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Tiber Island for Stefano


Tiber Island for Stefano
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Copyright: Silvio Sorcini (Silvio1953) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3351 W: 146 N: 3369] (29138)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-10-19
Categories: Architecture
Exposure: f/10.0, 1/400 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Theme(s): Photowalk in Rome [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2008-10-22 5:29
Viewed: 307
Points: 20
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note [Italian]
Tiber Island For Stefano Cerioni
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Tiber Island (Italian: Isola Tiberina, Latin: Insula Tiberina), is a boat-shaped island which has long been associated with healing. It is an ait, and the only island in the Tiber river which runs through Rome. The island is located in the southern bend of the Tiber, in Rome, Italy. It is approximately 270 m. long and 67 m. wide.

The island has been linked to the rest of Rome by two bridges since antiquity, and was once called Insula Inter-Duos-Pontes which means "the island between the two bridges". The Ponte Fabricio, the only original bridge in Rome, connects the island from the northeast to the Field of Mars in the rione Sant'Angelo (left bank). The Ponte Cestio, of which only some original parts survived, connects the island to Trastevere on the south (right bank).

There is a legend which says that after the fall of the hated tyrant Tarquinius Superbus (510 BC), the angry Romans threw his body into the Tiber. His body then settled onto the bottom where dirt and silt accumulated around it and eventually formed Tiber Island. Another version of the legend says that the people gathered up the wheat and grain of their despised ruler and threw it into the Tiber, where it eventually became the foundation of the island.

In ancient times, before Christianity spread through Rome, Tiber Island was avoided because of the negative stories associated with it. Only the worst criminals and the contagiously ill were condemned there. This however changed when a temple was built on the island.

Tiber Island was once the location of an ancient temple to Aesculapius, the Greek god of medicine and healing.

Accounts say that in 293 BC, there was a great plague in Rome. Upon consulting the Sibyl, the Roman Senate was instructed to build a temple to Aesculapius, the Greek god of healing, and sent a delegation to Epidauros to obtain a statue of the deity. The delegation went on board a ship to sail out and obtain a statue. Following their magical belief system, they obtained a snake from a temple and put in on board their ship. It immediately curled itself around the ship's mast and this was deemed as a good sign by them. Upon their return up the Tiber river, the snake slithered off the ship and swam onto the island. They believed that this was a sign from Aesculapius, a sign which meant that he wanted his temple to be built on that island.

This location may have been chosen for the Aesculapius Temple because it was separate from the rest of the city, which could help protect whoever was there from plague and illnesses.

The island eventually became so identified with the temple it supported that it was modeled to resemble a ship as a reminder of how it came to be. Travertine facing was added in mid or late first century by the banks to resemble a ship's prow and stern, and an obelisk was erected in the middle, symbolizing the vessel's mast. Walls were put around the island, and it came to resemble a Roman ship. Faint vestiges of Aesculapius' caduceus with an entwining snake is still visible on the "prow".

After the Temple of Aesculapius, shrines dedicated to other deities were also erected after the 2nd century BC, namely: [1]

* Jupiter Jurarius ("guarantor of oaths")
* Semo Sancus Dius Fidius, also a witnesser of oath
* Gaia, yet another witnesser of oath
* Faunus, boundary deity
* Veiovis, god of healing
* Tiberinus, river god
* Bellona, war goddess

In time, Catholics removed the obelisk and replaced it with a cross-topped column. After it was destroyed in 1867, Pope Pius IX had an aedicula, called "Spire", put in its place. This monument, designed by Ignazio Giacometti, is decorated with the statues of the four saints related to the island: St. Bartholomew, St. Paulinus of Nola, St. Francis and St. John. Parts of the obelisk are now in the museum in Naples.

In 998 Emperor Otto III had a new basilica, that of San Bartolomeo all'Isola, built over the Aesculapius temple's ruins on the eastern side (downstream end) of the island. [1] This was dedicated to his friend, the martyr Adalbert of Prague, the name of St. Bartholomew was added only later. In the early 20th century, prior to the Fascist regime's restoration of ancient place names, the Tiber Island was called the isola di S. Bartolomeo. [2] Likewise, for a time, Cestius' Bridge was called the Ponte S. Bartolomeo.

Although the Aesculapius temple now lies deep under San Bartolomeo, the island is still considered to be a place of healing because a hospital, founded in 1584, was built on the island and is still operating. It is staffed by the Hospitaller Order of St. John of God or "Fatebenefratelli".[3]The hospital was not built on the same spot as the temple, but stands on the western half of the island.
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Ciao Silvio,
immagine ben composta dove la ripresa in diagonale, conferisce una buona profondità di campo.
Ottima anche la nota (enciclopedica).
Purtroppo mi duole doverti dire che la foto risulta essere storta. Tende a salire sulla destra.

Ho pertanto fatto un WS dove risolvo il problema.
Fammi sapere cosa ne pensi.

Ti auguro una buona giornata.
Francesco

Ciao volpone. Questo POV fa impazzire. Apprezzo lo sforzo di Francesco ma ho i miei dubbi che sia storta. Ho l'impressione che chiesa e palazzo siano su due piani inclinati..... Per ora mi fermo qui. Attendo il parere degli altri.

Roberto

Ciao Silvio, ottima composizione ed ottimo POV. Splendidi i colori, molto bello il cielo striato ed il volo dei gabbiani. Bravo.
Ciao Giorgio.

Grazie Silvio per la dedica , bella prospettiva su S.Bartolomeo con il cielo pieno di gabbiani , benfatto .
Ciao Stefano.

Ciao Silvio,
veduta assolutamente classica, luce e colori bellissimi. Il fatto che penda un po' non mi disturba piu` di tanto.
So per esperienza cosa vuole dire scattare questo tipo di shots frontal-diagonali. E` praticamente impossibile tenere le verticali a 90 gradi. Photoshop? Raddrizzi da una parte e aumenti l'inclinazione dall'altra... L'occhio e la lente sono due cose differenti, tutto li`. Per quanto mi riguarda : un BRAVO, incondizionato.
Saluti carissimi, a presto.
Fulvio.

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  • Gerrit Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 4484 W: 90 N: 5861] (28304)
  • [2008-10-22 9:54]

Hi Silvio,
a beautiful place and very well shown here.
Well balanced composition and good colors.
Regards, Gerrit

Ciao Silvio
Ecco da dove veniva il gabbiano.
Ci offri un saggio di foto "classica" molto equilibrata:
L'isola ha un tono proprio di tutta Roma verace, non deturpata dallo stile Umbertino del cosi detto centro.
Buon documento..com. la nota.
Baddori

l'aria di Roma ti ha reso tonico e

Bella foto, i gabbiani in cielo la arricchiscono molto, bravo Silvio. Le "pendenze" son un effetto ottico a mio parere, la foto sale in entrambi i lati, distorsione da grandangolo, ma Francesco ha fatto un buon lavoro di raddrizzamento.
Ciao
Vinicio

Ciao Silvio,

non avevo mai visto una foto da questo POV. Splendida! Ottimi dettagli.

Complimenti!

Gio

Ciao Silvio,
come dici tu il cuore non si comanda.....
bella ripresa dell'isola con i gabbiani in volo.
Che cielo che vi ho fatto trovare eh?
Giorgio

Ciaoooooo Silviooooooooo,
Shall I say Italy's beautiful sky or Silvio's beautiful sky?:)
Beautiful light, beautiful view of the building. Would a little touch of a rotation of the frame be better?
Best Regards,
D:)

For my Stefano?Kiding....
The name of my husband is Stefan :)
Wonderful architectural shot and the birds add action
Thanks for note
Isabela

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