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  • Egyptian official at Luxor, seated at his desk in his office by the entrance to the site, writes carefully in his logbook.  Wears a blue galabeyya, white turban, and purple overscarf.  Parallel shadows from the barred entrance gate cast curved bars of light on the irregular stone wall behind him.
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  • Middle aged woman with white hair watering her orchids on a glassed in balcony of an upscale luxury apartment in Alexandria, Virginia.
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  • Worshippers at prayer in front of the qibla of the mostque of Sultan al Muayyad, near Bab Zuweila, Cairo, Egypt.  The Imam leading the prayers stands, while seven men kneel and bow behind him.  Some, including the Imam, wear galabeyyas, while others wear trousers. They are seen from behind.  The Qibla is ornamented with a design of colored tiles.  Straw matting on the floor.
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  • The fresco in the smaller dome at left, over the altar, represents the sky in Florence on July 4, 1442 according to astronomers.  Together the dome interiors, medallions, and arches, form a complex of circular and angular shapes.  Attending to what is going on in the ceiling, it is not clear where the eye must rest.
    Pazzi_chapel_ceiling_SI197905-23.jpg
  • Interior of the dome of the Hall of Ambassadors, Alhambra.  Windows along the top of the dome shed light on the elaborate stalagtite ornament.
    Alhambra_dome-interior-ESP201210--02...jpg
  • Santa Maria in Trastevere, interior, nave showing basilica form, ceiling, and apse; two visitors seated in contemplation on a bench in the foreground; another walks up the aisle toward the altar.
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  • Interior of the Pazzi Chapel showing one corner with arched windows and terra cotta roundels by Luca della Robbia above them.   The grey edgings and  pilasters are of pietra serena, a specific type of stone from Fiesole.  Combined with the warm white walls they make an exquisitely serene space.  Some scholars now think that Berunelleschi was responsible for the design, and the building work was completed by others, such as Michelozzo.
    Pazzi-chapel-interior-ITA201012-114.jpg
  • Interior rooms of the Bayt el Razzaz, an abandoned Mamluk palace in urban Cairo.  A door stands ajar, showing sunlight streaming into the adjoining room.  In the 1970s, the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) funded explorations, and in 1995 UNESCO funded a status report: http://www.unesco.org/archi2000/pdf/morton.pdf
    Interior of the Bayt el Razzaz, an a..lace
  • Looking up into the interior of Brunelleschi's dome, covered in the 16th century with frescoes by Giorgio Vasari, the hyperactive painter, writer, architect, and historian.
    Florence_cathedral_interior_dome_ITA...jpg
  • Bao Dai's summer palace in Dalat, interior.  Villa built 1933 as a hunting lodge for the last emperor of Vietnam in this mountain resort.  Memorabilia of the emperor and his Queen, Nam Phuong, including portraits. Though furniture is arranged as though it were lived in, a sense of airlessness, even deadness, prevails..
    Interior-Bao-Dai-palace-VTN200602--0...jpg
  • Interior, views of the gallery showing arches, wooden roof, and re-used ancient Roman and Byzantine era column capitals.  Restored after Serbian assault damage during 1990s.
    Zadar-Donatus-interior-HRV200606-066.jpg
  • Interior, views of the gallery showing arches, wooden roof, and re-used ancient Roman and Byzantine era column capitals. Deconsecrated, now used for concerts.   Restored after Serbian bombardment 1991-1993.
    Zadar-Donatus-interior-HRV200606-067.jpg
  • Prague, St. Nicholas church interior, looking up near the crossing.  Exuberant High Baroque frescoes, sculptures, pilasters, and arches make an impossible composition.  Early 18th century.  Architect Krystof Dienzenhofer.  Frescoes painted by Viennese artist Jan Lukas Kracker, as well as several other painters and sculptors
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  • San Clemente, interior, looking out from the main doorway to the courtyard and street beyond
    San-Clemente-Rome_ITA200901--1255.jpg
  • Castel Sant'Angelo, shipping trunks and chests in an upper room of Pope Paul 3d; an interior of polished wood panels on walls and floor.
    Castel-Sant'Angelo-interior-Rome_ITA...jpg
  • The duomo interior is large and quite bare.  Again the pietra serena with white walls combination is used.  The floor of polished multicolored marble echoes the exterior color combination of red, green, grey, and white.
