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Copyright: Stamatis Stamatis (stamatis) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 271 W: 11 N: 352] (2142)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-09-30
Categories: Nature
Camera: Sony Cybershot DSC-P41
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/1000 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Date Submitted: 2007-12-04 7:34
Viewed: 954
Favorites: 1 [view]
Points: 60
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
The centro storico is located on a hill between the Chienti and Potenza rivers. Together with the modern town, sprawling on the plain below, it has a population of about 41,000. There is a lift (elevator) connecting the two towns. The town is solid but unostentatious, being built between the 1600s and 1900s. In the central Piazza della Libertà is the Loggia dei Mercanti with two-tier arcades dating from the Renaissance.

There are a number of striking palazzi, mostly along Corso Matteotti, including Palazzo dei diamanti. Next to the Loggia dei Mercanti, Corso della Repubblica leads to Piazza Vittorio Veneto where, in the Palazzo Ricci, there is a museum and art gallery: the most important artpiece is the Madonna and Child by Carlo Crivelli. Another museum is the Museo delle Carrozze (carriages).

The cathedral dates form the 1100s.

There is a University (founded in 1290) and an Art school, two publishing houses (Liberilibri and Quodlibet) and therefore, Jazz clubs and the like.

The Palazzo Buonaccorsi was built 1700-1720 for Count Raimondo Buonaccorsi and his son Cardinal Simone Buonaccorsi using designs by Giovanni Battista Contini. The piano nobile is known for the Sala dell'Eneide, decorated with frescoes by the Rambaldi, Dardani, Solimena, and canvases by Garzi. Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole painted a canvas. Other submissions were from Gambarini, Balestra, Lazzarini, and Franceschini. See main entry at Palazzo Buonaccorsi.

Just north of the town, at the Villa Potenza, lie the remains of ancient Helvia Recina, a Roman settlement destroyed by the Visigoths.

Some way south of the town is the Romanesque church of San Claudio al Chienti: its unusual shape is due to one church being built on top of the remains of another.

Macerata Opera Festival

In July and August the Macerata Opera Festival is held in the 3,500 to 4,500 seat (depending upon each opera's sets) Arena Sferisterio. It is a huge neoclassical arena erected in the 1820s as a stadium for a form of handball by the architect Ireneo Aleandri. The orchestra pit is so wide that musicians at each end cannot hear each other. The monument “Alla Vittoria” at its gates, projected by Cesare Bazzani, dates from fascist times.

Following an extensive 1989 renovation of the 550-seat Teatro Lauro Rossii, since 1990 some operas are performed in that theatre, originally named the Teatro Condomini and built by Antonio Bibiena from 1767 and inaugurated in 1774 with Anfossi's Olimpiade. In 1872 it was renamed for the musician Lauro Rossi who was born in the town.

Other

The mathematician and humanist Matteo Ricci was born in Macerata. Ricci was the first western man to enter Beijing in 1601 and to translate into Chinese many Western classics like Euclid, Cicero and many others.

The Futurist painter and Bauhaus architect Ivo Pannaggi was born and died in Macerata (1901 to 1981) after living in Rome, Berlin and in Norway.

Fractions

Acquesalate, Acquevive, Botonto San Giacomo, Botonto Sant'Isidoro, Cervare, Cimarella, Cincinelli, Collevario, Consalvi, Corneto, Helvia Recina, Isola, Madonna del Monte, Montanello, Piediripa, Sforzacosta, Valle, Vallebona, Valteia, Villa Potenza.
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  • Paolo Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 4704 W: 146 N: 9096] (40001)
  • [2007-12-04 7:37]

Wonderful colours int hat one Stamatis, with fantastic contrast of light with the dark bad sky. Both the light and the saturation were well managed.
good quality too.
thanks, ciao

Hello Stamatis!
Wonderful photo!
Beautiful composition and colors!
Lovely clouds!
TFS, regards, Zorica

Hello, this is a nice photo. Always nice to combine stormy skies with sun coming out. You get a nice combination of colors. I like the shadows of the trees. Now I'd it place the central tree a little bit more to the right and also try to clone out the cable lines on the sky.
Good job.

