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Burgtheater building (1, Franzensring 12, University Ring 2, 1888 k.k. Hofburgtheater, 16 November 1918 Hof-Burgtheater, 3 December 1918 Burgtheater).
With the construction of the Ring Road, the construction of a new building for the Burgtheater was planned. The Old Burgtheater was part of the Hofburg and had to give way to the redesign of the Saint Michael wing. After nearly a quarter of a century of planning and building, the new Burgtheater opened on October 14, 1888 with Franz Grillparzer's "Esther" and Friedrich Schiller's "Wallenstein's Camp".
The groundbreaking ceremony for the new Burgtheater, which was partly built on the grounds of the former Paradeisgartel (very small tomato garden) at the former Franzensring, took place on 16 December 1874; the plans are by Gottfried Semper and Carl von Hasenauer (interior design); the auditorium had to be rebuilt in 1897 because of bad acoustics.
During the construction, a ashlar stone from the old Löwel bastion ("1544") was used in the left underground passageway, which formerly extended here.
Appearance
The building is dominated by a mighty vaulted central part, on whose high attic is an 18-meter-long bas-relief by Rudolf Weyr ("Bacchantenzug - group of Bacchants"), above it on the balustrade the colossal group "Apollo with the Muses Melpomene and Thalia" (tragic and comical Muse ) by Carl Kundmann. On both sides extend sweeping wings, which include, inter alia, the two box staircases; on the outer ends they have passages with overlying loggias, on the front and back fronts they are adorned by allegorical groups of figures by Johannes Benk, which symbolize virtues and passions that equally dominate life and drama (love/hate, heroism/selfishness, humility/domination).
In the niches of the side facades are statues of Viktor Tilgner (Buffoon, Falstaff, Phaedra, Don Juan) and Hanns Gasser (Prometheus, Genoveva). The colossal busts above the windows of the first floor in the central building were designed by Viktor Tilgner (center: Goethe, Schiller, Lessing, left: Calderon, Shakespeare, Molière, right: Halm, Grillparzer, Hebbel); in the gussets below figures from dramas of the respective poets, the front of Weyr, the other of Tilgner, Silbernagl and Costenoble.
Pairs of gusset figures by Tilgner are attached to the front of the two wings (Kleist and Otto Ludwig on the left, Kotzebue and Bauernfeld on the right); all other components also bear rich figural decoration.
On the facade facing Löwel street there is a commemorative plaque on either side of the door niche: the left one reminds of the Löwel bastion and has the following inscription: "At this place rose the Loebel bastion built in 1546 and demolished in 1872". From the old bastion stem also the brick which is walled in the right, seen from the Ring, passage behind the grid. The stone bears the year MDXXXXIIII (1544). The right panel is dedicated to the memory of the Turkish siege of 1683: "From the 8th to the 11th of September, 1683, the brave defenders of Vienna rejected the most violent and last attacks of the Turks".
Interior
The original auditorium was a combination of the box- and gallery theater (1945 destroyed). The splendid grand staircase in the side wings have been preserved in their original form (ceiling paintings depicting the development of the theater, on the right side (seen from the People's Garden) "Dionysus Theater in Athens" by Franz Matsch, London Globe Theater by Gustav Klimt and Molière theater in Paris by Ernst Klimt; Taormina by Gustav Klimt, Mystery Stage of the Middle Ages by Franz Matsch and "Buffoon on the Fair" by Ernst Klimt).
On the middle platforms of the similarly-shaped staircases, there are pictures of important actors in the wall niches (on the left staircase to the left of Carl Costenoble: Thespis, Kallipides, Quintus Roscius, Richard Burbadge, to the right of Anton Paul Wagner: Sebastian de Prado, Maria Calderon, Jean Baptiste Poquelin [Molière ], David Garrick, in the right staircase on the left Johann Friedrich Ferdinand Fleck, Ferdinand Johann Baptist Esslair, Ludwig Devrient and Carl Seydelmann [all by Josef Fritsch], on the right Caroline Neuber, Friedrich Ludwig Schröder, Konrad Ekhof and August Wilhelm Iffland [all by Josef Lax]).
