Daryl Rettig

The Wiener Keramik branch of the Werkstatte supplied a number of brightly coloured ceramic pieces, many designed by Michael Powolny, including three 'boxes' with decorative lids with figures or flowers, and a figurine, 'Dame mit Herz’, while the Wiener Kunstkeramische Werkstätte supplied two other figurines and a vase. Gmundner Keramik supplied a pair of fruit stands. Josef Hoffmann, as well four glass vases, a pair of goblets, a clock and two document folders, all from the Wiener Werkstatte. B...

Basildon, with its piano nobile, large portico denoting status, and main facade falsely elongated by fenestrated walls, was never innovative architecture, but, like many other houses, was built to bolster the status of its owner, the newly rich Sir Francis Sykes, keen for a political career. The stairs rise to an open loggia beneath the portico which gives access to the mansion's principal entrance. The first floor was designed to be a piano nobile (meaning literally a "noble floor"); as its na...

The first and second floors house the Galleria Nazionale (National Gallery), with paintings from the 13th to the 18th centuries including major works by Caravaggio, Raphael, Titian, El Greco, Giovanni Bellini, Simone Martini, Masaccio, Lorenzo Lotto, Giorgio Vasari, Jacob Philipp Hackert and many others. If you cherished this short article and you would like to obtain a lot more information relating to erotic photography kindly pay a visit to our own web site. The Flagellation by Caravaggio, c...