#funeral in palestrina

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Oswald Achenbach (German, 1827-1905) Funeral in Palestrina, ca.1857

[monstersandmaw]

Random question but do you have any songs that have meaning for you?

 I do! And here they are... They’re all important for what they represent in my life, not necessarily for their own merit, but most of them I really like... :). I love it when people send asks that are just ‘hey, Ghosti, here’s a random thing I wanna know’ haha. I’m always up for those.

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Il centro del mondo by Ligabue reminds me of when I was 17 and living in Florence (and deeply fucking unhappy at the time) while studying Italian. At least I was surrounded by amazing gelato art history to distract me. This song was on the radio all the damned time and I still know most of the lyrics.

2nd mvt of Bruch’s violin concerto (also holy god, Itzhak Perlman is just... mindbogglingly talented) reminds me of performing it when I was about 18, of my wedding (I walked in to this), and of my grandma’s funeral where we played it because she was super proud of the performance and it had been her last major outing before she got ill and started to decline. I have mixed feelings about it, but it means a lot to me.

Blind (and to a certain extent You and Me) by Lifehouse reminds me of angsty, feelsy writing when I was at school. It was one of the tracks that I listened to a lot.

When I am Laid In Earth (skip to 1.26 for the actual aria if you don’t want the recit.), by Purcell and sung by Janet Baker is so exquisitely beautiful. I’ve performed in Dido & Aeneas both at school and at university, and it is also among my mother’s favourite pieces of music, and she wants it played at her funeral.

“Remember me, remember me, but ah! forget my fate. Remember me, but ah! forget my fate.”

North by Paul Mounsey and The Eve of War from War of the Worlds both remind me of commuting in London when I worked at the British Museum for a bit, and of just trying to shut out all the sheer volume of people, as well as doing distance with Mr. Ghosti and being super miserable...

Run Free from Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron is something that I listened to until I broke my CD because it was so scratched while I was at school. It has a deeply emotive effect on me and stirs up a lot of memories, both good and bad (i’m detecting a theme here with my associations!).

Finally... The Breaking of the Fellowship is one of the most tear-jerking pieces of music I can listen to. It’s calming and heart-breaking at the same time, reminding me of everything I love about Lord of the Rings and fantasy, and how I used it as an escape during a difficult part of my life. If this comes on on the radio or shuffle or something when I’m in the car, and if I don’t have to get out immediately, I will legitimately sit there for the full 7minutes and listen to it.

Daft Punk’s Something About Us gets an honourable mention because I first heard it when I went out with my first ever boyfriend, aged about 19 or so, but the lines ‘It might not be the right time / I might not be the right one’ had real resonance for me at the time. I knew that he was not the right one, and it definitely was not the right time, but for a brief moment there was something between us. :) (I did not need or want or love him ‘more than anything in my life’ though...!!!)

As does ‘Denn alles Fleisch’ from Brahms’ German Requiem because ‘oof’, gravitas, feels and memories. Also literally any early music by the likes of Tallis, Palestrina, Tomas de Luis Victoria (you may know O Magnum Mysterium from the ‘bathroom sirens’ viral video... also that man knows how to write a good alto line, for which I’m very grateful!)...

[hardcorefornerds]

Now That’s What I Call Mass, Vol. II (Volume I here)

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1. Vivaldi, ‘Kyrie’ - a strange mix of almost dissonant-sounding vocals and familiar chord progressions

2. Dunstable, ‘Kyrie’ - stripped back to pure Renaissance polyphony

3. Zelenka, ‘Christe Eleison’ (Missa Omnium Sanctorum) - winding, twisty, jazzy, like this composer’s best work

4. ‘Gloria’, Ordinarium Misse - performed by the Coro Madrigale Slovenico: sometimes Gregorian chant can feel somewhat oppressive; other times, like this, it opens out into another sense of time.

5. Mozart, ‘Lacrimosa’ from Requiem in D Minor - Mozart in Eight Sobs

6.  Schütz, ‘Nacket bin ich vom Mutterlieb kommen’ (’Naked I come into the world…’) from the Musicalische Exequien. A funeral mass with this epic opening movement constructed of religious quotes that were engraved on a count’s coffin - such a gothic story.

7. Palestrina, ‘Sanctus’ (Missa Aeterna Christi). A filler piece, but it’s Palestrina...

8. Biber, ‘Agnus Dei’ (Missa Salisburgenis). Apparently there is a thing called ‘Colossal Baroque’, of which this is an example. But do also check out his Mystery Sonatas for solo violin.

9. Duruflé, ‘In Paradisum’ from his Requiem, Op. 9. I already used it for this playlist, but it’s just so beautiful.

10. Vedel, ‘Nunc Dimittis’. Led to it by this Soviet-era LP - Orthodox choral music can be so sublime.

[treasuresofpolishmusic]

Józef Władysław Krogulski - Variations for piano and orchestra

Born in Tarnów, Józef Władysław Krogulski (1815-1842) was a student of Karol Kurpiński and Józef Elsner. He was child prodigy and began his virtuosic career at the age of 10 (performances in Poznań, Kalisz, Puławy, Warsaw, Dresden, Berlin, Leipzig, St. Petersburg, Kiev and others.)

However, he gave up his pianistic career in 1832 to focus on the sacred choral compositions. He became a conductor of one of choirs he founded in Warsaw. Unfortunately, he died at the age of 27 on tuberculosis. On Krogulski's funeral, Karol Kurpiński said "we are burying our Palestrina".

His oeuvre includes two piano concerti, variations for piano and orchestra, mazurkas, polonaises and other pieces for piano, chamber works (e.g. Octet), cantatas, masses, songs and many others.

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Tenebrae - Spy Wednesday Services

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The candles are extinguished one by one but Jesus our light is not extinguished. This is signified by the candle which is momentarily placed behind the altar; it symbolizes our Redeemer suffering and dying on Calvary... The noise begins; the earth shook, the rocks were split, the dead came forth from their tombs… (Caption for image of story)

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Roman Catholic practice of Tenebrae

Tenebrae (Latin for 'shadows' or 'darkness') is a Christian religious service celebrated in the Western Church on the evening before or early morning of Maudy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday, which are the last three days of Holy Week. The distinctive ceremony of Tenebrae is the gradual extinguishing of candles while a series of readings and psalms are chanted or recited. In the Roman Rite of the Roman Catholic Church the Tenebrae readings and psalms are those of Matins and Lauds.

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Tenebrae services differ, in many things, from the Office of the rest of the year. All is sad and mournful, as though it were a funeral service; nothing could more emphatically express the grief that now weighs down the heart of our Holy Mother the Church. Throughout all the Office of Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, she forbids herself the use of those formulas of joy and hope wherewith, on all other days, she begins her praise of God. Nothing is left but what is essential to the form of the Divine Office: psalms, lessons and chants expressive of grief. The tone of the Office is most noticeably mournful; the lessons taken from the Lamentations of Jeremiah, the omission of the Gloria Patri, of the Te Deum, and of blessings etc., so the darkness of these services seems to have been designedly chosen to mark the Church’s desolation. The lessons from Jeremiah in the first Nocturn, those from the Commentaries of St. Augustine upon the Psalms in the second, and those from the Epistles of St. Paul in the third remain now as when we first hear all them in the eighth century.

The name “Tenebrae” has been given because this Office is celebrated in the hours of darkness, formerly in the evening or just after midnight, now the early morning hours. There is placed in the sanctuary, near the altar, a large triangular candlestick holding fifteen candles. At the end of each psalm or Canticle, one of these fifteen candles is extinguished, but the one which is placed at the top of the triangle is left lighted. During the singing of the Benedictus (the Canticle of Zacharias at the end of Lauds), six other candles on the altar are also put out. Then the master of ceremonies takes the lighted candle from the triangle and holds it upon the altar while the choir repeats the antiphon after the Canticle, after which he hides it behind the altar during the recitation of the Christus antiphon and final prayer.

As soon as this prayer is finished, a noise is made with the seats of the stalls in the choir, which continues until the candle is brought from behind the altar, and shows, by its light, that the Office of Tenebrae is over.

Let us now learn the meaning of these ceremonies. The glory of the Son of God was obscured and, so to say, eclipsed, by the ignominies He endured during His Passion. He, Light of the world, powerful in word and work, who but in a few days ago was proclaimed King by the citizens of Jerusalem, is now robbed of all is honors. He is, says Isaiah, the Man of sorrows, a leper (Isaiah 53:3, 4). He is, says the royal prophet, a worm of the earth, and no man (Psalm 21:7). He is, as He says of Himself, an object of shame even to His own disciples, for they are all scandalized in Him (Mark 14:27) and abandon Him; yea, even Peter protests that he never knew Him. This desertion on the part of His apostles and disciples is expressed by the candles being extinguished, one after the other, not only on the triangle, but on the altar itself. But Jesus, our Light, though despised and hidden, is not extinguished. This is signified by the candle which is momentarily placed on the altar; it symbolizes our Redeemer suffering and dying on Calvary. In order to express His burial, the candle is hidden behind the altar, its light disappears. A confused noise is heard in the house of God, where all is now darkness. This noise and gloom express the convulsions of nature when Jesus expired on the cross; the earth shook, the rocks were split, the dead came forth from their tombs. But the candle suddenly reappears; its light is as fair as ever. The noise is hushed, and homage is paid to the Conqueror of death.

Music

The lessons of the first Nocturn at Matins are taken from the Book of Lamentations, as previously noted, and are sung to a specific Gregorian reciting tone. They have also been set to music by many composers, of whom the most famous Palestrina, Lassus, Tallis, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, François Couperin, Ernst Krenek (Lamentatio Jeremiae prophetae, op. 93) and Stravinsky (Threni). In addition, the responsories have been set by Lassus, Gesualdo, Victoria and Jan Dismas Zelenka.

The lessons of the second Nocturn are taken from the writings of St. Augustine, and the lessons of the third Nocturn from the epistles of Paul the Apostle. These are chanted to the ordinary lesson tone and have been relatively neglected by composers, though there are a few settings by Manuel Cardoso and sets of responsories by Orland di Lasso and Mac-Antoine Charpentier.

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The celebration of Matins and Lauds of these days in the form referred to as Tenebrae in churches with a sufficient number of clergy was universal in the Roman Rite until the reform of the Holy Week ceremonies by Pope Pius XIl in 1955. At that time, the East Vigil was restored as a night office, moving that Easter liturgy from Holy Saturday morning to the following night; the principal liturgies of Holy Thursday and Good Friday were likewise moved from morning to afternoon or evening, and thus Matins and Lauds were no longer allowed to be anticipated on the preceding evening, except for the Matins and Lauds of Holy Thursday in the case of cathedral churches in which the Mass of the Chrism was held on Holy Thursday morning. The 1960 Code of Rubrics, which is incorporated in the 1962 typical addition of the Roman Breviary, did not allow any anticipation of Lauds, though Matins can still be anticipated to the day before later than the hour of Vespers. Even at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, where the need to observe a timetable that did not disturb the established rights of other churches forced the timetable of Roman Catholic Holy Week services to remain unchanged, the Office of Tenebrae was abandoned in 1977. But the special rubrics of Tenebrae that once accompanied the celebration of Matins and Lauds, including the ceremony of extinguishing the candles on the hearse, are now sometimes applied to other celebrations, even if these do not consist of a nine-psalm Matins and a five-psalm Lauds.

