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Marble Church, Copenhagen
~ built 1749-1770; construction ceased; Construction begun anew 1874 funded by entrepreneur Carl Frederik Tietgen. Completed 1894.
~ the dome spans 102 feet / 31 meters.
` initial architect: Nicolai Eigtved
` Tietgen's architect: Ferdinand Meldahl
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Detail of a chimneypiece with paired columns from the Long Gallery at Wentworth Castle, Yorkshire. Wentworth Castle was built by Thomas Wentworth, 3rd Lord Raby, who after 1711 became 1st earl of Strafford (of the second creation). Raby purchased Stainborough Park in 1708 which he renamed Wentworth Castle in 1731. The estate was chosen because it was only six miles away from Wentworth Woodehouse which Raby considered he should have inherited instead of Thomas Watson. The enlargement and renaming of Stainborough was therefore done in a spirit of bitter rivalry and as a bid for the extinct earldom of Strafford (which Raby eventually obtained). The house was enlarged with a new east range designed by Johann de Bodt between 1710 and 1720, although his plans were modified by James Gibbs and William Thornton, the Yorkshire carpenter and builder. The Long Gallery by Gibbs extends the full length of the east front. The two matching chimneypieces have paired columns and a pediment with a griffin in the tympanum.
The very architecturally grand "Griffin Hotel" of 1905 stands on the northern half of Standishgate in Wigan town centre.
It was built in 1905 by the Oldfield Brewery company (hence the gilded terracotta "OBL" above the central window in this photo) in an ornate "Edwardian Baroque" style
The building was in use as a pub until fairly recently but has been closed since sometime in 2018. It is an English Heritage Grade II listed building.
Will the Griffin arise again?
Night falls on the church of Santa Maria della Salute in Venice.
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.
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
Baroque architecture run wild. I confess I am turned off by such displays of riches and opulence in what is supposed to be a "house of God."
This is one of the reasons we had a Reformation Movement.
The Formal Gardens of Blenheim Palace owe much to the 9th Duke of Marlborough who, in the 1920’s, with the help of the French landscape architect Achille Duchêne, redesigned the previously uninspiring gardens to provide the Palace with the formal majestic setting that visitors see today.
April 22, 2022 - On the right is "Saint Charles Borromeo's Church, locally known under the Latin name of Sint-Carolus Borromeus, was built between 1614 and 1621 on instructions of the Jesuit order. Hardly a square foot was untouched by art works, and there are dozens of 17th century depictions of the church, it apparently being a popular travel destination at the time.
Among the art works, were 39 ceiling paintings by Peter Paul Rubens (his studio, and with assistance of Anthony Van Dyck), Antwerp's foremost and one of the world's most famed baroque painters. Unfortunately they have all gone now, after a fire destroyed them and many other works in 1718. The church was subsequently rebuilt and opened its doors again. Sketches of about half of the ceiling paintings by Rubens have been preserved and are distributed in various art collections around the world.
The church received its present name only in 1803, when the church became a parish church, after the Jesuit order was disbanded by the pope.
The facade of the church is impressive and is higher than the church building itself. It is inspired by the Jesuit's mother church in Rome, the Gesu, which was built some 4 decades earlier. The sumptuous decoration on the facade is partly attributable to Peter Paul Rubens.
The High Altar of the church is most remarkable. Behind the altar is a large chest which contains 4 different canvasses. With a system of pulleys, the paintings can be changed throughout the year, according to the liturgical religious year. Two of the original paintings by Peter Paul Rubens, were requisitioned by Empress Maria Theresia of Austria in 1776.
Impressive art works in the church further include two long rows of wooden confessionals, all with sculptures of angels in front. Wooden panels also depict the lives of two of the Jesuit's order principal saints : Saint Ignatius and Saint Francis Xavier.
The Lady Chapel on the right side of the church, is exuberantly decorated with marble, paintings and sculptures. The chapel is dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The painting 'The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary', a copy after Peter Paul Rubens, is displayed behind the altar. Also here, the original painting by Rubens, was 'purchased' by the Empress Maria Theresia in 1776. The ceiling relief in stucco was also designed by Rubens (who seems to have been a profligate designer as well as a painter).