    Florence_Duomo_nave-ITA201101--0059.jpg
  • View from the entrance along the interior of the library, lined with bookshelves, globes, and stands for large works.  Frescoes and curved ceiling encrusted in Baroque stucco work dating from 1679, built by Giovanni Orsi, and a painted wooden figure of St. John holding his hand to his jaw as though he had a toothache.
    Prague-Strahov-Library-CZR200901--02...jpg
  • Sala de los Abencerrajes, dome interior with Nasrid decoration in white plaster.  Its beauty belies the legend that a family rivalling Boabdil was massacred here.
    Alhambra dome ESP201210--0263.jpg
  • Interior, trattoria al Tranval.  Tables for two set along a bench; menu board posted over window; wine bottles in a rack above the bench.
    Florence-trattoria-interior-ITA20110...jpg
  • Pantheon; detail of oculus and dome interior coffered ceiling seen from below.  Blue sky and clouds visible through the open oculus.
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  • Alhambra, Sala de las dos hermanas, dome interior looking upward at the elaborate decoration.
    Alhambra_dome-Hermanas-ESP201210--02...jpg
  • San Stefano Rotondo, interior under repair.  Built 5th century.  Part of colonnade with Ionic capitals; small crane parked in the center.
    San-Stefano-Rotondo-repair-Rome_ITA2...jpg
  • Interior of the dining room in the House of Augustus, on the Palatine Hill, Rome; opened to visitors in 2008 after years of careful restoration.
    Palatine-house-Augustus-interior-Rom...jpg
  • Interior of the Mezquita, or Grand Mosque of Cordoba, showing its forest of columns and overlapping banded arches.  Shadowed, mysterious, and dignified.
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  • Whirling abstraction of circles and arches looking upward into the restored wooden dome interior of the Early Christian church of St. Donatus, Zadar, Croatia.
    Zadar-Donatus-interior-HRV200606-064.jpg
  • One part of the Ospedale degli Innocenti interior is a museum of paintings and sculpture.  This view through an elegantly arched doorway with a flat cornice looks toward Ghirlandaio's famous Adoration of the Magi. The plaque on the floor is a memorial to one of the hospital administrators.  Next to it lies my forgotten guidebook.
    Ospedale-degli-Innocenti-Florence-in...jpg
  • Zadar: Church of St. Donatus, built 9th century, interior looking upward into the wooden dome.  The supporting columns are re-used Roman columns.
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  • Apartment interior of a typical American middle class living room in a luxury apartment building in Virginia.  Traditional furniture, fireplace, Persian carpet, sunroom beyond in the background.
    Montebello Middle-class-living-room-...jpg
  • Interior, views of the gallery showing arches, wooden roof, and re-used ancient Roman and Byzantine era column capitals.  Restored after Serbian assault damage during 1990s.
    HRV200606-066.jpg
  • Interior, looking down from the gallery into the tiny round sanctuary.  Church is deconsecrated, now used for concerts.  Restored after Serbian bombardment 1991-1993.
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  • Interior, looking down from the gallery into the tiny round sanctuary.  Church is deconsecrated, now used for concerts.  Restored after Serbian bombardment 1991-1993.
    Zadar-Donatus-interior-HRV200
  • 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
  • Interior corridor of the hemicycle in Trajan's Markets, Rome.  Sunlight streams through arched openings on the right to fall on shop entrances on the left.
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  • Perfect American Georgian brick church, funded by Robert "King" Carter in 1735.  Central plan, carved walnut pews and pulpit.  Arched mullioned windows and an oculus admit streams of daylight into the interior space.  Carfully preserved and devotedly maintained by a private organization.
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  • 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
  • Ho Chi Minh's Stilt House, where he lived and worked, in Hanoi.  View of the interior, showing study (left) and bedroom (right).  The house is small and simple, as Ho Chi Minh lived simply.  Its spacial design and surfaces are exquisite and elegant however. the image composition is a rather rigid geometric.
    Hanoi_Stilt_House_VTN200602-320.jpg
  • Bao Dai's summer palace in Dalat, interior.  Villa built 1933 as a hunting lodge for the last emperor of Vietnam in this mountain resort.  Memorabilia of the emperor and his Queen, Nam Phuong, including portraits. Though furniture is arranged as though it were lived in, a sense of airlessness, even deadness, prevails..
    Bao_Dai_palace_VTN200602--0257.jpg
  • Interior of the Mezquita, or Grand Mosque of Cordoba, showing a woman tourist walking through the forest of columns and giving it scale.  Flash exposure stops her motion while the arches above are slightly blurred.
