#ornamental architecture

[preraphaelitepaintings]

The Annunciation

Artist: Edward Coley Burne-Jones (English, 1833-1898)

Date: 1879

Medium: Oil paint on canvas

Collection: National Museums Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Description

'The Annunciation' depicts the events described in the Gospel according to St Luke, chapter 1, verses 26-35. The Archangel Gabriel appears to the Virgin Mary, saying ‘…you have found favour with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call him Jesus…’.

This subject was painted several times by Burne-Jones but this painting is the most important. Gabriel, suspended in space, appears to emerge from a tall bay or olive tree. The architectural background is clearly inspired by the artist’s visits to Italy in 1871 and 1873.

The artist’s travels in Italy encouraged him to paint with a greater sense of classical structure and spatial organization. The monumental architecture, the pale, sombre colours and the statuesque figures lend an austere grandeur to the Virgin’s predicament. The model for the Virgin is stated to have been Mrs. Leslie Stephen, then (appropriately) pregnant with her fourth child who would become the celebrated artist Vanessa Bell.

[nemfrog]

Palace of Electricity sculpture. L'Exposition Universelle de 1900 : détails de sculpture. 1900.

Internet Archive

[zondearts]

Experimenting with Seawing architecture

[archiveofaffinities]

Architecture and Ornament, Roof Shapes

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[heaveninawildflower]

Wooden decorative features for houses taken from 'Motifs de décoration et d'ornement des constructions en bois' by Louis Degen.

Published 1862 by Morel & Cie.

Ghent University.

archive.org

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瓷器Fine china - night studies

[belovedapollo]

Vank Cathedral in Isfahan, Iran • visited in 2022 reblog is okay, don’t repost/use

[periodinteriors]

William Burges, Design for Truro Cathedral (unexecuted), c. 1878, pencil and watercolour.

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[travellingstranger]

Summer afternoons.

Zürich, Switzerland

[escapismsworld]

Stained glass windows that were commercially available during the Art Nouveau era. These examples are from the 1914 catalog of the National Ornamental Glass Manufacturers Association of the U.S. and Canada.

[nemfrog]

Plate 17. Guide to the construction of Gothic details. 1888.

Internet Archive

[royalty-nobility]

Marchesa Brigida Spinola Doria

Artist: Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)

Date: 1606

Medium: OIl on Canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States

Marchesa Brigida Spinola Doria

The marchesa's young face, animated by her large, keen brown eyes and gentle smile, is set off by her enormous yet elegant ruff. Her commanding presence is further accentuated by the glowing satin, the lace of her gown, her jewels, and the elaborate hair ornament crowning her carefully curled locks. Behind her, the rich luster of the marble and stone of a palazzo add to the sense of limitless luxury.

The Spinola family, major art patrons in Genoa, derived their affluence from mercantile and banking enterprises. It was the norm for families to consolidate their wealth through intermarriage, and Brigida Spinola married her cousin Giacomo Massimiliano Doria in 1605. Widowed in 1613, she later married the widower Giovanni Vincenzo Imperiale, a senator of the Genoese republic who was also devoted to poetry and art collecting.

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Pablo Bronstein, A Guide to Postmodern Architecture in London, 2008