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Rose Window San José Catholic Church Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo located in the City of San Antonio Texas U.S.A.
The Rose Window
La Ventana de Rosa, the Rose Window, is located on the south wall of the church sacristy. The window has been described as the site where the Host was shown to gathered mission celebrants during the Feast of Pentecost.
The window, sculpted ca. 1775, has been the object of both legend and admiration. It is considered one of the finest examples of baroque architecture in North America. The meaning behind the name is currently unknown, but legend has it named for Rosa, the betrothed of Juan Huizar who many believe created the window.
No Photos are allowed in all this area's, as you can see the shutter went off!!!!
Neuschwanstein Castle the Swan is the castle logo and it is on swan lake.
(German: Schloss [formerly Schloß] Neuschwanstein, lit. New Swan Stone palace; pronounced [nɔɪˈʃvaːnʃtaɪ̯n]) is a 19th century Bavarian palace. Located on a mountain top in Germany, near Hohenschwangau and Füssen in southwest Bavaria, the palace was built by Ludwig II of Bavaria as a retreat and as a homage to Richard Wagner, the King's inspiring muse. Although photography of the interior is not permitted,[1] it is the most photographed building in Germany[2] and is one of Germany's most popular tourist destinations.
The palace has been open to the public since 1886. About 1.3 million people vist annually, with up to 6,000 per day in the summer.[3]
La Fachada del Templo y Ex–convento de Santo Domingo de Guzmán, Ocotlan de Morelos, Oaxaca, Mexico
Dominican church dating from 1572, restored in 1999. Now also used as a cultural center and museum.
This baroque church, dedicated to the Irish bishop St. Cathaldus, was constructed in 1745 above a medieval crypt with an underlying Christian hypogeum.
Mdina the ancient capital city of Malta. The Silent City with St Paul's Cathedral as its centre of worship. Mdina is a UNESCO World Heritage Site
The main shopping road in Avignon heading south of Place de l'Horloge.
Rue de la Bonaparte, built from 1856 to 1867, required a major displacement of residents in order to be built. Between Porte de la République and Place de l'Horloge, you will see the old barracks converted into the Hautpoul Civic Center, Agricola Perdiguier Square, the Jesuit church on the former cloister of Saint-Martial, the High School Chapel that became the Lapidary Museum, a bronze fountain by Paul Pamard, the bust of Frederic Mistral and the famous sweet shop, Péchés Gourmands.
On the corner of Rue de la Republique and Rue Frederic Mistral is the former Chapelle du college des Jesuites, now the Musee Lapidaire.
The chapel of the Jesuit College was designed originally to present the medieval sculptures and Gallo-Roman the Musée Calvet . For ten years, these spaces are open to other museum collections of ancient Egyptian, Greek and Etruscan.
These developments herald the faces of future archaeological rooms at the Musée Calvet.
This beautiful testimony of Baroque architecture , located in the heart of Avignon, is not the work of one architect as evidenced by recent research by the historian Alain Breton. Martellange Etienne (1568 or 1569-1641) designed Plans of the church and began construction in 1620 . Eight years later, the architect Avignon Francis Royers of Valfenière said the yard and took him to run.
The building has a plan of great simplicity , consisting of a nave , preceded by a narthex and leading the choir consists of a short-span and a pentagonal apse, flanked by two vestries. In these latter is the ground floor of the towers used respectively tower and shelter for a clock. The nave is flanked on either side of five bays pierced by arcades and dominated by stands with balusters. Above the galleries are superimposed a frieze decorated with plants, a cornice and the attic.
Large windows, now bricked up one side and once fitted with stained glass, whose implementation was entrusted to the glass Nîmes F. Commeaux , surmounted the whole. At the entrance of the nave took place two rounds of stairs accessing the side galleries and the large central gallery with balustrade, built in 1660 only. Architectural decoration, due mainly to the sculptor Avignon, Reynau Barbeau , relies heavily on the rich repertoire of plastic plants: palms, acanthus leaves, garlands, rosettes.
The exuberance of carefully controlled setting, the harmonious distribution in the upper part of the building, exalt the supreme elegance of the ridge overlooking the vaulted nave, while in the choir, play strong lines of the barrel vault terminated by a cul de four pentagonal, forms as an irresistible call to infinity.
