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Aula Leopoldina
University of Wroclaw
Above the auditorium, a large allegorical fresco illustrates the apotheosis of Divine Wisdom, the source of all knowledge, and the personifications of the sciences and arts of the time.
The Aula Leopoldina is named for the founder of the original educational institution, the Emperor Leopold I. Room created 1728 - 1732
Christoph Tausch, architect
stucco decorations by Franz Joseph Mangoldt
ceiling painting by Johann Christoph Handke
stucco ornaments and marble decoration were made by the Italian master Ignazio Provisore.
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General view of Andrew's Descent with the Saint Andrew's Church in the background. Andrew's Descent is a historic descent connecting Kyiv's Upper Town neighborhood and the historically commercial Podil neighborhood.
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Visit to the Austrian National Library on Wednesday May 21st, 2025 during the Joint Meeting Vienna. We went as a group before our gala dinner. The library in German is Österreichische Nationalbibliothek and is located at Josefsplatz 1, 1015 Wien. This is truly one of the most stunning libraries I have ever visited. The public area is the State Hall, built in the Baroque style in the 18th century by Emperor Charles the VI whose statue sits in the middle of the space.
The Chapelle Royale (Royal Chapel) was the fifth and final chapel built for Louis XIV, and dedicated to St Louis, patron saint of the Bourbons.
The chapel was built during the fourth (and final) phase of construction.
Designed by architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646-1708), construction on the chapel began in 1689, but work was delayed due to war between France and the Grand Alliance (a coalition between the Anglo-Dutch William III, Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, Charles II of Spain, Victor Amadeus II of Savoy, and other princes); work resumed after France's victory, running from 1699–1710.
The ceiling of the nave is decorated with 'God the Father in His Glory Bringing to the World the Promise of Redemption' by Antoine Coypel; the half-dome of the apse with 'The Resurrection of Christ' by Charles de la Fosse; and above the royal tribune is 'The Descent of the Holy Ghost upon the Virgin and the Apostles' by Jean Jouvenet.
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.
Looking down the Grand Canal towards Il Salute from the Accademia Bridge.
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.
No. 21, Princelet Street (on the right), was built in 1705-06 for the brewer Joseph Truman. No. 19, Princelet Street (on the left), was built by Samuel Worrall (as a pair to No. 17, not shown) in 1719, but had a stucco ground floor added when a synagogue was constructed at the back in 1869. No. 19 is stock brick with red brick dressings and tuck pointing. It is of three storeys, three windows wide, and has a weaver's attic with seven bay window with leaded lights. The windows are sashes in exposed boxes. No. 21 (on the right) is also stock brick with red brick dressings, and has brick bands between the storeys that join it to the remaining houses in Truman's development. The windows at No. 21 have gauged flat arches and, like No. 19, are in flush frames.
French Baroque castle (Est.1658) garden front facade, almost the whole day facing the sun overlooking the park and gardens. Nitice that the small bridge between the castle and garden is open.
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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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17, Princelet Street, Spitalfields, was built as a pair to No. 19 round 1718. The street was first known as Princess and then Princes Street. It was part of the Wood-Michell Estate, developed by Charles Wood of Lincoln's Inn and Simon Michell of the Middle Temple between 1718 and 1728. In September 1718. No. 17 was recorded as having been built by Samuel Phipps, bricklayer, who appears to have carried out the work under an agreement with Samuel Worrall made in September 1717. The house was conveyed by Phipps and others to Daniel Lee of Stepney, weaver, who was recorded as the occupant in 1724. The site at the back, including No. 28 Hanbury Street also built by Phipps, was part of the conveyance. In 1769, 1773 and 1783 the house was occupied by Samuel Ireland, junior, a weaver. No. 17 is built of yellow stock brick with red brick dressings. It has three storeys with an attic and basement. The ground floor has channelled stucco, dating from the nineteenth century, with a stucco band above. The windows have flat red brick arches and jambs. The sashes are in flush frames but the sashes have nineteenth-century 'horns', as seen here. The door has a stucco surround with console brackets supporting a cornice.
Elder Street in Spitalfields was leased for building in 1722. No. 21 is of dark-red brick with rubbed brick dressings. It is of three storeys with basement and attic and three windows wide. The windows have brick segmental arches with fluted keys, and the sills are stone with brackets. The sashes are double-hung and have flush frames.
A cruise liner makes its way down St Mark's Basin, past Santa Maria della Salute, as seen from the top of the bell tower of San Giorgio Maggiore.
