Su Westerman 📷

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

#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!

Happy 10th birthday Art UK 🎉 #ArtUK10thBirthday

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

Discover more and celebrate with us 👉 https://artuk.org/

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

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

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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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

One can only presume that the set designers working on David Lean's Oliver Twist drew their inspiration from Doré.

Some people will turn anything into a conspiracy theory.

What’s “Stalinist” about town planning where you can walk to the shops?

Wonderful. Thanks for the recommendation.

Looking at Sir Henry Rushbury’s watercolour of Edinburgh (1953) is like peering over his shoulder as he refined angles and perspectives; he continually wrestled with how to invite the viewer into the act of seeing as much as he witnessed in a view.

A very handy all-in-one liturgical object. Must have looked great when lit.

Incense Burner and Stand for an Altar Cross, 1150–75.
Germany, Lower Saxony, Hildesheim?

The Cleveland Museum of Art

✨Deerhurst, Gloucestershire. A kitchen in the nave and a bedroom in the chancel hid within plain sight an Anglo-Saxon chapel built by Earl Odda (a relation to Edward the Confessor). Re-discovered in 1865, it is the most complete surviving Saxon church in England.

One of the most wonderful features of the architecture of the Netherlands.

Inside the Pisa Baptistery, late 12th century Corinthian-style capitals with masks in the abacus.
The last one with large carved out eyes and mouth looks like an ancient theatrical mask.
Small technical detail: you can spot some rows of unconnected drill holes on each.
#Sculpture #MedievalArt

Just wonderful! Happy New Year Rachel!. x

‘We want people to sit, pause, relax’: National Trust to open its libraries for public use Charity plans to make stately homes more welcoming by inviting visitors to use furniture and reading rooms

'This year, one of the aims of the conservation charity will be to make people feel more at ease in its grand houses and, where practical, allow them to sit on historic chairs and use libraries and reading rooms rather than simply peer into them.' Excellent initiative.