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Have you wandered, what happens to a river when interrupted? Behind an impermeable barrier, it swells up and floods itself. Otherwise, it overcomes the obstacle gracefully as a waterfall.
The Central, the iconic coffin-shaped alehouse in Gateshead. UK.
Around as a bar since 1890 when it began operating as a hotel. The building itself dates from 1856 when it was built as a business premises for wine merchant Alderman Potts to a design by local architect M Thompson.
The Wesleyan Chapel (Methodist Church) in Markyate, Hertfordshire, is now for sale. Squeezed between two side streets off High Street, it had served its congregation since 1859. However, church attendance has gone down to such a degree that the venue can no longer be maintained. Fuji X-Pro3, Helios 44M-7.
Giotto's Campanile is a free-standing campanile (bell tower) that is part of the complex of buildings that make up Florence Cathedral on the Piazza del Duomo in Florence, Italy.
Standing adjacent to the Basilica of Santa Maria del Fiore and the Baptistry of St. John, the tower is one of the showpieces of Florentine Gothic architecture with its design by Giotto, its rich sculptural decorations and its polychrome marble encrustations.
The slender structure is square in plan with 14.45 metre sides. It is 84.7 metres tall and has polygonal buttresses at each corner. The tower is divided horizontally into five stages.
On the death of Arnolfo di Cambio in 1302, the first Master of the Works of the Cathedral, and after an interruption of more than thirty years, the celebrated painter Giotto di Bondone was nominated as his successor in 1334. At that time he was 67 years old. Giotto concentrated his energy on the design and construction of a campanile for the cathedral. He had become an eminent architect, thanks to the growing autonomy of the architect-designer in relation to the craftsmen since the first half of the 13th century. The first stone was laid on 19 July 1334. His design was in harmony with the polychromy of the cathedral, as applied by Arnolfo di Cambio, giving the tower a view as if it were painted. In his design, he also applied chiaroscuro and some form of perspective instead of a strict linear drawing of the campanile. And instead of a filigree skeleton of a gothic building, he applied a surface of coloured marble in geometric patterns.
When he died in 1337, he had only finished the lower floor with its marble external revetment: geometric patterns of white marble from Carrara, green marble from Prato and red marble from Siena. This lower floor is decorated on three sides with bas-reliefs in hexagonal panels, seven on each side. When the entrance door was enlarged in 1348, two panels were moved to the empty northern side and only much later, five more panels were commissioned from Luca della Robbia in 1437. The number "seven" has a special meaning in Biblical sense: it symbolizes human perfectibility.
It is difficult to attribute artistic paternity to these panels. Some may be by Giotto himself, the others by Andrea Pisano (or their workshops).
Through this work, Giotto has become, together with Brunelleschi (dome of the cathedral of Florence) and Alberti (with his treatise De re aedificatoria, 1450), one of the founding fathers of Italian Renaissance architecture.
Giotto was succeeded as Master of the Works in 1343 by Andrea Pisano, famous already for the South Doors of the Baptistery. He continued the construction of the bell tower, scrupulously following Giotto's design. He added, above the lower level of Giotto, a second fascia, this time decorated with lozenge-shaped panels (1347–1341). He built two more levels, with four niches on each side and each level, but the second row of niches are empty. Construction came to a halt in 1348, year of the disastrous Black Death.
Pisano was replaced in his turn by Francesco Talenti who built the top three levels, with the large windows, completing the bell tower in 1359. He did not build the spire designed by Giotto, thus lowering the designed height of 122 metres to 84.7 metres. The top, with its scenic panorama of Florence and the surrounding hills, can be reached by climbing 414 steps.
I started a photo-shoot with Goldie yesterday...was interrupted...thanks to Cagla of Blythe Chic for the sweet tutus and the wonderful present for La Mer. Will show all at another time. We love everything! I just noticed, I think I see my finger in the bottom left of this shot...uh-oh!
