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  • Early Renaissance architecture: the key figure is Filippo Brunelleschi.  His Ospedale degli Innocenti (Foundling Hospital, (1419–ca.1445), is the first major monument of his elegant classical style with its arches and colonnades.  This is the courtyard inside.
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  • Lavenham townscapes and architecture.  Detail of its Guildhall, now painted white, on the corner of Lady Street.  Fine ornamental detail carved on the corner, uprights, cornice, and window frames
    Lavenham townscape ENG200701-0029.jpg
  • Early Renaissance architecture: the key figure is Filippo Brunelleschi.  His Ospedale degli Innocenti (Foundling Hospital, (1419-ca.1445), is the first major monument of his elegant classical style with its arches and colonnades.  This is the courtyard inside, its serene colonnade arching over a potted orange tree.
    Brunelleschi-courtyard-colonnade-ITA...jpg
  • Lavenham townscapes and architecture: distinctive crooked house leans against its neighbor.
    Lavenham townscape ENG200701-0024.jpg
  • Lavenham architecture : half timbered house, painted orange, with carved wooden door and leaded windows.  Facade from the street, including sidewalk of multicolored stones.
    Lavenham townscape ENG200701-0004.jpg
  • Lavenham townscapes and architecture
    Lavenham townscape ENG200701-0033.jpg
  • Lavenham townscapes and architecture: Little Hall, now a museum, was a house built in the 14th century, enlarged in the 16th century, and eventually housed several families.  Restored in the 1920s by the Gayer-Anderson twin brothers, in 1975 it was given to the Suffolk Preservation Trust.  See history and program at http://www.littlehall.org.uk/littlehall/index.htm.  It is the oldest house in Lavenham.
    Lavenham townscape ENG200701-0031.jpg
  • Lavenham townscapes and Tudor period architecture.  igh Street entrance facade of the Swan Inn, seen from a sharp angle alongside the structure to emphasize the second storey overhang.
    Lavenham townscape ENG200701-0037.jpg
  • Green cloister of Sta Maria Novella, considered an extraordinary example of Italian Gothic architecture, begun around 1340 by Fra' Sisto and Fra' Ristoro. I like cloisters because they slow life down to make contemplation easier. Under the arcade is a series of frescoes by Paolo Uccello showing the Creation and the story of Noah, dated 1424.
    Santa-Maria-Novella-cloister-ITA2010...jpg
  • Green cloister of Sta Maria Novella, considered an extraordinary example of Italian Gothic architecture, begun around 1340 by Fra' Sisto and Fra' Ristoro.  I like cloisters because they slow life down to make contemplation easier.  Under the arcade is a series of frescoes by Paolo Uccello showing the Creation and the story of Noah, dated 1424.  Details in the next images of this gallery.
    Florence-Santa-Maria-Novella-cloiste...jpg
  • Renaissance palace architecture exteriors are usually build of huge stone blocks heavily pilowed, with a bench below and a series of flambeau or torch holders along the wall.
    Torch_holder_detail_ITA201012-193.jpg
  • Hanoi suburbs:  new house and apartment buildings follow traditional urban style of architecture, a tall and narrow 4-5 floor structure one or two rooms wide.  Uncollected trash in the street.
    Hanoi_suburb_apartments_VTN200602-31...jpg
  • Architectural detail of a Romanesque colonnade with detail of a carved capital beyond the dome of a Renaissance era church.  Simple graphic design juxtaposes the two as they are.
    Dubrovnik-Croatia-HRV200606-369.jpg
  • Architectural fragment of a mask on the ground at Bodrum Castle, Turkey.  The expression is severe.  Moustache and beard, protruding ears.
    Hellenistic mask stone SC200107-15.jpg
  • Interior of a typical old Cairo house in Mamluk architectural style.  Sunlight throws a shadow of a lamp in the foreground against the qibla wall beyond.  The chair and water jars indicate that the house is somewhat cared for, if not actually lived in.
    Traditional Mamluk house interior in..airo
  • Agra, Red Fort, sheesh mahal [glass palace] wall decoration of white plaster studded with glass and mirror chips, an exhample of Mughal architectural ornament.  Its purpose was to reflect light from outside into the interior of a room, or from a candle at night.
    Agra_red_fort_sheesh_mahal_IND200111...jpg
  • Mosque, tomb, and madrasa of Qala'un, Cairo, built 1283-85.   Symmetrical detail of pendentive and balcony embrasures in this medieval mausoleum.  It has been replaced and repaired but still shows the delicate tracery typical of Islamic architectural ornament.
