View allAll Photos Tagged Inlaid
The inlaid marble mosaic floor is one of the most ornate of its kind in Italy, covering the whole floor of the cathedral. This undertaking went on from the 14th to the 16th centuries, and about forty artists made their contribution. The floor consists of 56 panels in different sizes.
The first known artist working on the panels, was Domenico di Niccolò dei Cori, who was in charge of the cathedral between 1413 and 1423.
Cattedrale
inlaid marble
UNESCO World Heritage Site: Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalú and Monreale
Lovely inlaid wood, framed front, photo album with one of my favourite photos from my Italian trip. One of my favourite souvenirs.
Hahaha... The reason my photo didn't make Flickr Friday pool is the admin thought the roman ruins in the frame are someone else's photo. Don't know whether to be flattered or insulted :)
By the way this Roman ruin is the temple at Selilunte.
Anyway thank you to those who see and appreciate the effect of the photo frames within frames. If you haven't seen it yet take a look at how many layers of frames there are.
The Standard of Ur is a Sumerian artifact of the 3rd millennium BCE that is now in the collection of the British Museum. It comprises a hollow wooden box measuring 21.59 wide by 49.53 cm long, inlaid with a mosaic of shell, red limestone, and lapis lazuli. It comes from the ancient city of Ur (located in modern-day Iraq west of Nasiriyah). It dates to the First Dynasty of Ur during the Early Dynastic period and is around 4,600 years old.
The standard was probably constructed in the form of a hollow wooden box with scenes of war and peace represented on each side through elaborately inlaid mosaics. Although interpreted as a standard by its discoverer, its actual purpose is not known. It was found in a royal tomb in Ur in the 1920s next to the skeleton of a ritually sacrificed man who might have been its bearer.
The artifact was found in one of the largest royal tombs in the Royal Cemetery at Ur, tomb PG 779, associated with Ur-Pabilsag, a king who died around 2550 BCE. Sir Leonard Woolley's excavations in Mesopotamia from 1927–1928 uncovered the artifact in the corner of a chamber, lying close to the shoulder of a man who may have held it on a pole. For this reason, Woolley interpreted it as a standard, giving the object its popular name, although subsequent investigation has failed to confirm this assumption. The discovery was quite unexpected, as the tomb in which it occurred had been thoroughly plundered by robbers in ancient times. As one corner of the last chamber was being cleared, a workman spotted a piece of shell inlay. Woolley later recalled that "the next minute the foreman's hand, carefully brushing away the earth, laid bare the corner of a mosaic in lapis lazuli and shell."
The Standard of Ur survived in only a fragmentary condition. The ravages of time over more than four thousand years caused the decay of the wooden frame and bitumen glue which had cemented the mosaics in place. The soil's weight had crushed the object, fragmenting it and breaking its end panels. This made excavating the Standard a challenging task. Woolley's excavators were instructed to look for hollows in the ground created by decayed objects and to fill them with plaster or wax to record the shape of the objects that had once filled them, rather like the famous plaster casts of the victims of Pompeii. When the remains of the Standard were discovered by the excavators, they found that the mosaic pieces had kept their form in the soil, while their wooden frame had disintegrated. They carefully uncovered small sections measuring about 3 cm2 and covered them with wax, enabling the mosaics to be lifted while maintaining their original designs.
According to legend, the sons of Remus were the original founders of Siena. Romulus and Remus, born of a she-wolf had founded Rome, but when Romulus killed Remus his sons feared for their lives and fled the city. As they left Rome, they stole the statue of the She-Wolf from Apollo's Temple.
The theme for Macro Monday this week is 'wire'. So what are you looking at here? This is a cropped image of one side of a 3 1/4 inch wide snuff box. It's around 200 years old. On each side and on the top of the box are five different goat images made out of gold wire. The craft work is stunning in its intricacy: each little strand of gold wire inlaid into the wood. Sadly it doesn't take much of a rub with a dirty duster with polish on it to rub the gold off.
