#josef mocker

[arborius]

[ibarbouron-us]

La iglesia de San Procopio es la iglesia parroquial del distrito de Žižkov en Praga, República Checa. Dedicado al patrón de Bohemia, Procopius de Sázava, la neogótica iglesia, ubicado en la plaza Sladkovského de la calle Seifertova, fue diseñada por los arquitectos bohemios Josef Mocker y František Mikš.

[viviendopraga]

El 20 de marzo de 1475 empezaron las obras de la Torre Nueva, por eso es hoy es el aniversario de puerta que conocemos como la Torre de la Pólvora. Se suponía que reemplazaría a la antigua Puerta de Odraná, de la puerta de la Montaña en el sistema de fortificación de la Ciudad Vieja y al mismo tiempo protegería la Corte del Rey. La nueva torre en realidad era un regalo de la población de Praga de la Ciudad Vieja al joven rey Vladislav. Según los cronistas, el propio Vladislav colocó la primera piedra del edificio, concretamente en la esquina del lado este. Y se dice que la construcción se hizo con el material sacado de las zanjas del foso que rodeó la muralla de la ciudad. Materia con el que también se creó un puente. La Torre Nueva El trabajo lo dirigió inicialmente por el maestro Václav de Žlutice. Sin embargo, después de unos tres años, fue reemplazado por el talentoso autodidacta Matěj Rejsek. Se puede discutir el significado de la rica decoración de todo el edificio, ya que supuestamente fue derribado en 1779 por razones de seguridad. Sin embargo, se han conservado una serie de creaciones escultóricas notables, como el autorretrato de Rejsk de alrededor de 1477. Sin embargo, cuando el rey se mudó de la Ciudad Vieja al Castillo de Praga en 1485, el trabajo posterior en la torre como parte de la fortificación perdió su significado. La construcción llegó hasta la cornisa superior y quedó sin terminar. El Torre de la Pólvora obtuvo su forma actual después de una modificación pseudogótica entre los años 1878 y 1886, dirigida por el arquitecto Josef Mocker. La imagen de la torre del puente de la Ciudad Vieja le sirvió de modelo. Mocker hizo construir un nuevo techo cincelado con torretas en las esquinas y una galería. También hizo quitar el reloj de principios del siglo XIX. La fachada está decorada con estatuas de monarcas checos y símbolos de los países que gobernaron. En la fachada este está Carlos IV a la izquierda, en el lado este está Přemysl Otakar II, en el oeste está Jorge de Poděbrady y Vladislav II. La historia de la Torre de la Pólvora es muy curiosa realmente. A día de hoy la Torre de la Pólvora pertenece a la ciudad capital de Praga y está abierta al público. ¿Qué mejor forma de celebrar el Aniversario de la Torre de la Pólvora que visitandola?

[preacherpollard]

Wisdom Calls, Can You Hear?

Wisdom Calls, Can You Hear?

Friday’s Column: Brent’s Bent   Brent Pollard Last week we noted that one has two reliable sources of wisdom: God and one’s parents. However, we might alter this slightly to include the adjective “godly” to describe our parents. If one’s parents are not godly, then they cannot offer much in the way of wisdom. Everything else is a tertiary source of wisdom. This truth invites harmful…

[thatscarletflycatcher]

It's… complicated. I always find rather curious the sort of… dismissiveness? with which Ancient Philosophy is met in the anglosphere, at least in the internet.

With Socrates in particular the problem is that… we don't really know HIS philosophy. He never wrote anything. All we know of him we know of secondary sources. Some people spend a whole academic life trying to delineate Socrates from Plato in Plato's dialogues.

Socrates from Plato's dialogues is in the simplest analysis a dualist... but a spiritual dualist. He believes that beyond this world there is a world of indescribable beauty where the souls rejoice in spiritual knowledge, in a long procession with the souls of the Gods, before and after death, if they lived an honorable life. Socrates, who has spent his life and ultimately given it up for the sake of his city, so that the people in it wouldn't succumb to the sparks of sophistry and demagogy, but humbly employ their minds in seeking what is true and right, feels he has some hope of achieving that blessed life, even if just for a little while.

side note, Josef Pieper has a delightful little book called Enthusiasm and Divine Madness. On the Platonic Dialogue Phaedrus. Which I do recommend.

