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Interior of the dome for the church
Sant'Agnese in Agone (1652-1668)
Piazza Navona
Via S.Maria dell’Anima, 30/A
00186 ROMA
Italy
The cupola is frescoed with a representation of St. Agnes entering into the Glory of the Paradise ("Sant'Agnese introdotta alla Gloria del Paradiso"), painted by Ciro Ferri (Rome 1634 – 1689), begun 1670 and finished in 1689 by Sebastiano Corbellini, upon the latter's death.
The building of the church was begun in 1652 at the instigation of Pope Innocent X (born as Giovanni Battista Pamphili, remember the famous Portrait painted by Diego Velázquez that was such an inspiration to Francis Bacon) whose family palace, the Palazzo Pamphilj (1644-1650), also by Girolamo Rainardi, now the Brazilian Embassy, is adjacent to this church.
subsequent architects:
1652-1653 : Girolamo Rainaldi (Rome 1570-1655) + son Carlo Rainaldi, responsable for the Greek Cross floorplan
1653-1657 : Francesco (Castelli) Borromini (Bissone, Canton of Ticino 1599 – Rome 1667)
1657-1672 : Carlo Rainaldi (Rome 1611 – 1691)
1667-1668 : Giovanni Maria Baratta constructed the bell-towers, while his brother Giuseppe Baratta completed the grand entrance steps and Gian Lorenzo Bernini supervised the interior decorations
(PS: sources on the dates of succession of architects are unclear or contradictory, so sorry if it's not quite correct)
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Inscribed cartouche on the almshouses at Trinity Green, Whitechapel, which were founded through the benefaction of Captain Henry Mudd of Ratcliff (d. 1692) and built in 1695 by William Ogbourne, master carpenter, for the Corporation of Trinity House. The residents were '28 decayed masters and commanders of ships or the widows of such'. The almshouses are in two facing rows, one storey high, with basements, and a wooden block and bracketed eaves cornice. The end of each row of the almshouses terminates on Whitechapel Road with an elevation of two storeys in brick with stone dressings, rusticated angled stone quoins, a modillioned cornice and a central cartouche with an inscription (as seen here).
Church of Santo Domingo de Guzman ♦ Iglesia de Santo Domingo de Guzmán
Oaxaca, Mexico
30 Jan. 2014
2014-Mexico 1850
This Church was built on the site where Emperor Alexander II was severely wounded and died in March 1881.The church was built from 1883 till 1907. The construction was funded by the imperial family.
The Church is now one of the main tourist attractions in St. Petersburg. Bus loads of tourists arrive daily and get their 15 minutes of exterior shot before being moved on.
The magnificent 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
The convent's main church (catholicon or sobor), a stunning blue-and-white building, is considered to be one of the architectural masterpieces of the Italian architect Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, who also created the Winter Palace, the Grand Catherine Palace (Yekaterininsky) in Tsarskoye Selo (Pushkin), the Grand Palace in Peterhof and many other major St. Petersburg landmarks.
The Cathedral is the centerpiece of the convent, built by Rastrelli between 1748 and 1764. The projected bell-tower was to become the tallest building in St. Petersburg and, at the time, all of Russia. Elizabeth's death in 1762 prevented Rastrelli from completing this grand design. Catherine II disfavored the project and the architectural style.
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Wooden doorcase with architrave swept up to centre at 31, Fournier Street, London, an early eighteenth-century house. The door has eight fielded panels. The area around Christ Church, Spitalfields, previously a tenter ground and market garden, was bought by two lawyers, Charles Wood and Simon Mitchell who leased out plots from 1718 onwards. No. 31, Fournier Street was built by Samuel Worrall, a carpenter, in 1725. The entrance to his yard was between Nos 33 and 35.
14 and 16, Rugby Street, Camden, are two of a terrace of four houses dating from around 1721. They are of brown brick with red brick dressings, and some houses in the terrace have evidence of tuck pointing, as well as later patching in multi-coloured stock brick at the upper storeys. Both houses, like their companions, are of four storeys with a basement and three windows wide. At No. 16 (on the left), the windows have gauged, flat brick arches with recessed sashes in stuccoed surrounds. At No. 14 (on the right), the windows have gauged, segmental brick arches with recessed sashes. The wooden doorcase at No. 16 (on the left) has panelled pilasters, and a hood carried on carved brackets. Its door has six fielded panels, with a plain rectangular overlight above. The doorcase at No. 14 (on the right) has a hood carried on carved brackets, but has lost its wooden pilasters, architrave and soffitt, probably when the door was altered and a new rectangular fanlight inserted, although there always appears to have been a difference of floor level between it and No. 12. The door at No. 14 has six fielded panels with a rectangular overlight above.
