Watercolor of a longitudinal double-aisled church cross section. Domenico Tasselli da Lugo, view of Old Saint Peter’s Basilica looking west toward the altar, watercolor in Giacomo Grimaldi, Monumentorum veteris basilicae vaticanae delineationes et exempla picta vel adumbrata, c. 1576–1625 (Vatican Library; MS Arch.Cap.S.Pietro.A.64.ter, folio 12 recto)

It's not easy to write about things that no longer exist, but Dr. Hendrik Dey, one of Smarthistory's over 850 contributors, knocked it out of the park for this info-filled essay on Old St. Peter's. We read it and said, "Finally!" smarthistory.org/old-saint-pe...

Donald Trump launches extraordinary attack on Pope Leo calling him ‘weak’ and ‘terrible’ In unprecedented attack on the leader of the Catholic church, president says the US-born pope is ‘not doing a very good job’ and is ‘a very liberal person’

God knows what he would have made of Christ.

Cloisters of agreeable rusticity, Hereford Cathedral

A colour illustration of the front cover of Ideal Home magazine with New Ways

The latest edition of our Anatomy of a House blog goes back to the start and the first modernist house in Britain, New Ways in Northampton. It was designed by Peter Behrens for W.J. Bassett-Lowke, 100 years ago. Read more about the house here www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/blog/anatomy...

Spotted this 15thC boss of the last supper in the cloister at Norwich Cathedral when visiting recently. It's making wonderfully varied use of perspective but I was most intrigued about the table spread, which says rather more about late medieval England than Roman Judea. Let's decode it! 1/5

The face of poverty ~ a child’s “shoe doll”, found in a London slum in 1905, made from fabric scraps, the heel of a man’s shoe and a black sock (Museum of Childhood, Edinburgh)

Rembrandtkade Utrecht. Architecten Jan en Theo Stuivinga, 1922-24.

#amsterdamseschool #amsterdamschool #utrecht

Wow!

Église Saint-André, Brech, Morbihan 56 (Bretagne) 🇫🇷

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8 mai 2025

Sir Roger Tocotes d.1492. These days the most graffiti’d man in #Wiltshire
In his time, he switched sides several times between York & Lancaster, prob fought for Henry Tudor at Bosworth, & was accused of poisoning the Duke of Clarence’s wife.
St Nicholas, Bromham.
#MonumentMonday

The lit undersides of several stone arches with alternating red and yellow stone combine to form a rhythmic, curvilinear pattern.

Here’s a #MarchArch for @unesco.bsky.social's International Day to Combat Islamophobia: The great Mosque, Cordoba.

A stone built Art Nouveau staircase with irregular shapes and columns that appear like an extended telescope, with larger sections at top, with freeform, organic design iron balustrades between columns and some projecting. sections with palm trees in them. All the surrounding surfaces going up the stairs have a tapestry like design in muted colours.

#StaircaseSaturday
Atmospheric staircase in entryway of Antoni Gaudi's Casa Mila aka La Pedrera (the stone quarry) in Barcelona.

Last pvt residence he designed, 1906-12, in Modernista style.

Trompe-l'oeil paintings of borderless tapestries envelope space around it, so it feels as if it's floating.

Warship graffiti by a British prisoner of war, Tour de la Lanterne, La Rochelle for #SailsOnSaturday

Giving the effect of a street strewn with white petals ~- grape vines create this sun-dappled shade in the Calle Ciegos at the Bodega Gonzalez Byass winery, in Jerez, Spain

A truly beautiful place.

Still an amazing and wonderful ride today.

One of my favourites too!

'St Paul's Rising out of the Fog' (1949) by Algernon Cecil Newton

(Private collection)

El arco triunfal de la Colegiata de la Santa Cruz de Castañeda.

#cantabria #arte #historia #románico #medieval

One of my favourite artists, but never seen this work before. Thanks for sharing!

A cosy dining room with a table set for tea, featuring cakes, pastries and teacups on a floral tablecloth.

Happy 10th birthday Art UK 🎉 #ArtUK10thBirthday

On our birthday we have reached a huge one million artworks on Art UK!

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🧑‍🎨 Peggy Angus (1904–1993) © estate of Peggy Angus. All rights reserved, 2026 DACS. 📷 City of London Corporation

Clock. Josef Hoffmann. c.1912.
Image: NGV.

Looking east through the nave of St Bartholomew the Great in Smithfield

My favourite London church to capture with my camera.

The fantastic Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Harlton, Cambridgeshire still has its medieval stone screen in place, with this large apotropaic mark / daisy wheel and lots of really intricate historic graffiti 🤩

Église Saint-Nicolas de Caen, Calvados 14 (Normandie) 🇫🇷

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St. Peter's Barton upon Humer from the south west showing the saxon tower upon the third and the earlier baptistry in front of it. The later nave tapers off into the disatance.

The Saxon baptistry at St. Peter, Barton-upon-Humber might be even older than the C10th tower. Both were built (in part) with Roman stone transported by river from Yorkshire. Many burials beneath are older than the church.

One of the magnificent Norman doorways from St. Margaret’s Church at Hales in Norfolk. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #Hales #Norfolk

One of the Lewis Chessmen - currently on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. Found in 1831 on a beach at Uig on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, the Chessmen dates to the late 12th or early 13th century. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #LewisChessmen #NMS

If you're interested in architecture (and humanity) you need to see the work of Michel de Klerk in Amsterdam, in the brick, so to speak. Wonderful.

#MedievalMonday
Stunning woman faces from the past, north quire aisle, maybe two sisters
Great Malvern Priory, #Worcestershire