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The Sala dos Brasões (Coat-of-Arms Room) is a domed room within the Palacio Nacional in Sintra, Portugal. It was constructed between 1515-1518 during the reign of King Manuel I and the domed, coffered ceiling is decorated with 72 coats-of-arms of the King and of the main Portuguese noble families. The blue tiled panels beneath date from the late 17th/early 18th century and depict courtly and hunting scenes.
The site of the Palacio Nacional was originally the location of an Arab palace at the time of Moorish control of Iberia in the 10th century. With the expulsion of the Moors in the 12th century it became the a residence of the Portuguese royal family - used especially during the summer when the court in Lisbon was stiflingly hot, or during outbreaks of plague.
The palace's current appearance is the result of the successive building programmes undertaken on behalf of the kings Dinis (1261-1325), João I (1356-1433) and Manuel I (1469-1521). It was declared a Unesco World Heritage Site along with Sintra's other monuments in 1995.
Situated some 18 km to the west of the Armenian capital, Echmiadzin (meaning 'Descent of the Only Begotten Son of God') is Armenia's equivalent of Canterbury, being the seat of the Catholicos (head) of the 1700 year old Armenian Apostolic Church. It's official name is Vagharshapat. The Mother Church (Mayr Tachar) was originally built by St Gregory the Illuminator (who converted the pagan king of Armenia to Christianity in the early 4th century) and is at the heart of a huge compounds of churches, seminaries, museums, memorials and residences, including that of the current patriarch, Karekin II. This photograph shows the ceiling of the mid-17th century porch at the entrance of the church, which was covered in scaffolding when I visited it in September 2015.
The ceiling and chandelier in the Grand Hall (former sanctuary) can change colors, thanks to a high-tech lighting system.
La Casa de Pilatos, chiefly built between the 15th and 16th centuries, is an example of an Italian Renaissance building with Mudéjar elements and decorations. It is considered the prototype of the Andalusian palace.
The palace is decorated with azulejo tiling and ceilings of Mudéjar honeycomb.
Casa de Pilatos, Seville, Spain, 2015
On Wednesday night, I enjoyed a meal here with friends. We had just found out a new chemo cocktail was available for my friend and we celebrated the hopeful path. It was a good night.
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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
The Banqueting Hall of the old Greenwich Hospital, with its extraordinary Baroque decoration. Designed by Wren, but completed by Hawksmoor and Sir John Vanbrugh, famous for its Baroque Painted Hall, which was painted by Sir James Thornhill in honour of King William and Queen Mary.
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Bole Medhane Alem Church.
Note: I apply the "little world" filter in Photoshop (polar coordinates) to "unfold" this to become a mural. :-)
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Thomas Gambier Parry painted part of the ceiling in Ely Cathedral in 1865 and this final panel depicts Christ in Glory.
Inside the Cabinet War Rooms.
During the Second World War, a group of basement offices in Whitehall served as the centre of Britain’s war effort. The complex, known as the Cabinet War Rooms, was occupied by leading government ministers, military strategists and Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Following the devastation of the First World War, military planners feared up to 200,000 casualties from bombing in the first week of a future war.
Plans to evacuate the prime minister, cabinet and essential staff from London were drawn up as early as the 1920s, but concern that Londoners would feel abandoned if the prime minister and government were in a safe place, and issues about the speed of evacuation, led to a search for an emergency shelter in central London.
In June 1938 the New Public Offices building was selected. It was near Parliament, with a strong steel frame and a large basement.
The basement was adapted to provide meeting places for the War Cabinet during air raids and also housed a military information centre based around a ‘Map Room'. Here, vital information for King George VI, Prime Minister Churchill and the armed forces was collected.
The Cabinet War Rooms became fully operational on 27 August 1939, a week before Britain declared war on Germany.
Churchill’s War Cabinet met here 115 times, most often during the Blitz and the later German V-weapon offensive.
The Cabinet War Rooms were in use 24 hours a day until 16 August 1945, when the lights were turned off in the Map Room for the first time in six years.
[Imperial War Museum]