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The territory on which the Black Sea port of Odessa stands was seized from the Ottoman Empire in 1792. Russian Empress Catherine the Great founded the city by decree two years later and is commemorated by this grand statue. Influenced by the thoughts of the contemporary Enlightment and emulating her ancestor of almost a century earlier, Peter the Great, Catherine commissioned architects from Naples and France to develop the city. The result is that Odessa has a very Mediterranean and cosmopolitan appearance - its classical architecture reflecting the ideals of the Age of Enlightment. Odessa in that respect makes an interesting comparison with other cities developed in the 18th century, such as Bath, UK; Nancy, Lorraine, France; and its virtual contemporary (also conceived by a Frenchman), Washington DC.
I was so taken with this lovely little church in Barbados and it's beautiful architecture, that I thought I'd create a set just for it ... little gems like this that I discover in my travels deserve to be noticed and recognized.
St. James Parish Church, is located in Holetown, Saint James, Barbados. It stands on one of the oldest parcels of consecrated land on the Island, often known in Barbados as "God's acre".
It dates back to 1626! More info here - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._James_Church,_Barbados
Trajan's Column is covered in a relief depicting Trajan's victories over the Dacians, which wraps around the entire column in a continuous narrative strip. Despite my assumption that the figure on top would be Trajan, you can always rely upon Christians to destroy heritage and history and replace it with their own religious idols. St Peter replaced Trajan in 1587, after the nude statue of Trajan disappeared at some point in the Middle Ages. The column was originally topped, however, not by Trajan, but by an eagle.
The gorgeous Baroque structure to the left is Chiesa del Santissimo Nome di Maria al Foro Traiano, a Catholic church built here in 1736-1751.
The Erechtheum, a temple dedicated to both Athena and Poseidon, built around 421 BC. This particular group of ladies is known as the the Porch of the Caryatids, and were used as supporting columns.
Altar of S. Ignazio by Andrea del Pozzo and others, with lapis lazuli and other decorative marbles. The principal church of the Jesuits in Rome, il Gesu was built between 1568 and 1575, to the designs of Vignola and Giacomo della Porta; and Baciccia, Antonio Raggi and Leonardo Retti (nave ceiling). The marble decoration of the nave interior is of a later date.
Propileos[
Los propileos eran la gran entrada a la Acrópolis de Atenas. Fueron construidos a partir del año 437 a. C. por el arquitecto Mnesicles en un terreno accidentado y sobre las ruinas de los propileos arcaicos que fueron destruidos en el año 480 a. C. en el incendio ocasionado por los persas.28 Las seis columnas de la entrada son dóricas, igual las de la fachada delantera como las seis de la parte posterior. Está construido con mármol pentélico, consta de un vestíbulo de 24 x 18 metros. En el interior, un muro con cinco puertas lo divide en dos partes; la occidental, más grande, tiene dos hileras de tres columnas jónicas que forman tres naves.29
Es interesante la techumbre que se construyó con vigas de mármol de más de siete metros y armando los arquitrabes que sostenían estas vigas con una barra metálica.
En el ala norte estuvo situada la primera pinacoteca del mundo; entre las pinturas que se exponían destacaba la obra del pintor griego Polignoto (siglo V a. C.), conocido por las descripciones de su obras hechas por Pausanias y por Plinio.30
Hawa Mahal (English translation: "Palace of winds" or "Palace of the Breeze") is a palace in Jaipur, India, so it is named because it was essentially a high screen wall built so that the women of the royal family could observe street festivals while unseen from the outside. It is Constructed of red and pink sandstone, the palace sits on the edge of the City Palace, Jaipur, and extends to the zenana, or women's chambers. (Source: Wikipedia)
The Nightingale–Brown House, Providence, RI.
Designed by Rhode Island architect Thomas Tefft, it is a National Historic Landmark and the location of the J. N. Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage
Built for Captain Jos. Nightingale in 1792 and sold to Nicholas Brown in 1814; donated to Brown U. in 1985. Additions were made by architect Richard Upjohn in 1853 and 64; the grounds were landscaped by Frederick L. Olmstead in 1890.
