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GCT, interior, rain, he Graybar Passage, if you are unfamiliar, is the hallway which connects the Main Concourse within Grand Central Terminal to the Graybar Building located on Lexington Avenue. To find it, all you need to do is look for the sign that reads, “Tracks 17 to 11 Graybar Passage”. While walking about one-half of the way down it, you will come upon an example of some wall murals that were done by WPA artists in the 1930s. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a government program started by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in response to the Great Depression and in an effort to create jobs for artists.
This mural located within the Graybar Passage is one of the last paintings remaining from the WPA effort as most were painted over during prior restorations. This work is titled “Transportation and Construction” and is by Edward Trumbull. Trumbull is most famous for another mural which he painted inside the nearby Chrysler Building. Depicted within Trumbull’s mural are various images to depict technological progress including wagons, trains and airplanes.
You probably do remember more murals, but period photographs and written accounts indicate that they were only cloud forms. The Graybar Building was built in 1926-1927 and designed by Sloan & Robertson. The artist Edward Trumbull painted an industrial panorama, four sections showing railroads, airships, telephone communication and skyscraper steelwork. Trumbull also did murals in the Chrysler Building and the Oyster Bar.
In 1927, The New York Times noted that the other ceiling panels were painted only in imitation of cumulus cloud forms, which have indeed been painted out, perhaps because later owners considered them just smudges of white. S. J. Vickers, writing in The Architectural Record, praised the main mural and regretted that Trumbull had not been retained to do all the vaults. Who's Your Hatter?
Graybar Mural: In the Graybar Passage which connects Grand Central and the Graybar building, you’ll find a mural called “Transportation and Construction”. It was created in 1931 by the same artist that did the murals in the Chrysler Building, no one quite knows why this is the only ceiling painted here.
Ceiling Artwork - I laid on the floor to shoot this photograph of the ceiling of St. Peter in Chains Church.
I may have the number wrong, but I was told that this dome was composed of something like 3,185 pieces of stained glass. During WWII, there was concern that it would be damaged by bombs. Therefore the entire thing was taken apart piece by piece, put into storage, and then restored after the war.
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The ceiling of The Core building at the Eden Project – wood, with skylights letting the light shine in past the curved wooden beams.
Thirumalai Nayak Palace - Madurai
Ceiling of the main hall ...
digitally remastered
They started the restoration of the palace in 2004.
2004-01-16
Nikon 5700
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Dale Chihuly (American, born 1941)
Persian Ceiling
2011
Blown Glass
Artwork © 2011 by Chihuly Studio, All rights reserved.
Photograph © 2011 by Nick Benson.
"I just like the name 'Persian.' It sort of conjured up the Near East, Byzantium, The Far East, Venice- all the trades, smells, senses i don't know, it was an exotic name to me, so i just called them Persians."
- Dale Chihuly
Chihuly's Persians are among his most effective forms for installation art - mounted vertically in wall displays, incorporated in chandeliers, massed in ceilings. The rondel, a flower-like form distinguished by large size and wavy, irregular edges, is the most typical Persian. As a rule, Chihuly likes to manipulate glass as simply as possible, using few tools and molds, and allowing gravity, movement, and centrifugal force to act upon the molten material. To watch his team spin the molten disc of a Persian, then let it droop naturally into shape is to see a breathtaking display of skill and control, using minimal means.
Persian Ceiling provides a rare opportunity to completely immerse yourself in an artist's work - look up and luxuriate.
Chihuly - Through the Looking Glass
Exhibit at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
April 10, 2011 - August 8, 2011
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I'm struggling with this month's Guardian Camera Club challenge of utilities. I have some ideas but none are easy. This is another possibility. Damn woodchip!
The legendary ceiling where Michelangelo placed nine Central stories illustrating episodes of the Genesis within a powerful painted architecture, with at their sides figures of Nudes, holding medallions with texts taken from the Book of Kings.