Frederiks Kirke, Copenhagen
(the Marble Church)
The foundation stone was set by king Frederick V on 31 October 1749, but the construction was slowed by budget cuts and the death of Eigtved in 1754. Construction was scrapped in 1770.
Construction stalled out for a century until businessman Carl Frederik Tietgen (DSFS shipping, Tubiorg Beer, the sugar monopoly etc) paid to comp0lete the project out of his own pocket in a deal allowing him to develop neighboring parcels. Tietgen got Ferdinand Meldahl to design the church in its final form and financed its construction. Due to financial restrictions, the original plans for the church to be built almost entirely from marble were discarded, and instead Meldahl opted for construction to be done with limestone. The church was finally opened to the public on 19 August 1894.
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Neues Palais ☆ Potsdam
built by Frederick II of Prussia 1763-1769
Potsdam, Germany
(UNESCO world heritage site along with other Hohenzollern palace in Berlin and Brandenburg)
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Colonnade of the Potsdam City Palace
"At Steubenplatz, the stables were originally completely connected to the west wing of the city palace by the wrestling colonnade, but on the side of the stables one half is missing today in favor of the tram line that runs there. This colonnade, built in 1745/46 according to a design by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, consisted of 14 pairs of columns and formed the boundary between the pleasure garden and the city. The colonnade got its name from the sculptures created by the sculptors Johann August Nahl, Friedrich Christian Glume and Georg Franz Ebenhech between the pairs of columns. The total of 12 sculptures depicted six groups of wrestlers, five fencers and a slinger. The Wrestling Colonnade was destroyed on April 14, 1945 during the British bombing of Potsdam on about half of its length. "
"Most of the surviving sculpture decoration is currently in storage. In April 2019, two putti and a vase returned to the colonnades, the remaining figures are still waiting for restoration. "
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16, Rugby Street, Camden, is one of a terrace of four houses dating from around 1721. It is of brown brick with red brick dressings, and some houses in the terrace have evidence of tuck pointing, as well as later patching in multi-coloured stock brick at the upper storeys. No. 16, like its companions, is of four storeys with a basement and is three windows wide. The windows have gauged, flat brick arches with recessed sashes in stuccoed surrounds. The wooden doorcase has panelled pilasters, and a hood carried on carved brackets. The door has six fielded panels, with a plain rectangular overlight above.
Dresdner Zwinger
Dresden, Germany - June 1, 2017
From Wikipedia:
"The Zwinger (German: Dresdner Zwinger) is a palace in the eastern German city of Dresden, built in Baroque style and designed by court architect Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann. It served as the orangery, exhibition gallery and festival arena of the Dresden Court....
...Today, the Zwinger is a museum complex that contains the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Old Masters Picture Gallery), the Dresden Porcelain Collection (Dresdener Porzellansammlung) and the Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon (Royal Cabinet of Mathematical and Physical Instruments)."
La Salle des buffets - a luxurious dining room at the courtyard side of the building, decorated from top to bottom. Ready to serve a Kings dinner.
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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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Custom House at King's Lynn, Norfolk, originally built as a Merchants' Exchange by Henry Bell in 1683 for Sir John Turner. Altered 1718 and 1741 following storm damage. Stone with pantile roof. At first-floor level, windows are two-light cross casements with leaded glazing, separated by Ionic pilasters. Acanthus modillion eaves cornice.
Cabinet de Madame Fouquet, luxeriously decorated with delicate furniture all in a perfect state.
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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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Church of Santo Domingo de Guzman ♦ Iglesia de Santo Domingo de Guzmán
Oaxaca, Mexico
30 Jan. 2014
2014-Mexico 1872
Garden Staircase: "The two sons of Mother earth that adorn the ... oval staircase are part of a group of sculptures by Johan Georg Heermann and his nephew Paul depicting the struggle of the Olympian gods with the Titans" (1685 - 1703) -DK Prague
House built late 17th Century by architect Jean-Baptiste Mathey for Count Sternberg
Troja district, northern Prague
March 1995
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Mirabell Palace a historic building in the city of Salzburg, Austria.
The palace was built in 1606 on the shore of the Salzach River north of the medieval city walls, at the behest of Prince-Archbishop Wolf Dietrich Raitenau. The Archbishop suffered from gout and had a stroke the year before; to evade the narrow streets of the city, he decided to erect a pleasure palace for him and his mistress Salome Alt. Allegedly built within six months according to Italian and French models, it was initially named Schloss Altenau.
