In a conservatory. c1905/1915. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, photographer. (Library of Congress)
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Happy New Year
Posted in photographs, tagged photography, russian empire, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii on January 1, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Happy Fucking Holidays
Posted in christmas, tagged Billy Mack, christmas, christmas music, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii on December 21, 2010| Leave a Comment »
An old man, probably and ethnic Tajik, standing in the snow, holding a brace of dead birds. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, photographer. (Library of Congress)
Happy Autumn Equinox
Posted in Historical Information, Misc Holiday, photographs, tagged 1909, autumnal equinox, photography, russian empire, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii on September 22, 2010| Leave a Comment »
At harvest time in the Russian Empire. c1909. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, photographer. (Library of Congress)
River Gorgeous
Posted in photographs, tagged Ordezh River, photography, russian empire, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii on August 1, 2010| Leave a Comment »
On the Ordezh River near the Siverskaia Station, Saint Petersburg province, Russian Empire. c1905/1915. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, photographer. (Library of Congress)
Come away with me
Posted in photographs, tagged Finland, photography, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii on July 14, 2010| Leave a Comment »
On the Saimaa Canal. Finland. c1905/1915. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, photographer. (Library of Congress)
Cornflowers in a field of rye.
Posted in photographs, tagged 1909, flower pictures, photography, russia, russian empire, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii on June 1, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Cornflowers in a field of rye. c1909. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, photographer. (Library of Congress)
A path less traveled
Posted in Nature, photographs, tagged nature photography, Photographs, russian empire, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii on May 29, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Forest road, Russian Empire, between 1905 and 1915. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, photographer. (Library of Congress)
Duomo di Milano
Posted in Historical Information, photographs, tagged architectural photography, Mark Twain, Milan Cathedral, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii on May 28, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Details of Milan Cathedral, between 1905 and 1915. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, photographer. (Library of Congress)
Construction of Milan’s Cathedral began in 1385 and didn’t end until January 6, 1965 when the last gate was inaugurated. The facade alone took 238 years to complete, started in 1567 it was completed in 1805, just in time for Napoleon Bonaparte’s coronation as King of Italy.
Built of Candoglia marble from a quarry used exclusively for construction of the Duomo for over 600 years, the tallest spire on this astonishingly beautiful Gothic building soars 356 feet and was topped in 1774 with the Madonnina statue, the symbol of Milan. The Cathedral contains more then 3,400 statues.
Mark Twain recorded his impressions of Duomo di Milano in Innocents Abroad:
Howsoever you look at the great cathedral, it is noble, it is beautiful! Wherever you stand in Milan or within seven miles of Milan, it is visible and when it is visible, no other object can chain your whole attention. Leave your eyes unfettered by your will but a single instant and they will surely turn to seek it. It is the first thing you look for when you rise in the morning, and the last your lingering gaze rests upon at night. Surely it must be the princeliest creation that ever brain of man conceived.
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They say that the Cathedral of Milan is second only to St. Peter’s at Rome. I cannot understand how it can be second to anything made by human hands.
We bid it good-bye, now—possibly for all time. How surely, in some future day, when the memory of it shall have lost its vividness, shall we half believe we have seen it in a wonderful dream, but never with waking eyes!
Somewhere Else Altogether 