Historical palaces all over the world - all the pix you like

vittorio tauber · May 5th, 2009, 06:57 PM

Palace of Quirinale, Roma

The Quirinal Palace (known in Italian simply as the Quirinale) is the official residence of the President of the Italian Republic on the Quirinal Hill, the tallest of the seven hills of Rome.

The palace was built in 1573 by Pope Gregory XIII as a papal summer residence. It was also used as the location for papal conclaves in 19th century. It served as a papal residence and housed the central offices responsible for the civil government of the Papal States until 1870.

In September, 1870, what was left of the Papal States was overthrown. About five months later, in 1871, Rome became the capital of the new Kingdom of Italy. The palace became the official royal residence of the Kings of Italy, though some monarchs actually lived in a private residence elsewhere.

The monarchy was abolished in 1946 and the Palace became the official residence and workplace for the Presidents of the Italian Republic.

The façade was designed by Domenico Fontana. Its 'Great Chapel' was designed by Carlo Maderno and frescoed by Guido Reni.
Its grounds include a famous set of gardens laid out in the eighteenth century.

The frieze in the Hall of Corazzieri

Interiors:

Concert in the Court and people strolling the Gardens

Quirinale Gardens are accessible just each June 2nd, Celebration day of the Republic

The obelisk of Piazza Quirinale:

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Hindustani · May 5th, 2009, 07:21 PM

Falaknuma Palace, Hyderabad, INDIA

Chowmahalla Palace, Hyderabad, INDIA

French Royal Palace, Hyderabad, INDIA

Khilwat Palace, Hyderabad, INDIA

buho · May 5th, 2009, 10:11 PM

That Quirinale palace is just amazing... All Italy is amazing, I'm jealous!

Royal Palace of Madrid (Spain)

It's construction over the old alcazar ruins after a fire, started at 1738. It's considered the biggest palace of western Europe, with more than 3.000 rooms, it was like an independent town with more than 5.000 people living in there. And it was planned to be 4 times bigger, but there was no money.

vittorio tauber · May 5th, 2009, 10:50 PM

The Royal Palace of Madrid is wondrous, as well as the residences of Hyderabad.

There must be no limit to posting pictures: everybody can post as many photographs he likes to, even re-post new photos of shown palaces.

The only rule is: it's all about historical palaces.

buho · May 6th, 2009, 12:49 AM

Alhambra de Granada (Spain)

Moorish palace built during 14th and 15th century.

vittorio tauber · May 6th, 2009, 01:05 AM

Palace of Quirinale, Roma

In the Heart of Rome. A "D"-shaped block with a green heart.

The Main Palace around the Court of Honour.

The Manica Lunga, or Long Wing. At the end you can see the Palazzina della Cifra, the private residence of the President. In front of the Manica Lunga you'll find the oval dome of Sant'Andrea al Quirinale, by Gianlorenzo Bernini.

Historical iconography: "The Imperial Ambassador Antonio Giorgio Cusani entering the Quirinale" by Antonio Cioci, 1758 (Castello Sforzesco, Milan)

The italian-style Gardens before the english-style reshaping.

The Paoline Chapel, a posh Music Hall. Inside the Manica Lunga (longest gangway in Europe, 275 m.)

The Annunziata Chapel: dome by Guido Reni. Works by Lanfranco and Annibale Carracci: classicist bolognese painters ruled in Rome in the first half of 17th century.The chapel is by no means an exception.

Interiors again (sorry for the uneven quality of the cropped images).
Some 300 tapestries are displayed along the rooms of Quirinale. Frieze by Berthel Thorvaldsen.

Many interiors come from the former royal residences in Piedmont (this is the Piedmontese Wallpaper Hall) Milan Parma Modena Florence and Naples.

The Quirinal is allowed to visitors Sundays in the morning.

The Belvedere on top of the Tower: view over Rome (from Vittoriano to San Pietro within these windowpanes). Nice to lodge here, provided you are scheduled to dining with the President.