In 1815 the later King Otto of Greece was born here while his father the Wittelsbach crown prince Ludwig I of Bavaria served as stadtholder in the former Electorate of Salzburg. The current Neoclassical appearance dates from about 1818, when the palace was restored after a blaze. Archbishop Maximilian Joseph von Tarnóczy resided here from 1851 to 1863. The father of Hans Makart worked here as a chamberlain. Joachim Haspinger, Capuchin priest and a leader of the Tyrolean Rebellion, spent his last year in a small flat.
The palace was purchased by the City of Salzburg in 1866. After World War II it was temporarily used for the mayor's office and housed several departments of the municipal administration.
The Mirabellgarten (the palace's gardens) was laid out under Prince-Archbishop Johann Ernst von Thun from 1687 according to plans designed by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. In its geometrically-arranged gardens are mythology-themed statues dating from 1730 and four groups of sculpture (Aeneas, Hercules, Paris and Pluto), created by Italian sculptor Ottavio Mosto from 1690. It is noted for its boxwood layouts, including a sylvan theatre (Heckentheater) designed between 1704 and 1718. An orangery was added in 1725.
The gardens were made accessible to the public under Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. Up to today, it is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Salzburg. Several scenes from The Sound of Music were filmed here. Maria and the children sing 'Do-Re-Mi' while dancing around the Pegasus fountain and using the steps as a musical scale.
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New Square at Lincoln's Inn, which contains eleven sets of legal chambers, was begun by Henry Serle in 1680, largely on his own land. Members of the Inn objected to this development, but, after an agreement of 1682, the square was adapted for its benefit. Serle died in 1690 and the work was completed by Nicholas Barbon. New Square is built of brown brick with red brick dressings. The stone doorcases have architraves and pulvinated friezes, and the cornices, carried on consoles, have broken pediments.
Church of Santo Domingo de Guzman ♦ Iglesia de Santo Domingo de Guzmán
Oaxaca, Mexico
30 Jan. 2014
2014-Mexico 1863
Door in the stable at Rousham House, Oxfordshire, probably by William Kent, circa 1738. Built for General James Dormer. The overlight has thick glazing bars. Gibbs surrounds. The double-leaf doors are nineteenth century.
Lead-covered lantern on the Royal Arsenal Brass Foundry at Woolwich which was added to be building in 1722 in timber. The main structure was designed in 1716-17 as a cannon foundry for the Board of Ordnance, perhaps by Sir John Vanbrugh, and was later enlarged by John Verbruggen in 1771-74 to accommodate a third furnace. Verbruggen was responsible for covering the lantern with lead cladding. The central tower has a hipped roof with pedimented dormers to the front (not visible here), a round lantern with angled buttresses and a dome with a finial and weather-vane. The windows on the lantern have eight small panes and are surrounded by architraves.
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.
St Helen's House, King Street, Derby, built c.1726 for the Gisbourne family (later the home of Joseph Strutt). Three storeys. Side elevation to Bridge Gate, now exposed, in brick with continuing string course, cornice and ionic pilasters in ashlar.
Sculpted by Jean-Baptiste Tuby (1635–1700), based on drawings by Charles Le Brun (1619-90), and built by André Le Nôtre (1613-1700), the Apollo Fountain replaced the pre-existing Swans Fountain from 1638.
The statues are gilded lead, constructed 1688-70, and installed in 1671. The sculpture is of Apollo in his chariot, a symbol closely related to Louis XIV, the Sun-King (le Roi-Soleil).
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.
House of c.1690 in Dartmouth Row, Lewisham, but subdivided in the late nineteenth century. Two storeys with attic and basement. Red brick with stone dressings. Cyma bracketed eaves cornice. High-pitched roof (now slated but originally tiled). Formerly had roof balustrade. Projecting centrepiece with stone quoins. Stone bands at plinth and first-floor levels. Windows have flat brick arches with stone keystones containing grotesque masks (compare Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster). Renewed windows in flush shutter boxes.
Zwinger Palace - pleasure palace of the Saxon Electors and baroque masteriece. Architect: Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann , built ca. 1728 by Saxon Elector and Polish King Frederick Augustus..
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Das Kronentor des ZwingersDer in aller Welt bekannte und wohl der am meisten fotografierte Teil des Zwingers ist das Kronentor.
Das Kronentor zeigt durch die Säulenarchitektur Merkmale des italienischen Hochbarocks und antiker Elemente eine ´harmonische Verschmelzung eines Triumphbogens und eines Torturms´. Über den Säulen des Torweges prangen das königliche Zepter, die gekreuzten Schwerter und über dem Torbogen wieder das sächsische Wappen. Außerdem zeigt das Kronentor noch griechische Helden und Götter z.B. Herakles, Athene noch weitere Wassergottheiten. Auf der Turmspitze tragen vier polnische Adler die Nachbildung der polnischen Königskrone. Das Dach besteht aus vergoldetem Kupfer und zeugt für die sächsische Prachtentfaltung.
