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  • Courtyard of the Medici Palace, with transparent red gauze cloth banner hanging between two columns.  Tourist couple standing nearby looking around them.  The banner shows a collage of a photograph and a Ghirlandaio fresco with a quotation from Gabriele di Annunzio.
    Medici-Palace-courtyard-Florence-ITA...jpg
  • Sculpture of angel on the corner of the Doges' Palace colonnade, seen from roof of San Marco.  The angel, wearing richly folded drapery and wings,  looks frightened.  The upper part of the Gothic colonnade stretches away beyond.
    Angel_Doges_Palace_Venezia_ITA200403...jpg
  • Palace of Sultan Qaboos, Muscat.  Modern structure, approach avenue, row of street lsmps, polished marble sidewalk.
    Modern royal palace in Muscat
  • Door and window of a wooden jail cell (one of many) under the roof of the Doges Palace, Venice.  Casanova was one of its occupants..
    Doges-palace-jail-cell-Venezia_20040...jpg
  • Buckingham Palace and Queen Victoria monument seen beyond the lake, St. James's Park, London.  The Queen's flag is not present, indicating that she is not in residence.  The expanse of lake with overhanging trees makes the scene look more romantically rural than it really is.
    Buckingham-Palace_St.James-Park-ENG2...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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Venice under snow seen from the campanile of the Palladian church of San Giorgio Maggiore.  View across the laguna to the Doges' Palace, Campanile, and piazza di San Marco.  One vaporetto is passing along the water in front of the Doges' Palace..
    Laguna-giorgio-maggiore-view-Venezia...jpg
  • Peristyle, Diocletian's Palace, looking toward the entrance to the palace residential area.  Groups of tourists standing about, seated on the steps; one holds up her camera, another studies a guidebook, others in the center cluster around their guide.
    HRV200606-112.jpg
  • Split, Diocletian's Palace, groups of tourists standing about, seated on the steps. View of the peristyle looking toward the entrance to the palace residential area.
    Split-Croatia-HRV200606-112.jpg
  • Ruins of Mtoni Palace, built by Sultan Seyyid Said in 1828 to get  his Persian wife to move to Zanzibar.  It is the oldest palace on Zanzibar, in a beautiful location by the Indian Ocean.
    Zanzibar_TNZ200801--4354.jpg
  • Ruins of Maruhubi Palace, built by Sultan Barghash in 1882. H ruled from 1870-1888. A reflecting pool shows some of the ruins.
    Zanzibar_TNZ200801--4327e.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
  • Jaipur, Amber Fort, established 1592 by Man Singh I, with palaces added by Jai Singh I (r 1621-67).  Details of wall decor in the glass palace, or sheesh mahal.
    Jaipur_Amber_fort_sheesh_mahal_IND20...jpg
  • Split: quintet of male acapella singers perform in the peristyle of Diocletians Palace, selling their CD.
    Split-Diocletian-Klapa-Sufit-HRV2006...jpg
  • Split: quintet of male acapella singers perform in the peristyle of Diocletians Palace, selling their CD.
    Split-Diocletian-Klapa-Sufit-HRV2006...jpg
  • Ruins of Maruhubi Palace, built by Sultan Barghash in 1882 to accommodate his large harem.  It burned down in 1899.
    Zanzibar_TNZ200801--4333.jpg
  • Ruins of Mtoni Palace, built by Sultan Seyyid Said to get  his Persian wife to move to Zanzibar.  View of main entrance from the outside.
    Zanzibar_TNZ200801--4363.jpg
  • Split: quintet of male acapella singers of Klapa Sufit perform in the peristyle of Diocletians Palace, selling their CD.  Their repertoire consists of Croatian folk songs called Klapa.  When the singers named their organization, they added "Sufit" meaning "attic" because they began rehearsing in the attic of their school.
    HRV200606-145.jpg
  • Detail of carved wooden ornament on the exterior of the royal palace, Kathmandu, Durbar Square.
    Newari-wood-carving-NPL200110-10-2.jpg
  • 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
  • Guardian figure in the Bangkok Royal Palace compound.
