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The boudoir at Knightshayes Court was the private sitting room of the lady of the house. The ceiling, designed by Victorian designer John Dibblee Crace, has as its centrepiece eight rondels depicting signs of the Zodiac.
Knightshayes is an elegant Victorian country house and estate, now owned by the National Trust, and located near Tiverton in Devon.
"At the center of the Melanesian gallery is a soaring, boldly colored ceiling from a ceremonial house of the Kwoma people of New Guinea. More than 80 feet long and 30 feet wide, the ceiling is composed of more than 270 individual paintings, commissioned from a group of Kwoma master artists in the early 1970s. The redesigned space allows the ceiling to be displayed at its full height, imparting a cathedral-like atmosphere to the gallery." More...
Taken during a visit to the The Metropolitan Museum of Art (aka "The Met") in New York City in May 2009. Despite spending 6+ hours exploring the museums Egyptian, Japanese, and Modern Art collection, we only managed to see a small portion of what the museum has to offer.
Built on top of the believed location of the tomb of St. Paul, a place of worship has existed here since his death around 65-67 CE. Pope Sylvester consecrated a basilica built by Constantine here in 324. The current structure is a reconstruction after a ruinous fire in 1823.
The tin ceiling was reproduced by the W.F. Norman Corporation using some of the same dyes and patterns of the original.
Inside Salisbury Cathedral everything was so visually beautiful and awe inspiring!! Even, and maybe especially the arched ceilings. This is in the Quire area.
Weakened by his defeat by the French in 1214 and keen to avoid a civil war he feared losing, King John met the barons at Runnymede (between Windsor and Staines in Southern England) on 15 June 1215 and agreed the terms of the document now known as Magna Carta. Its content, driven by the concerns of barons and church, was designed to re-balance power between the King and his subjects. When King John set his seal on Magna Carta he conceded the fundamental principle that even as king he was not above the law.
Magna Carta (Latin for "Great Charter") 1215 is one of the most celebrated documents in English history. At the time it was the solution to a political crisis in Medieval England but its importance has endured as it has become recognised as a cornerstone of liberty influencing much of the civilized world.
A visit to view the best preserved original Magna Carta in the Chapter House is for many visitors the highlight of their time at Salisbury Cathedral.
Magna Carta contains 63 clauses written in Latin on parchment. Only three of the original clauses in Magna Carta are still law today. One defends the freedom and rights of the English Church, another confirms the liberties and customs of London and other towns, but the third is the most famous:
'No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled. Nor will we proceed with force against him except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land. To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.'
Ceiling of the Ancient Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne, now the nave of Aachen Cathedral. The mosaic ceiling is a nineteenth century creation.
After such an intriguing exterior the interior of Aachen Cathedral is no less perplexing, particularly in regard to it's confusing layout.
In place of the usual long nave here we are confronted with the ancient, byzantine inspired octagonal space at that forms the heart of the cathedral and was the chapel of Charlemagne's Royal Palace built in the ninth century.
Beyond this early, Romanesque looking space can be glimpsed the high Gothic of the choir, a complete stylistic contrast, which makes this cathedral seem more a collection of remarkable rooms cobbled together rather than a unified church building, like some sort of full scale architectural history lesson!
Aachen Cathedral can only be described as perhaps one of the most uniquely bizarre, fascinating and liturgically difficult churches in Christendom, no other church has a profile or ground plan quite like it!
The nucleus of the building is the octagonal nave (crowned today by a dome) which is the surviving chapel of Charlemagne's palace built in c805, somewhat Byzantine in appearance, and one of the oldest complete sections of any cathedral in Europe.
As a result the cathedral is a fairly compact building, with no long central aisle, just a round central space. The western entrance was once through an atrium, on the site of the present courtyard, but the simple bulk of the entrance / lower part of the west tower survives from this time, though now carrying gothic additions, a baroque entrance porch and a neo-gothic belfry dating from 1884..
The Cathedral has grown somewhat organically since Charlemagne's time, with a delicate choir in French gothic style added to the east of the ninth century octagonal nave and consecrated in 1414. Various chapels were also added around this time, which now sprout from the ancient nave in all directions on both sides, in richly ornamented late gothic style with one baroque exception. These contrast heavily with the simplicity of the oldest parts of the church and make this exterior perhaps the most bizarre, cluttered and eccentric cathedral anywhere!
The photo shows the tools I used to hold a 2x4 against the ceiling of my garage. I was attaching 2x4s to the ceiling to make it easier to hang things and brace things (like free-standing shelves).
The picture was taken part-way through the process of pressing the board to the ceiling. I was acting alone. Based on something I saw in a magazine, and heavily influenced by my make-it-as-complicated-as-possible philosophy, the method I used was this:
1. Mark location on ceiling for the 2x4 ceiling board (hereafter referred to as "ceiling board").
2. Nail two small string cradles to the ceiling near the ends of the proposed position of the ceiling board. The ceiling board will hang temporarily in these cradles.