Few visitors are not flabbergasted inside the Hall of the Corazzieri. Corazzieri (or Armoured Men) are the President's Guards (once they used to be the Royal Guards of course). Technically, they belong to the Carabinieri Corps.

buho · May 6th, 2009, 11:38 AM

El Generalife de Granada (Spain)

Close to the Alhambra is the Generalife, that was the summer palace of the royal nasrid family. Was built in 1303-1324, and has beautiful gardens and the famous water stairs.

Pincio · May 6th, 2009, 12:25 PM

Villa Farnesina (Rome, Italy)

Villa Farnesina is an artistically and architecturally influential Renaissance villa in Via della Lungara, in the central district of Trastevere in Rome.

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The villa was built for Agostino Chigi, a rich Sienese banker and the treasurer of Pope Julius II. Between 1506–1510, the Sienese artist and pupil of Bramante, Baldassarre Peruzzi, aided by Giuliano da Sangallo, designed and erected the villa. The novelty of the villa design can be discerned from its differences from that of a typical urban palazzo (palace).

Raphael: Loggia di Psiche

Renaissance palaces were decorated versions of defensive castles: rectangular blocks with rusticated ground floors and enclosing a courtyard. This villa, meant to be a summer pavilion, was airy and the rear wings open to a garden towards the river. Initially, the entrance loggia was open; luckily for the frescoes therein, it now is enclosed.

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Raphael: Loggia di Psiche

Artworks

Chigi also commissioned the fresco decoration of the loggias, by artists such as Raphael, Sebastiano del Piombo, Giulio Romano, and Il Sodoma. The themes were inspired by the Stanze of the poet Angelo Poliziano, a key member of the circle of Lorenzo de Medici.

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Raphael: Loggia di Psiche

Best known are Raphael's frescoes in the Loggia depicting the classical and secular myths of Love and Psyche, and The Triumph of Galatea. This, one of his few purely secular paintings, shows a near-naked nymph on a shell-shaped chariot amid frolicking servants and is reminiscent of Botticelli's Venus. Additional trompe-l'œil frescoes were contributed by Peruzzi himself.

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Raphael: Loggia di Psiche

The villa became the property of the Farnese family in 1577 (hence the name of Farnesina), and later belonged to the Bourbon of Naples and in 1861 to the Spanish Ambassador in Rome. Today, owned by the Italian State, it hosts the Accademia dei Lincei, a long-standing and renowned Roman academy of sciences, and the Roman Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe (print room or Department for Drawings and Prints). Some claim that the Farnese once contemplated linking their two palaces across each other on the Tiber with a private bridge. The Palazzo and Loggia are open to visitors.

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Raphael: The Triumph of Galatea

Raphael Triumph of Galatea

The Triumph of Galatea is a fresco masterpiece completed in 1512 by the Italian painter Raphael for the Villa Farnesina in Rome.

The Farnesina was built for the Sienese banker Agostino Chigi, one of the richest men of that age. The Farnese family later acquired and renamed the villa, smaller than the more ostentatious palazzo at the other side of the Tiber.

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Raphael: The Triumph of Galatea

The fresco is a mythological scene of a series embellishing the open gallery of the building, a series never completed which was inspired to the "Stanze per la giostra" of the poet Angelo Poliziano. In Greek mythology, the beautiful Nereid Galatea had fallen in love with the peasant shepherd Acis. Her consort, one-eyed giant, Polyphemus, after chancing upon the two lovers together, lobbed an enormous pillar and killed Acis.

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The Ceiling

Raphael did not paint any of the main events of the story. He chose the scene of the nymph's apotheosis (Stanze, I, 118-119). Galatea appears surrounded by other sea creatures whose forms are somewhat inspired by Michelangelo, whereas the bright colors and decoration are supposed to be inspired by ancient Roman painting. At the left, a Triton (partly man, partly fish) abducts a sea nymph; behind them, another Triton uses a shell as a trumpet.

