ionic greek column thing (and a doric and corinthian capital)
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Palais Brongniart in Paris, also called Palais de la Bourse
It was commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1808 to house the Paris Stock Exchange. It also housed the Commercial Court and the Paris Chamber of Commerce, created by Napoleon in 1803. It finished construction in 1826 and was named after the original architect, Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart.
Brongniart died in 1813, so the architect Étienne-Éloi Labarre was put in charge of completing the project. He made some modifications to the original design.
From the Palais Brongniart website:
The Emperor wanted to bring all stock exchange activities together in one place, a real innovation at the time in order to optimize the existing system.
[…] The site will indeed be the lung of 19th-century financial activity, promoting the expansion of railways, steelmaking and major industrial adventures, until 1998, when the stock exchange closed at the Palais Brongniart.
Today, Palais Brongniart is one of the leading congress and event centers in Paris, with a philosophy of action based on economic, social and solidarity innovation. A project led by GL events, one of the international leaders in the management of event spaces, and with the City of Paris, owner of the building.
Sources: (1) (2)
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Traditional Dining Room Houston
Enclosed dining room - large traditional medium tone wood floor enclosed dining room idea with blue walls and no fireplace
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Mediterranean Dining Room Miami
Large great room photo with beige walls and tuscan porcelain tile flooring but no fireplace
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I will have you in my thoughts when I read the Odyssey on my flight tomorrow
I am holding your hand like a gay guardian angel
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A Student on a ladder measuring a Corinthian order at the Temple of Jupiter Stator in Rome
by Henry Parke (Sir John Soane’s Museum, London.)
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From left to right: Doric, Ionic, Corinthian
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As a classical philologist, I study alongside the classical archaeologists because we’ll have to work so closely together in the field later, but they are just doing the wildest shit. We’re just sitting there with our scrolls and our 86 encyclopaedias out on the table and they’re in a pit, licking a 2000 year old fragment and going “yup, definitely bone!”
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Corinthian capital, Getty Villa, Malibu, 2023.
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Why do so many old buildings use the same leaf design? Known as Acanthus leaves, their usage goes back to Roman times and has ties to Ancient mythology.
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Streets of The Pantheon by Henrik Sundholm
Via Flickr:
The Pantheon in Rome, Italy, seen from the street beside it.
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