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Although this picture is not part of Millennium Park, I added this to this set simply due to the fact that the Chicago Cultural Center is located in the vicinity.
Chicago Cultural Center - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Cultural_Center
Believe me! You can see amazing detail in ORIGINAL SIZE
These are two photos with a little variation in lighting. I let a tad more light in this shot. I could not decide which was best, so I posted both. May be we can have a contest...
Igreja de Sta.Maria
St.Mary's Church
Bragança
Portugal 2007
Het museum is genoemd naar Pieter Teyler van der Hulst (1702-1778), een zeer rijke laken- en zijdefabrikant. Als aanhanger van de Verlichting liet hij in zijn testament opnemen dat zijn collectie en vermogen in een stichting ondergebracht zouden moeten worden. De stichting zou tot doel moeten hebben kunst en wetenschap te bevorderen.
Mother church of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). By Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola and Giacomo della Porta, completed in 1580. Nave ceiling with fresco of 'The Triumph of the Name of Jesus', by Giovanni Battista Gaulli, known as Il Baciccia, 1672-83
With a construction cost of over US$3 billion, 302 rooms and 92 suites, the Emirates Palace is reputed to be the most expensive hotel ever built [1]. Much of the interior decor is in gold and marble. The main central area houses an expansive marble floor, balconies and a large patterned dome above, picked out in gold.
1460. godine Andrija Aleši odlazi iz Splita u Trogir. Ondje je dobio zadatak da uz nadsvođeno predvorje katedrale sv. Lovre dogradi krstionicu. Istovremeno kada je započela izgradnja krstionice Aleši radi i na preoblikovanju katedralne sakristije. Gradnja krstionice trajala je do 1467. godine, kada Aleši upisuje svoje ime s unutarnje strane krstioničkih vrata:
ANDREAS ALEXIUS DURRACHINUS OPIFEX MCCCCXII.
Volumen krstionice je jednostavan kvadrat. Ulaz u krstionicu je iz predvorja katedrale iznad koga je postavljen reljef Kristova krštenja. Tlocrt unutrašnjosti je pačetvorina presvođena šiljastim kazetiranim bačvastim svodom. Prostorna koncepcija unutrašnjosti rađena je doslovce prema prostornoj koncepciji Jupiterova hrama u Dioklecijanovoj palači. Podnožni vijenac nosi zidne plohe ukrašene motivima kaneliranih plitkih pilastara s korintskim kapitelima između kojih su umetnute konkavne kanelirane niše ukrašene u gornjem djelu s školjkastom lepezom. Prema Radovanu Ivančeviću kanelirani pilastri i konkavne niše „monolitni su kameni blokovi u debljini zida, tako da građevina ima više montažni nego zidani karakter“. Kako ističe Andrija Mutnjaković, Aleši time nastavlja „istovjetnu graditeljsku strukturu šibenske katedrale Jurja Dalmatinca kao izvorni identitet dalmatinske arhitekture“.
Korintski kapiteli zidnih pilastara nose dvostruki vijenac. Gornji dio vijenca načinjen je od dvostrukog niza lišća, a donji čini friz dječaka (Putta). Krstionica sadrži i tri skulptorska djela Andrije Alešija: reljefe Kristovo Krštenje u luneti nad ulazom i sveti Jeronima u zabatu iznad oltara te oltarnu skulpturu Ivana Krstitelja. Kompoziciju Kristova krštenja Radovan Ivančević dovodi u vezu s slikom Kristova krštenja Piera della Francesca. Prema Ivančeviću ovaj je reljef jedan od najvažnijih dokumenata ranorenesansne skulpture u Dalmaciji.
Prema Andriji Mutnjakoviću Andrija Aleši „stvorio je svojom krstionicom prvo renesansno djelo u Hrvatskoj, u isto vrijeme kada se renesansa započela formirati u Italiji i nekoliko desetljeća prije nego što se renesansa počela javljati u drugim zemljama Europe“.
( wikipedia)
This masterwork of Roman mannerism in stucco and fresco was made by Pasquale Cati in the second half of the sixteenth century.
The ceiling of the incorrectly named Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, built in the second quarter of the fifth century and covered with mosaics - Ravenna, Italy.
lower Ceiling (lower part of Balcony) of Ohio Theater.
This was captured with Jupiter-9 85mm f2 M42 mount mounted on Canon DSLR Rebel XT/350D @f7
It has gorgeous interior, built on Spanish Baroque architecture.
In my opinion, one of the least discussed/visited place in Columbus, but the real beauty lives here...
As I was waiting for my new passport to be printed I thought I'd take a look at Peterborough's beautiful cathedral. The ceiling really is amazing and, in the centre of the building (I am sure this has a proper name?) is this, which provides an almost kaleidoscopic effect. My only grumble is the lens flare, which rather spoils the image. That will teach me for not using the hood on my new Sigma 17 - 70. Still, not a bad result for a handheld image at pretty high ISO.
The Queen’s Theatre. While the Opera of Versailles was a theatre of court, the small room at Trianon was a theatre of society, as many existed then in residences in the countryside where, to pass the time, the owners and their guests would put together plays or operas. During her childhood in Vienna, Marie-Antoinette had gotten used to these familiar performances. She wanted to do the same with her close relations, princes of the royal family and some rare friends.
In 1780, on the orders of Marie-Antoinette, Richard Mique built this theatre whose severe exterior contrasts with the refined interior which, through its harmonies of blue, white and gold, recalls the opera of Versailles, only smaller since it has a capacity of only a hundred people: the domestic service on the floor and the guests on the first floor behind the boxes with grids. But the greatest luxury is not in the wooded room painted in a false, veined white marble and adorned with sculptures made of pasteboard, it lies in the machinery used for the scenery changes, which was fortunately preserved. On the stage of Trianon, plays by authors who were fashionable at the time, such as Sedaine and Rousseau, were acted out and entire operas were sung, and everyone agreed that the Queen was very good.
The ceiling view in the "Temple de la Sagrada Familia" in Barcelona.
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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.