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Kadriorg Palace, ca. 1727
Tallinn, Estonia
It would be interesting to know how much attention the early-18th-century visitors paid to the decorative scheme of the Great Hall.
Did some of them, the courtiers, nobility and foreign dignitaries who were accustomed to extravagant ornamentation in the royal areas of Baroque palaces elsewhere, simply take a quick look around and say to themselves "OK, the general surroundings suit my status, so being seen here will enhance my standing in society." (That would have been the correct response, since this was an imperial palace, after all.)
Was anyone so taken by the exquisite confections on the walls and ceilings that they made a slow circuit of the room to take it all in, assuming the crowd at the reception wasn't too dense?
What about the owners, the Emperor Peter the Great and his empress Екатери́на (Yekaterína)? How much thought did they give to the dense symbology contained within the decorative scheme, assuming they were even aware of it?
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Kadriorg Palace (Estonian: Kadrioru loss, German: Schloss Katharinental) is a Petrine Baroque palace built for Catherine I of Russia by Peter the Great in Tallinn, Estonia.
Both the Estonian and the German name for the palace means "Catherine's valley".
It was built after the Great Northern War for Nicola Michetti's designs by Gaetano Chiaveri and Mikhail Zemtsov.
The palace currently houses the Kadriorg Art Museum, a branch of the Art Museum of Estonia, displaying foreign art from the 16th to 20th centuries.
The KUMU branch of the museum, showing Estonian art from the 18th century onwards is located nearby in the park.
After the successful siege of Tallinn during the final phase of the Great Northern War in 1710 czar Peter the Great of Russia bought a small Dutch-style manor house at Lasnamäe for his wife Catherine. The house today is the result of a drastic renovation ordered by Nicholas I of Russia in 1827.
However, plans for a larger palace in the area soon developed and construction of a new palace, Kadriorg, was started on 25 July 1718.
Peter and Catherine visited the unfinished residence on several occasions, but after the emperor's death in 1725 Catherine showed no interest in the seaside property. The great hall with Catherine's initials and profuse stucco decor (attributed to Heinrich von Bergen) survives, while many other interiors have been altered.
My ankle is broken and I've had an operation on it a month ago now, still in plaster and a bit fed up so decided to decorate it with my crochet flowers. Note the colour purple/green, I can choose every time they change the plaster so thought of Wimbledon. which I've been following last couple of weeks.
"My mold as a reference point for my dental records,
the waiting time for this process was not so fun.. makes for a great paper-weight." Tomitheos
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Cast by Leonardo Bistolfi for a monument to Senator Rosazzi, 1909. Buenos Aires: Museo Nacional de Bellas artes
Grab crane on the wharf at Engis near Liège on the River Meuse. This facility is operated by plaster and plasterboard manufacturers N et B Knauf Et Cie S.C.S.
Work in progress:
plaster mold consisting of 3 parts for casting a little porcelain hand.
Рабочий процесс:
трехчастная гипсовая форма для отливки фарфоровой ручки.
Girl with pink plaster I meet today in Colonia Roma, Mexico DF. Nice Girl and Nice case of Pink :) Testing new Cyber-shot 10.1 mega pixels camera.
1940's Plaster Art lamp, the light bulb is under the satin skirt,, just below the waist!!!! She stands about 36" tall
Today, Tessa made a cast of Jesika's rather pregnant belly while I loitered and documented.
Tomorrow, we will decorate it at Jes's Blessingway, which is Navajo for baby shower.
At the entrance of the West Coast Suites on the University of British Columbia campus, Vancouver, BC, Canada
I’m uploading this photo to add to a new group, my Flickr friend Michael (richbriggs28) started for people with injuries as he’s also in plaster, he started it just for a laugh, to try and cheer ourselves up as it’s not nice being stuck in plaster and not be able to get out and about to take photos. I’m not able to use crutches either as I’m just recovering from a shoulder operation, so mega bad timing. I’m doing the bum shuffle a lot, and the hospital have lent me a zimmerframe, but I’m not very good at hopping, so staying in bed mostly.
I broke my left leg on Saturday 17th August 2013, firstly we all thought I’d just sprained it as I didn’t fall or stumble, I was just walking to the bar at a beer and cider festival in the New Forest after sampling a few of their delicious pear cider.
On Monday (19th) it was still so swollen so my lovely friend Lisa took me to A&E to have it x-rayed and unfortunately it is broken, so I’m in plaster for at least 6 weeks, maybe longer.
If you have any suggestions to stop me sitting here feeling sorry for myself please let me know.
And if you have any injuries please photograph them and join our group.
Books of Images and Wax, 3 day workshop
Pacific Northwest Art School, Whidbey Island, WA
Day 2
Kristina
My wife's foot in plaster bandage... broke her heel into 4 pieces... another 4 weeks in this shape until next photoshoot in the hospital!
