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Altar of S. Ignazio by Andrea del Pozzo and others, with lapis lazuli and other decorative marbles. The principal church of the Jesuits in Rome, il Gesu was built between 1568 and 1575, to the designs of Vignola and Giacomo della Porta; and Baciccia, Antonio Raggi and Leonardo Retti (nave ceiling). The marble decoration of the nave interior is of a later date.
Propileos[
Los propileos eran la gran entrada a la Acrópolis de Atenas. Fueron construidos a partir del año 437 a. C. por el arquitecto Mnesicles en un terreno accidentado y sobre las ruinas de los propileos arcaicos que fueron destruidos en el año 480 a. C. en el incendio ocasionado por los persas.28 Las seis columnas de la entrada son dóricas, igual las de la fachada delantera como las seis de la parte posterior. Está construido con mármol pentélico, consta de un vestíbulo de 24 x 18 metros. En el interior, un muro con cinco puertas lo divide en dos partes; la occidental, más grande, tiene dos hileras de tres columnas jónicas que forman tres naves.29
Es interesante la techumbre que se construyó con vigas de mármol de más de siete metros y armando los arquitrabes que sostenían estas vigas con una barra metálica.
En el ala norte estuvo situada la primera pinacoteca del mundo; entre las pinturas que se exponían destacaba la obra del pintor griego Polignoto (siglo V a. C.), conocido por las descripciones de su obras hechas por Pausanias y por Plinio.30
Hawa Mahal (English translation: "Palace of winds" or "Palace of the Breeze") is a palace in Jaipur, India, so it is named because it was essentially a high screen wall built so that the women of the royal family could observe street festivals while unseen from the outside. It is Constructed of red and pink sandstone, the palace sits on the edge of the City Palace, Jaipur, and extends to the zenana, or women's chambers. (Source: Wikipedia)
The Nightingale–Brown House, Providence, RI.
Designed by Rhode Island architect Thomas Tefft, it is a National Historic Landmark and the location of the J. N. Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage
Built for Captain Jos. Nightingale in 1792 and sold to Nicholas Brown in 1814; donated to Brown U. in 1985. Additions were made by architect Richard Upjohn in 1853 and 64; the grounds were landscaped by Frederick L. Olmstead in 1890.
- just trying to catch up on my travel photos. At the moment I am completing the set on Venice. This was taken from the top deck of our ship, the Celebrity Millenium as it entered the Grand Canal. It was a moment that I will never forget with the classical music playing. The weather was perfect - everything was perfect!
This is one cruise that I would highly recommend to those of you who love cruising.
It really is the way to see the best of the world!
The Parthenon, a temple dedicated to Athena, the goddess of Athens. The funniest thing we learned about the Parthenon was that it was used as an amunition storage in the late 1600s when the Ottoman Turks were fighting the Venetians. Needless to say, that didn't end well. A cannon ball was fired into the Parthenon, which caused the ammunition to ignite and explode, causing much of the damage that they're currently trying to repair.
Lock Haven (Clinton County) Pennsylvania USA
Neo-Classical Revival architectural style. The Greek Ionic Order is employed in the huge portico.
#Temple of #Hephaistos in central Athens, Greece, is the best-preserved ancient #Greektemple in the world, but is far less well-known than its illustrious neighbour, the Parthenon.
It was dedicated to Hephaestus, the god of smiths and metal-workers.
Hephaestus
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September 2013.
Open House is the annual opportunity to explore hundreds of buildings in London for free and see the architecture. Many of the buildings are not normally open to the public.
The main Foreign Office building in King Charles Street was built by George Gilbert Scott in partnership with Matthew Digby Wyatt. George Gilbert Scott was responsible for the overall classical design of these offices, but Matthew Digby Wyatt, the India Office’s Surveyor, designed and built the interior of the India Office. It was built with rich decoration to impress foreign visitors.
Nave at il Gesu. The principal church of the Jesuits in Rome, il Gesu was built between 1568 and 1575, to the designs of Vignola and Giacomo della Porta; and Baciccia, Antonio Raggi and Leonardo Retti (nave ceiling). The marble decoration of the nave interior is of a later date.
The Secretariat Building or Central Secretariat is where the Cabinet Secretariat is housed, which administers the Government of India. Built in the 1910s,home to some of the most important ministries.
The 1931 series celebrated the inauguration of New Delhi as the seat of government. The one rupee stamp shows George V with the "asking Alexandria" and Dominion Columns.
The planning of New Delhi began in earnest after Delhi was made capital of the British Indian Empire in 1911. Lutyens was assigned responsibility for town planning and the construction of Viceroy's House (now Rashtrapati Bhavan); Herbert Baker, who had practised in South Africa for two decades, 1892–1912, joined in as the second in command. Baker took on the design of the next most important building, the Secretariat, which was the only building other than Viceroy's House to stand on Raisina Hill. As the work progressed relations between Lutyens and Baker deteriorated; the hill placed by Baker in front of Viceroy's House largely obscured Viceroy's House from view on the Rajpath from India Gate, in breach of Lutyens' intentions; instead, only the top of the dome of Viceroy's House is visible from far away. To avoid this, Lutyens wanted the Secretariat to be of lower height than Viceroy's House, but Baker wanted it of the same height, and in the end it was Baker's intentions that were fulfilled.