Daniel

Yia su Stamati

poly omorfi photo me orea xromata kai
contrast

Dimitris Ni

Brilliant composition Stamatis - at 5mm? Awesome. The cable lines annoyed me a bit but overcame by brilliant contrsting colors and dramatic clods. Very well done.
Regards,
Jusni

Hello dear Stamatis,
Very nice capture; very good pov and nice compo. Nice contrasts of the yellow field against the dark sky. Amazing the shadows in the foreground.
TFS and best regards
MESUT ILGIM

hi Stam
nice capture, may be a decentered framing would be appropriate, but here the result is good with this great sky!

regards

This kind of colorfulness always impresses me, the contrast, the sharpness, the whole composition is beautiful and I'm imagining it painted on canvas. Why did u left the cables disturb the sky? I hope there is a reason. And the frame is a bit heavy for me, but these 2 things are minor compared to how I like the image itself.
Gordana

Ciao, Stamatis,
A very handsome view of the lonely olive tree pursued by the shadows of other adjacent trees.
Well, the elevator is a convenience for the local folks but quite a bore to the photographer's eye.
TFS
Valerka:)

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  • ifanik Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1687 W: 53 N: 2679] (15212)
  • [2007-12-04 8:59]

Geia soy Stamati
Entyposiaka pragmati ta xrwmata se ayto to topio
Poly omorfh fotografia
SYGXARTHRIA
NIKOS

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  • manada Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 735 W: 63 N: 1151] (5647)
  • [2007-12-04 10:22]

Geia sou Stamatis
Splendida composizione con tutti questi colori che solo la natura sa offrire con generosità.
Bravo a cogliere questo angolo di mondo e a proprorlo qui a TE, in una foto sola parecchi momenti!
Ciao, un caro saluto
Freddy

Ciao Stamatis ,
altro stupendo quadro con delle pennellate di colore bellissime , mi piacciono molto le nuvole quasi nere , pero' se toglievi i cavi....
Giorgio

Hi Stamatis,
I think we like the same colours ! A wonderful version of the lonely tree-theme, because the tree´s not alone, we can see the shadows of the others.
Cheers Christian

Ciao Stamatis, splendido contrasto tra il cielo pumbleo e l'ocra brillante della terra, eccellente il posizionamento dell'ulivo al centro della composizione, bravo, ciao Silvio

Bellissima composizione e un affascinante colore dorato per la terra. Mi paice molto il contrasto con il cielo nuvoloso.
Complimenti!
Carlo

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  • vero07 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 388 W: 58 N: 233] (1745)
  • [2007-12-04 11:46]

Hi Stamatis,
Another excellent shot with a great combination between the yellow field and the stormy sky. The electric lines are well hidden. Nice detail the inclusion of the tree.
Wonderful view.
Well done.

Stamatis geia sou

also beautiful than yesteday , the sky is very impresive and I like very much the lonely tree
TFS
Filika
Dominic

Stupenda composzione! colori, nuvole e ombre sono fantastici, un gran scatto !
Ciao
andrea

Hello Stamatis,
Composition and colors are excellent,
Best regards,
Tulay

Fantastic composition ,golden colours ,shadows , impressive sky , everything is great in your shot , many compliments.
Stefano.
_Smiles Later_

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  • azaf1 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1499 W: 120 N: 1999] (9307)
  • [2007-12-05 1:23]

Kala eh
Afto ki an einai apithano topio ki as lene oti thene!
H skliri fotoskiasi tou dinei alli diastasi kai ksekatharizoun oi xromatikes enotites kai ta sximata. Stamati, afto einai proodos
Pollous epainous
Argiris

Ciao Stamatis,

eccezionale il contrasto tra il campo illuminato e il cielo con le nuvole scure, ottima anche l'ombra in primo piano.

Complimenti

Gio

γεια σου Σταματη

εξαιρετικη φωτογραφια,
πολυ ωραιες χρωματικες εναλλαγες,
και η ελια στο κεντρο ειναι η δυνατη αντιθεση στο ολο σκηνικο

Φιλικα Ιωαννης

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  • kipli Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 128 W: 2 N: 193] (995)
  • [2007-12-14 5:06]

Questo è lo scatto che mi piace di più in questa meravigliosa serie.
Ogni elemento dell'inquadratura aiuta a valorizzare questo bellissimo ulivo.
Ottimo scatto!

Ciao
Andrea

nice one, I like it a lot.. the colours and framing are very good. Too bad about those cables
TFS
jorge

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  • Anna-- Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 626 W: 58 N: 267] (5171)
  • [2008-05-07 12:02]

Ciao Stamatis,
bel paesaggio con ottimi colori nonostante il cielo grigio. Bel gioco di luci e ombre.
Anna

Ciao Stamatis,
Sono affascinato da questa foto, meraviglioso l'ulivo solitario inserito in un contesto surreale accentuato da un cromatismo esasperato. L'effetto è fantastico.
A presto, Nino.

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  • Vasa Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 491 W: 0 N: 1298] (4529)
  • [2008-07-04 14:26]

Hello Stamatis,

nice, nice, nice, nice picture. I would like to sign this star in TE gallery. All compliments (for note also), dear friend,

Branko

Hello Stamatis,
Beautiful how you captured this small olive tree on the bright yellowbrown field between the dark shadows of the other trees and the dark bluegrey sky.
Well done, Paul

Decisamente un capolavoro! Più di così non dire...
Complimenti!
Marco

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  • Island (159)
  • [2008-09-11 14:21]

Ciao Stamatis!
Semplicemente sublime!
Marie-Anne

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