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The Cloisters (also known as The Undercroft) connect the East and West quadrangles of the University of Glasgow. With their fluted columns and transverse ribbed vault, these impressive archways are an iconic part of the University, and have been seen onscreen in many films and TV shows including Cloud Atlas and Outlander.
This is a handheld panorama consisting of 11 portrait photos. (Quite an impressive job by the Fuji camera, seen as the pictures were taken at an ISO setting of 12.800!!)
Clockwise, starting top left:
- Basilica Di Santa Prassede, Rome
- Battistero San Giovanni, Florence
- Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
- Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
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On our after-lunch walk we were eventually followed by a small group of children When we came to a mosque and removed our shoes they mostly lost interest. Once inside the mosque we were struck by the massive amount of decoration on every surface other than window glass.
This is a shot of one of the ceiling decorations. The text is, of course, religiously oriented and in a Persian script, or variety of it.
The São Bento Palace is the home of the Assembly of the Republic, the Portuguese parliament, in Lisbon.
O Palácio de São Bento, é um palácio de estilo neoclássico situado em Lisboa, sendo a sede do Parlamento de Portugal e onde a Assembleia da República se reúne diariamente.
"A member of the first graduating class of the town’s original wooden high school (demolished in the 1920s), Henry H. Rogers chose to build an educational palace to instill in Fairhaven students a sense of the glories associated with learning. He consulted with the top educators of the day while planning the new school.
The Elizabethan-influence design is by Charles Brigham and includes marble floors, oak paneling, stained glass windows and a lovely auditorium with a beamed ceiling and carved wooden gargoyles. The library/media center was once an octagonal gymnasium that contained the first indoor basketball court in an American high school.
The school was built with its own electric generating plant, operated by a custodian who lived in an apartment located on the third floor. The basement level once housed industrial arts rooms and a home economics kitchen and facilities for agricultural studies. Those well-appointed classrooms and a student garden behind the school were eliminated in the 1930s when the first addition (now demolished) was built.
A legend that nothing could be attached to the exterior of the high school or ownership would revert back to the Rogers family led to the installation of an underground passage from the original building to the addition. Later, free-standing fire escapes were build, again without altering the original structure. When the newest wing of the building was added in the late 1990s, it was determined that the legend was unfounded, allowing the addition to be attached directly to the Rogers building.
The new wing, completed in the year 2000, added updated teaching and lab facilities and improved the high school handicap accessibility, continuing Rogers’ aim to provide for the town’s future."
La grande cupola si eleva a 57 metri di altezza.
L'affresco della cupola è una delle ultime e più pregevoli opere del pittore Angelo Landi di Salò.
L affresco,con 360 figure dipinte su 509 mq di muratura,rappresenta "La visione o sogno di San Domenico", nel quale la Vergine fa del Rosario una mistica catena accogliendo sotto il suo manto santi e fedeli.
Sotto il cornicione della cupola si legge: "IN ME GRATIA OMNIS VIAE ET VERITATES,IN ME OMNIS SPES VITAE ET VIRTUTIS"
There was a section of the Chihuly Art display where the ceiling was made up of glass art. The colors and shapes were absolutely wonderful.
A trip to Seattle should include a stop at this gallery to see this art.
De la piscine au lieu d'exposition : quelle belle reconversion pour cette fantastique architecture...
Cité Miroir, Liège, Belgium
If you stare at the centre long enough it is hard to tell if it is facing away from you or toward you....
Luckily we had the chance to choose one of three guided tours at the Monastery Klosterneuburg through the wine cellar, the treasury or the church including the cloister. Since I wanted to get into the church anyway I chose the last one and so I had the chance to take a nice wide angle shot of the church’s ceiling. „Unfortunately“ this was a guided tour which means that I didn’t had that much time to take pictures, but especially in such architecture shots you have to position yourself exactly at the right place to get the symmetry in the final picture which takes a little bit of time. Hence, I didn’t really listen to the guide and just took a few pictures hoping that I get a good one.
"...and on the cliff's edge of these nights
The sea's so tempting to say goodbye
And along with the spirits in my eyes
Vanish into the morning light.
A window opened to the sky
A widow's tale spins through the night
A willow whispered into my ear:
"You've wanted to fall for all this years".
The Morning rose, my thoughts remained
Upon these foggy shore of Clare
Though my mind was willing there to stay
Walked firmly into the dawning of another day..."
"A window to the sky"
Dreams of Sanity