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  • Sculptural detail with mocarabe capital, pinnacles, flowers and heraldic shields, from the facade of the Palacio de Jabalquinto, now the Universidad Internacional de Andalusia (UNIA), or International University of Andalusia, in Baeza, Jaen, Andalusia, Spain. The building was commissioned by Juan Alfonso de Benavides Manrique, lord of Jabalquinto, was designed by Enrique Egas and Pedro Lopez, and has a decorative facade featuring pineapples, fronds, flowerpots and bows. The palace is listed as a historic monument and the Renaissance buildings of Ubeda and Baeza are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sculptural detail with pinnacles, flowers and heraldic shields, from the facade of the Palacio de Jabalquinto, now the Universidad Internacional de Andalusia (UNIA), or International University of Andalusia, in Baeza, Jaen, Andalusia, Spain. The building was commissioned by Juan Alfonso de Benavides Manrique, lord of Jabalquinto, was designed by Enrique Egas and Pedro Lopez, and has a decorative facade featuring pineapples, fronds, flowerpots and bows. The palace is listed as a historic monument and the Renaissance buildings of Ubeda and Baeza are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sculpted pillar with African figure by Pierre Meauze, 1913-1978, on the facade of the Residence Lucien Paye, designed by Jean Vernon, Bruno Philippe and Albert Laprade, 1883-1978, and inaugurated 1949, in the Cite Internationale Universitaire de Paris, in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, France. Originally the Overseas French Territories House, the building was later used to house students from Sub-Saharan African countries. Pierre Meauze sculpted the pillars at the entrance and Anna Quinquaud, 1890-1984, made the bas-reliefs on the facade. The CIUP or Cite U was founded in 1925 after the First World War by Andre Honnorat and Emile Deutsch de la Meurthe to create a place of cooperation and peace amongst students and researchers from around the world. It consists of 5,800 rooms in 40 residences, accepting another 12,000 student residents each year. Picture by Manuel Cohen. L'autorisation de reproduire cette œuvre doit etre demandee aupres de l'ADAGP/Permission to reproduce this work of art must be obtained from DACS.
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  • Facade of Cuenca Cathedral or the Cathedral of Our Lady of Grace and Saint Julian, built 1182-1270 in Gothic style, Cuenca, Spain. The facade was rebuilt after 1902 under Vicente Lamperez, when it was destroyed by lightning. The historic walled town of Cuenca is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Facade of Cuenca Cathedral or the Cathedral of Our Lady of Grace and Saint Julian, built 1182-1270 in Gothic style, Cuenca, Spain. The facade was rebuilt after 1902 under Vicente Lamperez, when it was destroyed by lightning. The historic walled town of Cuenca is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Passion facade, begun 1954, at the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia, an unfinished catholic church designed in Gothic Revival, Art Nouveau and Modernist style by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and begun in 1882 by Francisco de Paula del Villar, continued from 1883 by Gaudi, consecrated 2010 and still undergoing construction, in Eixample, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. On the Passion facade is a pyramidal pediment with columns, topped with crown of thorns and cross. The basilica is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Photographed 2021. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sculptural detail with naked figures around window surround, from the facade of the Palacio de Jabalquinto, now the Universidad Internacional de Andalusia (UNIA), or International University of Andalusia, in Baeza, Jaen, Andalusia, Spain. The building was commissioned by Juan Alfonso de Benavides Manrique, lord of Jabalquinto, was designed by Enrique Egas and Pedro Lopez, and has a decorative facade featuring pineapples, fronds, flowerpots and bows. The palace is listed as a historic monument and the Renaissance buildings of Ubeda and Baeza are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sculptural detail with naked figures around window surround, from the facade of the Palacio de Jabalquinto, now the Universidad Internacional de Andalusia (UNIA), or International University of Andalusia, in Baeza, Jaen, Andalusia, Spain. The building was commissioned by Juan Alfonso de Benavides Manrique, lord of Jabalquinto, was designed by Enrique Egas and Pedro Lopez, and has a decorative facade featuring pineapples, fronds, flowerpots and bows. The palace is listed as a historic monument and the Renaissance buildings of Ubeda and Baeza are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sculptural detail with pinnacles and flowers, from the facade of the Palacio de Jabalquinto, now the Universidad Internacional de Andalusia (UNIA), or International University of Andalusia, in Baeza, Jaen, Andalusia, Spain. The building was commissioned by Juan Alfonso de Benavides Manrique, lord of Jabalquinto, was designed by Enrique Egas and Pedro Lopez, and has a decorative facade featuring pineapples, fronds, flowerpots and bows. The palace is listed as a historic monument and the Renaissance buildings of Ubeda and Baeza are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sculptural detail with mocarabe capital, pinnacles, flowers and heraldic shields, from the facade of the Palacio de Jabalquinto, now the Universidad Internacional de Andalusia (UNIA), or International University of Andalusia, in Baeza, Jaen, Andalusia, Spain. The building was commissioned by Juan Alfonso de Benavides Manrique, lord of Jabalquinto, was designed by Enrique Egas and Pedro Lopez, and has a decorative facade featuring pineapples, fronds, flowerpots and bows. The palace is listed as a historic monument and the Renaissance buildings of Ubeda and Baeza