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Though the National Cathedral is run by the Episcopalians, its charter is inter-denominational and serves as "A National House of Prayer for All People". It operates entirely from private donations and is not funded by the government or national churches. It is the most beautiful church I have personally seen so far. Designed by Fredrick Bodley, Henry Vaughan and Philip Frohman, construction started in 1907 and ended in 1990. The idea of the National Cathedral is much older - going back to when President George Washington commissioned Major Pierre l’Enfant to design an overall plan for the future seat of government. Major l’Enfant’s plan included church, “intended for national purposes ... and assigned to the special use of no particular Sect or denomination, but equally open to all.”
The National Cathedral's website has its own photo gallery. For further details, see their history page.
Taken with a tripod + sigma 28-90mm lens.
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in
your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
-Kahlil Gibran
Coimbra library ceiling .
The reason that the ceiling looks pristine is that the library is unlit, no light is permitted so no flash on the camera also no noise so no shutter, but my camera has an e-shutter and I cradled it upwards and pressed the shutter. The library is kept in near darkness to preserve the books some of which are centuries old i.e. over 500 years. Also you have limited time inside to limit the humidity from your breath, so if you visit be aware of the limitations that you will face.
It was built in the early sixteenth century, monument of the Manueline style (Portuguese Baroque named in honor of King D. Manuel). - Foi construída no início do século XVI, monumento do estilo Manuelino (Português barroco em homenagem do rei D. Manuel).
Danish Museum of Art & Design (Designmuseum Danmark), Bredgade, Copenhagen, Denmark. København, Danmark.
Another fish eye shot of the ceiling dome of Neiman Marcus :)... The fish eye definitely works well for this... I like how the ceiling looks proportionate rather than it being distorted :)...
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
Minor Basilica of St. Lorenzo Ruiz aka Binondo Church
Canonized in 1987, Lorenzo Ruiz is the first Filipino Roman Catholic saint. A Chinese mestizo (his father was Chinese and his mother was Filipino), he was tortured and martyred in Japan in 1637.
The church facade and belltower, over 400 years old, were the only remnants from the original structure. The rest was destroyed in World War II as the Americans liberated Manila from the Japanese. As a result the rest of it is only about 60 years old, with the murals inside even younger than that.
Murals depicting scenes from the life of Jesus Christ and Mary adorn the ceiling, along with trompe l'oeil clerestory windows.
The presence of a church and an accompanying plaza (Plaza San Lorenzo Ruiz, formerly Plaza Calderon de la Barca) shows the Spanish influence over the Christianized Chinese in Manila.
Ok, I'm taking a break from the music shots for a bit.
This is the ceiling of the House of Representatives Chamber in the Texas State Capital building.
Nikon D300 with Nikon 50mm 1.8 lens
Ceiling at the New York Botanical Garden LuEsther T. Mertz Library, Bronx, New York (NY), United States (USA) during the day. #bronx #newyork #usa #architecture
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
Monastery church of Kloster St Michael, Bamberg, Germany. The ceiling is painted with over 500 different medicinal herbs, many of which the monks grew outside in the gardens of the monastery, and which still grow there today.
HDR tone-mapped image from three hand-held exposures.
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.
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.
The Coptic Museum was founded in 1908 and is the World's most extensive collection of Egyptian Christian art.
Housed in a purpose built gallery on two floors (with architectural embellishments such as ceilings and glass that are rewarding in themselves) the exhibits span the centuries, telling the story of Coptic Orthodox Christianity in Egypt, one of the oldest Christian communities in the World which today comprises approximately ten percent of the country's population.
The display begins with architectural sculpture from the late Roman period onwards through to frescoes from churches along with items in all media, including an especially fine collection of paintings and icons upstairs.
It is one of the most important museums in Cairo and an essential place to visit in order to gain an understanding of Egypt's Christian past.