Stain glassed windows

When I was about 20 years old my girlfriend and I spent 1 month traveling around Europe, a majority of the trip was taken up with visiting churches and admiring art. We traveling over the Christmas and New Years period of our university holidays so it was the dead of winter in Europe. We were constantly drawn to the churches as we traveling from town to town, sometimes spending hours in them waiting for a snow storm to pass or accidentally finding ourselves in the middle of an organ rehearsal.


After studying art history in Year 12 and focusing my attention on gothic architecture and its comparison to the Bauhaus movement seeing these magnificent structures in person was a highlight of the trip.


What I absolutely loved about the churches was how impossibly dark and imposing they were and yet beautiful light would dance and filter through the stain glassed windows. Here are a few photos I wanted to share with you of the Lion's in the stain glasses windows.

The Lovely Lion

I found a lovely collection of Lion's today on Flickr. I particular like the image above, he has a beautiful face & years of rubbing his nose have kept the bronze a beautiful shiny gold. I think it gives the lion a more human touch, like a dogs nose that is wet when it is healthy.

The photos were taken by Leo Reynolds, you can check out his entire collection at Flickr, he has some great albums with beautiful photography it is definaltely worth looking him up.

www.loumirandaestate.com.au

The beautiful leone

I want to share these beautiful sketches of Lions I found on the web. I believe they are the property of the University of Wisconcin. They capture the qualities of lions perfectly. I would love to have large prints of these on my walls.









These images come from the classic works of the German veterinary anatomists, Wilhelm Ellenberger and Hermann Baum, and medical illustrator, Hermann Dittrich. The texts, from which these illustrations were derived, are works published in 1898 and 1911 through 1925, all entitled ‘Handbuch der Anatomie der Tiere für Künstler‘ which can be translated as “Handbook (or Atlas) of Animal Anatomy for Artists” and are online at the University of Wisconsin – Madison Botany Department Teaching Collection. There are about eighty images in total relating to the lion, goat, horse, deer, dog and cow. (extract from www.roumazeilles.net)

Leone the lion

After talking about Lisa’s little passion for dust collectors (see article: Vintage Bottles) I thought I would share my dust collectors.

About three years ago when we decided to start the winery again we put together a Company plan. This included the company name, the mission statement, brands, what varieties we would produce, what direction we wanted to go in. One of the hardest things for me in particular was what would the identity of the winery be.

At the time I was working for the graphic design studio called ‘Icarus’ in Adelaide and had access to a great mentor in my boss David Robertson. The work was challenging but at the end of the day it was the client who told me what they needed to achieve for their company. When it’s your own company I think a little more complicated, so I set myself a brief just like a normal job, you have to start somewhere.

I researched our family history, I looked at winemaking and vineyards and processes. What struck me as the most powerful image and something that I kept going back to was the lion. The association of the Lion to my mother’s heritage in Veneto, Italy and my father’s maternal lineage became a logical solution. Once I had decided on the icon I researched again. This time it was a more specific search – I was looking for lions.

In my search I found some amazing images of real lions and stylized lions. I will try in the future to show you more images of the lions that I found and still look for when I am out and about, but to start with, one of my favourites is a lion from Singapore.

If you have any lions you would like to share I would love to seem them, please send them to me at Victoria@LouMirandaEstate.com.au