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Rotunda of Mosta, The Church of the Assumption of Our Lady or Rotunda of St Marija Assunta. Sometimes called The Mosta Dome is a church in Malta. A miracle happened her during World War 2 when a German 500lb bomb smashed through the roof and into church floor in the middle of 300 worshipers. The bomb did not explode and nobody was killed or seriously injured. Beautiful building.
The Zwinger - Der Dresdner Zwinger
Category: museum complex
Location: Dresden, Germany
Built: 1710-1728
Architect: Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann
Architectural style: late baroque/Rococo
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The Catholic Church of the Royal Court of Saxony - Katholische Hofkirche
Location: Dresden, Germany
Built: 1739-1751
Architect: Gaetano Chiaveri
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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
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
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
Decorative plaster turnip from a ceiling at Wentworth Castle, Yorkshire. Wentworth Castle was built by Thomas Wentworth, 3rd Lord Raby, who after 1711 became 1st earl of Strafford (of the second creation). Raby purchased Stainborough Park in 1708 which he renamed Wentworth Castle in 1731. The estate was chosen because it was only six miles away from Wentworth Woodehouse which Raby considered he should have inherited instead of Thomas Watson. The enlargement and renaming of Stainborough was therefore done in a spirit of bitter rivalry and as a bid for the extinct earldom of Strafford (which Raby eventually obtained). The house was enlarged with a new east range designed by Johann de Bodt between 1710 and 1720, although his plans were modified by James Gibbs and William Thornton, the Yorkshire carpenter and builder. The internal plasterwork has been attributed to the stuccatori Giuseppe Artari and Giovanni Bagutti but their names do not appear in the Strafford papers, and Francesco Vassalli has been proposed instead.
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
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
Modillion eaves cornice and stone quoins 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. 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 the windows on the north front retain their stone mullions and transoms. The modillion cornice (seen here) 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.
upper left: Emperor Leopold I
lower right: his son Emperor Charles VI (father of Empress Maria Theresa) - both patrons of the educational institution in this building
Aula Leopoldina - the podium
the main building (Uniwersytet Wrocławski - gmach główny) of what is now Wroclaw University
this room miraculously came through the siege of Breslau (1946) unscathed; Other parts of the building were badly damaged.
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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
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
Wentworth Woodhouse was largely the creation of Thomas Watson-Wentworth, Lord Malton from 1728, earl of Malton from 1734, and marquess of Rockingham from 1746. The building was developed in two main phases. The first, the west side, dates from between 1724 and 1728 and is constructed of brick. The design has been attributed to William Thornton, even though he died as early as 1722, because it makes use of ideas from Rossi's 'Studio di architettura civile' (1702), a source used in other buildings by Thornton, including Beningbrough Hall.
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
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
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
Wentworth Woodhouse was largely the creation of Thomas Watson-Wentworth, Lord Malton from 1728, earl of Malton from 1734, and marquess of Rockingham from 1746. The building was developed in two main phases. The first, the west side, dates from between 1724 and 1728 and is constructed of brick. The design has been attributed to William Thornton, even though he died as early as 1722, because it makes use of ideas from Rossi's 'Studio di architettura civile' (1702), a source used in other buildings by Thornton, including Beningbrough Hall. (The second phase was focussed on the east side - which is gigantic in scale - dating from between 1731 and 1751 and faced in stone. It was begun by Ralph Tunnicliffe and completed by Henry Flitcroft). The earlier west front is brick in Flemish bond. The centre section is faced with ashlar sandstone, which is also used for the dressings. This front is two storeys high with single storey wings above half-basements. The basement windows have arched and rusticated surrounds and those at ground-floor level have architraves with projecting voussoirs (wedge-shaped stones forming an arch).
The Way of St. James Pilgrimage Route was one of the most important pilgrimage routes in Christendom during the Middle Ages. Political unrest and plague led to a decline in the flow of pilgrims during the 16th Century and by 1985 only 690 pilgrims were recorded as having completed the Pilgrimage.
With UNESCO declaring Santiago de Compostela's Old Town a World Heritage Site in 1985, and the Way of St. James Routes a World Heritage Site in 1987, the number of pilgrims has increased dramatically. Nearly 200,000 pilgrims registered as completing a route in 2012.
While I was visiting there seemed to be an endless stream of pilgrims arriving, getting their picture taken at the zero marker in front of the Cathedral, and then working their way inside.
