London Byzantine
Early morning light casts the shadow of the chandeliers - modelled on byzantine orginals - across a nave pier.
Friday, 15 June 2007
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2 comments:
I have always thought the chandeliers remarkably reminiscent of a cardinal's galero- is this merely a felicitous coincidence?
Interesting - but the shape of the chandeliers ante-dates Cardinals' galeros by some centuries. They are modelled on the chandeliers in Byzantine churches, like Haghia Sophia, where the light bulbs would have been little oil containers.
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