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Collegium Maximum, seen from the University Bridge on the Oder
original building of Wroclaw University, built in the first half of the 18th centuries by the Emperors
Wroclaw ✶ Poland
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Elder Street in Spitalfields was leased for building in 1722, and No. 15 was built in 1727. It was originally only one room deep but was given an extension with staircase during building. The house is built of dark-red brick with rubbed brick dressings.
the New Palace in Potsdam, Germany
built in the 1760s by King Frederick II
As part of the palaces and parks of Potsdam and Berlin, it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1990.
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Sculpted by Jean-Baptiste Tuby (1635–1700), based on drawings by Charles Le Brun (1619-90), and built by André Le Nôtre (1613-1700), the Apollo Fountain replaced the pre-existing Swans Fountain from 1638.
The statues are gilded lead, constructed 1688-70, and installed in 1671. The sculpture is of Apollo in his chariot, a symbol closely related to Louis XIV, the Sun-King (le Roi-Soleil).
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.
Sculpted by Jean-Baptiste Tuby (1635–1700), based on drawings by Charles Le Brun (1619-90), and built by André Le Nôtre (1613-1700), the Apollo Fountain replaced the pre-existing Swans Fountain from 1638.
The statues are gilded lead, constructed 1688-70, and installed in 1671. The sculpture is of Apollo in his chariot, a symbol closely related to Louis XIV, the Sun-King (le Roi-Soleil).
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.
formal name: Oratorio de San Felipe Neri
Avenida Francisco I. Madero
Centro Historico
Mexico City
23 Oct. 2013
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Aula Leopoldina, Wroclaw University
The Aula Leopoldina was built between 1728 and 1732 in honor of the founder of the University of Wrocław, the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I of the Habsburg dynasty. The client was his son Emperor Charles VI, who, like his father, was King of Bohemia and thus Silesian sovereign. It is Poland's largest and one of the largest Baroque halls in Europe.
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Early eighteenth-century house of two storeys. Parapet front. Guilloche moulded band at first-floor level. Ground floor rusticated with wooden panels imitating stone. Heavy voussoirs and keystones over windows, which are sashes in near flush boxes Doric doorcase has triglyph friezes and mutule cornices below an open pediment. Radial fanlight.
This baroque church was built to a design by Christopher Wren between 1677-84, replacing an earlier, medieval, church damaged in the Great Fire of London.
Garforth House, 54 Mickelgate, York, probably by John Carr. Built for Edmund and Elizabeth Garforth, 1757. The date is found on a rainwater head. The patron was born Dring and changed his name in order to inherit from his uncle, William Garforth, a York merchant. The attribution to Carr comes from Knowles's 'York Artists' and Carr also worked for Garforth at Askham Hall (Askham Richard, Yorkshire) in 1750-51 (rebuilt 1889). The York house is red brick with stone bands and quoins. It is five bays wide and three storeys high with a slightly projecting three-bay centrepiece. This has a moulded dentil cornice and a pediment with a radial glazed occulus.
Interior of the dome for the church
Sant'Agnese in Agone (1652-1668)
Piazza Navona
Via S.Maria dell’Anima, 30/A
00186 ROMA
Italy
The cupola is frescoed with a representation of St. Agnes entering into the Glory of the Paradise ("Sant'Agnese introdotta alla Gloria del Paradiso"), painted by Ciro Ferri (Rome 1634 – 1689), begun 1670 and finished in 1689 by Sebastiano Corbellini, upon the latter's death.
The building of the church was begun in 1652 at the instigation of Pope Innocent X (born as Giovanni Battista Pamphili, remember the famous Portrait painted by Diego Velázquez that was such an inspiration to Francis Bacon) whose family palace, the Palazzo Pamphilj (1644-1650), also by Girolamo Rainardi, now the Brazilian Embassy, is adjacent to this church.
subsequent architects:
1652-1653 : Girolamo Rainaldi (Rome 1570-1655) + son Carlo Rainaldi, responsable for the Greek Cross floorplan
1653-1657 : Francesco (Castelli) Borromini (Bissone, Canton of Ticino 1599 – Rome 1667)
1657-1672 : Carlo Rainaldi (Rome 1611 – 1691)
1667-1668 : Giovanni Maria Baratta constructed the bell-towers, while his brother Giuseppe Baratta completed the grand entrance steps and Gian Lorenzo Bernini supervised the interior decorations
(PS: sources on the dates of succession of architects are unclear or contradictory, so sorry if it's not quite correct)
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Inscribed cartouche on the almshouses at Trinity Green, Whitechapel, which were founded through the benefaction of Captain Henry Mudd of Ratcliff (d. 1692) and built in 1695 by William Ogbourne, master carpenter, for the Corporation of Trinity House. The residents were '28 decayed masters and commanders of ships or the widows of such'. The almshouses are in two facing rows, one storey high, with basements, and a wooden block and bracketed eaves cornice. The end of each row of the almshouses terminates on Whitechapel Road with an elevation of two storeys in brick with stone dressings, rusticated angled stone quoins, a modillioned cornice and a central cartouche with an inscription (as seen here).
Church of Santo Domingo de Guzman ♦ Iglesia de Santo Domingo de Guzmán
Oaxaca, Mexico
30 Jan. 2014
2014-Mexico 1850
This Church was built on the site where Emperor Alexander II was severely wounded and died in March 1881.The church was built from 1883 till 1907. The construction was funded by the imperial family.