As a lover of goats it was one of my mother's most prized possessions. She gave it to me, her eldest son, on my 60th birthday.
We were fortunate to be in Il Duomo in the 6-10-week period that the marble mosaic floor was exposed. These are massive works of art - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siena_Cathedral#Mosaic_floor: "The inlaid marble mosaic floor is one of the most ornate of its kind in Italy, covering the whole floor of the cathedral. This undertaking went on from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, and about forty artists made their contribution. The floor consists of 56 panels in different sizes. They represent the sibyls, scenes from the Old Testament, allegories and virtues. Most are still in their original state. This technique of marble inlay also evolved during the years, finally resulting in a vigorous contrast of light and dark, giving it an almost modern, impressionistic composition. The uncovered floor can only be seen for a period of six to ten weeks each year, generally including the month of September.
This photo was taken of the piano located at the top of Doug Sahm Hill, looking out toward the river and the skyline of downtown Austin in the background.
When I reached the piano, I found another photographer, and two gymnasts who were somehow involved in the weekend reggae festival that had been held in the large park at the bottom of the hill. There was also a large map of Texas inlaid in the stone at the top of the hill, so that you could see how far it was from Austin to other Texas cities like Fort Worth, San Antonio, and Houston. But nobody was playing the poor, lonely piano; it just sat there, atop Doug Sahm Hill.
I know what you're going to ask: who the heck is Doug Sahm, and why should we care? Well, for what it's worth, this Wikipedia article tells us that Mr. Sahm (who died in 1999) was a San Antonio-born musician who became a significant figure in blues, rock and other genres. He is considered one of the most important figures in Tejano music, and was the founder and leader of the 1960s rock and roll band the Sir Douglas Quintet. He played later with Augie Meyers, Freddy Fender and Flaco Jimenez in The Texas Tornados, and also in Los Super Seven supergroup.
So now you know.
*******************************************
A few years ago, a British artist by the name of Luke Jerram came up with the intriguing idea of spreading pianos around the city, with an open invitation for anyone nearby to wander up and begin playing something. Anything. He started in London, and has subsequently brought his festival -- known as "Play Me, I'm Yours" -- to some 19 cities around the world, including such varied cities as Moscow, Sydney, São Paulo, Barcelona, Bristol, Bath, Birmingham, Cincinnati, San Jose, and Pécs.
And then New York City -- which is where I heard about it, in June 2010. Sixty pianos were donated, painted, and "installed" throughout the five boroughs of New York; you can see the locations here. Over a period of two weeks, I managed to visit every single one of the pianos -- except for two in Queens, which had been vandalized and removed before I could get to them -- and photographed them all in this Flickr set
I had such a good time with the New York pianos that I checked Luke's website periodically to see what plans he had for 2011. I learned that he was planning a festival in Adelaide, but that was too far away; and he was planning a festival in Geneva, but the date conflicted with some other plans I had made. I heard that he was considering Salt Lake City, but then it turned out that he actually scheduled a festival in Austin, TX for the month of April -- so that's where I decided to go.
You can see the details of the Austin festival at this Internet site, but the first thing I noticed was that it would be much smaller than the one in New York: only 14 pianos, most within walking distance of one another, and several of them located along the river that runs through the center of the city. As with New York, one of them had been vandalized and removed before I got to it; I heard that a replacement piano was being brought in, but I had only four days in Austin before I had to return home, and I never had a chance to see if it actually arrived. There was also one piano that I simply could not locate: it was supposed to be located on a hiking path in the midst of a wooded area in a rather strange area of on-ramps and off-ramps of the MoPac Expressway, but despite repeated references to two different Google maps on my iPhone (one showing exactly where I was standing, and another allegedly showing me where the mysterious piano was located), I never did track it down.