    Thai_dragon_figure_THA200603_321.jpg
  • Detail of gold and enamel caryatid figures on the royal palace, Bangkok
    Thai_dragon_figure_THA200603_330.jpg
  • Detail of one single gold and enamel caryatid on the exterior of the royal palace, Bangkok
    Thai_dragon_figure_THA200603_328.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
  • Palace and mosque at Uparkot, Junagadh, interior of colonnaded hall.
    Uparkot-Jama-Mascid-IND201301--1259.jpg
  • Throwing rose petals on luncheon guests at the Jambughoda restaurant and ex-maharahah palace, now a retreat center.
    IND201301--0536.jpg
  • Split, Diocletian's Palace, interior view showing part of the oculus, several arched window openings, and restored floor where a young teenaged boy practices his ball kicking skills.
    Split-Croatia-HRV200606-122.jpg
  • IND201301--0536 - Copy.jpg
  • View of Linlithgow Palace from the loch with swans swimming (about 16 swans)and a toy motorboat charging toward them.
    Linlithgow_castle_SCO200707--39.jpg
  • Detail of the carved plaster and mirror wall decoration of the "Glass Palace" in the Amber Fort, Jodhpur.  The 16th century design is abstract, vertically oriented.
    Birthday card_PT200110-1.jpg
  • Working motor boat, man wearing a hooded jacket standing at the tiller, chugs past the Piazza San Marco and the Doges Palace on a winter morning, leaving a wake in the water.  Cranes beside the Biblioteca Marciana at work on rebuilding the edges of the piazza.
    Laguna-working-outboard-Venezia_ITA2...jpg
  • Drunkenness of Noah, early 15th century relief sculpture on corner of the Doges' Palace, Venice; Bridge of Sighs in the background; seen from Ponte della Paglia.
    bridge-sighs-Venezia_ITA200403-4-19.jpg
  • Palace of Sultan Qaboos, Muscat.  Modern structure, approach avenue, row of street lsmps, polished marble sidewalk.  Omani men wearing dishdashas cross the street.
    OMN200801--3555.jpg
  • Statue of Grgur Ninski by Ivan Mestrovic, 1929 - Gregory of Nin, full length, outside Diocletian's Palace in Split.  10th century bishop who introduced Croatian language, replacing Latin, in church services. Clutching a Bible, with upraised pointing finger and fierce look, he demonstrates intense religious fervor, if not fanaticism.
    Religious fanatic HRV200606-135.jpg
  • Gilded and enameled  squatting figure acting as a caryatid holding up a corner of a building in the grounds of the Thai Royal Palace in Bangkok.
    Thai_caryatid_THA200603_329.jpg
  • Carved plaster and glass mirror decorative panel on a wall of the glass palace in the Red Fort, Agra, an example of Mughal stalagtite ornament.
    Mughal_stalagtite_ornament_IND200111...jpg
  • Statue of Grgur Ninski - Gregory of Nin, full length, outside Diocletian's Palace in Split.  10th century bishop who introduced Croatian language, replacing Latin, in church services. Angle of view chosen to emphasize upraised finger and fanatical expression.
    Gregory-Nin-statue-HRV200606-135.jpg
  • Piazzetta di San Marco, Doges' Palace at left, Biblioteca Sansoviana at right, winged lion column beyond.  A seagull soars over the lamposts.  Pedestrians on the raised walkways set up for aqua alta.
    Piazzetta-Venezia_200402-3-29.jpg
  • Statue of Grgur Ninski by Ivan Mestrovic, 1929 - Gregory of Nin, full length, outside Diocletian's Palace in Split.  10th century bishop who introduced Croatian language, replacing Latin, in church services.
    HRV200606-135.jpg
  • Carriage lamp on the "glass coach" in the Royal Mews at Buckingham Palace.  Detail of the lamp, showing a bit of the coach.
    Royal-carriage-lamp-ENG200706--3191.jpg
  • Escutcheon on the door of the Scottish State Coach, Buckingham Palace Mews, coach museum.  Close up showing the entire motif with flags of England and Scotland, lion, unicorn, crown, quartered royal shield, and the saying "nemo mi impune lacessit."
    Scottish-English-royal-escutcheon-EN...jpg
  • Carriage lamp on the "glass coach" in the Royal Mews at Buckingham Palace.  Detail of the lamp, showing a bit of the coach.
