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  • Tympanum over the doorway of a house in Ayvalik showing date 1886.
    Ayvalik TUR199710-02-16.jpg
  • One doorway to the Jim Thompson house in Bangkok.  Potted plant centered in the doorway (visitors are not supposed to use it) flanked by two ancient dragon sculptures.  The house walls are red-toned wooden panels in traditional Thai style.
    Jim_Thompson_house_THA200603_349.jpg
  • Doorway of the Mosque of the Sultan Al Mu'ayyad, (built 1415-1422) next to the Bab Zuweyla, Cairo; doorkeeper, seated with his shoes off, hand to his face.  He may be hiding from the camera, or he may be just resting or napping.   Door is heavily ornamented with repousse Islamic patterns.  Sunlight floods into the doorway.
    Islamic door and resting doorkeeper
  • 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
  • Angkor, Banteay Srei, false door with carved fill and flanking pillars; a doorway to nowhere.
    Angkor_temple_Banteay_Srei_interior_...jpg
  • San Clemente, interior, looking out from the main doorway to the courtyard and street beyond
    San-Clemente-Rome_ITA200901--1255.jpg
  • Casbah doorway, from inside through Islamic archway toward the courtyard outside.  Passageway is emphasized by deep shadows and bright sunlight in contrast.  The heavy door stands open. A TV / radio aerial is visible above the mud brick wall of the adjoining courtyard.  It represents a liminal space in which one has come from the inside and is about to enter the outside.
    Spiritual-journey_PS200411_0672.jpg
  • Tikal: view of the forest from the top of the Temple I or II.  Three sightseers seated on the top step just outside the doorway opening.  Another temple shows its top above the treetops in the distance.  Cloudy sky.
    GUA199203-3-9.jpg
  • Oman, in the village of Mirbat.  Facade of a brand new house in traditional design.  Open central doorway, carved wooden doors.  Children looking out of upper window.
    Omani_house_OMN200801--4119.jpg
  • Statue of St. Mark with winged angels at peak of central doorway, San Marco, Venice, reach for the sky as they look down toward the people.  A seagull flying by seems to greet the figure of the saint and echoes the gilded wings of the angels and the winged lion of Saint Mark.
    Wings_from_heavens_ITA200403-5-8.jpg
  • Statue of St. Mark with winged angels at peak of central doorway, San Marco; seagull flying by, "giving St. Mark the bird.".<br />
Renaissance and Baroque statuary often reside on rooftops, cornices, towers, and everything above.
    St. Mark Basilsica Venice ITA200403-...jpg
  • Statue of St. Mark with winged angels at peak of central doorway, San Marco; seagull flying by, "giving St. Mark the bird."..
    Saint-Marks-basilica-Venezia_ITA2004...jpg
  • Oman, in the village of Mirbat.  Facade of a brand new house in traditional design.  Open central doorway, carved wooden doors.  Children looking out of upper window.
    OMN200801--4119.jpg
  • View into Corte Petriana from doorway of Ca Arco Antico on a sunny day..
    Corte-Petriana-Venezia_ITA200403-5-1...jpg
  • Thien Mu (Huong ) Pagoda, on the Perfume River near Hue, Vietnam: fierce and colorful guardian statue figure in ancient military garb seen through an arched doorway.
    Hue_Thien_Mu_Pagoda_Vietnamese_Herit...jpg
  • Seven Bangladeshi boys aged from about 6 years to teens cluster cheerfully in the doorway of their home in a village near Dhaka.
    BGD198201-107.jpg
  • Angkor Thom, Bayon, four faced towers of the temple.  The giant heads, each facing a cardinal compass point as protection, may be portraits of Jayavarman VII, the king who built the temple XII century. A couple of tourists, one wearing a kaffiyeh, walk by the doorway in front of the sculptured tower.
    Angkor_Thom-Bayon -visitors-KHM20060...jpg
  • Angkor, Ta Som : view through a sseries of doorways, with bright sun and deep shadow.
    Angkor_temple_Ta_Som_interior_KHM200...jpg
  • Angkor Wat: view along a corridor  of one of its galleries.Parallel linear pattern of sunlight and shadow projected through balustraded window opening.  Successive doorways recede into the distance.
    Angkor_Wat_interior_KHM200602-071.jpg
  • Angkor Ta Prohm, perspective view down a corridor, orange-robed monk pausing in the distance.
    KHM200602-147.jpg
  • Exterior: trattoria Quatro Leone, Oltrarno, Firenze.  The door stands invitingly open.  The food is delicious.  It is frequented by neighborhood residents.