On the stairs are actor busts: left Friedrich Halm, Friedrich Hebbel, Eduard von Bauernfeld, Franz Grillparzer (all by Viktor Tilgner), Gerhart Hauptmann (by Gottfried Behn), Anton Wildgans (by Georgi), Adolf Wilbrandt (by Caspar von Zumbusch); on the right Josef Kainz (by Sandor Jaray), Hugo Thimig (by Stemolak), Josef Lewinsky and Charlotte Wolter (by Viktor Tilgner), Max Devrient and Ernst Hartmann (by Hans Dietrich) and Georg Reimers (by Kaminsky), at the stair entrances busts of Raoul Aslan and Albert Heine (both by Andre Roder).
Above the entrance doors to the ground floor boxes allegorical marble groups by Johannes Benk (left: truth and poetry, right: wisdom and beauty), in the vestibule of the lodge house, portrait statues of stage stars (among others Joseph von Sonnenfels and Friedrich Schreyvogel by Johann Silbernagl, Heinrich Laube and Franz Dingelstedt von Heinrich Natter); the ceiling paintings in the foyer are by Eduard Charlemont and the marble thermal baths in the vestibule of the Emperor's staircase by Viktor Tilgner; the frieze on the stairwell was painted by August Eisenmenger; in the first and second foyer hang actor portraits (see Burgtheater gallery).
On 12 March (bombing hit) and 12 April 1945 (artillery hit, fire), the premises of the auditorium were largely destroyed. The operation was already resumed on April 30, 1945 in the Ronacher, which Buschbeck had found as an alternative stage (opening with Grillparzer's "Sappho").
Reconstruction (1948-1955) was carried out by Michel Engelhart (whose plans paid the most attention to the structure) as a result of a call for tenders to which twelve architects had been invited; acoustic deficiencies and the poor visibility of the originally lyre-shaped log theater were resolved (omission of the court lodge, introduction of two ranks), also installed a lift-transfer table of high technical standards. The reopening of Mozart's Kleiner Nachtmusik (a small night music) took place on October 14, 1955 under director Rott, and a day later the first play (Grillparzer's "King Ottokar's Luck and End") was played in the restored "Castle".
Gebäude des Burgtheaters (1, Franzensring 12, Universitätsring 2; 1888 k.k. Hofburgtheater; 16. November 1918 Hof-Burgtheater; 3. Dezember 1918 Burgtheater).
Mit der Anlage der Ringstraße wurde der Bau eines neuen Gebäudes für das Burgtheater geplant. Das Alte Burgtheater war Bestandteil der Hofburg und musste der Neuplanung des Michaelertraktes weichen. Nach fast einem Vierteljahrhundert des Planens und Bauens wurde das neue Burgtheater am 14. Oktober 1888 mit Franz Grillparzers "Esther" und Friedrich Schillers "Wallensteins Lager" eröffnet.
Der erste Spatenstich zum neuen Burgtheater, das teilweise auf den Gründen des ehemaligen Paradeisgartels am damaligen Franzensring erbaut wurde, erfolgte am 16. Dezember 1874; die Pläne stammen von Gottfried Semper und Carl von Hasenauer (Innengestaltung); der Zuschauerraum musste wegen schlechter Akustik 1897 umgebaut werden.
Während des Baues wurde in die linke Unterfahrt ein Quaderstein von der alten Löwelbastei ("1544") eingesetzt, die sich ehemals hier ausgedehnt hatte.
Äußeres
Der Bau ist durch einen mächtigen vorgewölbten Mittelteil geprägt, auf dessen hoher Attika sich ein 18 Meter langes Basrelief von Rudolf Weyr ("Bacchantenzug") befindet, darüber auf der Balustrade die Kolossalgruppe "Apollo mit den Musen Melpomene und Thalia" (tragische und komische Muse) von Carl Kundmann. Nach beiden Seiten erstrecken sich weitausladende Flügelbauten, die unter anderem die beiden Logentreppen aufnehmen; an den äußeren Enden besitzen sie Durchfahrten mit darüberliegenden Loggien, an den Stirn- und Rückenfronten sind sie durch allegorische Figurengruppen von Johannes Benk geschmückt, die Tugenden und Leidenschaften symbolisieren, die gleichermaßen das Leben und das Drama beherrschen (Liebe/Hass, Heroismus/Egoismus, Demut/Herrschsucht).