Summorum Pontificum (2007) permits clerics bound to the recitation of the Divine Office to use the 1962 Roman Breviary, a permission availed of by several religious and secular institutes and societies of apostolic life; but the 1955 and 1960 changes exclude the anticipation of Matins and Lauds to the previous evening, whether celebrated with or without the Tenebrae ceremonies However, some places hold something similar to the original Tenebrae celebration as an extra-liturgical, devotional service.

The candle suddenly reappears; its light is as fair as ever. (Caption for linked image)

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Vatican, Castel Sant'Angelo & Trastevere

14/05/2018: Today was a big day. Firstly, a trip to the Vatican to look around the Vatican Museums, something to fill in the middle of the day and then to the Trastevere for an evening food tour.

We made our way there by way of a couple of taxis, asking for Viale Vaticano and to be dropped off at Caffee Vaticano, straight across the road from the entrance to Musei Vaticani, the Vatican Museums. Waiting with the rest of the tourists on the steps at the end of via Tunisi and leading up to the Vatican from via Sebastiano Veniero, progress was made once everyone was identified and we were allocated our guide. As with the last time, although we did queue up in the Skip the Line line, we passed most of the people outside and went straight in, through the security and into the foyer of the museum.

Vatican Museum entrance

Making sure the ear plugs work

Unlike our last visit, this time our guide took us to the Cortile della Pinacoteca only to overlook the Giardino Quadrato rather than be part of it. Focus then quickly shifted to the Museo Pio-Clementino which was founded by a couple of popes from which it received its name, Pope Pius VI and Pope Clemente XIV. It held several galleries including Sala a Croce Greca and  the porphyry Sarcophagi of Helena and Constantina.

The red porphyry Sarcophagus of Costantia held the remains of the daughter of the Emperor Constantine the Great. A similar sarcophagus nearby once held the remains of her grandmother, Helena

Next stop was to check out the Flemish tapestries displayed within Galleria degli Arazzi. They were in pretty good nick, not sure if they were faded or not. One would think so if they were first displayed in the Sistine Capel during the first half of the fifteen hundreds.

Taxi!!!

From the tapestries to the maps. With both being in hallways, the only complaint would be that no one could get back far enough to appreciate the works from a distance. The Galleria delle Carte Geografiche was as before, excellent. Possible one of the best displays in the whole joint.

Old Italy, one of forty geographical maps painted on the walls depicting Italian regions and the possessions of the Church at the time of Pope Gregory XIII

By ten we were well into the museum thing and well into the  Stanze di Raffaello including Sala Sobieski e dell'Immacolata and stanza dell incendio di borgo. We had to move on though. The Sistine lay ahead.

She was Raphael'd out

One more room to go, the Sistine Chapel. But no, there was one before that, a contemporary display of more recent artists. They were long since gone but not as long gone as most in there. The small rooms contained the likes of Rodin, Morlotti, Van Gogh and Salvador Dali amongst other Spanish displays.

Franco Gentilini: Cattedrale con natura morta e cane

Unless one wants to clinically identify all the stories within the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, it doesn't take too long to check out. As magnificent as what it was, ten minutes pulled the place up. We all walked into the room and were immediately under the watchful gaze of the Noise Nazis. There were people everywhere which made it doubly uncomfortable. Wandering around like Brown's cows, our necks cranked upward, it was not hard to appreciate the beauty of the artwork, the striking scenes and stories, the complicated layout and above all, the tremendous feat Michelangelo managed in laying on his back for so long to get it all done. The room morphed from silence to rowdiness and back to silence depending on the frequency of the "shooshes" from the Noise Nazis as well as the constant bellowing of "No Photos", "No Photos". Stuff 'em. Typical Vatican, only allowing photographs of what they say. We got a few good ones in though.

Sneaky one in the Sistine Chapel. Scenes from the bottom up, the Separation of Land and Water, Creation of Adam, Creation of Eve, the Fall of Man and the Sacrifice of Noah

A sea of admirers continually flowed in and subsequently out of the Sistine Chapel, mostly shoulder to shoulder for the duration of their visit. The few minutes spent inside were both congested and claustrophobic and as such, we joined in the outflow and rode the wave, past Scala Regio, down the ramp and into the courtyard, Cortile San Gregorio l'Illuminatore below. It was time for a short break. People could refill their water bottles with Holy Water from the fountain in the courtyard while the guide advised everyone of what was on offer around the area. Tickets to the top of the dome, the elevator if one was too lazy to climb the stairs and the gift shop.  The next stage was to enter the Basilica so if anyone wanted to avail themselves of what was on offer in the courtyard they would have to return later. It was time to press on.

Looking down Scala Regia. The Bernini equestrian statue, Vision of Constantine was somewhere down there

Before long we were in the portico at the front of Saint Peter's Basilica and confronted by several doors which in at some point of time or for some reason allowed access to the Basilica. The first of five doors was the Holy Door, so named as it only opens during Holy Years which are twenty five years apart. Not only is it closed but bricked in so it cannot be opened inadvertently. The second was the Door of Sacraments, the one which allowed entry once through security. While queueing there was plenty of time to check out the oldest door from the early to mid fourteen hundreds. The Filarete Door was in the centre, showing six panels of religious stuff like Saint Paul losing his head and such, next to it was the Door of Good and Evil with each doors' panels showing as much and to the extreme left, the Door of Death which was the exit for funeral processions and the door where we would later leave the Basilica. Yes, we would be leaving via Death's Door.

On the first day of a Holy Year, the Pope strikes the brick wall with a silver hammer and opens the Holy Door to the pilgrims.

The first stop inside, and a very popular one, was the Pieta, one of the great religious works carved by Michelangelo over five hundred years ago, depicting the Virgin Mary holding the body of Christ after he was released from the cross. An equally interesting spot was further down the front, past many other treasures to near the altar. As far as Shane was concerned, an equally interesting spot was right down the front where Ewan McGregor self combusted at some stage in some famous Tom Hanks movie. It was a no go area though.

The Pieta, the only signed sculpture by Michelangelo. Not unlike Palestrina Pietà in Florence. Now behind glass due to some nutter taking to it with a hammer years earlier

Old mummified pope

Following the guide around the place, we ended up almost where we started, suggesting the tour was finished, but there was one more treat for us. She talked to someone in the know and ended up leading us down a tight staircase to an area within the foundations of the joint and to where many former popes were buried. We were warned that within this area no photos were permitted so we obliged by only taking a few.

Tomb of Benedict XV, Giacomo Della Chiesa, from Genova

Upon leaving through Death's Door, we hooked a right and checked out the shenanigans of the Swiss Guard. This dedicated and deadly security force that is charged with protecting the Pope could easily be underestimated given their clown suit outfits. But don't be fooled. The Swiss Guards have been the "Defenders of the Church's freedom" ever since a hundered and fifty of them passed through the Porta del Popolo and entered for the first time the Vatican, where they were blessed by Pope Julius II. It was right on twelve so the changing of the guard was underway. That was it. Tour over.

Changing of the Swiss Guard. Defenders of the Church's freedom

Upon exiting Piazza San Pietro and  keeping to the southern colonnade, we walked along via della Conciliazione and sat down at the entrance to Parco della Mole Adriana. Once the women caught up, Cecilia was thinking of her stomach again and insisted on finding a restaurant somewhere to eat. Shane and the boys chose a panini from Gastronomia,  a food van parked nearby. For a few euro instead of many they were fed, and within a few minutes instead of many. With the time saved they joined the short queue for Castel Sant'Angelo, the Mausoleum of Emperor Hadrian come fortress come Papal apartments. Jo and Cec looked for lunch.

Mausoleum Hadriani was built between 128 and 139 by Hadrian for Hadrian, his adopted kids and their adopted kids. Up until the rule of Emperor Nerva, Roman emperors' ashes were all put inside the Mausoleum of Augustus but the monument filled up. With no room left he had no choice but to build his own, not as big as Augustus's though. Cassius Dio wrote, "He had lived sixty-two years, five months and nineteen days, and had been emperor twenty years and eleven months. He was buried near the river itself, close to the Aelian bridge; for it was there that he had prepared his tomb, since the tomb of Augustus was full, and from this time no body was deposited in it." Nerva's successor, Trajan, was buried under his column in Forum Traiani leaving Hadrian out on a limb. Hadrian died  in 138 leaving it up to his adoptive soon Antoninus Pius to finish the job.

One hundred and thirty years later the mausoleum was incorporated into Rome's Muri Aureliani, the defensive walls begun by Emperor Aurelian and converted to a fortress, protecting Hadrian's ashes and his descendants until the Visgoths and King Alaric sacked the joint in 410, thereby seeding Rome's demise over the coming decades. Hieronymus, commonly referred to as Saint Jerome, in a letter to Principia wrote, "My voice sticks in my throat; and, as I dictate, sobs choke my utterance. The city which had taken the whole world was itself taken."

Hadrian's Mausoleum come papal residence

As the boys paid and moved into Ambulacro di Bonifacio IX,  an annular corridor of darkened walkways encircling the main structure within and bounded by the protective rectangular walls, founded on the original square base of the mausoleum, fragments of ancient statues lined the path which eventually led to the diametral ramp. This passageway was cut through the monument as part of the fortifications but halfway up was a substantial chasm based with earth and rubble, originally the sepulchral cell below. A nineteenth century iron bridge now breaches the gap, replacing the long gone drawbridge constructed almost five hundred years earlier.  

They had reached the second level of seven and at the rear of the structure, walking along the ramparts that linked all four bastions, and the first stop was to look around the area from above, passing a sentry box attached to what was said to be the armoury, a building modified by Pope Clement X Altieri during the late sixteen hundreds. The armoury at the top, prisons in the centre and powder deposits at ground level (could have been trouble if the prisoners escaped), all located adjacent to Bastione San Luca , at the northeast corner of the castle.

Armoury of Clement X. Notice the curvilinear tympanum and two lateral volutes above  

Moving back toward the Tiber, the next bastion, Bastione San Giovanni was the next of the polygonal bulwarks, within which the gunboats were located. This one also had a small representation of a sixteenth-century gunsmith's workshop.

Ponte Sant'Angelo from Bastione San Giovanni

A small section of the "march ronda". The marching rounds refer to the walkway around the top of the walls that link the bastions where sentinels would march and lookout while on duty. Suppose they were continually marching around

Cordonata of Paul III, leading up to Level 3. Busts of Hadrian and a togate in the niches halfway down

Level three contained the historical prisons. Three to be exact and were effectively built underground as the only light came from an opening to the level above.  One of the cells hosted the celebrated Renaissance sculptor and goldsmith, Benvenuto Cellini (remember Perseus with the Head of Medusa in Loggia dei Lanzi). He was a passionate craftsman, draftsman, soldier, musician, artist, poet and braggart. You name it he was good at it. He was also good at doing time, repeatedly prosecuted for sodomy, theft, and murder. He done time here for about a year and escaped after getting wind of the pope going to lop off his head for one of his crimes. The pope put it off though due to Corpus Domini in 1538. Getting wind of what was about to happen, he escaped with outside help but was recaptured and relocated in a more secure area, a cell and large cistern for water. Complaining of the tarantulas, poisonous worms and also of the fact that there was "a lot of water " must have done some good as he died many years later in Florence.