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.
33, Albury Street, Deptford, was built by Thomas Lucas between 1705 and 1717, but the front of no. 33 was substantially rebuilt in nineteenth century. The doorcase has panelled pilasters and a hood on carved brackets. These are modern replacements for originals that were lost after being taken into store by the G.L.C. when the terrace was derelict. The brackets at no. 33 were carved by Charles Oldham who made a number for Martin Gloyne and Chris Fernside of Greenwich University who owned houses in the street. The door has ten fielded panels.
Early eighteenth-century. For Joseph Allan, Master Shipwright of the Deptford Dockyard in 1705. Staircase of circa 1710. Three twisted balusters to each tread.
The pilgrimage church of Wies (German: Wieskirche) is an oval rococo church, designed in the late 1740s by Dominikus Zimmermann, who spent the last eleven years of his life in a nearby dwelling. It is located in the foothills of the Alps, the Steingaden municipality of the Weilheim-Schongau district, Bavaria, Germany.
In 1738 tears were seen on a dilapidated wooden figure of the Scourged Saviour. This miracle resulted in a pilgrimage rush to see the sculpture. In 1740 a small chapel was built to house the statue, but it was soon realized that the building would be too small for the number of pilgrims it attracted, and thus Steingaden Abbey decided to commission a separate shrine. Many people who have prayed in front of the statue of Jesus on the altar have claimed that people have been miraculously cured of their diseases, which has made this church even more of a pilgrimage site.
In contrast to the riotous interior, the exterior of the church does not display the ostentatious theatricality and striving for effect typical of that time.
In contrast to the riotous interior, the exterior of the church does not display the ostentatious theatricality and striving for effect typical of that time.
Construction took place between 1745 and 1754, and the interior was decorated in stuccowork in the tradition of the Wessobrunner School. "Everything was done throughout the church to make the supernatural visible. Sculpture and murals combined to unleash the divine in visible form"[1]. The church, commonly regarded as Zimmermann's final masterpiece, was secularized in the beginning of the 19th century. Subsequently, protests of local farmers saved this jewel of rococo architecture and design from being sold and demolished. The Wieskirche was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1983 and underwent massive restoration in 1985-91.
Elder Street in Spitalfields was leased for building in 1722. Nos 15-17 were built as a pair, originally only one room deep in plan. They are of dark-red brick with rubbed brick dressings. Both are of four storeys with basement and attic and three windows wide. No. 15 has one blank above the door at first and second floor levels, while No. 17 has blanks at all three levels. The windows have segment-headed brick arches. At No. 15 the sashes at ground-floor level are also segment-headed. All are double-hung and have flush frames. At No. 15 (on the left) the wooden doorcase has panelled reveals, fluted Doric pilasters (but described as plain in the 1950 listing document), triglyphs, rosettes in metopes and a mutule cornice. At No. 17 (on the right) the wooden doorcase has fluted pilasters and a lozenged frieze.
Colegio de San Ignacio de Loyola Vizcaínas: established in the mid 18th century in a Baroque building that occupies an entire city block in the historic center of Mexico City. The building occupies an entire city block bordered by Las Vizcaínas, Manuel Aldaco and San Ignacio Streets with the Plaza de Vizcaínas to the south. Along the east, west and south sides, the ground level was a series of compartments which opened to the street but not to the interior. These compartments were rented as living quarters and as commercial spaces. These were planned to serve two functions. First they provided rental income to the school and they also offered a barrier on this level between the busy streets and the girls and women inside. The building was designed this way because at the time seclusion was considered an integral part of the formation of women. However, almost all of these compartments are now closed.
Mexico City ☆ Ciudad de México
27 January 2014
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Spectacular garden view from castle “rotunda” lounge roof, the highest point of the castle. It's stunning to see the lanscape along the three-kilometer long axis of the estate. The roof section is one of the most impressive spots to visit and worth the climb.
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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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17, Albury Street, Deptford, was built by Thomas Lucas between 1705 and 1717. No. 17 is of two storeys, an attic and a sunk basement. Stock brick with red brick dressings on quoins, window jambs and window arches. The doorcase has panelled pilasters and a hood on late-eighteenth century carved brackets, and a frieze with paterae and swags of same date. The Door has two fielded and two flat panels. A fanlight of later eighteenth-century design is inserted into an older door.
