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Newdigate House, 64 Castle Gate, Nottingham, was built for Thomas Newdigate around 1675. Later Marshall Tallard was held prisoner there after the battle of Blenheim. The house is of three storeys with an attic. It is now stuccoed, has ashlar dressings, and a hipped slate roof. The house has a forecourt with a boundary wall and railings. The ironwork has crested railing, a central gateway and overthrow, and is attributed to Francis Foulgham.
The weir on the River Reuss at the Spreuerbrücke, in front of the Jesuitenkirche,
The Spreuerbrücke is the less famous of Lucerne’s two wooden footbridges over the Reuss River, but unlike the Chapel Bridge is entirely original, dating to 1566.
Darker and smaller than its neighbour, it was built in 1408 at the spot in the Altstadt where folklore has it locals were allowed to throw chaff (Spreu) into the river.
The roof panels of the bridge were painted by Caspar Meglinger between 1626 and 1635 and are entitled ‘The Dance of Death’, depicting how the plague affected society.
Beside the bridge is the Nadelwerk, a device put in place in the 19th century to control the flow of the river.
The Jesuitenkirche (Jesuit Church) on the banks of the Reuss River in Lucerne was built in 1666 by Father Christoph Vogler, and was the first religious building in Switzerland constructed in the baroque style.
It was redecorated in the mid-18th century, with ceiling paintings depicting the apotheosis of St Francis Zavier, and onion-domed twin towers were add in the 19th century.
1-3 Amen Court, in the City of London, were designed as a group of three houses by Edward Woodruffe in 1670 and built in 1671-73. They were constructed for the Canons Residentiary of St Paul's Cathedral. The houses are of two storeys, five windows wide, with half-basements and attics with dormer windows. They are built of red brick with bands and a later parapet of yellow brick. The windows have eighteenth-century sashes with exposed shutter boxes (presumably replacing casements). There are plain, recessed doorways without doorcases but with panelled reveals. The fanlights are later eighteenth-century additions. Each entrance has a lamp arch with torch extinguishers.
Clifton House, 17 Queen Street, King's Lynn, was originally two hall houses dating back to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The elevation to Queen Street was refronted in 1708 (the date is on a rainwater hopper). The windows have sashes under gauged skewback arches. The wooden doorcase is recessed with two barley-twist columns in antis and modified Corinthean capitals. There is a flat hood with guttae carrying a segmental pediment. Is this doorcase earlier in date and retained when the front was remade in 1708?
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
2014-Mexico 1241
Sanssouci is the former summer palace of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia at Potsdam, just outside Berlin. It is often counted among the German rivals of Versailles. While Sanssouci is in the more intimate Rococo style and is far smaller than its French Baroque counterpart, it too is notable for the numerous temples and follies in Sanssouci Park. The palace was designed by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff between 1745 and 1747 to fulfil Frederick's need for a private residence where he could relax away from the pomp and ceremony of the Berlin court. This is emphasized by the palace's name, Sanssouci is a French term which translates loosely as "without cares" or "carefree" symbolising that the palace was a place for relaxation rather than a seat of power. The palace is little more than a large single-storey villa—more like the Château de Marly than Versailles. Containing just ten principal rooms, it was built on the brow of a terraced hill at the centre of the park. So great was the influence of Frederick's personal taste in the design and decoration of the palace that its style is characterised as "Frederician Rococo", and so personally did he regard the palace that he conceived it as "a place that would die with him". Because of a disagreement about the sight of the palace from the park Knobelsdorff was fired in 1746. Jan Bouman, a Dutch architect finished the project. -wikipedia
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former stables for the City Palace, sole part of the complex to survive 1945 and the Communists
now in use as Filmmuseum Potsdam
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Chiesa del Gesu
Palermo, Sicily
built 1590-1636
The facade is divided into two sections by a cornice. In the lower part there are three portals, above are niches with statues of St Ignatius of Loyola, a Madonna with Child and Francis Xavier. The upper section is divided by pilasters and framed on both sides with corbels and statues of saints. The facade is surmounted by a curved-segmented gable and the Jesuit emblem. [The architect] Masucci originally planned belfries, but these were not completed, and the current 18th-century campanile was built on the adjacent Palazzo Marchesi.
