keyvan (کیوان) @shafieikeyvan Jun 29(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ebp5sPYXkAcg78h?format=jpg&name=medium)
the inside of that armed couple’s mansion is just villainously hideous
the inside of that armed couple’s mansion is just villainously hideous
Campaigners say the carriage, which depicts black men subservient to their white rulers, should be put in a museum and not used
The King of the Netherlands has refused to ‘re-write history’ amid calls for colonial imagery to be wiped from the Royal carriage. King Willem-Alexander said that the Golden Carriage, which dates back to 1898, was part of Dutch culture even if it depicts imagery on a panel that is seen as racist. The carriage, which is regularly used for official ceremonies such as the presentation of the Dutch budget, depicts black men and Asians, representing the former colonies of Suriname and the Antilles, bringing goods to their white rulers.
As I have repeatedly tried to point out, US rightists are Westerners, not Americans. The latest evidence of this is the following Homo Hubris RNC closing songs which are about as un-American as it is possible to sound
Bernie Sanders very impressed by the chandeliers in the Moscow subway stations and by the Soviet “palaces of culture.” (Really.)
Seriously, try looking at the pictures at the time as listening to Western classical music
Wallpaper, using the printmaking technique of woodcut, gained popularity in Renaissance Europe amongst the emerging gentry. The social elite continued to hang large tapestries on the walls of their homes, as they had in the Middle Ages. These tapestries added color to the room as well as providing an insulating layer between the stone walls and the room, thus retaining heat in the room. However, tapestries were extremely expensive and so only the very rich could afford them. Less well-off members of the elite, unable to buy tapestries due either to prices or wars preventing international trade, turned to wallpaper to brighten up their rooms.
Perrotta points out that material wealth is highly valued in the Old Testament; the Hebrews seek it and God promises to bless them with it if they will follow his commandments.[12] Joseph Francis Kelly writes that biblical writers leave no doubt that God enabled men such as Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Solomon to achieve wealth and that this wealth was a sign of divine favor.
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Jesus explicitly condemns excessive love of wealth as an intrinsic evil in various passages in the Gospels, especially in Luke (Luke 16:10–15 being an especially clear example). He also consistently warns of the danger of riches as a hindrance to favor with God
the Italian Renaissance of the 14th and 15th centuries saw the rise of arts patrons extending beyond the church. Wealthy nobles such as the Medici family could now bring art and frames into their estate by commissioning allegorical, devotional and portrait paintings.[4] This was the advent of the portable or moveable frame.[5]
Hitler’s other great influence was Wagner (himself a Schopenhauer disciple, by no coincidence), to the extent that he said: “Whoever wants to understand National Socialism must first know Wagner.” Nietzsche, in contrast, held a negative opinion of both Wagner and Schopenhauer (“The unworthy attempt has been made to see Wagner and Schopenhauer as types of mental illness: one would gain an incomparably more essential insight by making more precise scientifically the type of decadence both represent.” – Friedrich Nietzsche)
The superiority of Western classical music is so decisive one could almost rest the argument for the superiority of Western culture on it alone. There exists a hierarchy in the world of sound, as in other phenomena. Noise occupies the lowest rung in this hierarchy; it is an undifferentiated mass of sound in which no distinction exists. The lowest kind of music, say that of Australia’s Aborigines, most closely corresponds to noise. Western classical music, by contrast, exists on the highest rung because it apprehends sound in the most highly differentiated way possible. It is the farthest from noise and most fully exploits the inherent potential of the world of sound.
“Okay. So many Scandinavians and so forth are not considered “Aryan”..”
Do these look like Aryan faces to you, you moron?
http://cdn3.modelsrating.com/sites/default/files/models/other_photos/Elsa_Hosk_43.jpg
https://s9.postimg.org/q97wptwdr/Mini_Anden_June09.jpg
http://www2.pictures.stylebistro.com/gi/Caroline+Winberg+Updos+Messy+Updo+aQr7rT74ApWx.jpg
http://www.ballade.no/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/fot2007010913085993740444_monica1.jpg
http://www.theplace2.ru/archive/anita_briem/img/AnitaBriem_Premiere_.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Lindsey_Vonn_2011.jpg/729px-Lindsey_Vonn_2011.jpg
Absolutely.
Another way to describe Western aesthetics is as more adultlike.