Three blocks north of the cathedral, the 1786 Iglesia de La Recolección is considered the city’s most beautiful church, a Mexican-style baroque confection of swirling columns and bas-relief medallions that portray the life of Christ. Dyed a deep yellow accented with cream and age, the lavishly decorated façade is stunning. Inside the slender mahogany columns are also remarkable as is the ceiling decorated with harvest motifs.
Palais Königsfeld ● Erzbischöfliches Palais
Built 1735-1737 for Elector Charles Albert's bastard the Count of Holnstein, and/or his mother.
Munich ● München
April 2019
The palace is designed as a four-wing system around a courtyard. The front building was used for representative purposes, while the rear building represented the privacy of the count.
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Elegant double stairways. An original feature is the so-called “rotunda” lounge - from the Italian rotonda - a unique piece. The whole, formed by the vestibule and this large space, forms like a central span. This arrangement, also known as a "lantern", allows the visitor to have a view through the axis of the main courtyard-porch-vestibule-alley in perspective of the gardens located on the other side, around which revolve two parts autonomous each with a staircase.
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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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Roman classicism in the Hall of Mirrors.
The Hall of Mirrors (Grande Galerie or Galerie des Glaces) lies between the Salon de la Guerre (War Room) and the Salon de la Paix (Room of Peace); it is 239ft long with 17 arcaded windows faced by a wall of 17 arches, each containing 29 mirrors.
The hall was built in the Palace's third phase of construction (1678-84), and work began in 1678.
The Hall was only used for ceremonies on exceptional occasions, when sovereigns wanted to lend splendour to diplomatic receptions or regal weddings.
In 1871, at the end of the Franco-Prussian War, Wilhelm I of Prussia was declared Emperor of Germany in the Hall. In 1919 the French Prime Minister Clemenceau chose this location as the site for Germany to sign the Treaty of Versailles.
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.
34, Albury Street, Deptford, was built by Thomas Lucas between 1705 and 1717. No. 34 is of two storeys, an attic and a sunk basement. Stock brick with red brick dressings. The parapet conceals a tiled roof with one dormer. Tall, rectangular chimney stacks. The sash windows are in flush mounted frames. The doorcase has panelled pilasters and a hood on original carved brackets.
Great Ormond Street was developed by Nicholas Barbon from 1686 onwards, and continued after his death by Sir William Millman. The houses at the east end of the street date from 1710-15. No. 1 was built by John Ritchbell, Joshua Walker and H. Hiron. It is of brown brick with red brick dressings, the second and third floors refaced in multi-coloured stock brick, and has four storeys with a basement. The windows have gauged brick flat arches and flush sash windows with exposed boxing. There are brick bands at first- and second-floor levels, and a stone cornice at third-floor level. The wooden Doric doorcase has fluted pilasters and an entablature. The hood is carried by foliated console brackets. The door is panelled and has a rectangular radial overlight. The railings have a cast-iron torch flambé finials.
The Jesuitenkirche stands on the banks of the Reuss River in Lucerne, with the Wasserturm and Kapellbrucke in the river itself.
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.
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.
Stone gate pier with pineapple at 19 The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire, built in the late seventeenth century. The front is nine windows wide with slightly projecting wings. It is built of brick, with two storeys on a stone plinth and stone quoins. There is a wooden modillion eaves cornice. The hipped roof has old tiles. There is a moulded stone string course at first-floor level. The windows are six over six in exposed boxes with thin glazing bars. The dormers have sashes (four over eight). The doorway has a straight hood on a frieze with acanthus brackets carried on scrolls (just visible at lower right).
Perspective view French Baroque castle (Est.1658) and forecourt platform surrounded by a medieval moat. The moat is the only remain of a defensive type of castle replaced by the new one.
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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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Walking up to the Palace of Versailles
The Chapelle Royale to the right.
The Chapelle Royale (Royal Chapel) was the fifth and final chapel built for Louis XIV, and dedicated to St Louis, patron saint of the Bourbons.
The chapel was built during the fourth (and final) phase of construction.
Designed by architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646-1708), construction on the chapel began in 1689, but work was delayed due to war between France and the Grand Alliance (a coalition between the Anglo-Dutch William III, Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, Charles II of Spain, Victor Amadeus II of Savoy, and other princes); work resumed after France's victory, running from 1699–1710.
The ceiling of the nave is decorated with 'God the Father in His Glory Bringing to the World the Promise of Redemption' by Antoine Coypel; the half-dome of the apse with 'The Resurrection of Christ' by Charles de la Fosse; and above the royal tribune is 'The Descent of the Holy Ghost upon the Virgin and the Apostles' by Jean Jouvenet.
