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08 March 2024

EL PRAT DE LLOBREGAT, Catalunya, Spain. Sculpture "Nen amb sargantana"


EL PRAT DE LLOBREGAT
Plaça de la Vila

Nen amb sargantana ('Boy with lizard'), bronze sculpture by Francisco López Hernández (1932-2017), installed in September 1994.

The sculptor Francisco López Hernández (Madrid, 28 April 1932 - 8 January 2017) belonged to a family of goldsmiths and received his first artistic training from his father. He later studied at the School of Arts and Crafts of Madrid and at the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando. In 1956, he traveled to Rome with a scholarship from the Ministry of Education, and also made stays in Paris and Greece. He exhibited for the first time in 1955, and in 1960 he married the visual artist Isabel Quintanilla and they moved to live in Rome between 1960 and 1964, where he worked as a professor at the Spanish Academy. His works are in numerous museums, including the Reina Sofía Art Center in Madrid, the British Museum in London, the Neue Pinakothek in Munich, the Juan March Foundation and the Iberdrola Collection.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 11.2022.

TALLINN, Estonia. Aleksander Nevski Orthodox Cathedral


TALLINN
Aleksander Nevski Orthodox Cathedral. Three of the five domes.

This is an Eastern Orthodox cathedral in central Tallinn, on the Toompea hill. It was built in 1894–1900, when the country was part of the former Russian Empire. It was designed by the Russian architect Mikhail Preobrazhensky (1854-1930) in a typical Russian Revival style, although based on the traditional characteristics of Russian cathedrals. The base of the building is made of Finnish granite. The temple is richly decorated and has eleven bells cast in St. Petersburg, the largest of which weighs about 16 tons, more than the other ten combined. It has three altars and five onion-shaped domes, on which there are gilded iron crosses. The gilding of the domes was carried out in 1898 by the master Piotr Abrosimov. Inside there are three iconostases made of carved and gilded wood with icons painted on copper and zinc plates in the Petersburg workshop of academician Aleksandr Novoskoltsev. The windows are decorated with stained glass, made by Emil Steinke, and there are also paintings and mosaics. The facades are decorated with mosaic panels made in Aleksandr Frolov's workshop in Saint Petersburg. The 58-meter-high building was completely restored at the end of the 20th century, after the restoration of the Republic of Estonia (1991).

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 08.2005.

MONOPOLI, Puglia, Italy. Supporting arches


MONOPOLI
Salita a San Pietro.

Photo © Antonio Fino.

07 March 2024

BARCELONA, Spain. Jaume I tower


Harbour, Moll de Barcelona.

Jaume I tower.

This tower, designed by engineer Carles Buïgas, was built in 1931 (it was inaugurated on 13 September of that year) to house the intermediate station of the Aerial Tramway that connects the port of Barcelona with Montjuïc mountain. It has a height of 107 meters (351 feet), it is a notable example of iron architecture and for its construction, light steel structures in the shape of a Saint Andrew's cross were used. Its upper end is accessed by stairs, and the two viewpoints are characteristic, one intermediate and the other upper. Until 1966 it was the highest cable car support in the world. It is protected as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest. His name is that of Jaume I (James I), count of Barcelona and king of Aragon.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 10.2022.

BARCELONA, Spain. Lamp


Estació del Morrot (Zona Franca - Port).

Artistic lamp.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 10.2022.

BARCELONA, Spain. Shutter. Art Street


Carrer de Mallorca Nº 257b.

Restaurant Sense Seny, 2021.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 11.2022.

05 March 2024

BARCELONA, Spain. Textual graffiti


BARCELONA
Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes.

Textual graffiti:

STOP POBRESA / STOP MONARQUIA
[Stop poverty / Stop monarchy]

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 05.2022.

BARCELONA, Spain. Fragment of mural (2021)


BARCELONA
Carrer d'Alpens, 26.
Escola Gayarre 

Fragment of mural made in 2021 on one of the walls of the Gayarre School by the artist Jaume Montserrat (Sant Andreu de la Barca, Barcelona, 1988), with the participation of students and students' families.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 01.2022.

28 February 2024

EL PRAT DE LLOBREGAT, Catalunya, Spain. Placard of tiles


EL PRAT DE LLOBREGAT

El silenci és signe de pau. / Per favor, no fem la guerra.
[Silence is a sign of peace. / Please, let's not make war.]

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 11.2022.

RHODOS / ΡΟΔΟΣ, Greece. Supporting arches


RHODOS
Supporting arches.

In some streets of the old city of Rhodos you can see supporting arches between the facades of the buildings.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 11.2011.

BARCELONA, Spain. Casa Marquès d'Alella (1901-1907)


BARCELONA
Balconies of the Casa Marquès d'Alella, in Rambla de Catalunya, 84.

The Casa Marquès d'Alella, in the Modernist style, built in 1901, was designed by the Catalan architect Salvador Viñals i Sabaté (1847-1926), and modified and expanded in 1907 by Miquel Madorell i Rius (1869-1936). Characteristic of its façade is the lateral gallery of the first two floors, which can be seen in the photo, semicircular with small trefoil arches, and the other balconies with wrought iron railings.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 11.2022.

BARCELONA, Spain. Door of the Àngel Batlló House (1891-1896)


BARCELONA
Door of the Àngel Batlló House, in carrer de Mallorca, 257.