In den Nischen der Seitenfassaden befinden sich Statuen von Viktor Tilgner (Hanswurst, Falstaff, Phaedra, Don Juan) und Hanns Gasser (Prometheus, Genoveva). Die Kolossalbüsten oberhalb der Fenster des ersten Stocks im Mittelbau schuf Viktor Tilgner (Mitte: Goethe, Schiller, Lessing; links: Calderon, Shakespeare, Molière; rechts: Halm, Grillparzer, Hebbel); in den Zwickeln darunter Gestalten aus Dramen der jeweiligen Dichter, die vorderen von Weyr, die anderen von Tilgner, Silbernagl und Costenoble.
An der Vorderseite der beiden Flügel sind Zwickelfigurenpaare von Tilgner angebracht (links Kleist und Otto Ludwig, rechts Kotzebue und Bauernfeld); auch alle übrigen Bauteile tragen reichen figuralen Schmuck.
An der zur Löwelstraße gerichteten Fassade befindet sich beiderseits der Tornische je eine Gedenktafel: Die linke erinnert an die Löwelbastion und hat folgende Inschrift: "An dieser Stelle erhob sich die im Jahre 1546 erbaute und im Jahre 1872 abgebrochene Loebelbastei". Von der alten Bastion stammt auch der Ziegel, der in der, vom Ring aus gesehen rechten Durchfahrt rechts hinter dem Gitter eingemauert ist. Der Stein trägt die Jahreszahl MDXXXXIIII (1544). Die rechte Tafel ist der Erinnerung an die Türkenbelagerung 1683 gewidmet: "Vom 8ten bis 11ten Sept. 1683 wiesen von hier aus die tapferen Vertheidiger Wiens die heftigsten und letzten Angriffe der Türken zurück".
Inneres
Der ursprüngliche Zuschauerraum war eine Verbindung von Logen- und Rangtheater (1945 zerstört). Die prachtvollen Feststiegen in den Seitenflügeln sind original erhalten geblieben (Deckengemälde, welche die Entwicklung des Theaters darstellen; rechts [Volksgartenseite] "Dionysostheater in Athen" von Franz Matsch, Globetheater in London von Gustav Klimt und Molièretheater in Paris von Ernst Klimt; links Theater in Taormina von Gustav Klimt, Mysterienbühne des Mittelalters von Franz Matsch und "Hanswurst auf dem Jahrmarkt" von Ernst Klimt).
Auf den Mittelpodesten der gleichartig gestalteten Stiegenhäuser stehen in Wandnischen Standbilder bedeutender Schauspieler (im linken Stiegenhaus links von Carl Costenoble: Thespis, Kallipides, Quintus Roscius, Richard Burbadge, rechts von Anton Paul Wagner: Sebastian de Prado, Maria Calderon, Jean Baptiste Poquelin [Molière], David Garrick; im rechten Stiegenhaus links Johann Friedrich Ferdinand Fleck, Ferdinand Johann Baptist Esslair, Ludwig Devrient und Carl Seydelmann [alle von Josef Fritsch], rechts Caroline Neuber, Friedrich Ludwig Schröder, Konrad Ekhof und August Wilhelm Iffland [alle von Josef Lax]).
