Golden Hour Church Glow

by Joan Carroll

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10.000 x 18.000 inches

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Golden Hour Church Glow

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Joan Carroll

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Photograph - Digital Photograph

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If you have seen the movie or read the book The Monuments Men, this is the church where the Madonna and Child was taken from and returned to. I have done both and feel totally invested and involved in them, having walked the same streets myself! Here, after rain and cloudy weather all day, we were rewarded by a beautiful golden hour in Bruges (Brugge) Belgium looking out over the canal toward the Church of Our Lady or Onze Lieve Vrouwekerk. The church dates mainly from the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries, i.e., it was built over the course of 200 years. Its tower, at 122.3 meters in height, remains the tallest structure in the city and the second tallest brickwork tower in the world (the tallest being the St Martin's Church in Landshut, Germany). The church stands as a memorial to the power and wealth of Bruges in its heyday as an center of the cloth trade. Currently it holds a Michelangelo sculpture entitled Madonna and Child, said to be the only Michelangelo statue to leave Italy during his lifetime.

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September 29th, 2013

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