March 16, 2019
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Gary J. Kirkpatrick Art and Travel Blog
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March 16, 2019
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Ode to Artemisia Gentileschi, 1593 – c. 1656.
Another impressive ending. I am about 3 blocks away. Crowd crammed together up close.
Friday, March 15, 2019
They began delivery of the Fallas’ (sculptures) last Monday and were still assembling them as of this afternoon. Here is an early look at some of the fabulous sculptures.
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There is much detail here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_Mil%C3%A0
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Last night was the opening night of Fallas in Valencia. That event is a mascleta, a huge fireworks display. It is 10 minutes of non-stop of highly coordinated firework explosions resulting in various formations and figures including stars and spirals, rockets on multiple successive heights, culminating in a vertical mascleta some 10 stories in height that is almost pure rumble, and in fact is called ‘the earthquake.” We could feel the vibrations from across the harbor, several hundred meters away.
I do mean huge! Here it is!
Portrait of Young Man, pastels, after the Rubens sketch. Rubens and other artists of the time would use the same figure in multiple paintings.