Hellenistic-Roman Mosaics
September 4, 476 C.E. is the conventional date — sanctioned by Edward Gibbon — for the end of the Roman Empire. On that day, the military leader of the...
Early Byzantine Mosaics
The Second Coming when an eternally youthful Christ, seated on a watery globe from which pour the four rivers of Eden, hands the Martyrs Crown to Saint V...
The Lamentation
The Lamentation of Christ in Death is a group of seven, mediæval terracotta sculptures.
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...
OT: Assassination of Caesar
Not the kind of post I planned for this site. These photos are not intended to be part of my portfolio. Still, it is a subject that I find worth an im...
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...
Madrid
A street leading off the Plaza Major A few images from a week in Madrid in September 2017. Please download this small PDF book to see the images full&n...
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 ...