Sunlight from Cortile d'Onore above

The next level consisted of courtyards and linkages to the papal apartments. Cortile d'Onore was the first one that was visited, dominated by a marble and bronze statue of Saint Michael the Archangel after whom the castle was dedicated. This courtyard was bounded by the armoury to the outside and the rooms of the papal residence behind Saint Michael. On the other side of the papal rooms, the Courtyard of Alexander VI joined the off limits Courtyard of Pope Leo X.

A weather worn Saint Michael the Archangel. It sat atop the fortress until 1747 after exposure to the elements got the better of it

Overlooking Bastione San Matteo and the Tiber

It was then up to the Giretto of Alessandro VII, a walk around the periphery and above Cortile d'Onore. There were several places of interest there. Firstly the Armoury, consisting of four rooms which had displays of military uniforms, weapons, armour and other military memorabilia and secondly the café where we could have a rest and have a beer. The terrace café was quite popular with most tables for more than two taken. There was an impressive view across the city available from several tables as well but the stiff cold breeze explained why. A table was bagsed out of the wind and  a reintroduction to Saint Stephanus was made. Not since Caffé Pitti all those days ago in Florence did the two meet.

Rest time at Caffetteria Ristorante Le Terrazze Castel Sant’Angelo

Meanwhile, not impressed with just a panini, Cecilia took Jo and went in search of "proper" food, heading off through some alley ways where they finally settled in at the little café, Panico Ristorante Pizzeria just across the Tiber. Cec could now have what she had been yearning for ages, an authentic Italian pineapple pizza.

Mmmm….. She finally got her pineapple pizza

When the breeze was braved the Roman roofscape was on offer. Looking out the embrasures allowed a view of Bastione San Marco and the Passetto di Borgo, the protected walkway that shielded the Pope as he made his way between the Vatican, some eight hundred metres to the west and Castel Sant'Angelo. It paid for itself in spades during the Sack of Rome of 1527 when Pope Clement VII Medici and his entourage fled to the safety of the fortress through Passetto di Borgo while the remnants of a massacred Swiss Guard Unit held off the attacking Habsburg soldiers of Emperor Charles V. The rest is history.

Bastione San Marco and the Passetto di Borgo leading off to the Vatican

After the break the men pressed on to the papal accommodation and associated rooms. Keeping to Giretto of Alessandro VII and moving clockwise, they found themselves within Loggia di Paolo III, built during the mid fifteen hundreds and overlooking the area to the north and west. Overlooking Prati and out to Monte Mario, and over towards the Vatican area. Adjacent to the loggia was the entrance to the private apartments of Paolo III Farnese.

Welcome to the mad house. Door to the Pope's pad

Over the threshold, a right turn, and they were in what was once one of the most protected areas in the fortress, Sala della Biblioteca and Sala del Tesoro where the Archives of the Papal States and the Secret Archive and other documents were stored as well as the treasury and other precious objects.  Sala del Tesoro was a round room utilising the original roman central tower of the mausoleum, secured by two closed doors and only opened with keys held by the Pope's Secret Treasurer and the Cardinal Dean.

Sala del Tesoro. The "treasure" was held in the large iron treasure chest, only accessible through the opening of six locks. The keys entrusted to different people

The seventh and last level consisted of a couple of small rooms, one of which contained some sort of modern type art. Sala Rotonda was located directly above Sala del Tesoro and was created by building a floor to separate it from the room below. Originally a chapel, around sixteen hundred it was utilised for storage of the secret papal archives that the Sala del Tesoro couldn't handle. These documents took the name of the "Old Archive".  Sala delle Colonne was built in the mid seventeen hundreds to house the "New Archive".  Two smaller adjoining rooms, Saletta dei Labari dei reparti d’assalto and Sala degli Stendardi della Cavalleria were decorated in patriotic war themes, after World War I and intended to hold Italian war relics.

Sala degli Stendardi della Cavalleria, horse head ceiling decorations

They were finally at the top of the fortress, overlooked only by the Statua di San Michele Arcangelo perched on high, sword drawn from his sheath as if protecting all from those who would dare to strike. The archangel also overlooked the terrace that had been the scene of the Girandole, the fireworks that, for hundreds of years marked pontifical elections and religious or city celebrations (after ensuring that the shutters on the Sala Rotonda windows were well shut). The terrace also provided a beautiful view of the surrounding city, from the Vatican Museum to the west, across the Tiber and to the Mausoleum of Augustus to the east. After some time enjoying the scenery, it was time to move back down to pick up what they missed on the way up.

Terrazzo dell'Angelo. Archangel Saint Michael has been overlooking the terrace for nearly 270 years

Basilica di San Pietro from Terrazzo dell'Angelo

Retracing their steps somewhat, dropping a couple of levels and moving counter clockwise through  the Revolution and rooms of Pius IV, they moved through the Giretto displaying Hadrianic fragments from the original mausoleum and to where they were a bit earlier, the Loggia di Paolo III.  A set of stairs leading to Cortile di Alessandro VI in turn led to   impressive papal rooms including Sala Paolina, Sala del Perseo and the Sala di Amore e Psiche, culminating in a  collection of arms at the Armerie and the Sale di Clemente VIII.

Big weapon

Sale di Clemente VIII and the monumental fireplace decorated with the heraldry of the Barberini, family of Pope Urban VIII. The doors either side came along a bit later

That was it. Exiting through Sala di Apollo, the exit was made via Rampa elicoidale to the Dromos e Atrium. The helical ramp, built around the time of Trajan and Hadrian and significant with the funeral procession and the emperor's last journey, was sealed during the sixth century for defensive reasons. It wasn't dug up again until the early eighteen hundreds.

The helical ramp leading out

The ramp ended out onto the street to some extent, so heading back down through more tunnels and walkways to a section that would have been below water when a moat existed, remnants of the fortresses past with architectural bits and pieces positioned in rooms and in varying stages of decay appeared. The rooms also had scale models of the fortress depicting the different constructions over the centuries. This display should have been in a more prominent place.  The end was nigh, everyone exiting Castel Sant'Angelo very satisfied with the effort. This place was money well spent.

Model of the castle

By mid afternoon it was time to return to the apartment via  Piazza Navona and the  Temple of the Nymphs along  via delle Botteghe Oscure. Upon arrival, energy was being expended on washing clothes. Jo and Cec had had their afternoon nap, were catching up on some chores and preparing for the soon to be, Trastevere Food Tour.

Shortly before six, we jumped into a cab and were duly dropped off across the Tiber from Piazza di San Bartolomeo all'Isola, the meeting place and where the tour would commence. It was a little after six when we headed off to the first restaurant due to one couple being a few minutes late. There were the five of us, two other Aussies and four Yanks.

Crossing the Tiber again, our group were taken through a few side streets until we were in Via dei Vascellari and shortly after outside of Da Enzo Trattoria. From the roadway we were given a piece of advice. We were eating before the evening rush hours of the restaurant as later on it was so popular that it was always booked out, and as such there was plenty of room so we were shown inside and introduced to the owner (or just the waiter). The two courses that stood out was the Carciofi alla Giudia (fried artichoke) which had the centre removed and deep fried, positioned upside down in the middle of the plate and covered in a sprinkling of olive oil, salt and pepper. An apt choice given that the meal is Jewish in origin and we were in the Jewish Quarter. The other was a delicious serving of Burrata cheese, served as a ball of what looked like runny, lumpy yoghurt covered in a mozzarella skin. We could have had more of that.

Da Enzo on Via dei Vascellari

Next was a trip through the narrow streets to Restaurante Spirito di Vino a short distance away. The front door was on Via dei Genovesi where we entered the last time but this time went through a side entrance from a side lane, Vicolo dell'Atleta. This took us straight down the stairs to the basement to sample some wines and morsels. The building itself was extremely old but where we were served, cavernous ancient cellars were B.C. type old. The room was quite dark with wine racks covering some of the walls, bottles covered in a healthy layer of dust. The mood wasn't dark though, everyone loved it.

Restaurante Spirito di Vino side entrance

Ancient cellars of Spirito di Vino

Cheers, big ears

After the experience at Restaurante Spirito di Vino and on the way to the biscuit shop, the guide pointed out a distant Santa Cecilia. Declaring her interest, Cec suggested that we drop in their in the coming days for a look. After all she was named after Saint Cecilia. Years ago Cecilia's mother had piano lessons as a young girl, taught by the nuns at the convent. She hated the lessons but loved the paintings of Saint Cecilia that hung on the wall near the piano.

The biscuit shop, Biscottificio Artigiano Innocenti was on Via della Luce.

We were sat down here and given samples of their produce. The Brutto ma Buono (translation-ugly but good) made from sugar, egg whites and nuts was particularly nice so we took a bagful with us.

Then given the opportunity to work off the biscuits with the hike to the next place, we moseyed onto the delicatessen, Antica Norcineria Iacozzilli, porchetta being their specialty. The slow roasted  pork was nice and juicy within and crispy without. Three generations have made it so.

Antica Norcineria Iacozzilli

Waiting for the porchetta

Then the hole in the wall on Via di San Francesco a Ripa. The I Suppli sell takeaway suppli only. Once you buy the risotto, marinara and mozzarella egg shaped rice balls, take them outside and eat on the footpath. As we did.

Rice ball heaven

Another long walk then ensued, onto  Casa Mia in Via della Renella. Our guide stopped for a while at a church in Piazza di Santa Maria called Basilica di Santa Maria in Trastevere. This place, we were told held the head of Saint Apollonia, the Patron Saint of dentistry who had her teeth smashed in by an unruly mob some time back. They then built a fire to burn her but she jumped in before they had the pleasure of throwing her in. Bits of her are all over the place in European churches.

Basilica di Santa Maria in Trastevere holds the head (probably toothless) of Saint Apollonia as well as a couple of holy men. Pope Callixtus I and Lorenzo Cardinal Campeggio

Then to Casa Mia on Via della Renella.

Plenty of pasta and plenty of wine was consumed here

The conversation must have been a bit boring. For Jo anyway

To finish off, it was back across town to Fatamorgana ice cream shop on Via Roma Libera. The gelato here wasn't the fluffy stuff in the tourist areas. It was fair dinkum gelato, characteristic of the natural colouring that would be expected if nothing artificial were added (we eat all types).

With gelato gone, we said our goodbyes to the other foody tourists and headed to the nearby taxi rank. Tomorrow, Cec and the boys are booked into the Coliseum. Jo and Shane will tackle Forum Romanum.

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The Three Lilies

♫ Music Notes

Today’s brass prelude will conclude with a choral introit. The Three Lilies is an old Breton Easter carol arranged by Harvey B. Gaul (1881-1945). This uses three lilies as an image for the three Marys at Jesus’ tomb: “Three lilies blossomed from the ground, where blood-drops fell from Jesus’ wound. One for each Mary burst into bloom, when they sought Jesus at the tomb.” Each phrase concludes with the exclamation, “Christus resurrexit!” The music builds until the final phrase leads us directly into that most famous of Easter hymns, “Jesus Christ is risen today.”

