by Nancy | Jul 9, 2009 | Art, Travel
This piece of sculpture is officially called the Cloud Gate, but has been nicknamed The Bean. It was designed by artist Anish Kapoor and draws thousands of tourists. The reflections in some places are like funhouse mirrors. Standing underneath the Bean provides...
by Nancy | Jul 5, 2009 | Chasing Caterpillars, Miscellaneous, Research
This is one of the more interesting entrances to the old city. It curves inside the wall and is more like a tunnel. You can see the curve in the middle photo. The third photo shows the exit into the city, but it also gives a feel of how dark it...
by Nancy | Jul 4, 2009 | Chasing Caterpillars, Research, Travel
Shown here is one style of what we would call an old washstand. These were used in Germany in the 1600’s for washing your fingers before eating. Yes, I did say fingers instead of hands. You didn’t wash both hands, instead you washed only the first two...
by Nancy | Jun 29, 2009 | Chasing Caterpillars, Miscellaneous, Research
These photos are from inside St. Sebaldus Church in Nürnberg, Germany. Besides being another lovely old church, this one has special meaning for me. This is the church Maria Sybilla Merian attended, and where her second daughter, Dorothea, was...
by Nancy | May 20, 2009 | Chasing Caterpillars, Miscellaneous, Research
The sole reason I toured Albrecht Dürer's house in Nürnberg, Germany, was because I had read there was a display of his paint and where it came from. Now Dürer lived 170 years before Maria Sybilla Merian did, but things were slow to change back in those...
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