Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Seville Out-takes

Murillo's very famous St. Aragorn with
Andrusil and Palantir











Relics (anatomical parts unspecified) in the Cathedral
Treasury









"Put your snout under the spout where the
Gospel comes out"











Panel from St. Mary of the Winds: San
Sebastian sans Arrows (seriously)











Too many tapas, too few paseos

Specimen orange tree; it must be allergy-
central when all these trees are in bloom

Monument in Alcazar garden to Al-Mutamid,
9th century poet, mayor of Seville; everybody
knows about philosopher-kings, but a poet-
king? Definitely worth a try...

Real bicycle lanes, as in other Spanish cities






Lope de Vega was Spain's great playwright in the
Renaissance, a contemporary of both Shakespeare
and Cervantes, who wrote hundreds of formulaic
plays and was a commercial success; Cervantes
fancied himself a dramatist but couldn't even begin
to compete; but the most excellent novelist Miguel
Cervantes de Saavedra has stood the test of time,
even if he doesn't have a theater...






 

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