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RE: Art, Travel and Culture: Orense, the monastery of Santa Cristina de Ribas de Sil

in #art-travel6 years ago

you really have some amazing photography skills, the angles are so perfect that it makes this place mysterious...i can see the romanasque period style in the architecture and thr is someti g about this video- history, acrchitecture, nature and some heavenly feeling.Loved it..thank you for sharing.

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Very grateful for your kind comment, but I do not think I have special photographic skills. I adore this type of buildings, Romanesque-Gothic in its beginnings and that interior magic (allow the expression) that unfold. They are impressive and anyone can find that concept of God that had the medieval builders (weight, measure, measure, balance, proportion ...) looking from any angle of the ship where it is to observe. Light also plays an important role and if you ever have the chance to visit a cathedral (no matter what country you are in), I recommend you take advantage of the two most important moments of the day, sunrise and sunset and focus your attention on the stained glass windows. I assure you, dear friend, that you will see wonders. Independently, and since you mention it, the Romanesque temples were generally oriented in correspondence with the name of the saint or titular saint. And many of them, still contain numerous secrets in terms of orientation and solstices, for example, as the capital of the Nativity of the Burgos church of San Juan de Ortega, which illuminates a ray of sunshine coinciding with the summer solstice. With this and sorry for the extension of my response, I want to suggest that you do not have to have special skills to capture all the wonders that this type of buildings contain and that act on the spirit in a particular way. Thank you again and a big hug