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This is the ceiling of a church dedicated to the founder of the Jesuits, Ignatius Loyola. The painter was Andrea Pozzo in the late seventeenth century. Have a look at how he cleverly made the painting look three-dimensional when it is on a flat surface. As with many ecclesiastical buildings in Rome, the decoration is sumptuous and money was obviousy no object.
Famous painting in the ceiling of Gesu Church (Chiesa del Gesu) - Triumph of the Name of Jesus, by Giovanni Battista Gaulli
Pentax MX-1
The ceiling of the law office I work in. It is an old building and has some history, but this ceiling tile is hilariously unoriginal. It's not even tin. Added for visual effect only.
The ceiling panels just above the Map of Liguria in the Gallery of Maps.
Galleria delle Carte Geografiche, Musei Vaticani; July 2019
(This is actually a panorama stitch of 2 images.)
Map room, Vatican museums. A totally cliched shot -- search "vatican map room ceiling" and see for yourself!
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A trip to Abbey Mills Pumping Station with Andre Govia, Subversive, Camerashy, Odins Raven, James Charlick and Muddy Funkster.
The original Abbey Mills Pumping Station, in Abbey Lane, London E15, is a sewage pumping station, designed by engineer Joseph Bazalgette, Edmund Cooper, and architect Charles Driver. It was built between 1865 and 1868. It was designed in a cruciform plan, with an elaborate Byzantine style, described as The Cathedral of Sewage
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frame #35a Versailles Ceiling
CAMERA: AKA Akarette 0 - c.1949
FILM: Fuji NPH 400 (expired 2008)
DATE: 4/14/2012
DEVELOPMENT: Processed & scanned ar Prodia Lab Nimy
Looking Up is a compilation of the many different types of ceilings that can be found around Italy. While this series was shot in the straightforward, almost documentary style, it became more about noticing patterns, shapes, and symmetry. Technically, this series of images was mainly taken in low light conditions while hand-holding the camera at a slow shutter speed and a high ISO. With the wide-angle lens I was using I tried to include as much of the ceiling as possible along with some of the surrounding area to give it context. If I had a chance to go back I would be more intentional about including the entire ceiling and not just pieces of it.
What struck me most when putting this series together was how often I looked up while I was in Italy. At home in Jacksonville it is very rare that you will be in a building, a museum, or even modern churches that try to draw your attention upward. Almost without fail the churches and museums that I walked into in Italy had something to shift my focus and attention towards the ceiling. Sometimes there were elaborate paintings and sometimes it was more subtle with little decoration or even showing the structure of the building itself, but there was always something to look at. The church itself has symbolism of hope and peace, but what I found as I was looking at the ceilings is that shifted the viewer’s attention up, and for the believer, heavenward. Not all the subject matter that I encountered was religious, but a large part of it was with the amount of churches that can be found almost anywhere you look, which is a representation of how important (the Catholic) religion is throughout Italy.