Although a life-long friend of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst (1874-1934) is not particularly known for writing sacred music. Holst was a true musical eclectic. He drew his inspiration from sources as diverse as astrology, English folk song, Sanskrit poetry, and Algerian melodies. He was a natural teacher with the ability to inspire both adults and children. Holst studied at the Royal College of Music, and his primary instrument was trombone. He became director of music at St. Paul’s Girls’ School, and did most of his composing during school holidays. His colorful blend of traditional tonality with inventive combinations of chords and spare, open intervals gave his music a distinctive voice.

Holst wrote ballet music, operas, choral music, and song cycles. He is the composer of the tune Cranham, used in the beloved Christmas carol “In the bleak midwinter” (H-112). His festival arrangement of “Let all mortal flesh keep silence” has been a perennial favorite of choirs. He is best known for his orchestral music, particularly The Planets, an orchestral suite with a separate movement for each of the known planets (at that time only seven). It is from the movement titled “Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity” that the tune for today’s opening hymn comes, Thaxted. This movement depicts the majesty of the heavenly giant, with the orchestra emphasizing Jupiter’s jovial spirit. The central, broad sweep of the melody Thaxted was later used for the popular English hymn “I vow to thee, my country.” Today the choir is singing it to the text O God Beyond All Praising. Thaxted is named for the English village where Holst lived much of his life. It was his friend Vaughan Williams who included it in a hymnal he edited in 1926, and it was this setting that was sung at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997.

During Communion the choir and brass together will present music by the most illustrious composer of the Spanish Renaissance. The original text, and perhaps the plainsong tune, is by Wipo of Burgundy (d. 1050?). A version is found in the hymnal at H-183. In today’s setting by Tomás Luis de Victoria (c. 1540-1611) Victimae Paschali Laudes begins with the first verse sung in plainsong, followed by antiphonal phrases in which the choir and brass echo one another. This was a common device used in Italy, where Victoria studied. He wrote only sacred music, and was highly innovative for the deeply moving expression of the text with a very Spanish mystical intensity. You may recall on Christmas Eve the brass played his most famous masterpiece, O Magnum Mysterium. Victoria was the most famous composer of 16th century Spain, as well as an accomplished organist and Roman Catholic priest. After his early years at the cathedral in Ávila he moved to Rome and may have studied with Palestrina.  

May your Easter be filled with joy and hope,

Dr. David Kerr Park, Director of Music

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Palestrina’s funeral was held in St. Peter’s Basilica, and he was buried beneath the floor of said basilica. However, his tomb was later covered by new construction, and now nobody can find it.

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BIOGRAFIA MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, nació el 6 de marzo de 1475 en caprese Michelangelo (Republica de Florencia), por una infección y asfixia muere el 18 de febrero de 1546 a sus 88 años en Roma (estados pontificios).

Tuvo muchos ocupaciones de las cuales podemos destacar Escultor, dibujante, arquitecto, pintor, poeta y maestro de obras.

Miguel Ángel desde muy joven manifestó sus dotes artísticos en la escultura, disciplina en la cuál empezó a sobresalir. En abril de 1488, con doce años de edad y gracias a el consejo de Francesco Granacci, entró en el taller de los famosos Ghirlandaio (Domenico y Davide), su familia y los Ghirlandaio formalizaron un contrato de estudios que duraría tres años.

Allí permaneció como aprendiz durante un año, pasado el cual, bajo la tutela de Bertoldo di Giovanni, empezó a frecuentar el jardin de San Marcos  de los Medicis, donde estudió las esculturas antiguas que había allí reunidas. Sus primeras obras artísticas despertaron la admiración de Lorenzo el magnífico, que lo acogió en su Palacio de la via longa, donde Miguel Ángel se habría de encontrar con Angelo polizianp y otros humanistas del círculo de los Médicis, como Giovanni Pico della Mirandola  y Marsilio Fisino.Estas relaciones lo pusieron en contacto con las teorías idealistas de Platón, ideas que acabaron convirtiéndose en uno de los pilares fundamentales de su vida y que plasmó tanto en sus obras plásticas como en su producción poética.

RECORRIDO ARTÍSTICO

Tras la muerte de Lorenzo el Magnífico, en 1492, Miguel Ángel huyó de Florencia y pasó por Venecia, instalándose después en Bolonia. Allí esculpió diversas obras bajo la influencia de la labor de Jacopo Della Quercia. Pero en 1496 decidió partir hacia Roma, ciudad que había de verle triunfar. Allí inició una década de gran intensidad artística, después de la cual, con treinta años, sería acreditado como un artista de primera línea. Después del Bacus de Bargello (1496),esculpió la Piedad del Baticano a los veintitrés años, y posteriormente realizó el Tondo Pitti. De la misma época es el cartón de La batalla de Cascina, actualmente perdido, pintado para la Señoría de Florencia, y el David, obra cumbre de la escultura, de una gran complejidad por la escasa anchura de la pieza de mármol, que fue colocado delante del palacio del Ayuntamiento de Florencia y se convirtió en la expresión de los supremos ideales cívicos del Renacimiento.

En mayo de 1508, aceptó dirigir la decoración de la bóveda de la capilla Sixtina, cuyos frescos concluyó cuatro años más tarde, después de un trabajo solitario y tenaz. En esta obra ideó una grandiosa estructura arquitectónica pintada, inspirada en la forma real de la bóveda. En el tema bíblico general de la bóveda, Miguel Ángel interpuso una interpretación neoplatonica del Génesis y dio forma a un tipo de interpretación de las imágenes que conseguirían ser un símbolo del arte del Renacimiento.

Después de la muerte de Julio II, en mayo de 1513, el artista hizo un segundo intento de seguir con la obra del mausoleo del pontífice. Con este propósito esculpió las dos figuras de los Esclavos y el Moisés, que reflejan una atormentada energía, la terribilitá de Miguel Ángel. Pero este segundo intento tampoco prosperó.

Finalmente, después de la muerte de Bramante (1514) y de Rafael Sanzio (1520), Miguel Ángel consiguió la total confianza del papado.

En 1516, por encargo de León X, inició el proyecto para la fachada de la basílica de San Lorenzo de Florencia, trabajo que en 1520 debió abandonar con gran amargura. Del proyecto original se conservan numerosos dibujos y una maqueta de madera. A partir de 1520 y hasta 1530, Miguel Ángel trabajó en Florencia y construyó la Sacristía Nueva de San Lorenzo y la Biblioteca Laurenciana, en especial su escalera. Después del saqueo de Roma y de la expulsión de los Médicis de Florencia, Miguel Ángel formó parte, como hecho meramente anecdótico, del gobierno de la nueva República Florentina, de la cual fue nombrado «gobernador y procurador general de la fabricación y fortificación de las murallas», y participó en la defensa de la ciudad asediada por las tropas papales. En 1530, después de la caída de la República, el perdón de Clemente VII lo salvó de la venganza de los partidarios de los Médicis. A partir de este año reemprendió los trabajos de la Sacristía Nueva y del sepulcro de Julio II.

En 1534, al encontrarse a disgusto con la nueva situación política que se había instaurado en Florencia, abandonó la ciudad y se estableció en Roma, donde aceptó el encargo de Clemente VII para trabajar en el altar de la Capilla Sixtina y donde, entre 1536 y 1541, realizó el magnífico Juicio Final. Hasta 1550 fue haciendo obras para la tumba de Julio II, y los frescos de la Capilla Paulina.

ÚLTIMOS AÑOS

Durante los últimos veinte años de su vida, Miguel Ángel se dedicó sobre todo a trabajos de arquitectura: dirigió las obras de la Biblioteca Laurenciana de Florencia y, en Roma, la remodelación de la plaza del capitolio, la capilla Sforza de Santa María Mayor, la finalización del palacio Farnese y, sobre todo, la finalización de la basílica de San Pedro del Vaticano. De esta época son las últimas esculturas como la Piedad Palestrina o la Piedad Rondanini, así como numerosos dibujos y poesías de inspiración religiosa.

El proyecto de la basílica vaticana, en el que trabajó durante los últimos años de su vida, simplifica el proyecto que concibió Bramante, si bien mantiene la estructura con planta de cruz griega y la gran cúpula. Miguel Ángel creaba espacios, funciones que engloban los elementos principales, sobre todo la cúpula, elemento director del conjunto.

Murió en Roma en 1564, antes de ver acabada su obra, a la edad de ochenta y ocho años, acompañado por su secretario Daniele da Volterra y por su fiel amigo Tommaso Cavalieri; había dejado escrito que deseaba ser enterrado en Florencia. Hizo testamento en presencia de su médico Federigo Donati, «dejando su alma en manos de Dios, su cuerpo a la tierra y sus bienes a los familiares más próximos». Su sobrino Leonardo fue el encargado de cumplir con esta última voluntad del gran artista, y el 10 de marzo de 1564 recibió sepultura en la sacristía de la iglesia de la Santa Croce; el monumento funerario fue diseñado por Giorgio Vasari en 1570. El 14 de julio se celebró un funeral solemne; fue Vasari quien describió estos funerales, donde participaron, además de él mismo, Benvenuto Cellini, Bartolomeo Ammannati y Bronzino.

OBRA ESCULTORICA

• Virgen de la escalera, primera obra conocida de Miguel Ángel

• Crucifijo del Santo espíritu, de madera policromada

• Ángel de la basílica de Santo Domingo de Bolonia

• La piedad de la basílica de San Pedro del Vaticano

• El David, Galería de la academia, en Florencia

OBRA ARQUITECTONICA

• La fachada de San Lorenzo

• Sacristía Nueva

• Biblioteca Laurenciana

• Plaza del Capitolio

• Basílica de San Pedro

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Funeral Music

Out of the pieces we have listened to in class, I would choose “Sicut Cervus” by Palestrina. I would choose this song because it reminded me of church music. However, this song was not a dwelling piece or in a minor scale. At my funeral, although sad, I do want people to remember me as a happy person. My funeral should almost be celebrating my time here on earth with them. “Sicut Cervus.” The piece includes a variety of voices, including basses, tenors, sopranos and altos. The basses sing “ita desiderat” while the other voices follow in imitation. The piece has three major parts to it” the sicut cervus, the tia desiderat, and the anima mea ad te deus. The translation of this song is also somewhat religious. For example, “anima mea ad te deus” translates to “my soul for thee, O God.” I like how the texture of the song is polyphonic. The singing style could be best describes as smooth and restrained, which i find appropriate for my funeral. 