Salone delle Prospettive

Galatea rides a shell-chariot drawn by two dolphins. While some have seen in the model for Galatea the image of the courtesan, Imperia, Agostino Chigi's lover, Rafael's near-contemporary, the artist and art biographer Giorgio Vasari, wrote that Raphael did not mean for Galatea to resemble any one human person, but to represent ideal beauty. Her gaze is directed upward to heaven, reflecting Platonic love.

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Sala delle Nozze di Alessandro

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buho · May 6th, 2009, 02:19 PM

Pazo de Xelmírez (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)

It's not the most beautiful or spectacular palace, but it's extraordinary: it's one of the very rare palaces of this ages in Europe, it's a romanic palace. Was built by Xelmírez (bishop of Santiago) fixed to romanic cathedral at 1100, but was destroyed and rebuilt at 1120. Also has a room built at 1253.

The concept of palace at this ages was just a public hall that was used for every event (our present concept of palace is the moorish palace, with different halls for different functions). In this case are two halls (one built in 1120, and the other of 1253). Its capitals represent profane scenes, like musicians, banquets...

zazo · May 6th, 2009, 02:53 PM

Palacio de la Granja de San Ildefonso, en la provincia de Segovia, ESPAÑA.
Se mandó construir a imagen y semejanza de Versalles ya que Felipe V pasó su infancia allí, con una de las colecciones de fuentes más nutrida del mundo

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Pincio · May 6th, 2009, 03:56 PM

Palazzo del Bargello (Florence, Italy)

The Bargello, also known as the Bargello Palace or Palazzo del Popolo (Palace of the People) is a former barracks and prison, now an art museum, in Florence, Italy.

Terminology

The word bargello appears to come from the late Latin bargillus [from Goth bargi and German burg]: castle or fortified tower. During the Italian Middle Ages it was the name given to a military captain in charge of keeping peace and justice (hence "Captain of justice") during riots and uproars. In Florence he was usually hired from a foreign city to prevent any appearance of favoritism on the part of the Captain. The position could be compared with that of a current Chief of police. The name Bargello was extended to the building which was the office of the captain.

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The palace

The Bargello palace was built to house first the Capitano del Popolo and later, in 1261, the Podestà, the highest magistrate of the Florence City Council. This Palazzo del Podestà, as it was originally called, is the oldest public building in Florence. This austere crenellated building served as model for the construction of the Palazzo Vecchio. In 1574, the Medici dispensed with the function of the Podestà and housed the bargello, the police chief of Florence, in this building, hence its name.

It was employed as a prison; executions took place in the Bargello's yard until they were abolished by Grand Duke Peter Leopold in 1780, but it remained the headquarters of the Florentine police until 1859. When Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor Peter Leopold was exiled, the makeshift Governor of Tuscany decided that the Bargello should no longer be a jail, and it then became a national museum.

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The original two-story structure was built alongside the Volognana Tower in 1256. The third story, which can be identified by the smaller blocks used to construct it, was added after the fire of 1323. The building is designed around an open courtyard with an external staircase leading to the second floor. An open well is found in the center of the courtyard.

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The Bargello opened as a national museum (Museo Nazionale del Bargello) in 1865, displaying the largest Italian collection of gothic and Renaissance sculptures (14–17th century).

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Art collection

The museum houses masterpieces by Michelangelo, such as his Bacchus, Pitti Tondo (or Madonna and Child), Brutus and David-Apollo. Its collection includes Donatello's David and St. George Tabernacle, Vincenzo Gemito's Pescatore ("fisherboy"), Jacopo Sansovino's Bacco, Giambologna's L’Architettura and his Mercurio and many works from the Della Robbia family. Benvenuto Cellini is represented with his bronze bust of Cosimo I.

