Beautiful Spanish weight and darkness — on a lighter Italian subject.
And the name of one of my best, most beloved, gentle and sweet friends. They couldn’t have chosen a better name to christen him with.
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Beautiful Spanish weight and darkness — on a lighter Italian subject.
And the name of one of my best, most beloved, gentle and sweet friends. They couldn’t have chosen a better name to christen him with.
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Tags: Assisi, Counter-Reformation, Francisco de Zurbarán, Italy, San Francesco, San Francisco, Seville, Spain
“San Francisco de Asis Orante” — Diego Velázquez
One — I always loved San Francisco among Catholic saints, and the affective weight of the name triples in tonnage through, two — a deeply loved, truly, sweet, saintly Neapolitan friend that goes as Francesco — or Franceschì to me, and, three — the other F. who was the terrifying amour fou of my life who got away and left me like a piece of roadkill. Look out for him in the videos I’m posting soon…among all the other beautiful Mexican faces.
I thought of posting the usual airy-fairy Giotto images of Saint Francis, the bright early Renaissance pastels of Francis preaching to the birds, images that are more a spoon-full-of-sugar and palatable for the New-Age squeamishness we call religion.
But after this past Sunday’s “CATALAN PRIDE” celebrations, I’ve been in a Counter-Reformation mood: dark, High Catholic, mysterious Spanish, Castilian and Andalusian…and am kinda immersing myself in paintings of the above and below type, with skulls and crosses and not enough blood as I would’ve wanted.
“San Francisco” — Francisco de Zurbarán
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Tags: "Pesado", Andalusia, Castille, CATALAN PRIDE, Catalonia, Catholicism, Counter-Reformation, Diego Velázquez, Fracisco de Zurbarán, Giotto, Madrid, Mexican norteño music, Mexico, Saint Franciss of Assisi, San Francesco, San Francisco, Seville, Spanish Cathlicism, St. Francis
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FROM BOSNIA TO BENGAL -- The purpose of this blog
Me, I'm Nicholas Bakos, a.k.a. "NikoBako." I'm Greek (Roman really, but when I say that in English some five people in the world today understand what I'm talking about, so I use "Greek" for shorthand). I'm from New York. I live all over the place these days. The rest should become obvious from the blog.
See "JADDE: THE MISSION AND STARTING OFF, the blog's first entry below, and JADDE: THE NAME OF THIS BLOG for my general agenda:
"What I hope this blog accomplishes is to create even the tiniest amount of common consciousness among readers from the parts of the world in question."
Please contact me with comments, questions, complaints or -- please -- corrections at: nikobakos@gmail.com