Sponsored images from 
View allAll Photos Tagged ceiling
Nevada, and it's weird betting-tilt, is an abstract place. Quirky. Fun. Unpredictable (unless you think that you can beat the gambling establishment).... Prospector Hotel, Ely, Nevada.
Vatican Museums Ceiling. This ceiling bears the the symbol of the papacy, which is the image of two crossed keys that represent the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven.
AIMG_2428
Bazaar of Kashan (Persian: بازار کاشان Bāzār-e Kāshān) is an old bazaar in the center of the city of Kashan, Iran. It is thought to have been built in the Seljuk era with renovations during the Safavid period.
Text: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazaar_of_Kashan (CC BY-SA)
Efteling, Kaatsheuvel, Holland
History and details
The Steam Carousel is an attraction in the Efteling amusement park in the Netherlands. It is an indoor carousel situated in what is now known as the "Carousel Palace" (in Dutch "Carrouselpaleis"; formerly "De Efteling Stoomcarrousel" ("Efteling Steam Carousel") and originally "Janvier's Stoomcaroussel" ("Janvier's Steam Carousel").
The carousel, dating from 1895, was bought by Efteling from Hendrik Janvier , who had toured with it to local funfairs, and has been operating in the park since 11 May 1956.
Hendrik Janvier (1868-1932), considered to be the founding father of the salon carousel, sold the Carousel because of the high costs and declining income. Building the ride up took 4 days and it had to be transported with 25 train carriages and trucks.
Rumour has it that Anton Pieck, the most important creative designer of Efteling, pushed for the purchase, because he rode the carousel as a child in Haarlem.
There also is a bar area within the salon carousel. The area surrounding these carousels was normally used for entertainment, eating and dancing in past times.
In 1956 the carousel was the only attraction in the building, but in 1966 the Water Organ, in 1971 the Diorama and in 1972 the Victorian Theater were also set up in the Carousel Palace.
The ride
Although the mechanics are still visible, the carousel was only powered by a König steam centre engine (under license from Savages) until the 1970s; nowadays it is powered by electricity. The seats of the carousel are in the form of animals, such as 22 Hübner horses and 2 Karl Müller carved pigs (with clown thumbing his nose at the riders behind), and 4 carved Moulina gondolas and coaches, all turning to the music of an original Gavioli organ (only 5 remaining worldwide). The steps for mounting the horses and entering the gondola are fixed to the ride platform. The ride moves on a rail track under the platform, with cams to rock the animals and swing the gondolas.
Ride length: 2 minutes
Ride capacity: 750 passengers/ hour
La Sala Capitular de la catedral de Sevilla la traza Riaño y la construye M. de Gaínza en 1535, si bien a ritmo muy lento pues se cierra la cúpula proyectada por Asensio de Maeda en 1582, acabándose finalmente por Juan de Minjares diez años más tarde. De planta elíptica, sus muros superiores se ordenan según columnas dóricas sobre pedestales apoyados sobre un gran friso volado. Su cúpula elíptica se divide en tres franjas superpuestas, con casetones, y se remata por una linterna también elíptica, en una composición sobria de marcado carácter renacentista. Sevilla 22/272009
Winchester Cathedral is one of our most rewarding churches, a treasure house of art and history that is also a textbook in stone of architectural styles, from the Romanesque period to the last flowering of Gothic. It also epitomises the English preference for length over height, being the longest medieval church in Europe.
The earliest parts of the present building are 12th century Romanesque, begun in 1079 to replace the smaller Saxon cathedral (whose foundations can be traced in the churchyard) and comprise the unusually squat central tower and both transepts. The Norman crypt also survives under the choir, but suffers frequently from flooding.
The Norman nave also partially survives, but is totally unrecognisble since the late 14th century remodelling of the western limb, which now appears entirely of that date. This Gothic makeover was an immense success internally, beautifully proportioned with a magnificent sweeping vault studded with foliate bosses.
By comparison the choir is much shorter, and is the result of seperate 14th and 15th century rebuildings. It too has delicate vaulting with bosses, though here all is of wood. The dominant feature by far is the towering altar screen reredos dating from 1455-75. It's original statues were destroyed at the Reformation and are now replaced with Victorian figures; fragments of some of the original 15th century figures survive in the cathedral museum and show them to have been of very high quality indeed, a grevious loss.
Behind the great altar screen in the retrochoir stood the shrine of St Swithin, lost at the Reformation but today marked by a more modest modern replacement. This part of the building with it's chapels dates mainly from the 13th century, with the main Lady chapel remodelled in the 15th century (still possessing a sequence of early 16th century murals, hidden today under modern reproductions).
The cathedral is packed with items of interest, from the superb and amazingly preserved choir stalls of c1308 to a sequence of magnificent chantry chapels, mostly ornate late medieval creations and the largest collection in any English cathedral, the Wykeham, Beaufort , Fox and Waynflete chantries being among the finest examples of the English Perpendicular style. The Gardiner chantry is also of interest as the very last, showing a transition from Gothic to Renaissance forms.
Earlier works of art in the cathedral include the 12th century black marble font, carved with scenes from the life of St Nicholas, and some superb late 12th/early 13th century murals in the chapel of the Holy Sepulchre and the vault of the Guardian Angels chapel. Most famous of all is the exquisite Winchester Bible, one of the finest of 12th century illuminated manuscripts, on show in the cathedral library. Visitors to the library can also access the museum in the south transept gallery which contains many superb fragments of medieval sculpture.