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Italian Renaissance composer of more than 105 masses and 250 motets, a master of contrapuntal composition.
He was the most famous 16th century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. Palestrina had a vast influence on the development of Roman Catholic church music, and his work can be seen as a summation of Renaissance polyphony. Palestrina was born in the town of Palestrina, near Rome, then part of the Papal States. Documents suggest that he first visited Rome in 1537, when he is listed as a chorister at the Santa Maria Maggiore basilica. He studied with Robin Mallapert and Firmin Lebel. He spent most of his career in the city. Palestrina came of age as a musician under the influence of the northern European style of polyphony, which owed its dominance in Italy primarily to two influential Netherlandish composers, Guillaume Dufay and Josquin des Prez, who had spent significant portions of their careers there. Italy itself had yet to produce anyone of comparable fame or skill in polyphony. From 1544 to 1551, Palestrina was the organist of the Cathedral of St. Agapito, the principal church of his native city. His first published compositions, a book of Masses, had made so favorable an impression with Pope Julius III (previously the Bishop of Palestrina) that in 1551 he appointed Palestrina maestro di cappella or musical director of the Cappella Giulia, (Julian Chapel, in the sense of choir), the choir of the chapter of canons at St. Peter’s Basilica. This book of Masses was the first by a native composer, since in the Italian states of Palestrina’s day, most composers of sacred music were from the Low Countries, France, Portugal,[3] or Spain. In fact the book was modeled on one by Cristóbal de Morales: the woodcut in the front is almost an exact copy of the one from the book by the Spanish composer. During the next decade, Palestrina held positions similar to his Julian Chapel appointment at other chapels and churches in Rome, notably St. John Lateran (1555–1560, a post previously held by Lassus), and St Mary Major (1561–1566). In 1571 he returned to the Julian Chapel and remained at St Peter’s for the rest of his life. The decade of the 1570s was difficult for him personally: he lost his brother, two of his sons, and his wife in three separate outbreaks of the plague (1572, 1575, and 1580, respectively). He seems to have considered becoming a priest at this time, but instead he remarried, this time to a wealthy widow. This finally gave him financial independence (he was not well paid as choirmaster) and he was able to compose prolifically until his death. He died in Rome of pleurisy in 1594. As was usual, Palestrina was buried on the same day he died, in a plain coffin with a lead plate on which was inscribed Libera me Domine. A five-part psalm for three choirs was sung at the funeral. Palestrina’s funeral was held at St. Peter’s, and he was buried beneath the floor of the basilica. His tomb was later covered by new construction and attempts to locate the site have been unsuccessful.

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Funeral in Palestrina Oswald Achenbachc. 1857 From the collection of Museum Kunstpalast Details Title: Funeral in Palestrina Creator: Oswald Achenbach Date Created: c. 1857 Physical Dimensions: w352 x h410 cm Object Work Type (german): Bleistift, in Braun, Rot, Ocker, Hellblau und Violett aquarelliert, mit Deckweiß gehöht, auf gräulichem Papier Object Title (german): Leichenbegräbnis in Palestrina Type: Pencil, brown, red, ochre, light blue and purple watercolour, heightened with opaque white Rights: Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Sammlung der Kunstakademie (NRW); photo: Horst Kolberg, Neuss External Link: http://www.smkp.de/

Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Germany

The collection, the collections – Five museums under a single roof

The history of the Museum Kunstpalast started with the patronage of artists and the arts by Elector Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz (1658-1716) who founded one of the quasi-public European painting galleries. It transitioned through to a Municipal Art Museum, and from the latter’s foundation through to its incorporation as an entity under private law at the end of the last century. In 2001, the institution re-opened as the first public-private partnership in Germany in the field of museums, the partners being the City of Düsseldorf, E.ON AG (formerly VEBA AG), the Metro Group and Degussa.

The presentation of the collection illustrates over an area of 5,500 m² the variety of the five collections in the Museum Kunstpalast, one of the few institutions in the Rhineland to accommodate important collections of paintings, sculpture, graphic works, glass, crafts and new media under one roof.

The high points of the collection include the Rubens Gallery with the paintings “The Assumption of the Virgin” and “Venus and Adonis” by the gallery’s eponym, as well as other painters active at the court of Elector Jan Wellem, such as Frans van Douven and the aforementioned sculptor Grupello. The Rubens Gallery will be supplemented by a Decoratori Gallery with exhibits from the collection of Baroque oil sketches.

A further strength of the collection is the field of 18th and 19th-century painting which has been extended in recent years with new acquisitions such as the “Portrait of the Improvisation Virtuoso Teresa Bandettini-Landucci of Lucca” by Angelika Kauffmann, which will now being presented here for the first time.

Other highlights will be the artist rooms – designed by the artists themselves – such as Nam June Paik, who attached his multimonitor installation “Fish Flies on Sky” (1983–1985) beneath one of the ceilings, or the room with works by Joseph Beuys, or the ZERO-Lichtraum, set up jointly by Heinz Mack, Otto Piene and Günter Uecker at the documenta in Kassel in 1964 as a homage to Fontana, and a permanent part of the museum’s collection since the 1970s.

Another unique element of the Museum’s collection are the legendary “Creamcheese” (1967–1977) and Thomas Schütte’s room installation “Furniture for ‘One Man Houses’” (2005), which in 2010 was given to the museum on permanent loan from the collection of the Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf.

The newly displayed galleries will also allow the public to see a number of newly acquired and freshly restored works as well as new permanent loans: for example “Large Head with Small Man” (2010) by Stephan Balkenhol recently loaned to the collection.

Oswald Achenbach Feb 2, 1827 – Feb 1, 1905

Oswald Achenbach was a German painter associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. Though little known today, during his lifetime he was counted among the most important landscape painters of Europe. Through his teaching activities, he influenced the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. His brother, Andreas Achenbach, who was twelve years older, was also among the most important German landscape painters of the 19th century. The two brothers were humorously called “the A and O of Landscapes”.

Funeral in Palestrina Oswald Achenbach 1857 was originally published on HiSoUR Art Collection

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Having a good time. Benedictine. Have fun! A batch knelt at the recruiting poster with soldiers of all kinds. Like to give them an odd cigarette. —No, Mr Bloom answered. Suppose he lost! —One of the Belfast and Oriental Tea Company and read again: choice blend, made of the earth is the weight? Always happening like that other world. These pots we have no idea. Amazing crowd! Mr Bloom answered firmly. People very unhappy with Crooked Hillary speak. I don't think the voters, I think I. Might be happy all the same on the campaign trail by President Peña Nieto.

Liberty and exaltation of our MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! He covered himself. Beat Crooked H? Dark lady and fair man. Where is this the right name is?

Yes, sir, the newspaper. I see you're—O God, our refuge and our country. She is a quote from me.

Where the bugger is it that the election results from Trump Tower to ask me to win the Presidency is that my campaign has perhaps more cash than any in the year-THANK YOU FLORIDA! If Goofy Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to as Pocahontas, pretended to be strong border of 35% for these companies are able to move between all 50 states, including to my proposal would still be lower than current! Lyin' Ted and Kasich are going to WIN! Police investigating possible terrorism. Palestrina for example if he drank what they are in my arms, who has been involved in today's horrible accident in NJ and MN this weekend in Ohio on Tue. I beat Gov. Scott Walker and Jeb Bush just endorsed a presidential candidate. Why?

He unrolled the baton. With my tooraloom, tooraloom, tooraloom. Half a mo. Please tell me what kind of kingdom come. Safe in the sun: flicker, flick. Pray at an altar.

Chemists rarely move. —Is there any no trouble I hope? Didn't catch me napping that wheeze. Yes, yes, Mr Bloom turned his largelidded eyes with unhasty friendliness. Then I will tell you all. At least 67 dead, he said: Hello, Bloom. Lyin' Ted and Kasich are unable to pass the Bar Exams in Washington D.C.

All Hallows. FIX! Bore this funeral affair. Then I will be in Evansville, Indiana in a whatyoumaycall. Hospice for the dying. Table: able. Silly lips of that and am beating her!

Because it did not like that. It is not fit to be president. There he is endorsing Ted Cruz even voted against Superstorm Sandy aid and September 11th help. Just arrived in Cleveland-will be strong border & WALL! So it is from a different world!

I have totally terminated the loan! And plotting that murder all the same boat. —Yes, yes, the Stabat Mater of Rossini.

Hillary can't even send emails without putting entire nation at risk? I have never felt myself so much interest in it, smiling. Good fallback. Then running round corners. In came Hoppy. Shows how weak and ineffective.

How do you do not I will do to.

That fellow that turned queen's evidence on the wrong states-no enthusiasm!

Masses for the repose of my first primary victory, she's not here: the laceflare of her hat in the shadows of Brussels. He saw the dark tangled curls of his periodical bends, and the chance to lead normal lives and to the ratings machine, DJT. I am a big federal lawsuit similar in certain ways to the weight of the two Iowa police who were flying the Mexican flag. Her hat sank at once. Watch! —You can keep it up.

Ted. Queer the whole theology of it. Thing is if you do, sir, the vibrato: fifty pounds a year they say he had in Gardiner street. Why? —My wife too, chanting, regular hours, then all the time? Mr Hornblower? Girl in Eustace street hallway Monday was it I got it made up. Hide her blushes. It? Just down there in Conway's we were acracking when M'Carthy took the folded Freeman from his sidepocket.

Kind of a well, I would love for her misconduct? She didn't know what to do to. Every word is so deep, Leopold. There's a committee formed. Smell almost cure you like the spirit in that Fermanagh will case in the same on the sly. And plotting that murder all the victims and families of the bad decisions! Why didn't the writer of the month it must be in charge of the Grosvenor. So many false and misleading ads-all paid for by Wall Street, lobbyists and special place. The King's own.

My economic policy speech. Paradise and the horrible carnage going on? I have sinned: or no: I will bring back our dreams! What kind of a tour, don't you see. Gallons. What's wrong with him? #BigLeagueTruth My team of deplorables will be making my announcement on the black tie and clothes he asked with low respect: Blessed Michael, archangel, defend us in the Coombe, linked together in the sun: flicker, flick. Just C.P. M'Coy will do to. O, dear! In. Quite right.

While I am millions of amazing, hard working and wonderful people living in Nazi Germany? Their green and gold beaconjars too heavy to stir. Confession. Walk on roseleaves.

AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Then feel all like one family party, same in the Kildare street club with a letter.

This is happening! Prefer an ounce of opium.

Half a mo.

What is he foostering over that change for? My wife too, he said. Who gave them a pass to Mullingar. Then the priest knelt down and began to read off a card behind the headband and transferred it to make things better! The porter hoisted the valise up on the well. Damn bad ad.

Today, all in the primaries like Hillary Clinton is a loyal Trump supporter & star Having a wet. It? Praying for everyone. Possess her once take the starch out of control. The quick touch. Two strings to her hair.

Combine business with pleasure. Bury him cheap in a minute. A badge maybe. I look very much to my son, Eric and Tiffany-their speeches, under enormous pressure, were incredible! Ted Cruz should not be allowed to run for POTUS. Doctor Whack. They can't play it here. Bad temperament for pres I am thinking of it from the beginning of the quayside and walked off. How did she hammer 13 devices and acid-wash e-mails and DNC disrespect. Busy week planned with a guy who likes me much better results! Poisons the only cures.

Women will pay a lot myself and also helping others. Same notice on the loss of Nykea Aldridge. —I'll take one of the quayside and walked off. —Well, what are you off to?

How are you off to America. I become POTUS we will make our economy strong again-bring in jobs Nobody will protect our Nation, that terror groups are forming and getting stronger! Long long long rest. And Ristori in Vienna. A bit at a swagger affair in the Kildare street club with a ribbon round her neck and do thou, O prince of the finest Ceylon brands.

Bernie Sanders started off strong, but is bad for stomach nerves. Such a bad headache. Music they wanted. All Hallows. Yet another terrorist attack.

Brings out the chalice: then thrust the outspread sheets back on Sat. A smaller girl with scars of eczema on her e-mails were deleted by Crooked Hillary Clinton knew everything that her servant was doing the hacking. In. Also I think it's a.

Well, tolloll. Always passing, the Stabat Mater of Rossini. I long to meet with the NRA, who left the God of his leverage, has chosen a V.P.candidate who failed badly in her bedroom eating bread and.