are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sculptural detail with mocarabe capital, pinnacles, flowers and heraldic shields, from the facade of the Palacio de Jabalquinto, now the Universidad Internacional de Andalusia (UNIA), or International University of Andalusia, in Baeza, Jaen, Andalusia, Spain. The building was commissioned by Juan Alfonso de Benavides Manrique, lord of Jabalquinto, was designed by Enrique Egas and Pedro Lopez, and has a decorative facade featuring pineapples, fronds, flowerpots and bows. The palace is listed as a historic monument and the Renaissance buildings of Ubeda and Baeza are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sculptural detail with mocarabe capital, pinnacles, flowers and heraldic shields, from the facade of the Palacio de Jabalquinto, now the Universidad Internacional de Andalusia (UNIA), or International University of Andalusia, in Baeza, Jaen, Andalusia, Spain. The building was commissioned by Juan Alfonso de Benavides Manrique, lord of Jabalquinto, was designed by Enrique Egas and Pedro Lopez, and has a decorative facade featuring pineapples, fronds, flowerpots and bows. The palace is listed as a historic monument and the Renaissance buildings of Ubeda and Baeza are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sculpted pillar with African figure by Pierre Meauze, 1913-1978, on the facade of the Residence Lucien Paye, designed by Jean Vernon, Bruno Philippe and Albert Laprade, 1883-1978, and inaugurated 1949, in the Cite Internationale Universitaire de Paris, in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, France. Originally the Overseas French Territories House, the building was later used to house students from Sub-Saharan African countries. Pierre Meauze sculpted the pillars at the entrance and Anna Quinquaud, 1890-1984, made the bas-reliefs on the facade. The CIUP or Cite U was founded in 1925 after the First World War by Andre Honnorat and Emile Deutsch de la Meurthe to create a place of cooperation and peace amongst students and researchers from around the world. It consists of 5,800 rooms in 40 residences, accepting another 12,000 student residents each year. Picture by Manuel Cohen. L'autorisation de reproduire cette œuvre doit etre demandee aupres de l'ADAGP/Permission to reproduce this work of art must be obtained from DACS.
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  • Colourful buildings of the Plaza Mayor and the facade of Cuenca Cathedral or the Cathedral of Our Lady of Grace and Saint Julian, built 1182-1270 in Gothic style, Cuenca, Spain. The facade was rebuilt after 1902 under Vicente Lamperez, when it was destroyed by lightning. The historic walled town of Cuenca is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Facade with window and galleried bay with balcony of the Casa Navas, built 1902-7 in Modernist style by Lluis Domenech i Montaner, 1850-1923, Catalan Modernist architect, on the Plaza del Mercadal or Market Square in Reus, Catalonia, Spain. This section of the facade shows Modernist Neo-Gothic influence. The house was built for Joaquim Navas Padro and originally also had a tower, which was destroyed in the Spanish Civil War. The interiors were completed by Alfons Juyol i Bach (marble), Tomas Bergada (paintings), Gaspar Homar (furniture) and Hipolit Montseny (ceramics). The building is listed as a national monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Main facade of Granada Cathedral, or the Cathedral of the Incarnation, built 16th and 17th centuries in Renaissance style with Baroque elements, Granada, Andalusia, Southern Spain. The facade is a framed structure with a triumphal arch of 3 portals with pillars crowned by semicircular arches supported on pilasters. Several architects worked on the cathedral, which, unusually, has 5 naves and a circular capilla mayor instead of an apse. Granada was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Main facade of Granada Cathedral, or the Cathedral of the Incarnation, built 16th and 17th centuries in Renaissance style with Baroque elements, Granada, Andalusia, Southern Spain. The facade is a framed structure with a triumphal arch of 3 portals with pillars crowned by semicircular arches supported on pilasters. Several architects worked on the cathedral, which, unusually, has 5 naves and a circular capilla mayor instead of an apse. Granada was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sculptural detail with window surround, pinnacles and heraldic shields, from the facade of the Palacio de Jabalquinto, now the Universidad Internacional de Andalusia (UNIA), or International University of Andalusia, in Baeza, Jaen, Andalusia, Spain. The building was commissioned by Juan Alfonso de Benavides Manrique, lord of Jabalquinto, was designed by Enrique Egas and Pedro Lopez, and has a decorative facade featuring pineapples, fronds, flowerpots and bows. The palace is listed as a historic monument and the Renaissance buildings of Ubeda and Baeza are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sculpted pillar by Pierre Meauze, 1913-1978, on the facade of the Residence Lucien Paye, designed by Jean Vernon, Bruno Philippe and Albert Laprade, 1883-1978, and inaugurated 1949, in the Cite Internationale Universitaire de Paris, in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, France. Originally the Overseas French Territories House, the building was later used to house students from Sub-Saharan African countries. Pierre Meauze sculpted the pillars at the entrance and Anna Quinquaud, 1890-1984, made the bas-reliefs on the facade. The CIUP or Cite U was founded in 1925 after the First World War by Andre Honnorat and Emile Deutsch de la Meurthe to create a place of cooperation and peace amongst students and researchers from around the world. It consists of 5,800 rooms in 40 residences, accepting another 12,000 student residents each year. Picture by Manuel Cohen. L'autorisation de reproduire cette œuvre doit etre demandee aupres de l'ADAGP/Permission to reproduce this work of art must be obtained from DACS.
