Ceilings, Roofs and Steeples. What do you see?
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In the Carmelite Priory in Mdina, Malta - a Baroque church built 1660-1675 - but the painting here in the dome actually dates to 1901.
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The church is mostly known as Bath abbey - but the full name is the Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. It is now an Anglican church, but it started out as an abbey church to a Benedictine monastery. A church was first built on this spot in the 7th century - but the current building dates from the 12th to the 16th century (with some major restorations made in the 1860s, including to the ceiling and finishing the vaulting that had been partly abandoned back in the day - probably for financial reasons) and one of the better examples of the Gothic perpendicular style.
The logs that supported the floor boards in the room above this passageway fascinated me. The structures on either side of the passageway constituted one home.
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The stone work in this church is quite amazing.
In the church Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome - this one was built in 1472-1477, replacing a medieval church (said to have been built on the spot where the wicked emperor Nero had been buried - though this is now very much doubted and that founding history is more to be viewed as a myth). It was originally a pure Renaissance church, but got some remodelling done in the 17th century which gives the church a touch of Baroque too. The biggest claim to fame for the church is, probably, the two paintings by Caravaggio in a chapel to the left of the high altar.
Backlit autumn leaves of Acer palmatum (‘Iroha-momiji’ in Japanese) against the light cloudy sky. They were forming a beautiful mosaic ceiling of nature.