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Sunlit limestone steps climb the right side of the frame, their worn treads catching hard light beside a rough stone wall. A dark iron handrail runs along the edge, and low green shrubs sit at the base of the wall.
Steps performing live at the Bournemouth International Centre. Licensing: www.charlieraven.com All Rights Reserved
Following a competition in 1717 the steps were designed by the little-known Francesco de Sanctis, though Alessandro Specchi was long thought to have produced the winning entry. Generations of heated discussion over how the steep slope to the church on a shoulder of the Pincio should be urbanised preceded the final execution. Archival drawings from the 1580s show that Pope Gregory XIII was interested in constructing a stair to the recently completed façade of the French church. Gaspar van Wittel's view of the wooded slope in 1683, before the Scalinata was built, is conserved in the Galleria Nazionale, Rome. The Roman-educated Cardinal Mazarin took a personal interest in the project that had been stipulated in Gueffier's will and entrusted it to his agent in Rome, whose plan included an equestrian monument of Louis XIV, an ambitious intrusion that created a furore in papal Rome. Mazarin died in 1661, the pope in 1667, and Gueffier's will was successfully contested by a nephew who claimed half; so the project lay dormant until Pope Clement XI Albani renewed interest in it. The Bourbon fleur-de-lys and Innocent XIII's eagle and crown are carefully balanced in the sculptural details. The solution is a gigantic inflation of some conventions of terraced garden stairs. The Spanish Steps, which Joseph de Lalande and Charles de Brosses noted were already in poor condition, have been restored several times, most recently in 1995. A new renovation commenced on October 8, 2015 and the steps reopened on September 21, 2016.
Taken one evening in the ancient city of Jaffa (Jewish word meaning beautiful) where the streets were peaceful and not a lot else going on. Perhaps a cat would have added to this shot, obvious though?
I suppose, ideally, this photograph should have been number thirty-nine in the set as homage to John Buchan, even though there are a lot more than 39 steps in this image. There is a forced perspective at play here, as the width of the steps does decrease quite severely due to the relative angle of the building side wall and the brick wall on the right.
Barely visible as Spring growth began to obscur them, these steps once led up from the street to a house now demolished. Only the steps remain. Located in far eastern Argentine, Kansas City KS, along a street that is all but abandoned between a steep hill and the Kansas River.
These steps lead up to the Tomb of the Uknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. Taken a few years ago in the late afternoon sunlight - I liked shadows on the stone steps.
Progress photo of the carved stones at the Scotsman Steps, carved by masons Zenon Przeklasi and Zeigniew Szuszkiewicz of Forth Stone. The work presented a considerable challenge, as in places the decoration was significantly eroded. The masons skill and artistic interpretation has produced work of exceptionally high quality.
PROJECT TEAM
CLIENT: City of Edinburgh Council and Edinburgh World Heritage Trust.
ARCHITECT: McGregor Bowes.
QUANTITY SURVEYOR: Thomson Bethune.
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER: Will Rudd Davidson
CDM CO-ORDINATOR: City of Edinburgh Council
PRINCIPAL CONTRACTOR: Forth Stone.
The Twelve Steps Quotes c 2011
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With my brothers on the steps. I'm guessing from my pose here that my inability to sit correctly in a chair goes back a ways.
Awww...Erik's wearing his karate gi and his "I am such an outcast" expression. I inherited both of those at some point.
Not through wear and tare though I reckon. Looks more like sun stroke / gradual sunbaked tar dribble.
PS. What are the chance that the words 'gradual sunbaked tar dribble' have ever been written before. Nothing shows in a Google search.