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

'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.

Weer even kijken bij de besneeuwde Dageraad in Amsterdam. Architecten De Klerk en Kramer, 1923. Another look at the snowy Dageraad in Amsterdam. Architects De Klerk and Kramer, 1923. #amsterdamseschool #dageraad #sneeuw #snow #micheldeklerk #pietkramer

The tiny church of St Mary at Ampney St Mary in Gloucestershire is a gem. However, one curiosity are the crossed rakes graffiti. Might they have been left by farm workers praying for a good harvest? Of perhaps they were giving thanks for a successful year. Whatever, they were a delightful find.

#ScreenSaturday 15th C screen Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Attleborough, #Norfolk

Visible for miles across the plains, Loarre is a marvellous castle to visit.

Iglesia de San Pedro de la Nave, El Campillo, Zamora (Castilla y León) 🇪🇸 emiliaromanica.com/2025/12/27/ 📷 @emilia_romanica　 15 de septiembre de 2024

Pas fâchée d’être arrivée au bout, mais c’était marrant à faire. #passionbriques 🧱 #enaventlesbriques Bonnes fêtes ! 👉 pixelfed.social/les_briques 👉 www.instagram.com/les_briques

Mediaeval tile pieces relaid together to form a fragment pavement, at #WenlockPriory. It has several areas like this. #TilesOnTuesday #Shropshire #Medieval 📷 my own.

Grevenstraat, Leiden, the Netherlands: late 1930s social housing, now owned and managed by the non-profit Portaal housing corporation. Fully renovated in 2020.

How can we let things like this happen? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The "Duck" in Avenida Place hotel, Barcelona, Spain

Wonderful ancient Egyptian lion, from the Middle Kingdom, painted on the walls of a tomb in the Valley of the Nobles. #egyptiananimals - and they clearly knew exactly what a lion looked like. I saw him this morning. Wonderful!

Staircase of Hôtel Tassel, Brussels, 1893-94, first Art Nouveau building, designed by Victor Horta, influential Belgian architect, born 1861. UNESCO World Heritage

#AdventAngels from the south doorway of St Mary and St David, Kilpeck, Herefordshire. C12th carving by the Herefordshire School of Romanesque Sculptors possibly of the Angel Uriel.

Monasterio de San Pedro de las Dueñas, León (Castilla y León) 🇪🇸 emiliaromanica.com/2025/12/11/ 📷 @emilia_romanica　 13 de septiembre de 2024

Prague Castle, Vladislav Hall (1493-1502), when mad fictive coffers were still painted onto a crazily beautiful rib vault that soars and writhes and clutches and, in places, snaps.

Having partaken of a walking tour with @thegentleauthor.bsky.social around Spitalfields, I certainly second this recommendation!

Fossil moquette for London Underground. Jack Thompson and Richard Eatough. c.1954.

A wonderful view by @fotofacade.bsky.social of a wonderful place.

Stumbled upon this myself by chance recently.

How I wish this London Transport wonder at Manor House from 1933 had survived! As well as the signpost it masks a tram/trolleybus overhead pole with a remarkable "UD" Underground finail. Sigh.

Palimpsest is such a lovely word. Here's an example in the C11 chapel of St Martin at Wareham, Dorset. Layers of decoration and script overlay each other on the Chancel arch. Gorgeous.

If you're visiting Amsterdam and love architecture a visit to the Het Schip museum is a must.

Joh. M. Coenenstraat Amsterdam. De expressieve gevel naar ontwerp van architect Staal golft tegen de strakker gevel van een school. Joh. M. Coenenstraat Amsterdam. The expressive facade designed by architect Staal undulates against the sleeker facade of a school. #amsterdamseschool #brickalicious

The mediaeval London Bridge in the context of the modern city. Art by Julian Hoffman Anton and David Fletcher.

As it's #ADoorableThursday here is the entrance to Garforth House, Micklegate, York with a fine set of lamp holders for the dark nights ahead. #ArchitecturalIllustration #pencil #drawing #ArtYear

#StaircaseSaturday Breathtakingly lovely. The Palladian 'Tulip Staircase' in Inigo Jones' Queen's House in Greenwich - the first unsupported spiral stair in Britain. Commissioned c.1616 by Anne of Denmark, Queen to James I. Completed c.1635 for Henrietta Maria, Queen to Charles I.