Lace was used by clergy of the early Catholic Church as part of vestments in religious ceremonies. When they first started to use lace and through the 16th century, they primarily used cutwork. Much of their lace was made of gold, silver, and silk. Rich people began to use such expensive lace in clothing trimmings and furnishings such as cushion covers. Dante and other writers of the period noted the change from simple clothing to extravagance. ... lace did not come into widespread use until the 16th century in the northwestern part of the European continent.[11] The popularity of lace increased rapidly and the cottage industry of lace making spread throughout Europe.The late 16th century marked the rapid development of lace, both needle lace and bobbin lace became dominant in both fashion as well as home décor.
This goes all the way back to the old days when I was trying to mock them:
http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/its-not-that-difficult/comment-page-2/#comment-172405Quote“Okay. So many Scandinavians and so forth are not considered “Aryan”..”
Do these look like Aryan faces to you, you moron?
http://cdn3.modelsrating.com/sites/default/files/models/other_photos/Elsa_Hosk_43.jpg
https://s9.postimg.org/q97wptwdr/Mini_Anden_June09.jpg
http://www2.pictures.stylebistro.com/gi/Caroline+Winberg+Updos+Messy+Updo+aQr7rT74ApWx.jpg
http://www.ballade.no/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/fot2007010913085993740444_monica1.jpg
http://www.theplace2.ru/archive/anita_briem/img/AnitaBriem_Premiere_.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Lindsey_Vonn_2011.jpg/729px-Lindsey_Vonn_2011.jpg
and the idiot literally didn't get my point:
http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/its-not-that-difficult/comment-page-2/#comment-172432QuoteAbsolutely.
Richard Spencer (Gentile) calls Brady an "Aryan Avatar" (lol):
https://mobile.twitter.com/RichardBSpencer/status/828447273008955393QuoteTom Brady: Aryan Avatar#superbowlThat huge cro Magnoid jaw is the furthest thing from Aryan.
Dancing. — The productions of the graphic arts charm the eye after completion; those of the musical arts are enjoyed only while being performed. But there is an art which combines these two modes of aesthetic enjoyment: it is dancing. Its plastic attitudes are so many pictures, and its movements have a rhythm like music.
This art, sunk among civilised peoples to the level of a simple amusement, plays a large part in the life of uncultured peoples.
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Let us also note that these dances are to the discipline of the elders in order to afford pleasure to the people of their tribe. The joy, moreover, is mutual, for the performers "feel" the dance without seeing it, and the effects of movement.
Dancing is then a great school of "solidarity" in primitive societies; more than any other act, it brings into prominence the benefits of sociality. But this favourable result is only possible in the smaller groupings, in which at least half of the society may take part in the dance; this condition no longer exists in civilised societies, numbering millions on millions of members: thus in these societies the choregraphic art is in a complete state of decay.
-Joseph Deniker (1900).
Dancing is then a great school of "solidarity" in primitive societies; more than any other act, it brings into prominence the benefits of sociality. But this favourable result is only possible in the smaller groupings, in which at least half of the society may take part in the dance
successive groups of spectators briefly stand, yell, and raise their arms. Immediately upon stretching to full height, the spectator returns to the usual seated position.
The result is a wave of standing spectators that travels through the crowd, even though individual spectators never move away from their seats. In many large arenas the crowd is seated in a contiguous circuit all the way around the sport field, and so the wave is able to travel continuously around the arena; in discontiguous seating arrangements, the wave can instead reflect back and forth through the crowd.
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While there is general disagreement about the precise origin of the wave, most stories of the phenomenon's origin suggest that the wave first started appearing at North American sporting events during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
On this week episode, we are in Delray Beach, FL touring an Italian Renaissance Revival style mega mansion with direct access to both the Atlantic Ocean and the Intracoastal waterway !
The staircase at Mentmore Towers designed by Joseph Paxton, and the one at the Warsaw University of Technology designed by Bronisław Rogóyski and Stefan Szyller (late 19th century), both rise from pastiches of true Renaissance courtyards. Both staircases seem more akin to Balthasar Neumann's great Baroque staircase at the Würzburg Residenz than anything found in a true Renaissance Palazzo. The apparent Baroque style staircase at Mentmore is not without a Renaissance influence, its first flight is similar to "The staircase of the Giants" rises from the Doge's Palace Courtyard, designed when the Venetian Gothic was being uncomfortably merged with Renaissance style. Similarly to that at Mentmore, the Staircase of the Giant's terminates on to an arcaded loggia. Perhaps not ironically the Hall and Staircase at Mentmore were designed by Paxton to display furniture formerly housed in the Doge's Palace.
