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On the way to Cannon Beach we stopped at the 125 foot tall Astor Column which was dedicated in 1926. It features a hand painted spiral frieze that would stretch more than 500 hundred feet if unwound.
The Tenantry column is 83 feet (25 m) tall and topped by the Percy Lion, symbol of the historic Percy family. It was designed by the Newcastle architect David Stephenson and erected as thanks to the second Duke of Northumberland, by tenants of the Duke in 1816, following a reduction by the Duke in their rents
Templo de Zeus, en Atenas (Grecia), con la Acrópolis y el Partenón al fondo; Temple of Zeus, in Athens (Greece), with the Akropolis and the Parthenon at the background
el claustre del monestir de Sant Cugat del Vallès
El més destacat de tot el conjunt del monestir de Sant Cugat és el seu impressionant claustre. Es tracta d'un clar exemple de l'art romànic català i va ser construït al segle XII sobre un d'anterior. En el segle XVI se li va afegir un segon pis i es va construir també l'atri d'entrada.
Dins el jardí del claustre es poden observar les restes de la primera basílica del segle V i el lloc on la tradició diu que s'hi va enterrar i venerar a sant Cugat.
La seva planta és gairebé, amb una longitud de més de 30 m. Cada galeria consta de quinze arcs de mig punt sustentats en dotze parelles de columnes i pilars als extrems i cada cinc arcs. Cadascuna d'aquestes columnes està decorada amb capitells finament elaborats, amb detalls variats que van des de la representació d'animals a les escenes bíbliques.
Cap a l'any 1190 va arribar un taller d'escultors procedents de la catedral de Girona, on hi havien treballat durant uns 10 anys. És per això que tots dos guarden moltes similituds pel que fa als motius esculpits dels seus capitells.
Els murs exteriors estan recorreguts per un fris d'arcs cecs amb mènsules decorades amb caps d'animals. Aquest fris ens recorda molt al que podem trobar a Sant Pere de Galligants de Girona. El pis superior es va construir al segle XVI i el fris en el que se sustentava la teulada, va quedar com un element merament decoratiu.
segueix en un interessant article de la wiki ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monestir_de_Sant_Cugat
Aquí teniu una descripció força detallada de tots els capitells
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I've been to see Dreamspace in Cambridge and Mile End. A wonderful piece of art that you can walk around inside. The light coming from outside through the coloured ceiling and walls is incredible.
The Columns and Jesse Hall on the campus of the University of Missouri in Columbia by Notley Hawkins Photography. Taken with a Sony ILCE-7RM3 camera with a Sony FE 16-35mm F2.8 GM lens at ƒ/9.0 with a 50 second exposure at ISO 50. Processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.
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Soft light on columns near Ingreja Da Graca, Lisbon.
This is perhaps not quite a typical Lisbon, Portugal photograph, and it came about as a result of one of our more or less random exploration walks — something that characterizes our travel. We started from our lodgings, wandered downhill to a central square, crossed and began ascending, and eventually turned toward the hill where the St. George Castle is located. We climbed up to it, but decided not to join the tourist throngs inside, preferring to wander around the periphery… and that led us to this convent and church nearby. (The full name is longer than what I’ve used here, by the way.)
After wandering inside the beautiful church, we walked around the grounds of the convent, a quiet and not-very-busy place that contrasted with what we had experienced earlier in the day. These columns, in lovely soft light, lined a walkway around an inner courtyard.
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I'd never really looked at the National Gallery before, somehow it blends into the backdrop of Trafalgar Square amongst the other equally grand buildings. One advantage of wandering round with a camera is it gives you a good excuse to look at everything in detail making me realise just how wonderful the Corinthian column capitals of the front portico really are.
From Wikipedia : "The National Gallery is an art museum on Trafalgar Square, London, United Kingdom. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900[a]. The gallery is an exempt charity, and a non-departmental public body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Its collection belongs to the public of the United Kingdom and entry to the main collection (though not some special exhibitions) is free of charge......
The present building, the third to house the National Gallery, was designed by William Wilkins from 1832–8. Only the façade onto Trafalgar Square remains essentially unchanged from this time, as the building has been expanded piecemeal throughout its history. "