Nakharar Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 Need I add more? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormig Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 Somehow I don't think the Spaniards had any interaction or confrontation - though the Venetians' or Genoese' can hardly be called empires, but then there was the battle of Otranto... Hmmmmmmmm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 You are way off track Stormig. I would hardly consider Spain an empire. A colonial empire perhaps. But not an empire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellthecat Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 Let me guess. Russian Empire. And if I'm right, it will probably be somewhere in St. Petersburg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 (edited) Interesting. But then it could be anywhere else. All of these empires were adjacent to each other. Edited August 6, 2004 by Nakharar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormig Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 You are way off track Stormig. I would hardly consider Spain an empire. A colonial empire perhaps. But not an empire. Spain not an empire? Well that's new to me. Alright, I give up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 Keep going Steve! You are getting warmer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellthecat Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 Well, its not in St. Petersburg. And any websites on Moscow churches are crap, so I'm not searching any more! Maybe somewhere in the Crimea (Odessa?). Or maybe even Finland. Its derivative bombastic architecture anyway - so who cares! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 I don't remember saying anything about Russia. (Take the hint) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasun Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 Now beat this. A Church with two minarets. I won't give you any hints. This is beatiful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellthecat Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 OK Nakharar, it's not a piece of Russian derivative bombastic crap, it's a piece of Teutonic derivative bombastic crap - Karlskirche church, Vienna. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 Brilliant!!! Now I can rest in peace. Teutonic crap!?!?!? I find that church quite romantic. You won't find a more exquisite example of a Baroque church. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormig Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 Don't mind his comments, Nakharar. As you've probably observed already, he has a tendency to be quite bombastic (to the point of being haphazard) himself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 It's pretty amazing what people can do with a little help from Google. Thanks a lot to those who can make use of their little grey cells. For all those geographically challenged people out there I will be off to this place. Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellthecat Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 Brilliant!!! Now I can rest in peace. Teutonic crap!?!?!? I find that church quite romantic. You won't find a more exquisite example of a Baroque church. I wonder which peoples are being romantically crushed underfoot in those twin copies of the column of Marcus Aurelius that stand outside the church? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 Turks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 I think I get the picture. Everything makes more sense to me now. That was pretty cruel Steve. Do you have to get to people like that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellthecat Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 I don't know. More likely to be Slovaks, or Poles, or Serbs, or Hungarians, or Russians, or any one of the other nations forcefully incorporated into their empire. Anyway, it certainly won't be romantic flower-picking that will be being depicted on those columns - that's for certain! My point (with attached smile) is that every building has a history - and to call it romantic without knowing its history is unwise. Â I don't doubt that all those fences and huts and other assorted structures at Belsen would look really romantic if photographed at the right angles and under the right lighting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellthecat Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 I think I get the picture. Everything makes more sense to me now. That was pretty cruel Steve. Do you have to get to people like that? Nakharar, what's on earth has turned you all so ultra-sensitive all of a sudden? If that was your "all-time-favourite, nicest-building-in-the-whole-world, I'm gonna marry my sweet-heart there and live happily ever after" church then maybe an advance word of warning might have been in order. Â If this were a forum of architectural criticism then you would really be in tears! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellthecat Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 (edited) Hmmm .... here's one. Whose left foot is this, and where is it? (And, for Nakharar, who would he like to kick with it ). Edited August 6, 2004 by bellthecat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azat Posted August 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2004 Rome, I think by the Capetoline hill. Is it of Alexander? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormig Posted August 7, 2004 Report Share Posted August 7, 2004 There is one Constantine's foot, but that place doesn't look like the courtyard of the Capitoline Museum that the foot was in. Azat should know this, then: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted August 7, 2004 Report Share Posted August 7, 2004 Never mind. It wasn't the church I meant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted August 7, 2004 Report Share Posted August 7, 2004 Whose foot is that? What happened to the rest of it. I hope that foot isn't proportional with something else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormig Posted August 7, 2004 Report Share Posted August 7, 2004 Whose foot is that? What happened to the rest of it. I hope that foot isn't proportional with something else. Unfortunately likely some Vestal virgin or nun found it and kept a good eye on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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