Dem Tor gegenüber auf der Westseite befindet sich ein weiteres Portal mit Blick auf das bronzene Reiterdenkmal des König Johann von 1889 auf dem Theaterplatz.
Early eighteenth-century house with a five bay front now nos 1 and 2, Ormond Road, Richmond, with paired doorways approached by stone steps. The fanlights appear later eighteenth century in date. The windows are sashes in flush frames. Three storeys with basement.
Newdigate House, 64 Castle Gate, Nottingham, was built for Thomas Newdigate around 1675. Later Marshall Tallard was held prisoner there after the battle of Blenheim. The house is of three storeys with an attic. It is now stuccoed, has ashlar dressings, and a hipped slate roof. The ashlar doorcase has volutes (seen here) and a broken segmental pediment. The door has six fielded panels.
Sculpted by Jean-Baptiste Tuby (1635–1700), based on drawings by Charles Le Brun (1619-90), and built by André Le Nôtre (1613-1700), the Apollo Fountain replaced the pre-existing Swans Fountain from 1638.
The statues are gilded lead, constructed 1688-70, and installed in 1671. The sculpture is of Apollo in his chariot, a symbol closely related to Louis XIV, the Sun-King (le Roi-Soleil).
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.
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. 4 was built by John Cooper. It is of brown brick with red brick dressings, and has four storeys with a basement. The wooden Doric doorcase has fluted pilasters with an entablature and enriched frieze. The door is panelled and has a radial fanlight.
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
2014-Mexico 1243
Elegant Stairways to the top of the roof. The top gives a spectacular garden view from the 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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The Basilica of St. Michael the Archangel (placed under the invocation of St. Michael the Archangel ) is a church catholic located in the heart of the historical center of Menton . Since the road from the seafront , with majestic staircases allow to gradually reach the site where, on a spot in the stalls CALADE triumph whole perspective of the baroque architecture .
At the beginning of the xvii th century, desired by Prince Honoré II of Monaco , its construction was entrusted to the architect Lorenzo Lavagna. TheMay 27 1619The first stone was laid in the presence of the prince and lord Nicolà Spinola, bishop of Ventimiglia which depended Menton and Roquebrune while Monaco depended on the Bishop of Nice. Excavation works actually began in 1639 and the church was opened for worship in 1653 . Finally, theMay 8 1675The bishop of Ventimiglia Monsignor Mauro Promontorio dedicated the new church in the presence of Prince Louis I st . In 1701 , the architect Emmanuel Cantone erects a tower of fifty-three meters high, real watchtower overlooking the city. Its current facade was completed in 1819 in the spirit of the baroque of the xvii th century.
Inside, the vast nave with four bays form a large Latin cross . The choir , preceded by a triumphal arch is decorated with stucco marble with pilasters dishes. A painted wooden statue of 1820 representing Saint Michael slaying the dragon overcomes the altar in polychrome marble. The side chapels are decorated with altarpieces baroque. One is dedicated to Saint Devote . Some had been granted to wealthy families of Menton.
Beautiful organ in the choir (XVII c.) Unknown factor. It has been often attributed to Gio Oltrachino (Jean Utrect), organ builder native of this town, located in Genoa and which is known by many constructions organ archives in Liguria - only one still existing intact in Alassio - and Monaco: the parish church of Saint-Nicolas Monaco dated 1639 (current buffet that of St. Charles church restructured by architect Charles Lenormand and Merklin), that of the palatine chapel (1639) disappeared and another organo portatile the same time also disappeared. Gio Oltracchino died in Genoa in 1647 and the organ of Saint-Michel can not be attributed to him.
In 1999 , the Saint-Michel church is raised to the dignity of minor basilica by Pope John Paul II , and consecrated basilica in January 2000 . Since 1949 , each year in August, the square hosts the famous Festival of Classical Music . She is one of the most visited attractions in the Alpes-Maritimes.
The Basilica (and its square ; other items were enrolled at other dates) is the subject of a classification as historical monuments since 3 March 1947
The hilltop town of Ibla was destroyed in the great Sicilian earthquake of 1693. Although a new planned town of Ragusa was built on a hill top to the west (left of this shot) the citizens of Ibla also rebuilt their town retaining the original medieval street plan but with new Baroque buildings such as the cathedral of San Giorgio.