.. devdi, wife of pandu. trying to comfort her fractured n wounded hand, being victim of her drunk husband's violence.
see other COUPLE images here.
It took me a good 5 minutes getting to my top room to upload this, so I hope it's appreciated Rockcake ;-) x
It’s 6:52AM on the morning of April 17, 2024, and the crew has just gotten underway heading up to Fish Creek quarry on the first run of the day for “the railroad.”
The oldest masonry fort in the United States ~ Saint Augustine, Florida
Construction on the fortress was from 1672-1695. The native
coquina (soft shell) stone was quarried from a local island.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castillo_de_San_Marcos
www.exploresouthernhistory.com/castillodesanmarcos1.html
History of Saint Augustine: Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain in 1513. (Christopher Columbus discovered North America in 1492 but actually landed in the Bahamas). Other Spanish explorers later found gold and silver in Mexico and Peru. The treasure was sent back to Spain in ships sailing in the Gulf Stream. Spanish settlements needed to be built in Florida to protect the Spanish Treasure fleets. King Phillip II of Spain sent Pedro Menendez to settle in Florida and drive out French garrisons recently established there. In September 1565, Pedro Menendez with 700 soldiers and colonists, landed here and founded St. Augustine, making it the oldest continually occupied European settlement in North America.
Menendez successfully destroyed the French Fort Caroline at the mouth of the Saint John's River 40 miles north of St. Augustine and ended the French incursion into Florida.
St. Augustine settlers, isolated and often near starvation, lived in constant fear of attacks by pirates who roamed the coast. Diminishing supplies and increasing hostility of the Indians made life treacherous for the early settlers.
Englishman Francis Drake burned the village and wooden fort to the ground in 1586. The town was sacked again in 1668 by pirate John Davis.
Spain's Queen Regent Mariana realized that St.Augustine was the keystone in the defense of the Florida coast, so she ordered the construction of a new fort made of stone. In 1672, the Castillo de San Marcos was begun and took 23 years to complete. Originally the fort was covered with white plaster, some of which can be seen today. The towers in the four corners were plastered red.
The fort was built of coquina, a locally quarried soft shellrock. Coquina was easily shaped by artisans and did not become brittle and crumble under cannon fire. The fort, the city gate, and many homes in St. Augustine were made of coquina which is still evident today.
In 1702, seven years after its completion, English troops from South Carolina besieged the Castillo for fifty days. Fiffteen hundred Spanish citizens fled into the security of the fort and refused to surrender. The British finally gave up the siege and burned the town. This event is why there are no buildings older than 1702 in St. Augustine today.
The Spaniards rebuilt their settlement and erected a defensive earthwork on on its northern limit, fortified the walls around the city and strengthened the walls of the Castillo.
The English attacked again in 1740, this time by General James Oglethorpe of Georgia. He bombarded the Castillo and town for twenty-seven days before he also gave up and left. The coquina walls held firm, absorbing the cannon balls without breaking apart.
England defeated Spain in the Seven Years War, and Florida was transferred to English control by the Treaty of Paris in 1763. England then divided Florida into two colonies, and St. Augustine became the capital of East Florida. During the American Revolution St. Augustine remained loyal to the crown. The entire Florida peninsula was returned to Spain as part of the negotiations ending the American Revolution in 1783.
They came back to an impossible situation. The border problems of earlier times were multiplied as runaway slaves from Georgia found welcome among the Seminole Indians, and ruffians from both land and sea made Florida their habitat.
Spain ruled for another 37 years known as the Second Spanish Period 1784-1821. During this time, the Spaniards had difficulty luring settlers from the mother country and other colonies to repopulate this area.
On July 10th, 1821, the Americans took over from the Spanish. In the1830's, hostilities rose between Seminole Indians and the Federal Government. In October 1837 one hundred Seminole Indians, including Osceola, were captured under a white flag of truce just south of St. Augustine. The end of the Seminole War made Florida safe again for visitors who came to take advantage of the fine climate. In 1845 Florida became the 27th state of the Union.
From 1875 to1887, Indians from the Great Plains and the Southwest were exiled to Florida and imprisoned in the fort. The government sought to educate the Indians and allowed them some freedom of movement. These activities led to more progressive Federal Indian policies.
During the winter of 1883-84 Henry M. Flagler, co-founder of Standard Oil Co., visited the city and was impressed with the charm and possibilities of the area. He later made a major impact on the architecture and economy of this historic city by building the Hotel Ponce de Leon, Hotel Alcazar, the Memorial church and more.
History, plus 43 miles of white sand beaches bring over three
million visitors a year to St. Augustine and St. Johns County.
(1565-1763 ~ 1st Spanish) - (1763-1784 ~ British Period)
(1784-1821 ~ 2nd Spanish) - (1821-Present ~ American)