Palermo — art and grunge
An album of photos from a 2-day visit to Palermo, Sicily, in 2018. A fascinating, if unlovely, city with uniquely complex history and some outstanding architect...
Category: Architecture
Roof architecture of Japan
Yes, I know this sounds a bit weird. Images of Japanese roofs? Really? Looking through hundreds of images I took in Japan last year, I couldn’t work out how...
Domes
Domes, like pyramids, are at the intersection of engineering and art; we admire them for both reasons.
San Francisco
A collection of images taken in June, 2018, during a visit to San Francisco to see the SFO Opera’s production of Wagner’s Ring des Niebelungen. The...
Bologna Rosso
A view from the Torre d’Asinelli For decades after World War II, while the increasingly corrupt Christian Democrats held national office in Italy, the Bo...
Granada
The Alhambra of Granada with Charles V’s palace from the Mirador de San Nicholas The cover of the eBook shows a familiar view of the Alhambra (“The Red One...
Toledo
The Organ at the back of the Choir of the Cathedral of St Mary of Toledo The city, lodged in a bend of high cliffs over the river Tagus, has been a fortress s...
Cordoba
The colonnaded (‘hipostyle’) hall of the mosque with its doubled Moorish arches and columns of jasper, onyx, marble, granite and porphyry taken from ol...
Barcelona — San Sebastiàn
The Palau de la Música Catalonia is an extraordinary modernist concert venue in Barcelona designed by Lluís Domènech i Montaner. The sculpt...
Seville
"In Seville was he born, a pleasant city, Famous for oranges and women. He Who has not seen it will be much to pity; So says the proverb, and I quite agree. Of ...