Some parts of the church are only open on certain days (wednesday when we checked lately). They include the Sacristy, which is a repository for textile hangings and vestments from the 17th and 18th centuries, and the Lace Room.
The tower of Saint Charles Borromeo's Church is not visible when you enter from the main facade. It is located along Sint-Katelijnevest, and dates from around 1617 to 1721. The splendid tower has only recently been restored.
Saint Charles Borromeo's Church offers outstanding baroque architecture, outside and inside. It is unfortunate that so many buildings have been built adjacent to the church, preventing it being viewed unhindered." Previous text from the following website: www.discoverflanders.com/antwerp-carolusborromeus.asp
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.
Chiesa di Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza - Saint Yves at La Sapienza
Location: Rome, Italy
Built: 1642-1660
Architect: Francesco Borromini
Architectural style: Roman Baroque
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July 8, 2023 - On the left is: Igreja dos Carmelitas and on the right is: Igreja do Carmo. Between the churches is: Casa Escondida (Hidden House)
"WHAT LOOKS LIKE ONE ENORMOUS church is actually two separate buildings. A hidden three-foot-wide house separates the two structures. The house is so thin, it’s easy to mistake it for a wall.
Igreja dos Carmelitas Descalços was built in the 17th century for Carmelite nuns, and Igreja do Carmo was built in the 18th century for Carmelite monks. Both churches are extravagant sights to behold, making it easy to completely miss the small, humble house standing between them.
There are a number of local stories about why these churches are side by side. The most common tale says it’s because the archbishops couldn’t get along, so one built a church next door to the other in the ultimate architectural spite move. But in reality, the churches don’t actually touch each other, thanks to the house wedged between them.
Local guides give two different reasons for the skinny house’s existence. Some chalk it up to an old law stipulating that two churches couldn’t share a wall. Others say the strange home was erected to keep the nuns and monks from getting too cozy with one another.
What’s most amazing is that people actually lived within the unbelievably narrow abode. It was even inhabited up until the 1980s. Now, visitors can buy a ticket to peek inside this most unusual sliver of a building." Previous description: www.atlasobscura.com/places/carmo-and-carmelitas-churches
Early morning in Lucerne, seen from the balcony of our room at the Hotel des Alpes. Mount Pilatus rises high above the Kapellbrucke and the Jesuitenkirche.
The Kapellbrücke (Chapel Bridge) is the image that comes to mind when most people think of Lucerne, especially those who have been to the city in the Swiss Lakes and seen it for themselves.
A covered wooden footbridge over the Reuss River in Lucerne’s Altstadt (Old Town), it was built in the 14th century and named after the nearby St Peter’s Chapel. However, subsequent fire and destruction means not everything you see is original.
The bridge originally served as part of the city’s defences, helping protect it from attacks from the nearby Lake Lucerne.
Just about everyone who comes to the city will walk across its creaky wooden boards at least once during a visit, passing by the octagonal Wasserturm (water tower) that stands in the middle of the river, and taking in the 17th century panels by Heinrich Wägmann depicting events from Swiss history and mythology.
It is the oldest covered wooden bridge in Europe, while the Wasserturm is older still, having originally stood alone in the rover and served variously as a prison, treasury and town archive.
The Jesuitenkirche (Jesuit Church) on the banks of the Reuss River in Lucerne was built in 1666 by Father Christoph Vogler, and was the first religious building in Switzerland constructed in the baroque style.
It was redecorated in the mid-18th century, with ceiling paintings depicting the apotheosis of St Francis Zavier, and onion-domed twin towers were add in the 19th century.
Mount Pilatus rises high over the shores of Lake Lucerne, only a short bus ride away from the centre of Lucerne itself.
The mountain rose to prominence in the 19th century, when Wagner – a famous resident of Lucerne – hailed its vistas and Queen Victoria visited its summit on horseback.
The peak rises 2,132m (7,000ft) high and popular legend has it that it was named after Pontius Pilate, whose corpse was thrown into a lake at its summit and whose ghost haunted the mountain ever since. However, it is more likely named for the Latin word ‘pileatus’, meaning cloud-covered, given the weather conditions which often surround it.
