STAINED GLASS found in RIGA, LATVIA
UK STAINED GLASS NEWS (2006)
as seen by Tony Banfield
So,Riga is the new Prague ..... unfortunately with the same stag/hen-party
idiotic British alco-tourists threatening to spoil the serenity of what
is a truly delightful new jewel in the crown of the enlarged European
Community.
Opp:
Detail, Art Academy
note painted leaf-veins.
Nowadays the remaining Russians are still the majority of the population,
stuck there with their own languaage and culture, living almost separately
from the Latvians.
Opp:
Museum of Decorative Arts
One of a pair of panels about 60" x 30"
Many of the Latvians are the new travelling cheap-labour "gastarbeiters" of Europe......formerly poor Ireland (Ryanair's base,hence their new air-route) now has 50,000 Latvians (and 100,000 Poles!) registered as workers there, the minumum Irish wage being ten times the minimum in Latvia.
Opp:
Museum of Decorative Arts
A detail showing the excellent painting. Much Latvian decorative art is folk-themed.
Fused and leaded panel.
I found this terrific combo-technique panel on the internet, and it said
it was in the Dome.... and we were really disappointed to find it's no
longer on show.
Opp:
Apartment block transom
(7 feet wide)
The hall-doorway was open ...I just walked in....residents coming downstairs
passed this cheeky SG-tourist and just smiled ....friendly town!
Opp:
Riga Old Town window
Not a bad pic considering I took it at night, from the street, without
flash ,and enhanced a very dark image with Kodak Easyshare. No idea of
a date...could be modern.
Editor's note:
my favourite of the lot.
Ex-Soviet states are a great place to get bladdered....all the taxi drivers are ex-KGB..so you just fall drunk into the cab, and they already know
who you are and where you live.
Anyhoo...... enjoy!!!
Tony
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