Mentmore Towers, historically known simply as "Mentmore", is a 19th-century English country house built between 1852 and 1854 for the Rothschild family in the village of Mentmore in Buckinghamshire. Sir Joseph Paxton and his son-in-law, George Henry Stokes,[1][2] designed the building in the 19th-century revival of late 16th and early 17th-century Elizabethan and Jacobean styles called Jacobethan.[3][4] The house was designed for the banker and collector of fine art Baron Mayer de Rothschild as a country home, and as a display case for his collection of fine art. The mansion has been described as one of the greatest houses of the Victorian era.[5][6]
Le Goût Rothschild, (pronounced [lə ɡu ʁɔtˈʃild]; English: the Rothschild taste), describes a detailed, elaborate style of interior decoration and living which had its origin in France, Britain, Austria, and Germany during the nineteenth century, when the rich, famous, and powerful Rothschild family was at its height. The Rothschild aesthetic and life-style later influenced other rich and powerful families, including the Vanderbilts, Astors, and Rockefellers, and became hallmarks of the American Gilded Age. Aspects of le goût Rothschild continued into the twentieth century, affecting such designers as Yves Saint Laurent and Robert Denning.
Characteristics
The decorative interior elements of the "Goût Rothschild" include lavish use of extravagant heavy textile fabrics (like damask, brocade, and velvet) and much gilding, elaborate stucco ceilings, and precious (and often antique) wooden panelling and parquet flooring. This heavy abundance is combined with eighteenth-century, mostly French, furniture. For the Rothschilds, furniture and works of art often were of royal provenance. The family bought only the best which was on the market at that time, with preference for the reigns of Louis XIV, Louis XV, and Louis XVI. And not so long ago after the French Revolution in 1789, there were some excellent pieces to buy, including many from the Château de Versailles. In architecture, the Rothschilds preferred styles of the Renaissance. The fusion of these uses of materials and styles, "the Rothschild style", combines a sense of Victorian horror vacui beside masterworks of art, sculpture, and armour.
With the construction of Waddesdon Manor, the newly established English branch of the Rothschild family revived imitation of French Renaissance styles in the United Kingdom. The expansive manor house was built in the tradition of the châteaux in the Loire Valley. The Rothschilds often bought original architectural elements from neglected castles and palaces and re-used these floors, fireplaces, ceilings, doors, and panellings in their own newly built castles and palaces, as, for example, in Mentmore Towers, Waddesdon Manor, the Château de Ferrières, and the Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat.
Many of those in the Italian diaspora feel closer to "Italy" (i.e. the Italian Renaissance) and hence Western Civilization than they do to America.
(Similarly, this is why cultural appropriation is annoying.)
Europeans developed an appetite for exoticism as greater emphasis was put on empire building and colonization in other nations. There was a growing fashion for Turkish styles in Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries. Europeans did not regard Ottomans as rivals that they had to contend with and imitate militarily, politically, or diplomatically, but rather as an exotic foreign people possessing quaint and strange fashions that could be consumed.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turquerie#European_perspective
Chinese export porcelain includes a wide range of Chinese porcelain that was made (almost) exclusively for export to Europe and later to North America between the 16th and the 20th century.
Often the shapes were dictated by the export markets, but the decoration was predominantly East Asian in style, although quite often developed from Dutch imitations of Chinese pieces.
Similarly with movies/TV shows/etc.. Producers/directors/etc. talk about catering to the "international market" when they what really mean (whether they are conscious of it or not) is catering to the Western market. Not long ago I was talking to acc9 in private about Zhang Yimou who does embarrassingly shameless Orientalism to titillate exoticism-seeking Westerners:
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 94% based on 211 reviews, with an average rating of 8.20/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "With death-defying action sequences and epic historic sweep, Hero offers everything a martial arts fan could ask for."[17] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 85 out of 100 based on 42 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[18] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "A-" on scale of A to F.[19]
At the turn of the 20th century, synchronised swimming was known as water ballet. The first recorded competition was in 1891 in Berlin, Germany. Many swim clubs were formed around that time, and the sport simultaneously developed in Canada. As well as existing as a sport, it often constituted a popular addition to Music Hall evenings, in the larger variety theatres of London or Glasgow which were equipped with on-stage water tanks for the purpose.