All strikes again by his majesty, although the building has undergone many changes and damage as evidenced by the current configuration of the choir. Indeed, in the late seventeenth century a monumental altar of plaster occupied the entire space. This portico of gigantic proportions, which did no less than ten columns, sixteen pilasters, an attic, and made the circuit of the apse, was created by John Péru, architect and sculptor Avignon. The same Péru elaborated the glory of plaster taking place at the base of the apsidal arch. It is also during this time that the niche once provided with a bay window and fitted on the back wall of the apse, was performed.
In the first half of the nineteenth century the transformation of the college hall and chapel in kitchens, laundry and dining room led to the ruin of the choir, the total disappearance of the altarpiece and the partial destruction of the glory of Péru. When in 1851 the church was again assigned to worship, important work intervened within the choir: installation of an altar, a communion of support, restore the glory of Peru .
At the same time, the oak paneling concealing dark base of the pilasters partly covering the walls, breaking somewhat the strength of the original order. Similarly, the beautiful altar of gilded wood adorned the grand stand at the entrance to the nave, made no part of the original decor but comes from the chapel of a commune in the Vaucluse (Thor). In the first two decades of the twentieth century, the chapel underwent many vicissitudes and served, for example, an exhibition of an airplane, fair beekeeping. The decision to locate within its walls a lapidary museum break came very opportunely with solutions sometimes extravagant and ill-suited to the nobility of the building .
We went down Rue Frederic Mistral to go to the Musee Angladon.
Link bridge from the Musee Lapidaire to the Ecole Frederic Mistral.
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Castle (Est.1658) with Herm figures fence. The fence artworks are by Mathieu Lespagnandelle (1616–1689), created between 1659 and 1661, some busts were not finished because of Nicolas Fouquet’s arrest. These busts have the particularity of having a double head in order to be seen from the exterior as well as inside the domain. Eight in total representing Hercule, Zéphyr, Vulcain, Apollon, Cérès, Mercury, Minerva and Flora.
These are just some of the many sculptures and statues at the estate created in the 17th century by famous sculptors.
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Vaux-le-Vicomte (Est.1658) - a baroque French château on a 33 hectares (100 acres) estate with formal gardens along a three-kilometer axis. Built between 1658 to 1661 as a symbol of power and influence and intended to reflect the grandeur of Nicolas Fouquet, Marquis de Belle Île, Viscount of Melun and Vaux, the superintendent of finances of Louis XIV.
The château was an influential work of architecture in mid-17th-century Europe. The architect Louis Le Vau, the landscape architect André le Nôtre, and the painter-decorator Charles Le Brun worked together on this large-scale project. This marked the beginning of the "Louis XIV style" combining architecture, interior design and landscape design. Their next following project was to build Versailles.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaux-le-Vicomte
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Old Town architecture
Four atlantids holding up the balcony of the building.
In European architectural sculpture, an atlas (also known as an atlant or atlantid) is a support sculpted in the form of a man, which may take the place of a column, a pier or a pilaster. The caryatid is the female precursor of this architectural form in Greece, a woman standing in the place of each column or pillar.
I personally admire this scene for a smart dialogue of a brilliant masterpiece of baroque architecture and modern abstract art - Hill Arches by Henry Moore one the foreground.
St. Charles's Church (German: Karlskirche) is a baroque church located on the south side of Karlsplatz in Vienna, Austria. Widely considered the most outstanding baroque church in Vienna, as well as one of the city's greatest buildings, St. Charles's Church is dedicated to Saint Charles Borromeo, one of the great reformers of the sixteenth century.[1]
Located on the edge of the Innere Stadt, approximately 200 meters outside the Ringstraße, St. Charles's Church contains a dome in the form of an elongated ellipsoid. Since Karlsplatz was restored as an ensemble in the late 1980s, St. Charles's Church has garnered fame due to its dome and its two flanking columns of bas-reliefs, as well as its role as an architectural counterweight to the buildings of the Musikverein and of the Vienna University of Technology. The church is cared for by a religious order and has long been the parish church as well as the seat of the Catholic student ministry of the Vienna University of Technology.
