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Grand Canal, Venice, Italy. Dogana; Santa Maria della Salute; Palazzo Genoese.
Della Salute is a grand memorial to the Black Death. To design by Longhena, construction started in 1631, later rising to its landmark dome in 1681.
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Ingenious trompe l'oeil wood marquetry of the Duke's Study.
.............The Duke’s rooms include a near-square bedroom overlooking a secret patio-yard. It leads to that Ducal balcony suspended between the tall castle towers ── personal space relating to the world. It’s marvellous to experience and eloquent in outward expression as in previous photos.
Within the Duke’s suite is Federico’s study, an interior highlight. It’s finished with ingenious wood marquetry. Botticelli probably inspired the perspective-effect designs, and overall plan of this irregular space was by di Giorgio or young Bramante. Apparently-open cupboard doors show books, Humanist study topics, personal items of the Duke, and a so-alive pet squirrel, as if these had been casually left for us. Paintings including famous people from Antiquity originally surmounted this exquisite intarsia panelling.............
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Ritual chams dancing in colourful brocades during the Phyang Buddhist festival.
Every year, grand yet solemn festivals are staged in most monasteries of Ladakh that draw crowds. The main feature of these religious events is the chams, dance-dramas with themes from the mythology of Tibetan Buddhism, performed by monks wearing elaborate costumes and sometimes fearsome masks representing various wrathful deities. Festivals are two-day affairs. On the first day the monks in ceremonial robes, led by the head lama, invoke the main protector deity of the gompa (monastery), chanting mantras and performing rituals at an open congregation in the monastery quadrangle courtyard, as seen above. Liquid offerings are made to the divinity. Mask dances follow prayers, with the lamas, dressed in colourful brocades, enacting the mystical dance-dramas. performed to the accompaniment of traditional Tibetan music (long horns, cymbals and drums). The dances have slow movements. On the second day, after the dances end, the festival reaches its climax in a ceremony when a hideous figure representing evil forces is metaphorically stabbed and dismembered. The killing of evil.
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Traditional houses of Kashan are characterized by a number of common features resulting from years of development by local architects. They typically consist of two parts: biruni, the outer portion, and andaruni, the inner section. The outer section usually features sumptuous decorations which were designed to impress visitors.
Within, they usually accommodated extended families.
This particular wealthy-mansion used to belong to the Abbasin family, and incorporates a complex of room spaces around courtyards --- a private world.
Despite its apparent similarity to other mansions, the Abbasian house is architecturally individual. The family patriarch, instead of adding rooms to his own house as dwellings for his adult children, created an entire complex of six buildings. Its multiple courtyards on various levels are distributed over an intricate plan (link above). To increase the feeling of spaciousness and area, the courtyards of the upper floors were made larger than those below. This increase in size from the lowest to the upper levels ends in a spacious courtyard on top, in front of the richly-ornamented reception halls and along the wings of the house as shown in my following photos. Interesting to explore.
High porticos and rows of rooms surrounding the courtyards are mirrored in the limpid water of the formal pools as shown.
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