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The museum also has a fine collection of ceramics (maiolica), textile, tapestries, ivory, silver, armours and old coins. It also features the competing designs on Isaac's Sacrifice (Sacrificio di Isacco) that were performed by Lorenzo Ghiberti and Filippo Brunelleschi to win the contest for the second set of doors of the Florentine Baptistry (1401).

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Honolulu Hale's interior courtyard, staircase, and open ceiling were modeled after the Bargello.

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buho · May 6th, 2009, 04:04 PM

Palacio del Infantado (Guadalajara, Spain)

This urban palaces mixes final gothic style, mudejar and manierism. It was built in 1483 by Juan Guas, and in 1569 rooms of the first floor were painted by Romulo Cincinatto, an italian artist. It was added a mithologic garden, disappeared nowadays. The palace lost a big part of his richness during spanish civil war (1936-1939), including some of the best mudejar roofs of the world and great part of the paintings, so it's just a reflect of the magnificent of the past. Are specially important the courtyard (each lion is different from each other) and the front of the palace.

tpe · May 6th, 2009, 04:40 PM

Palazzo Labia, Venice.

Tiepolo frescoes Antony and Cleopatra:

tpe · May 6th, 2009, 05:35 PM

Kyoto, the Imperial Palace Complex (Late Edo reconstruction in the thousand-year-old Heian style):

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vittorio tauber · May 6th, 2009, 05:48 PM

Gorgeous Imperial Palace Complex in Kyoto!

btw Tpe would you mind downsizing the pictures of Palazzo Labia to 1024 pixel?

erbse · May 6th, 2009, 06:20 PM

Great thread and interesting stuff everyone, but:

PLEASE - stop this picture flood madness!

Let's limit it to 3 pictures per post, or this is goin to be Ragnarök.

tpe · May 6th, 2009, 08:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vittorio tauber

Gorgeous Imperial Palace Complex in Kyoto!

btw Tpe would you mind downsizing the pictures of Palazzo Labia to 1024 pixel?

Thanks vittorio tauber. You know, I've forgotten how to resize pictures in this forum. In some other forums that I post in, I use the width attribute of the [img] tag. Can you remind me how to resize in this instance?

buho · May 6th, 2009, 08:47 PM

Aula regia del Naranco (Oviedo, Spain) Unesco World Heritage

Was converted into a church some years after its construction, but originally was a royal palace of the asturian kingdom. It was finished at year 842, being part of a palatine complex, with an important church just 100 metres away. Its measures are 20x6 metres, and is divided in two floors (the first floor it's supposed to be the royal baths, and the upper the "aula regia" (official royal palace). Its relivary decoration in medallions and capitals is very rude and shows animal and haunting scenes, some of them inspired by oriental textil arts. It's covered with barrel-vaults, used continiously in Iberian Peninsule but completely forgotten in the rest of Europe (in the rest of Europe was used wood roofs), and is one of most clear antecedents to romanic architecture.

Pincio · May 6th, 2009, 08:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tpe

Thanks vittorio tauber. You know, I've forgotten how to resize pictures in this forum. In some other forums that I post in, I use the width attribute of the [img] tag. Can you remind me how to resize in this instance?

http://tinypic.com/ allow you to resize pictures when you upload them

vittorio tauber · May 6th, 2009, 10:51 PM

Thanks Pincio.

May 5th, 2009, 06:57 PM	#1
vittorio tauber PARCE SEPULTO Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 3,601 Likes (Received): 357	Historical palaces all over the world - all the pix you like Palace of Quirinale, Roma The Quirinal Palace (known in Italian simply as the Quirinale) is the official residence of the President of the Italian Republic on the Quirinal Hill, the tallest of the seven hills of Rome. The palace was built in 1573 by Pope Gregory XIII as a papal summer residence. It was also used as the location for papal conclaves in 19th century. It served as a papal residence and housed the central offices responsible for the civil government of the Papal States until 1870. In September, 1870, what was left of the Papal States was overthrown. About five months later, in 1871, Rome became the capital of the new Kingdom of Italy. The palace became the official royal residence of the Kings of Italy, though some monarchs actually lived in a private residence elsewhere. The monarchy was abolished in 1946 and the Palace became the official residence and workplace for the Presidents of the Italian Republic. The façade was designed by Domenico Fontana. Its 'Great Chapel' was designed by Carlo Maderno and frescoed by Guido Reni. Its grounds include a famous set of gardens laid out in the eighteenth century. The frieze in the Hall of Corazzieri Interiors: Concert in the Court and people strolling the Gardens Quirinale Gardens are accessible just each June 2nd, Celebration day of the Republic The obelisk of Piazza Quirinale: image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr __________________ The Four Minkions Group© Proud Member.

