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Images from last Sunday’s architectural tour – remnants of the Great Exhibition of 1906

12/01/201230/01/2012Valentin Mandache

Remnants of the Great Exhibition of 1906, Bucharest — Sunday 8 Jan. '12 architectural tour in Carol Park, Bucharest: Remnants of the Great Exhibition of 1906 (©Valentin Mandache)

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Echoes of the Scythian horse centred culture (see the gable end finial) in the villages of northern Dobrudja: a Romanian peasant house, now functioning as ethnographic museum, from Enisala, in the environs of the Danube Delta, an area peppered with hundreds of ancient (6th -3rd c BCE) Scythian and Getic burial mounds. #enisala #schythian #horseculture #ethnography #dobrudja #balkans #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

The Wallachian style man. On the threshold of the old refectory of Horezu Monastery (late 17th c). Oltenia province. #wallachian #wallachianstyle #oltenia #ottomanarchitecture #horezumonastery #balkans #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

A last posting from my seminal Salonika Study Trip, a place, which is so close to my base in Bucharest, but so remote in terms of culture and history, metaphorically antipodean, reflecting how disjoined and diverse the Southeast quarter of Europe has always been. This is the funerary box, Larnax, which contained the ashes of Philip II, the King of Macedon, decorated with the 16-rayed sun of ancient Macedonia, buried in the Agiai (Vergina) tumulus in 336 BC, together with his funerary crown, the golden oak wreath, the sacred tree of Zeus. They were found in the archaeological digs of 1977 by the archaeologist Manolis Andronikos, an equal of Howard Carter. #macedon #aigai #vergina #larnax #philipii #tumulus #salonikastudytrip #balkans #sputheasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

Interesting Byzantino - Western art confluences in the Greek icon painting of the 16th c and 17th c, probably from Venetian dominated areas. The two icons presented here (1st slide shows St John Chrysostom and St Gregorius within gothic surrounds, while 2nd is the Adoration of the Magi) are at the Byzantine Culture Museum in Thessaloniki, which unfortunately is very poorly labelled, even unprofessionally, just with the name of the works, some vague dating and often nothing about its initial location, other historical data and context. It was a huge disappointment for me that situation. #artsynthes #byzantineicon #thessaloniki #salonikastudytrip #balkans #byzantineart #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

My monthly fresh haircut selfie in front of Bucharest’s Greek Church. This time, Bogdan, my hairdresser, has chosen a “WWII Major” theme, whatever that means, perhaps in the context of the Ukraine war across the border. #freshhaircut #balkans #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

Salonika restaurant cat. #salonikastudytrip #thessaloniki #cat #cats #balkans #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

An example of field architectural historian at work. I am not an archive historian, my strong point is walking thousand upon thousand of km and examining in situ old buildings of historic, aesthetic and symbolism value, within a holistic methodological approach (historiography, geology, economics, engineering, climate and environment, mentality, politics). #salonikastudytrip #architecturalhistorian #casedeepoca #southeasteurope #valentinmandache

The early Byzantine portal between the narthex and the nave of St Demtrios Church in Thessaloniki, one of the original fragments of the church built in the 620s CE, still surviving. It is covered in the soot form the Great Fire of 1917, which damaged the edifice and destroyed a very large part of the historic city. #stdemetrios #thessaloniki #byzantine #salonikastudytrip #balkans #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

Quite a crude apotheosis in the mosaic on the apex of the dome of Hagia Sophia in Thessaloniki, a product of the immediate post-iconoclast period, in the 9th-10th c, when the skills of the artists were not yet finely tuned as they will be some centuries later with Renaissance harbinger mosaics such as the Deesis of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople or the Khora ones in the same city. #hagiasophia #thessaloniki #dome #mosaic #byzantine #salonikastudytrip #posticonoclastic #balkans #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

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