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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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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 stable block, known as The Square, at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, built around 1733-35 for Sir Robert Walpole, later 1st earl of Orford. The design is attributed to William Kent, supervised by Thomas Ripley. The stables are constructed from coursed carstone with some brick on the south and west fronts, and brick with carstone dressings in the courtyard. There is a plinth at ground-floor level. The north and south fronts each have a centrepiece with rusticted and chamfered quoins, as seen here.
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 and has a modillioned eaves cornice. It is now stuccoed, with ashlar dressings, chamfered quoins, and a hipped slate roof. The windows are sashes with at second-floor level (seen here) lugged architraves and fleurons.
Ship and urn on the almshouses at Trinity Green, Whitechapel, 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. At ground floor there are two windows, blind on the left, but, on the right, with flush shutter boxes and stone architraves. Above, in each case, there is a brick niche with a stone architrave set in a gable with a pediment. The ships on the copings are fiberglass replicas of a marble pair carved by Robert Jones (originals in the Museum of London).
Wilanów Palace at Wilanów in Warsaw is, together with its park and other buildings, one of the most precious monuments of Polish national culture. It survived the time of partitions and wars and preserved its authentic historical qualities. It was built for the Polish king Jan III Sobieski in the last quarter of 17th century and later was enlarged by other owners. It represents the characteristical type of baroque suburban residence entre cour et jardin (between the court and garden). Its architecture is very original – it is a merger of European art with Old-Polish building tradition and its elevation and palace interiors that, using antique symbols, glorifies the Sobieski family, especially military triumphs of the king.
Eaves cornice with wooden blocks from Church Row, Wandsworth. This is one of a terrace of six houses, all of three storeys over basements, and constructed of brown brick with red brick dressings to segmental window arches and jambs. The houses were built in 1723 (see inscription on the sundial, 'AD1723 Vigilate et Orate', meaning 'Watch and Pray'). Sash windows have flush frames. The front doors are approached up flights of steps. The doorcases have fluted Corinthean pilasters and entablatures with dentil cornices. The houses have iron railings to forecourts and entrances.
The late evening at St Philip's Cathedral, in Birmingham.
Birmingham’s St Philip’s Cathedral has been the home of the city’s Anglican diocese since 1905, almost 200 years after it was consecrated.
Built in the English Baroque style by Thomas Archer in 1715, it was initially a parish church, but was chosen over the older St Martin’s to be the city’s cathedral.
The building was enlarged by the Victorians in the 1880s, who installed stained-glass windows by Edwards Burne-Jones, depicting the Nativity, Crucifixion, Ascension and the Last Judgement.
It is the third-smallest cathedral in England – after Derby and Chelmsford – and survived bombing in the Second World War to be restored.
Cartouche inscribed "THIS IS SCLATER Street 1778' on Nos 125 and 127 Sclater Street, off Brick Lane. This was originally one house, developed in 1720 with Pierre Fromaget, a Huguenot weaver as its first occupant (see Peter Guillery, 'The Small House in Eighteenth-Century London', New Haven and London, 2004, p. 108). It was rebuilt in 1778 , for Daniel Delacourt, a distiller and Fromaget's grandson as two houses with one-room deep weavers' workshops on the upper floors. It was also originally taller, with four rather than three storeys and a long garret window. Sclater Street had been part of the eighteenth-century silk district, but, by the nineteenth century it had become the centre for the market in live birds in London, by which time it was lined with tall weavers' tenements.
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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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
In the Antechamber of the Grand Couvert.
The Queen’s antechamber was where the public meals were held, a ritual with an audience. Only the royal family could seat at the table, before them, were the duchesses, princesses or high-ranking persons with the privilege to sit on a stool, then, standing, were the others allowed to enter. Louis XIV subjected himself to this performance almost every evening; Louis XV often preferred intimate suppers; as for Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, a testimony from that time reports that: "The Queen sat on the King’s left. They had their backs turned to the fireplace […] The King ate with a good appetite, but the Queen did not remove her gloves and did not use her serviette, which was very wrong of her". To counter this boredom, Marie-Antoinette asked for there always to be music in the Grand Couvert and for that purpose a platform was set up for the musicians in this room.
[from the 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.
The east side of the Great Court of Blenheim Palace catches the last light of the setting sun at 3pm on a late November afternoon.
Castle basement service area, on the sides of the castle all the way from the front to the back. In between the service areas like the kitchen, storage and cellars.
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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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Discover the majestic Neues Schloss, nestled in the heart of Stuttgart’s bustling Schlossplatz. This exquisite Baroque palace, constructed between 1746 and 1807 under Duke Carl Eugen von Württemberg, stands as a testament to Germany’s rich history and architectural prowess.
As you approach Neues Schloss, you’re greeted by its imposing yet graceful facade—a harmonious blend of sandstone and intricate rococo detailing that whispers tales from centuries past. The central dome crowns this regal structure with an air of nobility while Corinthian pilasters add depth to its storied walls.