The main portal consists of columns with Corinthian capitals surmounted by a broken tympanum with overlapping arches, in the intermediate niche is placed the expressive Madonna della Grotta, on the cartouche the words "JESUS VOCATVM EST NOMEN EIUS".
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The Regina Coeli Church is a Roman Catholic parish church built in the historic center of Mexico City, on the corner of Regina and Bolivar Streets.
The building is the only functioning portion of a former 16th century convent. The church is Churrigueresque in style from the 18th century and was part of the convent of Regina Coeli Conceptionist nuns. The former convent was closed during the Reform War and is generally not open to the public.
Despite the church’s status as a national monument, it has had serious conservation problems due to deterioration since the mid 20th century. The church portion of the complex dates from 1655. It was repaired several times then consecrated once again in 1731.
Centro Historico
Mexico City ★ Ciudad de México
27 January 2014
2014-Mexico 1238
Cumberland House, 9 Kings Straith, York, built circa 1710 by William Cornwall, tanner, brewer and twice Lord Mayor. Orange-red brick in Flemish bond with ashlar quoins. Oversailing timber eaves cornice above a moulded frieze.
The grand Baroque Midland Bank building is glimpsed between the buildings of St Nicholas Market on Old Post Office Passage in Bristol.
The late evening at St Philip's Cathedral, in Birmingham.
Birmingham’s St Philip’s Cathedral has been the home of the city’s Anglican diocese since 1905, almost 200 years after it was consecrated.
Built in the English Baroque style by Thomas Archer in 1715, it was initially a parish church, but was chosen over the older St Martin’s to be the city’s cathedral.
The building was enlarged by the Victorians in the 1880s, who installed stained-glass windows by Edwards Burne-Jones, depicting the Nativity, Crucifixion, Ascension and the Last Judgement.
It is the third-smallest cathedral in England – after Derby and Chelmsford – and survived bombing in the Second World War to be restored.
The Matrons' College in The Close, Salisbury, was established by Seth Ward in 1682, perhaps to designs by Christopher Wren, or at least approved by him, since Wren was a friend of Ward's. The structure is of brick, two storeys high on a projecting plinth, and has a hipped roof with tiles. There is a string course at first floor level and a bracketed and moulded eaves cornice. It is thirteen bays wide with projecting wings that have stone quoins. The windows are two-light casements with stone surrounds and mullions, set flat except for slight outer mouldings. The centre of the main block has a pediment containing, in the tympanum, the Royal Coat of Arms lifted aloft by swags of fruit. Directly below, there is an inscribed tablet with volutes on either side supporting a small pediment on brackets. The main doorcase has a segmental pediment on carved wooden brackets, echoed by the carved stone volutes of the surround. The doors themselves have flat panels.
St. Nicholas Church ☆★ Kostel sv. Mikuláše
built between 1732-1737 on the site of a Gothic church from the 13th century which was also dedicated to Saint Nicholas
Kilián Ignác Dientzenhofer, architect
The ceiling frescoes by Cosmas Damian Asam from 1735–1736 depict the lives of saints St. Nicholas, St. Benedict and motifs from the Old Testament. The stucco decoration of the church was carried out by Bernardo Spinetti, the sculptural decoration of the entrance façade and interior was provided by Antonín Braun.
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St. Stephen's Cathedral (German: Dom St. Stephan) is a baroque church from 1688 in Passau, Germany, dedicated to Saint Stephen. It is the seat of the Catholic Bishop of Passau and the main church of his diocese. Since 730, there have been many churches built on the site of the current cathedral. The current church, a baroque building around 100 metres (328 ft) long, was built from 1668 to 1693 after a fire in 1662 destroyed its predecessor, of which only the late gothic eastern side remains. The cathedral's overall plan was made by Carlo Lurago, its interior decoration by Giovanni Battista Carlone, and its frescos by Carpoforo Tencalla.
Elder Street in Spitalfields was leased for building in 1722. Nos 9-13 were built as two houses of five and four bays respectively but were later sub-divided into three and have an extra door inserted as a result. No. 9 is built of dark-red brick with rubbed brick dressings. The house is of three storeys with basement and attic. The windows are segment-headed with double-hung sashes, and have flush frames.
