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Innsbruck was established as a marketplace in 1133 when the Counts of Andechs bought a field on the left bank of the Inn, today called St. Nikolaus.
One of the wonderful traditions of Christmas is the Nativity. But you don't have to be Christian or a regular churchgoer to love these wonderful displays. The creativity and artistry speak to all children and to the child in us all.
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Why would you eat cakes in Florida? You want to lie on the beach and you have to watch the bikini line. But if you have work to do you need to eat. And the harder you work the more you need cakes.
Luckily Florida has many great and beautiful cakes-the Florida supermarket chain publix has the most wonderful bakery and cake counters. You will find the cake counter close to the entrance.
Publix is one of the World's largest employee-owned businesses...
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This is a picture book for all train and tram loving children and adults. It is a small tour though several countries.
It is not the usual train picture book.
It is seen from the toddler's perspective.
Rather, it is what we saw as we passed by with the interested toddler. The pictures are incidental pictures. They just happened.
They happened mostly because of our toddler, who is absolutely obsessed with trains and trams—and funiculars. And...
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Europe has many wonderful old traditions, and one of them is the Christmas market.
The December market in Vienna is recorded since 1298, but Innsbruck was actually founded as a market in a field already in 1133 and it could be argued that the December market here would be even older.
The wonderful Tyrolian atmosphere makes this a must for anyone enjoying the Christmas markets.
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Europe has many wonderful old traditions, and one of them is the Christmas market.
The Christmas market in Vienna in Austria is truly amazing. It is one of the oldest in the World — it started at a "December market" in 1298, although that may not qualify as a "real" Christmas market among historians.
The "December market" was by the Cathedral, St Stephan Dom.
Christmas markets became a tradition in German speaking lands and ushered in the four...
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There must be at least one thousand cake shops and cafés in Barcelona alone, serving these great Catalan Pastis — Catalan cake specialties.
That is also necessary to feed the delicate tastes of the 1.6 million inhabitants and 32 million tourists that visit the city every year.
We will try to discover some of the secrets behind this formidable variety and quality of Catalan pastis — tartellets, coc, coca, mona, tortel and many more. You will...
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Hokusai is no doubt Japan's most famous artist.
Hokusai was not only a truly great artist.
He also sent a message to common people, who could afford to buy his low-cost prints. There was a secret message in every print! It is only revealed in the very last in the series!
Hokusai conveyed the beauty of majesty, the mount Fujijama, in life.
He conveyed the beauty of scenery — he said to people — look around you and see and enjoy the beauty of...
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One of the wonderful traditions of Christmas is the Nativity. But you don't have to be Christian or a regular churchgoer to love these wonderful displays. The creativity and artistry speaks to all children and to the child in us all.
Nativity is a scene from the stories of the birth of Jesus. They are in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. With inspiration in these stories, you use either figurines or live people to create the scene and convey the story.
These...
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Nativity is a scene from the stories of the birth of Jesus.
Hallstatt is home to the World’s oldest salt mine!
The small town of Hallstatt is a unique place of beauty and utility. It is on the shore of Lake Hallstatt, ringed by the Dachstein mountains.
It used to be accessible only by boat and a small trail over the mountains. The first road was only built in 1890, using rock blasting.
But Hallstatt has been active with salt mining since prehistoric...
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Visit Edo, modern day Tokyo, as experienced by Utagawa Hiroshige in this wonderful tourist guide from the 1850s.
Experience Edo as the Japanese loved it, a sophisticated city catering to a wealthy elite of damiyo, local rulers that regularly had to spend time away from their lands, in Edo, where the shogun could keep an eye on them.
The 100 Famous Views of Edo was one of the popular print series made in Japan, like Hokusai's series Thirty-six Views...
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One of the wonderful traditions of Christmas is the Nativity. But you don't have to be Christian or a regular churchgoer to love these wonderful displays. The creativity and artistry speaks to all children and to the child in us all.
Nativity is a scene from the stories of the birth of Jesus. They are in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. With inspiration in these stories, you use either figurines or live people to create the scene and convey the story.
These...
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The 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō by Kano Shugen Sadanobu (Sadanobu II) is a series of 50 miniature prints published by the Tokyo Metro Library to ukiyo-e.org.
It is interesting for the Tōkaidō subject, because it is in reverse order, the trip going from Kyoto to Edo, like the Tōkaidō meisho zue from 1797 ISBN 978-1-63752-657-6.
It is miniature copies of Hiroshige's Kichizo Tōkaidō, and the main difference is that the artist lightens Hiroshige's...
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The official title for this work is "Pictures from the Famous Places of the Fifty-three Stations".Hiroshige produced these prints in 1855 more than 20 years after his first horizontal Hoeidō edition published 1833-34, which is included as thumbnails for comparison.It is instructive to see Hiroshige's use of his now mature experience as he develops the vertical format for the narrative. He does designs as he would do a photograph. He set the standard...
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Hokusai's 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō 1801 is something completely different! It is his first.
It is different from his famous 36 Views of Mt Fuji, which are sublime artistic expressions distilling a long life's work.
It is different from much of Hokusai's other well known work, like his 100 Views of Mt Fuji. But in that series Hokusai still retained a lot of the humor and the caricature found here.
It is different from the many other well known...
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Visitez Edo, le Tokyo moderne, tel que vécu par Utagawa Hiroshige dans ce merveilleux guide touristique des années 1850.Découvrez Edo comme les Japonais l'aimaient, une ville sophistiquée accueillant une riche élite de daimyō, des dirigeants locaux qui devaient régulièrement passer du temps loin de leurs terres, à Edo, o le shogun pouvait les surveiller.Les 100 vues célèbres d'Edo étaient l'une des séries d'impressions populaires réalisées...
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The Aritaya Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road, Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi, 東海道五十三次之内, is one of the most beautiful of Hiroshige's huge production of landscape print series in spite of its small size. It is only abt 10 x 15 cm (with variations), Yotsugiri yokoban (quarter ōban).It is also unusual in that it is a veritable full course and manual in landscape print design. It is a very rewarding study.All the way through...
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What did prostitutes look like in Edo Japan?
Keisai Eisen (1790-1848) is especially known for his bijin-ga, pretty women, and landscapes. He is known for his participation in the series 69 stations of the Nakasendō together with Hiroshige.
The series A Tōkaidō Board Game of Courtesans, Fifty-three Pairings in the Yoshiwara used the Tōkaidō with landscape inserts as an excuse to show courtesans and geisha, bijin-ga, to skirt the censorship....
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Hokusai's 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō 1804 horizontal is something completely different from his first square edition 1801 and second edition 1802.Hokusai completely changes his style compared to the three previous series, 1801, 1802 and 1804 vertical.These designs are "clean" and a precursor for his famous 36 Views of Mt Fuji some 30 years later.In this series Hokusai focus on wonderful folkloric scenes of ordinary people going about their work,...
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The Kichizō Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road, Gojūsan tsugi no uchi, 東海道六五十三次之内 is another very original of Hiroshige's huge Tokaido Road production.Until the introduction of "Berlin Blue", an artificial print color, the Japanese ukiyo-e printers used only natural colors and drak shade was difficult and expensive to make. Hiroshige made full use of the new color here.The first thing you notice about this series is that...
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Come on the journey from Edo, modern day Tokyo, to Kyoto, as experienced by Utagawa Hiroshige in, when he travelled the road to participate in an important procession in 1832.There were 53 post stations along this important road, apart from the start and terminus, in all 55 prints, which are all here in the order from Edo to Kyoto, In the Hoeidō edition (1833-34).This was the most popular print series ever made in Japan. It was even more popular...