    LC17_FRANCE_MC_0438.jpg
  • Facade of Cuenca Cathedral or the Cathedral of Our Lady of Grace and Saint Julian, built 1182-1270 in Gothic style, Cuenca, Spain. The facade was rebuilt after 1902 under Vicente Lamperez, when it was destroyed by lightning. The historic walled town of Cuenca is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Facade with window and galleried bay with balcony of the Casa Navas, built 1902-7 in Modernist style by Lluis Domenech i Montaner, 1850-1923, Catalan Modernist architect, on the Plaza del Mercadal or Market Square in Reus, Catalonia, Spain. This section of the facade shows Modernist Neo-Gothic influence. The house was built for Joaquim Navas Padro and originally also had a tower, which was destroyed in the Spanish Civil War. The interiors were completed by Alfons Juyol i Bach (marble), Tomas Bergada (paintings), Gaspar Homar (furniture) and Hipolit Montseny (ceramics). The building is listed as a national monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Chateau d'Azay-le-Rideau, north facade detail, Renaissance chateau built 1515-27 by Gilles Berthelot on the foundations of an 11th century fortress, Loire Valley, Indre-et-Loire, France. It is built in both Italian and French styles on an island in the Indre river, and is one of the earliest French Renaissance chateaux. It is listed as a historic monument and is part of the Loire Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Statues of St Maurice and 7 of his companions from the Theban Legion, 1537, by Jean Giffard and Antoine Desmarais, replaced by copies in 1909, on the west facade beneath the central clock tower, at the Cathedrale Saint-Maurice d'Angers, a Roman catholic church consecrated in 1096 and built 11th - 16th centuries, in Romanesque, Gothic and Angevin Gothic styles, in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France. The cathedral is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • West facade of the Duomo di Siena or Siena Cathedral, detail of Gothic statuary by unknown sculptors, built 1196-1348 and consecrated in 1215, designed by Giovanni di Agostino, Giovanni Pisano and Camaino di Crescentino, in Siena, Tuscany, Italy. The cathedral has elements of Italian Gothic, Romanesque, and Classical styes and is built from stripes of white and green-black marble. The historic centre of Siena is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • West facade of the Duomo di Siena or Siena Cathedral, detail of Gothic statuary by unknown sculptors, built 1196-1348 and consecrated in 1215, designed by Giovanni di Agostino, Giovanni Pisano and Camaino di Crescentino, in Siena, Tuscany, Italy. To the right is the mosaic of the Nativity of Christ by Alessandro Franchi. The cathedral has elements of Italian Gothic, Romanesque, and Classical styes and is built from stripes of white and green-black marble. The historic centre of Siena is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • South East facade of the Villa Farnese or Villa Caprarola, a 16th century Renaissance and Mannerist fortified villa designed by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola and built 1559-73 for the Farnese family under Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, in Caprarola, Viterbo, Lazio, Italy. A double staircase leads to the main entrance (with carriage entrance in the basement below), with the main floor decorated with 5 enormous arched windows. 2 further storeys house bedrooms and servants quarters. The Villa Farnese is now owned by the state and run by the Polo Museale del Lazio. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Statue of an angel blowing a trumpet on a gable in Flamboyant Gothic style, on the Western facade of Rouen Cathedral or the Cathedrale de Notre Dame de Rouen, built 12th century in Gothic style, with work continuing through the 13th and 14th centuries, Rouen, Normandy, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sculpted cherubs with a medallion wreath, on the Southern facade of the Bureau des Finances, Place de la Cathedrale, Rouen, Normandy, France. The Bureau des Finances was formed in 1509 by Thomas Boyer and the building was constructed by Roulland le Roux in Renaissance style. It is now the Rouen tourist information centre and was listed as a historic monument in 1926. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Western facade of Chartres cathedral, a Gothic cathedral built 1194-1250, with a 105m plain pyramid spire built c. 1160, a 113m early 16th century spire on top of an older tower, and the Western rose window, made c. 1215 and 12m in diameter, Eure-et-Loir, France. Chartres cathedral was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Statues of St Maurice and 7 of his companions from the Theban Legion, 1537, by Jean Giffard and Antoine Desmarais, replaced by copies in 1909, on the west facade beneath the central clock tower, at the Cathedrale Saint-Maurice d'Angers, a Roman catholic church consecrated in 1096 and built 11th - 16th centuries, in Romanesque, Gothic and Angevin Gothic styles, in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France. The cathedral is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • South East facade of the Villa Farnese or Villa Caprarola, a 16th century Renaissance and Mannerist fortified villa designed by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola and built 1559-73 for the Farnese family under Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, in Caprarola, Viterbo, Lazio, Italy. A double staircase leads to the main entrance (with carriage entrance in the basement below), with the main floor decorated with 5 enormous arched windows. 2 further storeys house bedrooms and servants quarters. The Villa Farnese is now owned by the state and run by the Polo Museale del Lazio. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sculpted cherubs with a medallion wreath, on the Southern facade of the Bureau des Finances, Place de la Cathedrale, Rouen, Normandy, France. The Bureau des Finances was formed in 1509 by Thomas Boyer and the building was constructed by Roulland le Roux in Renaissance style. It is now the Rouen tourist information centre and was listed as a historic monument in 1926. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Western facade of Chartres cathedral, a Gothic cathedral built 1194-1250, with a 105m plain pyramid spire built c. 1160, a 113m early 16th century spire on top of an older tower, and the Western rose window, made c. 1215 and 12m in diameter, Eure-et-Loir, France. Chartres cathedral was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Looking up the Western facade of Chartres cathedral, a Gothic cathedral built 1194-1250, with a 105m plain pyramid spire built c. 1160, a 113m early 16th century spire on top of an older tower, and the Western rose window, made c. 1215 and 12m in diameter, , Eure-et-Loir, France. Chartres cathedral was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • West facade of the Duomo di Siena or Siena Cathedral, detail of Gothic statuary by unknown sculptors, built 1196-1348 and consecrated in 1215, designed by Giovanni di Agostino, Giovanni Pisano and Camaino di Crescentino, in Siena, Tuscany, Italy. The cathedral has elements of Italian Gothic, Romanesque, and Classical styes and is built from stripes of white and green-black marble. The historic centre of Siena is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
