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T. Michael Redmond

@tmr65.bsky.social

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Born in Ireland 🇮🇪. Vocation: vision scientist; avocation: traveling natural history and landscapes, and art and architecture photographer. The vast majority of images I post are mine, others not are properly attributed. Dogfather. All opinions personal.

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T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 3d

Mac is the only way!

T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 3d

That bites on many levels😖!

T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 4d

Always look up, Rome edition (but not Sistine Chapel, questo è proibito!). This is the baroque ceiling fresco of Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola representing the life of Ignatius of Loyola, a founder of the Catholic order of the Society of Jesus. The late Francis was the first pope of this order.

A highly ornate ceiling depicting holy works of a saint executed in a trompe l'œil fashion. Large numbers of angels feature. Three windows are at the top and three windows are at the bottom of the image.

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T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 4d

I was not aware that Paddy had died! How sad! Especially for you and the whole Chironomid community. I am sorry that I missed that. Paddy was a true scholar and gentleman!

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T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 4d

Exciting discovery! Chironomids are a fact of life in Ireland. I was even more excited to read how extensively you cited Ashe, O’Connor and Murray! Declan Murray was a professor of mine, lo these many years ago, and Paddy Ashe was a fellow graduate student, in Dublin.

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T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 6d

Always look up: Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore edition. We joined a line of hundreds queuing to visit the tomb of the late Pope Francis.

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T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 6d

Our ride from Bologna to Rome. I love me a Frecciarossa!

T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 7d

Paris’ most famous cephalophore!

T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 8d

A mural in the picturesque San Giuliano neighborhood of Rimini celebrating the films of famous director Federico Fellini. Rimini was the boyhood home of Fellini.

A mural on a white wall depicting the figure of a perplexed looking man, surrounded by heads of about a dozen people. There is a depiction of a man on a motorcycle in the bottom right, one of Blind man playing an accordion at the top right, and a nun climbing a ladder in the top left. There are green plants on the left of the picture and a window in the middle of the left side.

T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 8d

Reflection of Palazzo Ducale, Modena.

Baroque building reflected in a shallow rectangular pool of water, the reflection receding to a vanishing point at the top side of the image. Blue sky and clouds above the building are also reflected. Paved surfaces are to the left and right sides of the image.

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T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 8d

“Christians” in America also constantly remind me of Matthew 23: 27.

T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 9d

In a library of the old University of Bologna, oldest university in Europe. Many seminal books on Zoology and natural history, including such as Linneaus and Cuvier.

A bookshelf of old books many in brown bindings. A wire lattice in front protects them.

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T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 9d

Ravenna, 10/3: Protesting the interception of the #gazaflotilla. Beside the railway station.

T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 9d

Ravenna, 10/3: A protest against the interception of the #gazaflotilla. Part of the one-day national strike in Italy that is disrupting trains, planes, ferries, and buses all over the country.

A crowd of people, some carrying red flags, on a street intersection under trees. A signpost in the centre of the image.

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T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 10d

“Iacta alea est!” Crossing the estuary of the Rubicon, north of Rimini, historical boundary of Rome. Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon with his legions in January 49 BCE, setting in motion events leading to the Civil War that ended the Roman Republic.

View from a train window of crossing a bridge over a tree-lined river. The yellow sleeve of a train passenger is to the bottom left.

T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 11d

What good taste in gin!

T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 11d

Did a LOT of looking up today in Ravenna!

Byzantine mosaics line the interior of a dome. The central circle is of a man being baptized by another man. Surrounding this is a circle comprised of 12 figures. In turn, 8 windows surround this.

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T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 11d

Ravenna is Mecca for folks who love mosaics. There are multiple UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the city which once was the Western capital of the later Roman Empire. This is an image of the Emperor Justinian and Empress Theodora in the Basilica San Vitale, made almost 1500 years ago.

A Byzantine mosaic featuring 5 figures. The figures in the centre is dressed in a sumptuous brown cloak with gold embroidered edges. He is wearing a bejeweled crown. He is handing a chalice to the figure to his left. The figure to his right is wearing a brown dress with gold stripes and a white cloak with decorations and a crown. The figure to her right wears a gold dress. The 2 leftmost figures wear vestments (gold on far left and white on near left), both with brown sections on their fronts. Colourful bands of mosaics are above and below the figures.

T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 12d

Wish we were!

T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 12d

Our departure is delayed 25 minutes due to a problem on the high speed line. Venice doesn’t want to let us go!

A railway timetable board listing departure times.

T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 12d

Libreria Acqua Alta (High Water Bookshop), Venice.

Books line an alleyway to a bookshop. The alleyway has a cobblestone paved path. Part of the shop sign is to the bottom left in yellow letters on a green background.

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T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 13d

“Don John of Austria is going to the war” G.K. Chesterton, Lepanto. A massive series of paintings by Tintoretto in the Doge’s Palace in Venice commemorates the strategic victory of the Holy Roman and Venetian navies over the Ottoman Navy at Lepanto in 1571.

A rowed galley in battle surrounded by other galleys. Men on the deck including the admiral. Many men in the water.

T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 13d

Where are you heading?

T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 14d

[Part of] Giotto’s masterpiece frescoes at the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, Italy. Though painted in 1305, Giotto presaged the Italian Renaissance by a century. What happened in the meantime? Only world-changing events like the Black Death that caused huge economic and social changes.

The painted back wall of a church depicting the Last Judgment. At the top is a 3-section Gothic window with blue sky either side. An image of a seated Christ is immediately below this. To the immediate right and left of Christ are arrayed saints and hosts of angels. Immediately below Christ is the Cross held up by two angels. To the bottom left are the saved being welcomed into Heaven. To the right are the damned being cast down into Hell and being tormented by demons. There is a doorway at the bottom of the image.

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JBR @jbred56.bsky.social · 15d

Cats of Burano, Venice. #caturday

The first cat we have seen in three days is a nude.

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