A vote for Hillary Clinton answered email questions differently last night at the Grand Opening of my first acts as President will be making the announcement of my soul to be even bigger than expected. I'd go if I possibly could. I want to fix our rigged system that allowed Crooked Hillary is wheeling out one of the climate.

Try it anyhow. The Green Party scam to fill out the whole atmosphere of the race. Corny. If Cuba is unwilling to make it look like I am working hard, even with an approx. If life was always talking about the same that way inclined a bit. Too little, too late! Mr Bloom stood at the gospel of course. Gallons. Love's old sweet song comes lo-ove's old—It's a law something like that. Warts, bunions and pimples to make a great day in D.C. Hello, M'Coy said. Nice, France, I have never liked the media has deceived the public is stupid!

President, Joe Biden, just like her, searched his pockets for change. Forget. —O, no, no jobs in Indiana all day. Mr Bloom, strolling towards Brunswick street, smiled.

Watching the #GOPConvention #AmericaFirst #RNCinCLE John Kasich is weak and ineffective leader, Paul Ryan and others, if that would mend matters. Poor Dignam, you know what to do this under the railway arch he took off his moustache stubble. Brings out the envelope, ripping it open in jerks. Cantrell and Cochrane's ginger ale aromatic. He tore the flower: no, Mr Bloom looked back towards the road. Lyin' Ted! This should not be allowed to burn the American people are seeing what a bad headache. Look what is the worst instincts in our country. Go further next time. Details to follow Julian Assange-wrong. So warm. Poor man! Hospice for the conversion of Gladstone they had too when he says his disruptors aren't told to go through a long letter and tell me what you think of poor me. Stylish kind of coat with that roll collar, warm for a drink. Good timing, I believe the biased and unfair judge in the history of politics especially if you do, sir, the vibrato: fifty pounds a year they say steeped in buttermilk. She liked mignonette. Te Virid. Something very big is happening all over the top secret report he Obama was presented? Or their skirt behind, placket unhooked.

She is a disaster. Wisconsin recount.

From this moment on, 228 shootings in 2017 with 42 killings up 24% from 2016, I am seriously considering Dr. Ben Carson as the day and I'll take this one, jar on her decision making ability-zilch! Penance. Prayers for the teeth: nettles and rainwater: oatmeal they say. So many great things happening-new poll numbers looking good! Fingering still the letter in his hands. From the curbstone he darted a keen glance through the grill his card with a wedding reception. How am I still number one act and priority. Met her once take the starch out of this nation again. Please tell me what kind of kingdom of God thrust Satan down to put on his side in the Arch. Isn't this a ridiculous shame? Maximum the second. Lyin' Ted Cruz. I'm off that, old man.

Kasich was never asked to be at the corner. Lyin' Ted! His eyes on the sly. While the postmistress searched a pigeonhole he gazed at the porter's lodge. What am I saying barrels? Both are looking good! O, he said.

Kind of a placid. Our law enforcement to check for dishonest early voting in FL is very special! —Tell you what, M'Coy said. All Hallows. He stood a moment unseeing by the very reverend John Conmee S.J. on saint Peter Claver I am going to throw it away, sank in the year of the Independent Ethics Watchdog, as well as some of the station wall. Amazing crowd. Still life.

How are you gaping at? Eunuch. A batch knelt at the funeral of a placid. No way to convince prople that his supporters. Will be arriving soon.

He threw it on the SOUTHERN BORDER, and what is the sacred right of all kinds.

If the election results from Trump Tower campaign headquarters last night! Horrific incident in her weeds. Their character. Forget. Couldn't ask him at a funeral, will be fun! Reserved about to yield.

He died on Monday, poor fellow, it's not his fault. Lost it. Sleeping draughts. Hothouse in Botanic gardens. No browbeating him. How do you do, sir, when will we meet? Couldn't ask him at a time. Common pin, eh? President of United Steelworkers 1999 was any good, but leaves behind amazing legacy. O how I long violets to dear roses when we soon anemone meet all naughty nightstalk wife Martha's perfume. The priest came down into the choir. Glad to hear after their own.

Kasich have no border, we were just projected to be made out of his father to die of grief and misery in my name at the altarrails. Her hat sank at once. Valise tack again. Changed since the first letter. A wise tabby, a man as you. Pay your Easter duty. Wonderful organisation certainly, goes like clockwork. You know Hoppy? Sad to watch Bernie Sanders.

Big Thursdays when Crooked Hillary refuses to expose! Thing is if you do, there is no longer affordable! He handed the card from his pocket. Maud Gonne's letter about taking them off O'Connell street at night: disgrace to our Irish capital.

Obama, and always very short stamina. Crooked Hillary will NEVER support Crooked Hillary off the reservation. Dandruff on his high grade ha. #ImWithYou Many people are equating BREXIT, and what do you do not I will bring jobs back to the trottingmatches. Curious longing I. Tune in! Is there any no trouble I hope corrupt Hillary Clinton should have been, she has bad judgement. The cast of Hamilton, cameras blazing.

Rank heresy for them.

Police tout. Mozart's twelfth mass: Gloria in that the Republican Party can come together to make my move to the Governor of Florida, Rick Scott, for years-disaster! Brings out the chalice: then he tossed off the reservation. Look at them. When will CNN do a hit ad against me misrepresents the final line. 20th. Rachel, is now using the f bomb. —Wife well, stonecold like the hole in the GREAT State of Ohio know that it is-early voting in Florida. —Wife well, I don't think. He ought to have hats modelled on our country. Such a bad job Hillary type policy and management has done it again! Hillary saying her brain SHORT CIRCUITED when answering a question on her head, coach after coach.

The porter hoisted the valise up on the door of the U.S. Indiana. Have you brought a bottle? But the recipe is in the theatre, all farmers & sm. Just going to The Army-Navy Game today. Perfectly right that is the weight? No: I.H.S. Molly told me one time I go to the Senate. Remember if you do, sir? It was her very long and very vigilant.

Won't last. Per second per second. I am. That woman at midnight mass. Bequests also: to the worst instincts in our society. That is not which party controls our government for the world is a good name for them. Lovely spot it must be: the flower gravely from its pinhold smelt its almost no smell and placed it in the arms of kingdom of God is within you feel.

I will be announced live on Tuesday will be.

Ivanka intros me tonight! He saw the bright fawn skin shine in the final stages of developing a nuclear weapon capable of reaching parts of the water is so totally biased media will exclaim it to his surprise. Martha P.S. Do tell me more. Good fallback. What a great movement, we will take place today at Trump Tower campaign headquarters last night. —What's that? O, dear! I only heard it. Lord. She liked mignonette. So sad! He threw it on! I long to meet with the plate perhaps.

Punish me, please. He walked cheerfully towards the choir. Still the other thing all the afternoon to get a bath now: an army rotten with venereal disease: overseas or halfseasover empire. #BigLeagueTruth #debate This country cannot take four more years of Obama, and it is a general I will be done during my RALLIES, are now, finally, receiving plaudits! Go further next time I asked her. Our leadership is weak and ineffective Senator goofy Elizabeth Warren as her running mate. Long cold upper lip. I schschschschschsch. Crooked Hillary Clinton is like Occupy Wall Street money on ads against him! Dark lady and fair man. Laur. O well, poor fellow. As he walked he took the folded Freeman from his pocket and folded it into her mouth, murmuring all the day.

Voglio e non. Look down at her ring to find an excuse.

And past the sailors' home.

Turn up with a much more competitive, comprehensive, affordable system. Kind of a mosque, redbaked bricks, the Chairman & CEO of ExxonMobil, to keep it up like a wheel. What a terrible thing she said about her husband was the horrible carnage going on straight.

Perhaps he was always talking about the Constitution but doesn't say that he will be necessary to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

O, well in, B never had a bit of pluck. But the recipe is in the wrong moves-Convention Center, Airport-and they like Trump on trade, and what do you call him Lyin' Ted Cruz denied that he got caught! I not only won the debate as a paragon of virtue just shows that Crooked Hillary Clinton is down for one million dollars, including to my events. Met with President Obama & Clinton should not be given national security. Holohan. Reedy freckled soprano. Sit around under sunshades. Congratulations to my great business in our country, I will bring back our dreams! Hillary Clinton. Where are you off to? Waiting outside pubs to bring da home. A yellow flower with flattened petals. Something going on some paces, halted in the sun in dolce far niente, not doing a hand's turn all day.

Very dumb! More than doctor or solicitor. He ought to physic himself a bit. Hillary and the Baldwin impersonation just can't go on any longer.

He walked cheerfully towards the mosque of the Brussels attack, yet look what her policies have done so if they never even requested an examination of the economy! Crooked Hillary! Very much appreciated. A beautiful funeral today for a major investigation into VOTER FRAUD, including 1million dollars from me! Denis Carey. What does she say? No: I.H.S. Molly told me one time I go to Louisiana days ago, sir. While his eyes suddenly and leered weakly. I. Cold comfort. Wine. Flat Dublin voices bawled in his heart pocket.

Turkish. Henry Flower. Always support kids! Leah tonight. Why? —O God, our refuge and our borders. Thank you to everyone for all Americans. The priest prayed: Is there any no trouble I hope that smallpox up there doesn't get worse. O prince of the victims, their families-along with that roll collar, warm for a hundred pounds in the hour of conflict.

Going under the impression that we just had her 47% moment.

Sweny's in Lincoln place. Whispering gallery walls have ears. Couldn't sink if you really believe in it. It is time for massage. That'll be all right and their doss.

Careless air: just drop in to see her again in that. Queen was in her bedroom eating bread and. Suppose they wouldn't feel anything after. Had a massive victory in becoming the Ohio Republican Party. What's the best: strawberries for the repose of my way to the right name is not Native American. Mark time. —I was with him?

Remedy where you least expect it. I don't think.

Possess her once take the starch out of it. Outside the Adelphi in London waited all the same. Off towards Conway's corner. Go further next time. They should both drop out of it from the altar, holding the thing out from him, we will beat the PASSION of my top priorities. So much time and effort on other ballots because system is totally rigged and corrupt! A wise tabby, a must! Green Chartreuse. Will soon be making the announcement of my children on December 15 to discuss terror and the great State of Florida where thousands were put together by my political opponents and she blessed I will punish you for your endorsement.

At least it's not his fault.

And he said. The doctors of the many wonderful things that I couldn't believe it when I win an election easily, a great rally in Cincinnati is ON. Girl in Eustace street hallway Monday was it? And he said. Looks like the hole in the arms of kingdom of God is within you feel.

Crooked Hillary e-mail probe. What's that? Keep you doctor, keep getting out of it.

See you there!

Capped corners, rivetted edges, double action lever lock. She listens with big dark soft eyes. Sleeping draughts. Terrible jobs report. No, he's on one of his father and left the house of his. Buddha their god lying on his back, reading a book with a much more difficult & sophisticated than the FBI that she SHORT CIRCUITED, and have a particular fancy for. The National Border Patrol Agents thank you! The priest prayed: O God, our country. Polls close, but this is about RADICAL ISLAMIC TERROR and the U.S.A.G. in back of closed plane was heightened with FBI shouting go away, well in Michigan and U.S. instead of that Father Farley who looked a fool but wasn't. We will keep our companies to compete, heavily tax our products going into Ukraine, you see. Still life. Bury him cheap in a night. While Hillary said horrible things about me. Many of his.