It's not a Christian worldview, of course it isn't, it was happening over 400 years before Christ. But I don't feel like he (or the other ancient philosophers) deserve the smug superiority with which people (not you) talk about them. I'm sick tired of the flightless biped joke. Plato was writing beautiful, moving literary pieces, trying to make sense of the world. What are you, Mocker-of-Plato doing with YOUR time? The presocratics stood in awe of the world and were so stricken by its beauty and order that they NEEDED to know or at least conjecture how was it made. Can the creator of the "cars are houses because they have windows, that's what Ancient Philosophers sound like" ever done the same?

Sorry, I needed to get this out of my system XD

Currently listening to my high school kid give the most searing takedown of Socrates I’ve ever heard

[writer59january13]

Symphonic Quiescent Overture – Maestro Kant Imitate

(alternately titled: a retrospective review

randomly selecting an outdated poem stored within Apple icloud queue

methinks ye might might savor preview

regarding general overview how yours truly dabbled with words where new

sense even then gushed oot noggin o' Matthew Scott Harris foretold loo

pee poetic shenanigans merely foreplay

teasing double entendres I knew

would brand me as a Jew

pitter naiveté and innocence

accorded an ingénue

disguised by a colorful hue man punster mocker cuckoo.

Tryouts starring musical prodigies

and/or an attendant conductor

attempt to approach ambient chorus

divinely exhibited from Gaia's handiwork

heavenly invoking kapellmeister    magnificent nonchalant outlook

piquantly, quintessentially, repertoire sensately striking

unmatched vast wisdom yielding, zephyr air albeit creativity

engineered from groundswell harmony

juxtaposed, kindled, linkedin,

manifesting noteworthy opulent    philharmonic recording

transcribing universal veritable webbed wide world.

Wunderkinds yield Ziggurat acme approximated asymptote

bequeathing celestial

Doppelganger Earthly emulations formulating fractal glinting highlighting

ineffable joie de vivre jostling, keen kindling, la la land legerdemain lifting logic

lording Ludwig (Josef Johann) Wittgenstein. Yelping zoological apostle

Al (affidavit) Gore handily heaping hubristically invocation jolting kickstart measures nipping nixed noblesse oblige opera

quickening quotidian rapid

ruination sans supreme

teetering upended venerated wise with acumen arithmetical Benoit Mandelbrot

chasing far-fetched ideas

lightyears menacing existential nihilism purging ogres opportunistically resplendently ripping revered

tankard tipping unstoppably

vanquishing varietal whipsawing

wonderful wrapt yawning  youngsters warfare written wrought  

yanking zestfully crushing environmental family

granting Herculean instant karma malevolent, opprobrious pronouncement

quiet riot silencing severely

tragic ubiquitous vicious wreckage    yikyaks apemen cleft Earth.

Future foragers denounce capitalistic bamboozlers aggression

zealots wrought trashing quintessential naked kingdoms issue

flotsam coagulates zonal wastelands torquing quality NON

killing habitats Earth bleached yellowed voodoo ruins.

[bm2ab]

Castle's Rock - 12 April 2018 Karlstejn Castle Prague, Czech Republic

Karlštejn Castle (Czech: hrad Karlštejn; German: Burg Karlstein) is a large Gothic castle founded 1348 CE by Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor-elect and King of Bohemia. The castle served as a place for safekeeping the Imperial Regalia as well as the Bohemian/Czech crown jewels, holy relics, and other royal treasures. Located about 30 kilometres (19 mi) southwest of Prague above the village of the same name, it is one of the most famous and most frequently visited castles in the Czech Republic.

Founded in 1348, the construction works were directed by the later Karlštejn burgrave Vitus of Bítov, but there are no records of the builder himself. Some historians speculate that Matthias of Arras may be credited with being the architect, but he had already died by 1352. It is likely that there was not a progressive and cunning architect, but a brilliant civil engineer who dexterously and with a necessary mathematical accuracy solved technically exigent problems that issued from the emperor's ideas and requests. Instead, Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV personally supervised the construction works and interior decoration. A little known fact is that the Emperor hired Palestinian region labour for the remaining work. Construction was finished nearly twenty years later in 1365 when the "heart" of the treasury – the Chapel of the Holy Cross situated in the Great tower – was consecrated.