Communion rail of wrought iron, similar to work by Jean Tijou (active in England 1688-1712) or his pupil Robert Bakewell of Derby (1682-1752), in the Cathedral Church of St Philip, Birmingham, built by Thomas Archer. The church was designed in 1709 and consecrated in 1715. The communion rail was originally installed on the chancel steps behind a triple-decker pulpit (now removed). In 1884 J.A. Chatwin extended the east end of the church and moved the communion rail to its present position.
The main square of Santiago de Compostela at night. The façade of the Cathedral is brilliantly illuminated and even though it takes until around 10:30pm to even get dark in the summer it's worth the wait and the night time stroll.
39, Fournier Street, London, an early eighteenth-century house built in 1744 as a residence for the minister of the adjacent Huguenot Chapel (probably designed by Thomas Stibbs). The area around Christ Church, Spitalfields, previously a tenter ground and market garden, had been bought by two lawyers, Charles Wood of Lincoln's Inn and Simon Michell of the Middle Temple, and developed between 1718 and 1728 as what has become known as the Wood-Mitchell estate. No. 39 was built slightly later. It is constructed of yellow brick with red brick dressings. It is three windows wide, and has three storeys with basement and attic. The windows are recessed sashes and have segmental arches. The doorcase has rusticated jambs with moulded impost capitals and a console keystone. The door has six fielded panels. There is a radial fanlight. The heavy triangular pediment is supported by carved brackets.
Francesco Borromini, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (“San Carlino”), Rome. Commissioned by Cardinal Francesco Barberini in 1634 for the Holy Order of the Trinity; construction began in 1638 and the church was consecrated in 1646
Green Market in Bamberg, Franconia (Bavaria)
Some background information:
The Green Market is a strung-out place in Bamberg with mainly baroque domestic architecture. It owes its name to the green vegetable, which has always been sold here. The appearance of the place is characterized by the Jesuit church St Martin and the Neptune Fountain from 1698, which is also called “Fork Man” in the vernacular because of the trident, which Neptune holds in one of his hands.
St Martin was consecrated in 1693 after a construction period of seven years. It was planned by Georg and Ludwig Dientzenhofer, two brothers, who became famous architects of German Baroque.
The church stands on the spot of a former Carmelite abbey, which was built in 1248. In 1611 the Jesuits took over the monastery, but already dismantled it a few decades later because the Carmelite church faced east, which wasn’t in accordance with the wishes of the Jesuits. After the abolishment of the Jesuit Order by pope Clemens XIV. In 1773 and the Bavarian Secularisation at the beginning of the 19th century, St Martin became the parish church of Bamberg’s so called lower town, which it still is to the present day.
Bamberg is a town with more than 70,000 residents, located in Upper Franconia. First mentioned in 902, it became a separate diocese in 1007. Its cathedral was already consecrated in 1012.
Besides its beautiful old town, Bamberg is also known for its eight breweries and its famous smoked beer. Since 1993 the old town is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, primarily because of its authentic medieval and also baroque appearance. Bamberg’s core city has more than 1,200 buildings of historic importance.
A wide, frontal shot captures the impressive Wallfahrtsbasilika St. Georg in Walldürn, Germany, on an overcast day. The Baroque church features a facade constructed from reddish-brown sandstone, adorned with prominent pilasters and decorative elements. Its central entrance is topped by an ornate niche containing a statue, likely of Saint George. Above the main roof, two smaller, dark-roofed towers rise, each capped with a golden weather vane in the shape of a rooster and a cross. Bare, pollarded trees with gnarled branches frame the church on both sides, suggesting a winter or early spring setting. The sky is uniformly grey and cloudy, contributing to a solemn atmosphere. The ground in front of the church appears to be a paved square.
The Board Room for Officers of the Ordnance Board at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. The building is attributed to Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor. It is datable to 1718-20 and was extended around 1741. Constructed in red brick with stone windowsills and a slate hipped roof. The plan is one room deep. The front is symmetrical with a frontispiece that has heavy rusticated piers, or banded jambs, with narrow, deeply set windows, supporting a lintel with statues of a lion and a unicorn on pedestals. The upper level has a large arch with balcony, and a recessed round headed window beneath a clock. Above the impost band are small occuli on either side of a wind dial. The gable is treated as an open pediment. On either side of the frontispiece are three bays of tall arched windows with circular ones above. There is a cornice and parapet. The interior is a large hall with a stone and slate floor leading to rooms at either end. The one to the left became the Royal Military Academy in 1741 and later the Model Room. The one to the right became a chapel and more recently an officer's mess.