In 1907, Australian Annette Kellermann popularised the sport when she performed in a glass tank as an underwater ballerina (the first water ballet in a glass tank) in the New York Hippodrome.[2]
French and German bisque dolls began taking over the market after 1860, and their production continued after World War I.[2] These dolls wore wigs, typically made from mohair or human hair.[6] Between approximately 1860 and 1890 most bisque dolls were fashion dolls, made to represent grown up women. They were intended for children of affluent families to play with and dress in contemporary fashions.[2] These dolls came from French companies like Jumeau, Bru, Gaultier, Rohmer, Simone and Huret, though their heads were often manufactured in Germany.[2] In the Passage Choiseul area of Paris an industry grew around making clothing and accessories for the dolls.[2]
Up until the mid-19th century, most dolls were made to represent grown-ups, and when childlike dolls first appeared it was a big shift. By the late 19th century childlike dolls overtook the market.[2]
In the first of six episodes, art dealer Gordon Watson meets Lord Rothschild from the famous banking dynasty. Lord Rothschild has been collecting art since he was ten and has added to a remarkable family collection of traditional and contemporary art, furniture and design, spread between Waddesdon Manor and the Flint House on his estate in Buckinghamshire. Gordon and Lord Rothschild have known one another for some years but it has been a while since Gordon has visited Waddesdon.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZf5fbgoaWQ
Many friends and acquaintances have complained to me that, in tuning into Christmas music on the radio, they no longer get even a tiny sampling of traditional Christmas music. Instead, what they hear are playlists largely limited to a handful of songs that are ridiculously overplayed because they are performed by famous rockers or mention rock in the title (John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s “So This Is Christmas,” Bruce Springsteen’s “Santa Claus is Coming to Town,” “Do They Know It’s Christmas” and its myriad performers, “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” “Jingle Bell Rock”), absurdly revived obscurities (“It’s a Marshmallow World,” “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas”), and a bevy of pop tunes of varying quality that make some reference to winter, snow, Santa, shopping, and, in the best of them, the joy and good feelings that accompany Christmas.
I was particularly fond of Robert Goulet’s Christmas album, which ended with four powerful performances of religious music. I am quite certain that the first time I ever heard Cesar Franck’s “Panis Angelicus” was on that album.
Even more impressive to me was Robert Shaw’s “The Many Moods of Christmas,” which featured four carol medleys arranged by Robert Russell Bennett. As with the Harry Simeone record, these carols came from all over Christendom, including the French “Pat a Pan” and “The March of the Three Kings” (the music for which was used by Georges Bizet in his L’Arlésienne Suite No. 2), the Spanish “Fum, Fum, Fum,” and “Break Forth O Beauteous Heavenly Light,” a Bach chorale used in his “Christmas Oratorio.” (The record also impressed my junior high choir director, since we song both “Pat a Pan” and “Break Forth O Beauteous Heavenly Light” in our Christmas concert, back when public schools still had Christmas concerts denominated as such and featuring religious Christmas music).
Eight years later saw an introduction to another facet of the beauty that has developed over centuries to accompany Christmas. That was the year PBS broadcast Luciano Pavarotti’s amazing Christmas concert in Montreal from four years before. That concert was held in a perfect venue, Montreal’s stunning Notre Dame basilica, below:
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A fragment of wood reputed to be from the manger where Jesus was laid after his humble birth was on Saturday transferred to Bethlehem for the official launch of the Christmas season after going on display in Jerusalem.
The wood piece, just a few centimeters long, was once kept in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. It was handed over earlier this week to the custodian of the Bethlehem church, who said it brought "great honor to believers and pilgrims in the area".
It was unveiled to the public at the Notre Dame of Jerusalem Center, encased in a silver-colored ornamental table-top stand.
The pseudohistorical conspiracy theory about Great Tartaria first appeared in Russia, popularized by Nikolai Levashov, and in Anatoly Fomenko’s New chronology. In Russian pseudoscience, known for its nationalism, Tartaria is presented as the "real" name for Russia, which was maliciously "ignored" in the West (for example, the 2011 film "Great Tartary - Empire of the Rus", posted on YouTube).[9][10] Since about 2016, conspiracy theories about the supposed lost empire of "Tartaria" have gained some steam on the English-speaking part of the Internet.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartary#Tartaria_conspiracy_theory
The conspiracy is based mostly in a misunderstanding of architectural history. Adherents suppose that demolished buildings such as the Singer Building, or the temporary grounds of the 1915's World's Fair were actually the buildings of a vast empire based in Tartary that has been suppressed from history. Sumptuously styled Gilded Age buildings are often held out as really having been built by the supposed Tartarian.
