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Alcobaça Monastery.3 (Ines de Castro)


Alcobaça Monastery.3 (Ines de Castro)
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Copyright: jose mbrito (mbrito) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1324 W: 73 N: 1908] (7719)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007
Categories: Architecture, Artwork, Mood
Camera: Sony DSLR Alpha-100, Sony 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Zoom
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/50 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-03-16 17:26
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Points: 64
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
The Love Story of Pedro and Inês

In the 14th century, Afonso IV, king of Portugal, arranged the marriage of his son Pedro, the heir of the Portuguese throne, to Constança, a noble ladt from Castile (Spain of today).

To keep the princess company it came from Castile a beautiful girl, a maid of honour of noble lineage, whose name was Inês.

Inês de Castro lived in the court with Constança and Pedro, enjoying the daily leisure: reading, music and dance and the troubadour's poetry. Her elegance and charming beauty made Prince Pedro notice her, and soon after, the fire of love and passion set fire to Pedro'heart. The Prince's love folly became more and more evident, and the meetings of the two lovers more and more frequent.

Constança lived, each day, more and more distressed and sad and she finally died when giving birth to a child. The court became desolated but Pedro was free, at last, to fall into Inês'arms.

Afonso IV, Pedro's father, lived worried because of his son's love and banished Inês to an area near the frontier with Castile. However the strength of their love was so big that going against his father's will Pedro sent for Inês, and they started to live in Santa Clara – Coimbra. There their children were born and played happily among the tenderness of their parents, the green of the flowers and the blue of the sky.

Meanwhile in Lisbon, the prince Fernando, Pedro and Constança's son was being raised to sooner or later be King. What would happen if Inês, a Castilian (today Spanish) noblewoman, became the Queen? It would be possible that one of her sons would become the Portuguese King, even though it was necessary to kill the lawful heir of the throne.

The King Afonso IV decided to act. In the beginning of 1355, the Prince Pedro couldn't imagine what was going to be plotted against his beautiful and beloved Inês. So, he left with his friends to one more hunt, trough mountains and forests.

On 7 January, at night fall, Inês de Castro was taken by surprise by the arrival of the King and his Counselors. Surround by her three children, Inês begged the King for her life, having his grandchildren in mind. In spite of the lancinating appeals, when the moonlight appeared Inês was dead.

As he heard the news, Pedro enraged defied the King. The Queen promoted the peace. But, as he became King, Pedro didn't forget the hatred he had toards the murderers that coldly killed his Inês. He ordered them to be found, and cruelly they were killed: to one of them, his heart was taken off through his chest, to another the heart was taken off trough his back while Pedro ate abundantly. In the end Pedro had the couage to bite both hearts.

He ordered the construction of two sumptuous tombs in the Monastery of Alcobaça - one for himself and the other for Inês, that meanwhile he had removerd from Coimbra to Alcobaça in a funeral procession, followed by a crowd of common men that wept for Inês'misfortune; and by noblemen and clergymen that were forced to attend it.

It says the legend that Pedro crowned Inês as Queen and forced the Nobility to kiss her hand, after her death.

The photo I leave you today is from the tomb of D. Inês de Castro, the third photo of the «Monastery of Alcobaça» series. I hope you enjoy it.
JMB.
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Hola Jose, me parece una imagen hermosa, vibrante, una muy buena captura. excelente

Beauty capture. Great tribute to a very great History. I light the colours and specialy the beauty of the take. The angle is superb. The light play is great given the main position to Ines. Great photo. Congratulations.

My regards

Teresat

Hello Jose!
Great composition! Lovely story! Nice colors and lights! Bravo!
TFS, Best regards, Zorica

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  • trekks Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1610 W: 129 N: 2782] (10712)
  • [2008-03-17 1:04]

hi Jose

Very interesting sculpture piece. It looks like the sculpture is high and your shot from low angle. Any higher angle to shoot this?

