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....there was a table....so put camera facing upwards on table on a 10 second delay.
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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.
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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
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
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.
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.
The St. Jakobikirche is the oldest church in Goslar. It was mentioned in a document in 1073--it was presumably built 1065-1073 as a basilica with three naves in a Romanesque style. The Westwerk (western addition) with the two spires was added in the early 12th century. The vaulted ceiling in a Gothic style (in view here) was added in the middle of the 13th century. In the years before 1275, the Romanesque eastern choir was replaced with a larger Gothic choir. The church was substantially remodeled between 1506 and 1512.
The Baroque high altar dates to 1727. Along with other furnishings, It was brought here from the dissolved Kloster Riechenberg which is located at the outskirts of Goslar in 1803. At that time, the Jakobikirche was re-constituted as a Catholic parish church.
The Tron Kirk is a former principal parish church in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is a well-known landmark on the Royal Mile. It was built in the 17th century and closed as a church in 1952. The Tron, as it is commonly called, was ordered to be built by King Charles I when he created Edinburgh a City. The land was purchased by the parish from Dr. William Scott, MD, for £1000 Scots. It was erected between 1636 and 1647 to a design by John Mylne, Royal master mason. The design mixed Palladian and Gothic elements and was inspired by contemporary Dutch architecture. The full Chamberlain's Accounts for this project are still extant. The width of the building was reduced when both side aisles were removed in 1785 to accommodate the South Bridge and Blair Street leading to Hunter Square. In 1828 a new spire (designed by R & R Dickson was constructed to replace the original, destroyed in the Great Edinburgh Fire of November 1824. The Tron closed as a church in 1952 and was acquired by the City of Edinburgh Council, the congregation moving to a new church in the Moredun area of the city. It was subsequently left to decay, and the interiors were eventually gutted. Excavations then took place under the church, from within, in 1974, which revealed some foundations of 16th century buildings in a long-vanished close named Marlins Wynd. A debate continues as to whether the internal destruction of this famous church was warranted
In 1697, Thomas Aikenhead, an 18-year-old student, became the last person in Scotland to be executed for the crime of blasphemy after a fellow student reported that he had blasphemed against God outside the Tron Kirk. Aikenhead was prosecuted for saying "I wish I were in that place Ezra calls hell so I could warm myself" as he walked by the kirk on his way back from a night of drinking with some classmates.
The baptisms and marriages of many Edinburgh luminaries took place in the Tron, one being the marriage of the famous jurist John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall on 21 January 1669, to Janet (1652–1686), daughter of Sir Andrew Ramsay, Lord Abbotshall, 1st Baronet, and the first Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and a Senator of the College of Justice (d.1688).
On 25 April 1694 Helen (d. 9 January 1714), daughter of George Ogilvy, 2nd Lord Banff (d.1668) by his spouse Agnes, daughter of Alexander 1st Lord Falconer, of Halkerstoun, married Sir Robert Lauder of Beilmouth in the Tron.
John Drysdale, who married Mary, daughter of the famous architect William Adam, was a Minister of the Tron Kirk and was also a Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, though now he is chiefly remembered for his friendship with Adam Smith, the economist.
The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland met in the Tron from 1830 to 1840—the period of the "Ten Years' Conflict".
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.
I arrived here in London on the train from Paris and was impressed by the design of the building - some really nice shapes and lines. This is a second attempt at processing - the first was a completely different crop (more on the top) and converted to B&W. This is a much better result.
Support beams at the Great Hall in Stirling Castle. Someone, somewhere else, told us the name for this type of ceiling structure, but I can't remember it.
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Mudéjar style ceiling, 16th century (Spain), carved, painted, and gilded pine, 33 x 28 feet constructed of thirty panels (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Taken with a Pentax Auto 110 + Lomography Tiger 200 110 film. (No adjustments - just dust busted). Sussex, England © DSAM7 all rights reserved
Two martinis in and this reminded me of William Eggleston's famous image "Red Ceiling" (minus the Kama Sutra freeze, lol). I love the vibrant color right out of the camera. Fujifilm x100s.
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.