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  • Built mid-13th century (1256-62) as the seat of city government; later the headquarters of the Chief of Police, prison, and police barracks.  In 1865 opened as a national museum.  A tourist couple lean against the wellhead studying their guidebook.
    Bargello-courtyard-ITA201012-098.jpg
  • Prague, old synagogue, exterior in snow, surrounded by 18th century apartment buildings erected after the old Jewish quarter was cleared.  The attic behind the high gabled roof is said to contain the "golem" but is no longer accessible.
    Prague-synagogue-exterior-snow-CZR20...jpg
  • The Baptistry dome interior has spectacular mosaics, still very Byzantine in style, made during the 13th century.  I have not seen any attribution to any one artist, though it is said that the painter Coppo di Marcovaldo made some of the cartoons.
    Baptistry_mosaic_dome_ITA201012--000...jpg
  • Christ Pantocrator between the Virgin and St. Minias, with Evangelist symbols.  Dated 1260 or 1297, by an unknown artist.  In the apse of the church of San Miniato al Monte, Florence.
    Pantocrator mosaic San Miniato ITA20...jpg
  • Christ Pantocrator between the Virgin and St. Minias, with Evangelist symbols.  Dated 1260 or 1297, by an unknown artist.  In the apse of the church of San Miniato al Monte, Florence.
    San-Miniato-apse-mosaic-ITA201012-14...jpg
  • San Clemente, marble mosaic floor by the four brothers, known as the Cosmati from their father Cosmatus, between 1190 and 1235.  The floor is seen from a low angle to show extent and complexity of the geometric pattern.  Hexagons, triangles, circles, rectangles, squares, are set in a systematic close fitting design which I thought quite beautiful.
    Multicolored-hexagons-marble-mosaic-...jpg
  • On a hill near Phan Rang, South Vietnam, the Cham towers of Po Klong Garai, seen from a new parking lot lit by street lamps whose shapes echo the shape of the brick towers.  The group of small Hindu temples are still used for worship by Vietnamese Buddhists as well as Cham descendants.  They are built of brick without mortar.
    Cham_towers_VTN200602--026.jpg
  • The crucifix painted in 1288 by Cimabue for the church of Santa Croce was severely damaged in the flood of 1966.  Preserved  but not restored, it is displayed in the Museo dell'Opera di Santa Croce.  Cimabue's style humanizes Byzantine severity, in the faces of Jesus, Mary, and St. John.
    Cimabue-crucifixion-ITA201012-119.jpg
  • Mosque, tomb, and madrasa of Qala'un, Cairo, built 1283-85. Interior, mashrabeyya doors, opening toward the columned courtyard.  An atmosphere of peace and calm pervades the space.
    Mamluk architecture interior
  • Po Nagar temple site.  Brick pillars of the reception hall, its wooden ceiling vanished, march symmetrically toward the steep stair up to the tmeple area on the hill above.  The structures have recently been repaired and stabilized.
    Po_Nagar_Vietnam_VTN200602--0344.jpg
  • Stairway up to the church of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli, on the Capitoline Hill, Rome.  It is a very long stairway.
    Ara-Coeli-stairway-Rome_ITA200901--0...jpg
  • SS Quattro Coronati, chapel of St Sylvester, frescoes depicting  the legend of Emperor Constantine's cure from leprosy by Pope St. Sylvester and other miraculous events during the early pontiff's reign. They were completed and consecrated in 1246. Interior view of the chapel, showing floor inlaid Cosmati work, altar, and part of the wall paintings.
    Quattro-Coronati-Sylvester-Rome_ITA2...jpg
  • Telephoto detail of a band of archangels, cherubim, and serphim in the mosaics of the Florence Baptistry of St. John.
    Baptistry_mosaic_dome_archangels_ITA...jpg
  • Oman, ruins of the city of Qalhat.  Only the mosque of Bibi Maryam remains, built in the 13th century when Qalhat was a wealthy trading port, visited by Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta.  Earthquake levelled it in 14th century.  Single figure of a man in the doorway and outside the small, symmetrical structure. Wearing an orange dishdasha, he holds a point-and-shoot digital camera.  Ocean horizon and bright blue sky beyond.
    Qalhat_ruined_mosque_OMN200801--3996.jpg
  • Oman, ruins of the city of Qalhat.  Only the mosque of Bibi Maryam remains, built in the 13th century when Qalhat was a wealthy trading port, visited by Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta.  Earthquake levelled it in 14th century.  Single figure of a man in the doorway and outside the small, symmetrical structure.
    OMN200801--3996.jpg
  • Workman carrying a plank for building the scaffold over the cathedral narthex, during restoration of the 13th century Radovan sculptures there.  It was disappointing not to see them!
    Trogir-restoration-work--HRV200606-0...jpg
  • Vaulted ceiling of the restored Chapter House, Westminster Abbey, London.  Emphasizes the radiating ribs and surrounding stained glass (modern replacements).  The structure was built in the 13th century; restored in the Victorian period.  The Chapter House is entered from the abbey cloister.
    Chapter-house-Gothic-ceiling-circula...jpg
  • Po Klong Garai Towers, a Champa temple site, off the road between Dalat and Nha Trang, Vietnam.  The towers were built in the late 13th & early 14th century to worship King Po Klong Garai.  Detail of a sculpture relief of a dancing Shiva in a l;eaf-shaped tympanum above the door lintel.
    Shiva_dancing_sculpture_relief_VTN20...jpg
  • Cham towers of Po Nagar (a goddess) near Nha .Trang, Vietnam.  Built in the 13th-14th century of brick without mortar, they were abandoned after the end of the Champa kingdom in the 18th century.  Recently revived as a place of worship for the local Champa people, a minority in the Vietnamese population.  A young Vietnamese woman in blue denim shorts takes an incense stick from the cauldron set up just in front of one of the temples..
    Po Nagar-Vietnamese_VTN200602-051.jpg
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