TFS, bill

Wonderful story, Jose,
beautiful sad image
Lena

Hi Jose,
Beautiful and unfamiliar beauty. Different and creative sight. Impressive story.
Nice work. Congratulations...
Selahattin E

bom dia josè, this is indeed a wonderful photograph, but may i say the story is even better? i guess you have gathered by now that i have a soft spot for love stories of this intensity, and that ,m given a chance , of courlse i would side with DOna ines de Castro!!!
great tribute to history and two great characters
ciao
anna

A fabulous detail shot of this statue Josè,
You have pulled in some really atmospheric light here,
A masterfully seen and executed piece of work.
I love it. - Vincent

Hi Jose,
An extraordinary light that enhances the figures. A superb composition and a great note.
Congratulations,
Amadeu

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  • hester Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1306 W: 31 N: 1602] (9855)
  • [2008-03-17 12:25]

Hi Jose

Interesting POV on this work of art and I like the light and shadows. Excellent note

TFS

Karan

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  • Fons Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1326 W: 1 N: 144] (12770)
  • [2008-03-17 13:00]

picture with beautiful light good text

Hi, Jose!

Interesting note- moody picture. Excellent POV and tones. I like it!!

Kind regards

jazmin

Hi Jose, great detail from wonderful architecture, splendid light, very well done, ciao Silvio

Howdy Jose!
Amazing sculpture. Amazing art work. Wonderful light and shadow. Perfect capture. Very interesting story.
TFS!

Hi Jose,
I like the excellent exposure capturing the greatness artistic touch on the sculpture lit by beautiful ambient light. Very interesting note to go with this nice shot. Thank you for sharing,
Ramdan.
:) later

Hello Jose,
Beautiful story about Pedro and Ines and wonderful symbolic image presented.
The lighting here is so soft and subtle...
Very moody....
Thanks for sharing!
Izabela

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  • tibig Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 665 W: 26 N: 682] (7539)
  • [2008-03-18 12:46]

Good picture to illustrate the beautiful but a bit frightening legend.
Regards,
Tibi

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  • bizsu Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 228 W: 0 N: 114] (1468)
  • [2008-03-18 16:04]

Olá Jose,
Muito bonita. Sad Portuguese love story. The photo is very beautiful. The sepia suits the sculpture. Great work.
Parabéns!
Um abraco, Zsú

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  • starky Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 322 W: 2 N: 43] (2857)
  • [2008-03-18 16:49]

Hi Jose.Good idea,nice picture and nice sculpture.
Best regards, Bosko.

Bom dia Jose,
great and unusual point of view that give a new perspective to the monument, interesting note too, bravo Jose
kind regards
franco

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  • Janone Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3059 W: 97 N: 3327] (20653)
  • [2008-03-19 4:40]

Olá José.
Wow thats is a very interresting love story. The picture tell a lot of it too.
How crual they where those days.
Thanks for writing this story. Good historical note.
Best regards from Jan

Excellent take Jose! I love the haze effect and the neutral colors, together they give the picture a dream-like effect. The composition is also very good, with good detail-clarity and lighting.
TFS!
Best regards!
Diana

Great point of view....
The colors and tones are very attractives....
Superb...
Claude

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  • gnada Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2084 W: 60 N: 3032] (15815)
  • [2008-04-06 20:24]

Hi Jose...
Fantastic capture of the "Alcobaça Monastery.3"
Great composition! Lovely story. - Nice tribute to history...
Thank you for sharing,
Rgd, George

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  • Maite Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 236 W: 3 N: 204] (1309)
  • [2008-05-01 10:21]

Hello Jose
You've got an excellent and very interesting collection of pictures in your gallery. I like this one very much with such very good POV, framing, contrast and composition.
Congratulations and TFS
Regards
Maite

Hi Jose,

Great shot! The lighting is perfect and it almost has a 'glamour effect'. Nice soft tones and great sharpness.
The POV also works well.

TFS Greetings Simone

Hi Jose,
Interesting capture ... a mysterious scene. Very good descriptive notes and interesting too. Well captured and composed with good use of low lighting. Well done!
Cheers,
Renier

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  • Ber Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Silver Note Writer [C: 255 W: 46 N: 46] (3438)
  • [2008-06-20 6:45]
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Hello Jose!
Great composition! Very moody picture! Impressive story.
regards

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  • lele Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 736 W: 51 N: 947] (7578)
  • [2008-07-10 12:59]

ciao jose.....complimenti per il lavoro...bella luce e contrasto....ottimo soggetto..belli i dettagli...
lele

Olá josé!

Ja tive a oportunidade de ir ao Mosteiro de Alcobaça e ficar maravilhado com tanta beleza.
Acho que retratou bem a historia de ines e pedro, parabéns! ;) a nota e os detalhes da foto estão realmente fantasticos!
Tfs amigo,

grande abraço.
Marco

Bom dia Master
Great capture
Meaningful steatue and note
Take care
Burak

What a story, what a plot. Sad.......

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