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Islesia del Salvador ⋆ Seville ⋆ Spain
▫ built 1679-1712
▫ this is not the main dome; it looks like trompe-l'oeil
▫ Leonardo de Figueroa and others, architects
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Gray's Inn Square was formed by joining two older courts between 1685 and 1693. The three terraced sets of chambers and a gatehouse are built of brown brick with red brick dressings, and have brick bands between floors. The stone doorcases give access to the sets of chambers and have broken segmental pediments carried by consoles. The balls over the doors are inscribed 'with figures [=numerals] for distinction'. Gray's Inn Square was much repaired after War damage.
12 and 14, Rugby Street, Camden, are two in a terrace of four houses dating from around 1721. They are of brown brick with red brick dressings, and some evidence of tuck pointing, as well as later patching in multi-coloured stock brick at the upper storeys. These houses, like their companions, are of four storeys with a basement and three windows wide. At No. 14 (on the left), the windows have gauged, segmental brick arches with recessed sashes. At No. 12 (on the right), the windows have gauged, flat brick arches with recessed sashes. The doorcase at No. 14 (on the left) has a hood carried on carved brackets, but has lost its wooden pilasters, architrave and soffitt, probably when the door was altered and a new overlight inserted, although there always appears to have been a difference of floor level between these two houses. The door at No. 14 has six fielded panels with a rectangular overlight above. The wooden doorcase at No. 12 (on the right) has fluted Doric pilasters, an architrave which is swept up at the centre, and a hood with enriched mouldings carried on carved brackets with a panelled soffitt. Its door has two flat panels and four fielded ones, with a radial fanlight above.
27, Fournier Street, London, was built for Peter Bourdon, an eminent silk-weaver, in 1725. His initials are on a rainwater-head on the front of the building. The area around Christ Church, Spitalfields, previously a tenter ground and market garden, was bought by two lawyers, Charles Wood of Lincoln's Inn and Simon Michell of the Middle Temple, and developed between 1718 and 1728 as what has become known as the Wood-Mitchell estate. The lease was granted by Wood and Michell on 14 December 1725 when the house was said to have been lately built by Bourdon. The witness was William Tayler of Spitalfields, carpenter. Bourdon was recorded as occupant of the house in 1743 and 1750. He was included in a list of Eminent Merchants and Traders in London in 1744, and in the following year he undertook to raise a body of twenty-six workmen to resist the Young Pretender. In 1759 the house was occupied by Obadiah Agace, a weaver of silk mixed with worsted. No. 27 is constructed of yellow brick with red brick dressings. It is five windows wide, and has three storeys with basement and attic. The sash windows at first and second floors are in flush frames and have segmental arches of rubbed red brick with stone keystones. The windows at ground-floor level are recessed. The wooden doorcase has carved brackets, a panelled soffit to the hood and curved and fluted Doric pilasters thart are much broader than the brackets they support. From 1829 to 1946 this house was used as the London Dispensary.
Bust of the founder of Versailles by Antoine Coysevox
In 1701 Louis XIV moved his bedchamber into the drawing room lying east-west in the Palace, facing the rising sun. The three glazed doors into the Hall of Mirrors at the back were blocked off so as to form an alcove for the bed, with a carved and gilded wood balustrade separating the alcove from the rest of the chamber and over the bed a stucco allegory of France watching over the King in his slumber by Nicolas Coustou. It was in this chamber, become the visible sanctuary of the monarchy, that Louis XIV lunched en petit couvert (in relative privacy) and the ceremonies of the King’s rising and retiring took place every day. It was likewise in this chamber that Louis XIV died on 1 September 1715 after reigning for 72 years.
The chamber’s opulent decor of gold and silver brocade on a crimson ground forms a backdrop to paintings chosen by Louis XIV: The Four Evangelists and Paying Caesar’s Taxes by Le Valentin and Giovanni Lanfranco on the upper walls, Saint John the Baptist by Giovanni Battista Caracciolo above the door, Mary Magdalene by Le Dominiquin and two portraits of Antoon Van Dyck. On the two mantelpieces installed during the reign of Louis XV stand a bust of Louis XIV by Antoine Coysevox and a barometer clock and four candelabra that belonged to the Comte de Provence, Louis XVI’s brother.
