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De Bazel , former head office of the Nederlandsche Handelsmaatschappy (Dutch Trading Company) is a very imposing building, designed by Karel de Bazel and build between 1919 and 1926. Nowadays the city archive is accomodated here and this treasury is free opened for public.
The Aachen Cathedral Treasury ("Aachener Domschatz") is one of the largest and most important treasuries of medieval Christian artworks in Europe. The treasury has over a hundred works that are exhibited in a museum adjacent to the Aachen Cathedral – the monumental church of Charlemagne, which together with the treasury was added to the first UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list in 1978.
Sarcophagus
Proserpina Sarcophagus
The abduction of Proserpina
Rome, marble, 3rd century AD
The Aachen Cathedral Treasury ("Aachener Domschatz") is one of the largest and most important treasuries of medieval Christian artworks in Europe. The treasury has over a hundred works that are exhibited in a museum adjacent to the Aachen Cathedral – the monumental church of Charlemagne, which together with the treasury was added to the first UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list in 1978.
Reliquary
for the skull relic of St, Anastasius
Partially gilded silver, niello
Antioch, 969/970
The first public structure in Annapolis, MD is the Treasury building. This is next to the State House. Once the capitol of the US, this city is so fun for soaking up history, architecture, and watching the sailboats!
ANP 6313
Capital Bikeshare is a bikesharing service in Washington, DC. They're easy to use and everywhere, including in front of the Treasury Department on Pennsylvania Avenue.
I have an annual membership and use these red bikes all the time. I was coming back from shopping and detoured by the White House to see what was going on. I was struck by the contrast between the red bike and the marble Treasure building so took this photo with my Canon G9X.
The Aachen Cathedral Treasury ("Aachener Domschatz") is one of the largest and most important treasuries of medieval Christian artworks in Europe. The treasury has over a hundred works that are exhibited in a museum adjacent to the Aachen Cathedral – the monumental church of Charlemagne, which together with the treasury was added to the first UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list in 1978.
Panel paintings
with depictions of the life of Virgin Mary
Master of the Life of Virgin Mary in Agachen, Cologne, ca 1485
Detail: the bearded man on the right wears glasses
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Early glasses
Zwei besonders eindrucksvolle Stücke des Nationalmuseums:
Der steinerne Kopf mit drei Gesichtern aus dem 1.-2. Jahrhundert v.Ch.
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Das filigrane goldene Miniaturboot wird datiert ins 1. Jahrhundert v.Chr. Es wurde mit anderen Gegenständen an der Küste von Lough Foyle im Co. Derry gefunden.
Miniature boat date to the 1st century BC. It was found on the ancient shore of Lough Foyle in Co. Derry.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen, who is on a visit to Ukraine.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy highly appreciated the assistance provided by the United States to Ukraine after the start of the full-scale Russian aggression.
“We are extremely grateful to you for the support. The United States has been powerfully supporting us since the first days of this war not only with weapons, but also on the financial front. We really appreciate it,” the Head of State emphasized.
Catch a quick glimpse of this Crown Prince Coronet, as this image will self-destruct as soon as the Royal Treasury finds this image posted on Flickr. Really, it just was a little misunderstanding. Taking photos in this underground vault was apparently forbidden.
Sweden's Royal Regalia are kept deep in the vaults of the Royal Treasury (Swedish: Skattkammaren), underneath the Royal Palace in Stockholm, in a museum which is open to the public. The crowns and coronets have not been worn by Swedish royalty since 1907, but they are still displayed at weddings, christenings and funerals.
The Crown Prince Coronet (seen here), was made for Charles X Gustav to wear at the coronation of Christina as her designated heir. It was hurriedly made in two weeks time from parts of an earlier queen's crown. It has the form of a radial crown with eight triangular rays or spikes and has survived intact except for the addition by Gustav III for his coronation in 1772 of two black enameled sheaves of grain, the heraldic emblem of the Vasa dynasty, one between the front two rays and the other between the back two rays, replacing the smaller ornaments still found between the other rays. Originally worn over an ermine lined hat, the heir apparent's coronet is now worn with a cap of light blue satin covered with gold embroidery. The heraldic crown for the heir apparent is based on the actual appearance of this crown and also shows a central Vasa sheaf between four rays of a jeweled radial crown.
