Share'ngo

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Charging station and Share'ngo cars
Piazza Giuseppe Poggi
Florence, January 2018

Potter Building

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Potter Building, 1886
Park Row / Beekman Street
Financial District, Lower Manhattan
New York, September 2007

“The Potter Building is a building in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City. The building occupies a full block along Beekman Street with the addresses 38 Park Row to its west and 145 Nassau Street to its east. It was designed by Norris G. Starkweather in a combination of the Queen Anne and neo-Grec styles, as an iron-framed structure. The Potter Building employed the most advanced fireproofing methods that were available when the building was erected between 1883 and 1886. These features included rolled iron beams, cast iron columns, brick exterior walls, tile arches, and terracotta. The Potter Building was also one of the first iron-framed buildings, and among the first to have a ‘C’-shaped floor plan, with an exterior light courtyard facing Beekman Street. The original design remains largely intact. The building replaced a former headquarters of the New York World, which was built in 1857 and burned down in February 1882. It was named for its developer, the politician and real estate developer Orlando B. Potter. The Potter Building originally served as an office building with many tenants from the media and from legal professions. It was converted into apartments from 1979 to 1981. The Potter Building was designated a New York City landmark in 1996 and is also a contributing property to the Fulton–Nassau Historic District, a National Register of Historic Places district created in 2005.” (Potter Building, Wikipedia)

Pizza & Pasta Break

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Pizza & Pasta Break
Vejvodova
Staré Město (Old Town)
Prague, September 2017

Madonna di Loreto

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Madonna of Loreto or Pilgrim's Madonna by Caravaggio, 1606
Basilica di Sant'Agostino
Rome, June 2019

“The Madonna of Loretto or Pilgrim's Madonna is a famous painting (1604–1606) by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio, located in the Cavalletti Chapel of the church of Sant'Agostino, near the Piazza Navona in Rome. It depicts the apparition of the barefoot Virgin and naked child to two peasants on a pilgrimage; or as some say it is the quickening of the iconic statue of the Virgin. In 1603 the heirs of marquis Ermete Cavalletti, who had died on 21 July 1602, commissioned for the decoration of a family chapel a painting on the theme of the Madonna of Loreto. Putting into practice the marquis's will, the Cavaletti's on 4 September 1603 purchased a chapel in the church of Sant'Agostino in Rome.” (Madonna di Loreto, Wikipedia)

Serpents pectoral

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Serpents pectoral (gold and enamel) by René Lalique, 1899
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
Gulbenkian Park, Avenida de Berna
Lisbon, April 2019

“This pectoral is one of the paradigms of René Lalique’s jewellery production, not only for the mastery of its execution, as for the theme chosen. Reptiles were a source of inspiration to which Lalique returned throughout his life not only for jewellery, but also for his glass, bronzes, etc. The pectoral is made up of nine serpents entwined to form a knot from which the bodies of the other eight fall in a cascade, the ninth rising in the centre, at the top of the jewel. The reptiles, in the attack position, have their mouths open from which strings of pearls were hung as was apparently the case with a similar pectoral (the whereabouts of which are unknown), which was highlighted at the Paris Universal Exhibition in 1900 and reproduced in a publication of the period. The present piece is thus probably the only one in existence. Calouste Gulbenkian acquired it directly from the artist in 1908.” (Serpents pectoral, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum)

Kostol Loretánskej Panny Márie

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Kostol Loretánskej Panny Márie (Uršulínsky kostol)
Ursulinska
Staré Mesto (Old Town)
Bratislava, September 2017

Fishes

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One of the medallions depicting fishing activities and the sea
Loggia del Pesce
Piazza dei Ciompi
Florence, January 2018