Showing posts with label Trento. The Cycle of the Months. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trento. The Cycle of the Months. Show all posts

Sunday, March 01, 2009

Il Ciclo di Mesi - Marzo


When I first started posting the great fresco Cycle of the Months in Castello del Buonconsiglo I mentioned that there was no panel for March. Sadly less than a hundred years after the Master of Bohemia had finished his work it was felt that a staircase was more important than some old painting. There is no indication of what, in the Prince Archbishop's fanciful world, the activities of nobles and peasants would have been in what has often been described as the cruelest month.

The Cycle will continue once the winds of March have given way to the rains of April. In the meantime a click on the drawing of the Castello will lead you to the slideshow of the previous months.

01 Marzo - San Rosendal

Thursday, January 01, 2009

Il Ciclo di Mesi - Gennaio

Gennaio - JanuaryThis has to be my favorite of all the frescos in the Torre - snowball fights are nothing new.

01 gennaio - Maria Santissima Madre di Dio

Friday, August 01, 2008

Il Ciclo di Mesi - Agosto

Agosto
Things haven't changed all that much since 1400 - the August sun still blazes down as the idle gentry idle away their vacation in pleasant surroundings. As always the peasants toil under the contemplative eye of the meditative clergy. Those of us working in August know that feeling don't we?
01 agosto - San Alfonso