    Ceiling detail in the Qala'un mausol..airo
  • This perfectly symmetrical central-plan Georgian church was funded by Robert "King" Carter of Virginia, and built in part of his plantation, now in the town of Weems, in 1735.  His tomb and those of some of his wives are on the church property, seen here in the foreground.  Still used for worship, the structure is lovingly restored and maintained by a nonprofit volunteer society.
    Historic-Christ-Church-Weems-Virgini...jpg
  • Three children aged 10-13 assume Pharaonic poses with crossed arms, standing in front of the reconstructed. pilastered wall, Saqqara.
    Saqqara-architecture-children-EGY197...jpg
  • Five layered pagoda style roofs
    Thai_architecture_roofs_THA200603_31...jpg
  • Palace and mosque at Uparkot, Junagadh, interior of colonnaded hall.  Sunlight streams in at one side, the other side shadowed.
    Uparkot_Junagadh_IND201301--1259.jpg
  • Looking up toward the dome of a small Greek Orthodox church in Ayvalik, Turkey, abandoned after the Greek-Turkish population exchange in 1923.  A priest from Lesbos comes over occasionally to offer a service here.   Since the early Gothic period in France, the holy spirit has been envisioned as being carried on light.   Here my deliberate manipulation of the high contrast of the image is means to illustrate this concept.
    Streaming_sunlight_TUR199710-02-6.jpg
  • New polished wood door with shiny brass fittings, fitted into the arched entrance of  an old stone and brick house in Florence.  Shiny new apartment buzzer plate on the door jamb, with new drain pipes alongside.
    Florence-streetscape-old-new-ITA2010...jpg
  • Front view of a small stilt house, showing access ladder and clusters of tools and equipment hanging in the shade underneath.  The woven straw matting wall of a larger house next door is shown.
    Cambodia_Tonle_Sap_KHM200602-206.jpg
  • Front view of a stilt house with access ladder standing in the middle of a planted field off the rural road leading to Tonle Sap lake.
    Cambodia_Tonle_Sap_KHM200602-202.jpg
  • Tonle Sap, near Khampon Khleang : fishing village on stilts.  Wooden ladders separate two to three levels of the houses.  A quirky version of a high rise dwelling.
    Cambodia_Tonle_Sap_KHM200602-199.jpg
  • Brunilleschi's next major work after the Ospedale degli Innocenti was the Pazzi Chapel, next to the Santa Croce basilica, from 1441-1460.  The Pazzi family, rich Florentine bankers, conspired against the Medici brothers Lorenzo and Giuliani. In 1478 they succeeded in murdering Giuliano during mass in the cathedral.  Lorenzo escaped and became subsequently "Lorenzo the Magnificent."  The Pazzi chapel, however, is a gem of serene beauty.  This exterior shot is the usual one shown in books.  A few tourists come and go on the approach path.
    Pazzi-chapel-exterior-approach-ITA20...jpg
  • Itimad ud Daulah tomb, Agra, built 1622-28: approach from entrance gate
    Tomb_Itimad_Dawlah_IND200111-2-1.jpg
  • Itimad ud Daulah tomb, Agra, built 1622-28: inlaid marble minaret and red sandstone entrance gate
    Tomb_Itimad_Dawlah_IND200111-2-2.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : temple to Hera II, Neptune, or Hera & Zeus (disputed attribution of dedication); Doric order and blue sky
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-102.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : temple of Athena or Ceres; workman in orange jumpsuit wields a motorized weed clipper in front of the temple.
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-073.jpg
  • View from the interior of the window of pierced stone in squares, each square filled with a geometric or curvelinear motif.
    Geometric-window-grille-IND201301--0...jpg
  • Acropolis, Propylaea, workmen doing repairs with scaffolding and tools.
    GRC197804-2-10.jpg
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  • Friday mosque, Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park.
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  • Friday mosque, Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park.  Mughal ornament in a provincial style locally known as Indo-Saracenic.  Tomb in the center of the precinct, arcaded enclosure wall beyond.
    Champaner_Friday_Mosque_IND201301--0...jpg
  • Palace and mosque at Uparkot, Junagadh, interior of colonnaded hall.
    Uparkot-Jama-Mascid-IND201301--1259.jpg
  • Friday mosque, Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park, view of courtyard and enclosure from entrance porch.  Jain craftsmen applying Jain techniques to Moslem building.
    Champaner-Jama-Mascid-IND201301--054...jpg
  • Acropolis, Propylaea, workmen doing repairs with scaffolding and tools.
    GRC197804-2-10.jpg
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  • IND201301--0557 - Copy.jpg
  • Statue of the guardian lion, seated, in front of the north entrance, by Nikola Firentinac, a Florentine sculptor (d. 1435).  Side view of its rigid posture and proportionately small head.
    HRV200606-006.jpg
  • 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.