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The Palace of Versailles was created at the instruction of Louis XIV, and was the centre of French government and power from 1682, when Louis XIV moved from Paris, until Louis XVI and the royal family was forced to return to the capital in 1789.
The chateau is built around a hunting lodge established by by Louis XIII, and was created in four phases: 1664–68, 1669–72, 1678–84 and 1699–1710, by the architects Le Vau, Le Nôtre, and Le Brun.
Die Heidecksburg in Rudolstadt ist das prachtvollste Barockschloss des 18. Jahrhunderts im Freistaat Thüringen.Im hohen Mittelalter noch Besitztum der Grafen von Orlamünde, erwarben im Jahr 1340 die Schwarzburger Grafen die Burg. Von 1574—1918 war sie Residenz der Grafen und späteren Fürsten von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.
Heidecksburg palace in Rudolstadt is the most magnificent palace from the 18th century in the Free State of Thuringia.The counts of Schwarzburg acquired the palace during the time of the High Middle Ages in 1340 when it was still property of the counts of Orlamuende. From 1574 to 1918 the palace was the residence of the counts and later princes of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.
31, Fournier Street, London, is an early eighteenth-century house of 1725. The area around Christ Church, Spitalfields, previously a tenter ground and market garden, was bought by two lawyers, Charles Wood of Lincoln's Inn and Simon Michell of the Middle Temple, and developed between 1718 and 1728 as what has become known as the Wood-Mitchell estate. No. 31 was built in 1725 by Samuel Worrall, a carpenter, under a ninety-eight-year lease granted by Wood and Michell to him on the same day as the lease of No. 27 (14 December 1725). The lease of No. 31 was witnessed by Marmaduke Smith and William Taylor, both carpenters. It is constructed of brown brick with red brick dressings. It is three windows wide, and has three storeys with basement and attic. The sash windows are in flush frames and have segmental arches of rubbed red brick with stone keystones. The wooden doorcase has fluted pilasters (seen on the left) and an architrave swept up at the centre to a dentilled cornice (not visible here).
Iglesia de San Luis de los Franceses, Seville
Built 1699-1730 for the Jesuits by architect Leonardo de Figueroa
naming this new church for St. Louis, King Louis IX of France, appears to have been a calculated move by the Jesuits to curry favor with the new Bourbon monarchy installed in Spain in 1700. The new King, Philip V, of the house of Bourbon) was a direct male line descendant of King Louis IX.
Philip V ascended the throne as a descendant of the daughters of Philip IV and Philip III, both having married French kings.
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The interior of Fulda Cathedral reveals the grandeur of Baroque architecture in light and shadow.
From the rows of carved wooden pews, the eye is drawn forward to the richly decorated altar and pulpit, framed by white arches and sculpted details. Frescoes and statues highlight the interplay of faith and artistry, while soft daylight from above bathes the space in a serene atmosphere.
A moment of stillness inside one of Germany’s most significant Baroque churches.
Perspective view French Baroque castle (Est.1658) and forecourt platform surrounded by a medieval moat. The moat is the only remain of a defensive type of castle replaced by the new one.
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Vaux-le-Vicomte (Est.1658) - a baroque French château on a 33 hectares (100 acres) estate with formal gardens along a three-kilometer axis. Built between 1658 to 1661 as a symbol of power and influence and intended to reflect the grandeur of Nicolas Fouquet, Marquis de Belle Île, Viscount of Melun and Vaux, the superintendent of finances of Louis XIV.