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However, such designs exist globally due to colonialism by empires such as Britain, Spain, and Portugal, not some lost empire such as Tartaria. The theory reflects a cultural discontent with modernism, and a supposition that traditional styles are inherently good and modern styles are bad.
"With these preserved buildings around us, we would have viewed the whole world differently. And we would not have thought about Greece, and Rome, and Turkey as these separate places from us (here in North America). No, the whole world would have a unified feel once people realized that there was a one world people, building the same style - everywhere." JonLevihttps://old.reddit.com/r/tartarianarchitecture/
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Of course, our GloboHomo rulers never pass up an opportunity to erase the white race’s unmatched artistic heritage. The great conductor Valerii Gergiev and the magnificent soprano Anna Netrebko have been banished from the Metropolitan Opera House for the crime of wrongthink
Today let's look at some Ukrainian-style Homo Hubris aesthetics
Odesa opera theater
House with Chimaeras
National Bank of Ukraine
Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatians Metropolitans
Putin probably likes this ****.....
Kharkiv's Dormition Cathedral, also known as the Assumption Cathedral, is Ukraine's oldest Orthodox church.
The cathedral dates back to the 1680s.
Russian shelling damaged the church's stained-glass windows as civilians hid inside.
No civilians were injured in the shelling on March 2, according to NBC News.
Zelenskyy condemned the attack and vowed to "restore the cathedral so that no trace of war remains there."
As does Zelensky
[English translation of the most important passages from the Ukrainian original - Dazhbog]
Despite its ancient origins, the Tryzub easily fits in with the minimalist aesthetic of the 21st century, can easily be copied and is highly recognizable.
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Any attempt to "improve" the Tryzub by adding depictions of people, animals, plants and other subjects and declare it the "Great Coat of Arms of Ukraine" is frankly tasteless and absurd.
In addition, Ukraine is neither an empire nor a federation [i.e. not Russia - Dazhbog] and doesn't need to replace the historical and true CoA with a made-up "big" one.
The idea of a "Great CoA" was included in the constitution on the insistence of the communists, who deliberately sought to diminish the importance of the true CoA of Ukraine, the Tryzub.
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This is about the direct threat of eliminating the Tryzub, humiliating our national symbols and self-degrading the Ukrainian state.
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The Tryzub is the living symbol of our state tradition and national unity: the sign of the princes of the Kyivan Rus [the medieval polity from which Ukraine derives their state tradition - Dazhbog], the CoA of the Ukrainian People's Republic, a symbol of the Ukrainian independence struggle and the CoA of modern Ukraine.
The cathedral is the only building in Kharkov visited by almost all Russian Emperors starting with Catherine the Great.
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On May 14, 1771, a cornerstone for the new cathedral was laid. The design of the future building was inspired by the St Clement's Church in Moscow. In Spring 1778 the altar was consecrated in honor of Our Lady of Kazan, though the construction wasn’t completed yet. On September 27, 1780, it was reconsecrated in honor of Dormition. The ceremony was attended by the general Pyotr Rumyantsev.
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According to Filaret Gumilevsky, the free-standing Alexander Bell Tower was built in the aftermath of Napoleon's expulsion from Russia "to express the people's gratitude to Alexander I".
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The cathedral was restored in the late 1970s and reverted to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church [...of the Moscow Patriarchate, i.e. the local branch of the Russian Orthodox Church - Dazhbog] in 2006.
A decadent $33 million Gilded Age mansion is on sale for the first time in nearly half a century. Take a look inside.
Known as The James F. D. Lanier House, the agent listing it calls it a "work of art."
In a press release provided to Insider, Christie's details that the mansion was built in 1903 as a home for James Franklin Doughty Lanier II – a banker and "pioneering automobilist" – and his wife, Harriet.
The couple were prominent members of New York's high society at the time, making the cut of the 400 "fashionable" members of society listed by New York socialite Caroline Schermerhorn Astor, The New York Times reported in 1892.
A lost garden that has been hidden from view for 300 years has been revealed by the heatwave.
The ornate European-style garden at the Chatsworth estate in Derbyshire was designed in 1699 for the 1st Duke of Devonshire.
Featuring an intricate display of flower beds and paths the garden was created to provide a grand view from the then newly completed south side of the stately home.
