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Notre Dame de la Garde
Marseille, France
We visited this beautiful Basilica during our excursion to the south of France. It sits atop an enormous hill, and the people of Marseille have viewed it as their protector for centuries. (Photo by Anna Driscoll '16 – French FSP, fall 2013)
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A look at the interior of Bus Eireann's Volvo B10M Caeteno Algarve VC144 facing the front in Ballina Bus Stn (14/08/2017).
Lagrangeville, NY. October 2016.
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The working end of a lift in a giant warehouse which stored the fertilizer before loading into a railroad car. Entrance to this walkway was an outside protected ladder which is now collapsed.
So Patrick is sad that he couldn't climb up to this viewpoint while Nancy is happy that silly Patrick couldn't climb up to this viewpoint!
The ceiling of the Hypostyle Hall at Dendera Temple is enriched with an incredible amount of figurative detail carved in low relief and painted in subtle shades against a blue background. The subjects include numerous deities and hybrid figures (some familiar, others much less so) and even astrological elements, such as recognisable figures from the zodiac.
Over the centuries the ceiling had become so darkened by dirt and soot to become heavily obscured and hard to read, and this is how I saw it for the first time in the 1990s, when many visitors probably missed it altogether. Now it has been fully cleaned and restored it shines again not only as one of the glories of the temple but one of the most remarkable surviving decorative schemes of ancient Egypt. The contrast with its previous blackened, unrestored condition is dramatic, giving an entirely different impression from our previous visit.
The Temple of Hathor at Dendera is one of Egypt's best preserved and most beautiful ancient shrines. This magnificent edifice dates to the Ptolemaic period, late in Egyptian history, though the site long had been the cult centre for the goddess Hathor for centuries before (the earliest extant remains date to c360BC but a temple is recorded here as far back as c2250BC). Most of the main building dates to the reigns of the last Cleopatras and further decoration and building work within the complex continued in the Roman period up to the reign of Trajan.
The dominant structure in the complex is the Temple of Hathor, an enormous structure with a rectangular facade punctuated by the Hathor-headed columns of the hypostyle hall within. This hall is an architectural wonder, a masterpiece of ancient Egyptian design and decoration, which covers every surface and has been recently cleaned, revealing a superb astrological ceiling in all its original vibrant colours.
Sadly there was much iconoclasm here during the early Christian period and most of the reliefs of the walls and pillars have been defaced. Worse still is the damage to the 24 Hathor-head capitals: not one of the nearly a hundred huge faces of the goddess that once smiled down on this hall has been left unblemished, most with their features cruelly chiselled away.
The main temple building is otherwise structurally intact, and extends into further halls and chapels beyond, again with much relief decoration (much of which is again defaced). In one corner is an entrance to a crypt below, an unusual feature in Egyptian temple architecture consisting of several narrow passages adorned with carved relief decoration in good condition.
There are further sanctuaries and chapels above on the roof of the temple, accessed by a decorated staircase and including the room where the famous Dendera Zodiac was formerly located (today its place in the ceiling taken by a cast of the original, now displayed in Paris). The highest part of the roof complex is no longer accessible to tourists, but I can still recall making the ascent there on our first visit in 1992.
Several other buildings surround the main temple, the most impressive of which is the mammisi or 'birth-house'. This consists of a large rectangluar hall surrounded by a colonnade near the entrance to the site and has some well preserved relief decoration on its exterior. Most of this structure dates to the Roman period, but the ruins of its predecessor built under Nectanebo II (Egypt's last native pharoah) stand nearby.
Dendera temple is one of the most rewarding in Egypt and shouldn't be missed. It is one of the most complete and evocative ancient monuments in the country and its recent restoration has revealed a surprisingly extensive amount of colour surviving within (we were amazed by the dramatic contrast with the soot-blackened ceiling we'd beheld on our previous visit in the 1990s). Despite its relative youth (in Egyptian terms at least!) it is easily one of my favourite sites in Egypt.
The elaborate ceiling of the Sala dos Brasões Heraldry room in Sintra National Palace, Sintra, Portugal.
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Misión de Santiago Apóstol ( Parroquia)
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Misión de Santiago de Jalpan fue fundada antes de la llegada de Junípero Serra en 1744, pero Serra fue el encargado de la construcción del complejo misión desde 1751 hasta 1758, la primera que se construyó. Está dedicada al apóstol Santiago, el primer evangelista.
Este complejo está situado en el centro de la ciudad moderna de Jalpan frente a la plaza principal. Está formado por un atrio, claustro, portal de peregrinos y la iglesia, con una capilla en el anexo del lado izquierdo. La pared del atrio original se perdió, pero fue reconstruida en el mismo estilo, con tres portales y arcos invertidos Las principales características del portal adornado en la fachada son Nuestra Señora del Pilar y Virgen de Guadalupe, tanto con conexiones a la cultura de Mesoamérica, así como un águila de doble cabeza, que simboliza la fusión de las dos culturas.
La fachada está elaborada en estuco y piedra. El ocre de las pilastras contrasta con el amarillo de muchos de los detalles decorativos. Muchos de los detalles imitan vegetales, junto con pequeños ángeles y águilas. Los elementos europeos incluyen imágenes de los santos, como Santo Domingo y San Francisco de Asís y el escudo franciscano de los brazos. Dentro de la puerta están las imágenes de los santos Pedro y Pablo. Los elementos nativos incluyen un águila mexicana con dos puntas devorando a una serpiente. En la parte superior izquierda hay una imagen de la virgen de Guadalupe, y en la parte superior izquierda, la virgen del Pilar. Estas son las imágenes de vírgenes de México y España, respectivamente. En el interior, la cúpula de la misión de Jalpan contiene escenas de la aparición de la virgen de Guadalupe.
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Oxford's Divinity School. Among the identifiable arms here are the royal arms in the centre with the Lancastrian rose behind it and the arms of the University.
In-progress photo of hand-painted ceiling.
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Ornate ceiling of the Great Hall of the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress in Washington DC. The heavily decorated Beaux Arts style building was built in the 1890s.
Walton's church of St James is a small and neat structure dating from 1750, sitting next to Gilbert Scott's Victorian Gothic Walton Hall. The presence of stained glass in the windows however indicates that the church did not come through the Victorian period untouched (Pevsner says it was enlarged in 1842).
Inside the church is very attractive with decorative plaster ceilings though the stained glass diffuses the Georgian atmosphere somewhat. The 'Venetian' east window and flanking lights in the tiny projecting chancel are the work of Clayton & Bell and centres on a crucified Christ who looks somewhat older than 33! Two later pictoral north nave windows are rather heavily ornamented and along with the ornamental glazing opposite subdue what must have originally been a very light interior.
The church is generally kept open to visitors during normal daylight hours.