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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.
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Morocco.
Marrakech.
Bahia Palace
From the World Travel Guide.
The 19th-century Bahia Palace still functions as a royal residence where the king entertains, but dozens of rooms are open to the public to see how the royals lived, including the former residence of the Grand Vizier's four wives and his royal harem of 24 concubines. These rooms are decked out floor to ceiling with an eye-popping combination of stuccowork, mosaics and intricately carved and painted woodwork.
This was captured with Zenitar 16mm f2.8 Fish Eye (for full frame, good wide angle for crop) M42 mount mounted on Canon DSLR Rebel XT/350D @f8-11
The Outer Peristyle is a large garden south of the museum. At the Getty Villa.
The Getty Villa is an art museum located about 19 miles (31 km) west of downtown Los Angeles, California. The site is built in the style of an ancient Roman palace. It houses ancient Greek, Roman and Etruscan art and artifacts dating from 6,500 BC to 400 AD. Items from after 400 AD are housed in a companion museum, the Getty Center, elsewhere in Los Angeles. I visited the Getty Villa on June 20, 2015.
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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The following pictures will show you, how the house with the blue door looks like inside. That is, you will see pictures of rubbish and dirt and decay and peeling paint and dirty window panes and dead flies. That´s, what most people don´t like - me included.
But you will also see, how rich people lived in a little town like Hildburghausen about 250 years ago, during Rococo period.
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
I positioned myself as close to dead-center at the main crossing where the nave, transepts and apse meet and pointed straight up. You can see part of the choir screen, or pulpitum, at the center-bottom. Look closely at the square beneath the tower and at about two o'clock you can see the circular doorway through which the tower bells are hoisted into place.
The Mausoleum of I'timad ad Daulah is a stunning example of Mughal architecture standing on the banks of the Yamuna river in the centre of Agra. It was built in 1622-8 to house the tomb of Mirza Ghiyas Beg and his wife, who were also the grandparents of Mumtaz Mahal, for whom another larger and much more famous mausoleum was built nearby; thus this tomb is popularly known as the 'Mini Taj', as it is also believed to be the architectural precedent and forerunner to Agra's most celebrated monument.
The complex consists of the central square mausoleum building, a delicate affair in white marble with minarets at each corner, all of which is covered in an astonishing array of coloured stone inlay, an extremely delicate craft for which Agra is renowned. Around the mausoleum is a garden with four identical gateways in contrasting red sandstone (with white marble inlaid decoration).
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The old church at Dädesjö (Dädesjö gamla kyrka - to tell it apart from Dädesjö nya kyrka, "the new chuch of Dädesjö") was built sometime 1150-1299. It is a small church consisting of a single nave and a choir. Unlike many other small churches it was never demolished when a new, bigger church was built in 1795, instead it was used for storage. Later it was discovered that the church still had original, medieval paintings - never covered up (which is very unusual). The paintings were made by the artist Sighmunder at the end of the 13th century (he signed his work, using runic letters) and is today viewed as one of the best examples in the country of medieval art. The ceiling medallions depicts the story of the birth of Christ - from the annunciation to the massacre of the innocents in Bethlehem.
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Taken at Kew Gardens in the Palm House.
this is one of my favourite buildings here in qatar. i cannot get over how the geometry of the place plays with the light coming in the main window (which happens to overlook the bay and the towers of the "downtown"). first thing i had to do with my new superwide lens was to redo the ceiling shot i created earlier out of two pictures. don't forget to find the guy standing on the walkway to give you some scale...
NYC: Midtown / James A. Farley Post Office (10001)
Ceilng ornamentation
Leica M10 | Zeiss C Sonnar 50/1.5 ZM
Verscholen in een kantoorgebouw aan de Kunstlaan in Sint-Joost-ten-Node (Brussel) is een gedeelte van de voormalige woning van architect Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar bewaard. De woning werd door hemzelf ontworpen in 1841 en gebouwd vanaf 1846 in classicistische stijl met een bepleisterde gevel op een sokkel van hardsteen. Het gebouw onderging nadien talrijke veranderingen. Een deel van het originele stucwerk ging verloren in 1935 toen het gebouw en de gevel voor commerciële doeleinden werden verbouwd. In dezelfde periode verdwenen ook enkele salons.