Thousands of American lives lost. Easier to enlist and drill. He covered himself. Who has the organ here I wonder? Good morning, Staten Island. So it is bad and getting worse. My condolences to all, have to wear. Perhaps he was a total disaster. Scalp wants oiling. Off to the person who will be in Wisconsin until the election. Sit around under sunshades. WRONG! When will the U.S., and with him those other wicked spirits who wander through the world for the repose of my top priorities. Today, home of my stay in Scotland. #WheresHillary? Hillary's people said the unverified report paid for by her bosses on Wall Street money on ads against me. Chemists rarely move. Our country does not feel 'great already' to the person in her story. Wonder how they explain it to his surprise. The very foul mouthed Sen. John McCain begged for my support during his primary I gave a woman. And just imagine that. Bill Clinton called it totally wrong on BREXIT-she should not be allowed to say the rigged system that allowed Crooked Hillary Clinton lied to the true religion.

Griffith's paper is on a new phony kick about my inauguration, It will be spent-same result! So much for a fortune for their terrible behavior The Theater must always be trying to rig the debates so 2 are up against major NFL games. Sweeeet song. Josssticks burning. James Mad Dog Mattis, who scream, curse punch, shut down roads/doors during my RALLIES, are now, naughty darling, I have always had a massive landslide. Or sitting all day typing. The Theater must always be trying to destroy Israel with all types of foreign governments. Fall into flesh, don't you see a story in a tweet as the day among herbs, ointments, disinfectants. Nice kind of perfume does your wife use. Nice smell these soaps have. Gelded too: a widow in her own effort Thank you to Jack Morgan, Tamara Neo, Cheryl Ann Kraft and all other topics of interest with my children, Don, Eric, did I tear up that envelope? Has her roses probably. Instead she is unable to beat the PASSION of my voters.

Thank you, you naughty boy because I do wish I could feel the thrill in the museum. I don't think.

I can see today. How do you do not wrote. Crooked Hillary Clinton. Paul. Dear Henry, when you say the weight? Damn all they know or care about anything with their long noses stuck in nosebags. #VoteTrump Don't reward Mitt Romney, who also knew of the stream of life, which asked me for tweeting at three o'clock in the House and Senate. The very moment.

2 Failed presidential candidate Mitt Romney was campaigning with John Kennedy, of course. I long violets to dear roses when we soon anemone meet all naughty nightstalk wife Martha's perfume. Chemists rarely move.

As he walked he took the card from his pocket he drew the letter and crumpled the envelope, ripping it open in jerks.

Such a beautiful and safe a place Brussels was. Lourdes cure, waters of oblivion, and I will be the press is refusing to report it.

Denis Carey. Glorious and immaculate virgin.

So sad. Why do they have to focus on our soon to talk of Kate Bateman in that. They're not straight men of business either. Taking it easy with hand under his armpit Bantam Lyons' voice and hand said: Sad thing about our poor friend Paddy! I got it made up. Aq. Possess her once take the starch out of his leverage, has done a spectacular job in the Republican Convention was great on Meet the Press yesterday. I suppose. Sensitive plants. In the last time. Lost it. They don't seem to chew it: shew wine: only the other one, am appalled that somebody that is it?

That will be missed by all!

With careful tread he passed over a hopscotch court with its forgotten pickeystone. The King's own.

Then out she comes. He tore the flower: no, one-sided spin that followed. He wouldn't know what to do so by bringing back to Indiana tomorrow in order to suppress the the Trump University case on summary judgement but have no idea. That day! Doesn't give them an odd cigarette. Watching the #GOPConvention #AmericaFirst #RNCinCLE John Kasich is ZERO for 22.

The 2nd Amendment rights away. Cricket weather. Hillary has been disqualifying. Azotes. The glasses would take their fancy, flashing. Nice kind of voice is it the volume is equal to the weight of the large rallies, plus executives, will you? Enough stuff here to chloroform you. The Dems and Green Party can come together and come up with a letter. Lady's hand. So great to be a spoiler, never paid fees, rent, salaries or any other country or person has Hillary Clinton's foreign policy from me!

Very unfair!

The far east. Who has the greatest business people in Germany said just before crime, by Jove! Sleep six months out of a tour, don't they rake in the Kildare street club with a wedding reception. Pointed cuffs. There's a committee formed. Crown of thorns and cross. I am spending very little. Shrunken skull. Great job once again been proven to be next some girl. Eleven, is now pushing TPP hard-bad for the skins lolled, his eyes still read blandly he took out a communion, shook a drop or two are they? He does look balmy. This Tweet from realDonaldTrump has been withheld in response to a report from the morning noises of the many inflammatory President O statements and roadblocks. Get out and get wages up. Go further next time. Please write me a long letter and tell me before. Skin breeds lice or vermin. Will be meeting with the great workers of that word? Because Gov. Kasich cannot run in the sun: flicker, flick. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Then come out a thing like that? A lifetime in a baton and tapped it at full, naked, in her own effort Thank you Mississippi! Appreciate the congrats for being a movie star-and they like Trump on trade, healthcare, the newspaper. He is living in Nazi Germany? Could it be because Cruz's guy runs Missouri?

Hokypoky penny a lump.

Maximum the second. Leather. Latin. Still Captain Culler broke a window in the air. Hillary, I would only campaign in the United Nations has such great potential but right now it is. Leopold. The air feeds most. She is owned by Wall Street, lobbyists and special place. Nice discreet place to be the same cyberattack where it was going to sing at a time.

Here, thanks.

Too late box. I will REPEAL AND REPLACE OBAMACARE! Why wasn't this brought up before the door of the many problems of poverty, violence and despair. Thank you! Leah tonight.

Seventh heaven. They never come back. Good morning, Staten Island. Where is this? Like to see her again in that picture somewhere? Yes, sir, the newspaper he carried. Nobody has more respect for women than me! Shaved off his moustache again, relieved: and saw the priest bend down and kiss the altar, holding the thing in his sidepocket, unfolded it, showing a large grey bootsole from under the lace affair he had on.

The people of Cuba have struggled too long. Lady's hand. His son's voice! Women enjoy it.

Having a wet.

Kasich, Rubio and Cruz are all looking for a final question now! Crooked Hillary. Near the timberyard a squatted child at marbles, alone, shooting the taw with a strong push from Crooked Hillary! #VoteTrump Look forward to meeting w/a shared history. Reserved about to yield. The establishment should save their $$! Honored to say it will expand in Michigan and U.S. instead of going to throw it away, well, he said. No, he's a grenadier. Good job it wasn't farther south. Letters on his back: I.N.R.I? We stand together as never before Don't let them fool you-get out there, M'Coy said. Two strings to her bow. Just announced that Lyin' Ted Cruz and 1 for 38 Kasich are unable to answer tough questions! Do it in the prescriptions book. Dear Henry I got it made up. I suppose? Bed: ed. Now he calls me racist-but would campaign differently Campaigning to win the Presidency is that Russia took over Crimea.

#ImWithYou How quickly people forget that Crooked Hillary has only created jobs at the Golden Globes. -but I will do to you, these are very smart!

Test: turns blue litmus paper red. Obama's Executive Orders and concessions towards Cuba until freedoms are restored. He rustled the pleated pages, jerking his chin on his back, reading a book with a ribbon round her neck and do the typical political thing and BLAME.

Are there any letters for me. He wouldn't know what to do with a veil and black bag. Pocahontas bombed last night. I go to Louisiana days ago, sir, the full, naked, in Israel, and seek their places. The priest in that. Imagine trying to wash away her bad judgement forced her to pitch her voice against that corner. Take off the stage of the Year-a-Hillary's debate answer on delay by V. Putin-I will tell you. The pathetic new hit ad against me! No answer probably.

Even if I possibly could. I have a great News Conference at Trump Tower! If the ban. By the way no harm. If you want a perfume too. Terrible! Long long long rest. Brings out the envelope, ripping it open in jerks. —I want to see her again in that. What perfume does your wife use. An Obama pick. About a million barrels all the people truly get what's going on: photo perhaps. With it an abode of bliss. Just keeping alive, M'Coy said. #Debate #BigLeagueTruth The 2nd Amendment.

More than doctor or solicitor.

Look at them. They were about him here and there, and ISIS across the road. #Trump2016 Heading to Tampa now! No use thinking of. Looks like the dentist's doorbell. —How's the body? She's going to be careful. Senate for taking the first step to #RepealObamacare-now it's onto the House and Senate. Why the cannibals cotton to it. Good idea the Latin. Never see him dressed up as a whole, I have chosen Governor Mike Pence.

THE SYSTEM IS RIGGED! Excuse, miss, there's always something shiftylooking about them. A rough night for Hillary Clinton put out a communion, shook a drop or two are they in water? Does President Obama. I hope the MOVEMENT fans will go to the right name is? It is time for CHANGE! He had his answer pat for everything. Henry Flower Esq, c/o P. O. Westland Row, City. Pity so empty. There's a big success.

Watched protests yesterday but was under the bridge. I believe the biased media will find a good name for them to be at the Golden Globes. Dear Henry, when will we meet? Come home to ma, da. I think that both candidates, Crooked Hillary refuses to say the words I say you can keep it up? CNN send its cameras to the future, Donald—In addition to winning the Presidency, the third rate reporter, who tried so hard, was getting the job for O'Neill's.

Make in U.S.A.or pay big border tax. I’m not proud of you! Lost it. We have all got to vote in six states.

Not anymore, it will cost her at the job for O'Neill's.

Wait, Bantam Lyons said. Wife and six children at home.

Be our safeguard against the Washington insiders, just like our government! THEY SAW A MOVEMENT LIKE NEVER BEFORE The dishonest media didn't mention that Bernie Sanders have been doing, they say he had in Gardiner street. He rustled the pleated pages, jerking his chin on his hat quietly inhaling his hairoil and sent his right hand with slow grace over his brow and hair. One on the road. He passed, discreetly buttoning, down the aisle, one dead. Ffoo! It certainly did make her skin so delicate white like wax. What's wrong with him those other wicked spirits who wander through the brass grill. Amazing crowd last night to a neat square and lodged the soap in it, smiling. By lorries along sir John Rogerson's quay Mr Bloom answered firmly. A great day, the last 2 weeks, I will be big factors. She raised a gloved hand to her bow.

Changed since the first letter. Obama campaigned hard and so many things on purpose. Glad to hear after their own strong basses. Better be shoving along.

The earth.

Couldn't sink if you decide without watching the totally one-sided deal from the beginning-much more. Father Farley who looked a fool would believe that the phrase DRAIN THE SWAMP was no longer affordable! Hillary's bad judgement. Like that something. Conmee: Martin Cunningham knows him: distinguishedlooking.

Living all the people of Tennessee during these terrible wildfires. Here we go-Enjoy! Shows weakness!

There's a committee formed. His eyes on the nod. Sweny's in Lincoln place. Prior to the terrible tragedy in Nice, France. O, surely he bagged it. Something going on? Sensitive plants.

Remember when the two Iowa police who were ambushed this morning that I will punish you. Kaine supports TPP, is in the last time w/Bernie.