Auf den Treppenpodesten stehen Schauspielerbüsten: links Friedrich Halm, Friedrich Hebbel, Eduard von Bauernfeld, Franz Grillparzer (alle von Viktor Tilgner), Gerhart Hauptmann (von Gottfried Behn), Anton Wildgans (von Georgi), Adolf Wilbrandt (von Caspar von Zumbusch); rechts Josef Kainz (von Sandor Jaray), Hugo Thimig (von Stemolak), Josef Lewinsky und Charlotte Wolter (von Viktor Tilgner), Max Devrient und Ernst Hartmann (von Hans Dietrich) und Georg Reimers (von Kaminsky), bei den Stiegeneingängen Büsten von Raoul Aslan und Albert Heine (beide von Andre Roder).
Über den Eingangstüren zu den Parterrelogen allegorische Marmorgruppen von Johannes Benk (links Wahrheit und Dichtung, rechts Weisheit und Schönheit), im Vestibül des Logenhauses Porträtstatuen von Bühnengrößen (unter anderen Joseph von Sonnenfels und Friedrich Schreyvogel von Johann Silbernagl, Heinrich Laube und Franz Dingelstedt von Heinrich Natter); die Deckengemälde im Foyer stammen von Eduard Charlemont und die Marmorhermen im Vestibül der Kaiserstiege von Viktor Tilgner, den Fries auf der Stiegenrotunde malte August Eisenmenger; im ersten und zweiten Foyer hängen Schauspielerporträts (siehe Burgtheatergalerie).
Am 12. März (Bombentreffer) und 12. April 1945 (Artillerietreffer, Brand) wurden die Räumlichkeiten des Zuschauerhauses weitgehend zerstört. Der Spielbetrieb wurde bereits am 30. April 1945 im Ronacher, das Buschbeck als Ausweichbühne gefunden hatte, wieder aufgenommen (Eröffnung mit Grillparzers "Sappho").
Der Wiederaufbau (1948-1955) erfolgte aufgrund des Ergebnisses einer Ausschreibung, zu der zwölf Architekten eingeladen worden waren, durch Michel Engelhart (dessen Pläne auf den Bestand die größte Rücksicht nahmen); akustische Mängel und die schlechten Sichtverhältnisse des ursprünglich lyraförmig angelegten Logentheaters wurden behoben (Weglassen der Hofloge, Einführung von zwei Rängen), außerdem eine Hub-Schiebebühne hohen technischen Standards eingebaut. Unter Direktor Rott erfolgte am 14. Oktober 1955 die Wiedereröffnung mit Mozarts Kleiner Nachtmusik, einen Tag später wurde das erste Theaterstück (Grillparzers "König Ottokars Glück und Ende") in der wiederhergestellten "Burg" gespielt.
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Since the movie Prometheus probably the most well-known waterfall in Iceland. The amount of water going over the ledge is impossible to grasp - the noise it makes drowns out any thought you might have, and you just find yourself taking picture after picture, but none of them really capturing what this wonder of nature really is.
From Wikipedia: Paul Manship's highly recognizable bronze gilded statue of the Greek legend of the Titan Prometheus recumbent, bringing fire to mankind, features prominently in the sunken plaza at the front of 30 Rockefeller Plaza. The model for Prometheus was Leonardo (Leon) Nole, and the inscription, a paraphrase from Aeschylus, on the granite wall behind, reads: "Prometheus, teacher in every art, brought the fire that hath proved to mortals a means to mighty ends." Although some sources cite it as the fourth-most familiar statue in the United States, behind the Lincoln Memorial, Mount Rushmore, and the Statue of Liberty, Manship was not particularly fond or proud of it.
This is a marble bust from ancient Rome, which I shot in the Mediterranean Museum. I really like how the lighting can make something so old seem so futuristic.
As an aside, this is my 1100th upload.
A still from the second Prometheus trailer shows two ships colliding, the one on the right is definitely the Alien ship
In this view from #Galileo on Feb. 22, 2000, you're looking down into the sulfur dioxide plumes erupting from the western lava flow field of Prometheus Patera on Io. The brightest areas are the plumes, composed of gas and dust. West is up in this view.
Shaw, David, Captain Janek, Millburn, Holloway and Fifield.
