Lower Cloister BW
by Joan Carroll
Title
Lower Cloister BW
Artist
Joan Carroll
Medium
Photograph - Digital Art
Description
Mysterious and bathed in a sad melancholy: that is how one poet described the lower cloister at the Monastery of St John of the Kings (Monasterio de San Juan de los Reyes) in Toledo, Spain. However, on this day, the cloister was intermittently a song �to light and to life� and the scudding clouds alternately covered and revealed the sun. As described on a plaque, the lower cloister �is as much a symphony of rhythm and restraint, as it is exuberant and disconcerting with its bestiary carvings.� In my imagination, living in a cloister would indeed have been a bit melancholy with the quiet and aloneness, with moments of joy brought by the glorious light and the blooms in the gardens beyond.
FEATURED PHOTO, Black And White Photography group, 3/26/16
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March 23rd, 2016
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JOHN TELFER
Joan, Fantastic detailed capture of this image of the Monastery of St. John of the Kings, the black and white really brings out the great details L
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