7 thoughts on “Scotland”

1. i like signorelli’s crowning of the elect

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2. THE CROWNING OF THE ELECT

   http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27759/27759-h/27759-h.htm

   The next large painting represents “The Crowning of the Elect.” A crowd of men and women, many draped round the loins, some quite naked, gaze upwards ecstatically, or kneel reverently to receive the gold crowns which angels are placing on their heads. Above, seated on clouds, are nine other angels, draped in many-folded robes, who play musical instruments. To the right two figures (in one of whom the Echo[Pg 74] of the “Pan” is repeated) seem to walk out of the scene, thus connecting this fresco with the next, in which the elect and crowned souls prepare to ascend to Heaven.

   The background is entirely of gold, thickly studded with bosses of gilded gesso. The figures are finely modelled and posed. The flesh-painting, as in all the frescoes, is perhaps somewhat heavy in colour, but the whole effect is rich and harmonious. The chief defects in the work are the overcrowding of the composition, and the bad values of distance, caused in a great measure by the gold background. Signorelli’s treatment is too realistic, his figures are too solid and too true to life, to bear the decorative background so suitable to the flat, half-symbolic painting of the Sienese school. They need space and air behind them, and lacking that, one feels a disagreeable sensation of oppression and overcrowding. Keeping the eye upon the ground, which is treated naturally, this feeling goes; the long shadows distinctly marked, send the figures to their different planes, and the confused composition becomes clear.

   Underneath are the usual decorations, two square portraits surrounded each by four medallions. We do not need the help of Luzi to recognise Dante in the first, injured though it is, and much repainted, especially about the mouth, which gives the face a somewhat grotesque expression.

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3. Eszterhas alleges Gibson once said he thought Beatles legend John Lennon deserved to die. “I’m glad he’s dead. He deserved to be shot. He was a f–king messianic,” Gibson allegedly ranted about the musician.

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4. Gibson wants Messiah…they were cyberbullying my hex GF…digital witnesses to whoa nelly 911…maybe she blessed me instead of hex

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5. FRACK THE ENGLISH AND THEIR CITY OF LONDON

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6. Mel’s lion of Judah blood

   let’s hope his rothschild movie is a success

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7. “In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man,
   and brave, and hated and scorned.

   When his cause succeeds, the timid join him,
   for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.”

   ― Mark Twain

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