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  • Well preserved medieval tiles in floor of Winchester Cathedral, in front of the altar.  Pattern of equal squares, each filled with a decorative motif, many different, some the same.
    Medieval_floor_tiles_PT200107-32.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
  • Woman with young daughter in their home, a ruined medieval house in Cairo. Monochrome photographs made during 1979 at the medieval palace Beyt al Razzaz in Cairo, Egypt, funded by the American Research Center in Egypt to document its poor state of preservation.
    EGY197-28-20.TIF
  • Fes;looking down on the medieval leather tanneries, still used; workmen.  Clusters of ancient vats, some brown, some white, in their clearing.  One workmen is walking along the edges of the vats, while another opposite him watches.  Beyond the vats rise a hill covered with apartment buildings, many topped with satellite dishes.  Cloudy sky but bright sun.  Photo taken looking toward sun, so there is a magical-looking diphragm silhouette in the center of the image.
    Fes_tanneries_MOR200411_0541.jpg
  • Medieval well head, in a regional Venetian Byzantine style, in a courtyard in Trogir, Croatia.  Corner volutes and a relief panel of the winged lion of St. Mark.
    Trogir-courtyard-wellhead--HRV200606...jpg
  • On a winter day, the medieval Charles bridge and its abutments are covered with snow.  View from a boat in the river near the bridge, looking up past it to the cathedral on its hill above.  Cold weather, white sky, gray river water.
    Charles-Bridge-Prague-CZR200901--025...jpg
  • View from S. Miniato al Monte of the medieval and Renaissance fortifications that Michelangelo worked on for a year or two when the Florentine Republic was at war with the Medici supporters.  Beyond, the terraces of the newly opened Bardini Gardens.
    Florence_fortifications_ITA201012-12...jpg
  • Mashrabeyya, wooden screens, Bayt el Razzaz, Cairo; interior view. Monochrome photographs made during 1979 at the medieval palace Beyt al Razzaz in Cairo, Egypt, funded by the American Research Center in Egypt to document its poor state of preservation.
    EGY19194452~1.TIF
  • Mashrabeyya, wooden screens, Bayt el Razzaz, Cairo; interior view. Monochrome photographs made during 1979 at the medieval palace Beyt al Razzaz in Cairo, Egypt, funded by the American Research Center in Egypt to document its poor state of preservation.
    EGY194652~1.TIF
  • Mashrabeyya, wooden screens, Bayt el Razzaz, Cairo; interior view. Monochrome photographs made during 1979 at the medieval palace Beyt al Razzaz in Cairo, Egypt, funded by the American Research Center in Egypt to document its poor state of preservation.
    EGY1977-27-23.tif
  • Narrow medieval streets of the historical district in Florence offer occasional partial looks at the famous dome of the Duomo, or Cathedral.
    Florence_street_near_Cathedral_ITA20...jpg
  • Mashrabeyya, wooden screens, Bayt el Razzaz, Cairo; interior view. Monochrome photographs made during 1979 at the medieval palace Beyt al Razzaz in Cairo, Egypt, funded by the American Research Center in Egypt to document its poor state of preservation.
    EGY19194456~1.TIF
  • Mashrabeyya, Bayt el Razzaz, exterior view. Monochrome photographs made during 1979 at the medieval palace Beyt al Razzaz in Cairo, Egypt, funded by the American Research Center in Egypt to document its poor state of preservation.
    EGY19193856~1.TIF
  • Interior of a Mamluk house in Cairo. Monochrome photographs made during 1979 at the medieval palace Beyt al Razzaz in Cairo, Egypt, funded by the American Research Center in Egypt to document its poor state of preservation.
    EGY1977-25-8.TIF
  • Mashrabeyya, Bayt el Razzaz, exterior view. Monochrome photographs made during 1979 at the medieval palace Beyt al Razzaz in Cairo, Egypt, funded by the American Research Center in Egypt to document its poor state of preservation.
    1977-28-21.tif
  • Mashrabeyya, wooden screens, Bayt el Razzaz, Cairo; interior view. Monochrome photographs made during 1979 at the medieval palace Beyt al Razzaz in Cairo, Egypt, funded by the American Research Center in Egypt to document its poor state of preservation.
    1977-27-7.tif
  • Mashrabeyya, wooden screens, Bayt el Razzaz, Cairo; interior view. Monochrome photographs made during 1979 at the medieval palace Beyt al Razzaz in Cairo, Egypt, funded by the American Research Center in Egypt to document its poor state of preservation.
