Monastery Toledo Spain Painterly
by Joan Carroll
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Monastery Toledo Spain Painterly
Artist
Joan Carroll
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Photograph - Photography And Digital Art
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Mysterious and bathed in a sad melancholy: that is how one poet described the 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. This monastery was founded by King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I to commemorate both the birth of their son, Prince John, and their victory at the Battle of Toro (1476) over the army of Afonso V of Portugal.
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