The Venetic Sanctuary of Lagole no.4 by sandra46
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This image of the brook explains better than words why this area was believed to be sacred, especially by soldiers. The water is coloured by its chemical components, especially sulphur and is yellow, and in many points red, tho color of blood.
Ancient peoples as well as some modern ones, don't classify colors as we do. They distinguish a color not according to tone, but brilliance. Brilliance, moreover, is a clear sign of the sacred (being the 'color' of the sun) as it is in this case. Often this sacred light is represented conventionally with a halo around the head of saints and gods. Probably the Venetkens shared the same ideas about colors as the Greek, the Romans and the Celts, and their notion of 'red' involved a range from yellow to purple. This is true even if they used different colors in paintings and textile coloring, but had very few words to distinguish them. For example, ancient Greeks anr Romans didn't distinguish between green and blue with different words, while we Italians and the Russians have three (Italian) and four (Russian) different words for blue. The English language, on the contrary, has only one word for blue and is forced to add an adjective to distinguish between light and dark blue, or to borrow azure from the French. Of course, this doesn't mean the peoples using languages which don't have diffent words for different colors that they can't see them. They see them very well.
Thanks for your kind comments.
Comments (42)
1358
your world... through your fotos, show a brilliance and a vitality all their own.. a feeling of wonder and elation, of majesty and reverence..
Leije
Thanks for the infos about the colors words ! I wonder if there is iron in this water ?
Isabelle711
Truely gorgeous colors. :))))))) I love how the sun is sparkling on the natural colored water. :))))) Beautiful image. :)))) Most excellent capture my friend. :)))) Thank you for sharing all of the beauty you see. :))))) Carry A Sunshine Smile In Your Heart :))))) Sweet info. :))))))
ia-du-lin
great lighting, beautiful rusty colors, very nice photo!
Darkwish
Cool work, very well done!
icerian
Youer kind of art is document and its power. Thank you for another one.
Hendesse
Superb shot. Fantastic colors and light.
bakapo
so beautiful!
Cgaynor
Fantastic image-doesn't make me want to take a dip there.
Marinette
...ancora grazie per i tuoi preziosi commenti che fai ai tuoi lavori,è sempre molto interessante leggerli. :)) La foto è spettacolare.
KatesFriend
Well, you know us English. We borrow words from just about every other culture we had contact with. We are the Uncle Miltys of the spoken world. Interesting your remarks on colour as seen in the ancient world. Brilliance in particular is interesting because it is just as strongly regarded in Chinese culture. Strong vibrant colour is said to bring good luck and good fortune. The merchant signs in any Chinatown reflect this philosophy. Your photo is very captivating. People speak of rivers that ran as blood but to actually see one is very remarkable.
anahata.c
I remember your scintillating narrative on this, as well as the image. The photograph is lush and blood-like (yes), and one assumes---at least an amateur like myself would---that the color would absolutely conjure notions of the sacred because it looks like blood. Beautiful red/orange spread in the shot, and the light on the water makes it all the more radiant. Fascinating offering in this series, and I much appreciate your narrative, and could read much more if it were practical for you to share more (which of course it isn't). Another fine upload. As for your discussion of hue-terminology...I didn't know that ancient languages had a small number of terms for the colors they saw. It's fascinating. I studied some ancient languages (forgot them by now), but never paid attention to hue-terms. The predilection for light/brilliance would make a great deal of sense, given the role light plays in ancient faiths, both physically and metaphorically. But, as for the terms English or Italian or other languages have for hues: I never thought about it, and it's equally fascinating. I assume, if we look at enough languages, we'll find one language with more terms for one hue than another language; and perhaps vice versa, depending on the importance of a hue to any given culture. But among artists, there are many terms for hues, and they are used across cultures, from all I've studied in the past: So while "blue" is a term for the general public, an artist deals with blue, indigo, turquoise, light blue, cobalt blue, "midnight" blue, etc etc. Some names retain pigment or dye sources ("sepia" from a word for "cuttlefish," from whence sepias originally came, for example). So, at least among those who must work with hues, there have been for some time, many names for hues. What the ancient artist called these colors, I no longer know; but if my memory serves me (it's been a long time since I studied the history of pigments, dyes, etc), I think those terms go back a long way, in one form or another, if just to know what the artist should procure and to distinguish it from the other media they were using. That's just an aside, but of course artist's terminology only tangentially spills over to common terminology, so the 'many' wouldn't have all those terms for blue the way an artist would.