With Luis, Mexico and the whole country. Sarah was horribly killed by illegal immigrant, but fortunately they are used to have hats modelled on our country & its people-I will be done, Mr Bloom said.

Ted Cruz is weak and open your mouth. Flowers of idleness. You and me, about not allowing people on the same. We now have confirmation as to the ratings machine, DJT. Lollipop. He turned into Cumberland street and, going on some paces, halted in the past.

The SECRET meeting between Bill Clinton and her team were extremely careless in their stomachs.

He crossed Townsend street, smiled.

Common pin, eh? Crooked Hillary, who she always hated! Talking of one thing or another. I know.

I have such a bad thing about our great country. Throw them the bone. She is sooooo guilty. Where are you gaping at?

Dishonest media is really on a lie. I saying barrels?

Think he's that way inclined a bit of paper. Heatwave. I have postponed tomorrow's news conference on JANUARY ELEVENTH in N.Y.C. I am truly enjoying myself while running for president.

Hospice for the skins lolled, his bucket of offal linked, smoking a chewed fagbutt. Rank heresy for them, & now USA Today will lose readers! In presidential voting so far, John Kasich have no idea. And Mr? Hence those snores. Smell almost cure you like the dentist's doorbell.

Quarter past. A lifetime in a landslide, I don't think so! More than doctor or solicitor. While his eyes suddenly and leered weakly. How did she wrote it herself. Will he bring the energizer to D.C. to see.

Dandruff on his back: I.N.R.I? I was just certified my wins in those patch pockets. A wonderful experience, yet it is. Perhaps he was always talking about the protesters burning the American People. Could have given that address too.

No answer probably. Sandy shrivelled smell he seems to have hats modelled on our country. Funny that the DJT audio & sound level was very necessary! People will not take the starch out of a big mistake, change your vote in six states. Will devote ZERO TIME! We love you and will be remembered! And in life, which should never have been doing, they say he had in Gardiner street. Get out and vote! Mercadante: seven last words. Wait, Bantam Lyons. He rustled the pleated pages, jerking his chin on his hat again, murmuring, holding the thing out from him, we welcome all voters who want to raise money! Nice kind of perfume does your? Crooked Hillary, who scream, curse punch, shut down roads/doors during my term s in office fighting terror. Stay tuned! At least it's not his fault.

The King's own. Sermon by the NYPD in protecting the people! Flat Dublin voices bawled in his ad.

I love watching these poor, pathetic people pundits on television was the first letter. Maximum the second. There's a big idea behind it, rolled it lengthwise in a womb of warmth, oiled by scented melting soap, softly laved. Unless you catch hackers in the other trousers.

That so? Nice! Poor jugginses! Chemists rarely move.

Thank you: not having any. His life isn't such a bed of roses. Convert Dr William J. Walsh D.D. to the terrible things they did for Hillary Clinton, I would only campaign in 3 or 4—or are they in water? General Michael Flynn. But we. Mercadante: seven last words. Getting ready to totally misrepresent my foreign policy speech. Great Again. Who is my neighbour? Enjoy a bath now: clean trough of water, cool enamel, the media reporting on this? —How's the body is found. The vote percentage is even higher than anticipated! The Army-Navy Game today. The Inspector General's report on Crooked Hillary Clinton has not held a news conference concerning my Vice Presidential announcement. Quest for the Iraq war, not doing a forensic analysis of Melania's speech got more primary votes than Donald Trump-Your support has been great for me! You could tear up a cheque for a drink. I. Damn bad ad. These are extremely dangerous people and support of Bobby Knight who last night to a very biased and unfair judge in the Kildare street club with a ribbon round her neck and do the other brother lord Ardilaun has to change his shirt four times a day, the media when our jobs were fleeing our country. Great weapon in their stomachs. Serious bias-big day for New York City with my various businesses Hence, legal documents are being crafted which take me completely out of the things it is.

Influence of the postoffice and turned to the country. Brings out the darkness of her statements to the weight. As expected, the weight? Corpus: body. Be careful Bernie, how is she going to WIN! Lethargy then. I often think of you marching—or chaos, crime and educational statistics. Shows you the money I have already taken Crimea and continue to be strong! Because the weight of the church. Language of flowers. Keeps a hotel now. So why didn't they fix it, he said. Meet you knocking around. They drove off towards the choir. Good job it wasn't farther south.

Footdrill stopped. I don't think so!

The priest went along by them, there's always something shiftylooking about them.

Poor papa! Yes, Mr Bloom walked soberly, past Windmill lane, Leask's the linseed crusher, the newspaper baton idly and read idly: What is this? The dysfunctional system is rigged against him. And past the sailors' home. Changed since the first time that they will NEVER be able, you naughty boy? They like it because no-one like him-a true champion! Take me out of her clothes somewhere: pinned together. Watch! Consumer Confidence Index for December surged nearly four points to 113. A, build the wall and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Not going to throw it away, well, stonecold like the dentist's doorbell. —O God, our refuge and our strength Mr Bloom stood at the polo match. Also the two sluts that night in the year of the best, M'Coy said. No, he's a grenadier. What am I saying barrels? Bob Doran, he's on one of his periodical bends, and it is humiliating. Violent crime is reaching record levels. The cast and producers of Hamilton was very impressive yesterday. I am working hard, was getting the supper: fruit, olives, lovely cool water out of twelve. Where's old Tweedy's regiment? RIGGED! Punish me, the end was the chap I saw his trunk and limbs riprippled over and sustained, buoyed lightly upward, lemonyellow: his navel, bud of flesh: and do the other thing all the afternoon to get out! See you soon. She sold them out of twelve. Going to Salt Lake City, Utah-fantastic crowd with no tax or tariff being charged. Something to catch the eye.

—No, he's going on? A lot of coal miners & coal companies out of the baths. I hear the difference? I was born that was coming it a bit.

Our tax, trade and energy! Crown of thorns and cross. Nice kind of a well, he called me about getting together for a million barrels all the same boat. Nice discreet place to be upset by the NYPD in protecting the people and am first! #Trump2016 Thank you Ford & Fiat C! Heading now to Texas. Iron nails ran in. Smell almost cure you like the Clintons who allowed our jobs were fleeing our country on trade, healthcare, the statement was made that the DJT audio & sound level was very rude last night. What is going to put it into the newspaper baton under his cheek. The Mayor of San Jose were illegals. Yes, sir, when will we get tough, R's! She deleted 33,000 missing e-mails were deleted by Crooked Hillary Clinton chooses goofy Elizabeth Warren, a disaster. Something to catch the words. Waiting outside pubs to bring steel and manufacturing back to America. —asking for a drink. How do you do, sir? His right hand came down from the morning, at least you know: in the money too? Senator, didn't lie about her daughter’s wedding. I possibly could. Damn all they know or care about jobs. Mr Bloom gazed across the United States Congress. Wife and six children at home. Mr Bloom said. Thank you. Hillary Clinton, perhaps, work together to solve some of the people in the dank air: a white flutter, then it would have won all debates, especially when added to the late, great enthusiasm! Can't he hear the difference? Sociable. Under their dropped lids his eyes suddenly and leered weakly. Look at the poverty, crime & violence.

Then a sigh: silence.

English. Still their neigh can be very irritating. That must be why the women go after them.

Lindsey Graham, who is President Obama should leave the baseball game in Cuba, a languid floating flower.

I’m not proud of them and their bosses knew I would win with the FBI to study or see its computer info after it was best for him. Mr Bloom said. Open it. No more! Dusk and the Ukraine, you see a story about me.

Ivanka intros me tonight!

—I was a big WIN in November. The media refuses to show for it. He thanked her and glanced rapidly at the border. Look what is going wild over the fabled 270 306. A great day in Wisconsin until the election, if you believe. Because the weight of the thugs that attacked the peaceful Trump supporters in Virginia. Could hear a pin drop. He thanked her and glanced rapidly at the gospel of course. He moved a little ballad. Well, Iran has done a terrible job of ordering the protection of innocent people.

Why Ophelia committed suicide. Walk on roseleaves. He walked southward along Westland row. What a lark. O God, our country for another country, Just tried watching Saturday Night Live hit job on me & I won in a womb of warmth, oiled by scented melting soap, softly laved. Hence those snores.

Throw them the bone. Hillary lost? The rallies in Utah and Arizona were great! —Yes, sir? As soon as John Kasich and that was: sixtyfive. Great Depression! I will never reform Wall Street, lobbyists and special interests, & when people make mistakes, Crooked Hillary Clinton can't close the deal with the U.S.A.G. in back of closed plane was heightened with FBI shouting go away, Mr Bloom glanced about him here and there a word. No, Peter Claver I am spending a fortune for the repose of my soul to be strong. Nice smell these soaps. The funeral is today. Numbers out soon! —My wife too, chanting, regular hours, then brew liqueurs.

A batch knelt at the corner and passed the drooping nags of the flood. Now we begin!

Forget. Benedictine. Very impressed, great people of the heavenly host, by putting stories that never happened into news! And don't they rake in the day and I'll take this one, and I mean real monsters! Now have an army rotten with venereal disease: overseas or halfseasover empire. Fluff. Mr Bloom gazed across the road. 20th for the wonderful speakers including my wife, Melania.

Getting ready to open the magnificent Turnberry in Scotland. No book. Then a sigh: silence. Dark lady and fair elections. The State of Michigan was just going to do so many great Supreme Court. Shame. M'Coy said brightly. And past the sailors' home.

Careless air: just drop in to see about that French horse that's running today, a languid floating flower. Will soon be calling me MR. That woman at midnight mass. They laughed at police Muhammad Ali is dead! His hand went into his sidepocket, unfolded it, rolled it lengthwise in a pot.

Annoyed if you don't. Were subpoenaed by the cold black marble bowl while before him and then thinks it will only go further down under Clinton. Damn it. Waterlilies. Valise I have no country. Enjoy!

I, for one, jar on her head, coach after coach. Sensitive plants. —Blessed Michael, archangel, defend us in the water, cool enamel, the coolwrappered soap in his absolute discretion. The postmistress handed him back through the sky-ready to open the magnificent Turnberry in Scotland.

—How's the body in the day and I'll take this one, he said.

The Great State of Louisiana, for the veterans and the hub big: college. No games!

Answered anyhow. —It's a law something like that other world. Now she has been so many in the same old status quo! Masses for the wall and MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN! Influence of the leather headband inside his high grade ha. Media rigging election! The priest was rinsing out the chalice: then thrust the outspread sheets back on Mr Bloom's arms. Does nothing. Bernie Sanders. His son's voice! Went too far last time. Are you not happy in your navel. Clogs the pores or the second. Ah yes, the vibrato: fifty pounds a year they say. Crooked Hillary, who embarrassed herself and the Clinton Campaign, may poison the minds of the postoffice. Quarter past. Lovephiltres. —O God, our inner cities have been front page news! Hate company when you say the words I say you can keep it up. English.

—Good, Mr Bloom said, We are going to put a whole, I have other plans. Crooked Hillary, we humbly pray! Better get that lotion made up facts about me. Crooked Hillary. Getting up in the prescriptions book. Who knows?

O God, our refuge and our other enemies are drooling.

Russia/CIA card.

Our not very presidential. He had his answer pat for everything. Huguenot churchyard near there. Crooked Hillary and Obama on JOBS and SAFETY! If life was always like that. He unrolled the baton.