White women make the best cakes!
Some of European best cakes:
Vienna – Sachertorte.
Paris – Tarte au citron meringue.
Zurich – Bündner Nusstorte.
London – Victoria Sponge.
Rome – Torta caprese.
Stockholm – Prinsesstårta.
Madrid – Tarta de Santiago.
Berlin – Käsekuchen.
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Teatro Colon
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The traditional ball for high school students held in Poland 🇵🇱 before the leaving exam is a good example of what civilisation is.
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Alina Kabaeva, a 39-year-old Olympic rhythmic gymnastic champion who has long been linked with the 70-year-old Russian leader, lives in a villa on Putin’s estate on Lake Valdai, about 250 miles north west of Moscow, according to a report from Russian investigative news site The Project.
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Photographs of that mansion, leaked by a construction executive who worked around the house until 2005, showed opulent interiors reportedly inspired by Putin’s love for his hometown of St Petersburg and its eighteenth-century Hermitage Museum.
"Beauty will save the world" - Fyodor Dostoevsky
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fqc6HdRXoAA506B?format=jpg&name=small)
The mesmerizing stained glass windows of Sainte-Chapelle, Paris.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fqc7PltWcAIl0p1?format=jpg&name=medium)
Imagine how morally depraved a society must be to demolish something like this.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqVenbJWYAEpOwh?format=jpg&name=medium)
A beautiful building tells a thousand stories.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FpzkGhpWwAAgZ3I?format=jpg&name=small)
How do we go back to being a society that builds things like this?
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FprhyBAXoAAMnfl?format=jpg&name=small)
MAKE ARCHITECTURE ART AGAIN
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FpgpRi3WABM-8tQ?format=jpg&name=small)
MAKE CEILINGS ART AGAIN
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FpK9NBeWIAEqVDC?format=jpg&name=small)
This is the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière in Lyon - one of the most astonishing ceilings in all of architecture.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FpGkZkDXoAMzx4g?format=jpg&name=small)
Beauty will lead you to God.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FpGjkXkWAAABlgW?format=jpg&name=small)
MAKE LIBRARIES INSPIRE AGAIN
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"God is in the details."
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If only it were real...
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More is more.
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Dear artists, what is preventing you from painting like this?
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fn61cKrXgAEL6s6?format=jpg&name=900x900)
Dear architects, what is preventing you from building like this?
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FnkI8FVXkAAuxM6?format=jpg&name=small)
“Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.”
- Sir Roger Scruton
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FnREVmCX0AYbl1W?format=jpg&name=small)
"Form follows function" - the three words that killed architecture.Should "Form follows function" be the motto for True Left aesthetics?
Roman Badanin, an independent Russian journalist who left Russia after facing the threat of a prison sentence, discusses his investigation into Russian President Vladimir Putin's secret, lavish lifestyle and details about his reputed girlfriend. #CNN #Newshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivlL-jlqZVI
What is it with dictators and gold furniture? Pathetic.
When digging through archives for records of female architects and designers active in the 1930s, Dr. Despina Stratigakos, an architectural historian at the University at Buffalo, came across something unexpected.
She found old files from the Nazi party–and owing to their notoriously meticulous record keeping–they contained invoices for things like wooden chairs, carpets, and velvet curtains. One name in particular kept popping up: that of Gerdy Troost, Adolf Hitler’s close confidante and preferred interior designer.
Troost was responsible for decorating Hitler’s homes, from apartments in Berlin and Munich, to the Berghof, his vacation residence in the Bavarian Alps. And in the 1930s, this was excellent fodder for the nascent lifestyle magazines that were quickly growing in popularity in the United States...
According to Stratigakos, the propaganda machine had two goals for Hitler’s public persona: “There was this thundering leader, the messiah on the podium. And then there was this guy who was shown playing with his dogs, who was really relatable and evoked our empathy. The two depictions really worked well together,” she continues, “People really like the powerful leader, but one that they could actually relate to.”entire article: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-american-medias-awkward-fawning-over-hitlers-taste-in-home-decor
And making Hitler seem relatable was exactly what his interior designer, Troost, intended to do. “I wanted to show [in the book] that these ‘fluff’ pieces are not harmless. I want people to pay attention to them,” says Stratigakos. “People seem to think, ‘Oh it’s just decor, or it’s mundane, and it doesn’t have any moral value to it.’ But people need to look at this kind of media as critically as they look at more political media.”