Following the outbreak of the Hussite Wars, the Imperial Regalia were evacuated in 1421 and brought via Hungary to Nuremberg. In 1422, during the siege of the castle, Hussite attackers used biological warfare when Prince Sigismund Korybut used catapults to throw dead (but not plague-infected) bodies and 2,000 carriage-loads of dung over the walls, apparently managing to spread infection among the defenders.

Later, the Bohemian crown jewels were moved to the castle and were kept there for almost two centuries, with some short breaks. The castle underwent several reconstructions: in late Gothic style after 1480, in Renaissance style in the last quarter of the 16th century. In 1487, the big tower was damaged by fire and during the 16th century there were several adaptations. During the Thirty Years' War in 1619, the coronation jewels and the archive were brought to Prague, and in 1620, the castle was turned over to Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor. After having been conquered in 1648 by Swedes, it fell in disrepair. Finally, a neo-Gothic reconstruction was carried out by Josef Mocker between 1887 and 1899, giving the castle its present look.

The nearby village was founded during the construction of the castle and bore its name until it was renamed to Buda in the wake of the Hussite Wars. Renamed to Budňany in the 18th century, it was merged with Poučník and called Karlštejn (Beroun District). There is a golf club named after the castle nearby.

[bridgetfleischer]

10/10/17:

Here is a photo I took of the Old Town Bridge Tower located in Old Town, and leads to the Charles Bridge. This Gothic-style tower was built in 1373 and contains sculpture of Saint Vitus, the King Wenceslas IV, and Charles IV on the first floor. Above are the statues of Czech patrons Saint Sigismund and Saint Adalbert. The tower was attacked many times during the 14th century by enemy troops. In 1848 during the revolution, it was damaged so bad that extensive reconstruction was required. Josef Mocker, a Czech renovator, led the reconstruction of the tower. First, the tower was decorated by concrete, and then later sandstone imitations were used. In the lower part of the tower, there are smaller plastics. Right above that is a part formed by the significant coats of arms of those historic lands where the Luxembourg monarchs had once reigned.

[arborius]

Church of the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor, Tábor (CZ)

[viviendopraga]

Hoy 20 de marzo hace 547 años que se inició la construcción de la Prašná brána, Torre de la Pólvora en español y cuyo nombre original era la Puerta Nueva. Se encuentra al lado de la Casa Municipal de Praga. Torre que pertenecía al sistema de fortificaciones de la Ciudad Vieja, y que debía sustituir a la antigua Puerta de Odrana “Montaña”, y al mismo tiempo proteger la Corte del Rey. La nueva torre fue en realidad un regalo de los ciudadanos del casco antiguo para el joven rey Vladislav. Según los registros el propio Vladislav colocó la primera piedra del edificio, concretamente en la esquina del lado este. La obra inicialmente la supervisó el Maestro Václav de Žlutice. Sin embargo, después de unos tres años, lo sustituyó el talentoso autodidacta Matěj Rejsek. Se puede argumentar la importancia de la rica decoración de todo el edificio, ya que en 1779 fue destrozada. Sin embargo, se han conservado varias esculturas notables, como el autorretrato de Rejsk de alrededor de 1477. Sin embargo, cuando el rey se mudó de la Ciudad Vieja al Castillo de Praga en 1485, el trabajo posterior en la torre como parte de las fortificaciones perdió su significado. La construcción llegó hasta la cornisa superior y ahí se quedó sin terminar. Aspecto actual de la Torre de la Pólvora La Torre de la Pólvora adquirió su forma actual después de una modificación pseudogótica en los años 1878-1886, que fue dirigida por el arquitecto Josef Mocker. La apariencia de la Torre del Puente de la Ciudad Vieja le sirvió de modelo. Mocker tenía un nuevo techo de cincel hecho con torretas de esquina y una galería. También hizo quitar el reloj de principios del siglo XIX. La fachada está decorada con estatuas de monarcas checos y emblemas de los países que gobernaron. En la fachada este a la izquierda está Carlos IV. En el lado este está Přemysl Otakar II, en el oeste está Jorge de Poděbrady y Vladislav II. Hoy, la puerta pertenece a la ciudad capital de Praga y está abierta al público. Entre otras cosas, la exposición The King's Court - Life in Medieval Prague se encuentra en su interior desde 2007. En enero de 2013, la torre pasó a manos del Museo de la Ciudad Capital de Praga. Hace 547 años inició la construcción de la Prašná brána y sigue con su característico color negro.