    Restaurant_Florence_ITA201012-261.jpg
  • Oman, fortress at Al Rustaq, originally established by Persians, 6th century AD.
    OMN200801--3617.jpg
  • Heads of a mule and a horse touching noses as they peer out of their stable door.
    Friends mule horse 1979-23-35.jpg
  • Kathmandu, Patan, Golden Temple during Dasain holiday, 2001.  Facade and entrance gate, frontal view.  Two guardian lion sculptures, one on either side of the approach. Figure on the right has female breasts painted a vivid orange. Bhaskerdev Samskarita Hiranyabarna Mahavihara: A Buddhist temple known locally as Golden Temple, located in the Durbar Square monument zone of the Kathmandu Valley.
    Patan-Golden-Temple-NPL200110-5-22.jpg
  • Sidewalk approach to the Galileo Museum, with astrological symbold embedded in the pavement.
    Galileo-museum-Florence-ITA201101--1...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
  • Taj Mahal seen from the prison room in the Agra Fort, where Shah Jehan was incarcerated by his son.
    Agra_Fort_prison_IND200111-3-30m.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
  • 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
  • View down a medieval street in Trogir, Croatia.  Trogir is the best-preserved Romanesque-Gothic complex not only in the Adriatic, but in all of Central Europe. Trogir's medieval core, surrounded by walls, comprises a preserved castle and tower and a series of dwellings and palaces from the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods. (Wikipedia) Though no people are present, there is nevertheless a sense that these ancient dwellings are still kept up and lived in.
    Trogir-streetscape--HRV200606-101.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
  • Angkor, Ta Prohm temple walls and buildings clasped in vast tangles of strangler fig tree roots (ficus gibbosa).
    Angkor_temple_Ta_Prohm_KHM200602-148.jpg
  • Angkor, Ta Prohm, perspective along an interior corridor toward a modern Buddhist shrine.
    Angkor_temple_Ta_Prohm_interior_KHM2...jpg
  • SS Quattro Coronati, exterior, entrance, patched with cement and draped informally with electrical wiring.
    Quattro-Coronati-Sylvester-Rome_ITA2...jpg
  • Close up view of the facade of a small Hindu shrine in a Patan town square.  Statue of the deity dimly visible inside, covered with marigold petals for the Dasain festival.  Niche shrine in the wall on each side of the entrance.  Carved stone imitating Newari wood style, with brick infill.
    Hindu-shrine-Patan-NPL200110-04-26.jpg
  • Seated cocker spaniel, seen from behind, leashed and tied at the door of a church in France where it is waiting for its master (or mistress).
    waiting_dog_church_ANdog198008-26.jpg
  • Angkor Ta Prohm, perspective view down a corridor, orange-robed monk pausing in the distance.
    Angkor_temple_Ta_Prohm_interior-KHM2...jpg
  • Fes: el Attarine Medersa: reflecting pool in the inner courtyard, looking toward closed carved wooden doors into the lecture hall.
    Fes_Attarine-courtyard-_MOR200411_05...jpg
  • Door jamb of Qala i Kuhna Mascid, Purana Qila, Delhi.
    Delhi_Qala_i_Kuhna__IND200111-01-30.jpg
  • Two guards outside Roman Senate building, one Carabinieri wearing plumed hat, the other regular army, also in uniform and holding an upright staff.
    Italy-military-guard-Rome_ITA200901-...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
  • Door with lock and laundry bag at a Rajasthani palace developed into a boutique resort: Ajit Bhawan Heritage Resort.
    Rajasthan_heritage_IND200111-5-4.jpg
  • Taj Mahal seen in the distance across the Jumna river from a room in the Agra Red Fort palace area.
    Agra_Fort_palace-IND200111-04-30.jpg
  • Trogir: door lintel over entrance to church of St. Barbara, 11th century.  Motifs include rosettes, interlace, and animals in profile
    Trogir-lintel-sculpture--HRV200606-0...jpg
  • Locked wooden door of a simple plastered wall.  A sign alongside politely requests: "Mosque.  Please enter only for prayers.  Thank you."  It is in a seaside village in Zanzibar.
    Humble_mosque_entrance_TNZ200801--43...jpg
  • Home-made green wreath scattered with silver ribbon stars hanging on the turquoise door of a house of the Edwardian era, in London.
    Home_Holidays_wreath_ENG1993-1-11car...jpg
  • Many old buildings in Prague use the basement as a restaurant and advertise favorably their "Gothic cellar."  This is an entrance to one of them in Hradcany.  There is graffiti carved in the ancient door jamb.  Dark steps lead down from the street.