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made with: Space marine bodies, various heads, helmets are made from old Mr. Freeze helmets. Janek (my fav one) made from a rebel endor trooper with special colour parts, new Lando head and black cap
In the Swiss Alps near the Italian border is a small valley town called Lostallo. For the 5th summer in a row Shankra festival made this place its home for a goa-psytrance festival.
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... e Giove inflisse a Prometeo una tremenda punizione: lo incatenò a una rupe e mandò un avido avvoltoio a divorargli il naso, tutti i giorni, anno dopo anno.
Il tormento di Prometeo non aveva mai fine perché ogni notte il naso gli ricresceva rinnovando in eterno il suo supplizio.
...and Zeus inflicted a dreadful punishment on Prometheus: he chained him to a rock and sent a vulture to tear at his nose each day, year after year.
the torment of Prometheus was endless because every night his nose would grow back again and renew his torture forever
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The main branch of the New York Public Library (NYPL) is located in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on 5th Avenue & 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan.
There's a lot to digest here. The building itself opened in 1911, after 14 years of construction on the former Croton Reservoir. On the east (Fifth Avenue) side of the building is the main entrance with the two lions -- Patience and Fortitude -- that are synonymous with the library. They were originally called Leo Astor and Leo Lenox, later called Lord Astor and Lady Lenox, then finally given these names by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in the 1930s. (More on the former names to follow.) The west side of the library faces directly onto Bryant Park -- and these pictures are in the Bryant Park set because the library shares the block with the park, and extends underneath it.
The NYPL was created in 1895 mainly with the efforts of Samuel Tilden (who "lost" the 1876 presidential election, but that's a completely separate story). Tilden bequeathed a great deal to the creation, along with a donation of $5.2 million from Andrew Carnegie, and the libraries of John Jacob Astor and James Lenox (hence the original names of the lions).
Regarding the collection, it's hard to say what all is in it. The main branch here stopped being a circulating library in the 1970s, and is now one of four research libraries in the system. There are 2.5 million pieces in this collection, located in 9 divisions of this branch. The first (original) Gutenberg Bible purchased outside of Europe is located here.
The interior of the library is as impressive as the exterior. The main attraction inside is Room 315, the Rose Main Reading Room. You can only see the reading room on a guided tour (unless, of course, you're actually doing research). Otherwise, you have to stand outside the door and stare inside, but you can only see the Bill Blass Public Catalog Room from the rotunda.
Speaking of the rotunda, the McGraw Rotunda contains four panels by Edward Laning that were part of a works project in the 1940s. The entrance to the main reading room is on the west side of the rotunda. Opposite on the east side is the Salomon Room.
The main branch was immediately popular, and receives millions of visitors a year. It's so popular that it's a character (background, or sometimes main character) in movies, television, books, and even poetry, and has been for almost one hundred years.
Among the films you can see the library are:
42nd Street (1933), On the Town (1949), Pickup on South Street (1953), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Network (1976), Ghostbusters (1984), The (remake of the) Thomas Crown Affair (1999), Spider-Man (2002), John Wick 3 (2019), and many others.
A Seinfeld episode (The Library) was filmed here. In books, you can find the main branch referenced as early as Lawrence Blochman's Death Walks in Marble Halls (1942) to Lynne Sharon Schwartz's Writing on the Wall (2005), and a few in between. "A Library Speaks" and "Reading Room" by E.B. White (Charlotte's Web) are poems about the library.
I've been to New York plenty of times, but haven't taken a tour of the library, but the more I learn about it...the more I'm inclined to go back.
Prometheus Awakes
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"From the company that gave the world its most advanced space vehicle of the 21st century, comes a new design even more impressive than the last. Heliades, the galaxy’s first ever FTL vehicle, has been the proud flagship of the Weyland Transportation division since 2034. Today, after thirty-eight years of development, Weyland announces the newest member of its impressive fleet: the larger, safer, FTL-capable, Prometheus. "
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The movie was great, and the ship is excellent in design. Please comment and fave!
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During SDCC at San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA, USA on July 14 2012 Photo: Jason Chau
Date: July 14 2012
Time: 11 : 26 : 37 AM
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