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nobody@flickr.com (pe_ha45) — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:03:19 -0700

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Chagall began creating stained glass windows for the synagogue of Hebrew University's Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem in 1960. Leymarie writes that "in order to illuminate the synagogue both spiritually and physically", it was decided that the twelve windows, representing the twelve tribes of Israel, were to be filled with stained glass. Chagall envisaged the synagogue as "a crown offered to the Jewish Queen", and the windows as "jewels of translucent fire", she writes. Chagall then devoted the next two years to the task, and upon completion in 1961 the windows were exhibited in Paris and then the Museum of Modern Art in New York. They were installed permanently in Jerusalem in February 1962. Each of the twelve windows is approximately ll feet high and 8 feet (2.4 m) wide, much larger than anything he had done before. Cogniat considers them to be "his greatest work in the field of stained glass", although Virginia Haggard McNeil records Chagall's disappointment that they were to be lit with artificial light, and so would not change according to the conditions of natural light.
The windows symbolize the twelve tribes of Israel who were blessed by Jacob and Moses in the verses which conclude Genesis and Deuteronomy. In those books, notes Leymarie, "The dying Moses repeated Jacob's solemn act and, in a somewhat different order, also blessed the twelve tribes of Israel who were about to enter the land of Canaan... In the synagogue, where the windows are distributed in the same way, the tribes form a symbolic guard of honor around the tabernacle."
Leymarie describes the physical and spiritual significance of the windows:

The essence of the Jerusalem Windows lies in color, in Chagall's magical ability to animate material and transform it into light. Words do not have the power to describe Chagall's color, its spirituality, its singing quality, its dazzling luminosity, its ever more subtle flow, and its sensitivity to the inflections of the soul and the transports of the imagination. It is simultaneously jewel-hard and foamy, reverberating and penetrating, radiating light from an unknown interior.

At the dedication ceremony in 1962, Chagall described his feelings about the dows:
Stained Glass memorial at U.N

For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world. Stained glass has to be serious and passionate. It is something elevating and exhilarating. It has to live through the perception of light. To read the Bible is to perceive a certain light, and the window has to make this obvious through its simplicity and grace... The thoughts have nested in me for many years, since the time when my feet walked on the Holy Land, when I prepared myself to create engravings of the Bible. They strengthened me and encouraged me to bring my modest gift to the Jewish people—that people that lived here thousands of years ago, among the other Semitic peoples. (Wikipedia)

Chagall Windows in Jerusalem 2

nobody@flickr.com (pe_ha45) — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:03:19 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (pe_ha45) — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:03:19 -0700

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Weeping Angel of Amiens

nobody@flickr.com (pe_ha45) — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:03:57 -0700

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This sculpture of a cherub with its hand upon an hour-glass to symbolize the brevity of life, and its elbow resting on a skull symbolizing death, is on a tomb in the ambulatory of the cathedral in Amiens, directly behind the high altar. It's widely known as the Weeping Angel of Amiens which was a popular postcard sent by soldiers on the Somme during WWI.2

Passing by very close

nobody@flickr.com (pe_ha45) — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 08:18:39 -0700

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Always hungry

nobody@flickr.com (pe_ha45) — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 08:31:26 -0700

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Always hungry 2

nobody@flickr.com (pe_ha45) — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 08:31:25 -0700

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Is it warm enough ?

nobody@flickr.com (pe_ha45) — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:52:04 -0700

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Testing the temperature? :-))

Golden eagle - Steinadler

nobody@flickr.com (pe_ha45) — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:53:52 -0700

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Do you see the barrel in the background?

nobody@flickr.com (pe_ha45) — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:16:08 -0700

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Believe me! It was a pleasure to taste the contents :-))

Darling I love you

nobody@flickr.com (pe_ha45) — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 12:09:24 -0700

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Sibirian Tiger

nobody@flickr.com (pe_ha45) — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 09:41:11 -0700

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I asked him to laugh, but he didn't want.

In the setting sun

nobody@flickr.com (pe_ha45) — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:28:44 -0700

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Can you imagine...

nobody@flickr.com (pe_ha45) — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 15:08:41 -0700

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that this creature will be a beautiful dragonfly 2 hours later?
Yestaerday I had the opportunity to take a photo of the metamorphosis of a dragonfly a very short time after beginning. As I didn't have seen a photo like this before I dare to post it, even in the risk that I bore you with too many photos of metamorphosis.

I wish you a lovely Sunday !

nobody@flickr.com (pe_ha45) — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 15:57:01 -0700

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Four-spotted Chaser - Vierfleck

nobody@flickr.com (pe_ha45) — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 01:28:25 -0700

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Metamorphosis of a dragonfly

nobody@flickr.com (pe_ha45) — Fri, 31 May 2013 00:28:16 -0700

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metamorphosis 2

nobody@flickr.com (pe_ha45) — Fri, 31 May 2013 00:28:15 -0700

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