Beautiful Art: architecture, paintings, sculptures, etc
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Gran Hotel Ciudad de Mexico
The origin of this historic building occupied by the Gran Hotel dates back to 1526. It was the residence of Rodrigo de Albornoz, Royal Accountant during colonial times
In 1895 it was purchased by the Frenchman Sebastián Robert to become the first commercial center in Mexico.
This building was built to house the Mercantile Center, which became the most important department store in Latin America. It was inaugurated by then President Porfirio Díaz in September 1899. The store caused a great sensation among the society, as it offered its customers an enormous variety of fabrics, hats and suits that came from Europe.
It was in 1968 when it changed its mission to provide lodging services and became the Gran Hotel Ciudad de México. Its remodeling was ready to receive the visitors who attended the Olympic Games held that same year in our country.
An element that gives a beautiful identity to Gran Hotel is the Tiffany style stained glass window, one of the four largest in the world, created by Frenchman Jacques Gruber in 1908. It represents good taste and colorful Art Nouveau style.
The origin of this historic building occupied by the Gran Hotel dates back to 1526. It was the residence of Rodrigo de Albornoz, Royal Accountant during colonial times
In 1895 it was purchased by the Frenchman Sebastián Robert to become the first commercial center in Mexico.
This building was built to house the Mercantile Center, which became the most important department store in Latin America. It was inaugurated by then President Porfirio Díaz in September 1899. The store caused a great sensation among the society, as it offered its customers an enormous variety of fabrics, hats and suits that came from Europe.
It was in 1968 when it changed its mission to provide lodging services and became the Gran Hotel Ciudad de México. Its remodeling was ready to receive the visitors who attended the Olympic Games held that same year in our country.
An element that gives a beautiful identity to Gran Hotel is the Tiffany style stained glass window, one of the four largest in the world, created by Frenchman Jacques Gruber in 1908. It represents good taste and colorful Art Nouveau style.
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Voici l'étonnant « Löwenmensch » (littéralement l'homme-lion).Trouvé dans la grotte de Hohlenstein-Stadel, en Allemagne, en 1939. Sculpté avec un couteau en silex dans la défense d'un mammouth, l'objet est daté approximativement vers 40 000 avant J.-C.
Here is the amazing “Löwenmensch” (literally the lion-man). Found in Hohlenstein-Stadel Cave, Germany, in 1939. Carved with a flint knife in the tusk of a mammoth, the object is dated to approximately 40,000 BC.
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Voici l'étonnant « Löwenmensch » (littéralement l'homme-lion).Trouvé dans la grotte de Hohlenstein-Stadel, en Allemagne, en 1939. Sculpté avec un couteau en silex dans la défense d'un mammouth, l'objet est daté approximativement vers 40 000 avant J.-C.
Here is the amazing “Löwenmensch” (literally the lion-man). Found in Hohlenstein-Stadel Cave, Germany, in 1939. Carved with a flint knife in the tusk of a mammoth, the object is dated to approximately 40,000 BC.
i have read, i do not remember where, that hybrids of man/animal did live and that one of these was the man/lion. this could also be part of the chimera of ancient times...
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Castelnau-de-Montmiral : église Notre-Dame de l’Assomption
Imaginez que vous visitiez les coins les plus reculés de la campagne française. Vous arrivez dans un petit village du sud-ouest et vous voyez une église. Elle n'a pas l'air très impressionnante, mais vous entrez quand même...
Castelnau-de-Montmiral: Church of Our Lady of the Assumption
Imagine that you are visiting the most remote corners of the French countryside.
You arrive in a small village in the southwest and you see a church.
She doesn't look very impressive, but you walk in anyway...
Imaginez que vous visitiez les coins les plus reculés de la campagne française. Vous arrivez dans un petit village du sud-ouest et vous voyez une église. Elle n'a pas l'air très impressionnante, mais vous entrez quand même...
Castelnau-de-Montmiral: Church of Our Lady of the Assumption
Imagine that you are visiting the most remote corners of the French countryside.
You arrive in a small village in the southwest and you see a church.
She doesn't look very impressive, but you walk in anyway...
Mexico City was baptized by the English traveler Charles La Trobe as the City of Palaces in 1834.
"Look at its works: the monumental aqueducts, churches, roads and the luxurious City of Palaces". This is what the English traveler Charles Joseph La Trobe (1801-1875) said in "The Rambler in Mexico", the book he wrote after visit the city in the 19th century.
The term continued to be used with great honor, since in the historical downtown we can still find several buildings worthy of admiration.
The Palacio de Bellas Artes (Palace of Fine Arts) is one of the most beautiful buildings in Mexico City. The construction was started (in 1904) towards the end of Porfirio Diaz's term of office for the celebration of the centennial of the beginning of Mexico's Independence; however, it was not completed and inaugurated until September 29th, 1934.
The architectural project was the work of Mexican engineer Gonzalo Garita and Italian architect Adamo Boari.
With the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, the pace of the work slowed down until it was finally suspended in 1916, Boari left Mexico and left in the country more than four thousand documents for the continuation of the project.
Due to the difference in the beginning and construction periods and the interruptions caused by the Revolution, the palace has several architectural styles, predominantly art nouveau on the outside and art deco on the inside.
In the Main Hall of the "Palacio de Bellas Artes" is one of the most emblematic figures, the Tiffany Curtain, a work in opalescent crystals, showing the mountainous landscape surrounding the Valley of Mexico.
Fun fact.
A rather curious fact. A tiktoker discovered that the architectures of Bellas Artes and the Torre Latinoamericana coincide from a certain perspective. The Torre Latinoamericana (on the right side) coincides with one of the edges of the Palacio de Bellas Artes. The Latinoamericana Tower began construction in 1948 and it is a mystery if the architect Augusto H. Alvarrz designed it this way or it is pure coincidence.
"Look at its works: the monumental aqueducts, churches, roads and the luxurious City of Palaces". This is what the English traveler Charles Joseph La Trobe (1801-1875) said in "The Rambler in Mexico", the book he wrote after visit the city in the 19th century.
The term continued to be used with great honor, since in the historical downtown we can still find several buildings worthy of admiration.
The Palacio de Bellas Artes (Palace of Fine Arts) is one of the most beautiful buildings in Mexico City. The construction was started (in 1904) towards the end of Porfirio Diaz's term of office for the celebration of the centennial of the beginning of Mexico's Independence; however, it was not completed and inaugurated until September 29th, 1934.
The architectural project was the work of Mexican engineer Gonzalo Garita and Italian architect Adamo Boari.
With the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, the pace of the work slowed down until it was finally suspended in 1916, Boari left Mexico and left in the country more than four thousand documents for the continuation of the project.
Due to the difference in the beginning and construction periods and the interruptions caused by the Revolution, the palace has several architectural styles, predominantly art nouveau on the outside and art deco on the inside.
In the Main Hall of the "Palacio de Bellas Artes" is one of the most emblematic figures, the Tiffany Curtain, a work in opalescent crystals, showing the mountainous landscape surrounding the Valley of Mexico.
Fun fact.
A rather curious fact. A tiktoker discovered that the architectures of Bellas Artes and the Torre Latinoamericana coincide from a certain perspective. The Torre Latinoamericana (on the right side) coincides with one of the edges of the Palacio de Bellas Artes. The Latinoamericana Tower began construction in 1948 and it is a mystery if the architect Augusto H. Alvarrz designed it this way or it is pure coincidence.
BHelmet
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Exactly. And precisely the point of Fulcanelli, the “old world” conspiracy theories, timeline questions, historical narrative questioning etc.
