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The Old Royal Naval College is the architectural centrepiece of Maritime Greenwich (London, UK).
Listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The buildings were originally constructed to serve as the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, now generally known as Greenwich Hospital, which was designed by Christopher Wren, and built between 1696 and 1712.
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Detail from a plasterwork medallion of Plenty from a ceiling 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 cantilevered stone staircase at the north end has a wrought-iron balustrade, pedimented doorcases and extensive plasterwork including large medallions of Fame and Perseus (seen here). The internal plasterwork has been attributed to the stuccatori Giuseppe Artari and Giovanni Bagutti but their names do not appear in the Strafford papers, and Francesco Vassalli has been proposed instead.
Valletta Harbour. Beautiful place and a huge very deep water harbour. You can see why us British used is as a base for the HQ for the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet back in the day
Valletta Harbour. Beautiful place and a huge very deep water harbour. You can see why us British used is as a base for the HQ for the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet back in the day
Santa Prisca in Taxco Mexico, south of Mexico City. This church is in the Churriesgo style, which is Baroque on steroids.
Baroque multiplicity, complete with saints and everything: La chiesa dei Girolamini - Napoli, Italia
Valletta Harbour. Beautiful place and a huge very deep water harbour. You can see why us British used is as a base for the HQ for the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet back in the day
San Francisco Acatepec church is in the village of San Francisco Acatepec which is just south of Cholula in the state of Puebla.
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Plasterwork swags above a doorway to the staircase 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 cantilevered stone staircase at the north end has a wrought-iron balustrade, pedimented doorcases and extensive plasterwork including large medallions of Fame and Perseus. The internal plasterwork has been attributed to the stuccatori Giuseppe Artari and Giovanni Bagutti but their names do not appear in the Strafford papers, and Francesco Vassalli has been proposed instead.
Parapet with urns at Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire. The house was largely the creation of Thomas Watson-Wentworth, Lord Malton from 1728, earl of Malton from 1734, and marquess of Rockingham from 1746. The building was developed in two main phases. The first, the west side, dates from between 1724 and 1728 and is constructed of brick. The design has been attributed to William Thornton, even though he died as early as 1722, because it makes use of ideas from Rossi's 'Studio di architettura civile' (1702), a source used in other buildings by Thornton, including Beningbrough Hall.
Valletta Harbour. Beautiful place and a huge very deep water harbour. You can see why us British used is as a base for the HQ for the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet back in the day
Valletta Harbour. Beautiful place and a huge very deep water harbour. You can see why us British used is as a base for the HQ for the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet back in the day
Valletta Harbour. Beautiful place and a huge very deep water harbour. You can see why us British used is as a base for the HQ for the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet back in the day
Lead bust in a niche on the north front of Ham House. The core of the house was built by Thomas Vavasour, a naval captain, between 1608 and 1610. It had an H-plan and was of standard Jacobean type, built of brick with stone dressings, but was much altered in the later seventeenth century. In 1626 the house was acquired by William Murray, a courtier close to Charles I, who modernised it in 1637-39. The staircase and suite of first floor rooms leading from it date from this period (the Round Gallery, North Drawing Room, Long Gallery and Green Closet). The design and furnishing of these rooms was directed by Franz Cleyn, the Danish artist who worked for Charles I. Murray supported the king during the Civil War and was created earl of Dysart in 1651 but died in 1655 before the Restoration. Following the death of Murray's wife, Katherine Bruce, in 1649, the house passed to their eldest daughter, Elizabeth Dysart, who had married Sir Lionel Tollemache in 1648. After his death in 1669 she married John Maitland, 2nd earl of Lauderdale, a member of Charles II's cabal, and Secretary of State for Scotland. Between 1672 and 1674 they employed the gentleman architect Sir William Samwell to add a new south front to Ham with matching suites of apartments for themselves on the ground floor and a state apartment for Catherine of Braganza on the floor above. Some of Vavasour's house remains visible on the north front. The lead busts in oval niches below the first-floor windows on this front - one of which is seen here - were inserted c.1800 having been removed from the forecourt wall.
Church of the Theotokos of Kazan was built in 1780s – 1790s under supervision of the architect Karl Blank, though the likely designers could be Vasily Bazhenov or Matvey Kazakov.
Valletta Harbour. Beautiful place and a huge very deep water harbour. You can see why us British used is as a base for the HQ for the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet back in the day
The Chapel Royal at Versailles a wonder, one of the best examples of baroque architecture in France.
43, King Street, Westminster, 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. The ground floor has a reinstated central three-bay porch in antis with columns on pedestals (not seen here, these date from a restoration of 1977 by Fitzroy Robinson Partnership). The windows in the outer bays have segmental arches with keystones. Those at the centre have elliptical arches and impost strings at first and second-floor levels, but originally they were divided by sunken strips. The original staircase in the double-height hall was removed around 1932 and re-erected at South Walsham Hall, Norfolk.
Valletta Harbour. Beautiful place and a huge very deep water harbour. You can see why us British used is as a base for the HQ for the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet back in the day
Valletta Harbour. Beautiful place and a huge very deep water harbour. You can see why us British used is as a base for the HQ for the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet back in the day
Valletta Harbour. Beautiful place and a huge very deep water harbour. You can see why us British used is as a base for the HQ for the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet back in the day
Valletta Harbour. Beautiful place and a huge very deep water harbour. You can see why us British used is as a base for the HQ for the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet back in the day
Baroque castle chamber intended for the King, ground floor and facing the garden. The King will never sleep here but arrested Nicolas Fouquet.
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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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Valletta Harbour. Beautiful place and a huge very deep water harbour. You can see why us British used is as a base for the HQ for the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet back in the day
29, Albury Street, Deptford, was built by Thomas Lucas between 1705 and 1717 but, internally, is substantially a modern reconstruction. It is of two storeys, with an attic and sunk basement. Stock brick with red brick dressings. The parapet conceals a tiled roof with dormers. There are tall, rectangular chimney stacks. The doorcase has panelled pilasters with a pulvinated frieze, and the hood is carried on carved brackets. The brackets have the faces of cherubs and are modern replacements by Charles Oldham, who carved a number in Albury Streeet for Martin Gloyne and Chris Fernside of Greenwich University. This followed the loss of some brackets and the reinstallation of others (after removal by the G.L.C). The door has ten fielded panels. The sunken windows at basement level have been blocked up.
Valletta Harbour. Beautiful place and a huge very deep water harbour. You can see why us British used is as a base for the HQ for the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet back in the day
the 'main building' of Wroclaw University
along the Older, photo from the University Bridge
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Valletta Harbour. Beautiful place and a huge very deep water harbour. You can see why us British used is as a base for the HQ for the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet back in the day
Valletta Harbour. Beautiful place and a huge very deep water harbour. You can see why us British used is as a base for the HQ for the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet back in the day
Valletta Harbour. Beautiful place and a huge very deep water harbour. You can see why us British used is as a base for the HQ for the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet back in the day
Decorative plasterwork from a ceiling 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 internal plasterwork has been attributed to the stuccatori Giuseppe Artari and Giovanni Bagutti but their names do not appear in the Strafford papers, and Francesco Vassalli has been proposed instead.
The grand entrance of the Bode Museum shows of some of the Baroque architecture that makes the building such a landmark in Berlin.
The Bode Museum is one of the group of museums on the Museum Island in Berlin, Germany; it is a historically preserved building. The museum was designed by architect Ernst von Ihne and completed in 1904.