As for the pianos that I did find: like New York, it turned out that roughly 2/3 of them were sitting empty and alone when I got to them. In several cases, I sat there for half an hour or an hour, waiting for someone to show up and start playing something ... but nobody did. So there were only five pianos where I could actually listen to people playing music; and for each of them I made video recordings with my Sony Alpha 55 camera, and used Apple's iMovie program to clean up the videos and make them more presentable. In order to make them accessible on Flickr, I kept them all very short: Flickr only allows 90 seconds of video for an individual clip. I was also hoping to get some good HDR shots of the pianos at sunrise and sunset ... but nobody else gets up at sunset to play the pianos on public display, as I discovered on my first dawn excursion in Austin.
While I was there, I couldn't help taking some additional photos of the people in Austin as they enjoyed themselves in their canoes and rafts and paddle-boats out in the river. Those photos have nothing to do with pianos or the "Play Me, I'm Yours" festival, so I'll be placing them in a separate Flickr set.
So now I've done two cities ... and I think I'm done. It's been great fun, but it's time-consuming and expensive to venture off to a strange city for the single purpose of photographing a bunch of pianos ... which, alas, turn out to be unoccupied most of the time. Indeed, even if the "Play Me, I'm Yours" festival comes back to New York City at some point in the future, I think I'll skip the pianos located in Queens, Staten Island, Brooklyn, and the Bronx -- most of the action is in Manhattan, and that's a lot easier to deal with, logistically.
But if you haven't seen this festival, I urge you to check Luke Jerram's website periodically, and see whether he might be bringing his festival to your town. If so, take a look at the map, and you can probably figure out which pianos are likely to visited by lots of people -- e.g., in New York, it doesn't take a genius to guess that Times Square is going to get a lot more visitors than a piano in a remote corner of Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. Once you've got this figured out, go spend some time watching the action; chances are you'll be amazed and delighted by the variety of people who wander by, do a double-take when they see a piano that they had not expected to see, and then sit down to start playing ...
If there's a "Play Me, I'm Yours" festival coming to your city, and you think there might some interesting opportunities for photos or videos, drop me a note and let me know. I might drop in and say hello...
Inlaid artwork, underfoot, along the...
Chattanooga (King's Point), Tennessee, USA.
19 January 2020.
▶ Appropriate for the fish, the Tennesse River is just out of frame. The Riverwalk parallels it from downtown Chattanooga north to the Chickamauga Dam.
***************
▶ Photo by Yours For Good Fermentables.com.
▶ For a larger image, type 'L' (without the quotation marks).
— Follow on Twitter: @Cizauskas.
— Follow on Facebook: YoursForGoodFermentables.
— Follow on Instagram: @tcizauskas.
▶ Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II.
▶ Commercial use requires explicit permission, as per Creative Commons.
ODC PATTERNS 7 - 13 January
www.flickr.com/groups/ourdailychallenge/discuss/721576625...
these things were in my family home--now in my son's possession!
_X4A1058
Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna UNESCO World Heritage Site
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arian_Baptistery
----
Nikon Nikkor 18-200mm 1:3.5-5.6 G ED-IF AF-S VR DX
_DSC5163 Anx2 1024h Q90 Ap 854h Q11 f25
The Marine Building, inlaid wood interior elevator doors, brass etched brass exterior doors. one of the finest Art Deco buildings in Vancouver!
Gold shoulder clasps inlaid with garnet cloisonné and glass, Britain, c. AD 560–610. British Museum, blog.britishmuseum.org/eighty-years-and-more-of-sutton-hoo/
Perhaps my favorite piece from the Sutton Hoo ship-burial treasure, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Hoo
Likely the burial of a King of East Anglia, though his identity was lost in the the acidic local soil. Discovered on a manor circa 1937, excavated in several campaigns. Wiki has the details, though not a photo this nice. Sadly, this one can't be used there. Perhaps I will ask nicely?
Photo by British Museum, crop & level adjustments by me. Copyright statement from main Museum website, www.britishmuseum.org/terms-use/copyright-and-permissions The artifacts themselves are PD. A Kingly treasure!
