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Architecture

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Northern Europe


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Title: Leuven Town Hall, c.1936.. Order No.: A1-3160. Location: Belgium.
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Title: Statue of 1360 Defender of Rights Hero, Ferdinand Smoldersplein. Leuven City Hall, erected 1936, Belgium. Order No.: A1-3151.

Germany

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Title: Telamones at Sansoussi. Order No.: A1-2576. Location: Germany (Potsdam)
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Title: Wrought Iron Balcony Facade, 18th c. Order No.: A1-2901. Location: New Castle, Bayreuth.

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Title: Telemones Supporting Wrought Iron Balcony. Order No.: A1-2893. Location: New Castle Park, Bayreuth, Germany
Picture
Title: Palace Facade, Order No.: A1-2464, Country: Bamberg, Germany

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Title: Church Grille, S. Johann Nepomuk Baroque, 1745-64 Order No.: A1-2032, Country: Germany
Picture
Title: Wrought Iron Railing in Chapel, Order No.: A1-2324, Country: Germany

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Title: Ornate Palace Facade, Order No.: A1-1011, Country: Germany
Picture
Title: Telamones supporting Balcony. Order No.: A1-1747. Location: S. Linderhof, Germany.

Picture
Title: Entrance Facade of Residence, 18th c. Order No.: A1-9056. Location: Dusseldort, Germany

Austria 

Vienna

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Title: Balcony grating over Andromeda Fountain, c. 1741. Order No.: A1-1500. Location: 16 Singerstrasse, Vienna.
Picture
Title: Theseus Temple Fountain & Empress Elizabeth monument. Order No.: A1-0137. Location: Volksgarten, Vienna.


Salzburg
A trip into the past - streets lined with immaculately preserved buildings dating from the medieval and Baroque periods.

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Title: Burial Plaque Order No.: A1-1603. Location: Church Wall, Saltzburg
Picture
Title: Religious 15th C Marble Plaque, Order No.: A1-1002, Country: Austria

Picture
Title: Marble Fountain, Order No.: A1-1551, Country: Austria
Picture
Title: Salzburg Castle in Evening, Order No.: A1-1560, Country: Austria

Picture
Title: Well in courtyard. Order No.: SPG000134. Location: Landeszeughaus (Armory), Gratz, Austria (taken in 2006)

Sweden 

Stockholm
​A city of charming historic alleyways - often called "the Venice of the north."

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Title: Spire at Twilight, Order No.: A1-6006. Country: Sweden
Picture
Title: Ferry in Stockholm Harbour. Order No.: A1-6674. Location: Sweden

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Title: Stone Balcony with Telemones. Order No.: A1-6318. Location: Stockholm.
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Title: Stone Balcony supported by Telamones. Order No.: A1-6049. Location: Stockholm

Picture
Title: Lion Statue at Swedish Royal Palace. A1-5961. Location: Stockholm

Belgium

Bruges
Characterized by cobblestone streets and canals, much of Bruges's preserved old city was built between the 12th and 15th centuries.

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Title: Garden in the Beguinale. Order No.: A1-3534. Location: Bruges, Belgium
Picture
Title: The Beguinale (Begijnhof), c1245. Order No.: A1-3242. Location: Belgium (Bruges)

Picture
Title: Commerical Building on Bruges Canal, Belgium. Order No.: A1-3498.

Antwerp

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Title: Facade of Rubin's House, Inner Courtyard.. Order No.: A1-9191. Location: Antwerp, Belgium
Picture
Title: Ceiling of Antwerp Cathedral. Order No.: A1-9258. Location: Belgium.


Riga, Latvia
City of  Art Nouveau buildings. 

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Title: Decorative Facade with Blue Brick, Art Nouveau Building. Order No.: A1-4353. Location: Riga, Latvia.
Picture
Tile: Elements on Art Nouveau Building. Order No.: A1-4404. LocationL Riga, Latvia.