The Casa Àngel Batlló, in a Modernist style, was designed by the Catalan architect Josep Vilaseca i Casanovas (1848-1910), and was built between 1891 and 1896.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 11.2022.

16 February 2024

09 February 2024

TARRAGONA, Spain. Mural of Orion Leim


Carrer de Sant Joan, el Serrallo.

Mural:
Fishermen of the Serrallo (2020), work of the street artist Orion Leim, pseudonym of Isaac Muñoz, born in Barcelona on 15 August 1988.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 12.2023.

SYMI / ΣΎΜΗ (Dodecanese), Greece. Young fisherman statue


Port of Yalos.

Bronze statue of Michalakis, a young fisherman.
Sculpture de Kostas Valsamis (Κώστας Βαλσάμης).

Kostas Valsamis (Κώστας Βαλσάμης, 1908–2003) was a Greek sculptor, born on the island of Symi, in the Ottoman Empire and died in Athens. In 1945 he received a scholarship from the French government and completed his studies at the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1980, the French Ministry of Culture awarded him the title of Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters, and since 1987 he was a corresponding member of the French Academy of Fine Arts. Among his works are the busts of Konstantinos Cavafis, Dominikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco) and Herodotus.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 11.2011.

VILADECANS (Catalunya), Spain. Cal Raurich


VILADECANS
Carrer de Sant Joan Nº 4.

Cal Raurich, also known as Cal Fusteret, is a late modern style building, designed by the Catalan architect August Planella i Poletti and built between 1919 and 1920. Its main feature is a small tower on the left side of its façade. Also notable are its continuous wrought iron balcony, the upper railing with rounded crowns, on a sloping cornice, with corbels, and the dentillation that decorates the upper part of the windows and doors. 

Photos © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 11.2020.

BARCELONA, Spain. Sculpture by Àngels Freixanet


Gardens of the Palau Robert, carrer de Còrsega Nº 310 (Eixample district).

Full blau
[Blue sheet]
Sculpture by Àngels Freixanet (2005).

Àngels Freixanet i Picanyol (Moià, 1940) is a Catalan sculptor and painter who began her artistic career in the world of painting. After a trip to New York, came into contact with the informal world, the great architectural spaces and the freedom of the avant-garde. There she was attracted to iron and decided definitively for sculpture. His work is often inspired by the shapes of nature, and many of his sculptures stand out for their strength and are an ecological example, since he recovers materials rejected by society and converts them, respecting their nature, into works of art, objects capable of to communicate ideas and transmit feelings. She has exhibited in various Spanish and European cities, and also in New York.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 09.2023.

08 February 2024

EL PRAT DE LLOBREGAT (Catalunya), Spain. Market


Plaça de la Vila Nº 12.

Municipal Market.

The market building, designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Bartra i Boada (1886-1912) and built in the "noucentista" style in 1921. It is made up of three naves joined by an octagonal central nave. A series of rectangular openings that function as windows are characteristic of the façade. The ornamentation of green ceramic tiles also stands out.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 11.2022.

EL PRAT DE LLOBREGAT (Catalunya), Spain. Balcony


Plaça de la Vila Nº 12.

Cal Xica, eclectic style building built in 1880 and renovated in 1931 by the architect Emilio Gutiérrez Díaz (Havana, 1898 - Hondarribia, Euskadi, 1965). Its balcony with classic columns and ornamentation of garlands and other sculpted elements of a neo-baroque character, such as the wavy crown where you can see a medallion with the initials of the owner, Josep Corominas.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 11.2022.

BARCELONA, Spain. Shutter. Street Art


Carrer del Coronel Sanfeliu Nº 10.

Bakery and cafe Casa Lupita.

In the banner (in Catalan):
Amnistia. Fem-nos lliures.
[Amnesty. Let's make ourselves free]

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 05.2022.

BARCELONA, Spain. Balconies. Ornamental sculptures


Passeig de Gràcia Nº 61.

The building was built in 1936.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 11.2022.

BARCELONA, Spain. Shutter. Street Art


Carrer de Mallorca Nº 200.

Mechanical workshop.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 11.2022.

BARCELONA, Spain. Shutter. Street Art


Carrer de Còrsena Nº 98.

Technology and robotics education center.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 02.2024.

04 February 2024

VILADECANS, Catalonia, Spain. Can Modolell


Plaça de la Vila. Con Modolell (Ajuntament / City hall).
Can Modolell.

Can Modolell is the result of a renovation carried out in 1892 of a fortified house with a defense tower built in the 16th century. This reform is the work of the Catalan modernist architect Josep Azemar i Pont (Figueres, 1862 - Barcelona, 1914). After the death of its owner, Magdalena Modolell i Freixas (1915), her heirs agreed to transfer the building to the Viladecans City Council, which became effective on March 31, 1920. The clock tower, visible in the photo, was added in the 1940s.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 11.2020.

BARCELONA, Spain. "Eivissenca", sculpture of Joan Centelles i Roig


Plaça d'Eivissa (Horta).

Eivissenca, ('Girl of Eivissa / Ibiza island'), sculpture of Joan Centelles i Roig.

Joan Centelles i Roig was a Catalan sculptor (Barcelona, 1887-1964). This sculpture was installed on March 19, 1965. It represents a female figure with the typical clothing of the island of Eivisse / Ibiza, which gives its name to the square.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 11.2022.