A Postcard A Day - Tuesday 9 February 2021 - T for triptych, socks and Yesterday

 Good morning lovely peeps,

I hope you are all well and ready to join the T-Party hosted by Elizabeth and Bleubeard. All you need to do is add a beverage or something drink related to your blog post and link up with Elizabeth.

I'm leaving my beverage for the moment and I'd like to start with my postcard of the day. It arrived a few days ago from Germany. I happen to like windows and doors, so I was very pleased with these beautiful windows. The building is called the Cranachhaus. As per usual I go and find out more... (info from Wikipedia)

Here is Weimar (in the middle, to the east):

 

The Cranachhaus is the left of two almost identical Renaissance houses on the east side of the market square in Weimar , directly opposite the town hall .

The painters Lucas Cranach the Elder and his son Lucas Cranach the Younger lived in the house in the 16th century . 

The striking house, richly decorated with columns, shell niches and round arch ornaments, is an important and listed Renaissance building with a floor area of ​​approx. 1500 m². The construction time of the Cranachhaus stretched from 1547 to 1549. It was built by the Renaissance master builder Nikolaus Gromann for the ducal chancellor Christian Brück , who married Barbara Cranach, the daughter of Lucas Cranach the Elder. Lucas Cranach the Elder Ä., One of the most important German painters of the Renaissance, spent the last year of his life in the Cranachhaus. The painter, who only came to Weimar in 1552 at the age of 80, founded a workshop in the house before his death and took on two students. Despite his age, he himself was still active and began the famous three-winged altar painting in his studio (the attic under the roof), which can be seen today in the Weimar city church of St. Peter and Paul ( Herder Church ). The work was not completed until 1555 by his son Lucas Cranach the Younger .

 The Weimar altarpiece is a prime example of the Reformation’s visual propaganda. It is composed of a number of different scenes (approved by Luther himself) that explain the meaning of Christ’s death and that combine to form an elaborate allegory of salvation. Cranach the Elder (second from right) and Luther (far right) stand next to John the Baptist (third from right) in the foreground of the panel. Luther points to a passage in the open bible, “The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us of all sins.” The blood spouting from Christ’s wound falls on Cranach’s head, thus offering a literal illustration of the biblical text.

(Info and the triptych photo below from  German History in Documents and Images (GHDI))

"This is an explosive political commentary: it indicts the Catholic Church and states no priest is needed to stand between the common man (Cranach) and God." 

(Lance Longwell of the Travel Addicts) A great link if you want to know more about Lucas Cranach and Weimar.

The Cranachhaus was badly damaged in the Second World War and was later rebuilt true to the original. There are other Renaissance houses in the vicinity of the house.

This is what the square looks like today:

Today the house is home to the theater in the vault , which mainly performs smaller plays by Goethe , Schiller and other classics. Otherwise it is no longer accessible to the public.

The stamp features the U-Bahn (Underground) station Marienplatz in Munich.

Translated:Always flow towards the good, real and positive.

That is my drink reference for today and it is also my motto this week as my husband is ill and we don't know what's wrong with him. We're seeing a doctor again today, in the meantime he is in bed with constant (abdominal) pain. Not nice. And I'm worried of course.

So I need to stay positive.

So I did something I rarely do: I watched a film. With hubby in bed, evenings are my own, so I found this film on Amazon Prime (My only source of films as we don't have tv).

It was a lovely 'feel good' film about an English singer who, after a freak cosmic event, finds out that nobody remembers the Beatles. So he records Beatles songs, passing them off as his own, and he becomes a super star. Of course he can't continue to live a lie because there is also a love story woven through. Anyway, I enjoyed it, and sang along with all the songs.

This is what we woke up to this morning.

This is what happens when the rain hits the windows with gale force winds. Luckily it only rains a few times a year.

I have also been knitting my socks. I bought a nice colour yarn and this is the first sock:

The second sock has been done up past the heel, so only the cuff to do. 

And I cooked a mean lasagna:

We had some for dinner:

The rest goes in the freezer.

That is it from me today. I'll keep you updated about my hubby. 

Wishing you all a very happy T-Day,

Stay safe and stay positive,

Hugs,

Lisca