Wednesday, December 23, 2009

What Does Viera Stand For?

Find the mortal remains of Caravaggio?


Michelangelo Merisi, or Merighi or Amerighi, known as Caravaggio (Milan, September 29, 1571-Porto Ercole, July 18, 1610) is considered the first great painter of a member of the school baroccae more celebrated painters of the world. Sick with malaria, with a difficult, often fleeing to escape a death sentence issued by a court in Rome for the murder of Ranuccio Tommasoni, the painter "cursed" ended his short life (39 years) of nell'ospdale St. Mary Help of Porto Ercole.
actually had lost track of the mortal remains of Caravaggio, but on 21 December 2009 a group of researchers coordinated by journalist and researcher Silvano Vinceti have found in the cemetery of Porto Ercole a pile of bone remains from the old cemetery of St. Sebastian , which when tested with carbon 14 and other even more sophisticated analysis, will confirm whether or not the allocation
2010 and then celebrate the 400th anniversary of the death of the artist and Florence will be held from May 22 to Oct. 17 at the Galleria Palatina in Palazzo Pitti and the Uffizi Gallery, the exhibition "Caravaggio and Caravaggio in Florence." Exposure of Caravaggio masterpiece of a movement to which the Medici family and the great attention devoted passionate. From those first dazzling paintings of Caravaggio Cardinal Del Monte gave the Grand Duke Ferdinando I - the Medusa and the Bacchus - arrived in Florence paintings and painters who made the city a "capital Caravaggio." Exhibition of masterpieces of Caravaggio, powerful paintings, images of dark interior Hand of Gentileschi, Honthorst, Stomer and many other Italian and foreign.

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Monday, December 14, 2009

New Baby Lohri Invitation Card

SAVE THE STAR OF CHRISTMAS



















The Star of Christmas, also known as Poinsettia, is an ornamental plant native to Mexico where it grows spontaneously, reaching the wild , a height between two and four meters.
Its scientific name is Euphorbia pulcherrima: it is an evergreen shrub belonging to the order Euphorbiales, family Euphorbiaceae, genus Euphorbia, pulcherrima species.
has fleshy stems, rigid, much branched, within which there is a slightly irritating milky substance, which give rise to a rounded crown with large oval leaves, sometimes lobed, dark green. In winter, the height of the stems develops inflorescence consists of a small bunch of flowers greenish-white, subtended by numerous bracts colored red.
It 's a typical Christmas tree because a Mexican legend tells how the shepherds came to adore baby Jesus there was also a poor girl who did not find anything in the house to give to our Lord, the way in the forest had picked up this beautiful spontaneous flower.
The Poinsettia is a plant typically brevidiurna for Therefore, its flowering occurs in winter when the days are shorter:
light stimulates plant growth, but to have a beautiful flowering must spend many hours in the dark.
At the end of the Christmas season watching near the garbage bins are witnessing the slow death of Christmas trees and poinsettias: the euphorbia pulcherrima easily loses its leaves, but does not die, so do not be thrown away.
If you have good roots and placed in a bright place, after it is pruned properly, letting it grow all summer, in late September, will be located inside (remember at least eight hours of darkness per day) and will begin flourish.
In winter the plant needs watering and fertilizing every 15 days every two or three days, while during the summer rest they will also take in the sun with occasional watering, but with some fertilizer monthly.
Someone claims that the flowering next year looks even more beautiful:
to discharge a debt of gratitude?