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.
Early eighteenth-century. For Joseph Allan, Master Shipwright of the Deptford Dockyard in 1705. Service staircase of circa 1710.
Section of entablature containing a frieze with metopes and triglyphs with guttae, and a cornice with mutules and guttae, from the west end of St John Smith Square, Westminster. Built to the design of Thomas Archer between 1713 and 1728. One of the so-called Fifty New Churches built by the Commission active from 1711 to 1734.
Spectacular garden view from castle “rotunda” lounge roof, the highest point of the castle. It's stunning to see the lanscape along the three-kilometer long axis of the estate. The roof section is one of the most impressive spots to visit and worth the climb.
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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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No Photos are allowed in all this area's, as you can see the shutter went off!!!!
Neuschwanstein Castle (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]
Tepotzotlán, Estado de México
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The facade of the church of San Francisco Javier was constructed between 1760 and 1762 of grey stone and covered the original facade from the 17th century [sic]. This facade is attributed to architect Ildefonso Iniesta Bejarano.
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Perspective view French Baroque castle (Est.1658) and forecourt platform surrounded by a medieval moat. The moat is the only remain of a defensive type of castle replaced by the new one.
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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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Albury Street, Deptford, was built by Thomas Lucas between 1705 and 1717. The houses have two storeys, an attic and sunk basements. Stock brick with red brick dressings. The parapets conceal tiled roofs with dormers. There are tall, rectangular chimney stacks. Sash windows in flush mounted frames. Recessed panels below ground-floor and first-floor windows. The doorcases have panelled pilasters and hoods on carved brackets.
In 1713, one year after the last great plague epidemic, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, pledged to build a church for his namesake patron saint, Charles Borromeo, who was revered as a healer for plague sufferers. An architectural competition was announced, in which Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach prevailed over, among others, Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena and Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt. Construction began in 1716. After J.B. Fischer's death in 1723, his son, Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach, completed the construction in 1737 using partially altered plans. The church originally possessed a direct line of sight to the Hofburg and was also, until 1918, the imperial patron parish church.
As a creator of historic architecture, J.B. Fischer united the most diverse of elements. The façade in the center, which leads to the porch, corresponds to a Greek temple portico. The neighboring two columns, crafted by Lorenzo Mattielli, found a model in Trajan's Column in Rome. Next to those, two tower pavilions extend out and show the influence of the Roman baroque (Bernini and Borromini). Above the entrance, a dome rises up above a high drum, which the younger J.E. Fischer shortened and partly altered. [wikipedia]
Boston House, Chiswick Square, is of c.1680 but refronted around 1740. It is of brown brick with red dressings and five windows wide. There is a moulded cornice, parapet and a roof with three dormers. The windows have flat brick arches and the sashes are in flush frames. The wooden doorcase has Roman Doric fluted pilasters, capitals with recettes, and a pediment. The door has six panels. The forecourt has iron railings and is laid with paving stones.
Self portrait in the Hall of Mirrors
The Hall of Mirrors (Grande Galerie or Galerie des Glaces) lies between the Salon de la Guerre (War Room) and the Salon de la Paix (Room of Peace); it is 239ft long with 17 arcaded windows faced by a wall of 17 arches, each containing 29 mirrors.
The hall was built in the Palace's third phase of construction (1678-84), and work began in 1678.
The Hall was only used for ceremonies on exceptional occasions, when sovereigns wanted to lend splendour to diplomatic receptions or regal weddings.
In 1871, at the end of the Franco-Prussian War, Wilhelm I of Prussia was declared Emperor of Germany in the Hall. In 1919 the French Prime Minister Clemenceau chose this location as the site for Germany to sign the Treaty of Versailles.
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.
Felbrigg Hall was built for Thomas Windham between 1621 and 1624. Many of the same craftsmen worked there as at Blickling in the 1620s. The west wing was designed in 1674 by William Samwell († 1676), a gentleman architect, for William Windham I (1647-89), but it may not have been constructed until the 1680s, after Samwell's death, because one of the rainwater heads is dated 1686. This wing is built of brick, with brick quoins, has eight bays and is two storeys high, with a hipped roof and pedimented dormers, the last-mentioned being added in 1751. The heavily moulded timber eaves cornice has modillions, as seen here.
Barcelona - Sant Miquel del Port - Pedro Martín Cermeño (1753-1755)
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