    1977-26-20.tif
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • Views of the ruins of Conwy Castle, Conwy, Wales.
    Conwy Castle interior walls.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
  • Views from the ruins of Conwy Castle, Conwy, Wales, looking across the three bridges from the mainland.
    WAL201605--5170.jpg
  • Views of the ruins of Conwy Castle, Conwy, Wales. Interior from below showing empty fireplace in the royal quarters.
    WAL201605--5162.jpg
  • Views of the ruins of Conwy Castle, Conwy, Wales.  Tower interior staircase winding upward.
    WAL201605--5159.jpg
  • Views of the ruins of Conwy Castle, Conwy, Wales.
    WAL201605--5145.jpg
  • Conwy Castle towers and details
    Delicate blooms and heavy rough ston...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
  • Signs in the parking lot near Conwy Castle, Conwy, Wales.
    Signs in the Conwy parking lot.jpg
  • Palace and mosque at Uparkot, Junagadh, interior of colonnaded hall.
    Uparkot-Jama-Mascid-IND201301--1259.jpg
  • Views of the ruins of Conwy Castle, Conwy, Wales.  Interior.
    WAL201605--5169.jpg
  • Views of the ruins of Conwy Castle, Conwy, Wales. Tower interior with arched window and holes for floor beams.
    WAL201605--5155.jpg
  • Views of the ruins of Conwy Castle, Conwy, Wales.
    Approaching Conwy Castle.jpg
  • Views of Conwy Wales, from high up the castle walls.
    Conwy town from the castle.jpg
  • Conwy Castle towers and details: arch of a town wall below the castle used to approach the castle from the parking lot below
    Leaving the castle.jpg
  • Views of the ruins of Conwy Castle, Conwy, Wales.
    Welcome statue inside the castle.jpg
  • Views of the ruins of Conwy Castle, Conwy, Wales.
    Conwy Castle.jpg
  • IND201301--1259.jpg
  • Uparkot-Jama-Mascid-IND201301--1252.jpg
  • Views of the ruins of Conwy Castle, Conwy, Wales.
    On the top of the wall.jpg
  • Three quarter view of the statue of a prophet in the narthex of Vezelay Abbey church: worn, stained, and dignified.
    Vezelay_prophet_FRA1980-08-12ed.jpg
  • Outside the Lion Gate in Durbar Square, stone statue of a ferocious lion; behind it and to the left, a stone carving of Ugrachandi, the god Shiva's consort in her fearful manifestation.  Man passes right on a bicyle; two Nepali women walk by on the left.
    NPL200110-2-0.jpg
  • Upper facade of the Palazzo Vecchio, originally designed by Arnolfo di Cambio, completed 1322.  Coats of arms painted 1353.
    Florence-palazzo-vecchio-detail-faca...jpg
  • Stairway up to the city wall at Korcula, Croatia.  Tower gate and flag above.  Visitors descending the stair (two or three people).
    Korcula-Croatia-HRV200606-182.jpg
  • Internal stairway in the Palazzo Davanzati.  I like stairways.
    Mysterious-old-stairway-ITA201101--0...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
  • 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
  • Santa Pudenziana, nave; Cosmati floor, close up showing pattern and shapes.
    Cosmati_tile_floor_ITA200901--0605.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
  • In the village of Brent Eleigh, the church of St. Mary's is a perfect example of the village church.  The chancel window is Victorian Gothic, but the church interior has been revealed to have late 14th century wall paintings of St. John, the Virgin Mary, the Harrowing of Hell, and other subjects.  For known history, see http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/brent.html.  This photo was made on a cloudy grey winter day, but the grass is bright green against the warm yellowish and reddish colored stone from which the church was built..
    English_village_churchyard_ENG200701...jpg
  • Zadar: Church of St. Donatus, built 9th century, interior looking upward into the wooden dome.  The supporting columns are re-used Roman columns.
    Ambiguous_space_HRV200606-064.jpg
  • 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
  • Lavenham townscapes and architecture: distinctive crooked house leans against its neighbor.
    Lavenham townscape ENG200701-0024.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
  • View of part of Old Town Square and City Hall with the restored astronomical clock below which a small crowd is gathering.  See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Astronomical_Clock for a detailed history and technical survey of the clock, its mechanisms, and its sculptures.
    Prague-astronomical-clock-CZR200901-...jpg
  • Detail of the top two thirds of the clock set into the outside wall of the Gothic town hall in Prague.   Both were bombed in World War II and afterwards by the Russians, and have since been restored.
