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Facing the Marble Courtyard.
With the King's Apartment looking down on it, this courtyard featured sculpture by Antoine Coysevox (1640-1720).
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.
21 Crow Lane, Rochester, Kent, is an early eighteenth-century house of three storeys. It has a brick ground floor and is timber framed above with external weatherboarding. The door is placed asymmetrically. Doorcase with moulded surround and shell hood on console brackets.
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).
Carved end console bracket supporting a pediment above the main door to the Corn Exchange built in 1706 by Sir Cloudesley Shovell, M.P. for Rochester.
Exclusive interior at La Salle des buffets, every part of this special room is decorated.
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Vaux-le-Vicomte at the Movies event: - the house and its grounds were used as the Californian home of the main villain Hugo Drax (played by Michael Lonsdale) in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker. Nine Bond girls were present at the castle to meet them in person.
Vaux-le-Vicomte at the MoviesThe castle and garden can also be seen in the background in the 1998 film "The Man in the Iron Mask". In addition, the château appeared in several episodes of "The Revolution". Also "Australia's Next Top Model" had a fashion shoot at the chateau and season 4 of HBOs "The Sopranos". More recently it has featured as the "Palace of Versailles" for BBC/Canal+ production of the TV drama series "Versailles".
The place is a major setting of Alexandre Dumas's novel "The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later".
One of the most expensive weddings was held at the palace in 2004. Vanisha Mittal, daughter of British-Indian steel industrialist billionaire Lakshmi Mittal, held her wedding to Amit Bhatia, a British-Indian economist and businessman, at the château following their engagement ceremony at the Palace of Versailles. Kylie Minogue was paid $330,000 to sing at the wedding and the ceremony was followed by fireworks launched from the Eiffel Tower.
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Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (Est.1658) - a baroque French château. Built between 1658 to 1661 for 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. At Vaux-le-Vicomte, the architect Louis Le Vau, the landscape architect André le Nôtre, and the painter-decorator Charles Le Brun worked together on this large-scale projec. This marked the beginning of the "Louis XIV style" combining architecture, interior design and landscape design.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaux-le-Vicomte
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The British Columbia Parliament Building was completed in 1897. It is a beautiful example of the Baroque and Romanesque Revival styles of architecture.
May 2019.
Central London Outdoor Group (CLOG) long weekend in Turin.
Venaria's Palace was built in the 17th century in Baroque style for Charles Emmanuel 11, one of the Savoy dukes.
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)."
home of the Deutsches Historisches Museum
the old Prussian arsenal built 1695 to 1706 by Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg. Architects: Johann Arnold Nering, Martin Grünberg, Andreas Schlüter Jean de Bodt
Berlin
Stone tablet inscribed 'MEARDS STREET 1732' on the side of 69, Dean Street, Westminster, built by John Meard, Jr., one of a pair of terrace houses. Meard, a carpenter, began his development, Meard Street, at its Wardour Street end in 1722, moving to the Dean Street end in 1732-33.
French Baroque castle artwork. Many items on the property were taken by the King after the arrest of Fouquet. The current owners still try to recover these lost objects.
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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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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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Designed by Thomas Archer (1668-1743) and completed in 1728. This baroque church was supposedly inspired by Queen Anne kicking over a footstool to illustrate how she wanted it to look.
Early-eighteenth century. c.1704-08. Flat hood on elaborately carved foliated bracket. Carved wooden doorcase with foliated moulding. Half ionic pilaster.
Lower section of a carved end console bracket supporting a pediment and enclosing a carved spandrel, located above the main door to the Corn Exchange built in 1706 by Sir Cloudesley Shovell, M.P. for Rochester.
This temple was buried by the rising detritus and silt in the Forum until the 12th century, when a when the church was inserted inside the ancient building envelope. The green door was at an appropriate entry level when a baroque facade was put on the church. In the 19th C the temple was excavated, leaving the door suspended (there's an entrance on the side of the church). Yesterday for the first time I saw people at the 17th Century door!
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Chiesa di San Giuseppe dei Teatini ✪ Palermo
-The Theatine Fathers came from Naples to settle in Palermo around 1600 at the invitation of the Senate and the Palermitan nobility.
Construction began soon therefter; part of a wave on construction projects involving the cutting of Via Maqueda perpendicularly across the ancient Cassaro..
The hall is divided by columns with Corinthian capitals supporting 12 arches, in the pendentives there are frescoes depicting the 12 apostles by Antonio Manno (1799)
The roof, the central vault, the frescoes are totally reconstructed, based on photographs, after World War II.
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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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Luxurious tableware La Salle des buffets with plates, bowls, candles and more.
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Vaux-le-Vicomte (Est.1658) - a baroque French château on a 33 hectares (100 acres) estate with formal gardens along a three-kilometer axis. Built between 1658 to 1661 as a symbol of power and influence and intended to reflect the grandeur of Nicolas Fouquet, Marquis de Belle Île, Viscount of Melun and Vaux, the superintendent of finances of Louis XIV.