May 5th, 2009, 10:11 PM	#3
buho Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Madrid Posts: 5,615 Likes (Received): 104	That Quirinale palace is just amazing... All Italy is amazing, I'm jealous! Royal Palace of Madrid (Spain) It's construction over the old alcazar ruins after a fire, started at 1738. It's considered the biggest palace of western Europe, with more than 3.000 rooms, it was like an independent town with more than 5.000 people living in there. And it was planned to be 4 times bigger, but there was no money. Last edited by buho; May 6th, 2009 at 01:00 PM.

May 5th, 2009, 10:50 PM	#4
vittorio tauber PARCE SEPULTO Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 3,601 Likes (Received): 357	The Royal Palace of Madrid is wondrous, as well as the residences of Hyderabad. There must be no limit to posting pictures: everybody can post as many photographs he likes to, even re-post new photos of shown palaces. The only rule is: it's all about historical palaces. __________________ The Four Minkions Group© Proud Member.

May 6th, 2009, 12:49 AM	#5
buho Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Madrid Posts: 5,615 Likes (Received): 104	Alhambra de Granada (Spain) Moorish palace built during 14th and 15th century. Last edited by buho; May 6th, 2009 at 12:57 PM.

May 6th, 2009, 01:05 AM	#6
vittorio tauber PARCE SEPULTO Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 3,601 Likes (Received): 357	Palace of Quirinale, Roma In the Heart of Rome. A "D"-shaped block with a green heart. The Main Palace around the Court of Honour. The Manica Lunga, or Long Wing. At the end you can see the Palazzina della Cifra, the private residence of the President. In front of the Manica Lunga you'll find the oval dome of Sant'Andrea al Quirinale, by Gianlorenzo Bernini. Historical iconography: "The Imperial Ambassador Antonio Giorgio Cusani entering the Quirinale" by Antonio Cioci, 1758 (Castello Sforzesco, Milan) The italian-style Gardens before the english-style reshaping. The Paoline Chapel, a posh Music Hall. Inside the Manica Lunga (longest gangway in Europe, 275 m.) The Annunziata Chapel: dome by Guido Reni. Works by Lanfranco and Annibale Carracci: classicist bolognese painters ruled in Rome in the first half of 17th century.The chapel is by no means an exception. Interiors again (sorry for the uneven quality of the cropped images). Some 300 tapestries are displayed along the rooms of Quirinale. Frieze by Berthel Thorvaldsen. Many interiors come from the former royal residences in Piedmont (this is the Piedmontese Wallpaper Hall) Milan Parma Modena Florence and Naples. The Quirinal is allowed to visitors Sundays in the morning. The Belvedere on top of the Tower: view over Rome (from Vittoriano to San Pietro within these windowpanes). Nice to lodge here, provided you are scheduled to dining with the President. Few visitors are not flabbergasted inside the Hall of the Corazzieri. Corazzieri (or Armoured Men) are the President's Guards (once they used to be the Royal Guards of course). Technically, they belong to the Carabinieri Corps. __________________ The Four Minkions Group© Proud Member.