    Prague-astronomical-clock-CZR200901-...jpg
  • Prague synagogue; carving on tympanum over entry to the inner sanctuary, an abstract geometric design within a pointed arch, shows 12 vines and twleve bunches of grapes, possibly representing the twelve tribes of Israel.  Also known as the "Old-New Synagogue," the oldest in Europe.  Built 1270 in Gothic style.
    Prague-synagogue-tympanum-CZR200901-...jpg
  • Close up of two griffons in mosaic on the floor of the church SS Maria e Donato, on the island of Murano, Venice.   Church and the floor were built in the 12th century.
    Murano-grypon-pair-Donato-Venezia_IT...jpg
  • Rome, adjoining stairways of Santa Maria di  Ara Coeli and the Campidoglio hill seen from below, across the piazza by the Ara Coeli bus stop.
    Campidoglio-Rome_ITA200901--1183.jpg
  • SS Quattro Coronati, exterior, entrance, patched with cement and draped informally with electrical wiring.
    Quattro-Coronati-Sylvester-Rome_ITA2...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
  • Rome, Santa Prassede, chapel of Saint Zeno, dome, pendentives, mosaics.  8th century. Detail of one pendentive with figure of an angel wearing a white robe, standing on a globe,  hands upraised as though holding up the central dome with its figure of Christ Pantocrator.
    Santa-Prassede-mosaic-Rome_ITA200901...jpg
  • Though the castle fabric is carefully stabilized and maintained, volunteer blooming plants find places to grow.  They are periodically cleared away before they can damage the stone.
    Blooms in the castle wall.jpg
  • 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
  • Fes: el Attarine Medersa: looking upward to the students' rooms, cornices and railings of carved wood.  The school was built in 1325; Construction was initiated by Sultan Yaqub Abu Said Uthman II.  Current students still live in the building.
    Fes_Attarine-medersa_MOR200411_0514.jpg
  • Fes: el Attarine Medersa: looking upward to the students' rooms, cornices and railings of carved wood thickly ornamenting every surface.  Three open windows.  Laundry hanging over a  window grille dries in the sun.
    Fes_Attarine-medersa_MOR200411_0506.jpg
  • Mosque caretaker sweeping the floor seems to be sweeping the sunlight projected from windows on the exterior wall.    Their Islamic piercing pattern also projects onto the mosque pillars.  BAround and behind the sweeper, the pointed arches recede, also illuminated by sunlight.   This is a rare image of the mosque interior.
    Sweeping sulight in the Ibn Tulun mo..airo
  • View up a steep stair, masonry walls and arched vault, toward a mysterious opening above.
    Sibenik_Croatia_HRV200606-031.jpg
  • Lavenham townscapes and architecture
    Lavenham townscape ENG200701-0033.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
  • Through the display window of the gallery of Monika Spruth and Philomene Magers, London, during a show of new photos by Cindy Sherman, whose figure is seen in over life size enlargement on the walls.  They are so placed in a black-and-white background landscape that the three standing figures, each in a different costume, seem to float. I have admired Sherman's work and went specifically to look at this show.  It was to me more like a performance than an exhibition of work one might want to own.  Nevertheless an interesting view at dusk.  The street behind is reflected faintly in the windows too.
    Stunning-strange-photography-exhibit...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
  • View of the refurbished cafe underneath the church of St. Martin in the Fields, Trafalgar Square.  New lights  at the tops of the pillars illuminate the ancient brick vaulted ceiling.
    Curvelinear_vaulted_undercroft_20081...jpg
  • Outside the Lion Gate in Durbar Square, stone statue of a ferocious lion; behind it and to the left, a stone carving of Ugrachandi, the god Shiva's consort in her fearful manifestation.  Two women tourists examine the latter closely, one pointing to a feature; young Nepal man in red pants lounges against the lion statue as though waiting for them.
    NPL200110-2-7.jpg
  • Al Rustaq Fort, at the foot of Al Jabal Al Akhdar on the edge of the Batinah Plain, Oman. Originally constructed circa 1250 AD on Persian ruins from the 7th century AD, The imposing present-day structure was rebuilt by the first ruler of the Ya'ruba dynasty in 1650.   Rustaq has long been important because of its strategic situation at the openings of mountain passes, as well as its benign climate and hot springs, which are believed to have medicinal benefits. It was the site in 1624 of the election of the first imam of the Ya'ariba, Nasir bin Murshid bin Sultan, and served as the imamate's capital a number of times, controlling trade between Oman's coastal ports and the mountainous interior.
    Al Rustaq Fort, Oman
  • 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.
