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Being the funerary church of the castle town, Evangelistria is simpler, humbler, and more elegant than the nearby Mitropolis. It was built at some point between the end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th century. As expected due to its function, it is surrounded by graves and ossuaries.
Mystras, the ‘wonder of the Morea’, lies in the southeast of the Peloponnese. The town developed down the hillside from the fortress built in 1249 by the prince of Achaia, William II of Villehardouin, at the top of a 620 m high hill overlooking Sparta. The Franks surrendered the castle to the Byzantines in 1262, it was the centre of Byzantine power in southern Greece, first as the base of the military governor and from 1348 as the seat of the Despotate of Morea. Captured by the Turks in 1460, it was occupied thereafter by them and the Venetians. After 1834 the inhabitants of Mystras gradually started to move to the modern town of Sparta leaving only the breath-taking medieval ruins, standing in a beautiful landscape.
Source and more information: UNESCO, World Heritage List
When my friend and I traveled to Lisbon, Portugal a couple years ago we spent most of our 5 days there exploring random little alleys and streets. One morning we decided to walk into a church and wound up discovering these ruins of a gothic church-- a result of an earthquake in the 18th Century. It was hauntingly beautiful and amazingly well preserved. It's remarkable what you can discover when you simply wander!
Romsey Abbey in Romsey Hampshire. Original Abbey on this site dates back to 907AD and rebuilt by the Normans in 1130AD.
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"DANCER" SOLD 2012: This is an abstract art sculpture It's about the movement between fluid and fixed displacement in a forever twisting human female body dancing without total collapse using solid materials. I used soft clay as a template then finally wood as my medium by SDB Designs sculpted by Sean Broadbent. #sdbdesigns #seanbroadbent #sculpture #carving #art #artist #woodworking #architecture #wood #interiordesigner #designer #sculptor #design #femaleform #heritage #traditional #london #abstract #woman #female #leeds #Halifax #abstractart #abstractsculpture #cambridge #medievalarchitecture #oxford #Manchester #femaledancing #joinery
Barrowden is one of the prettiest villages in Rutland, and its church dates from the early 13th century, though there was probably an earlier church in this site. The tower probably dates from the end of the 14th century. There was a major restoration in the 19th century.
Notre Dame Cathedral, seen from the banks of the River Seine, prior to the April 15, 2019 fire that gutted the interior of the cathedral and toppled its spire.
Cotehele House is a well preserved, and little altered, Tudor manor house on the banks of the River Tamar. Cotehele has a series of formal gardens near the house (pictured) plus a richly planted valley garden.
Cotehele was owned by the Edgcumbe family for nearly six centuries. It is one of the least altered medieval houses in the country and contains original furniture, armour and a set of remarkable tapestries.
The present house was built between 1485 and 1539 when Sir Richard Edgcumbe started to completely remodel the original 13th century property. His son Sir Piers Edgcumbe (1472-1539) completed the new house. His son Richard built a new family seat, Mount Edgcumbe, in 1553. The family moved to Mount Edgcumbe in the 17th century but they continued to own Cotehele until 1947 when it was accepted by the Treasury in payment of death duty and given to the National Trust. This was the first property in Britain to be acquired by Trust via the "in lieu of death duty" route.
Riga is a UNESCO World Heritage site of cobblestones and breathtaking river views, as well as Europe’s Wifi capital with almost 1,000 spots to get online for free.
In its 800 years of turbulent history, everyone from German knights to Swedish kings and Soviet commissars have left their footprints, and today Latvia’s capital is an exciting European metropolis at the crossroads of eastern and northern Europe.
The Great Mosque of Dunaysir (Kochisar): Heavily influenced by the plan of the Umayyad mosque in Damascus, this mosque, founded in 1214, exhibits the interaction between Iranian, Classical, and Syrian traditions in the Medieval architecture of Upper Mesopotamia.
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Image courtesy of Nasser Rabbat of the Aga Khan Program at MIT.
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4.614 Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures, Fall 2002
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Rabbat, Nasser O.
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Architecture
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Built in the early 13th century, the window had to be rebuilt in 1325-50. The window is "one of the largest examples of curvilinear tracery seen in medieval architecture. The stained glass was smashed out during the campaign against "abusive images" in the English Revolution, and replaced randomly in the 18th century, therefore much of the iconography was lost (unlike the Deans Eye window)."