- just trying to catch up on my travel photos. At the moment I am completing the set on Venice. This was taken from the top deck of our ship, the Celebrity Millenium as it entered the Grand Canal. It was a moment that I will never forget with the classical music playing. The weather was perfect - everything was perfect!
This is one cruise that I would highly recommend to those of you who love cruising.
It really is the way to see the best of the world!
The Parthenon, a temple dedicated to Athena, the goddess of Athens. The funniest thing we learned about the Parthenon was that it was used as an amunition storage in the late 1600s when the Ottoman Turks were fighting the Venetians. Needless to say, that didn't end well. A cannon ball was fired into the Parthenon, which caused the ammunition to ignite and explode, causing much of the damage that they're currently trying to repair.
Lock Haven (Clinton County) Pennsylvania USA
Neo-Classical Revival architectural style. The Greek Ionic Order is employed in the huge portico.
September 2013.
Open House is the annual opportunity to explore hundreds of buildings in London for free and see the architecture. Many of the buildings are not normally open to the public.
The main Foreign Office building in King Charles Street was built by George Gilbert Scott in partnership with Matthew Digby Wyatt. George Gilbert Scott was responsible for the overall classical design of these offices, but Matthew Digby Wyatt, the India Office’s Surveyor, designed and built the interior of the India Office. It was built with rich decoration to impress foreign visitors.
The Secretariat Building or Central Secretariat is where the Cabinet Secretariat is housed, which administers the Government of India. Built in the 1910s,home to some of the most important ministries.
The 1931 series celebrated the inauguration of New Delhi as the seat of government. The one rupee stamp shows George V with the "asking Alexandria" and Dominion Columns.
The planning of New Delhi began in earnest after Delhi was made capital of the British Indian Empire in 1911. Lutyens was assigned responsibility for town planning and the construction of Viceroy's House (now Rashtrapati Bhavan); Herbert Baker, who had practised in South Africa for two decades, 1892–1912, joined in as the second in command. Baker took on the design of the next most important building, the Secretariat, which was the only building other than Viceroy's House to stand on Raisina Hill. As the work progressed relations between Lutyens and Baker deteriorated; the hill placed by Baker in front of Viceroy's House largely obscured Viceroy's House from view on the Rajpath from India Gate, in breach of Lutyens' intentions; instead, only the top of the dome of Viceroy's House is visible from far away. To avoid this, Lutyens wanted the Secretariat to be of lower height than Viceroy's House, but Baker wanted it of the same height, and in the end it was Baker's intentions that were fulfilled.
Many employees were brought into the new capital from distant parts of British India, including the Bengal Presidency and Madras Presidency. Subsequently housing for them was developed around Gole Market area.
The Secretariat Building was designed by the prominent British architect Herbert Baker in Indo-Saracenic Revival architecture. Both the identical building have four levels, each with about 1,000 rooms, in the inner courtyards to make space for future expansions. In continuation with the Viceroy's House, these buildings also used cream and red Dholpur sandstone from Rajasthan, with the red sandstone forming the base. Together the buildings were designed to form two squares. They have broad corridors between different wings and wide stairways to the four floors and each building is topped by a giant dome, while each wings end with colonnaded balcony.
Much of the building is in classical architectural style, yet it incorporated from Mughal and Rajasthani architecture style and motifs in its architecture. These are visible in the use of Jali, perforated screens, to protect from scorching sun and monsoon rains of India. Another feature of the building is a dome-like structure known as the Chatri, a design unique to India, used in ancient times to give relief to travelers by providing shade from the hot Indian sun.
The style of architecture used in Secretariat Building is unique to Raisina Hill. In front of the main gates on buildings are the four "dominion columns", given by Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. At the time of their unveiling in 1930, India was also supposed to become a British dominion soon. However, India became independent within the next 17 years and the Secretariat became the seat of power of a sovereign India. In the years to follow the building ran out of accommodation