Limestone inlaid relief depicting the sacrifice of an oryx. C. 2600BC, from the tomb of Itet, Meidum, Egypt, displayed in Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Musum [52.200267, 0.119300]
Explore # 491 ~ 10 May 2016
Niagara Escarpment UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve
----
Nikon Nikkor 85mm 1:2 AIS manual-focus lens sn306492
_DSC4727 Anx2 1400h Q90
NEW RELEASE Max Luxury - Tea Table Inlaid in Gold 10 colors - sold separately. 4 Colors - Royal Red. Royal Green, Whiye & Ivory participate in the weekly sale at 60L.
3LI.
Each of the 1,000 columns that make up the colonnade surrounding the inner courtyard is inlaid with semi-precious stone flowers. The mosque is simply stunning!! Please see the pano below.
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque (Arabic: جامع الشيخ زايد الكبير) is located in Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates.[1] The largest mosque in the country, it is the key place of worship for Friday gathering and Eid prayers. During Eid it may be visited by more than 41,000 people. Wikipedia
From my recent travel archives
This room decor, with the inlaid panelling, was created in the 16th century in the castle, but in 1891, during an exceptionally tough economic period, all the panelling from the Inlaid Chamber was bought by the V&A museum in London. The panelling was moved to the museum and remained on display until 1999, when it was returned to Sizergh on loan at the request of the National Trust.
This year, the V&A agreed to sell the panelling to the NT, which means it can now be photographed by the public for the first time.
I understand that many of these royal halls used to be inlaid with rare stones. I can't even imagine what it was like... since they are already beautiful and detailed with all the stones missing! I don't believe I've ever seen a re-creation of one of these, even where the stones are fake. One place that comes to mind is the Amber Room in St. Petersburg, but I haven't been there yet... although it's on the list.
Read more here at Trey Ratcliff's travel photography blog, Stuck in Customs.
Composed of thousands of inlaid chips in over 250 colors, it portrays six scenes of Chicago. It features a vocabulary of images informed by the artist’s Russian-Jewish heritage and found in his Surrealist paintings such as birds, fish, flowers, suns, and pairs of lovers. Chagall maintained, "the seasons represent human life, both physical and spiritual, at its different ages." The design for this mosaic was created in Chagall’s studio in France, transferred onto full-scale panels and installed in Chicago with the help of a skilled mosaicist. Chagall continued to modify his design after its arrival in Chicago, bringing up-to-date the areas containing the city’s skyline (last seen by the artist 30 years before installation) and adding pieces of native Chicago brick.
A door-leaf inlaid with ivory and ebony and divided into four squares.
Each contains four kindas (fielded panels) enclosing a cross figure. The squares are separeted by a line in the shape of six hexagonal panels. Every two of these are separated by a cross figure. At the top of the leaf are ivory inlays forming inscription that reads as follows:
- 'You Kings, lift up the gates. You wordly gates, go up so that the Glorious King may enter.'
Romanesque interior includes inlaid marble floor dated to 1207
it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_di_San_Miniato_al_Monte
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Miniato_al_Monte
----
UNESCO World Heritage Site
----
Nikon Nikkor 18-200mm 1:3.5-5.6 G ED-IF AF-S VR DX
_DSC4827 Anx2 1200h Q90 f25
Box with inlaid plant motifs in bone and faience (2435-2305 B.C.) various materials - Period: Old Kingdom - Fifth Dynasty - Material: Wood, bone, faience - Dimensions: 13.5 x 29 x 15.5 cm. - Provenance: Gebelein / mastaba of Perim - Egyptian Museum of Turin
This is a 3-story domestic building in the Art Deco style built in 1941. The structural system is concrete block. The foundation is spread footing. The exterior walls are stucco. The building has a flat parapet roof and unspecified dormers. 4 decorative panels just below the recessed roof cornice line Windows are replacement aluminum single-hung sashes. SHS; Metal casement; Paired; Corrugated stucco moldings underneath window panes on the tower; Continuous eyebrows over the whole 2nd and 3rd story windows; Eyebrows of corner windows of tower are unattached to the eyebrows extending towards northern side There is a single-story, wrap-around open porch characterized by a flat roof clad in stuccoed with rectangular stuccoed posts. Porch facing East is incised into main building structure; Porch facing South is open, colored terrazzo flooring with the title of building inlaid; 3 massive columns supporting concrete covering; Balustrade delimitating porch area are thick stucco casts with block pattern hinting the same patterns found in the five bar-shaped decorative elements above third story eyebrow Three steps lead to entrance lobby; Racing tracks carved in the upper portion of the wall (3) and ceiling (2); Decorative moldings on top of openings of main lobby wall composed of 6 horizontally aligned roundels; Black marble-like entrance desk; Colored and patterned terrazzo flooring.