Roman bronze dragon’s head standard, AD 190-260. Originally mounted on a pole, with a long fabric tube attached to the back of the head. When charging on horseback, the wind inflated the tube and the dragon shrieked! Niederbieber fort. Landesmuseum Koblenz. 📷 me #RomanFortThursday #Archaeology

#TilesOnTuesday Medieval floor tiles, Sherborne Abbey, Sherborne, #Dorset

OMG BATS 🦇 This piece is amazing. Palma Depicting a Ball Player and Flying #Bats Veracruz Culture, Mexico, Gulf Coast, c. 200-900 CE Volcanic stone @explorenoma.bsky.social NOMA #IndigenousArt #HSS2025

As another autumn storm rages, here is the gaunt skeleton of the impressive Cornish engine house at Bottalack Tin Mine, St Just, #Cornwall, in a brief weather window last week. Quite a view! Managed by @nattrustarch.bsky.social & @nationaltrust.org.uk 📷 My own

St Michael's, Raddington, Somerset for #AdoorableThursday Medieval door (Pevsner: C15, listing: C15) in an arched doorframe of two massive oak baulks. The ironwork is original; Pevsner describes it as 'a firework of foliage' (steady on Mr P!) A beautiful, unspoilt church in a beautiful location.

We #churchcrawler s live life on the edge of the law! All Saints, Staplehurst.

Simple things... love this holy trinity of jaunty Georgian portals in Bridlington yesterday. Full of personality.

Back in the 12th century, French sculptor Gislebertus carved this angel as (s)he appears to the three Magi as they dream, waking one with the delicate touch of a finger, and pointing her other forefinger toward the Bethlehem star (Cathedral of St Lazare, Autun)

Iglesia de Santa María La Real, Cillamayor, Palencia (Castilla y León) 🇪🇸 emiliaromanica.com/2025/10/28/ 📷 @emilia_romanica　 8 de septiembre de 2024

✨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. #thread

In a week when a new almshouse scheme in Southwark won the prestigious Stirling Prize for excellence in architecture, it was good to visit some of the wonderful historic 'hofjes' (courtyard almshouses) of Haarlem and Leiden - still fulfilling their founding purpose.

El arte románico está muy ligado al paisaje de Castilla, tierra que conserva infinitos ejemplos. Hoy os presentamos la solitaria Ermita de San Cristóbal de Sotresgudo (Comarca de Odra-Pisuerga, Burgos), templo construido a principios del S. XIII ⬇️⬇️⬇️ arteviajero.com/articulos/er...

Wonderful.

Amsterdam - Rhijnspoorplein kamafotos.nl/2025/08... #kamafotos #35mm #photography #art #sculpture #PietKramer #VoigtlanderBessaT

Good morning! This week's theme is the River Thames. ------ 'Bridge in London' (1908) by Mstislav Dobuzhinsky (Private collection)

Sublime dreams: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist, architect & archaeologist, whose views of Rome & imaginary prisons influenced Neoclassicism & Romanticism; born #OTD 1720. Colosseum, Vedute di Roma, etching 1757 | Plate III Carceri d’Invenzione,etching 1761 Princeton University Art Museum

A joy of a sight for #ThrowbackThursday - A ghost gable 👻 - caught like a fly in amber at Wirksworth in Derbyshire

You've got to admire an expert knapped-flint wall - St Mary's Priory Church, 😮 Bungay, #Suffolk 📷 Yesterday

Great article summarising what it's like to be autistic (and why seeking a cure for Donald Trump and right-wing politics) is far far more important than seeking a 'cure' for autism.

For #SaxonSunday All Saints' Earl Barton up close.

Cecil Brewer's 1915 spiral staircase at Heals, London. #StaircaseSaturday

#SoulacSerMer #France Soulac Ser Mer France Basilica of Our Lady of the End of the Earth - Stained Glass Window, photographed 23rd August 2025.