Een in 1988 ingezette beschermingsprocedure belette de totale ontmanteling maar kon niet verhinderen dat het bestaande gebouw werd ingekapseld in een grootschalig postmodernistisch complex. Gelukkig bleef de grote monumentale hal in neoclassicistische stijl bewaard met de aan beeldhouwer Mélot toegeschreven plaasteren borstbeelden, die deel uitmaken van de decoratie, en elegante arcaden op Ionische gekoppelde zuilen. Twee salons bezitten nog hun marmeren schouwen en rijke decors van stucwerk en verguldsel in neorenaissancestijl. Engeltjes, ranken en vruchten verfraaien de cassetteplafonds.
Foto: Tijl Vereenooghe
The glass sheltered ceiling at the revamped the Chinatown Food Street is 3 storeys high with built-in cooling system with 24 food stalls.
I didn't think you could make a large indoor space with a very tall ceiling seem claustrophobic, but this indoor public space at 60 Wall Street does the trick. It's always been a rather disorienting and unpleasant space to pass through, much less occupy.
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Cette abbaye romane inscrite au patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO au titre des "Chemins de Saint Jacques de Compostelle en France" depuis 1998, fait l’objet aussi d’un classement au titre des monuments historiques par la liste de 1840.
L'abbatiale Sainte-Foy de Conques a été construite à partir de 1041 par l'abbé Odolric à l'emplacement de l'ancien ermitage de Dadon (819), les travaux s’étalent jusqu’au XIIe siècle.
L'église est construite sur un plan en croix latine et à chapelles rayonnantes (trois sur le chevet) et bénédictines (quatre chapelles alignées sur le transept. Elle présente une double enveloppe (nef et abside pour la première, collatéraux et déambulatoire pour la seconde), et une élévation à deux niveaux, les tribunes donnant sur le vaisseau central par des baies géminées. Elle présente des volumes ramassés en raison des contraintes topographiques, le premier ermitage ayant été fondé dans la vallée escarpée de la Dourdou. L'abside est de faible profondeur, la nef petite (longue de 20,70 m et large de 6,80 m) par rapport au transept (35 m). La voûte en berceau (contrebutée par les voûtes en demi-berceau de la galerie supérieure) de 22,10 m de hauteur et les arcatures surhaussées des bas-côtés de 9,40 m de hauteur révèlent une réelle recherche de verticalité du projet architectural.
L'intérieur de l'abbatiale est très sobre avec le chœur, la voûte peinte et les tribunes sont peints en claire, presque blanche. Le haut des murs, l'abside et de nombreuses piles sont en pierre calcaire de Lune de couleur jaune variable. Les murs Est du Transept, du déambulatoire et des chapelles, ainsi que les murs du collatéral Sud sont en grès rouge de Nauviale.
La travée du narthex est la plus large (5,70 m), les trois suivantes sont identiques (4,30 m), la cinquième accuse un élargissement (5,20 m) qui semble prévenir le rétrécissement de la suivante (2,90 m) donnant sur le transept.
Le chœur est entouré d'un déambulatoire permettant aux fidèles de défiler autour des reliques de Foy d'Agen. Il est orné de grilles en fer forgé datant du XIIe siècle et qui, selon la tradition légendaire rapportée dans le Liber miraculorum sancte Fidis de Bernard d'Angers, auraient été réalisées avec les chaînes, colliers et bracelets de fer apportés par d'anciens prisonniers délivrés par l'intercession de la sainte. La sacristie est décorée de fresques du XVe siècle qui racontent le martyre de la sainte. Au fond du transept gauche, on peut admirer un haut-relief représentant l'Annonciation, sculpté par le même artiste que celui qui exécuta le tympan.
Les vitraux de Pierre Soulages réalisés entre 1987 et 1994 en collaboration avec le verrier Jean-Dominique Fleury ajoutent un aspect contemporain à l'atmosphère sobre et recueillie de l'église.
L'ensemble de près de 250 chapiteaux sculptés constitue un exemple parfait de l'art roman. Alors que les chapiteaux étaient ornés jusque-là que de motifs végétaux et géométriques, ceux de Conques voient l'apparition de figures humaines, d'abord timidement prises dans le motif ornemental puis de plain-pied.
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