    Historic-Christ-Church-Weems-Histori...jpg
  • Sibenik, Cathedral of St. James, built 1431-1535.  Architects Juraj (George) of Dalmatia and Niccolo of Florence. Rose window from the outside.
    HRV200606-008.jpg
  • Perfect American Georgian brick church, funded by Robert "King" Carter in 1735.  Central plan, carved walnut pews and pulpit.  This view at the interior crossing includes parts of pew and pulpit to frame three of its arched and mullioned windows.  The image as a result balances three dimensional space with two dimensional graphic design.  Carefully preserved and devotedly maintained by a private organization.
    Historic-Christ-Church-Weems-Geometr...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.  Interior view of the spectacularly beautiful carved walnut pulpit.
    Historic-Christ-Church-Weems-USA.VA2...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.  Approach along an alley of trees from the east side.
    Historic-Christ-Church-Weems-USA.VA2...jpg
  • Restored Dubrovnik homes have largely new roofs,made from tiles specially manufactured in Spain by original methods.  Citizens saves many of the original roof tiles, however, and these are used when visible wherever possible, while the new tiles have been set underneath them.  This view includes an unrestored roofless abbey church, though its vegetable garden is in active use.
    HRV200606-265a.jpg
  • Sibenik, Cathedral of St. James, built 1431-1535.  Architects Juraj (George) of Dalmatia and Niccolo of Florence. West end exterior from plaza in a rainstorm.  Tourists huddled around the entrance.
    Sibenik_Croatia_HRV200606-026.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.
    Historic-Christ-Church-Weems-USA.VA2...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
  • This perfectly symmetrical central-plan Georgian church was funded by Robert "King" Carter of Virginia, and built in part of his plantation, now in the town of Weems, in 1735.  His tomb and those of some of his wives are on the church property.  Still used for worship, the structure is lovingly restored and maintained by a nonprofit volunteer society.
    Historic-Christ-Church-Weems-USA.VA2...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. Detail of the free standing white marble baptismal font.
    Historic-Christ-Church-Weems-USA.VA2...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.
    Historic-Christ-Church-Weems-USA.VA2...jpg
  • Sibenik, Cathedral of St. James, built 1431-1535.  Architects Juraj (George) of Dalmatia and Niccolo of Florence. West end exterior from plaza in a rainstorm.  Tourists huddled around the entrance.
    HRV200606-022.jpg
  • View of Conwy town from the top of the ruins of Conwy Castle, Conwy, Wales.
    WAL201605--5167.jpg
  • Views of the ruins of Conwy Castle, Conwy, Wales. Exterior view from near the entrance.
    WAL201605--5166.jpg
  • Conwy Castle towers and details
    Delicate blooms and heavy rough ston...jpg
  • Taj Mahal from the east at sunrise, with a row of 7 visitors seated in the foreground shadow. One minaret visible at the left..
    Taj_Mahal_sunrise_IND200111-3-25a.jpg
  • Yorkshire, Fountains Abbey ruins; looking up at bare ruined choirs and empty arches against a plain blue sky.
    Fountains_Abbey_ENG200607_316.jpg
  • Yorkshire, Fountains Abbey ruins: looking up at the bare ruined choirs, empty arches.
    Fountains_Abbey ENG200607-302.jpg
  • Yorkshire, Fountains Abbey ruins, detail of exterior wall and buttresses.
    Fountains_Abbey_ENG200607_300.jpg
  • Dubrovnik-Croatia-HRV200606-304.jpg
  • Pattern detail to show original tiles saved after Serb bombardment set on top of reproduction tiles manufactured for the restoration.
    Dubrovnik-roof-tiles--HRV200606-268.jpg
  • Originally built as a mausoleum for Diocletian at the end of the 3rd century,the structure was taken over and became a Cathedral for St. Domnius.
    Split-Croatia-HRV200606-109.jpg
  • Sibenik, Cathedral of St. James, built 1431-1535.  Architects Juraj (George) of Dalmatia and Niccolo of Florence. Six or seven tourists, seen from the chest up, waiting out a rainstorm in the entrance or narthex.  People nearer the door look up at the sky.
    Sibenik_Croatia_HRV200606-017.jpg
  • Uffizi Gallery from across the Arno River at sunset.  The crowd is like a row of dots along the river bank.  The intense yellow color of the setting sun on the gallery wall is reflected in the water of the river below.
    Uffizzi_gallery_sunset_reflection_IT...jpg
  • I could not decide between a horizontal and vertical picture, so I did both.
    Brunelleschi_colonnade_detail_ITA201...jpg
  • Angkor Thom: entrance causeway with gods and demons holding naga.
    Angkor_Wat_detail_sculpture_KHM20060...jpg
  • Palace of Sultan Qaboos, Muscat.  Modern structure, approach avenue, row of street lsmps, polished marble sidewalk.