World War II had already begun when Life decided to publish photos of Hitler’s living spaces, as well as photos of some of his paintings. Apparently, the feature had been planned well before Germany invaded Poland, beginning World War II, but the editors decided to run it anyway. The magazine’s editorial staff, naturally aware of world events, decided to write slightly mocking image captions, lampooning Hitler’s sensibilities and the hypocrisy of his taste when compared to his leadership style.
But American readers were not happy about this. “People actually wrote in, taking Life magazine to task for treating Hitler sarcastically,” says Stratigakos. “One of the letters I remember reading even says something along the lines of, ‘you know, Hitler’s house is far more tasteful than Roosevelt’s.’ So the response was really surprising. American readers did not appreciate the magazine making fun of Hitler’s taste.”
All this while the war had started, and the wheels of industrial genocide had begun to turn. “People bought into this notion of a non-political, domestic Hitler, and this was exactly what the propagandists wanted,” notes Stratigakos. “There were built-in audiences for these kind of stories. It’s profoundly uncomfortable, and truly haunting.”
It's not just motels, even US roadside restaurants capture the essence of American (ie. non-Western) aesthetics:
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Contrast with the Western functional counterpart (note the emphasis on structural symmetry that is thoroughly absent from the American style):
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Hitler’s house is far more tasteful than Roosevelt’s
Paris in the 1920s - what made people stop dressing like this?
How beautiful are these women? The stuff of dreams.
This is what libraries are supposed to look like.
They are supposed to elevate the soul.
What inspired human beings to build places like this?
Because we can. Beauty is closer to God.
When you believe in the higher dignity of man, you want to house him in a fitting manner
God
classical education.
Class and vision
Faith in God
The divine.
Sense of greater being.
People that have a strong connection with both their own intellect and the underlying creative force that drives all things. You can feel the divine inspiration that went into structures like this.
Good taste and no urge for perpetual victimhood
The urge for beauty and perfection and the belief in God.
Divine intervention
A firm belief in God.
A belief that life was fulfilling and beautiful
A profound appreciation of the gift of life given us by a forgiving and loving God.
Fancying the finer things in life.
Class
At root, the rediscovery of the greek thinkers and philosophers, which led to a rebirth of reason, a grand view of human nature, and the desire to externalize that grandeur in the physical world.
A sense of style, grandeur, design, creativity and a source of inspiration for others.
Holy divinity at it’s finest.
A need for greatness and refinement.
A belief in something greater than themselves. An acknowledgement of a Supreme Creator.
cheap labor
Tremendous wealth inequality?
Slavery and wealth concentration.
Colonialism
Slavery and lack of rights, for the workforce.
Autocrats, typically, who lorded it over peasants who were never allowed into places like this.
A lack of basic, human priorities.
Lots of money and free time
Make believe and stories
Likely cheap (slave) labor and inefficient markets.
Modern societies should only be able to build such things when the needs of the common folk are met. If the people have enough art can flourish, otherwise it is just trading blood for beauty.
Horror movies
mental illness
Resident Evil 2
Ego
Pride. Ostentation.
Devil
Greed. Ambition. Power. Vanity. …
horniness
When human beings reach for the divine, they are capable of impossible works of beauty.
It’s amazing the wealth that can be extracted from poor working people
Unfortunately, ugly acts tend to fund such beautiful objects.
Meh. Overdone.
Only in Paris do the restaurants look like museums.
Vienna kindly disagrees
And a beerhouse in Bucharest-Romania...
Unless it's the Philharmonic Dining Rooms in Liverpool
Uhmmm, are you absolutely sure, my dearest? Because in Spain....
Vila Viçosa
Check out the café at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
The one I went to recently in Germany.
Restaurant Aeroklub, Belgrade, Serbia
Caru' cu bere (The beer cart) - Bucharest.
France is not quite unique in beauty.
Moscow
This is Caffè Gambrinus in Naples
No.
And in Budapest.
Do you think all parisians could visit restaurants like these when they were built back in the day? Only a few lived in this ideal world you love.
It is this way even today.
Still looks like a bordello designed by Donald Trump.
More is more.
All I ask is that we build ceilings like this again.
If architecture is frozen music, then Siena is a symphony.
When it comes to architecture, more is more.
Imagine witnessing this and not wanting desperately to build more of it.
Libraries were once magnificent temples of learning - these are the 20 most beautiful examples on Earth
The great churches remind us what human beings are capable of when they reach for the divine.