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Title: Facade of the Bourse Building. Order No.: A1-5124. Location: Riga, Latvia.
Picture
Title: Female Figure (Art Nouveau Style), Order No.: A1-4649, Country: Latvia

Picture
Title: Elaborate Facade, Art Nouveau Style. Order No.: A1-5001. Location: Riga, Latvia.
Picture
Title: Elaborate Facade, Art Nouveau Style. Order No.: A1-5024. Location: Riga, Latvia.


Picture
Title: High Tower, St. Olaf's Church. Order No.: A1-5386. Location: Estonia (Talinn)
Picture
Title: Skyline Rooftops, Estonia. Order No.: A1-5512. Location: Tallin, Estonia

Picture
Title: Talinn Skyline. Order No.: A1-4=5471. Location: Estonia

France

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Title: French Chateau, 16th century. Order No.: A1-5322. Location: Mid-France.
Picture
Title: Chateau Turret. Order No.: A1-5626. Location: Mid-France

Picture
Title: Design in Stone, 17th C. Order No.: NS-2009. Location: Chateau in mid-France.
Picture
Title: Iron Railing and Head Stone. Order No.: A1-4266. Location: Bordeaux, FR.

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Title: Church Facade. Order No.: A1-4123. Location: France midi.
Picture
Title: Monastery Doors. Order No.: A1-4052. Location: France (ruins near Bordeaux)

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Title: Chateau in mid-France. Order No.: A1-4990. Location: midi-France.
Picture
Title: Ceiling Design in Plaster, 18th c. Order No.: NS2009. Location: Abandoned Residence, mid-France

Picture
Title: Chateau in Bordeau Wine Region. Order No.: A1-4466. Location: France, 2009.

Southern Europe


Italy

 The "ART" of City Building - Byzantine Tradition

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Title: Venice Facade, Order No.: A1-1007, Country: Itlay
Picture
Title: Lion figure and gates at L'Arsenale. Order No.: A1-2005. Location: Venice
Picture
Title: Pietra de Bando porphyry pillar (Tetrarchs). Order No.: A1-2005. Location: Venice
Late Roman Tetrarchy 
The tetrarchy (literally "rule of four") led the Roman Empire from 293 to 313. Established by Emperor Dilcletian to share the responsibilities of government for the Empire and to prepare the next leaders for rule, it could not survive the bellicose jealousies of its second generation, with Constantie the surviving emperor. 

This statue, carved around the time, depicts the unity of the then peaceful four leaders. As they were also military leaders, they are dressed in lorica segmental arbor, a bronze breastplate from which bronze strips defend in a skirt of two connected layers to the knees. The shoulders and upper arms are covered with three layers of bronze strips (Layering aids in the movement of the arms and lower torso.) An undergarment to which this arbor may be connected can be seen on the arms and slightly below the skirt. Their scabbarded weapons are spats, long swords especially populare among Roman cavalry, although the long hilts may also indicate that they could be grasped by two hands and used for fighting when the soldier had dismounted. 

​Currently, the statue is outside the Basilica of San Marco, brought there from Constantinople by the Venetian Fourth Crusadrs after their sack of that city in 1204.

Picture
Title: Docker's (workers) Houses, L'Arsenale. Order No.: A1-2005. Location: Venice.
Picture
Iron balcony, Byzantine style residence. Order No.: FRoo151. Location: Riva d. Schiavoni, Venice, Italy

Venice, with its network of romantic canals and its suggestion of Oriental exotica, had great appeal for Victorian travellers.


Picture
Title: Capitaline Hill. Order No.: A1-1736. Location: Rome
Picture
Title: Ancient Rome - City of Marble. Order No.: A1-0726. Location: Rome


Augustus boasted that he found Rome a city of brick and left it of marble.

Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different nationalities. Rome was white marble and gilding and heady perfumes; the blare of trumpets and the shrieking of market-women and the eternal, sub-aural hum of more people, speaking more languages that Gaius had ever imagined existed, crammed together on seven hills whose contours had long ago disappeared beneath this encrustation of humanity. Rome was the pulsing heart of the world.
            _ Marion Zimmer Bradley. The Forest House, Viking Press, 1994.