Built 1913 - 1926 Architect - Arthur W Holmes .... in Baroque style .... Established in 1913 with a largely Irish Catholic congregation, the Church Of The Holy Name was not opened & officially dedicated until March of 1926. Designed to resemble the Basilica di Maria Maggiore in Rome, it is Danforth Avenue's most impressive architectural landmark ....
Francesco Borromini, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (“San Carlino”), Rome. Commissioned by Cardinal Francesco Barberini in 1634 for the Holy Order of the Trinity; construction began in 1638 and the church was consecrated in 1646
Francesco Borromini, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (“San Carlino”), Rome. Commissioned by Cardinal Francesco Barberini in 1634 for the Holy Order of the Trinity; construction began in 1638 and the church was consecrated in 1646
Francesco Borromini, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (“San Carlino”), Rome. Commissioned by Cardinal Francesco Barberini in 1634 for the Holy Order of the Trinity; construction began in 1638 and the church was consecrated in 1646
in 1795, the palace served as a refuge for French royalty fleeing the French Revolution.
Louis XVIII of France and his family lived in the palace between 1798 and 1800.
It was here that Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte of France married Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, in 1799.
Later, Louis lived incognito at the palace from 1804 until 1807.
Les Grottes section with statues and sculptures. In a formal garden designed by landscape architect André le Nôtre.
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Vaux-le-Vicomte (Est.1658) - a baroque French château on a 33 hectares (100 acres) estate with formal gardens along a three-kilometer axis. Built between 1658 to 1661 as a symbol of power and influence and intended to reflect the grandeur of Nicolas Fouquet, Marquis de Belle Île, Viscount of Melun and Vaux, the superintendent of finances of Louis XIV.
The château was an influential work of architecture in mid-17th-century Europe. The architect Louis Le Vau, the landscape architect André le Nôtre, and the painter-decorator Charles Le Brun worked together on this large-scale project. This marked the beginning of the "Louis XIV style" combining architecture, interior design and landscape design. Their next following project was to build Versailles.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaux-le-Vicomte
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Francesco Borromini, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (“San Carlino”), Rome. Commissioned by Cardinal Francesco Barberini in 1634 for the Holy Order of the Trinity; construction began in 1638 and the church was consecrated in 1646
piazza Sette Settembre, Via Toledo, Naples
Mario Gioffredo designed the baroque facade in the mid eighteenth century. / "Facade, work of Antonio Donato Cafaro Pignaloso of Cava dei
Tirreni 1572-76, modified by Mario Gioffrdo 1761-68"
The church itself dates to 1562
www.basilicadellospiritosanto.it/ and wikipedia IT and FR
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Schlüsselburg - Lnáře Municipality. Former Prachens province in the southwestern Bohemia/CZE.
Schlüsselburg - Lnáře - Town of Lnar Municipality
It lies in the northwestern part of Prachens province, some 50 km to the southeast from PILSEN or 100 km southwards from PRAGUE. The easiest way how to reach the locality is to follow international route E49 from Pilsen to [Bohemian] Budweis.
Municipality was mentioned for the first time in the start of the 14th century AD, yet it has been inhabited continually since the 7.-6. century BC by Celts, Marcomans, Doudlebs and their posterity. First knights of Schlüsselburg were an aristocracy of German origin residing at so-called ‚Old Stronghold‘ near a passing of Smolivec Brook en route from the Pisek City to the Pilsen City. Why two names? That’s quite simple – the German name is probably older and means ‚The Key Fort‘, for a legendary golden key was found on the site of fort on the day of St. Mary. The Bohemian name is far less romantic – a flix plant [used as material by common people for their clothing ] was grown here in a large quantity, therefore Lnare means ‚Flix-growers’municipality‘. The English name ‚Town of Lnar‘ could be still find on a 1945 WWII memorial in the centre. The ancient Prachens Region had had its first centre in Prachens [Horazdovice, 20km to the south], than for centuries in Pisek City until the 19th century.