These are the 20 most astonishing church ceilings on Earth
This is a hotel in Mexico City.
Here's why it is aptly named the "City of Palaces"
When German geographer Alexander von Humboldt visited in the early 1800s, he christened it the "City of Palaces". He even sent a letter home saying Mexico City could rival any major city in Europe.
The city is home to an enviable number of ornate palaces, in large part due to an explosion of neoclassical and Baroque residences built by wealthy Spanish nobles and encouraged by the Crown in the 18th century.
Does humanity have any greater architectural legacy than the Gothic cathedrals of Europe?
What's the point when Europe was constantly engulfed in war?
Yeah, Pizza Huts
More whites should be involved in classical music. Larouche used to say that if one does not have a classical education, one is uneducated. White learning spaces should be baroque and classical spaces.
Would just say to white youth. Your life would have looked like this in a real white country.
As you listen to classical music, I want white youth to think of all the times some black or brown told you that whites have no culture
he Taj Mahal Hotel was commissioned by Jamsetji Tata and opened its doors to guests on 16 December 1903.
An oft-repeated story concerning the reasoning behind the construction of the hotel was Tata being refused admission into Watson's Hotel, as it was reserved for Europeans. However, the validity of this has been challenged by writer Charles Allen, who wrote that Tata was unlikely to care about such a slight to the extent that he would construct a new hotel. Instead, Allen writes, the Taj was built at the urging of editor of The Times of India who felt a hotel "worthy of Bombay" was needed and as a "gift to the city he loved" by Tata.[3]
The original Indian architects were Sitaram Khanderao Vaidya and D. N. Mirza, and the project was completed by an English engineer, W. A. Chambers. The builder was Khansaheb Sorabji Ruttonji Contractor, who also designed and built its famous central floating staircase. The cost of construction was £250,000 (£127 million in 2008 prices).[4]
Originally, the main entrance was on the land-facing side, where the pool now sits.[5]
The original clientele were mainly the Europeans, the Maharajas and the social elites. Many world-renowned personalities from all fields have since stayed there, from Somerset Maugham and Duke Ellington to Lord Mountbatten and Bill Clinton.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89jOPAGJq-M
Classical music is so awesome at times it makes me feel smarter listening to it.
DiAngelo told host Jalon Johnson that the iconic painting “The Creation of Adam” is “the single image I use to capture the concept of white supremacy.”
As she described the masterpiece to the podcast’s whopping 188 YouTube subscribers, DiAngelo made a major gaffe: “God is in a cloud and there’s all these angels, and he’s reaching out and he’s touching — I don’t know who that is, David or something?”
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“And God is white and David is white and the angels are white — that, that is the perfect convergence of white supremacy, of patriarchy.”
She then goes on to mention she was raised Catholic (did Adam and Eve not get a mention in Sunday school?), and recollects looking up at art in church.
“I didn’t think to myself that God is white, but that, in a lot of ways, is power,” she explained. “I don’t need to. God just reflects me … I always belong racially to what is depicted as the human ideal.”
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A Monument to Heaven
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Westminster Abbey
...
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... Prague, possibly the world’s most beautiful city.
19th century sewage infrastructure, for example, had absolutely no business being colorful and ornate. And yet, Victorian craftsmen poured their love into it all the same:
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Crossness Pumping Station, London
Some buildings you never tire of seeing: the Florence Duomo, St. Peter’s Basilica, or Chartres Cathedral.
they’re high art.
Why do some buildings make us happier than other buildings?
Tom Wolfe offered an eye-opening explanation in his 2003 collegiate novel I Am Charlotte Simmons: “the existence of conspicuous consumption one has rightful access to—as a student had rightful access to the fabulous Dupont Memorial Library—creates a sense of well-being.”
But why did architects suddenly lose interest in their traditional task of providing the pleasures of conspicuous consumption eight decades ago?
...
The dirty secret of many of the world’s greatest buildings is that they are great because they are expensive (they please us because they indulge our desire for rightful access to conspicuous consumption)
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Why did architects turn against appealing architecture in 1945?
In this century, however, there has been some evidence that the public is finally getting what it wants rather than what academic architects feel it deserves.
For instance, here’s the new firehouse near USC:
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Surprisingly, the new firehouses being built on the bigger lots by an architectural firm in San Bernardino are constructed in styles that brawny men with mustaches appreciate.