    Carriage_lamp_ENG200706--3191.jpg
  • Patio de Arrayanes with its pool.  Longitudinal view showing palace reflected in the water.  Cluster of tourists at the far end.
    Alhambra_pool_Arrayanes-ESP201210--0...jpg
  • View of a medieval - Renaissance belltower in a residential area of Diocletian's Palace.  Medieval clock with Roman numerals around its circumference; bell in a loggia above; TV aerial visible from an adjoining residence.
    Split-Croatia-HRV200606-115.jpg
  • Royal arms on the door of the Irish State Coach, Buckingham Palace Mews Carriage Museum
    Royal-arms-Irish-State-coach-ENG2007...jpg
  • Detail of the Irish State Coach in the Buckingham Palace Mews Carriage Museum exterior showing door with royal arms, and through the windows the padded interior with tasseled window shade, and a reflection of the carriage lamp.
    Detail-royal-coach-museum-ENG200706-...jpg
  • Private brick built stone trimmed palazzo in Venice with canal on three sides of it.  Balcony with potted plants, windows with wooden shutters and Venetian blinds, wooden bumpers at corners.  a hump backed bridge visible on each canal, lined with more palaces, homes, and apartments.  Three dinghies visible moored at right, a motor launch moored at the left.
    Venetian palazzo ITA200403-7-27.jpg
  • The lion holds down a lamb in its front paws.  Behind, two men in Roman tunics, with an escutcheon between showing a bearded man's face, leaves and volutes on either side, crown above.  Lion's mouth is wide open as though roaring.  Stylized details of mane, ribs, and lams wool.
    Romanesque guardian lion HRV200606-1...TIF
  • The lion holds down a lamb in its front paws.  Behind, two men in Roman tunics, with an escutcheon between showing a bearded man's face, leaves and volutes on either side, crown and rosette above. One of a pair.
    Split-Croatia-lion-sculpture-HRV2006...jpg
  • Venice under snow seen from the campanile of the Palladian church of San Giorgio Maggiore..
    Laguna-giorgio-maggiore-view-Venezia...jpg
  • Looking up at the coffers, each carved with miniature heads and rosettes surrounded by egg-and-dart motifs.
    Split-Croatia-HRV200606-133.jpg
  • Unknown contemporary abstract and geometric paintings illuminated by sunlight streaming from upper arched openings that give light to the underground structure.
    Split-Croatia-HRV200606-128.jpg
  • Romanesque era (12th century) figure of a crouching lion, life size, with three small men standing behind it.  One of a pair (see HRV200606-142),
    Split-Croatia-HRV200606-111.jpg
  • IND201301--1259.jpg
  • Uparkot-Jama-Mascid-IND201301--1252.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
  • 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
  • Piazza San Marco with Campanile, Marciana Library, Riva Schiavoni, from the vaporetto on its way back from Lido..
    Seen-from-vaporetto-Venezia_ITA20040...jpg
  • Close up image of one of the gilded sandstone figures playing music on the exterior wall of the Chinese Tea House, Sans Souci, Potsdam.  This figure is a woman holding a lute.  The sculptors' models were European, despite the Chinese costumes.
    Gilded_lutenist_SC199310-2-009card5x...jpg
  • Rippling multicolored water of the Grand Canal in Venice reflecting palaces lining the edge.
    Palace dreams.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
  • Facade of the Generalife palace at the Alhambra, Granada, reflected in the pool in the foreground.  Four tourist figures at in the distance, goldfish swimming in the foreground.
    Generalife palace ESP201210--0281.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
  • The ruins of a summer palace built by Abd el Rahman III in the 10th century at the height of his power for his favorite wife (concubine? mistress?) named Azahara.  Elegant and extravagant at the time, known as Medinat al Azahara, the palace was destroyed by a new wave of Berber invaders after which it became a quarry for building material.  Now being excavated and restored for presentation and education.
    Archaeological-site-Medinat_Azahara_...jpg
  • Bhaktapur, World Heritage city, Golden Gate (actually brass), built 1785 as entrance to royal palace.  Group of 8-12 men and women cluster around the gate to enter the palace within..
    Bhaktapur-Golden-Gate-NPL200110-2-3.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.