    Cordoba_mosque_ESP201210--0163.jpg
  • Old Third Haven Friends Meeting House, 1684, Easton, MD: window showing reflections of outside and view of church interior with other windows.  Opaque and transparent.
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  • Interior of a megalithic dolmen site at Menga, Antequera, Spain.  The site has been nominated as a World Heritage site by UNESCO.
    Dolmen_Antequera_ESP201210--2465.jpg
  • Views of the ruins of Conwy Castle, Conwy, Wales. Interior from below showing empty fireplace in the royal quarters.
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  • We were driven many miles, well supplied with oranges, bananas, bottles of drinking water, and a trash bag at each seat.
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  • On this trip, we were driven many miles, well supplied with oranges, bananas, bottles of drinking water, and a trash bag at each seat.
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  • Though the mosque is hundreds of years old (date uncertain) it is carefully maintained and freshly painted, mainly in green.  The qibla is framed by an unusual lobed and pointed arch.
    Mosque_interior_TNZ200801--4560.jpg
  • Red H'mong village woman in the kitchen of her wooden home.  Walls of vertical slats abut each other but show many openings where they do not meet.  The kitchen fire is an area on the floor, covered with white ash..  North Vietnam.
    Interior-kitchen-H'mong-VTN200602-20...jpg
  • I collect domes.  This looks straight upward at the central dome of the Pazzi Chapel with its pendentives and adjoining arches.  Medallions in the pendentives are the four Evangelists.
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  • Tonle Sap lake police checkpoint near Chong Kneas includes a room where the policemen rest.  A motorcycle helmet hangs on the wall, together with clean shirts.  A hammock and television set indicate how rest hour time is passed.  The otherwise empty room has a quiet, peaceful atmosphere.
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  • Sibenik, Cathedral of St. James, built 1431-1535.  Architects Juraj (George) of Dalmatia and Niccolo of Florence.  Rose window from the inside.
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  • Tonle Sap lake :police checkpoint near Chong Kneas includes a room where the policemen rest.  A motorcycle helmet hangs on the wal, together with clean shirts.
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  • A huddled group of American tourists are dwarfed by the Baroque splendors of the Carthusian monastery church in Granada, Spain.
    Tourists-huddle-Baroque-splendor-ESP...jpg
  • Newly remodelled kitchen (2010)  in an apartment building of the 1980s, in Virginia. White decor and appliances, with black-and-white checkered floor.
    Montebello Kitchen-interior-USA.VA20...jpg
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  • Charter House, Westminster Abbey
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  • Angkor Wat: shrine worker collecting money offerings from a Buddhist altar within Angkor Wat. One of the sacred pools visible outside the doorways.
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  • Circular stained glass window in an abstract geometrical design casts its colored lights on the church aisle.  Rows of empty chairs on each side just visible in the dark, as the window provides the only illumination here.
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  • Stairway with dragon and seated Buddha statue at Long Son Pagoda, near Nha Trang.  Statue and pagoda are modern.  Statue is a memorial to monks who immolated themselves in protest of the war between America and Vietnam.
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  • 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.
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  • Detail of a twisted column of Bernini's baldachino in St. Peter's Basilica, Rome.  The black column with its gold ornamen tation is set against on e of the white marble square pillars in the basilica.  Three candles, unlit, in the foreground.
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  • Wall structure just inside dolmen of Menga near the Pena de los Enarmorados; Antiquera, Spain.
    Dolmen
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  • 16th century statue of an angel showing a little leg in the sacristy of the Carthusian Monastery, Granada, Spain.  Style is high Spanish Baroque, elaborate and melodramatic.
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  • The statue is in the Theology Hall (with a curved ceiling encrusted in Baroque stucco work) dating from 1679, built by Giovanni Orsi, part of the Strahov Monastery in Hradcany, Prague.  Of richly painted wood, the figure holds one hand to his cheek as though with toothache, and a lantern (?) in the other.  His facial expression seems quite agonized.
    Strahov-Library-St.John-CZR200901--0...jpg
  • Red H'mong village woman in the kitchen of her wooden home.  Walls of vertical slats abut each other but show many openings where they do not meet.  The kitchen fire is an area on the floor, covered with white ash..  North Vietnam.
    Vietnamese_Heritage_VTN200602-206.jpg
  • Three needlewomen seated at work in the Scuola dei Merletti on the island of Burano, Venice, Italy.  Three pairs of hands in different positions over the pillow forms on which they make their lace.  They are seated in a plain room by a window casting soft daylight.  Their feet rest on slanted boards.
