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Polychrome wooden dougong brackets support the roof of a chapel in the Qianfo-Thousand Buddha Grottoes section of Mati Si-Horse Hoof Temple. Sunan Yugur Autonomous county-Zhangye-Gansu province-China.
Mater Dolorosa, 1675
Andrea de Mena
Polychrome wood
The daughter of Pedro de Mena (whose St Acisclus is shown nearby), Andrea played a significant role in her father’s workshop. In 1671, she entered the convent of St Anne in Málaga but continued to work as a sculptor. While her work is clearly indebted to the example of her father, her style is more subtle, as is evident in the way she portrays the Virgin’s anguish and Christ’s suffering.*
Ecce Homo, 1675
Andrea de Mena
Polychrome wood
From the exhibition
Spain and the Hispanic World: Treasures from the Hispanic Society Museum & Library
(January - April 2023)
From masterpieces by Goya and Velázquez to dazzling objects from Latin America, explore the art and culture of the Hispanic world in this landmark exhibition.
Discover the rich story of Spanish and Hispanic art and culture from the ancient world to the early 20th century through over 150 fascinating works: from masterpieces by El Greco, Zurbarán, Velázquez and Goya to sculptures, paintings, silk textiles, ceramics, lustreware, silverwork, precious jewellery, maps, drawings, illuminated manuscripts and stunning decorative lacquerware from Latin America.
The exhibition features the famous World Map of 1526 by Giovanni Vespucci, and culminates with Sorolla’s colourful, large-scale study for his monumental series of 14 paintings, Vision of Spain.
Founded in New York in 1904, the Hispanic Society Museum & Library is home to the most extensive collection of Spanish art outside of Spain. Presented for the first time in the UK, it will offer visitors a chance to trace the great diversity of cultures and religions – from Celtic to Islamic, Jewish and Christian – that have shaped and enriched what we today understand as Spanish culture.
[*Royal Academy]
Taken in the Royal Academy
Heavily carved-polychrome wooden porch of Shengguo Temple-portal atop long flight of stone stairs. South section Mati Si-Horse Hoof temple-Sunan Yugur Autonomous county-Zhangye-Gansu province-China.
Zhejiang Provincial Museum, Gushan Branch on West Lake, Hangzhou, China. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com.
Polychrome structural timber beams support a wooden porch roof resting on load-bearing columns connected by dougong brackets. Doorway to a cave-South section Mogao Buddhist caves-Dunhuang-Gansu-China.
Birmingham is full of beautiful old buildings which are in a poor state of repair, whilst there are endless new developments of bland housing everywhere. A sad thing in such a great city.
Lattice window-woodcarved polychrome loggia-first floor Shengguo Temple-chipped wood railling-ashtamangala Buddhist auspicious symbols. Mati Si-Horse Hoof Temple-Sunan Yugur county-Zhangye-Gansu-China
China, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period
清 乾隆（1736 - 1795）
The shape of this tureen was probably copied from a creamware example by Josiah Wedgwood（1730 - 1795）, an example of which is in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The base of this tureen was in turn inspired by a Sèvres prototype. A similarly shaped tureen, stand and spoon with the Royal Portuguese coat of arms is in the Palácio de Queluz, and was ordered as part of a tea, coffee, chocolate and dinner service for D. Pedro III（1717 - 1786）.
Jorge Welsh
Masterpiece London 2015
Taken during Open House London 2017
The Abbey Mills Pumping Station
Designed by Joseph Bazalgette, Edmund Cooper, and Charles Driver.
Built 1865-68
Housing eight beam engines by Rothwell & Co. of Bolton
The Abbey Mills Pumping Station (Pumping Station F) is a large industrial barn, some 57m long, 29m wide and 23m high. It is the fifth in a series of sewage pumping stations built here since 1869, and uses state-of-the-art submersible pumps which halved the installation cost. Previous Victorian stations are now listed and used for other purposes.
The superstructure consists of lightweight steel 'A' frames at 6m centres, bearing upon a square frame which carries the travelling cranes used for maintenance. It is this square structure that is at the heart of the design and becomes the key to the expression of the gable ends.
Four sewers are brought together into one large concrete culvert which forms the base of the entire building. Using 16 pumps with a capacity of two cubic metres per second, the sewage is then pumped up 13m and discharged into the upper level culvert. From there it discharges into the 1869 main outfall sewer and the treatment plant at Barking.
Four diesel generators in the middle of the building power the installation while a central gantry and two side-aisle travelling cranes allow the pumps and other machinery to be lifted for maintenance.
Externally, the roof is penetrated by four vent cowls for the machinery. Louvres along the roof ridge provide ventilation to the barn itself. The sides are also louvred.
[Open House website]
Denali National Park: Polychrome Pass (August, 2011)
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Place:Denali National Park
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