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Part of the Ceiling of the now Magnificent Malaga Airport.
2013-05-25 09.22.30
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Despite the Equal Pay Act 45 years ago, women still earnon average 18% less than men in Britain today. The difference in pay between men and women remains the clearest and most dramatic example of inequality for women.
Australian War Memorial
Campbell, Canberra, Australia.
The Australian War Memorial is located at the foot of Mt. Ainslie in Campbell, Canberra.
The War Memorial is unique as it is both a museum and a shrine.
The Memorial was founded to commemorate the 60,000 Australians who died in WWI (1914-1918).
Since the Second World War it has been updated to include the remembrance of fallen Australians in all military conflicts.
The AWM was the vision of Charles Bean (1879-1968) who was a journalist & Australia’s Official War Correspondent in WWI.
Bean served at Gallipoli & the Western Front & witnessed first-hand the terrible battles during the First World War.
Charles Bean later became Australia’s war historian and edited much of the ‘Official History of Australia in the 1914-18 War’.
Bean approached the Australian Government with his idea for a memorial & they accepted the proposal.
An architectural competition was held in 1927 but failed to provide satisfactory single design.
Two of the entrants in the competition, Emil Sodersten & John Crust, were invited to submit a joint design.
This incorporated Sodersten’s vision for the building & Crust’s concept of cloisters to house the Roll of Honour.
The construction of the building was completed in 1941.
The Australian War Memorial was officially opened on Remembrance Day, at 11am on 11th November 1941, by Governor-General Lord Gowrie.
The AWM is a sandstone building of Byzantine architectural style with art deco elements used throughout.
The floor plan of the memorial is in the shape of a cross.
John Treloar (1894-1952) is another important figure in the history & realisation of the AWM. Treloar also was part of the Gallipoli landing.
In 1917, as a Captain, he was appointed as head of the newly created Australian War Records Section in London.
After the war John Treloar devoted his life to the Australian War Memorial.
He was appointed Director of the Memorial in 1920 and served in this position until he passed away, apart from a brief period during WWII.
The Australian War Memorial consists of four sections:
The Commemorative Shrine Area that includes The Hall of Memory that contains the Tomb of the Unknown Australian Soldier.
The Memorial’s Galleries which are a museum. Thirdly, The Research Area where records are maintained.
There is also an outdoor sculpture garden.
At the entrance of the Memorial are two medieval stone lions that once stood at the gateway of the Menin Rd at Ypres in Belgium.
Ypres, in the County of Flanders, was the site of several major battles in WWI. The lions were presented to the Memorial in 1936.
Stepping through the front entrance you find yourself in the Commemorative Area.
Directly ahead in the Courtyard is the Eternal Flame & Pool of Remembrance.
Flanking both sides of the Courtyard are a series of arched sandstone cloisters.
This is where the Roll of Honour is found. Here, inscribed in bronze is the name of virtually every one of the 102,000 Australians that has died in war since 1885.
Paper poppies are inserted into niches to honour the fallen.
At the top of the Commemorative Courtyard is the awe-inspiring Hall of Memory with its copper-clad dome.
The Hall of Memory is a tall domed chapel with a floor plan in the shape of an octagon.
At the centre of the hall is the Tomb of the Unknown Australian Soldier.
The unknown Australian soldier was brought home from a cemetery in France to eventually lie in the tomb. He represents all Australians that have been killed in war.
The walls of the hall are covered by one of the world’s largest mosaics, comprising over six million enamelled glass tiles.
The four pillars behind the Tomb represent the four ancient elements: fire, water, air, and earth.
Three of the walls facing east, west & south feature ornate stained glass windows representing the qualities of Australian servicemen & women.
The four walls that face southeast, southwest, northeast & northwest feature mosaic images of an airman, soldier, sailor and a servicewoman.
The mosaics and stained glass are the work of one-armed artist Napier Waller, who lost his right arm during WWI. He completed his work in 1958.
In the dome of the Hall is an intricate mosaic depicting the souls of the dead rising toward their spiritual home, represented by a glowing sun within the Southern Cross.
Sources
Australian War Memorial website.
Wikipedia website.
One of the innumerable ornate ceilings at the Vatican Museums; I just liked the way this one was lilt
The Holy Trinity Church is a church building in Constance at the lake with the same name. Since it was built in the late 13th century for the local monastery of the Augustinian Hermits, it is also known as St. Augustine's Church. It functioned until the dissolution of the monastery in 1802 as a monastery church as well as from the 17th century additionally as a garrison church, then as a hospital church, Old Catholic church and today ecumenical "City Church". Through its harmonious combination of plain Gothic mendicant order architecture, late Gothic frescoes and Baroque painting and stucco decoration it is one of the most important sacred monuments of the city and one of the sights of Konstanz.