The ceiling is divided into nine sections in which nine stories of Genesis - from the stages of Creation to the Drunkenness of Noah - are depicted. The scenes begin from the altar wall and proceed toward the entrance; Michelangelo painted them in reverse order since he started from the area near the entrance wall. The twisting ignudi or male nudes that decorate the corners of the ceiling were highly controversial at the time.
For a better description of each scene, go to
www.sacred-destinations.com/italy/vatican-sistine-chapel.htm
The Palacio Nacional was constructed 1939-1943 as presidential palace in a neo-baroque style. It originally served as the official seat of the President of Guatemala, but now is known as Palacio Nacional de la Cultura and serves as exhibit space.
The wooden ceiling of the staircase was executed in a typical Mudéjar style--which first was established in Spain during the period of Arab rule of southern Spain in the Middle Ages and than brought to the Americas by the Spaniards as part of the colonial legacy.
Dale Chihuly (American, born 1941)
Persian Ceiling
2011
Blown Glass
Artwork © 2011 by Chihuly Studio, All rights reserved.
Photograph © 2011 by Nick Benson.
"I just like the name 'Persian.' It sort of conjured up the Near East, Byzantium, The Far East, Venice- all the trades, smells, senses i don't know, it was an exotic name to me, so i just called them Persians."
- Dale Chihuly
Chihuly's Persians are among his most effective forms for installation art - mounted vertically in wall displays, incorporated in chandeliers, massed in ceilings. The rondel, a flower-like form distinguished by large size and wavy, irregular edges, is the most typical Persian. As a rule, Chihuly likes to manipulate glass as simply as possible, using few tools and molds, and allowing gravity, movement, and centrifugal force to act upon the molten material. To watch his team spin the molten disc of a Persian, then let it droop naturally into shape is to see a breathtaking display of skill and control, using minimal means.
Persian Ceiling provides a rare opportunity to completely immerse yourself in an artist's work - look up and luxuriate.
Chihuly - Through the Looking Glass
Exhibit at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
April 10, 2011 - August 8, 2011
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© Nick Benson, All rights reserved. Use of this image without permission is illegal.
If you like my work and you would like to see more, please feel free to visit my website, nickbensonphoto.com.
One of the best ways you can stay updated with my current and most recent work, is by liking my fan page on Facebook!
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Holy Angels at Hoar Cross is simply one of the very finest churches of it's date, a real tour de force of late Victorian architecture by architect George Frederick Bodley dating mostly from 1872-6. I'd always wanted to see Bodley's masterpiece so when the opportunity came up with an ex employer offering me a lift there whilst he did a survey I couldn't resist; of course this meant scaffolding would be covering a fair amount up, but if you've got access to that scaffold it's actually a major advantage!
Sometimes churches can disappoint if you're over familiar with photos of them before you visit, but this wasn't the case here, it's a truly superb church, incredibly ornate and beautifully crafted, internally it is a close relative of Bodley's Clumber Chapel. The chancel is the climax, with it's vaulted ceiling and walls encrusted with niches and statuary, all in rich red/pink stone. The only drawback is having to rely on artificial lighting, you can hardly see a thing in there without it! The stained glass is entirely the work of Burlison & Grylls and fills every window..
Some beautiful woodwork and fine tombs of Lord and Lady Meynell (the latter the builder of the church in memory of the former) in the chapels flanking the chancel. I believe the chancel is often locked and many visitors have to gaze longingly through the screen, a real pity as the best parts of the building lie beyond it and a visit would be so much the poorer without being able to access these areas.
The external scaffolding covered most of the chancel so whilst I missed the overall intended effect, I did get up close and personal with numerous gargoyles and statues normally only seen at a distance. Alas the shadows cast by the scaffolding boards meant it was next to impossible to get good images of much of the stained glass inside.
This is what's now the back end of the kitchen. Many, many years of leaking ceiling destroyed everything back there.