While Queen Victoria rode her horse to the summit, it is now possible to take either a cable car or a funicular train to reach the top – the latter is dependent on the season, as snow covers the tracks during winter.
At the summit, there is a visitor centre, hotels and restaurants, as well as various footpaths which lead you to viewpoints over Lake Lucerne on one side and the Swiss Alps in the distance on the other.
Castle basement service area corridor, leading to several rooms in the basement. The corridors in this castle at the basement and on the first floor, which run the length of house, provide privacy to the rooms they access. Up to the middle of the 17th century, corridors were essentially unknown.
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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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Sumptuous decoration on the wall of the King's Bedchamber.
In 1701 Louis XIV moved his bedchamber into the drawing room lying east-west in the Palace, facing the rising sun. The three glazed doors into the Hall of Mirrors at the back were blocked off so as to form an alcove for the bed, with a carved and gilded wood balustrade separating the alcove from the rest of the chamber and over the bed a stucco allegory of France watching over the King in his slumber by Nicolas Coustou. It was in this chamber, become the visible sanctuary of the monarchy, that Louis XIV lunched en petit couvert (in relative privacy) and the ceremonies of the King’s rising and retiring took place every day. It was likewise in this chamber that Louis XIV died on 1 September 1715 after reigning for 72 years.
The chamber’s opulent decor of gold and silver brocade on a crimson ground forms a backdrop to paintings chosen by Louis XIV: The Four Evangelists and Paying Caesar’s Taxes by Le Valentin and Giovanni Lanfranco on the upper walls, Saint John the Baptist by Giovanni Battista Caracciolo above the door, Mary Magdalene by Le Dominiquin and two portraits of Antoon Van Dyck. On the two mantelpieces installed during the reign of Louis XV stand a bust of Louis XIV by Antoine Coysevox and a barometer clock and four candelabra that belonged to the Comte de Provence, Louis XVI’s brother.
[Versailles website]
The Palace of Versailles was created at the instruction of Louis XIV, and was the centre of French government and power from 1682, when Louis XIV moved from Paris, until Louis XVI and the royal family was forced to return to the capital in 1789.
The chateau is built around a hunting lodge established by by Louis XIII, and was created in four phases: 1664–68, 1669–72, 1678–84 and 1699–1710, by the architects Le Vau, Le Nôtre, and Le Brun.
Luxurious tableware La Salle des buffets with plates, bowls, candles and more.
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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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Estate cottage at Burnham Overy, Norfolk, with fragments of sculpture by Peter Scheemakers. These were formerly part of the 'Seat on the Mount' on an artificial hillock, the New Mount, in the gardens a Holkham. William Kent began designing these garden buildings in 1737. The New Mount itself was created in 1742 and the 'Seat on the Mount' in 1743.
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
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 church was built between 1751 and 1759 by José de la Borda (ca. 1700–1778), who had made a great fortune in the silver mines surrounding the town.
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San Miguel de Allende is a Mexican city known for its beautiful colonial Spanish-style churches. These impressive structures stand out for their ornamental details and unique designs reflecting Spanish influence in the region. Although these churches have centuries of history, they are still an important attraction for tourists visiting San Miguel de Allende. If you have the opportunity to visit this city, make sure to spend time exploring and enjoying the architectural beauty of these churches.
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
Composite capital from 43, King Street, Westminster. This house was built for Admiral Russell, 1st earl of Orford, in 1716-17, probably to designs by Thomas Archer. The admiral's social connections may have helped him break the uniformity of Inigo Jones's Covent Garden piazza which the house overlooks. The house is of brick with stone dressings, the painted stucco being added at a later date. It has three storeys with an attic and basement. The facade has four giant Composite fluted pillasters on rusticated piers at ground-floor level. The centre is three windows wide, with narrower flanking bays containing two windows (2:3:2). The entablature comes forward above capitals with dosserets (blocks of stone placed above the capitals). The attic storey has a cornice, and its central section was raised in the nineteenth century, probably in 1871, when two iron vases were placed at either end. This replaced a parapet that was ramped up to a central window.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Neuschwanstein Castle stair case centre feature.
(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]