History
Middle Ages
The bishopric of Constance had in the thirteenth century already two monasteries of mendicant orders; the Dominicans (1236) and the Franciscan (1240) had settled here. 1268 was established within the city walls near the lakeshore the monastery of the Augustinian hermits. The city assigned the monks a site in the heaped shallow water zone. The church was built immediately after the establishment; single ground-level components can be dated to 1279.
Originally the church was probably under the patronage of Mary Magdalene; the saint Augustine of Hippo is only mentioned in the late Middle Ages. In 1398 a fire destroyed part of the city and among other things, to an unknown extent, the Augustinian church, which was, however, built up again unchanged.
During the Council of Constance King Sigismund was at the turn of 1417/18 a guest of the monastery as well as other dignitaries. The King donated a painting for the church interior which was executed by Constance painters. Since Sigismund was known as a defaulting debtor it is questionable whether he has the painter actually paid.
During the Reformation the church was desecrated, the cemetery leveled and the facilities largely destroyed. After recatholicization of the city, the monastery was repopulated and the church in 1551 re-consecrated.
Baroque period
From 1684, the Augustinian church served as garrison church of the Austrian regiment which was stationed in the city. From 1686 to 1687, instead of the sacristy arose a Marian chapel in which a miraculous statue of Mary was housed, previously it stood on the Nikolaus altar.
From 1740 the church building was redesigned in the style of the southern German Baroque. It emerged baroque ceiling frescoes, stucco decorations and a vault in the nave. The windows of the clerestory were rebuilt and rearranged so that large parts of the late medieval murals were destroyed in this area. At the latest at this time disappeared the remaining medieval frescoes under a uniform color and stucco layer. 1745 was changed the patronage to the Trinity.
Die Dreifaltigkeitskirche ist ein Kirchengebäude in Konstanz am Bodensee. Da sie im späten 13. Jh. für das örtliche Kloster der Augustiner-Eremiten errichtet wurde, wird sie auch Augustinerkirche genannt. Sie fungierte bis zur Auflösung des Klosters 1802 als Klosterkirche sowie ab dem 17. Jh. zusätzlich als Garnisonkirche, danach als Spitalkirche, altkatholisches Gotteshaus und heute ökumenische „City-Kirche“. Durch ihre harmonische Kombination von schlichter gotischer Bettelordensarchitektur, spätgotischen Fresken und barocker Bild- und Stuckdekoration gehört sie zu den bedeutendsten sakralen Baudenkmälern der Stadt und zu den Sehenswürdigkeiten von Konstanz.
The ceiling of clouds that rolled over the valley earlier in the day was still covering most of the sky at sunset.
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The harmonious interior equals the exterior in its incomparable beauty. Stunning tracery windows create an ethereal lighting effect in the sanctuary. The cathedral has more than 1,800 square metres of stained-glass windows dating from the 13th to the 20th centuries. The oldest windows are the rose windows and those in the middle choir chapels. Also notice the magnificent 15th- to 16th-century choir stalls, which were carved by Flemish craftsmen. On the north side of the cathedral is a beautiful cloister in the Plateresque style, built in the 14th century and altered in the 16th. The frescoes in the cloister were created by Nicolás Francés. The cathedral museum collection is arranged in the rooms around the cloister. One of the most extensive collections of its kind, the museum displays many exceptional treasures of religious art. Highlights include a 10th-century edition of the Bible, the Castilian and Flemish triptychs, and the assortment of Romanesque art, with around 60 sculptures from the 12th and 13th centuries.http://www.planetware.com/tourist-attractions-/leon-e-castl-leon.htm
The Cathedral’s interior is a summary of the Medieval theologians’ concept of the world, presided over by the Creator’s Blessing. The windows illustrate three conceptual levels: typical vegetable motifs such as oak and vine leaves; heraldic subjects (windows of the triforium) and Saints, Kings and Prophets. www.leon.es/Visit/Monuments_of_the_City/The_Essentials/Ca...
Verso: "Our living and dining rooms. Ella & Lant.
1233 West 33rd St. Los Angeles" There are some photos above the fireplace along with some nice pottery. The photo was taken at 2:50 pm.
We celebrated my Mother in laws 80Th birthday with cooking lesson in a beautiful old building. In 1900 it was used as a whorehouse
Like every year, this year too I went to Kolkata (Calcutta) for Bengal's biggest festival, Durga Puja. Once again, the creativity on display at the pandals had me mesmerised. Here is the ceiling of one such pandal. I love the psychedelic feel of the photo!
day 2
ushuaia is the southernmost town in the world.
in the XIX century, argentine president julio roca promoted the establishment of a penal colony for re-offenders - modeled after one in tasmania, australia - in an effort to secure permanent residents from argentina and to help establish argentine sovereignty over all of tierra del fuego.
the prison is now a museum