#hermitages

The Hermitage of St Maria of the Avvocatella near Naples

Artist: Eugene von Guerard (Austrian, 1811-1901)

Date: 1849

Medium: Oil on canvas

"I am Thine, and born for Thee" — The birth of St. Teresa | "On Wednesday, on the twenty-eighth day of March, of the year 1515, was born my daughter Teresa, at five o’clock in the morning, half an hour before or after"

Take, O Lord, my loving heart:See, I yield it to Thee whole,With my body, life, and soulAnd my nature’s every part.Sweetest Spouse, my Life Thou art;I have given myself to Thee:What wilt Thou have done with me?I am Thine, and born for Thee:What wilt Thou have done with me?SAINT TERESA OF AVILAVuestra soy, para Vos nací (excerpt)Translated by E. Allison Peers On Wednesday, on the twenty-eighth…

“I am Thine, and born for Thee” — The birth of St. Teresa

Take, O Lord, my loving heart:See, I yield it to Thee whole,With my body, life, and soulAnd my nature’s every part.Sweetest Spouse, my Life Thou art;I have given myself to Thee:What wilt Thou have done with me?I am Thine, and born for Thee:What wilt Thou have done with me?SAINT TERESA OF AVILAVuestra soy, para Vos nací (excerpt)Translated by E. Allison Peers On Wednesday, on the twenty-eighth…

Ermita de Piedad, cerca de Moratinos, Prov. Palencia, Spain, 2001.

The Glencomeragh Hermitages are part of a wider complex including an old country house. The hermitages are small wooden houses with a miniature courtyard encased in glass at the centre of the house.

dgon pa bzung ba - to dwell in hermitages [RY]

At Brocklesby Park, the Lincolnshire seat of the Pelham family, the hermitage (above) is of the type known as a root house. What seems to be the original furniture survives inside, including a table made from a bole (part of a tree trunk), a rustic hermit’s chair formed from branches, and four visitors’ chairs carved out of solid tree trunks.

This is the last of our intriguing hermitage pictures (from The Hermit in the Garden: Imperial Rome to Ornamental Gnome) which we've been sharing this week, during the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, to celebrate the lifting of their usual ban on garden gnomes. The book's author Gordon Campbell argues that it’s possible that gnomes came to occupy the cultural void occasioned by the demise of the ornamental hermit. The hermit and the gnome are both human figures in the garden, and figures with historical and mythical resonances.