Picture
Title: Ceiling of the Pantheon. Order No.: A1-1551. Location: Rome.
Picture
Title: Ancient Roman Decoration.Pantheon. Order No.:A1-1599.


Picture
Title: Arch of Septimius Severus and The Roman Forum. Order No.: A1-2014. Location: Rome
Picture
Titel: The Roman Forum. Order No.: A1-1011. Location: Italy (Rome)

Picture
Title: Fontana de Tritone, Piazza Barberini. Order No.: A1-1780 Location:Quirinale, Rome.
Picture
Title: Ancient Rome - City of Brick and Marble (busts & sarcophagus). Order No.A1-1267. Location: Capitale, Roma

Picture
Title: Victor Emmanuel Monument. Order No.: A11727. Location: Rome

Picture
Title: Bust of a Roman Emperor and Female Figure. Order No.: A1-1225. Location: Rome
Picture
Title: Egyptian Obelisk of Ramases 11. Order No.: A1-1446. Location: Porta Del Popolo, Rome.


Picture
Title: Roman Era Water Fountain. Order No.: A1-0932. Location: Rome.
Picture
Title: Base of Constantine's Arch. Order No.: A1-1058. Location: Rome

Picture
Title: Bernini's Elephant Supporting an Egyptian Obelisk, Rome. Order No.: A1-1581.
You, whoever you are, who see that the figures of wise Egypt sculptured on the obelisk are being carried by an elephant, the strongest of beasts, understand that it is proof of a strong mind to sustain solid wisdom.

Inscription on the side of the base. 

Picture
Title: Statues at Villa Adriana Order No.: A1-7078. Location: Tivoli, Italy

Tuscany

Picture
Title: Piazza in Pienza. Order No.: A1-4394. Location: Tuscany.
Picture
Title: View of Villa Barbaro. Order No.: A1-2005. Location: Asolo, near Venice.

Venice

Picture
Title: Canal Residence. Order No.: A1-1006. Country: Italy (Venice)
Picture
Title: Piazza dei Cavalieri. Order No.: A1-3510. Location: Pisa, Italy

Florence
The Renaissance capital with its timeless, heart-lifting beauty.

Picture
Title: The Duomo's Gothic Exterior. Order No.: A-2683. Location: Florence
Picture
Title: Mitchelangelo's Statue (5.17 metre) of the Biblical hero David, circa. 1501-04. Order No.: A1-1989. Location: Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy


Excellence!
"I’ve studied why that picture of the Duomo is so good, how even that exquisite lily gets well gilded. I see that you’ve caught the shadow at a critical point, the moment it darkens the plane on the left, with that time told as well by the darkening edge above, on the circle of the window and, curving then toward the sky, across the slope of the dome. So as well as about great architecture, the picture is about time and about physics; it moves and reveals. A fine snap indeed! ... among many".

A keen Observer 

Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446), Italian Resaissance architect.
Go to: www.ancient.eu/Filippo_Brunelleschi/

Picture
Title: Decorative Marble Door Frame, 15th century. Order No.: A1-2800. Location: Renaissance Church, Florence.


Pompeii

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Title: Wall Decoration, 79 BC. Order No.: A1-5964. Location: Pompeii.
Picture
Title: Decorative Ceiling Design. Order No.: A1-5747. Location: Pompeii.


Picture
Title: Wall Decoration, 79 BC. Order No.: A1-6224. Location: Pompeii
Picture
Title: Painted Wall Decorations. Order No.: A1-6072. Location: Pompeii.


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Title: Wall Decoration, 79 BC. Order No.: A1-6081. Location: Pompeii
Picture
Title: Wall Decoration, 79 BC. Order No.: A1-6287. Location: Pompeii.

Picture
Title: Inventory of Artefacts. Order No.: A1-5937. Location: Pompeii.
Picture
Title: View of Mount Vesuvius. Order No.: A1-5898. Location: Pompeii.