May 5th, 2009, 07:21 PM	#2
Hindustani Registered User Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 4,015 Likes (Received): 7	Falaknuma Palace, Hyderabad, INDIA Chowmahalla Palace, Hyderabad, INDIA French Royal Palace, Hyderabad, INDIA Khilwat Palace, Hyderabad, INDIA

May 6th, 2009, 11:38 AM	#7
buho Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Madrid Posts: 5,615 Likes (Received): 104	El Generalife de Granada (Spain) Close to the Alhambra is the Generalife, that was the summer palace of the royal nasrid family. Was built in 1303-1324, and has beautiful gardens and the famous water stairs. Last edited by buho; May 6th, 2009 at 12:56 PM.

May 6th, 2009, 12:25 PM	#8
Pincio S.P.Q.R. Join Date: May 2007 Location: Possis nihil Urbe Roma visere maius Posts: 8,053 Likes (Received): 50	Villa Farnesina (Rome, Italy) Villa Farnesina is an artistically and architecturally influential Renaissance villa in Via della Lungara, in the central district of Trastevere in Rome. image hosted on flickr The villa was built for Agostino Chigi, a rich Sienese banker and the treasurer of Pope Julius II. Between 1506–1510, the Sienese artist and pupil of Bramante, Baldassarre Peruzzi, aided by Giuliano da Sangallo, designed and erected the villa. The novelty of the villa design can be discerned from its differences from that of a typical urban palazzo (palace). Raphael: Loggia di Psiche Renaissance palaces were decorated versions of defensive castles: rectangular blocks with rusticated ground floors and enclosing a courtyard. This villa, meant to be a summer pavilion, was airy and the rear wings open to a garden towards the river. Initially, the entrance loggia was open; luckily for the frescoes therein, it now is enclosed. image hosted on flickr Raphael: Loggia di Psiche Artworks Chigi also commissioned the fresco decoration of the loggias, by artists such as Raphael, Sebastiano del Piombo, Giulio Romano, and Il Sodoma. The themes were inspired by the Stanze of the poet Angelo Poliziano, a key member of the circle of Lorenzo de Medici. image hosted on flickr Raphael: Loggia di Psiche Best known are Raphael's frescoes in the Loggia depicting the classical and secular myths of Love and Psyche, and The Triumph of Galatea. This, one of his few purely secular paintings, shows a near-naked nymph on a shell-shaped chariot amid frolicking servants and is reminiscent of Botticelli's Venus. Additional trompe-l'œil frescoes were contributed by Peruzzi himself. image hosted on flickr Raphael: Loggia di Psiche The villa became the property of the Farnese family in 1577 (hence the name of Farnesina), and later belonged to the Bourbon of Naples and in 1861 to the Spanish Ambassador in Rome. Today, owned by the Italian State, it hosts the Accademia dei Lincei, a long-standing and renowned Roman academy of sciences, and the Roman Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe (print room or Department for Drawings and Prints). Some claim that the Farnese once contemplated linking their two palaces across each other on the Tiber with a private bridge. The Palazzo and Loggia are open to visitors. image hosted on flickr Raphael: The Triumph of Galatea Raphael Triumph of Galatea The Triumph of Galatea is a fresco masterpiece completed in 1512 by the Italian painter Raphael for the Villa Farnesina in Rome. The Farnesina was built for the Sienese banker Agostino Chigi, one of the richest men of that age. The Farnese family later acquired and renamed the villa, smaller than the more ostentatious palazzo at the other side of the Tiber. image hosted on flickr Raphael: The Triumph of Galatea The fresco is a mythological scene of a series embellishing the open gallery of the building, a series never completed which was inspired to the "Stanze per la giostra" of the poet Angelo Poliziano. In Greek mythology, the beautiful Nereid Galatea had fallen in love with the peasant shepherd Acis. Her consort, one-eyed giant, Polyphemus, after chancing upon the two lovers together, lobbed an enormous pillar and killed Acis. image hosted on flickr The Ceiling Raphael did not paint any of the main events of the story. He chose the scene of the nymph's apotheosis (Stanze, I, 118-119). Galatea appears surrounded by other sea creatures whose forms are somewhat inspired by Michelangelo, whereas the bright colors and decoration are supposed to be inspired by ancient Roman painting. At the left, a Triton (partly man, partly fish) abducts a sea nymph; behind them, another Triton uses a shell as a trumpet. Salone delle Prospettive Galatea rides a shell-chariot drawn by two dolphins. While some have seen in the model for Galatea the image of the courtesan, Imperia, Agostino Chigi's lover, Rafael's near-contemporary, the artist and art biographer Giorgio Vasari, wrote that Raphael did not mean for Galatea to resemble any one human person, but to represent ideal beauty. Her gaze is directed upward to heaven, reflecting Platonic love. image hosted on flickr Sala delle Nozze di Alessandro ---