Most of the stained glass is Victorian, the medieval glass having been mostly destroyed during the Civil War. The huge west window still shows the patchwork of fragments installed at this time, and other pieces from the 14th and 15th centuries can be found scattered throughout the building. More substantial work however survives in several of the higher choir windows but is very hard to see; the east window is still largely filled with the fine early 16th century glass installed by Bishop Fox, somewhat restored but surprisingly complete (some figures not in situ, brought from other windows to fill gaps) and remains largely unappreciated because of it's inaccessibility.
More recent artworks include some beautiful glass made to designs by Edward Burne Jones by Morris & Co in the north transept chapel. More recent still are the striking series of nave banner paintings that are often hung from the nave pillars with rich batik designs on a theme of Creation and Redemption by the late Thetis Blacker.
The former monastic buildings have mostly disappeared, the site of the cloister is still apparent on the south side (where modern buttresses were built as part of the campaign to secure the cathedral's failing foundations in the 1900s) and a nearby group of Norman arches are all that remain of the chapter house. the cathedral is still fortunate though in being seperated from the city by the relative peace of the Cathedral Close.
Ceiling of the Lake George Shoreline Adirondack cruise ship in Fort William Henry in Lake George, New York (NY), United States (USA). #lakegeorge #newyork #usa #ceilings
The QVB Swarovski Christmas tree stands 24 metres tall, has 60,000 lights and is decorated with 144,000 Swarovski crystal ornaments.
The tree takes 40 hours to install and decorate and has been put together by a team of 72 people. The team consists of technicians, engineers, lighting consultants and crystal makers from Australia and Austria.
explore #320 on may 17, 2008
the ceiling of the desert view watchtower -- a stone building on the south rim of the grand canyon in arizona.
better bigger -- take a closer look
"The Desert View Watchtower, constructed in 1932 as a replica of a prehistoric Indian tower, commands a magnificent view of the Grand Canyon, the Painted Desert to the east and the San Fransico Peaks to the south. This seventy-foot tower is the highest point on the South Rim. The interior walls of the tower feature murals by Hopi artist Fred Kabotie."
more information about the building here: www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/placestogo.htm
The Victoria and Albert Museum (abbreviated as the V&A), London (UK), is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects. The Museum was established in 1852, following the enormous success of the Great Exhibition the previous year.
Originally designed by Captain Francis Fowke, the museum’s architecture has evolved over its 150 years, with extensions and renovations through the Victorian, Edwardian, post-war and contemporary period.
A view of the statuary niches, ceiling and doorway to the stairhall.
Upon entering the massive double front doors of Coolmore, one immediately steps into one of the grandest spaces that could ever be imagined. The entrance hall is by far the most elaborate room in the mansion and has all of its original faux marbelized wall, trompe l'oeil ceiling and hand-painted, canvas cloth floor covering. Statuary niches are found here, as well as the Grand Spiral Stairhall. It is said that the marble statues, imported from Europe, arrived in Baltimore, but due to the beginning of the Civil War were never shipped south to Coolmore. They supposedly remain somewhere up north today.
Almost all interior decoration, furniture, floor coverings, wallpapers, artwork, trompe l'oeil wall and ceiling paintings are original to the completion date of 1860.
Coolmore Plantation was built from 1857-1860 by Dr. Joseph John Willis Powell and his wife, Martha Branch Whitaker Powell, both of Halifax County. Dr. Powell moved to Edgecombe County to run what was to become Coolmore Plantation for his Uncle Richard Harrison, one of antebellum North Carolina's wealthiest planters and businessmen, subsequently inherited the 2800 acres in 1856 and proceeded almost immediately to build one of the grandest plantation houses in the entire South. It was designed by Baltimore architect, E. G. Lind.
I didn't see any photos taken of the deep part of this tunnel anywhere online. Though it couldn't be seen while I was taking the picture, there appears to be some kind of ladder further up. This is a focus stack of two images. I lit it with a flashlight, but it couldn't reach far enough. The distant light is natural, so there's an entrance over a hundred feet above. However, I've walked all the normal trails without finding it. It may be in an inaccessible cliff.
A set of pictures I took a few years ago at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Galerías Pacífico is a shopping mall located at the junction of Calle Florida (a major shopping-oriented pedestrian-only street) and Avenida Córdoba. The building was constructed in 1889 by architects Emilio Agrelo and Roland Le Vacher, modelled on Paris’ Le Bon Marché. In 1896, part of the building was converted into the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (which has since been relocated). In 1908, British-owned Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway acquired part of the building for offices, resulting in the building becoming known as the “Edificio Pacífico”.
The building was remodelled in 1945 by architects José Aslan and Héctor Ezcurra. The offices were separated from the rest of the building and a large central cupola was built. In 1946 the cupola was decorated with 12 frescos by Argentine artists Lino Enea Spilimbergo, Antonio Berni, Juan Carlos Castagnino, Manuel Colmeiro and Demetrio Urruchúa.
In 1989 the building, which had been abandoned for a number of years, was declared a national historic monument. Further renovations under Juan Carlos López were done at that time and the building re-opened in 1990 as Galerías Pacífico. Four more frescos by Romulo Maccio, Josefina Robirosa, Guillermo Roux and Carlos Alonso were added to the cupola. In addition to major high-end boutique stores, the building has become the home of the contains the Jorge Luis Borges Cultural Centre and the Julio Bocca Dance Studio.