3. Insert one end of the ceiling board into one cradle, then the other end into the other cradle. Result: the ceiling board is hanging in the two cradles about two inches (5cm) below the ceiling.
4. Place two clamps within easy reach of each end of the ceiling board. They will be used later.
5. Grab two other boards: a pre-cut board that is almost as long as the floor-to-ceiling distance and a short board. These, clamped together, will act as temporary supports for the ceiling board. Stand on a stool under one end of the ceiling board, holding the two supports together vertically.
6. Keeping the supports pressed together, move the short board upward as far as possible, elevating the end of the ceiling board. Clamp the two supports together. RESULT: the very end of the ceiling board is pressed against the ceiling. The other end of the ceiling board is still lying in its cradle.
7. Repeat the raising process at the other end of the ceiling board. RESULT: this end of the ceiling board is now pressed against the ceiling, but the other end is still a bit loose.
8. Return to the first end of the ceiling board, loosen the clamps, repeat the raising process, and re-clamp the supports. RESULT: this end of the hanging board is tight enough against the ceiling to require no more raising.
9. Return (again) to the second end and repeat the raising process there. RESULT: the ceiling board is pressed tightly enough against the ceiling to allow drilling of pilot holes for the screws that will attach the ceiling board to the ceiling.
10. Drill holes, install screws, remove the hanging cradles and supports.
The process is tedious to say the least. But it worked: I attached four 2x4s to the ceiling in this manner. After this work was finished I realized I could have simplified this process by using my stepladders as bases for holding the 2x4s in place. One can buy devices called "third hands" (often used by carpenters and drywall installers) to hold things in place, but I am too cheap to shell out $50 for a tool that gets little use.
I am in a rare fit of industriousness in the garage. That's why I've been inactive on Flickr lately. The goal is to create a better working environment on my side of the garage and enough additional storage space that we can park my wife's Jeep in the garage again.
This was taken on about day 9 of our ongoing leak problem (we're on day 12 right now). So, almost two weeks ago Akiko noticed that water was leaking into our bathroom and shower from above, and we eventually learned that water was leaking into the unit above us as well. After a few days the leak moved to mostly in our hallway, and then further in to our apartment to the ceiling in the kitchen and some water also leaking onto a wall in our bedroom. Basically, the building management company didn't do much of anything except come by to look at the problem and offer us some buckets and dog pee pads. Eventually after 9 days they got a plumber to come check on the problem on the 4th floor, but they weren't sure where the water was coming from; despite us emptying about 8-10 gallons of water a day from our buckets. Eventually they turned off the water to the hot water heater on the 4th floor just in case that was the cause of the problem, and after a few hours the leaks slowed considerably. After that though, they turned the water back on because the people up there need hot water, and we were told they should be coming to actually fix the problem in about a week.
So far our ceiling and walls have been stained, a few light fixtures ruined, the hallway stinks, and the ceiling in one place is basically jell-o being held in place by the wallpaper, but the building company just doesn't seem like they care about the damage to the building or what is going on. So, I guess we have to get used to living with buckets.
This rooms doesn't appear to have ever had a ceiling/roof -- it is under an overhang. In the niche on the side are some very old corn husks knotted into bundles - they can almost be seen in larger sizes.
Alumnos de la XXV promoción de ETEA (1987-1992) han recibido la Espiga de Plata que tradicionalmente se entrega al cumplirse el 25 aniversario del fin de carrera. El acto, celebrado en el Campus Córdoba y organizado por Loyola Alumni, ha contado con la participación de Gabriel Pérez Alcalá, rector de la Universidad Loyola AndalucÃa, que también fue director de ETEA, Francisco Saavedra Menor, en representación de la promoción, y dos maestras de ceremonias, Mª José Campos Alarcón y Emma Alvandor Alcaide, encargadas de abrir el encuentro.
Aproximadamente 140 antiguos alumnos han acudido al aniversario y algunos de ellos han permanecido en la institución, ahora Universidad Loyola AndalucÃa, como docentes o involucrados en su desarrollo, entre ellos se ecuentra José Antonio Ariza, profesor; Francisco Pérez Fresquet, adjunto al rector, o José Antonio Espejo, del Servicio de Empleabilidad y Emprendimiento.
(Project 365 Day 184)
I was just thinking today that roofs are an amazing invention. Well, just shelter in general, really. Like, it was all raining outside, but in my apt, I have to open the blinds to even know what the weather is like. It makes life so much more comfortable!
This is a photo of a corner of my ceiling and walls, turned upside-down to hopefully look kinda like a roof. I like how turning something upside-down makes it harder to recognize.
Taken on 6 July 2015, taken with Hanimex 35es. I was basically just trying to finish off the remaining frames of film...
so here's the master bedroom ceiling all drywalled up. honestly, the double tray is a bit...massive. I would have been happy with a single tray, but whatever.
Beautiful painted ceiling in a church in Rome.
Taken with Panasonic 20mm f1.7 lens on Panasonic GH2.
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