Source: website "geograph," article "SK9771 : Detail of Bishop's Eye Window, Lincoln Cathedral"
The following is extensively quoted from the online news site "The Independent," from the article "Lincoln Cathedral, South Rose Window, Anonymous: The Bishop's Eye (1330s)," Tom Lubbock, 22 December 2006:
"The Bishop's Eye is unlike the great majority of Gothic rose windows. It doesn't have a revolving structure. Rose windows perform countless variations on the revolve. Their parts are by turns arranged like planets in orbit, spokes of a wheel, radiant beams, exfoliating petals, in cross formations, in star formations - but always the pattern is rotatable. It is focused on the centre point of the circle, and usually there is a central section at this point, the window's heart or hub. These windows picture an eternal, circling, radiating, God-centred universe. Not so the Bishop's Eye.
"To put it geometrically: the circle of this window has been intersected by two arcs with the same diameter. The centres of these arcs lie on opposite sides of the window's circumference. The two arcs touch at the window's centre. They create a pair of upright almond forms. Each almond is then bisected vertically - almost all the way - by a straight line. Within these forms there's a network of tracery, its shapes mainly irregular long-tailed quatrefoils.
"So the layout is essentially binary. Each almond is symmetrical around its vertical axis. The two almonds are symmetrical with each other. Indeed the whole rose (including the bits not within the almonds) is symmetrical around the vertical axis. So, although circular, this rose window does not hold a vision of centred order, nor a snugly interlocking yin-yang either. It presents a balanced division of two separate equal parts, left and right. The Old and the New Testaments, perhaps? The saved and the damned?
"But students of symbolism will already be hot on another trail. Because this almond form, the vesica piscis (fish's bladder) as it's known, has an extremely versatile symbolic repertoire. The "measure of the fish" was considered a mysterious and sacred shape by Pythagoreans. Among pagans it could signify the vagina. Among early Christians, as the "Jesus fish", it signified Christianity itself. And in Christian art, as the Mandorla, it was an aureole or cloud of divine glory.
"Meanwhile, students of the bleeding obvious can see in the Bishop's Eye a couple of leaves. The reason why the window is non-rotatable is that, fundamentally, its structure is not cosmic but biological. It spreads, in the manner of vegetables, in a single direction: upwards.
"Within the almonds, the tracery ramifies like the veins of a leaf or the branches of a tree. The whole formation is cellular. You might even wonder if this binary window holds the secret of life itself - the basic reproductive dividing of cells.
"Whichever reading takes your fancy, the imagery of the window won't help. It's lost. The stained glass was smashed out during the campaign against "abusive images" in the English Revolution. The pieces survived. But when they were returned to the window, in the late 18th century, they were put back higgledy-piggledy. The restorers didn't try to jigsaw the original images together. They had regard only to effects of colour and radiance.
"This is common practice in English stained-glass restoration. If you can get up close to the window, you see a prophet's head spliced against a horse's tail, and an angel's wing and a shard of non-specific blue, and you try to make these fragments work as a consistent scene. But you can't do it."
Conjunction of new technologies and medieval architecture. Convent dels Angels in Barcelona, next to the MACBA
Holy Rood, the parish church of the Cotswold village of Shilton. Holy Rood is a simple, unadorned buidling of c. 1150.
There are still the vestiges of medievel painting and pattern work on some of the nave's arches, together with carved label stops. The building was restored, sensitively, by G. E Street in 1884-8.
Shilton, Oxfordshire, 15 August 2019
Holy Rood, the parish church of the Cotswold village of Shilton. Holy Rood is a simple, unadorned buidling of c. 1150. The chancel was added about a century later. Finally a tower was added in the 15th century.
There are still the vestiges of medievel painting and pattern work on some of the nave's arches, together with carved label stops. The building was restored, sensitively, by G. E Street in 1884-8.
Shilton, Oxfordshire, 15 August 2019
www.sdbdesigns.uk A sketch of a beautiful female model smoking a cig, I;m guessing here but she looks French or has that about her by SDB Designs drawn by Sean Broadbent #sdb_designs #architecture #building #construction #design #joinery #carpentry #Sowerby_bridge #Halifax #ironmongery #beautiful_young_girl #female #designer #art #artist #sculpture #medieval #medieval_architecture #listed_properties #traditional #heritage #Sheffield #sean_broadbent #interior_design #Manchester #Leeds #Oxford #Cambridge #London #French_girl
Carcassonne was fortified by the Romans, then later occupied by the Visigoths. Ultimately it became a fortified site under the Viscount Trencavel, a vassal of the King of Aragon. It was besieged by the King of France and fell in the midst of the efforts to subdue the Cathars (an aescetic religious sect which was declared heretical) and bring Occitan under the control of the King of France. The main features of the current site date from the 12th and 13th centuries, as restored in the 19th by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc when the ruinous fortification was in danger of being demolished by the French government.