Herculaneum

Picture
Title: Roman Warrior. Order No.: A1-6442. Location: Herculaneum.
Picture
Title: Man with Double Axe. Order No.: A1-6436 Location: Herculaneum


Picture
Title: Roman Life at Herculaneum. Order No.: A1-6445. Location: Italy

Lucca & Tuscany

Picture
Title: Piazza dei Cavalieri. Order No.: A1-3510. Location: Italy (Pisa)
Picture
Title: Morning in Anghiari. Order No.: A1-2286. Location: Italy


Picture
Title: Gothic style Door, 14th century. Order No.: A1-3867. Location: Italy (Lucca)
Picture
Title: Female Head, Baroque style, 16th century. Order No.: A1-3924. Location: Italy (Tuscany, a Lucca villa)

Amalfi Coast

Picture
Title: Female Roman Bronze Figure, Villa San Michele. Order No.: A1-6968. Location: Anacapri, Italy
Picture
Title: Positano in Early Morning. Order No.: A1-6574. Location: Italy (Amalfi Coast)


Portugal and Spain

Portugal's history of intricate tilework—from its ceilings to floors, homes and hallways.

Picture
Title: Entrance to Royal Chapel with tiled roof. Order No.: A1-2219. Location: Pena National Palace, Sintra, Portugal
Picture
Title: Triton, Allegorical Gateway of Creation. Order No.: A1-2237. Location: Pena National Palace, Sintra, Portugal.

Picture
Title: Approach to Pena Palace. Order No.: A1-2327. Location: Sintra, 2015.

Picture
Title: Royal Cloister with stone Manueline tracery, 14th century. Order No.: A1-29§0. Location: Batalha Monastery, Portugal.
Picture
Title: Stone Carving Design. Order No.: A1-3389. Location: Bussco Palace, Portugal

Picture
Title: Palace Marble Facade, 19th Century, Portugal. Order No.: A1-3670.
Picture
Title: Facade of Residence in Obidos. Order No.: A1-2726. Location: Obidos, Portugal, 2015.

Picture
Title: Wall Tiles, 18th century. Order No.: A1-3759. Location: Elvas Cathedral, Portugal.

Oporto - October, 2023

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Title: Evening view of Oporto Harbour from Gaia. October 2023. Order No.: A1-6213. Location: Oporto, Portugal
Picture
Title: Porto Harbour Order No.: A1-6202. Location: Portugal 2023

Picture
Title: Porto Harbour, looking east from Gaia to the bridges Order No. A1-6204 Location: Oporto

Picture
Title: Porto Harbour by the iron Bridge. Order No.: A1-6166. Location: Porto, Portugal
Picture
Title: View of Porto from Vila Nova de Gaia. Order No.: A1-6179



Picture
Title: Entrance Courtyard. Order No.: A1-1374. Location: Museu de Historia Natural. Porto.
Picture
Title: Decorative Ceiling of Main Hall. Order No.: A1-1385. Location: Museu de Historia Natural, Porto.


Spain

Picture
Title: Exquisite Painted Palace Ceiling, 18th Century, Seville, Spain. Order No.: A1-4920.

Picture
Title: Wrought iron Coat-of-Arms of Ferdinand & Isabella. Order No.: A1-5351. Location: C.R. Granada, Spain
Picture
Title: Interior Wall Decoration. Order No.: A1-5383. Location: Convent of St. Catalina de Zafra, Granada.

Picture
Title: Decorative Stone work. Order No.: A1-5433. Location: Jean Cathedral, Spain.
Picture
Title: Metal Pulpit. Order No.: A1-5474. Location: Baeza Cathedral, Spain.

Picture
Title: Old tiles. Order No.: A1-5497. Location: Hotel Palacio de Rambla, 16th C., Plaza Manques, Ubeda, Spain.

Picture
Title: Iron Balconies. Order No.: A1-6025. Location: Old Cordoba, Spain

Travel Photos

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David Clendenning & Gay Haskins near Anghiari, Italy, 2014-10.
Picture
Gay Haskins and David Clendenning at the Abama Resort, Tenerife, Canary Islands, November 2017.

Picture
David Clendenning viewing Toledo from Pozuela, December 2017.

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