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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsthe building you keep seeing behind Zelensky is the House with Chimeras , 1902 [LOOK AT THIS!!]
the building you keep seeing behind Zelenskiy is fucking insane, btw. it's called the House with Chimeras and it's just an inexplicable surrealist nouveau mansion that happens to be right opposite the President's office. the entablature has rhinos. Władysław Horodecki, 1902.
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the building you keep seeing behind Zelensky is the House with Chimeras , 1902 [LOOK AT THIS!!] (Original Post)
IcyPeas
Feb 2022
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50 Shades Of Blue
(10,043 posts)1. Fucking insane is right! That's incredible!
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)2. Wow!
Does someone live in that?
Glorfindel
(9,733 posts)3. That's really quite wonderful, IcyPeas.
Thanks for sharing.
electric_blue68
(14,933 posts)4. I see frogs up at the top. 😄
IcyPeas
(21,904 posts)6. more pictures in this article. also some pictures of the interior
https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/house-with-chimaeras/
The theme of wildlife continued inside the house. High reliefs, stucco work, and sculptures decorate the ceilings, walls and stairs, all now preserved in their original form (although, of course, they have been restored). It is noteworthy that outside the building all the depicted creatures are alive, and those inside dead. This is down to Horodetskyi himself. He was an avid hunter, and while others were not always pleased to see the carcasses and skulls of game, the architect himself enjoyed it.
electric_blue68
(14,933 posts)11. That was how you say....
wild. 😄😉
Some interesting floral motifs.
Esp the green and painted yellow ones.
Now I have to look at that stained glass article. 👍
Ty.
gademocrat7
(10,667 posts)5. Wow
That is an amazing building.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,895 posts)7. They don't make them like that any more, do they?
electric_blue68
(14,933 posts)8. I guess not... 😄
ChazII
(6,206 posts)9. Sadly, no. n/t
ornotna
(10,807 posts)10. Pretty cool building
Some history and interior shots at this link.
https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/house-with-chimaeras/
sinkingfeeling
(51,473 posts)12. Saw it in 2018.
crickets
(25,983 posts)13. I love this! It's beautiful. Weird, but beautiful. nt
blogslug
(38,016 posts)14. Made mostly from cement!
Very cool.