    Modern royal palace in Muscat
  • Vatican seen from in front of St. Peters,part of its facade showing on the left.  Heavy rain clouds.  Vatican structure looks distant, mysterious, closed, in contrast to the prominent columns of the St. Peter's facade.
    Vatican_Rome_ITA200901--0819-2.jpg
  • Detail of the Parthenon perstyle columns showing how the column's verticality had been disjointed from earthquake and explosion.
    GRC197804-2-11.jpg
  • 19th century warehouse in Old Town Alexandria now a Christmas boutique shop.  Three qwuarter view from across the street, showing old painted signs on the brick and shiny new Christmas Attic sign below.
    Rising seas, Old Town Alexandria, VA
  • 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
  • Sibenik, Cathedral of St. James, built 1431-1535.  Architects Juraj (George) of Dalmatia and Niccolo of Florence.  Row of sculptured life size portrait heads around the apse exterior, mid-late 15th century work by sculptor George Matthew the Dalmatian (Juraj Matejev Dalmatinac)
    HRV200606-013.jpg
  • Stained glass windows by Gerry Cummins and Jill Stehn in St. Monica's Cathedral, Cairns, Australia.  They are meant to symbolize the natural forces of the Earth.
    AUS201804--6837.jpg
  • Charter House, Westminster Abbey
    ENG201605--5085.jpg
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  • Views of the ruins of Conwy Castle, Conwy, Wales.
    WAL201605--5145.jpg
  • Image of a burning fire is projected onto the back of a fireplace in the castle, simulating a real one.
    Trick fire burning in castle firepla...jpg
  • Views of the ruins of Conwy Castle, Conwy, Wales.
    Looking down into the Conwy Castle w...jpg
  • Muscat, Grand Mosque of Sultan Qaboos. Mihrab, covered with modern Persian ceramic tiles ornament.
    OMN200801--3532.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
  • Detail of carved wooden ornamented windows and screens in Newari style on the exterior of the royal palace, Kathmandu, Durbar Square.
    Newari-wood-carving-NPL200110-10-12.jpg
  • Exterior, trattoria al Tranval, Oltrarno, Firenze.  A true neighborhood trattoria, without tourists.
    Florence-trattoria-exterior-ITA20110...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
  • Detail of the serpent in the Garden of Eden, by Paolo Uccello, 1424, with color correction to bring out detail.  The fresco, in the Green Cloister of Santa Maria Novella, was badly damaged in the flood of 1966.  Even so the concept of   the serpent in the Garden of Eden as an attractive blonde woman has great appeal to me.
    Garden-Eden-serpent-ITA201012--0062c...jpg
  • A few years after the Sassetti Chapel, Girlandaio decorated the Tornabuoni Chapel in the apse of Santa Maria Novella.  The subject is the life of John the Baptist, 1485-1490,  seen from the northern side of the nave.  Altar with wooden crucifix, decorated with pots of red poinsettias and candelabra as it is still the Christmas season.
    Florence-Santa-Maria-Novella_Tornabu...jpg
  • 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
  • Brunelleschi's courtyard of the Ospedale degli Innocenti is a perfection of proportion.  In this view inside a colonnade,  a window reflects the exterior of the courtyard colonnade.  A wooden bench suggests repose in this quiet place.
    Brunelleschi-courtyard-detail-ITA201...jpg
  • Tonle Sap lake :an enclosed  fish tank in the deck of a floating restaurant.   It seems crowded with lively splashing and jumping fish who are likely to become someone's meal soon.
    Cambodia_Tonle_Sap_KHM200602-390.jpg
  • 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.
    Cambodia_Tonle_Sap_KHM200602-385.jpg
  • Cylindrical roof tiles, originals saved after the war, restored to Dubrovnik roofs supported on modern manufactured tiles underneath.
    Dubrovnik_restored_roof_tiles_HRV200...jpg
  • 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
  • Taj Mahal from the east at sunrise: seen through the arched entrance of the guest house which frames the east side of the tomb..
    Taj_Mahal_sunrise_IND200111-3-24.jpg
  • Yorkshire, Fountains Abbey ruins: detail of one bay in the nave, with clerestory windows above.
    Fountains_Abbey_ENG200607_328.jpg
  • Yorkshire, Fountains Abbey ruins; looking along the south aisle.
    Fountains_Abbey_ENG200607_323.jpg
  • Yorkshire, Fountains Abbey ruins: ashlar masonry detail of finely shaped rectangular stones.
    Fountains_Abbey_ENG200607_324.jpg
  • Yorkshire, Fountains Abbey ruins: exterior of east front; family picknicking at one corner.
    Fountains_Abbey_ENG200607_308.jpg
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