Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts
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Stained glass windows of St. Vitus Cathedral
The Creation Rose Window
The Creation Rose Window was created by Frantisek Kysela in 1925 and took over two years to be completed. The inscriptions on the stained glass tell the story of creation as told in the Bible.
The Creation Rose Window |
The New Archbishop Chapel
The most distinguished of all the stained glass windows in the Cathedral is this piece designed by Alphonse Mucha in 1930.The New Archbishop Chapel |
The Schwarzenberg Chapel
This chapel is named after the Schwarzenbergs family, a noble family who had established themselves in Prague since 1172. Designed by Karel Svolinsky in 1929, the scene depicts two stories regarding the life of Isaac.The Schwarzenberg Chapel |
The Thunov Chapel
The Thunov Chapel features a sparkling blue window with a modern design despite being created in 1929. It represents the Psalm 126-5 which declares, "Who sows in tears, will harvest in joy."The Thunov Chapel |
Chapel of St. Ludmila
In the Chapel of St. Ludmila we can see the impressive images of the St. Ludmila, the Holy Spirit and the twelve apostles.Chapel of St. Ludmila |
Can not believe this beautiful architecture was rebuilt from scratch after almost destroyed during WW II.
Sep. 2014, Münster, Germany
The Lion lies in his lair in the perpendicular face of a low cliff — for he is carved from the living rock of the cliff. His size is colossal, his attitude is noble. His head is bowed, the broken spear is sticking in his shoulder, his protecting paw rests upon the lilies of France. Vines hang down the cliff and wave in the wind, and a clear stream trickles from above and empties into a pond at the base, and in the smooth surface of the pond the lion is mirrored, among the water-lilies.
Around about are green trees and grass. The place is a sheltered, reposeful woodland nook, remote from noise and stir and confusion — and all this is fitting, for lions do die in such places, and not on granite pedestals in public squares fenced with fancy iron railings. The Lion of Lucerne would be impressive anywhere, but nowhere so impressive as where he is.
— Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad, 1880
Sep. 2013, Lucerne, Switzerland
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