Posted in Click-and-shoot, Mighty masses, tagged Georgian, Gothic, Gothic revivial, Split Ped, York, York Minster on April 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
So York’s old. I mean, really very old. The Roman’s were there – there so much that they crowned an Emperor there. As you do. And then the vikings, though they didn’t really leave much of an architectural mark. So here are some pictures of a very fair, very well preserved little city.
So this [...]
Posted in Mighty masses, tagged NYC, Split Pediment on April 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So the marvelous Auntie Bonus has contributed the following images of an architectural feature split impishly (in her words) from the Pilgrim Cathedral of Harlem (126th Street, in case anyone’s counting). The pediment itself is kinda cute – the dainty rim, scrolling up at the bottom; the little urns; the flat, empty central plinth; the [...]
Posted in Bloggage, tagged Asylum on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So this is a dreadful story and truly puts the lie to our 21st Century asylum system. Those truly in need of asylum are too afraid to apply. When did this country get so mean? When did we decide that, if your priorities are not our priorities, then your priorities are wrong? When did we [...]
Posted in Bloggage, tagged Chabon on April 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
it was a fairly minor one. I mean, I wasn’t expecting Botticelli and Sartre to start squabbling over the caviar or anything. But even so, my evening has been one of those minor disappointments of half a dozen hours that seem to always happen on a Tuesday. Firstly I managed to not write a single [...]
Posted in Bloggage on April 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
So a wealthy heiress (no, not that one) and someone who’s had training in the Alexander Technique (because most people just don’t know how to sit down right) have decided that what the World’s Leaders need is a big spiky globe-shaped thingy in the middle of the Nevada desert to go and hum in. Their [...]
Posted in Bloggage, tagged bbc on April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
That is, they seem to be under the impression that it’s possible for whole years to be entirely fictitious.
Call me old-fashioned- and I certainly wasn’t there at the time – but I’m going with “reality”.
Posted in Click-and-shoot, Mighty masses, tagged 1866, Kemptown, Victorian on April 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
And here’s a building not too far from St Mary’s but with more of a nod to the Tudor, with those small, leaded upper windows, imposing central “gable” with crest and large bay window. I like the banding in the arches and above the first floor windows; shame about the added bay window at the [...]
Posted in Click-and-shoot, Mighty masses, tagged Kemptown, St Mary's on April 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The rich, red brick of this large Victorian church in Kemptown looks rather nice in the evening sunshine. St Mary’s is of a pleasantly complicated design; I like to think there’s a slight Venetian influence, with the large flat gable at the facing end of the Nave and the high pointed pediments above the door [...]
Posted in Mighty masses, tagged Split Pediment on April 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
you see, it’s caught on. Those cute pediments are, as I suspected all along, simply irresistible to man or beast. The below feature was kindly donated by The Venerable Huntley and is a very interesting example. It has a lovely shallow ogee curve, large scrolls and barely a gnat’s whisker between them. I also like [...]
Posted in Critical, tagged Dulwich, John Singer Sargent, Saint Sebastian on April 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So as you can tell from the previous couple of posts, I was in Dulwich yesterday enjoying the softest hail known to man and freezing my eyelids off.
*blink* – *crack*
At the Dulwich Picture Gallery they have a very good exhibition on the emergence of American (and by that I mean US) art from the mid [...]