Kent's Treasury, 1733-36 by William Kent. Principal front to north on Horse Guards Parade, ashlar rusticated facade; a variant on the Burlington-Palladio theme, intended to have wings; the completed main block of 3 storeys, 7 windows wide with 3-window pedimented centre-break; semicircular arched central entrance to Treasury Passage in low arcaded ground floor; square headed recessed glazing bar sashes set in large semicircular arched blank panels, with blind balustrading below sills, to upper floors, the central 1st floor window pedimented and the central 2nd floor window of Venetian design filling the panel; the 2nd floor of centre break articulated by engaged Ionic columns supporting the pediment which contains a cartouche of Royal Arms; band course over ground floor, entablature beneath 2nd floor and crowning modillion cornice.
William Kent was an English architect, landscape architect, painter and furniture designer of the early 18th century. Kent introduced the Palladian style of architecture into Britain.
Those two jerks--not the ones in costume, the ones in the white shirts--stood there for a good ten to fifteen minutes ruining the flawless shot the hundred & fifty-odd people at the Treasury could have been taking.
When they were asked to move (because they were spending the time chatting and looking at photos on their cameras) they got really uppity and aggressive.
Good times.
Went to Natural History Museum last week to see Wildlife Photographer of the Year - always great. Then had a little wander round one of my favourite rooms Earth's Treasury. Full of girl's best friends.... Here's a bit of diamond bokeh.
The Treasury of Atreus or Tomb of Agamemnon is an impressive "tholos" tomb on the Panagitsa Hill at Mycenae, Greece, constructed during the Bronze Age around 1250 BC. The lintel stone above the doorway weighs 120 tons, the largest in the world. The tomb was used for an unknown period. Mentioned by Pausanias, it was still visible in 1879 when the German archeologist Heinrich Schliemann discovered the shaft graves under the 'agora' in the Acropolis at Mycenae. The tomb has probably no relationship with either Atreus or Agamemnon, as archaeologists believe that the sovereign buried there ruled at an earlier date than the two; it was named thus by Heinrich Schliemann and the name has been used ever since. The tomb perhaps held the remains of the sovereign who completed the reconstruction of the fortress or one of his successors. The grave is in the style of the other tholoi of the Mycenaean World, of which there are nine in total around the citadel of Mycenae and five more in the Argolid. However, in its monumental shape and grandeur it is one of the most impressive monuments surviving from Mycenaean Greece. It is formed of a semi-subterranean room of circular plan, with a corbel arch covering that is ogival in section. With an interior height of 13.5m and a diameter of 14.5m, it was the tallest and widest dome in the world for over a thousand years until construction of the Temple of Hermes in Baiae and the Pantheon in Rome. Great care was taken in the positioning of the enormous stones, to guarantee the vault's stability over time in bearing the force of compression from its own weight. This obtained a perfectly smoothed internal surface, onto which could be placed gold, silver and bronze decoration. The tholos was entered from an inclined uncovered hall or dromos, 36 meters long and with dry-stone walls. A short passage led from the tholos chamber to the actual burial chamber, which was dug out in a nearly cubical shape.
The entrance portal to the tumulus was richly decorated: half-columns in green limestone with zig-zag motifs on the shaft, a frieze with rosettes above the architrave of the door, and spiral decoration in bands of red marble that closed the triangular aperture above an architrave. Segments of the columns and architraves were removed by Lord Elgin in the early nineteenth century and are now held by the British Museum. The capitals are influenced by ancient Egyptian examples, and one is in the Pergamon Museum as part of the Antikensammlung Berlin. Other decorative elements were inlaid with red porphyry and green alabaster, a surprising luxury for the Bronze Age.
This is Brisbanes Treasury Casino, a heritage listed grand old building long since redeveloped into one of the scourges of modern day society - the gambling den.
Tucked away down the LHS you can just make out a Jamaican musician who I came across a few years ago, and discovered something interesting about him.
If you are within 30m of him and put a camera to your eye, he literally drops his kit and SPRINTS like a greyhound.
Obviously he has had a bad experience with a camera at some point. Normally any street musician welcomes publicity. Maybe I should have dropped some doubletsdoubloons LOL Hamish into his case first.
I have a closeup of him down lower. Haha, I won in the end but it was a very long lens, so maybe not.
2 weeks ago we hd some very hot days and it felt like - wow summer's here.
late yeasterday, a wintery blast came up across southern central Australia, and it was so windy and cold today. There was snow falling over many parts of the Oz eastern side, which was really really unusual. It was even snowing in the elevated regional areas south west of Brisbane.