The château was an influential work of architecture in mid-17th-century Europe. The architect Louis Le Vau, the landscape architect André le Nôtre, and the painter-decorator Charles Le Brun worked together on this large-scale project. This marked the beginning of the "Louis XIV style" combining architecture, interior design and landscape design. Their next following project was to build Versailles.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaux-le-Vicomte
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Valletta Harbour. Beautiful place and a huge very deep water harbour. You can see why us British used is as a base for the HQ for the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet back in the day
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Newel post with basket of fruit and flowers from the staircase at Ham House. The core of the house was built by Thomas Vavasour, a naval captain, between 1608 and 1610. It had an H-plan and was of standard Jacobean type, built of brick with stone dressings, but was much altered in the later seventeenth century. In 1626 the house was acquired by William Murray, a courtier close to Charles I, who modernised it in 1637-39. The staircase and suite of first floor rooms leading from it date from this period (the Round Gallery, North Drawing Room, Long Gallery and Green Closet). The design and furnishing of these rooms was directed by Franz Cleyn, the Danish artist who worked for Charles I. The woodwork of the hall and staircase is decorated with panels containing trophies of arms, such as halbards, muskets and blunderbusses. The newel posts have baskets of fruit. The doorcases with broken pediments and busts are by the joiner, Thomas Carter. Murray supported the king during the Civil War and was created earl of Dysart in 1651 but died in 1655 before the Restoration. Following the death of Murray's wife, Katherine Bruce, in 1649, the house passed to their eldest daughter, Elizabeth Dysart, who had married Sir Lionel Tollemache in 1648. After his death in 1669 she married John Maitland, 2nd earl of Lauderdale, a member of Charles II's cabal, and Secretary of State for Scotland. Between 1672 and 1674 they employed the gentleman architect Sir William Samwell to add a new south front to Ham with matching suites of apartments for themselves on the ground floor and a state apartment for Catherine of Braganza on the floor above.
The Formal Gardens of Blenheim Palace owe much to the 9th Duke of Marlborough who, in the 1920’s, with the help of the French landscape architect Achille Duchêne, redesigned the previously uninspiring gardens to provide the Palace with the formal majestic setting that visitors see today.
The Old Town of Salzburg, Austria has been inscribed on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites since 1996. In recognizing it as a Heritage Center UNESCO pointed to several factors:
1) "Salzburg played a crucial role in the interchange between Italian and German cultures, resulting in a flowering of the two cultures and a long-lasting exchange between them."
2) "Salzburg is an exceptionally important example of a European ecclesiastical city-state, with a remarkable number of high-quality buildings, both secular and ecclesiastical, from periods ranging from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century"
3) Salzburg is noteworthy for its associations with the arts, and in particular with music, in the person of its famous son, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
The British Columbia Parliament Building was completed in 1897. It is a beautiful example of the Baroque and Romanesque Revival styles of architecture.
Salzburger Dom (Salzburg Cathedral), in Altstadt the historic centre of Salzburg, Austria.
St Rupert the 1st Bishop of Salzburg founded the church in 774 on the remnants of a Roman town Juvavu. The Cathedral is dedicated to him and to the St Virgil the Irish born 2nd Bishop of Salzburg.
The city was set on fire in 1167 by the Counts of Plain, followers of the emperor Friedrick Barbarossa, also destroying the cathedral. The cathedral was rebuilt ten years later under the rule of Archbishop Conrad III of Wittelsbach and became more beautiful, more magnificent and more impressive than ever, making it the mightiest Romanesque cathedral north of the Alps, its size even surpassing the emperor's cathedral in Speyer.
Another fire raged and destroyed large sections of the cathedral in 1598. This gave Archbishop Wolf Dietrich the opportunity to tear down the damaged cathedral and to make plans for its reconstruction. The Salzburg residents were extremely outraged at the archbishop's ruthless actions.
Not only were valuable sculptures and gravestones of the archbishops destroyed but the cathedral cemetery ploughed under and the bones of the dead dumped on the debris.
After Wolf Dietrich's death the architect Santino Solari was commissioned by Archbishop Markus Sittikus to rebuild the Cathedral, which became the first early Baroque church north of the Alps.
As the archbishop’s church, it’s the most important out of over 20 churches in the old town. It’s the burial spot of most archbishops, the place where Mozart was baptized, one of only a few churches equipped with five organs, and the first baroque church in Austria.
Information sources:
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Canted bay with sash windows on the north front of Ham House. The core of the house was built by Thomas Vavasour, a naval captain, between 1608 and 1610. It had an H-plan and was of standard Jacobean type, built of brick with stone dressings, but was much altered in the later seventeenth century. In 1626 the house was acquired by William Murray, a courtier close to Charles I, who modernised it in 1637-39. Murray supported the king during the Civil War and was created earl of Dysart in 1651 but died in 1655 before the Restoration. Following the death of Murray's wife, Katherine Bruce, in 1649, the house passed to their eldest daughter, Elizabeth Dysart, who had married Sir Lionel Tollemache in 1648. After his death in 1669 she married John Maitland, 2nd earl of Lauderdale, a member of Charles II's cabal, and Secretary of State for Scotland. Between 1672 and 1674 they employed the gentleman architect Sir William Samwell to add a new south front to Ham with matching suites of apartments for themselves on the ground floor and a state apartment for Catherine of Braganza on the floor above. Some of Vavasour's house remains visible on the north front. The lead busts in oval niches below the first-floor windows on this front were inserted c.1800 having been removed from the forecourt wall. Some of the windows on the north front retain their stone mullions and transoms. The modillion cornice replaced the original gables. The canted bays (that replaced earlier turrets ending with ogee caps) on this front have sash windows, as do those on the south front (1672-74) which has sashes dating from the 1730s.