We will miss you, Bob! He passed this morning. I will be back on flickr later...today, there are too many things to be done. Thanks so very much for all of your kind comments and messages. It means much more than you know!!!!!
We are going to visit the castle in Malbork :)
The Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork, the largest Gothic castle complex in the world, is a 13th-century Teutonic castle and fortress located near the town of Malbork on the river Nogat in Poland. It was originally constructed by the Teutonic Knights, a German Catholic religious order of crusaders, in a form of an Ordensburg fortress. The Order named it Marienburg in honour of Mary, mother of Jesus. In 1457, during the Thirteen Years’ War, it was sold by the Bohemian mercenaries to King Casimir IV of Poland in lieu of indemnities and it since served as one of the several Polish royal residences and the seat of Polish offices and institutions, interrupted by several years of Swedish occupation, and fulfilling this function until the First Partition of Poland in 1772. From then on the castle was under German rule for over 170 years until 1945. The castle is a classic example of a medieval fortress and, on its completion in 1406, was the world's largest brick castle. UNESCO designated the "Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork" and the Malbork Castle Museum a World Heritage Site in December 1997.
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Idziemy zwiedzać zamek w Malborku :)
Zamek w Malborku – jeden z największych zamków na świecie, położony na prawym brzegu Nogatu, wzniesiony w kilku etapach od 1280 do poł. XV w. przez zakon krzyżacki. Początkowo konwentualna siedziba komtura, od 1309 po przeniesieniu przez Siegfrieda von Feuchtwangena stolicy zakonu do Malborka, siedziba wielkich mistrzów zakonu krzyżackiego i władz Prus Zakonnych do 1457, w latach 1457–1772 rezydencja królów Polski, od 1466 siedziba władz Prus Królewskich, od 1568 siedziba Komisji Morskiej, w 1772 zajęty przez administrację Królestwa Prus i zdewastowany w latach 1773–1804; rekonstruowany w latach 1817–1842 i 1882–1944, zniszczony w 1945, ponownie rekonstruowany od 1947; w 1949 wpisany do rejestru zabytków, w 1994 uznany za pomnik historii, w 1997 wpisany na listę światowego dziedzictwa UNESCO jako jeden z najznakomitszych przykładów średniowiecznej architektury obronno-rezydencyjnej w Europie Środkowej. Od 1961 zamek jest siedzibą Muzeum Zamkowego w Malborku.
The leash connects with your collar, just as you assume your position near me. A grin crosses my lip, delighted with your submission. Suddenly, a noise is heard, my alertness rises. The magic had been broken, and I am not in the mood to forgive.
This red-tailed hawk had a rabbit dinner but wasn't able to enjoy it—chased from one perch by a red-winged blackbird, it flew to a power pole, where it was scolded and harassed by a pair of blue jays, and then a male Bulllock's oriole joined the attack. Even after the hawk flew away with its rabbit, I could hear continued clamor from wherever the hawk had moved to!
© Darlene Bushue 2021
Breakfast Interrupted...
Nothing like having your breakfast interrupted and coming back to soggy cereal because these two decided to make a visit yesterday morning . Definitely a Happy FriYAY!!!!
Enjoy your weekend!!!
The big blue Dr18 is resting on a dark siding. The sleep is interrupted by the lights of passing Intercity train.
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A veranda of Marin County Civic Center, San Rafael, California
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Floor is Wright's signature color - Cherokee Red
'When I burst out the door onto the veranda ... they stopped immediately!'
I was really deep in Tha Zone of making pictures in a sandbox and all the sudden my friend Arrow sneaks in the shot.
i was irritated for a sec, but then my laughing snapped me out of it ;)
You gotta love this guy <3
Walking around and lunch to take pictures also means that I invariably end up interrupting other people's lunches. Luckily, Andrew (front) did not seem to mind, As I was about to shoot, John (in the cab) looked up, so I merely requested that, if he could look at me, that would be great.
Neither of them seemed to have a problem with my "No Smile" request.