    LC17_ITALY_MC338.jpg
  • South East facade of the Villa Farnese or Villa Caprarola, a 16th century Renaissance and Mannerist fortified villa designed by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola and built 1559-73 for the Farnese family under Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, in Caprarola, Viterbo, Lazio, Italy. A double staircase leads to the main entrance (with carriage entrance in the basement below), with the main floor decorated with 5 enormous arched windows. 2 further storeys house bedrooms and servants quarters. The Villa Farnese is now owned by the state and run by the Polo Museale del Lazio. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Western facade of Chartres cathedral, a Gothic cathedral built 1194-1250, with a 105m plain pyramid spire built c. 1160, a 113m early 16th century spire on top of an older tower, and the Western rose window, made c. 1215 and 12m in diameter, Eure-et-Loir, France. Chartres cathedral was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Western facade of Chartres cathedral, a Gothic cathedral built 1194-1250, with a 105m plain pyramid spire built c. 1160, a 113m early 16th century spire on top of an older tower, and the Western rose window, made c. 1215 and 12m in diameter, Eure-et-Loir, France. Chartres cathedral was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Ceramic mosaic over the first floor windows, on the rear facade overlooking the courtyard, on the Casa Gasull, built 1910-12 and designed by Lluis Domenech i Montaner, in a mixture of Modernist and Noucentist styles, Calle de Sant Joan, Reus, Catalonia, Spain. The house was commissioned by Pere Roig Gasull, an olive oil merchant, as the headquarters of his business and home to his 2 children. The basement is a warehouse space used for storing oil and the ground floor is for industrial and commercial use. The building itself has flat facades decorated with sgraffito, with large ground floor windows covered with iron grilles, and balconies to the first floor with decorative mosaics above the windows. The architect's son, Pere Domenech Roura, also worked on the building. The building is listed as a Cultural asset of local interest. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Windows and balcony with ceramic balustrade on the rear facade overlooking the courtyard, on the Casa Gasull, built 1910-12 and designed by Lluis Domenech i Montaner, in a mixture of Modernist and Noucentist styles, Calle de Sant Joan, Reus, Catalonia, Spain. The house was commissioned by Pere Roig Gasull, an olive oil merchant, as the headquarters of his business and home to his 2 children. The basement is a warehouse space used for storing oil and the ground floor is for industrial and commercial use. The building itself has flat facades decorated with sgraffito, with large ground floor windows covered with iron grilles, and balconies to the first floor with decorative mosaics above the windows. The architect's son, Pere Domenech Roura, also worked on the building. The building is listed as a Cultural asset of local interest. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Ceramic mosaic over the first floor windows, on the rear facade overlooking the courtyard, on the Casa Gasull, built 1910-12 and designed by Lluis Domenech i Montaner, in a mixture of Modernist and Noucentist styles, Calle de Sant Joan, Reus, Catalonia, Spain. The house was commissioned by Pere Roig Gasull, an olive oil merchant, as the headquarters of his business and home to his 2 children. The basement is a warehouse space used for storing oil and the ground floor is for industrial and commercial use. The building itself has flat facades decorated with sgraffito, with large ground floor windows covered with iron grilles, and balconies to the first floor with decorative mosaics above the windows. The architect's son, Pere Domenech Roura, also worked on the building. The building is listed as a Cultural asset of local interest. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Western facade illuminated at night, 12th century, with its 2 towers and triple portal, Laon Cathedral or the Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Laon, built 12th and 13th centuries in Gothic style, in Laon, Aisne, Picardy, France. After damage during the French Revolution, the facade was restored in 1853 by Emile Boeswillwald. The cathedral is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Resurrection, sculptural group with Mary Magdalene, Mary Cleophas, Mary Salome and the Angel, by Francesc Fajula, on the terrace between the stained glass window and the Passion facade, built 1954-2018, at the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia, an unfinished catholic church designed in Gothic Revival, Art Nouveau and Modernist style by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and begun in 1882 by Francisco de Paula del Villar, continued from 1883 by Gaudi, consecrated 2010 and still undergoing construction, in Eixample, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The basilica is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Photographed 2021. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Cross, installed July 2018 and bell towers, completed 1977, with the word Sanctus or Holy, on the Passion facade, built 1954-2018, at the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia, an unfinished catholic church designed in Gothic Revival, Art Nouveau and Modernist style by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and begun in 1882 by Francisco de Paula del Villar, continued from 1883 by Gaudi, consecrated 2010 and still undergoing construction, in Eixample, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The basilica is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Photographed 2021. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Stone mosaic in geometric patterns on the main facade, detail, at Torre Bellesguard, or Casa Figueres, designed in Modernist style by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1900-09, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. On the left is the wrought iron gate by Domingo Sugranes on the main entrance door. The building was built in Gaudi's neo-Gothic style on the ruins of an old castle. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Pinnacles with trencadis decoration on the Passion facade, built 1954-2018, at the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia, an unfinished catholic church designed in Gothic Revival, Art Nouveau and Modernist style by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and begun in 1882 by Francisco de Paula del Villar, continued from 1883 by Gaudi, consecrated 2010 and still undergoing construction, in Eixample, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The basilica is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Photographed 2021. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Jesus' first fall while carrying the cross, by Josep Maria Subirachs, 1927-2014, on the Passion facade, built 1954-2018, at the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia, an unfinished catholic church designed in Gothic Revival, Art Nouveau and Modernist style by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and begun in 1882 by Francisco de Paula del Villar, continued from 1883 by Gaudi, consecrated 2010 and still undergoing construction, in Eixample, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The basilica is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Photographed 2021. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Cross, installed July 2018 and bell towers, completed 1977, with the word Sanctus or Holy, on the Passion facade, built 1954-2018, at the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia, an unfinished catholic church designed in Gothic Revival, Art Nouveau and Modernist style by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and begun in 1882 by Francisco de Paula del Villar, continued from 1883 by Gaudi, consecrated 2010 and still undergoing construction, in Eixample, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The basilica is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Photographed 2021. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Veronica with her cloth with the face of Jesus, and soldiers, from a sculptural group of Golgotha or Calvary, by Josep Maria Subirachs, 1927-2014, on the Passion facade, built 1954-2018, at the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia, an unfinished catholic church designed in Gothic Revival, Art Nouveau and Modernist style by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and begun in 1882 by Francisco de Paula del Villar, continued from 1883 by Gaudi, consecrated 2010 and still undergoing construction, in Eixample, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The basilica is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Photographed 2021. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Bell towers, completed 1977, with the word Sanctus or Holy, and sculpture of the Ascension of Christ, on the Passion facade, built 1954-2018, at the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia, an unfinished catholic church designed in Gothic Revival, Art Nouveau and Modernist style by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and begun in 1882 by Francisco de Paula del Villar, continued from 1883 by Gaudi, consecrated 2010 and still undergoing construction, in Eixample, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The basilica is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Photographed 2021. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Main facade, with Gothic windows and stone mosaic in geometric patterns, at Torre Bellesguard, or Casa Figueres, designed in Modernist style by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1900-09, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The building was built in Gaudi's neo-Gothic style on the ruins of an old castle. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Bellesguard mosaic above the door on the main facade, detail, at Torre Bellesguard, or Casa Figueres, designed in Modernist style by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1900-09, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The building was built in Gaudi's neo-Gothic style on the ruins of an old castle. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sunflower ceramic tiles on the rear facade of the El Capricho de Gaudi, or Villa Quijano, a Modernist villa designed by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1883-85 under his assistant Cristobal Cascante, in Comillas, Cantabria, Spain. The villa was commissioned by Maximo Diaz de Quijano as a summer house. It is from Gaudi's orientalist period, with azulejos tiles and domes. The building has housed a museum since 2009. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Main facade, with Gothic windows and stone mosaic in geometric patterns, at Torre Bellesguard, or Casa Figueres, designed in Modernist style by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1900-09, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The building was built in Gaudi's neo-Gothic style on the ruins of an old castle. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mask representing Neptune, Roman god of the sea, on the facade of an 18th century mansion, on the Quai de la Fosse, Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. Nantes was an important trading port, profiting from the slave trade from 17th - 19th century. This quayside area houses the large mansions built by wealthy shipowners and slave traders, but also previously housed many bars and a red light district frequented by sailors. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mask representing a sailor, on the facade of a mansion on the Quai Turenne on the Ile Feydeau, in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. Nantes was an important trading port, profiting greatly from the slave trade from 17th - 19th century. The Ile Feydeau area, a former island in the Loire, was developed from the 1720s with large mansions built by wealthy shipowners and slave traders, under the patronage of Paul Esprit Feydeau de Brou, minister of state. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Detail of muqarnas niches and decorative plasterwork on the facade of the Mudejar Palace, or Palacio del Rey Don Pedro, built by Pedro I of Castile, 1334-1369, in 1364, in the Patio de la Monteria, or Courtyard of the Hunt, where the King would assemble with his nobles and scouts or monteros to go hunting, in the Real Alcazar, a Moorish royal palace in Seville, Andalusia, Spain. The Alcazar was first founded as a fort in 913, then developed as a palace in the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries and used by both Muslim and Christian rulers. The Alcazar is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Detail of the facade of the Mudejar Palace, or Palacio del Rey Don Pedro, built by Pedro I of Castile, 1334-1369, in 1364, with muqarnas niches, plasterwork, tiles and inscriptions, in the Patio de la Monteria, or Courtyard of the Hunt, where the King would assemble with his nobles and scouts or monteros to go hunting, in the Real Alcazar, a Moorish royal palace in Seville, Andalusia, Spain. The Alcazar was first founded as a fort in 913, then developed as a palace in the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries and used by both Muslim and Christian rulers. The Alcazar is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Relief of a woman at a window, believed to be Macee de Leodepart, wife of Jacques Coeur and daughter of the provost of Bourges, on the main facade of the Palais Jacques Coeur, huge manor house built 1443-51 in Flamboyant Gothic style, on the Place Jacques Coeur, Bourges, France. Below the false window is a heart (not seen here), which, paired with the shell symbol (a coquille Saint-Jacques) beneath the other false window, represents the name Jacques Coeur. Jacques Coeur, 1395-1456, was a wealthy merchant and was made master of the mint to King Charles VII in 1438. The building is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Relief of a woman at a window, believed to be Macee de Leodepart, wife of Jacques Coeur and daughter of the provost of Bourges, on the main facade of the Palais Jacques Coeur, huge manor house built 1443-51 in Flamboyant Gothic style, on the Place Jacques Coeur, Bourges, France. Below the false window is a heart, which, paired with the shell symbol (a coquille Saint-Jacques) beneath the other false window, represents the name Jacques Coeur. Jacques Coeur, 1395-1456, was a wealthy merchant and was made master of the mint to King Charles VII in 1438. The building is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Christ on the cross between the Virgin and St John, on the North portal, dedicated to Christ's Passion, of the main West facade of the Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Reims or Reims Cathedral, Reims, Champagne-Ardenne, France. The cathedral was built 1211-75 in French Gothic style with work continuing into the 14th century, and was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1991. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sculptural detail with figures on horseback on the North portal, dedicated to Christ's Passion, of the main West facade of the Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Reims or Reims Cathedral, Reims, Champagne-Ardenne, France. The cathedral was built 1211-75 in French Gothic style with work continuing into the 14th century, and was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1991. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Christ, above the South portal of the main West facade of the Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Reims or Reims Cathedral, Reims, Champagne-Ardenne, France. The cathedral was built 1211-75 in French Gothic style with work continuing into the 14th century, and was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1991. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Statue of Christ on the cross on the facade of the Basilique Notre-Dame de l'Epine, or Basilica of Our Lady of the Thorn, L'Epine, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France. The church was built 1405-1527 in Flamboyant Gothic style, is listed as a historic monument and as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of the Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Main facade of Guadix Cathedral, or the Catedral de la Encarnacion de Guadix, designed by Gaspar Cayon de la Vega in the 18th century, with the upper part sculpted by Fernandez Pachote and Domingo Thomas, and the marble Incarnation by Antonio Valeriano Moyano, Guadix, Andalusia, Southern Spain. The cathedral was built 16th - 18th centuries in Baroque style, by architects including Diego Siloe. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Baroque main facade, cathedral of Tortosa dedicated to Santa Maria, 14th - 16 th century, Tortosa, Tarragona, Spain. This portal was designed by Marti Abaria in 1625 but construction was not carry out until the following century between the years 1728 and 1757. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Courtyard facade with painted decoration of bases of flowers and blue ceramic tiled roofs over the windows, in the Palau Ducal in Gandia, on the Costa del Azahar, Valencia, Spain. The Ducal Palace of the Borgias of Gandia was originally built in the 14th and 15th centuries in Valencian Gothic style, and later added to in Renaissance, baroque and neo-Gothic style. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sunflower ceramic tiles on the rear facade of the El Capricho de Gaudi, or Villa Quijano, a Modernist villa designed by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1883-85 under his assistant Cristobal Cascante, in Comillas, Cantabria, Spain. The villa was commissioned by Maximo Diaz de Quijano as a summer house. It is from Gaudi's orientalist period, with azulejos tiles and domes. The building has housed a museum since 2009. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Passion facade, built 1954-2018, detail of crown of thorns above columns of the pyramidal pediment, at the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia, an unfinished catholic church designed in Gothic Revival, Art Nouveau and Modernist style by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and begun in 1882 by Francisco de Paula del Villar, continued from 1883 by Gaudi, consecrated 2010 and still undergoing construction, in Eixample, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The basilica is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Photographed 2021. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Bell towers, completed 1977, with the word Sanctus or Holy, and sculpture of the Ascension of Christ, on the Passion facade, built 1954-2018, at the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia, an unfinished catholic church designed in Gothic Revival, Art Nouveau and Modernist style by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and begun in 1882 by Francisco de Paula del Villar, continued from 1883 by Gaudi, consecrated 2010 and still undergoing construction, in Eixample, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The basilica is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Photographed 2021. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Soldier (left) and (right) Veronica with her cloth with the face of Jesus, from a sculptural group of Golgotha or Calvary, by Josep Maria Subirachs, 1927-2014, on the Passion facade, built 1954-2018, at the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia, an unfinished catholic church designed in Gothic Revival, Art Nouveau and Modernist style by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and begun in 1882 by Francisco de Paula del Villar, continued from 1883 by Gaudi, consecrated 2010 and still undergoing construction, in Eixample, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The basilica is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Photographed 2021. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Veronica with her cloth with the face of Jesus, from a sculptural group of Golgotha or Calvary, by Josep Maria Subirachs, 1927-2014, on the Passion facade, built 1954-2018, at the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia, an unfinished catholic church designed in Gothic Revival, Art Nouveau and Modernist style by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and begun in 1882 by Francisco de Paula del Villar, continued from 1883 by Gaudi, consecrated 2010 and still undergoing construction, in Eixample, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The basilica is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Photographed 2021. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Lion of Judah sculpture, on the pediment of the portico of the Passion facade, built 1954-2018, at the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia, an unfinished catholic church designed in Gothic Revival, Art Nouveau and Modernist style by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and begun in 1882 by Francisco de Paula del Villar, continued from 1883 by Gaudi, consecrated 2010 and still undergoing construction, in Eixample, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The basilica is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Photographed 2021. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Passion facade, built 1954-2018, with fruit pinnacles and the words Sursum Corda or Lift up your Hearts, at the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia, an unfinished catholic church designed in Gothic Revival, Art Nouveau and Modernist style by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and begun in 1882 by Francisco de Paula del Villar, continued from 1883 by Gaudi, consecrated 2010 and still undergoing construction, in Eixample, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The basilica is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Photographed 2021. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Bell towers, completed 1977, with the word Sanctus or Holy, and sculpture of the Ascension of Christ, on the Passion facade, built 1954-2018, at the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia, an unfinished catholic church designed in Gothic Revival, Art Nouveau and Modernist style by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and begun in 1882 by Francisco de Paula del Villar, continued from 1883 by Gaudi, consecrated 2010 and still undergoing construction, in Eixample, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The basilica is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Photographed 2021. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Resurrection, sculptural group with Mary Magdalene, Mary Cleophas, Mary Salome and the Angel, by Francesc Fajula, on the terrace between the stained glass window and the Passion facade, built 1954-2018, at night, at the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia, an unfinished catholic church designed in Gothic Revival, Art Nouveau and Modernist style by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and begun in 1882 by Francisco de Paula del Villar, continued from 1883 by Gaudi, consecrated 2010 and still undergoing construction, in Eixample, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The basilica is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Photographed 2021. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Stone mosaic in geometric patterns on the main facade, detail, at Torre Bellesguard, or Casa Figueres, designed in Modernist style by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1900-09, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. On the left is the wrought iron gate by Domingo Sugranes on the main entrance door. The building was built in Gaudi's neo-Gothic style on the ruins of an old castle. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Stone mosaic in geometric patterns on the main facade, detail, at Torre Bellesguard, or Casa Figueres, designed in Modernist style by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1900-09, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The building was built in Gaudi's neo-Gothic style on the ruins of an old castle. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Facade at the rear of the house, with putto sculpture and green and white ceramic tiles with floral decoration, at Casa Vicens, a Catalan Modernist and Art Nouveau style house designed by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1883, on the Carrer de les Carolines in the Gracia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The house was commissioned by Manuel Vicens i Montaner as a summer residence and contains many references to mudejar architecture. The building is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Facade, with iron lantern, decorative bricks and ceramic tiles with floral decoration, at Casa Vicens, a Catalan Modernist and Art Nouveau style house designed by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1883, on the Carrer de les Carolines in the Gracia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The house was commissioned by Manuel Vicens i Montaner as a summer residence and contains many references to mudejar architecture. The building is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Facade at the rear of the house, with putto sculpture and green and white ceramic tiles with floral decoration, at Casa Vicens, a Catalan Modernist and Art Nouveau style house designed by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1883, on the Carrer de les Carolines in the Gracia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The house was commissioned by Manuel Vicens i Montaner as a summer residence and contains many references to mudejar architecture. The building is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Building facade with date of 1898, in the Gracia district, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Gracia was an independent municipality 1626-1897 before being incorporated into the city of Barcelona. It is a vibrant district with wide boulevards and squares, with many boutiques and galleries. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Rear facade and tiled rear courtyard, accessed from the family's private dining room on the Noble Floor, at the Casa Batllo, originally built in 1877 by Emilio Sala Cortes and totally remodelled 1904-6 by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, in catalan Modernisme and art nouveau style, for Josep Batllo y Casanovas, a textile industrialist, on the Passeig de Gracia in the Illa de la Discordia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The building is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • House facade beside the marina in Port-Vendres, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. Port-Vendres is a fishing port with a deep water harbour on the Vermilion Coast near the Spanish border. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mask with horns of plenty, probably representing a merchant, on the facade of an 18th century mansion on the Place de la Bourse, in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. Nantes was an important trading port, profiting from the slave trade from 17th - 19th century. The city houses large mansions built by wealthy shipowners and slave traders. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mask representing a bourgeois slave trader from Nantes, on the facade of a mansion on the Quai Turenne on Ile Feydeau, in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. Nantes was an important trading port, profiting greatly from the slave trade from 17th - 19th century. The Ile Feydeau area, a former island in the Loire, was developed from the 1720s with large mansions built by wealthy shipowners and slave traders. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mask representing a pirate, on the facade of a mansion on the Rue Kervegan on Ile Feydeau, in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. Nantes was an important trading port, profiting greatly from the slave trade from 17th - 19th century. The Ile Feydeau area, a former island in the Loire, was developed from the 1720s with large mansions built by wealthy shipowners and slave traders. The Rue Kervegan is its main street, named after Nantes mayor and shipowner Christophe-Clair Danyel de Kervegan, 1735-1817, and houses 20 such buildings. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mask representing a pirate, on the facade of a mansion on the Rue Kervegan on Ile Feydeau, in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. Nantes was an important trading port, profiting greatly from the slave trade from 17th - 19th century. The Ile Feydeau area, a former island in the Loire, was developed from the 1720s with large mansions built by wealthy shipowners and slave traders. The Rue Kervegan is its main street, named after Nantes mayor and shipowner Christophe-Clair Danyel de Kervegan, 1735-1817, and houses 20 such buildings. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mask representing a pirate, on the facade of a mansion on the Rue Kervegan on Ile Feydeau, in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. Nantes was an important trading port, profiting greatly from the slave trade from 17th - 19th century. The Ile Feydeau area, a former island in the Loire, was developed from the 1720s with large mansions built by wealthy shipowners and slave traders. The Rue Kervegan is its main street, named after Nantes mayor and shipowner Christophe-Clair Danyel de Kervegan, 1735-1817, and houses 20 such buildings. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mask representing a lion, on the facade of a mansion on the Quai Turenne on the Ile Feydeau, in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. Nantes was an important trading port, profiting greatly from the slave trade from 17th - 19th century. The Ile Feydeau area, a former island in the Loire, was developed from the 1720s with large mansions built by wealthy shipowners and slave traders, under the patronage of Paul Esprit Feydeau de Brou, minister of state. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mask representing an African woman, on the facade of a building on the Allee Brancas in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. Nantes was an important trading port, profiting from the slave trade from 17th - 19th century, and houses many large mansions built by wealthy shipowners and slave traders. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mask representing an African woman, on the facade of a building on the Allee Brancas in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. Nantes was an important trading port, profiting from the slave trade from 17th - 19th century, and houses many large mansions built by wealthy shipowners and slave traders. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Two winged creatures with human heads drinking from a vase, sculptural detail from the facade on the Rue Bourbonnoux, above the doorway to the vaulted passageway, at the Hotel Lallemant, a mansion built 1495-1518 in French Renaissance style by the Lallemant merchant family, in Bourges, Centre Val de Loire, France. The sculptural decoration on the building, made by both French and Italian sculptors, has been interpreted by Fulcanelli and others as having an alchemical symbolism. Since 1951 the building has housed the Musee des Arts Decoratifs and it was listed as a historic monument in 1840. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Reliefs by Anna Quinquaud, 1890-1984, on the Residence Lucien Paye, designed by Jean Vernon, Bruno Philippe and Albert Laprade, 1883-1978, and inaugurated 1949, in the Cite Internationale Universitaire de Paris, in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, France. Originally the Overseas French Territories House, the building was later used to house students from Sub-Saharan African countries. Pierre Meauze, 1913-1978, sculpted the pillars at the entrance and Anna Quinquaud made the bas-reliefs on the facade. The CIUP or Cite U was founded in 1925 after the First World War by Andre Honnorat and Emile Deutsch de la Meurthe to create a place of cooperation and peace amongst students and researchers from around the world. It consists of 5,800 rooms in 40 residences, accepting another 12,000 student residents each year. Picture by Manuel Cohen. L'autorisation de reproduire cette œuvre doit etre demandee aupres de l'ADAGP/Permission to reproduce this work of art must be obtained from DACS.
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  • Reliefs by Anna Quinquaud, 1890-1984, on the Residence Lucien Paye, designed by Jean Vernon, Bruno Philippe and Albert Laprade, 1883-1978, and inaugurated 1949, in the Cite Internationale Universitaire de Paris, in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, France. Originally the Overseas French Territories House, the building was later used to house students from Sub-Saharan African countries. Pierre Meauze, 1913-1978, sculpted the pillars at the entrance and Anna Quinquaud made the bas-reliefs on the facade. The CIUP or Cite U was founded in 1925 after the First World War by Andre Honnorat and Emile Deutsch de la Meurthe to create a place of cooperation and peace amongst students and researchers from around the world. It consists of 5,800 rooms in 40 residences, accepting another 12,000 student residents each year. Picture by Manuel Cohen. L'autorisation de reproduire cette œuvre doit etre demandee aupres de l'ADAGP/Permission to reproduce this work of art must be obtained from DACS.
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  • Main entrance with pillars by Pierre Meauze, 1913-1978, and reliefs by Anna Quinquaud, 1890-1984, Residence Lucien Paye, designed by Jean Vernon, Bruno Philippe and Albert Laprade, 1883-1978, and inaugurated 1949, in the Cite Internationale Universitaire de Paris, in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, France. Originally the Overseas French Territories House, the building was later used to house students from Sub-Saharan African countries. Pierre Meauze sculpted the pillars at the entrance and Anna Quinquaud made the bas-reliefs on the facade. The CIUP or Cite U was founded in 1925 after the First World War by Andre Honnorat and Emile Deutsch de la Meurthe to create a place of cooperation and peace amongst students and researchers from around the world. It consists of 5,800 rooms in 40 residences, accepting another 12,000 student residents each year. Picture by Manuel Cohen. L'autorisation de reproduire cette œuvre doit etre demandee aupres de l'ADAGP/Permission to reproduce this work of art must be obtained from DACS.
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  • Architectural detail with sculpted human head support and Gothic canopies, on the main facade of the Palais Jacques Coeur, huge manor house built 1443-51 in Flamboyant Gothic style, on the Place Jacques Coeur, Bourges, France. Jacques Coeur, 1395-1456, was a wealthy merchant and was made master of the mint to King Charles VII in 1438. The building is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Noah building the Ark, sculptural detail from the frieze on Genesis in the arcature of the West portals, 13th century, restored in the 19th century, on the West facade of Bourges Cathedral or the Cathedrale Saint-Etienne de Bourges, built 1195-1230 in French Gothic style and consecrated in 1324, in Bourges, Centre-Val de Loire, France. The cathedral is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • The West facade with its 5 portals, built 13th century, at Bourges Cathedral or the Cathedrale Saint-Etienne de Bourges, built 1195-1230 in French Gothic style and consecrated in 1324, in Bourges, Centre-Val de Loire, France. The central portal reflects the nave inside and is sculpted with scenes of the Last Judgement, the South portals for the 2 South side aisles are sculpted with scenes from the lives of St Ursinus and St Stephen and the 2 North portals for the 2 North side aisles are sculpted with scenes from the life of the Virgin. The cathedral is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Puerta de San Juan (St John's Gate), North East facade of the Great Mosque of Cordoba, now part of the Cathedral, on the calle Magistral Gonzalez Frances, Cordoba, Andalusia, Southern Spain. The first church built here by the Visigoths in the 7th century was split in half by the Moors, becoming half church, half mosque. In 784, the Great Mosque of Cordoba was built in its place, but in 1236 it was converted into a catholic church, with a Renaissance cathedral nave built in the 16th century. The historic centre of Cordoba is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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