Late Art Deco structure; Five horizontal decorative bar-shaped elements; Tower extending in height above roofline on the southern side of East elevation and creating 4th story space; Long concrete covering above main floor and wrapping around the south side of elevation; Neon hotel sign just above concrete covering; Asymmetrical in composition on the facade facing East; Terrazzo floor design; Decorative sculptural panels below the roofline on the east and south elevations; Three-part stacked cantilevered ledge ornaments parapet; Corner, wrap-around windows and eyebrows; Three-part stacked eyebrow for ornamentation at the southeast corner.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
www.ruskinarc.com/mdpl/all/4801-700%20Ocean%20Dr/view
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
The cameo of Achilles is the centre-point of the box inlaid with coloured stones, by the German J.C. Neuber (1736-1808) court jeweller in Dresden (Saxony, Germany).
The British Museum, London UK
Cattedrale
inlaid marble
UNESCO World Heritage Site: Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalú and Monreale
An old brass plaque inlaid into pavement indicating that the Public can use the footway, but have not been given the Legal right to do so, and that the owner retains that right. VERY RARE
Limestone, obsidian
New Kingdom
Egypt of Glory exhibition, Amos Rex Art Museum, Helsinki
From the collection of Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy
9.10.2020-21.3.2021
The Alhambra is amazing from every angle, but one of the most impressive angles is looking *up*--at the beautiful inlaid ceilings whose stars shine as bright--if not brighter than--those in the night sky.
This is a 3-story domestic building in the Art Deco style built in 1941. The structural system is concrete block. The foundation is spread footing. The exterior walls are stucco. The building has a flat parapet roof and unspecified dormers. 4 decorative panels just below the recessed roof cornice line Windows are replacement aluminum single-hung sashes. SHS; Metal casement; Paired; Corrugated stucco moldings underneath window panes on the tower; Continuous eyebrows over the whole 2nd and 3rd story windows; Eyebrows of corner windows of tower are unattached to the eyebrows extending towards northern side There is a single-story, wrap-around open porch characterized by a flat roof clad in stuccoed with rectangular stuccoed posts. Porch facing East is incised into main building structure; Porch facing South is open, colored terrazzo flooring with the title of building inlaid; 3 massive columns supporting concrete covering; Balustrade delimitating porch area are thick stucco casts with block pattern hinting the same patterns found in the five bar-shaped decorative elements above third story eyebrow Three steps lead to entrance lobby; Racing tracks carved in the upper portion of the wall (3) and ceiling (2); Decorative moldings on top of openings of main lobby wall composed of 6 horizontally aligned roundels; Black marble-like entrance desk; Colored and patterned terrazzo flooring.
Late Art Deco structure; Five horizontal decorative bar-shaped elements; Tower extending in height above roofline on the southern side of East elevation and creating 4th story space; Long concrete covering above main floor and wrapping around the south side of elevation; Neon hotel sign just above concrete covering; Asymmetrical in composition on the facade facing East; Terrazzo floor design; Decorative sculptural panels below the roofline on the east and south elevations; Three-part stacked cantilevered ledge ornaments parapet; Corner, wrap-around windows and eyebrows; Three-part stacked eyebrow for ornamentation at the southeast corner.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
www.ruskinarc.com/mdpl/all/4801-700%20Ocean%20Dr/view
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.