    Quattro-Coronati-Sylvester-Rome_ITA2...jpg
  • Sta Prassede, mosaic details, Pope St Paschal I ca. 822.  Panel next to apse entrance showing a procession of saints bearing crowns, escorted by two angels .
    Santa-Prassede-mosaic-Rome_ITA200901...jpg
  • Construction cranes are everywhere as various monuments are patched and polished.  This view of the Palazzo Vecchio is from the courtyard of the Uffizi Gallery, a construction crane silhouetted against the sky, and the tower of the Palazzo Vecchio burnished by light from the setting sun.
    Florence-Palazzo-Vecchio-repair-ITA2...jpg
  • Looking up at San. Miniato al Monte and the adjoining Olivetan monastery, built 11th and 12th centuries.  Stairs and terrace layers step upward toward the church at the top.
    Florence-San-Miniato-ITA201012-134.jpg
  • Bare ruined choirs:  nave of Fountains Abbey looking westward.  Pillars and arches cast powerful shadows on the smooth grass.
    Fountains_Abbey_ENG200607_320.jpg
  • Interior of St. Vitus Cathedral, Prague, at the chapel where the simple marble tomb of St. Wenceslaus rests.  Side view of the tomb on its plinth; window above with 16th century frescoes of the life of King Wenceslaus.   The chapel itself is 14th century, rebuilt from the original 10th century rotunda church, after Wenceslaus had become the patron saint of Bohemia.
    Wenceslaus-tomb-St.Vitus-Prague-CZR2...jpg
  • Exterior of the little round church of St. Donatus, built early 9th century in Byzantine style, and its later bell tower, seen from across the Roman forum.
    Zadar-Donatus-_exterior_HRV200606-07...jpg
  • View into Corte Petriana past the Ca' Arco Antico (bed and breakfast), San Polo district, Venice, on a snowy day with slush underfoot.
    Corte-Petriana-Venezia_ITA200403-2-1...jpg
  • Corte Sconto, Venice.  View toward water gate, as gondolier passes.  The Corte appears in one of Hugo Pratt's Corto Maltese graphic novels of the 1930s.
    Corte-Sconto-Venezia_ITA200403-07-31.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
  • 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
  • Ferragamo has the splendid medieval Palazzo Spini Feroni for the company museum.  A look through the window shows the painted plaster ceiling with an image of a male figure astride a flying eagle, surrounded by cherubs.
    Florence-Ferragamo-museum-ITA201101-...jpg
  • Cobblestones laid in a fan pattern on a medieval street in Alcala de Henares, Spain.  Shadowed legs and feet of two pedestrians at the top of the image.  Cobblestone pattern is confined to panels separated by strips of white marble.
    Cobblestone_fan_shape_ESP201210--236...jpg
  • Office building designed by Frank Gehry with Vlado Milunic, built 1994-96 on a site destroyed in World War II bombing.  It is uniquely deconstructivist in style, its flamboyant modernity successfully cohabiting with the medieval buildings on either side.  Seen from across a wet street with snow on the ground.  One man, pedestrian, in the foreground.  Several parked cars in front of the building; one black sedan waiting at the crossroads traffic light.
    Prague-Dancing-House-CZR200901--0227.jpg
  • Point of view looking up at a pair of windows and a balcony, lined with potted plants, in a medieval/Renaissance dwelling in Trogir.  The entire old town section is designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
    Trogir-Renaissance-dwelling--HRV2006...jpg
  • Trogir: small courtyard with arch, stairway, laundry hanging out to dry, and a motorbike.  Roman and medieval structures still in use as people clearly still live in them. Electric wires strung along the outside walls.
    Trogir-courtyard-streetscape--HRV200...jpg
  • Stone escutcheon carved on a balustrade newel next to a stone stair.  Unusual variation on an Italian type, outlined in symmetrically concave curves with six points.  In the center, a castle with arcaded tower.  Star above and waves in foreground.  Possible a view of Venice?
    Trogir-medieval-escutcheon--HRV20060...jpg
  • Hexagonal lozenge from the Campanile: apothecary in his shop with four women customers, denoting the Art of Medicine.  Attributed to Andrea Pisano.
    Medieval-pharmacist-sculpture-ITA201...jpg
  • Hexagonal lozenge from the Campanile: woman at a loom, with another woman standing next to it looking on, denoting the Art of Wool-Making.  Attributed to Andrea Pisano.  Classical air of the drapery shows that the Renaissance has begun.
    Medieval-woman-weaving-ITA201012--00...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
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