Many employees were brought into the new capital from distant parts of British India, including the Bengal Presidency and Madras Presidency. Subsequently housing for them was developed around Gole Market area.
The Secretariat Building was designed by the prominent British architect Herbert Baker in Indo-Saracenic Revival architecture. Both the identical building have four levels, each with about 1,000 rooms, in the inner courtyards to make space for future expansions. In continuation with the Viceroy's House, these buildings also used cream and red Dholpur sandstone from Rajasthan, with the red sandstone forming the base. Together the buildings were designed to form two squares. They have broad corridors between different wings and wide stairways to the four floors and each building is topped by a giant dome, while each wings end with colonnaded balcony.
Much of the building is in classical architectural style, yet it incorporated from Mughal and Rajasthani architecture style and motifs in its architecture. These are visible in the use of Jali, perforated screens, to protect from scorching sun and monsoon rains of India. Another feature of the building is a dome-like structure known as the Chatri, a design unique to India, used in ancient times to give relief to travelers by providing shade from the hot Indian sun.
The style of architecture used in Secretariat Building is unique to Raisina Hill. In front of the main gates on buildings are the four "dominion columns", given by Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. At the time of their unveiling in 1930, India was also supposed to become a British dominion soon. However, India became independent within the next 17 years and the Secretariat became the seat of power of a sovereign India. In the years to follow the building ran out of accommodation
September 2013.
Open House is the annual opportunity to explore hundreds of buildings in London for free and see the architecture. Many of the buildings are not normally open to the public.
The main Foreign Office building in King Charles Street was built by George Gilbert Scott in partnership with Matthew Digby Wyatt. George Gilbert Scott was responsible for the overall classical design of these offices, but Matthew Digby Wyatt, the India Office’s Surveyor, designed and built the interior of the India Office. It was built with rich decoration to impress foreign visitors.
The Durbar Court is at the heart of the India Office and was first used in 1867 for a reception for the Sultan of Turkey, but dates only from 1902 when some of the coronation celebrations of King Edward VII were held there.
September 2013.
Open House is the annual opportunity to explore hundreds of buildings in London for free and see the architecture. Many of the buildings are not normally open to the public.
The main Foreign Office building in King Charles Street was built by George Gilbert Scott in partnership with Matthew Digby Wyatt. George Gilbert Scott was responsible for the overall classical design of these offices, but Matthew Digby Wyatt, the India Office’s Surveyor, designed and built the interior of the India Office. It was built with rich decoration to impress foreign visitors.
The Durbar Court is at the heart of the India Office and was first used in 1867 for a reception for the Sultan of Turkey, but dates only from 1902 when some of the coronation celebrations of King Edward VII were held there.
#Temple of #Hephaistos in central Athens, Greece, is the best-preserved ancient #Greektemple in the world, but is far less well-known than its illustrious neighbour, the Parthenon.
It was dedicated to Hephaestus, the god of smiths and metal-workers.
Hephaestus
#Godoffire , #volcanoes , #metalworking , #artisans , #metallurgy , #carpenters , #forges #sculpting , and #blacksmiths
The Halászbástya or Fisherman's Bastion is a terrace in neo-Gothic and neo-Romanesque style situated on the Buda bank of the Danube, on the Castle hill in Budapest, around Matthias Church. It was designed and built between 1895 and 1902 on the plans of Frigyes Schulek. Between 1947–48, the son of Frigyes Schulek, János Schulek, conducted the other restoration project after its near destruction during World War II.
From the towers and the terrace a panoramic view exists of Danube, Margaret Island, Pest to the east and the Gellért Hill.
Its seven towers represent the seven Magyar tribes that settled in the Carpathian Basin in 896.
The Bastion takes its name from the guild of fishermen that was responsible for defending this stretch of the city walls in the Middle Ages. It is a viewing terrace, with many stairs and walking paths.
A bronze statue of Stephen I of Hungary mounted on a horse, erected in 1906, can be seen between the Bastion and the Matthias Church. The pedestal was made by Alajos Stróbl, based on the plans of Frigyes Schulek, in Neo-Romanesque style, with episodes illustrating the King's life.
It was featured as a Pit Stop on the sixth season of The Amazing Race.
For more info and photos - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisherman%27s_Bastion
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No self-respecting British or former imperial city is without its statue of Queen Victoria, but most depict her in her final Jubilee years, with crown surmounting a widow's peak. The equestrian statue outside St. George's Hall, Liverpool is unusual in depicting an altogether younger and more vigrous monarch. I believe it dates from 1872 - at the nadir of the "Widow of Windsor" period of extended mourning for Prince Albert, when Queen Victoria was a virtual recluse and absent from most of public life.
St. George's Hall and surrounding buildings is another UNESCO World Heritage Site in Liverpool and represents the final flourish of the classical style in Britain. Niklaus Pevsner rated it as one of the finest neo-Grecian buildings in the world. The architect was Sir Christopher Cockerill, but by the time construction was completed after 13 years in 1954, the classical style was not longer in mode and Gothic was sweeping in.
Intruding to the left is the St. John's Beacon (1969), conceived originally simply as a ventilation shaft. As with its London Post Office Tower counterpart, the revolving retaurant is long shut. While it is an inescapable landmark on the Liverpool skyline, St. John's Beacon has not yet won its place in popular affection.