May 6th, 2009, 02:19 PM	#9
buho Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Madrid Posts: 5,615 Likes (Received): 104	Pazo de Xelmírez (Santiago de Compostela, Spain) It's not the most beautiful or spectacular palace, but it's extraordinary: it's one of the very rare palaces of this ages in Europe, it's a romanic palace. Was built by Xelmírez (bishop of Santiago) fixed to romanic cathedral at 1100, but was destroyed and rebuilt at 1120. Also has a room built at 1253. The concept of palace at this ages was just a public hall that was used for every event (our present concept of palace is the moorish palace, with different halls for different functions). In this case are two halls (one built in 1120, and the other of 1253). Its capitals represent profane scenes, like musicians, banquets...

May 6th, 2009, 02:53 PM	#10
zazo BANNED Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: SKY Posts: 1,296 Likes (Received): 4	Palacio de la Granja de San Ildefonso, en la provincia de Segovia, ESPAÑA. Se mandó construir a imagen y semejanza de Versalles ya que Felipe V pasó su infancia allí, con una de las colecciones de fuentes más nutrida del mundo image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr

May 6th, 2009, 03:56 PM	#11
Pincio S.P.Q.R. Join Date: May 2007 Location: Possis nihil Urbe Roma visere maius Posts: 8,053 Likes (Received): 50	Palazzo del Bargello (Florence, Italy) The Bargello, also known as the Bargello Palace or Palazzo del Popolo (Palace of the People) is a former barracks and prison, now an art museum, in Florence, Italy. Terminology The word bargello appears to come from the late Latin bargillus [from Goth bargi and German burg]: castle or fortified tower. During the Italian Middle Ages it was the name given to a military captain in charge of keeping peace and justice (hence "Captain of justice") during riots and uproars. In Florence he was usually hired from a foreign city to prevent any appearance of favoritism on the part of the Captain. The position could be compared with that of a current Chief of police. The name Bargello was extended to the building which was the office of the captain. image hosted on flickr The palace The Bargello palace was built to house first the Capitano del Popolo and later, in 1261, the Podestà, the highest magistrate of the Florence City Council. This Palazzo del Podestà, as it was originally called, is the oldest public building in Florence. This austere crenellated building served as model for the construction of the Palazzo Vecchio. In 1574, the Medici dispensed with the function of the Podestà and housed the bargello, the police chief of Florence, in this building, hence its name. It was employed as a prison; executions took place in the Bargello's yard until they were abolished by Grand Duke Peter Leopold in 1780, but it remained the headquarters of the Florentine police until 1859. When Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor Peter Leopold was exiled, the makeshift Governor of Tuscany decided that the Bargello should no longer be a jail, and it then became a national museum. image hosted on flickr The original two-story structure was built alongside the Volognana Tower in 1256. The third story, which can be identified by the smaller blocks used to construct it, was added after the fire of 1323. The building is designed around an open courtyard with an external staircase leading to the second floor. An open well is found in the center of the courtyard. image hosted on flickr The Bargello opened as a national museum (Museo Nazionale del Bargello) in 1865, displaying the largest Italian collection of gothic and Renaissance sculptures (14–17th century). image hosted on flickr Art collection The museum houses masterpieces by Michelangelo, such as his Bacchus, Pitti Tondo (or Madonna and Child), Brutus and David-Apollo. Its collection includes Donatello's David and St. George Tabernacle, Vincenzo Gemito's Pescatore ("fisherboy"), Jacopo Sansovino's Bacco, Giambologna's L’Architettura and his Mercurio and many works from the Della Robbia family. Benvenuto Cellini is represented with his bronze bust of Cosimo I. image hosted on flickr The museum also has a fine collection of ceramics (maiolica), textile, tapestries, ivory, silver, armours and old coins. It also features the competing designs on Isaac's Sacrifice (Sacrificio di Isacco) that were performed by Lorenzo Ghiberti and Filippo Brunelleschi to win the contest for the second set of doors of the Florentine Baptistry (1401). image hosted on flickr Honolulu Hale's interior courtyard, staircase, and open ceiling were modeled after the Bargello. image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr ---

