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And now the Saint Apostles’ #wallachian style #doorway , #bucharest. The church was built at the end of the 17th c. #ottomanart #ottomanarchitecture #wallachia #ottomanempire #architecture #architecturephotography #architecturehistory #casedeepoca #southeasteurope #balkans

The most beautiful #wallachian style #church #doorway and #door still in use is that of #satvropoleos #church in #bucharest , built in 1724, an achievement of the #ottoman Tulip Period in arts in this Christian frontier province of the Ottoman #caliphate . #wallachia #ottomanart #architecturehistory #southeasteurope #balkans #ottomanempire #casedeepoca #architecture #architecturephotography

Yet another #wallachian style #portal / #doorway beauty, that of Razvan #church in #bucharest (built at the beginning of the 18th c, during the golden age of the #ottomanart and #architecture , the famous Tulip Period). I have always been fascinated by the fact that the Wallachian style church doorways look like those embellishing their contemporary Ottoman #mosques . #architecturehistory #southeasteurope #tulipperiod #casedeepoca #architecturephotography #mosque #ottomanarchitecture #ottomanempire #wallachia

The base of a #tombstone in #wallachian style , kept in the veranda of Razvan #church in #bucharest , which was built at the beginning of the 18th c. Its outlines and composition reflect the #ottoman #tulipperiod in arts. #architecturehistory #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #balkans #architecturephotography #ottomanart #ottomanempire

Big #chagrin : the light is superb today in #bucharest and I wanted to take a few images of #stravopoleos #church , but the spot was occupied by a crew filming an #oriental #gypsymusic singer, the dreaded #manele #music gender, which is one of the worst possible cultural plagues affecting #romania. I should not complain, these people in front of this most beautiful #wallachian style #architecture monument are just the contemporary Romanian #nation , an ethnic mix of Gypsy and old stock Romanian, which has been assimilated some decades ago during Ceausescu’s times. #casedeepoca #architecturehistory #southeasteurope #balkan #balkanmentality

Me trying to have a conversation with one of the resident #cats at #topkapi Place in #istanbul during my visit last December. Here is in the chapel mosque of the Imperial Harem. #istanbulstudytrip #casedeepoca #cat

Another #wallachian style beauty of a #doorway . This one is from #mantuleasa #church in #bucharest , built in 1734 during the #tulipperiod in #ottomanarchitecture . The Wallachian architecture, incorrectly termed as #brancovenesc by the pathetic and unprofessional Romanian art historians, is an unique local #christian interprtation of the #islamicart developed in the #ottomanempire in the late 17th c and throughout the 18th c. #ottomanart #balkans #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #architecturehistory #architecturephotography #architecture

#cat encounter today in central #bucharest during my architectural history fieldwork. #southeasteurope #casedeepoca

The wooden #artdeco doors are quite rare, the majority of them being made from metal and glass, in tone with the ethos of the style as an expression of the machine era after the Great War. This example is in #bucharest , Piata Romana area, and it is still retaining its original #crystalglass panes. #1930s #southeasteurope #balkans #architecturephotography #architecturehistory #casedeepoca

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