    Prague-Gothic-cellar-entrance-CZR200...jpg
  • Angkor: doorways at Banteay Kdei recede in perspective.  Saturated colors of green moss, yellow sunlight, blue and aqua rock.  Not a realistic view.
    Angkor_temple_Banteay_Kdei_interior_...jpg
  • Outside a school building in a red Hmong village near Sa Pa, North Vietnam.  Four toddlers and a mother, all in traditional clothing, carry little chairs into the doorway.  Their teacher, in contemporary clothing of pants and a pink down jacket, stands idly by.  The school building is traditionally constructed from vertical wooden planks abutting each other.
    Red-H'mong'school-Vietnamese_VTN2006...jpg
  • Facade of a Venetian palace facing the Grand Canal.  Very contemporary speed boat tied up by its water gate.  A man emerging from the doorway shadow moves toward the boat.  Direct juxtaposition of old and new, ancient and modern, antique and contemporary.
    palace-facade-grand-canal-Venezia_IT...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
  • Female porter carries a yoke filled with ceramic pots at either end as she emerges from the doorway of the factory in Battrang, North Vietnam.
    Female-laborer-Battrang-Vietnamese_V...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
  • Portico of Octavia remains, with attached medieval church and fish market, into which a modern lighting  boutique, has been fitted.  In the doorway, a woman holding a cigarette.  The casual juxtaposition of ancient, medieval, Baroque, and contemporary buildings and uses always fascinates me.
    ancient-contemporary-juxtaposed-ITA2...jpg
  • Angkor: Prasat Kravan (10th century): interior brick wall relief of Lakshmi holding her attributes, with kneeling worshippers.  Seen from the side, from the entrance doorway.
    Angkor_temple_Prasat_Kravan_sculptur...jpg
  • Door to the College of San Ildefonso at Alcala Henares, seen partly closed, with another doorway beyond and a group of people outside.
    16th century door_ESP2201210--4063.jpg
  • In the mosque doorway, 5 pairs of shoes scattered anyhow just outside.  A tattered straw carpet in front, a tile floor beyond made of black and white tiles in a checkered pattern.  The disorder of the shoes and the orderliness of the tiles form a striking contrast.
    Scattering of shoes outside a villag..gypt
  • Sharp shadow projected on doorway of an old but still occupied house in Ayvalik.  Date on metal tympanum over the door says 1878.  A young woman in jeans opens the door with a key, while two other women walk by.
    Ayvalik TUR199710-4.jpg
  • Sharp shadow partly covers an old but occupied house in Ayvalik, Turkey.  Bicyclist passes doorway with a newish mailbox.
    Ayvalik TUR199710-24.jpg
  • One of the old entrances to the Alhambra seen from the inside of the complex.  One large arched doorway, and one smaller one at the top of some stairs.  Brick and stone.
    Alhambra entrance ESP201210--0208.jpg
  • Bangladeshi woman wearing a blue cotton sari hunkered down (squatting) in bare feet in the doorway of a building in Old Dhaka.  Hands clasped underneath her chin, she seems to be thinking, considering something, or just waiting.
    BGD198201-103.jpg
  • Row houses in Ayvalik, newly built on traditional design.  Angular projecting upper storeys, curved iron protective bars on lower windows, arched doorways colored orange and purple.
    Ayvalik TUR199710-35a.jpg
  • Angkor: Prasat Kravan (10th century): east facade in the morning sun, seen from the altar opposite.  Shadows of tree branches stretch across the grass towards the temple. Tourist figure visible in center and left hand doorways.  A small charming Hindu - influenced temple in the Angkor complex.
    Angkor_temple-Prasat_Kravan_KHM20060...jpg
  • Small corte in Venice, off Calle Stella, in Canareggio.  Doorways to apartments evidently well maintained.  A new shrine to the Virgin Mary on one of the walls.
    Shrine-Venice-corte-ITA200403-9-2.jpg
  • Angkor Wat: shrine worker collecting money offerings from a Buddhist altar within Angkor Wat. One of the sacred pools visible outside the doorways.
    Angkor_Wat_interior_KHM200602_089.jpg
  • Small corte in Venice, off Calle Stella, in Canareggio.  Doorways to apartments evidently well maintained.  A new shrine to the Virgin Mary on one of the walls.
    Canareggio-corte-shrine-Venezia_ITA2...jpg
  • Angkor Wat: shrine worker collecting money offerings from a Buddhist altar within Angkor Wat. One of the sacred pools visible outside the doorways.
    KHM200602_089.jpg
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