects in a Gothic style, and as is typical for northern Europe several of these come from well into the 16th century, and should be considered as belonging to the Northern Renaissance. However the most important medieval object, and arguably the most important single piece in the collection, though from the late Gothic period, has nothing strictly Gothic in its style, and represents a very advanced court taste in this respect. This is the Holy Thorn Reliquary, which was probably created in the 1390s in Paris for the Valois prince John, Duke of Berry, to house a relic of the Crown of Thorns. It is one of a small number of major goldsmiths' works or joyaux that survive from the extravagant world of the courts of the Valois royal family around 1400. It is made of gold, lavishly decorated with jewels and pearls, and uses the technique of enamelling en ronde bosse, or 'in the round', which had been recently developed when the reliquary was made, to create a total of 28 three-dimensional figures, mostly in white en ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10834 ***********************************************