October 2024
Snaps from October 2024, including a trip to Frankfurtꜛ where I visited the Martin Parr exhibitionꜛ at the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt. I was in Frankfurt for a conferenceꜛ and took a late train back to Cologne, which gave me the chance to see the exhibition. It was a retrospective of his early black and white photos. The exhibition was very well curated and I also enjoyed the photographs on display from local photographers.
I also visited the Paulskirche, the Ikonenmuseum, the Liebighaus, the Archaeological Museum, and the Jewish Museum. Seems like a busy schedule, but I had fun in all these places and experienced Frankfurt as a very international and diverse city.
After Frankfurt, I strayed around Cologne on several occasions, visiting some of the city’s oldest churches.
Some images are used and further explained in the following blog posts:
- St. Georg: Cologne’s ‘Ravenna on the Rhine’
- St. Kunibert: A symbol of Romanesque grandeur
- St. Maria in Lyskirchen: A treasure of medieval frescoes in Cologne
- Cologne’s Historical City Hall
- Kolumba Museum: Peter Zumthor’s vision of light, space, and history
- The role of icons in Orthodox believes
- Shestodnev icons: The six-day work of God
- How the Jewish community of Frankfurt reflects Europe’s complex Jewish history
- Nida: A glimpse into Roman provincial life
- The cult of Mithras and Roman mystery religions: Christianity in a spiritual melting pot
- Ancient sculptures in color: Revisiting Greek and Roman polychromy
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