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Vilnius, 15-06-2006 | Вильнюс, 15-06-2006.
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My Vilnius, June 2006 set in my Eastern Europe collection and my European Union collection.
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Neo baroque style architecture viewed from below, Regent Street, London, England
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Several shots at different focal lengths, (very) roughly joined together for a different architectural view.
Scenes from a walking tour of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in the Santa Cruz Mountains. All taken with the Pentax K10D camera using the smc P-DA 35mm F2.8 lens. PP with LR 3 to crop and set some curves depending on lighting conditions.
The Piranesi Vase
The celebrated Italian architect and engraver Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) is best known for his architectural views of ancient and modern Rome aimed at the Grand Tour market. By the late 1760s he began to engage in the lucrative restoration and sale of antiquities. In business partnership with the British dealer Gavin Hamilton (1723-98), he acquired in 1769 a great number of ancient fragments found at the Pantanello, a site on the grounds of the villa of the Roman Emperor Hadrian at Tivoli near Rome. He restored these fragments and incorporated them into highly decorative pastiches, many of which he published in Vasi, Candelabri, Cippi, Sarcofagi… (2 vols, 1778). Most of the plates in this publication were dedicated to past or prospective clients, over fifty of whom were British, indicating their pre-eminence on the antiquities market.
Piranesi’s description of this vase in his book (vol. II plates 58-59) praises it as a fine work of the time of the Roman emperor Hadrian (reigned AD 117-138). However, it does not mention that only small sections of it are ancient (two of the bull's heads on the base, sections of the lion's legs and parts of the relief depicting satyrs picking grapes), while the rest are entirely of his own making. In effect, the vase is a grand neo-classical work rather than an antiquity.
The Piranesi Vase was acquired in Rome by the Scottish merchant John Boyd. A large West Indian proprietor, Boyd had been made a baronet in 1775 and immediately after embarked on his Grand Tour of Italy from 1775 to 1776. He owned Danson House, Bexley, a handsome Georgian villa built in 1762-67 by the architect Sir Robert Taylor, where he displayed his large collection of paintings, books and a number of antiquities.
Details
•Title: The Piranesi Vase
•Date Created: 100/199
•Physical Dimensions:
oHeight: 271.78cm
oDiameter: 71.12cm (max)
•Subject: Satyr; Mammal
•Registration Number: 1868,0512.1
•Producer: Made by Piranesi, Giovanni Battista
•Place:
oFound/Acquired: Hadrian’s Villa
•Period/Culture: Roman
•Material: Marble
•Acquisition: Purchased from Johnston, Hugh. Purchased from Boyd, John
This is River Street in Savannah GA. The old mixed with the new, some of these windows are apartments others are shops. Either way it’s a great place to be! These windows face the water front…
Esto es lo que se ve en un Museo en temporada alta y en verano. Increíblemente espectacular pero al mismo tiempo desesperante.
By Leslyr.
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Olomoucký Dóm, Chrám sv. Václava, výhled z ochozu pod vrcholem jeho nejvyšší věže
St. Wenceslas church, view from the walkway below the top of its tallest spire
view from Eiffel Tower looking towards The Sacré-Coeur, at Montmatre...
..consecrated in 1919, is one of the most iconic monuments in Paris. At the top of the Butte Montmartre, it has one of the most beautiful panoramic views of the capital, from 130 metres above ground. In a Roman-Byzantine style, the Sacré Coeur is recognizable by its white colour.