Statue of Pan John van Nost, 1701. Part of 'Venus Vale' at Rousham House, Oxfordshire, built for General James Dormer. On a limestone panelled pedestal with moulded cornice. Part of the landscape garden by William Kent of 1733 to 1740.
43, King Street, Westminster, was built for Admiral Russell, 1st earl of Orford, in 1716-17, probably to designs by Thomas Archer. The house is of brick with stone dressings, the painted stucco being added at a later date. It has three storeys with an attic and basement. The facade has four giant Composite fluted pillasters on rusticated piers at ground-floor level. The entablature comes forward above capitals with dosserets. The attic storey has a cornice, and its central section was raised in the nineteenth century, probably in 1871, when two iron vases were placed at either end (the edge of one of these is visible here at the top). This replaced a parapet that was ramped up to a central window.
3, Amen Court, in the City of London, was designed by Edward Woodruffe in 1670 and built in 1671-73. It is one in a group of three houses constructed for the Canons Residentiary of St Paul's Cathedral. The house is of two storeys, five windows wide, with a half-basement and an attic with dormer windows. It is built of red brick with bands (as seen here) and a later parapet of yellow brick.
One of the sculptures on the outside of Il Salute in Venice.
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.
12,14, and 16, Rugby Street, Camden, are three 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. All these houses are of four storeys with a basement and three windows wide. At No. 14 (at centre), the windows have gauged, segmental brick arches with recessed sashes. At Nos 12 (on the right) and 16 (at far left), the windows have gauged, flat brick arches with recessed sashes. The doorcase at No. 14 (at centre) 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 it and No. 12. 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.
Palais Königsfeld ● Erzbischöfliches Palais
It was built from 1735 to 1737 by François de Cuvilliés on behalf of Elector Karl Albrecht for his bastard son Franz Ludwig Count of Holnstein. Other sources say that the building was built for the mother of the bastard Franz Ludwig, the mistress of the Elector, Maria Caroline Charlotte Sophie von Ingenheim.
Since 1818 the palace is state-owned; It has been the seat of the Archbishop of Munich and Freising since 1821 and is therefore also known as the Archbishop's Palace.
Munich ● München
April 2019
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Early eighteenth century. Built by Thomas Lucas between 1705 and 1717. Staircase with twist baluster.
Longitudinal corridor on the first floor - it 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 Basilica of St. Michael the Archangel (placed under the invocation of St. Michael the Archangel ) is a church catholic located in the heart of the historical center of Menton . Since the road from the seafront , with majestic staircases allow to gradually reach the site where, on a spot in the stalls CALADE triumph whole perspective of the baroque architecture .
At the beginning of the xvii th century, desired by Prince Honoré II of Monaco , its construction was entrusted to the architect Lorenzo Lavagna. TheMay 27 1619The first stone was laid in the presence of the prince and lord Nicolà Spinola, bishop of Ventimiglia which depended Menton and Roquebrune while Monaco depended on the Bishop of Nice. Excavation works actually began in 1639 and the church was opened for worship in 1653 . Finally, theMay 8 1675The bishop of Ventimiglia Monsignor Mauro Promontorio dedicated the new church in the presence of Prince Louis I st . In 1701 , the architect Emmanuel Cantone erects a tower of fifty-three meters high, real watchtower overlooking the city. Its current facade was completed in 1819 in the spirit of the baroque of the xvii th century.
Inside, the vast nave with four bays form a large Latin cross . The choir , preceded by a triumphal arch is decorated with stucco marble with pilasters dishes. A painted wooden statue of 1820 representing Saint Michael slaying the dragon overcomes the altar in polychrome marble. The side chapels are decorated with altarpieces baroque. One is dedicated to Saint Devote . Some had been granted to wealthy families of Menton.
Beautiful organ in the choir (XVII c.) Unknown factor. It has been often attributed to Gio Oltrachino (Jean Utrect), organ builder native of this town, located in Genoa and which is known by many constructions organ archives in Liguria - only one still existing intact in Alassio - and Monaco: the parish church of Saint-Nicolas Monaco dated 1639 (current buffet that of St. Charles church restructured by architect Charles Lenormand and Merklin), that of the palatine chapel (1639) disappeared and another organo portatile the same time also disappeared. Gio Oltracchino died in Genoa in 1647 and the organ of Saint-Michel can not be attributed to him.
