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Concrete columns of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, PA.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is among the largest art museums in the United States. It has collections of more than 227,000 objects that include "world-class holdings of European and American paintings, prints, drawings, and decorative arts". The Main Building is visited by more than 800,000 people annually, and is located at the west end of Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
A rostral column is a type of victory column originating in ancient Greece and Rome, where they were erected to commemorate a naval military victory. Its defining characteristic is the integrated prows or rams of ships, representing captured or destroyed enemy ships. The name derives from the Latin rostrum meaning the bow of a naval vessel.
Rostral columns of the modern world include the Columbus Monument at Columbus Circle in New York City, and the paired Saint Petersburg Rostral Columns.
The Doric columns sit on a granite plinth and are constructed of brick coated with a deep terra cotta red stucco and decorated with bronze anchors and four pairs of bronze ship prows (rostra). Seated marble figures decorate the base of each column each representing the major rivers of Russia: the Volga and Dnieper at the northern Rostral Column, Neva and Volkhov at the southern one. The Rostral Columns were originally intended to serve as beacons and originally were topped by a light in the form of a Greek brazier and lit by oil. The braziers have been removed and the tops of the columns refitted with gas torches that continue to be lit on ceremonial occasions.
Aqueduct of Segovia Spain, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was built around the first century AD to channel water from springs in the mountains 17 kilometres away to the city and was in use until 1973.
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Arco de la Victoria y avenida de columnas.
Palmira es uno de los yacimientos más esplendidos del mundo.
Sus ruinas datan del s.II d.C.
Es conocida entre los lugareños como Tadmor,tine una historia fascinante que,unida a las abundantes columnas,los templos en ruinas y sus torres funerarias,situado todo en un oasis extraordinario,deja sin palabras a quién lo visita.
Yo no puedo expresar con palabras lo que sentí al verlas.
Os dejo mi recuerdo.
The kind you might see on a multi-tier wedding cake.
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Created for the Looking Close... on Friday!" theme, TWO OF A KIND.
Taken from the entrance of the Pantheon. To this day I am amazed that I was standing before and inside a building that was constructed nearly 2,000 years ago.
Malbork, castle in northern Poland.
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Basarene ved Oslo domkirke, også kalt Stortorgets basar, ble oppført i årene 1840–1859 i upusset tegl i nyromansk stil, arkitekt var Christian H. Grosch.
For the All New Scavenger Hunt #16. I just happened to notice the sunlight shining through the balustrade opposite the library the other day.
Made Explore; #255, 3-20-'15.
The “line_up“ is a paperwork series I developed since 2010. The “liners” are made out of paper (Din A3/A4),
oil paint and graphite. The theme is the hermetical laws of polarity and movement. There is no ending and no beginning in any direction, just an endless movement. You have the possibility to arrange the papers like you want and that makes it an endless playground for my photo-work and the eyes of the viewers.
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One I took a while ago - we don't get the aurora too often so had to try! One lesson learned - scout out a better location to shoot before you go out at night and drive around in the dark for an hour looking for a decent place.....
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Plaza de España - Seville - Spain.
The Plaza de España ("Spain Square", in English) is a plaza in the Parque de María Luisa (Maria Luisa Park), in Seville, Spain, built in 1928 for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929. It is a landmark example of the Regionalism Architecture, mixing elements of the Renaissance Revival and Moorish Revival (Neo-Mudéjar) styles of Spanish architecture.
The Plaza de España, designed by Aníbal González, was a principal building built on the Maria Luisa Park's edge to showcase Spain's industry and technology exhibits. González combined a mix of 1920s Art Deco and Spanish Renaissance Revival, Spanish Baroque Revival and Neo-Mudéjar styles. The Plaza de España complex is a huge half-circle with buildings continually running around the edge accessible over the moat by numerous bridges representing the four ancient kingdoms of Spain. In the centre is the Vicente Traver fountain. By the walls of the Plaza are many tiled alcoves, each representing a different province of Spain. Each alcove is flanked by a pair of covered bookshelves, said to be used by visitors in the manner of "Little Free Library".
Today the Plaza de España mainly consists of Government buildings. The central government departments, with sensitive adaptive redesign, are located within it. The Plaza's tiled Alcoves of the Provinces are backdrops for visitors portrait photographs, taken in their own home province's alcove. Towards the end of the park, the grandest mansions from the fair have been adapted as museums. The farthest contains the city's archaeology collections. The main exhibits are Roman mosaics and artefacts from nearby Italica.
The Plaza de España has been used as a filming location, including scenes for the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia. The building was used as a location in the Star Wars movie series Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) — in which it featured in exterior shots of the City of Theed on the Planet Naboo. It also featured in the 2012 film The Dictator.
The plaza was used as a set for the video of Simply Red's song Something Got Me Started
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