Vorig najaar (2020) meegebracht uit Oostenrijk ...
(For the bigger version, click at the drawing)
(For the bigger version, click at the drawing)
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Few things enchant me more than ancient libraries, old books and manuscripts.
Each year we passed Melk, traversing Austria on our journeys to Hungary, Slovenia or Csech Republic I wished we had time to stop and visit the famous library of the abbey.
This year I finaly had the opportunity to pay a visit. Though it was beautiful, my expectations obviously had grown far too high...
A few years ago I saw the library of Panonhalma Archabbey near Györ in Hungary and in comparison, that one is far more intresting, as 360,000 books in its collection – top to bottom on two floors are accesible and many manuscripts - among them the calligraphed abbey’s charter, from 1055 - are exhibited in display cases, while only a small collection of the library of Melk abbey is open for public and from the books shown there, we could only see the back.
Can you blame me for feeling like I was leaving a little empty-handed...?
Nevertheless, the Abbey itself made up for that, by offering me this magnificent view to paint ...
De abdij van Melk, maar niet van honing dus ... :-)
BeantwoordenVerwijderenDe kleur geleek nochtans eerder op die van honing dan van melk ;-)
VerwijderenSo you have been there on my birthday. ;-)
BeantwoordenVerwijderenSo you 've been celebrating your birthday while I was away ^^
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