In 1999 , the Saint-Michel church is raised to the dignity of minor basilica by Pope John Paul II , and consecrated basilica in January 2000 . Since 1949 , each year in August, the square hosts the famous Festival of Classical Music . She is one of the most visited attractions in the Alpes-Maritimes.
The Basilica (and its square ; other items were enrolled at other dates) is the subject of a classification as historical monuments since 3 March 1947
Early eighteenth-century. For Joseph Allan, Master Shipwright of the Deptford Dockyard in 1705. Staircase of circa 1710. Three twisted balusters to each tread.
The Rotunda lounge or Grand Salon on the garden siede, a unique piece of architecture. The whole, formed by the vestibule and this large space, forms like a central span. This arrangement, also known as a "lantern", allows the visitor to have a view through the axis of the main courtyard-porch-vestibule-alley in perspective of the gardens located on the other side, around which revolve two parts autonomous each with a staircase..
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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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Oaxaca, Mexico
30 Jan. 2014
2014-Mexico 1870
7, Fournier Street, London, an early eighteenth-century house of around 1722, but refronted in the nineteenth century. The area around Christ Church, Spitalfields, previously a tenter ground and market garden, was bought by two lawyers, Charles Wood and Simon Mitchell who leased out plots from 1718 onwards. No. 7 is built of yellow brick. It is two windows wide, and has three storeys with basement and attic. The 1973 listing document describes shop fronts at ground floor which have now gone so most of what is seen here is reconstruction.
The Matrons' College in The Close, Salisbury, was established by Seth Ward in 1682, perhaps to designs by Christopher Wren, or at least approved by him, since Wren was a friend of Ward's. The structure is of brick, two storeys high on a projecting plinth, and has a hipped roof with tiles. There is a string course at first floor level and a bracketed and moulded eaves cornice. It is thirteen bays wide with projecting wings that have stone quoins. Each of the two secondary doorcases to either side (one of which is seen here) has an architrave surround, a pulvinated frieze, a cornice and a pediment with a coat-of-arms in a cartouche. The doors have flat panels.
Tower added in 1730 to Nicholas Hawksmoor's St Alfrege of 1711-14 by John James. The church is built of Portland stone ashlar. One of the so-called Fifty New Churches built by the Commission active from 1711 to 1734. The masons were Edward Strong and Edward Tufnell. Hawksmoor planned a a tower with broad corner pilasters, a butressed octagonal lantern, much like St George-in-the East. Instead, the old tower was recased and a steeple added by James in 1730. It was rebuilt in 1813.
Würzburg Residenz: The vast complex on the eastern edge of the town was commissioned by two prince-bishops, the brothers Johann Philipp Franz and Friedrich Karl von Schönborn. Its construction between 1720 and 1744 was supervised by several architects, including Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt and Maximilian von Welsch. Although much of it destroyed during WWII, it has been completely rebuilt as it was before the war. However, it is associated mainly with the name of Balthasar Neumann, the creator of its famous Baroque staircase.
Early eighteenth-century. For Joseph Allan, Master Shipwright of the Deptford Dockyard in 1705. Staircase of circa 1710. Three twisted balusters to each tread.
Early eighteenth-century. For Joseph Allan, Master Shipwright of the Deptford Dockyard in 1705. Staircase of circa 1710. Three twisted balusters to each tread.
New Square at Lincoln's Inn, which contains eleven sets of legal chambers, was begun by Henry Serle in 1680, largely on his own land. Members of the Inn objected to this development, but, after an agreement of 1682, the square was adapted for its benefit. Serle died in 1690 and the work was completed by Nicholas Barbon. New Square is built of brown brick with red brick dressings. It was originally three storeys high (a fourth storey was added in the eighteenth century), and has basements. The windows have gauged brick segmental arches and slightly recessed sashes. The stone doorcases have architraves and pulvinated friezes, and the cornices, carried on consoles, have broken pediments. There are cast-iron railings to the areas with urn finials.
Louis XIV commissioned the Mirror fountain around 1702. Built facing the King’s Garden, the sculpture with two dragons framing the pool was entrusted to Jean Hardy. Installed on three levels, it leads to three paths and four antique-style statues, including one of Apollo.
[Versailles website]
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.