The château was an influential work of architecture in mid-17th-century Europe. The architect Louis Le Vau, the landscape architect André le Nôtre, and the painter-decorator Charles Le Brun worked together on this large-scale project. This marked the beginning of the "Louis XIV style" combining architecture, interior design and landscape design. Their next following project was to build Versailles.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaux-le-Vicomte
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Triumph Arch and gatehouse at Holkham, Norfolk, built by Matthew Brettingham in 1747-48 to a design by William Kent. String course at impost level of main arch. Gault brick with flint rustication and stone dressings.
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)."
July 5, 2023 - "Built on top of Mount St. Stephen (Monte de Santo Estêvão), between the 18th and 20th centuries, this Marian shrine is visited by pilgrims from all over the country - especially on September 8, the day of the Nativity of the Virgin and the high point of the feasts in honour of Our Lady of Remedies, which usually include fireworks, musical shows and various sports and recreational activities amidst the dense grove of the pleasant Santo Estêvão Park. The Procession of the Triumph, with its richly adorned paraders, is a highpoint.
Already during the Middle Ages catholic worship was celebrated there, in an old hermitage dedicated to Santo Estevão that was erected in 1361. At risk of collapsing, it was demolished in the 16th century and the construction of a new hermitage in the same spot was started, by the Bishop of Lamego, where an image of the Virgin and Child was placed. Worship of St. Stephen was thus progressively replaced by Marian Devotion. In 1750, the construction of the present sanctuary began, and was only finished in 1905.
The monumental Baroque staircase (with 686 steps) that gives access to the sanctuary is divided over several levels, punctuated by sculptural elements, such as statues of the kings, the backrests of the eight fountains (among which the Remédios, by Nicolau Nasoni) and various allegorical representations. Half way is the Chapel of Desterro.
Inside the temple is Rocaille in style and entirely dedicated to Marian iconography: on the main altar in gilded carving, in the altarpieces dedicated to the Virgin's parents, in the three stained glass windows with images of Our Lady of the Conception, the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Annunciation, and in the tiles of the Conimbrigan artist Miguel Costa that represent key moments in Mary’s life.
The tomb of the founder of the sanctuary, Canon Jose Teixeira Pinto, is at the entrance of the nave." Previous description: www.visitportugal.com/en/node/134774
Exclusive interior at La Salle des buffets, every part of this special room is decorated.
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Vaux-le-Vicomte at the Movies event: - the house and its grounds were used as the Californian home of the main villain Hugo Drax (played by Michael Lonsdale) in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker. Nine Bond girls were present at the castle to meet them in person.
Vaux-le-Vicomte at the MoviesThe castle and garden can also be seen in the background in the 1998 film "The Man in the Iron Mask". In addition, the château appeared in several episodes of "The Revolution". Also "Australia's Next Top Model" had a fashion shoot at the chateau and season 4 of HBOs "The Sopranos". More recently it has featured as the "Palace of Versailles" for BBC/Canal+ production of the TV drama series "Versailles".
The place is a major setting of Alexandre Dumas's novel "The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later".
One of the most expensive weddings was held at the palace in 2004. Vanisha Mittal, daughter of British-Indian steel industrialist billionaire Lakshmi Mittal, held her wedding to Amit Bhatia, a British-Indian economist and businessman, at the château following their engagement ceremony at the Palace of Versailles. Kylie Minogue was paid $330,000 to sing at the wedding and the ceremony was followed by fireworks launched from the Eiffel Tower.
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Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (Est.1658) - a baroque French château. Built between 1658 to 1661 for 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. At Vaux-le-Vicomte, the architect Louis Le Vau, the landscape architect André le Nôtre, and the painter-decorator Charles Le Brun worked together on this large-scale projec. This marked the beginning of the "Louis XIV style" combining architecture, interior design and landscape design.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaux-le-Vicomte
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Formal garden and castle, the garden is designed by landscape architect André le Nôtre. To visit a very nice walk and to enjoy the many sculptures and statues, ponds, fountains bushes and much more.
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Vaux-le-Vicomte (Est.1658) - a baroque French château on a 33 hectares (100 acres) estate with formal gardens along a three-kilometer axis. Built between 1658 to 1661 as a symbol of power and influence and intended to reflect the grandeur of Nicolas Fouquet, Marquis de Belle Île, Viscount of Melun and Vaux, the superintendent of finances of Louis XIV.
The château was an influential work of architecture in mid-17th-century Europe. The architect Louis Le Vau, the landscape architect André le Nôtre, and the painter-decorator Charles Le Brun worked together on this large-scale project. This marked the beginning of the "Louis XIV style" combining architecture, interior design and landscape design. Their next following project was to build Versailles.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaux-le-Vicomte
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French Baroque Caste interior and decorations. Many items on the property were taken by the King after the arrest of Fouquet. The current owners still try to recover these lost objects.
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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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May 2019.
Central London Outdoor Group (CLOG) long weekend in Turin.
Venaria's Palace was built in the 17th century in Baroque style for Charles Emmanuel 11, one of the Savoy dukes.
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.