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Hace 4 días · Back from my recent trip to Ireland I wanted to set down some of my photos against a reading of Sailing to Byzantium. Fortunately, I think I had enough material to cover the first two sections of the poem. In the third and fourth sections of the poem, Yeats takes us on a speculative journey into the immortal realm of spirit.
Hace 5 días · Sailing to Byzantium is an exhibition that blends the sacred art of the Early Renaissance and Byzantine periods with themes from William Butler Yeats’ poem. Hosted at historic St John’s Anglican Cathedral in Brisbane, this collection of recent paintings and sketches invites you on a journey through faith, history, and artistic expression.
Hace 2 días · Caesarea remained the provincial capital throughout the 5th and 6th centuries. It fell to Sassanid Persia in the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628, in 614, and was re-conquered by Byzantium in 625. Early Muslim period
Hace 4 días · Byzantine Empire - East Rome, Christianity, Constantinople: The 6th century opened, in effect, with the death of Anastasius and the accession of the Balkan soldier who replaced him, Justin I (ruled 518–527).
Hace 3 días · The story of Byzantium is a real-life adventure of electrifying ideas, high drama, colorful characters, and inspiring feats of daring. In Sailing from Byzantium, Colin Wells tells of the missionaries, mystics, philosophers, and artists who against great odds and often at peril of their own lives spread Greek ideas to the Italians, the Arabs ...
Hace 6 días · Interview with Brisbane artist Olga Bakhtina, about her solo exhibition “Sailing to Byzantium” at St John's Cathedral.
Hace 4 días · But it was a human saviour who appeared, albeit under divine auspices. Heraclius, son of the exarch of Africa, set sail from the western extremes of the empire, placing his fleet under the protection of an icon of the Virgin against Phocas, stigmatized in the sources as the “corrupter of virgins.”.
