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Villa Barbarosa in Maser by Palladio (1570s) The exterior of the building was night lit with powerful lights, but it was not enough to take a photograph without a tripod. I set the timer on my camera and placed it on my jacket, which I had placed on a wall). I was able to take the picture without the flash, and got one of the coolest evening sky pictures yet.
Palladio Provided the design for a new re-enforcing skin for the
medieval basilica (town hall) of Vicenza. This is a detail of one of the hundreds
of arches.
A shot of the top arcade of the Basilica
The inter-space between the medical basilica (left) and the new loggia/skin on the right. About 20 minutes before this photo was taken, a couple who had just been maried were taking wedding photos at the second column in...
Palazo Te by Giuliano Romano-the palazzo was essentially a play
ground for John, the prince-where he could pass hot days and nights in flagrant
debauchery, and then return to his normal palazzo (as this Palazzo did not even
have bedrooms, not that it stopped anybody from engaging in bedroom activities).
In the foreground is a fish pond and bridge linking the palazzo to the gardens
in the background. The Loggia in the back ground is nicely lit, and yes, that
is snow on the ground in garden.
View to where the last photo was taken from. Looking from the
Garden into the Palace, across the fish pond and Bridge.
The Battle of the Giants and the Gods, painted by Giuliano Romano. In this painting which is painted on the ceiling and all the walls, the Giants-children of the Gods (I think that is how the story goes) have tried and failed to overthrow the Gods. All the Giants are being killed. this picture, mostly of the Gods (that is Zeus/Apollo in the bottom right with Lightening Bolts in his hands), is of the room's ceiling. The slaughter of the Giants is depicted on the walls of the room. I placed my camera on the floor and took the picture (like the sunset one) because I was not allowed to use a flash. I tried to take a picture of the wall, the slaughter of the giants, but I had to hold the camera in my hand, and it came out blurry because I did not use the flash. "They were of unnatural size."
San Andrea in Mantua, by Alberti. This Latin cross church, constructed in 1472, has a coffered barrel vault (the squares that curve up to make a continous arch are called coffers) and no Side Isles. The Church was built to hold a relic-the alleged blood of Jesus (The story goes that the roman Guard who stabbed Jesus collected Jesus' blood from his spear/sword and brought it to Mantua). this was a major pilgrimage church and was built at such a large scale to contain the pilgrimaging masses. To understand the scale, the gray blur at the almost very bottom of the picture is a human being, and the bright yellow things in a line in the bottom right are candles slightly above the head of a person. Using some very complicated architectural math, that means that the ceiling of the church is approximately 2,387.4 feet high.
Little known fact: Gummy bears become rather sticky after you lick them. These two out-of-focus guys were licked and sticked (I know that is not proper English) to the headrest in front of me by Brook.