Blenheim Palace is home to the 11th Duke and Duchess of Marlborough and the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill.
Set in 2100 acres of beautiful parkland landscaped by ‘Capability’ Brown, the magnificent Palace is surrounded by sweeping lawns, award-winning formal gardens and the great Lake, offering a unforgettable day out for all.
The Old Royal Naval College is the architectural centrepiece of Maritime Greenwich (London, UK).
Listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The buildings were originally constructed to serve as the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, now generally known as Greenwich Hospital, which was designed by Christopher Wren, and built between 1696 and 1712.
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Colegio de San Ignacio de Loyola Vizcaínas: established in the mid 18th century in a Baroque building that occupies an entire city block in the historic center of Mexico City. The building occupies an entire city block bordered by Las Vizcaínas, Manuel Aldaco and San Ignacio Streets with the Plaza de Vizcaínas to the south. Along the east, west and south sides, the ground level was a series of compartments which opened to the street but not to the interior. These compartments were rented as living quarters and as commercial spaces. These were planned to serve two functions. First they provided rental income to the school and they also offered a barrier on this level between the busy streets and the girls and women inside. The building was designed this way because at the time seclusion was considered an integral part of the formation of women. However, almost all of these compartments are now closed.
Mexico City ● Ciudad de México
27 January 2014
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Visit to the Austrian National Library on Wednesday May 21st, 2025 during the Joint Meeting Vienna. We went as a group before our gala dinner. The library in German is Österreichische Nationalbibliothek and is located at Josefsplatz 1, 1015 Wien. This is truly one of the most stunning libraries I have ever visited. The public area is the State Hall, built in the Baroque style in the 18th century by Emperor Charles the VI whose statue sits in the middle of the space.
Chiesa del Gesù
built 1590 to 1636 by the Jesuits, vaults restored after World War II
Palermo, Italy
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Looking over St Mark's Basin towards St Mark's Square from San Giorgio Maggiore.
The Palazzo Ducale (Doge’s Palace) is the most beautiful building in Venice, befitting its status as the centuries-long home of the Doges, rulers of the Venetian Republic.
The political and judicial hub of the empire, it was both the residence of the Doge – the head of state of the Republic – and where the offices of state were located, all the matters of empire being tended to within its walls.
The building in its present state dates back to 1340AD, when a grand hall for the Great Council was built, with the Veneto-Gothic façade surviving fires over the following centuries. The faced runs from the adjoining Basilica di San Marco, along the Piazetta and to the waterfront on St Mark’s Basin.
The building is still home to various offices of city government, but is mainly a grand tourist attraction, with visitors queuing from the early hours of the morning to take a wondrous tour through many of the state rooms and take a glimpse at the amazing treasures within.
The campanile (bell tower) is the tallest structure in Venice, topping out at 99m high and offering grand views of the entire city – though, bizarrely, not a single canal.
The 10th century original, which was both a bell tower and a lighthouse, was modified over subsequent centuries, with Bartolomeo Bon carrying out extensive work between 1511 and 1514, when the spire and gilded angel were added.
The structure was not particularly sound, however, and it collapsed entirely on July 14, 1902, the area having been cleared of people and the only victim being the custodian’s cat. It was rebuilt brick for brick a decade later and is now a popular attraction for the many thousands of tourists who swarm to St Mark’s Square every day.
The white stone edifice of Santa Maria della Salute – the Salute – was built in the 17th century by a Venetian government who prayed for an end to plague and had their prayers answered.
The Senate had decreed a church to honour the Virgin Mary would be built and they honoured their promise, commissioning Baldassare Longhena to construct the present building.
