Romanesque Gallery

Budapest, Hungary - Fishermans Bastion

The Halaszbastya or Fisherman's Bastion. A terrace in neo-Gothic and neo-Romanesque style on the Buda bank of the Danube (on the Castle hill), Budapest, around Matthias Church. Designed by Frigyes Schulek and built between 1895 and 1902. Date: circa 1920s

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Sir Edwin Lutyens

Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869-1944), architect and renowned creator of the government buildings at Delhi and the Cenotaph among other notable structures. Pictured in his Mansfield Street offices during the Second World War when he was responsible for designing the reconstruction of the capital. He is posed beside a model segment for his design for the Metropolitan Cathedral of Liverpool, intended to be a massive Romanesque masterpiece, but only the crypt was completed, the ambitious building considered too expensive in post-war Britain. The crypt forms part of the overall modern structure designed by Sir Frederick Gibberd, completed in 1967. Date: 1942

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Architectural details of St. Mark's Basilica Venice, 1823

Architectural details of St. Mark's Basilica Venice, 1823. Section through the church, plan, carved capitals, columns, etc. Spaccato della Chiesa di S. Marco in Venezia. Facade of St. Mark's Basilica, Venice, 1823. Facciata di S. Marco in Venezia. After Seroux d'Agincourt's Architecture, 1823. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Il Costume Antico e Moderno, Florence, 1844

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