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Italy. Florence (Firenze).
Piazza del Duomo.
The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore (English, "Basilica of Saint Mary of the Flower") is the main church of Florence, Italy. Il Duomo di Firenze, as it is ordinarily called, was begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi. The exterior of the basilica is faced with polychrome marble panels in various shades of green and pink bordered by white and has an elaborate 19th-century Gothic Revival façade by Emilio De Fabris.
The church is particularly notable for its 44 stained glass windows, the largest undertaking of this kind in Italy in the 14th and 15th century. The windows in the aisles and in the transept depict saints from the Old and the New Testament, while the circular windows in the drum of the dome or above the entrance depict Christ and Mary. They are the work of the greatest Florentine artists of their times, such as Donatello, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Paolo Uccello and Andrea del Castagno.
South aisle window depicting the Baptism of Christ by Heaton, Butler & Bayne, 1910.
The impressive parish church at Knowle is dedicated to Saints John the Baptist, Laurence and Anne; it is a good example of a Perpendicular Midland church, and is profusely adorned on the south side with battlements, pinnacles and gargoyles.
It is also built using two different coloured local sandstones, red and white, a feature of several Warwickshire churches that adds greatly to their appeal.
Inside the church is spacious with then nave flanked by aisles and the chancel disappearing beyond the late medieval wooden screen. The chancel contains ancient stalls with ten misericords (mostly fairly plain designs) and a sedilia too high up to be used (owing to the lowering of the floor following the removal of a passageway that once ran beneath the altar).
There is an interesting mixture of stained glass from several studios of the Victorian and Arts & Crafts period, an extensive and varied collection with some particularly notable pieces that reward study.
The church is happily normally open and welcoming to visitors.
One of the nicest stained glass windows I've seen. There is a small broken section on the right, which is painful to see with such a beautiful work of art.
If you would like to see more ice crystals, check my winter set out. All were shot, in the last few years, on one of the 7 windows of my house that frost up in the subfreezing weather... www.flickr.com/photos/lenbo/sets/72157603898446867/
Testing the new Olympus OM1, I love this camera already!
Unfortunately the window was rather dirty.
Olympus om1, Zuiko 50mm 1.8, Tri X, Rodinal, negative scan,
A bit of late night window spotting in Brussels in Belgium. Theres is nothng in particular I wanted to say about this image. We as viewers should view the image as a whole, but I am sure one wlll find certain things about the image that you are drawn 2. I know I am.
in the 'new' church of St Thomas the Apostle
Heptonstall's original church was named after St Thomas Becket, founded circa 1260 and was altered and added to over several centuries. It was damaged by a gale in 1847 (and is now only a shell), so a new church, St Thomas the Apostle, was built in the same churchyard. This suffered a lighting strike in 1875.
This is the house that I posted a rubble picture of from where it was torn down. The two pictures were taken about two weeks apart.
Linda loves her little "window box!" It's made from polyethylene, and completely disassembles for travel.