The Church is now one of the main tourist attractions in St. Petersburg. Bus loads of tourists arrive daily and get their 15 minutes of exterior shot before being moved on.
The magnificent church of Santa Maria della 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
The convent's main church (catholicon or sobor), a stunning blue-and-white building, is considered to be one of the architectural masterpieces of the Italian architect Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, who also created the Winter Palace, the Grand Catherine Palace (Yekaterininsky) in Tsarskoye Selo (Pushkin), the Grand Palace in Peterhof and many other major St. Petersburg landmarks.
The Cathedral is the centerpiece of the convent, built by Rastrelli between 1748 and 1764. The projected bell-tower was to become the tallest building in St. Petersburg and, at the time, all of Russia. Elizabeth's death in 1762 prevented Rastrelli from completing this grand design. Catherine II disfavored the project and the architectural style.
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Wooden doorcase with architrave swept up to centre at 31, Fournier Street, London, an early eighteenth-century house. The door has eight fielded panels. 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. 31, Fournier Street was built by Samuel Worrall, a carpenter, in 1725. The entrance to his yard was between Nos 33 and 35.
14 and 16, Rugby Street, Camden, are two of a terrace of four houses dating from around 1721. They are of brown brick with red brick dressings, and some houses in the terrace have evidence of tuck pointing, as well as later patching in multi-coloured stock brick at the upper storeys. Both houses, like their companions, are of four storeys with a basement and three windows wide. At No. 16 (on the left), the windows have gauged, flat brick arches with recessed sashes in stuccoed surrounds. At No. 14 (on the right), the windows have gauged, segmental brick arches with recessed sashes. The wooden doorcase at No. 16 (on the left) has panelled pilasters, and a hood carried on carved brackets. Its door has six fielded panels, with a plain rectangular overlight above. The doorcase at No. 14 (on the right) 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 rectangular fanlight 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.
Frederiks Kirke, Copenhagen
(the Marble Church)
The foundation stone was set by king Frederick V on 31 October 1749, but the construction was slowed by budget cuts and the death of Eigtved in 1754. Construction was scrapped in 1770.
Construction stalled out for a century until businessman Carl Frederik Tietgen (DSFS shipping, Tubiorg Beer, the sugar monopoly etc) paid to comp0lete the project out of his own pocket in a deal allowing him to develop neighboring parcels. Tietgen got Ferdinand Meldahl to design the church in its final form and financed its construction. Due to financial restrictions, the original plans for the church to be built almost entirely from marble were discarded, and instead Meldahl opted for construction to be done with limestone. The church was finally opened to the public on 19 August 1894.
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Neues Palais ☆ Potsdam
built by Frederick II of Prussia 1763-1769
Potsdam, Germany
(UNESCO world heritage site along with other Hohenzollern palace in Berlin and Brandenburg)
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Colonnade of the Potsdam City Palace
"At Steubenplatz, the stables were originally completely connected to the west wing of the city palace by the wrestling colonnade, but on the side of the stables one half is missing today in favor of the tram line that runs there. This colonnade, built in 1745/46 according to a design by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, consisted of 14 pairs of columns and formed the boundary between the pleasure garden and the city. The colonnade got its name from the sculptures created by the sculptors Johann August Nahl, Friedrich Christian Glume and Georg Franz Ebenhech between the pairs of columns. The total of 12 sculptures depicted six groups of wrestlers, five fencers and a slinger. The Wrestling Colonnade was destroyed on April 14, 1945 during the British bombing of Potsdam on about half of its length. "
"Most of the surviving sculpture decoration is currently in storage. In April 2019, two putti and a vase returned to the colonnades, the remaining figures are still waiting for restoration. "
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16, Rugby Street, Camden, is one of a terrace of four houses dating from around 1721. It is of brown brick with red brick dressings, and some houses in the terrace have evidence of tuck pointing, as well as later patching in multi-coloured stock brick at the upper storeys. No. 16, like its companions, is of four storeys with a basement and is three windows wide. The windows have gauged, flat brick arches with recessed sashes in stuccoed surrounds. The wooden doorcase has panelled pilasters, and a hood carried on carved brackets. The door has six fielded panels, with a plain rectangular overlight above.
Dresdner Zwinger
Dresden, Germany - June 1, 2017
From Wikipedia:
"The Zwinger (German: Dresdner Zwinger) is a palace in the eastern German city of Dresden, built in Baroque style and designed by court architect Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann. It served as the orangery, exhibition gallery and festival arena of the Dresden Court....
...Today, the Zwinger is a museum complex that contains the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Old Masters Picture Gallery), the Dresden Porcelain Collection (Dresdener Porzellansammlung) and the Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon (Royal Cabinet of Mathematical and Physical Instruments)."
La Salle des buffets - a luxurious dining room at the courtyard side of the building, decorated from top to bottom. Ready to serve a Kings dinner.
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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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Custom House at King's Lynn, Norfolk, originally built as a Merchants' Exchange by Henry Bell in 1683 for Sir John Turner. Altered 1718 and 1741 following storm damage. Stone with pantile roof. At first-floor level, windows are two-light cross casements with leaded glazing, separated by Ionic pilasters. Acanthus modillion eaves cornice.
Cabinet de Madame Fouquet, luxeriously decorated with delicate furniture all in a perfect state.
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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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