    Renaissance-flambeau-in-situ-ITA2010...jpg
  • Ruins of Mtoni Palace, built by Sultan Seyyid Said to get  his Persian wife to move to Zanzibar.  Detail of attempted repair of its mud brick walls with modern concrete, which ruins the surface.
    Zanzibar_TNZ200801--4347.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
  • On the lawn at Jambughoda Palace, near Champaner, Gujarat, India.<br />
Row of basket chairs set on the lawn in a semicircle.
    basket-chairs-row-IND201301--0542.jpg
  • Split: quintet of male acapella singers perform in the peristyle of Diocletians Palace, selling their CD.
    HRV200606-145.jpg
  • Archways of Dunga Palace
    TNZ200801--4587.jpg
  • Ruins of Dunga Palace
    TNZ200801--4586.jpg
  • Ruins of Mtoni Palace, built by Sultan Seyyid Said to get  his Persian wife to move to Zanzibar.
    TNZ200801--4363.jpg
  • Mahurubi Palace ruins, Zanzibar, built by Sultan Barghash in 1882.
    TNZ200801--4329.jpg
  • A pair of street artists working on a copy of a Raphael Madonna and child in the Pitti Palace.  Onlookers gather around.  Scallop-shaped dishes for offerings of money.  It is dusk so shop windows are lit.
    Florence-street-artists-copying-Raph...jpg
  • Piazza San Marco from lagoon, Libreria Sansoviniana on left, Doges' Palace on right.  Crane and shoreline works to strengthen the lagoon edge of the piazza..
    Seen-from-vaporetto-Venezia_ITA20040...jpg
  • Muscat, harbor behind Sultan's Palace, view across to Jelali fort, built by the Portuguese in the 16th century and still used by the Omani military.
    Jelali fort, Muscat
  • At Jambughoda Palace, near Champaner, Gujarat, India
    IND201301--0542m - Copy.jpg
  • Gilded figure of a robed musician holding gongs, on the facade of the Japanese Tea House on the grounds of Frederick the Great's palace Sanssouci in Potsdam, Germany.
    Gilded statue SC199310-2-017.jpg
  • Detail of the carved plaster and mirror wall decoration of the "Glass Palace" in the Amber Fort, Jodhpur.  The 16th century design is abstract, vertically oriented.
    Holiday_sparkle_PT200110-1card5x7.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
  • View across the main courtyard toward the Panch Mahal, or five storey palace, at Fatehpur Sikri, off the road between Agra and Jaipur, Uttar Pradesh, India. Founded in 1569 by the Mughal emperor Akbar, and served as the capital of the Mughal Empire from 1571 to 1585, when the city was abandoned for lack of water.
    Fatehpur_Sikri_Panch_Mahal_IND200111...jpg
  • Portrait of a previous maharajah, of Mountbatten, and figurines of elephant, horse, etc., on display at a maharajah's palace.
    Raj-nostalgia-IND201301--0993.jpg
  • Colorful rippling reflections of palace facades along the Grand Canal, Venice.
    Multicolored reflections in the Gran..nice
  • A young couple descending the long staircase up the Quirinal hill, Rome, toward the Quirinal Palace, seat of government.
    Rome_Quirinal_ITA200901--0329.jpg
  • Grand Canal Venice; palaces reflected in the water.
    Palace dreams
  • Jaipur, Amber Fort, established 1592 by Man Singh I, with palaces added by Jai Singh I (r 1621-67).  Details of wall decor, a marble panel of two stylized flowering plants and a butterfly.
    Mughal marble flowers IND200111-6-25.jpg
  • Multicolored reflections of Venetian palaces in the rippling waters of the Grand Canal.
    Birthday card ITA200401-3-25cd5x7.jpg
  • 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
  • Jaipur, Amber Fort, established 1592 by Man Singh I, with palaces added by Jai Singh I (r 1621-67).  Detail of marble wall panel exquisitely carved with two different flower stalks with blooms and a one butterfly
    Relief_plants_Mogul_IND200111-6-25.jpg
  • Jaipur, Amber Fort, established 1592 by Man Singh I, with palaces added by Jai Singh I (r 1621-67).  View from the howdah of an elephant pacing up the hill to the citadel.  Mahout in foreground.
    IND200111-6-20.jpg
  • Buckingham Palace from St. James Par..lake
  • Statue angel Doges palace ITA200403-...jpg
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