    Burano-lacemakers-Venezia_ITA200403-...jpg
  • Silver belts, neckaces for incense and perfume, and daggers in their curved sheaths (khanjar) displayed on the red wall of a shop for tourists in Nizwa.  The wall is covered with bright red felt and the items hang from nails.
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  • Statue of an angel flourishing a red robe and flashing a little bare leg behind the altar of the high Baroque church of the Carthusian Monastery in Granada.
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  • 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
  • Sassetti chapel in Santa Trinita with frescoes by Domenico Ghirlandaio of the Life of St. Francis, 1483-86.  Four or five well dressed ladies in the foreground, male escorts behind.
    Four-Renaissance-ladies-fresco-ITA20...jpg
  • Sassetti chapel in Santa Trinita with frescoes by Domenico Ghirlandaio of the Life of St. Francis, 1483-86.  Group of well dressed men seem to be talking; two kneeling friars in their robes..  Self-portrait at the far right, looks out towards us.
    Group-Renaissance-men-fresco-ITA2010...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
  • Silver belts, neckaces for incense and perfume, and daggers in their curved sheaths (khanjar) displayed on the red wall of a shop for tourists in Nizwa.  The wall is covered with bright red felt and the items hang from nails.
    Still_life_OMN200801--3769.jpg
  • moroccan jewelry seller in Ait Benhaddou bargains with an American woman tourist.
    Bargaining_MOR200411_1026.jpg
  • Ruins of Maruhubi Palace, built by Sultan Barghash in 1882 to accommodate his large harem.  It burned down in 1899.
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  • Detail of the overlapping arches in the Grand Mosque of Cordoba, or Mezquita.  Image is tilted to create a diagonal patterns of the red brick stripes in the arches.  A hanging lamp illuminates them.
    Cordoba_mosque_arcade-ESP201210--016...jpg
  • Man and woman seated together meditating on the cool marble floor of Ranakhpur, Jain temple built in 1439 in reign of Rana Kumbha, after businessman Dharma Sah dreamed that he should build a temple to Adinath, primary Jain deity, just at this spot.  Has 1444 columns each uniquely & richly carved with deities and floral motifs.  Beyond the couple, sunlight pours into an adjoining open courtyard.
    Ranakhpur_meditation_IND200111-8-4.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
  • Three needlewomen seated at work in the Scuola dei Merletti on the island of Burano, Venice, Italy.  Three pairs of hands in different positions over the pillow forms on which they make their lace.  They are seated in a plain room by a window casting soft daylight.  Their feet rest on slanted boards.
    ITA200403-6-8.jpg
  • Perfect American Georgian brick church, funded by Robert "King" Carter in 1735.  Central plan, carved walnut pews and pulpit.  Carfully preserved and devotedly maintained by a private organization.This view shows the cross vaulting at the center where the north-south and east-west aisles cross.  Stone floor and carves wlnut pews.
    Historic-Christ-Church-Weems-USA.VA2...jpg
  • In the Globe Theatre
  • St. Peter's Basilica: Michelangelo's Pieta, behind protective bullet proof glass.  Window on the opposite side of the church is reflected in the glass, creating an ambiguous spacial relationship.
    Michelangelo Pieta ITA200901--1321pt...jpg
  • The statue is in the Theology Hall (with a curved ceiling encrusted in Baroque stucco work) dating from 1679, built by Giovanni Orsi, part of the Strahov Monastery in Hradcany, Prague.  Of richly painted wood, the figure holds one hand to his cheek as though with toothache, and a lantern (?) in the other.  His facial expression seems quite agonized.
    Statue St. John Strahov CZR200901--0...jpg
  • Kathmandu, Patan, Golden Temple during Dasain holiday, 2001.  Facade of temple in courtyard; monks' dorms beyond; statue of god seated on elephant faces the facade; rattle symbol on steps of entrance...Temple also called Hiranya Karna Mahabinar, the Kwa Bahal, or the Suvarna Mahavihara, is a unique Buddhist monastery..Kathmandu, Patan, Golden Temple during Dasain holiday, 2001.  Facade of temple in courtyard; monks' dorms beyond; statue of god seated on elephant faces the facade; rattle symbol on steps of entrance...
    Patan-Golden-Temple-NPL200110-5-4.jpg
  • By the last quarter of the 15th century, Domenico Ghirlandaio was the star of fresco.  This is Sassetti chapel in Santa Trinita with frescoes of the Life of St. Francis, 1483-86
    Ghirlandaio-Sassetti-chapel-ITA20101...jpg
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