Schlüsselburg was a village drowned in „sea of woods“ on the shores of muddy streams in a vast swampland, which actually covered much of nowadays Blatna Valley. This bogs had been (similarily to another famous lake district town of Wittingau-Trebon) transformed into a very extensive lakeland with hundreds of ponds and lakes. Not only these new semi-artificial lakes protected municipality from health issues connected to bogs and severe floods, but enabled growth of famed fishing industry, major source of revenues until quite recently. After 17th century some decline in fishing industry occurred and much of the waters were drained for new, prospective usage – sheep pastures. As of 1840 there were some 13,000 sheep. Second revival of the fishing industry occured during the 19th century, thanks to the care of local aristocracy. In the 19th century Dr. Theodor Mokry created a breed of an unscaly carp called ‚Lnarsky modrak‘ (‚Bluefish of Lnare‘). A wave of modernity arrived with first train on a brand line between towns Blatná and Pomuk-Dvorec some hundred years ago. Unfortunately for the municipality this train line eased a dramatical outflow of locals into fast growing metropolis of West Bohemian Region, Pilsen. After 1918 the municipality became part of Czechoslovakia, later of Protectorate ‘Böhmen und Mähren‘ and after 1948 part of Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. The winter Velvet Revolution of 1989 brought an end to this totalitarian state and we are enjoying first 20 years of cultural, social and economic revival. Our two chateaux returned to local hands; the larger ‚New‘, to non-aristocratic Vanicek Family and the ‚Old‘ one belongs to the municipality. Devastating floods in August 2002 damaged strongly our valley but we succeeded in rebuilding all of it during 2002-2004. We are pleased to welcome more and more European newcomers [settlers] and visitou every year. Thank You for Your favour ;-)
Municipality is rich in architecture, unique landscape and sights, for example:
Baroque church of St. Joseph [17. century] with very unique fresco paintings
Baroque Chateau [or ‚New Chateau‘, 17. century] - frescoes with mythical ancient Gods, English-French garden [4 hect.] with a little mosque, several stone fountains, pools and rare wood species…
Chapel of St. Anna [end of the 17. cent.]
Annaberg - complex of frame houses, first half of the 19. cent. (in the style of SW German Swabia)
‚Old Stronghold‘ - at least 700 years old remnant of original wooden fort , rebuilt in 1597 as a stone-brick Renaissance chateau; first mentioned in 1465. Now hosts a gallery of contemporary art, infocentre, and flats.
Monumental classical barnyard from the 19. century
Primary school, more than 110 years old
Parish & monastery Church of the Saintest Trinity with the icon of Our Mother of Lnar [17. cent.]
Gothical grave-yard Church of St. Nicholas [14. cent.]
Baroque Chapel in Zahorcice [17. cent.]
Baroque sculptures of saint protectors [at least 9 of them]
Baroque sculptures of [11 pieces, 17. century]
The Giant Logan [some 30 tons, 5 km to the south in Kadov; protected by the law. The biggest and perhaps the most easily accessible in all Bohemia]
Perfect organised pathways/cycleways with infopanels through the countryside
For Geochaching lovers – few caches are to be found here as well ;-)
plus a great wealth of protected lakes, meadows, woods, castles, churches....
COME TO SEE MORE, DEAR FRIENDS !!!
The Grand Canal comes to an end in front of the church of Santa Maria della Salute, seen from the Campanile in St Mark's Square.
The Grand Canal (Il Canal Grande or the Canalazzo) is the main waterway in Venice, dividing the city in two and crossed by only four bridges in its entire near-four kilometre length.
It is much wider than any of the other canals in Venice – between 30m and 70m across – but less than 5m deep and is lined with a number of palaces and churches.
The number one and number two vaporetto services take both locals and (mainly) tourists along its length, allowing them the chance to admire the sights from the water.
The white stone edifice of Santa Maria della Salute – the Salute – was built in the 17th century by a Venetian government who prayed for an end to plague and had their prayers answered.
The Senate had decreed a church to honour the Virgin Mary would be built and they honoured their promise, commissioning Baldassare Longhena to construct the present building.
It took 50 years to erect and is a masterpiece of baroque architecture, owing much to Andrea Palladio. The octagonal structure, with a great dome rising from the base, contains several altars and works of art by painters such as Titian.
Every year on November 21 – the feast of the Presentation of the Virgin – the church is the home of great celebrations and prayers for health and wellness.