May 6th, 2009, 04:04 PM	#12
buho Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Madrid Posts: 5,615 Likes (Received): 104	Palacio del Infantado (Guadalajara, Spain) This urban palaces mixes final gothic style, mudejar and manierism. It was built in 1483 by Juan Guas, and in 1569 rooms of the first floor were painted by Romulo Cincinatto, an italian artist. It was added a mithologic garden, disappeared nowadays. The palace lost a big part of his richness during spanish civil war (1936-1939), including some of the best mudejar roofs of the world and great part of the paintings, so it's just a reflect of the magnificent of the past. Are specially important the courtyard (each lion is different from each other) and the front of the palace.

May 6th, 2009, 04:40 PM	#13
tpe Registered User Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Chicago & NYC Posts: 3,427 Likes (Received): 85	Palazzo Labia, Venice. Tiepolo frescoes Antony and Cleopatra: Last edited by tpe; May 6th, 2009 at 09:09 PM.

May 6th, 2009, 05:35 PM	#14
tpe Registered User Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Chicago & NYC Posts: 3,427 Likes (Received): 85	Kyoto, the Imperial Palace Complex (Late Edo reconstruction in the thousand-year-old Heian style): image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr

May 6th, 2009, 05:48 PM	#15
vittorio tauber PARCE SEPULTO Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 3,601 Likes (Received): 357	Gorgeous Imperial Palace Complex in Kyoto! btw Tpe would you mind downsizing the pictures of Palazzo Labia to 1024 pixel? __________________ The Four Minkions Group© Proud Member.

May 6th, 2009, 06:20 PM	#16
erbse Leave UiG alone! Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Mecklenburg, California of Germany ja! Posts: 20,292 Likes (Received): 4860	Great thread and interesting stuff everyone, but: PLEASE - stop this picture flood madness! Let's limit it to 3 pictures per post, or this is goin to be Ragnarök. __________________ MARS☻ONE *Making a Mars Settlement a Reality! (FAQ • SSC Thread • Mars One Fans Forum)*

May 6th, 2009, 08:47 PM	#18
buho Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Madrid Posts: 5,615 Likes (Received): 104	Aula regia del Naranco (Oviedo, Spain) Unesco World Heritage Was converted into a church some years after its construction, but originally was a royal palace of the asturian kingdom. It was finished at year 842, being part of a palatine complex, with an important church just 100 metres away. Its measures are 20x6 metres, and is divided in two floors (the first floor it's supposed to be the royal baths, and the upper the "aula regia" (official royal palace). Its relivary decoration in medallions and capitals is very rude and shows animal and haunting scenes, some of them inspired by oriental textil arts. It's covered with barrel-vaults, used continiously in Iberian Peninsule but completely forgotten in the rest of Europe (in the rest of Europe was used wood roofs), and is one of most clear antecedents to romanic architecture.

May 6th, 2009, 10:51 PM	#20
vittorio tauber PARCE SEPULTO Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 3,601 Likes (Received): 357	Thanks Pincio. __________________ The Four Minkions Group© Proud Member.

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