Renaissance Giotto's Arena Chapel Giotto’s Arena Chapel located in Padua, Italy which is filled with the most wonderful frescos and Giotto’s most celebrated work, completed around 1305. Credits:TrustandTravel
Mailbag Mail Bag: April Bringing news from subscribers including the Bungendore Wood Work Gallery (Canberra), Regents Park (London), Fortuna Villa (Bendigo). Image: Mural by Doris Lee (commons.wikimedia.org)
Buildings and Structures Rooftops of Paris By sharing some of my photos of the rooftops of Paris I hope you will be inspired to look more closely at the best feature (in my opinion) of a building. We also look at rooftop paintings by Van Gogh, Evgeny Lushpin, Malcom Macdonald,
Buildings and Structures Rooftops Rooftops are everywhere in our world but how often do we look up, or down, and marvel at how amazing they are. Some images from my own paintings and photographs.
Architecture Ferdinand Cheval: the postie who built a palace Bringing you the story of Ferdinand Cheval a French postie who started picking up stones on his mail round and ended up building a palace. One of life's incredible stories.
Travel The Windmills of Kinderdijk Kinderdijk, located 15 miles east of Rotterdam, Holland; a UNESCO-listed site that boasts 19 pristinely preserved windmills. The windmills were erected in the 1600s to drain the Alblasserwaard polders, at the confluence of the Lek & Noord rivers.
Photography The Rooftops of Oxford I know it seems strange with all the glorious buildings that go to make up the remarkably picturesque city of Oxford but it was the skyline of the buildings and especially the rooftops that caught my eye when I was visiting recently.
Buildings and Structures The English Mill Discussing English mills especially Melbury Abbas and Cann Mill owned by my family for hundreds of years. Paintings of mills by Derek Ogden, John Constable,
Performing Arts Rowena Cade: Sculpting a Theatre Rowena Cade sculpted Minack Theatre out of the granite cliff face in Porthcurno, Cornwall. She built the theatre herself with the help of her gardner Billy Rawlings in 1931–32.
Travel Dartmoor National Park: A Kaleidoscope of Light and Colour Celebrating the kaleidoscope of light and colour in Dartmore National Park. Also paintings by Henry Jenkins, James Martin, John Christian, George Trevor, Matthew Gibson, Anna Curnow.
Gold Sovereign Hill Sovereign Hill is a 30-acre outdoor museum, which appeals to overseas visitors, as well as Australians, discovering a unique, living experience of Australia’s gold mining history, presented with a rare degree of accuracy and integrity.
Gold Eureka! Gold found In Ballarat Visit Ballarat, in the heart of the Victorian Goldfields. Anne Newman hails from Bendigo, which also developed on the back of the gold rush. What I love about the Goldfield towns is their wonderful history and the legacy we see in the majestic buildings which remain today.
Tribute Montsalvat The Jorgensen family played a significant role in the development of Melbourne's Art World. In 1934 Sigmund's father Justus Jorgensen and his partner Lillian Smith, established an artist's colony (Montsalvat) in Eltham, an outer Eastern suburb of Melbourne.
Buildings and Structures The Scheveningen Story continues The Kurhaus of Scheveningen. A model of the Kurhaus of Scheveningen { Grand Hotel Amrath Kurhaus ).The Kurhaus was built between 1884 and 1885 by the German architects **Johann Friedrich Henkenhaf** and **Friedrich Ebert**.
Dolls Dolls Houses Antiques Roadshow featured one of Britain's oldest and most valuable doll's house worth £150,000 . The house was made in 1705 on the Isle of Dogs for a Miss E Westbrook. What is remarkable is that it has remained within the original family for over 300 years and in its original condition.
Mailbag Mail about Fountains Varland Fountain in Bull Street Bendigo has been restored. fountain at Schloss Lindenhof, in Bavaria which was one of Ludwig II castles. Praetorian Fountain in Palermo, Sicily it represents the most important landmark of Piazza Pretoria
Architecture Ibrahim Khudeira sets us thinking They walked past the limonaia and on Viale Della Meridiana. Henry asked Robert to sit with him at a trattoria in front of Basilica di Santo Spirito. Robert obliged. They both ordered Campari and tonic.
Architecture Architects Elevate the Club Sandwich Food is so important to us that Architects have modelled their creations on it. This year the World Building of the Year is based on a Club Sandwich as seen in today's Hero Image. Below are two more views of the winning building
Gardens The Glorious Gardens of Capability Brown Introducing you to the gardens designed by C18th English landscape architect Capability Brown. Includes Stowe, Buckinghamshire, Croome Court, Worcestershire, Image: The atmospheric Grecian Valley at Stowe with the Temple of Concord and Victory in the distance (National Trust Images 1097891)
Buildings and Structures More Little Houses Judge, Bronwyn White said a good public toilet had a “trickle-down effect” into the local economy, by enticing tourists to stop and look around. The Alice Springs loos were built in 2016 and painted by the art studio’s owner.(ntnews.com.au)
Buildings and Structures Building Follies The pyramid was built after a local resident, Peter Watters asked the land owner Stewart Morland what was to be done with the surplus amount of granite rocks excavated for land tillage. Morland contracted the work to Ken Stubberfield at a cost of $1000. (Wikipedia)
Buildings and Structures Little Houses: Gazebos Gazebos In the Maldives holhuashi Rural Architecture in the Chinese Taste written and illustrated by father and son British architects William and John Halfpenny
Buildings and Structures Art Nouveau Buildings in Russia Russie has many Art Nouveau buildings and those designed by Schechtel are among the most beautiful. Showcasing: Ryabushinsky Mansion (Image: sites.google.com), Yaroslavsky Rail Terminal, Levenson Printshop and more.