It took 50 years to erect and is a masterpiece of baroque architecture, owing much to Andrea Palladio. The octagonal structure, with a great dome rising from the base, contains several altars and works of art by painters such as Titian.
Every year on November 21 – the feast of the Presentation of the Virgin – the church is the home of great celebrations and prayers for health and wellness.
Castle chamber of Maréchal de Villars, not as decorated like the other rooms along the longitudinal corridor on the first floor that leads to several rooms. Fouquet's apartment, courtyard side, and his wife's garden side, twelve meters thick, with an antechamber, a bedroom (main room of an apartment where the relatives have free access, it is the place of sociability where they sleep, receive guests, take meals and study.
Currently, Ms. Fouquet's room is divided into two rooms, a Louis XV cabinet and a Louis XV bedroom. The right part of the first floor is only briefly worked on.
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Vaux-le-Vicomte (Est.1658) - a baroque French château on a 33 hectares (100 acres) estate with formal gardens along a three-kilometer axis. Built between 1658 to 1661 as a symbol of power and influence and intended to reflect the grandeur of Nicolas Fouquet, Marquis de Belle Île, Viscount of Melun and Vaux, the superintendent of finances of Louis XIV.
The château was an influential work of architecture in mid-17th-century Europe. The architect Louis Le Vau, the landscape architect André le Nôtre, and the painter-decorator Charles Le Brun worked together on this large-scale project. This marked the beginning of the "Louis XIV style" combining architecture, interior design and landscape design. Their next following project was to build Versailles.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaux-le-Vicomte
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The church of Santa Maria della Salute rises high over the Grand Canal in Venice, seen from the top of the Campanile in St Mark's Square.
The white stone edifice of Santa Maria della Salute – the Salute – was built in the 17th century by a Venetian government who prayed for an end to plague and had their prayers answered.
The Senate had decreed a church to honour the Virgin Mary would be built and they honoured their promise, commissioning Baldassare Longhena to construct the present building.
It took 50 years to erect and is a masterpiece of baroque architecture, owing much to Andrea Palladio. The octagonal structure, with a great dome rising from the base, contains several altars and works of art by painters such as Titian.
Every year on November 21 – the feast of the Presentation of the Virgin – the church is the home of great celebrations and prayers for health and wellness.
The Grand Canal (Il Canal Grande or the Canalazzo) is the main waterway in Venice, dividing the city in two and crossed by only four bridges in its entire near-four kilometre length.
It is much wider than any of the other canals in Venice – between 30m and 70m across – but less than 5m deep and is lined with a number of palaces and churches.
The number one and number two vaporetto services take both locals and (mainly) tourists along its length, allowing them the chance to admire the sights from the water.
Kaplica Hochberga - Hochberg Chapel - Hochbergkapelle
Part of Church of saint Vincent , Greek Catholic cathedral.
Location: pl. Nankiera 15, Old Town, Wrocław, Poland
Built: 1723-1728
Architect: Christoph Hackner
Renovation: 2000-2013
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19, Fournier Street, London, is an early eighteenth-century house of 1725. The area around Christ Church, Spitalfields, previously a tenter ground and market garden, was bought by two lawyers, Charles Wood of Lincoln's Inn and Simon Michell of the Middle Temple, and developed between 1718 and 1728 as what has become known as the Wood-Mitchell estate. The lease of No. 19 was granted by Wood and Michell on 30 March 1725 to William Tayler, joiner, witnessed by Marmaduke Smith of Princes (Princelet) Street, carpenter. The house was described as newly built by the lessee. No. 19 has a rebuilt yellow brick front with red brick dressings. It is three windows wide, and has three storeys with basement and attic. The sash windows are in flush frames and have segmental arches of rubbed red brick. There are external shutters at ground-floor level. The wooden doorcase has carved brackets, a panelled soffit to the hood and fluted pilasters that are much broader than the brackets they support. The listing document of 1969 describes a 'plain stucco surround to entrance with cornice above', so the doorcase is presumably largely reconstructed on the model provided by Nos 17 and 27.
Baroque Painted Hall, part of Greenwich Hospital (London, UK).
Painted by Sir James Thornhill.
The Old Royal Naval College is the architectural centrepiece of Maritime Greenwich (London, UK).
Listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The buildings were originally constructed to serve as the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, now generally known as Greenwich Hospital, which was designed by Christopher Wren, and built between 1696 and 1712.
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