Sevilla, España
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I stopped to sketch on my walk to work through Treasury Gardens, Melbourne. I love to draw those Moreton Bay Figs
Dìzàng-地藏 - Kṣitigarbha or "Earth Treasury" at Huating Temple, Huátíngsì, 华亭寺. A Buddhist temple on the side of Huating Hill, en-route to the Dragon Gate. Kunming, Yunnan Province, China
This must be the most photographed monument in Petra, but you can't get far enough back to get a good shot, and it is nearly always in shadow. This picture was stitched from four original photos using AutopanoGiga - this enabled me to get a full-on shot of the facade, and shows clearly how it was cut out of the mountain. It is best viewed large.
The Aachen Cathedral Treasury ("Aachener Domschatz") is one of the largest and most important treasuries of medieval Christian artworks in Europe. The treasury has over a hundred works that are exhibited in a museum adjacent to the Aachen Cathedral – the monumental church of Charlemagne, which together with the treasury was added to the first UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list in 1978.
Detail of the Aachen Altar (prev upload)
A child playing with a monkey. The monkey is obviously picking lice off the child.
Pikes Peak
Pikes Peak is the highest summit of the southern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, in North America. The ultra-prominent 14,115-foot (4,302.31 m) fourteener is located in Pike National Forest, 12 miles (19 km) west of downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado. The mountain is named in honor of American explorer Zebulon Pike, who was unable to reach the summit. The summit is higher than any point in the United States east of its longitude.
History
The first European-American to climb the peak came 14 years after Pike, in the summer of 1820. Edwin James, a young student who had just graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont, signed on as the relief botanist for Stephen Harriman Long's expedition after the first botanist had died. The expedition explored the South Platte River up as far as present-day Denver, then turned south and passed close to what James called "Pike's highest peak." James and two other men left the expedition, camped on the plains, and climbed the peak in two days, encountering little difficulty. Along the way, James was the first to describe the blue columbine, Colorado's state flower.
Gold was discovered in the area of present-day Denver in 1858, and newspapers referred to the gold-mining area as "Pike's Peak." Pike's Peak or Bust became the slogan of the Colorado Gold Rush (see also Fifty-Niner). This was more due to Pikes Peak's visibility to gold seekers traveling west across the plains than any actual significant gold find anywhere near Pikes Peak. Major gold deposits were not discovered in the Pikes Peak area until the Cripple Creek Mining District was discovered southwest of Pikes Peak and led, in 1893, to one of the last major gold rushes in the lower 48 states.
In July 1860, Clark, Gruber and Company commenced minting gold coins in Denver bearing the phrase "Pike's Peak Gold" and an artist's rendering of the peak (sight unseen) on the obverse. In 1863, the U.S. Treasury purchased the minting equipment for $25,000 to open the Denver Mint.
Julia Archibald Holmes and James Holmes traveled to the Rocky Mountains in Colorado in 1858, and reached the summit on August 5, with J. D. Miller and George Peck, making Archibald Holmes the first European-American woman to climb Pikes Peak. From the summit, she wrote in a letter to her mother: "Nearly everyone tried to discourage me from attempting it, but I believed that I should succeed; and now here I am, and I feel that I would not have missed this glorious sight for anything at all.”[8][9]
Thirty-five years later, in July 1893, Katharine Lee Bates wrote the song "America the Beautiful", after having admired the view from the top of Pikes Peak. It appeared in print in The Congregationalist, a weekly journal, on July 4, 1895. A plaque commemorating the words to the song was placed at the summit.
During 1899, the Serbian physicist Nikola Tesla built his first working version of the Magnifying Transmitter in his laboratory some kilometers away from Colorado Springs, up in Pike's Peak, where he worked on his idea of wireless energy transmission and investigated the ionosphere and the telluric currents in the planets.[10] Here, he proved that Earth is a good conductor, and he produced artificial bolt of 40 meters and millions of volts.[11] He stated that during this year he discovered the Earth' stationary waves.[12]
On July 17, 1913 William Wayne Brown drove his car, the Bear Cat, 20 miles to the summit.[13][14] The ascent took 5 hours and 28 minutes.
The uppermost portion of Pikes Peak, above 14,000 feet (4,300 m) elevation, was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961.[15][16]
Pikes Peak was the home of a ski resort from 1939 until 1984.[17]
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikes_Peak