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
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
Chiesa del Gesù, Palermo, Italy
church built by the Jesuits, 1590-1636; every wall surface inside covered with sculpture, pietre dure, stucco, and various color marbles
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The frontispiece of the Board Room for Officers of the Ordnance Board at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. The building is attributed to Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor. It is datable to 1718-20 and was extended around 1741. Constructed in red brick with stone windowsills and a slate hipped roof. The plan is one room deep. The front is symmetrical with a frontispiece that has heavy rusticated piers, or banded jambs, with narrow, deeply set windows, supporting a lintel with statues of a lion and a unicorn on pedestals, as seen here. On either side of the frontispiece are three bays of tall arched windows with circular ones above. There is a cornice and parapet, visible here at upper left and right. The interior is a large hall with a stone and slate floor leading to rooms at either end. The one to the left became the Royal Military Academy in 1741 and later the Model Room. The one to the right became a chapel and more recently an officer's mess.
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
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
Looking down the Grand Canal towards Il Salute from the Accademia Bridge.
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.
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.
Plasterwork medallion of Perseus from the staircase at Wentworth Castle, Yorkshire. Wentworth Castle was built by Thomas Wentworth, 3rd Lord Raby, who after 1711 became 1st earl of Strafford (of the second creation). Raby purchased Stainborough Park in 1708 which he renamed Wentworth Castle in 1731. The estate was chosen because it was only six miles away from Wentworth Woodehouse which Raby considered he should have inherited instead of Thomas Watson. The enlargement and renaming of Stainborough was therefore done in a spirit of bitter rivalry and as a bid for the extinct earldom of Strafford (which Raby eventually obtained). The house was enlarged with a new east range designed by Johann de Bodt between 1710 and 1720, although his plans were modified by James Gibbs and William Thornton, the Yorkshire carpenter and builder. The cantilevered stone staircase at the north end has a wrought-iron balustrade, pedimented doorcases and extensive plasterwork including large medallions of Fame and Perseus (seen here). The internal plasterwork has been attributed to the stuccatori Giuseppe Artari and Giovanni Bagutti but their names do not appear in the Strafford papers, and Francesco Vassalli has been proposed instead.
20, Fournier Street, London (first known as Church Street), was built under a lease of 1726. 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. On 26 July 1726 the lease for No. 20 was granted by Wood and Michell to Edward Grange, carpenter, witnessed by William Tayler, 'gentleman' and 'carpenter'. In 1766 the house was inhabited by Louis de la Chaumette, a minister of the French church. No. 20 is constructed of stock brick with red brick dressings. It is three windows wide, and has three storeys with a basement and a weatherboarded attic. The sash windows, with exposed flush frames, have segmental arches of rubbed red brick.
Basílica de Ocotlán
This church was built to commemorate a vision of the Virgin (atop this hill over Tlaxcala) by an Indian in the early days of Spanish rule. It is a masterpiece of Mexican baroque.
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Wentworth Woodhouse was largely the creation of Thomas Watson-Wentworth, Lord Malton from 1728, earl of Malton from 1734, and marquess of Rockingham from 1746. The building was developed in two main phases. The first, the west side, dates from between 1724 and 1728 and is constructed of brick. The design has been attributed to William Thornton, even though he died as early as 1722, because it makes use of ideas from Rossi's 'Studio di architettura civile' (1702), a source used in other buildings by Thornton, including Beningbrough Hall. (The second phase was focussed on the east side - which is gigantic in scale - dating from between 1731 and 1751 and faced in stone. It was begun by Ralph Tunnicliffe and completed by Henry Flitcroft). The earlier west front is brick in Flemish bond. The centre section is faced with ashlar sandstone, which is also used for the dressings. This front is two storeys high with single storey wings above half-basements. On either side of the central section are curved Venetian windows (seen here).
Completed in 1739, the church was built in a proto-Baroque style a façade of azulejo tilework. Approximately 11,000 azulejo tiles cover the façade of the church, which were created by artist Jorge Colaço and installeded in November 1932. The tiles depict scenes from the life of Saint Ildefonso and figurative imagery from the Gospels.
Porto, Portugal
November, 2017
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Fournier Street, originally Church Street, was developed in the area around Christ Church, Spitalfields, previously a tenter ground and market garden. The land was bought by two lawyers, Charles Wood and Simon Mitchell who leased out plots from 1718 onwards. No. 2, the Rectory, is seen here at the right (next to the church). The Rectory was designed and built by Nicholas Hawksmoor between 1726 to 1729. It cost the Commissioners £1,456. Leases for the neighbouring houses, nos 4 and 6, were granted in 1726 and were built by Marmaduke Smith, a carpenter.