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A huge thanks to Paul & Angela Cupit for sending this photo, taken on their mobile (and very good too) as cameras were not allowed inside, so we were feeling quite lost without them!
One of the very largest and perhaps the most stunning of Indian temples, the Meenakshi Temple is a wonder to behold. It is a vast complex punctuated by more than ten gopura towers, the four biggest being positioned at the cardinal points on each side of the complex's perimeter wall; these are easily among the biggest and most richly adorned ever built, swarming with a multitude of sculpted stucco figures painted in bright colours (which are renewed every twelve years).
Inside the temple is a network of vast corridors with brightly painted ceilings supported by hundreds of wonderful sculpted pillars.
Sadly I can't share any of this as the temple authorities only allow photography on mobile-phones, real cameras must be left outside (security is strict). As a result visiting this beautiful place was a near painful experience seeing what a marvel it is but being limited to a few shots of two of the towers taken from outside. Never before had we felt so lost without a camera!
For more on this fabulous temple see the link below:-
St. Johns Church. The ceiling. One thing about ultra high celings, how does ione change the light bulbs :-)
Choir - medieval barrel ceiling, c1355, Hid under a plaster vault by Thomas Pitt in 1764, but revealed and restored by Ewan Christian in 1850s. Repainted in 1970 under Dykes Bower : detail
The University of Coimbra’s grand examination room is Amazing. It tops the room where for university’s major academic ceremonies such as oral exams and graduations take place. The ceiling has some amazing patterns with Indo-Portuguese themes. PhD defences can be viewed from the balconies hat run round the outside of he top of the walls. Fascinating.
Our swarovski crystal was making pretty patterns on the ceiling and walls this morning.
This was the best of them.
The Flemish painter Peter Rubens was invited to England with the offer of a knighthood and the Banqueting House ceiling was then painted in 1635.
This is the worlds only example of Rubens ceiling painting that remains in-situ.
Capela do Fundador - Founder's Chapel. Octagonal ceiling. Mosteiro da Batalha - Batalha Monastery.
"... the Founder's Chapel (Capella do Fundador), a chamber 65 ft. square, with a light and elegant octagon in its centre, borne by eight pillars".--Baedeker 1913.
Monastery of Batalha UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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The ceiling in the long gallery at Lanhydrock House in Cornwall is being cleaned. The plasterers had fun way back when they made it, and no doubt so did the owner. Now we get a close look.
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Ellis island ceiling. It is said that almost half of all Americans today can trace their ancestory to someone who passed through Ellis Island! And while waiting on line if they looked up then this is what they saw!
Impressive stepped-dome ceiling of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington
The ceiling in Harpa, the new concert hall/opera in Reykjavik, Iceland.
You can read about the new concert hall in Reykjavik and see some pictures here: www.harpa.is/en/
Here you can see some 3-D pictures of how it will look like: www.harpa.is/en/about-us-/marketing-/3d-pictures-/
Reykjavik, Iceland. 11.06.2011.