Esther's photos with the keyword: campanile

"Old South Church in Boston, Massachusetts, (also known as New Old South Church or Third Church) is a historic United Church of Christ congregation first organized in 1669. Its present building was designed in the Gothic Revival style by Charles Amos Cummings and Willard T. Sears, completed in 1873, and amplified by the architects Allen & Collens between 1935–1937. . . .Members of the congregation have included Samuel Adams, William Dawes, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Sewall, and Phillis Wheatley. In 1773, Samuel Adams gave the signals from the Old South Meeting House for the "war whoops" that started the Boston Tea Party. " "The church building was designed between 1870 and 1872 by the Boston architectural firm of Cummings and Sears in the Venetian Gothic style.... The first tower, completed in 1875 along with the present Narthex and sanctuary, had begun to list by the late 1920s. The cause was determined to be the faulty footings and piles anchored in the soft former swampland. They were insufficient for the load of the tower. The congregation engaged the architectural firm of Allen & Collens to design a replacement campanile and a new chapel to be named in memory of the Reverend George Angier Gordon. The tower was dismantled, and early 1930s technology of steam shovel and steel pilings provided a lasting solution." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_South_Church I was walking by this on a detour to work caused by major construction. I took this with my cell phone, so the colors are somewhat saturated and there is some distortion that I was unable to fully correct. A20180803 083526

Venice, Italy AIMG_4906

"San Giorgio Maggiore is a 16th century Benedictine church on the island of the same name in Venice, northern Italy, designed by Andrea Palladio and built between 1566 and 1610. The church is a basilica in the classical renaissance style and its brilliant white marble gleams above the blue water of the lagoon opposite the Piazzetta and forms the focal point of the view from every part of the Riva degli Schiavoni." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_San_Giorgio_Maggiore AIMG_4576

A large blue glass sculpture sits beneath a bell tower in Murano, Italy. Murano is located across the lagoon from Venice, has been a center of glass making since the 13th century, when the industry was moved from Venice due to the risk of fire and the noxious fumes. It was the main glass producing center in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries and it still produces beautiful artistic glass today. AIMG_4681

Venice, Italy AIMG_4721

Venice, Italy AIMG_4456

Santa Francesca Romana in Rome, Italy "was built in the second half of the 10th century, incorporating an eighth-century oratory that Pope Paul I excavated in the wing of the portico of the Temple of Venus and Roma; it was named Santa Maria Nova ("new St. Mary"), to distinguish it from the other Roman Forum church devoted to St. Mary, Santa Maria Antiqua ("ancient St. Mary"), which had become dilapidated in the 10th century; it was rebuilt by Pope Honorius II in the 13th century, when the campanile was built and the apse was decorated with mosaics of a Maestà, the Madonna enthroned accompanied by saints. The interior has been altered since. Since 1352 the church has been in the care of the Olivetans. In the 16th century the church was rededicated to Frances of Rome (canonized in 1608), whose relics are in the crypt. Its travertine porch and façade is by Carlo Lambardi, and was completed in 1615." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Francesca_Romana,_Rome AIMG_2306