Step closer to uncover meticulously crafted sculptures adorning every corner; each figure intricately carved to perfection—silent guardians of history watching over Palace Square (Schlossplatz). The grandiose main entrance invites visitors into a world where opulence meets elegance; every doorway and window framed by ornamental gables speaks volumes about the craftsmanship of yesteryears’ artisans.
The sprawling courtyard boasts an enchanting fountain centerpiece that dances in harmony with sunlight—a spectacle that has charmed onlookers for generations. It’s not just a fountain but an emblematic feature symbolizing Stuttgart’s vitality.
Neues Schloss isn’t merely an architectural marvel; it’s a cultural hub that has survived wars and stood resilient through time—now housing government offices while still echoing royal footsteps within its halls during special public events.
Immerse yourself in this architectural jewel—an insider’s treasure waiting to be explored—and let Neues Schloss transport you back to an era where artistry reigned supreme under German skies.
Legnica, Silesia, Poland
-- In 1277, Duke Bolesław II founded a Dominican monastery and the Church of the Holy Cross. This complex was rebuilt after the fire in 1291. There was a grave of the founder in the church. In 1526, the monastery was taken over by the Benedictine nuns.
-- In the years 1700 – 1723, the nuns erected a complex on the site of their prior buildings, which has survived to this day, i.e. the monastery and the church of St. Maurice. After the secularization of the order in 1810, the monastery was adapted for a school, and the church was rebuilt, dividing it into two floors with a ceiling.
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Entrance to the almshouses at Trinity Green, Whitechapel, 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. At the Whitechapel Road end of the building these two rows are linked by a brick wall of convex and concave curves containing iron gates and wrought iron railings. The end of each row of the almshouses terminates on the street 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. Above, in each case, there is a brick niche with a stone architrave set in a gable with a pediment.
3, Greenwich Church Street, was at one time an Inn. It dates from the late seventeenth century, but was subsequently altered in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when a shop front was opened to the street. In fact, the main seven bay elevation is to the side and overlooks the churchyard of St Alphege's. The building is of three storeys with a deep, dentiled eaves cornice, and a hipped tiled roof. It has bands at each level, but that on the second floor is broken by the staircase window which is positioned centrally. The windows are later eighteenth-century sashes (and, on the street elevation, not shown here, they were given architrave surrounds in the nineteenth century).
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 Hungarian Parliament Building, also known as the Parliament of Budapest after its location, is the seat of the National Assembly of Hungary, a notable landmark of Hungary, and a popular tourist destination in Budapest.
It is situated on Kossuth Square in the Pest side of the city, on the eastern bank of the Danube. It was designed by Hungarian architect Imre Steindl in neo-Gothic style and opened in 1902.
Rich with velvet, gold leaf, and cherubim and nymphs, the interior is characteristic of Baroque sumptuousness.
Spearhead finial on railings at 8, Fournier Street, Spitafields, an early-eighteenth century house, but these railings probably later. 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. 8, Fournier Street was built by Samuel Worrall, a carpenter.
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)."
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
42, Royal Hill, Greenwich, is an eighteenth-century house now of multi-coloured stock brick that was much rebuilt in the nineteenth century, leaving only the early eighteenth-century doorcase visible. This is made of wood, with fluted pilasters supporting an entablature and a moulded and modillioned cornice which projects at either end above the capitals. Below the architrave there is an open pediment supported by two moulded cornices on small consoles.
Longitudinal corridor on the first floor - it leads to several rooms. Fouquet's apartment, courtyard side, and his wife's garden side, twelve meters thick, with an antechamber, a bedroom (main room of an apartment where the relatives have free access, it is the place of sociability where they sleep, receive guests, take meals and study.
Currently, Ms. Fouquet's room is divided into two rooms, a Louis XV cabinet and a Louis XV bedroom. The right part of the first floor is only briefly worked on.
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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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(San Carlino) was commissioned in 1634 and designed by architect Francesco Borromini (1599-1667). It was constructed 1638-1641.
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.
Designed by André Le Nôtre (1613-1700) and constructed 1680-83. The Ballroom Grove, is also called the Cascade Ballroom (or Rocaille Grove) because of the millstones and the sea shells brought back from the coasts of Africa and Madagascar over which the water pours down in a cascade. The marble “island” in the centre was used for dancing. Musicians played above the cascade and, facing them, an amphitheatre with grassy rows of seats enabled the spectators to sit down.
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.
St. Nicholas Church ☆★ Kostel svatého Mikuláše
Prague
built between 1732-1737
Kilián Ignác Dientzenhofer, architect [Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, 1689-1751]
The organ of Saint-Nicolas church has 2,500 pipes. It dates from the second third of the 18th century and was originally built in the Basilica of Our Lady of Sorrows in Bohosudov; it was moved here in 1949. The wooden housing is painted black and decorated with vases, flowers, marquises, shells, two seated angels and two standing angels holding trumpets.
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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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Chiesa di Santa Caterina d'Alessandria / Church of St Catherine of Alexandria
Palermo, Sicily
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Area railings at 4, Fournier Street, Spitalfields, London, an early-eighteenth century house. 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. 4, Fournier Street was built by Marmaduke Smith, a carpenter.