Whatzit?

[webenda]

Whazzzit?

Murph, I have seen that architecture someplace but cannot remember exactly where.

I can tell it is not the "Curvy Church."


We need to see more of that curvaceous structure.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Thanks for responding, Wayne.
That photo is of a pretty interesting interpretation to go with the edited photo I posted; yet, not of what I had posted.

You asked for more, so here is more - a bit more....but it provides quite a bit more....

[webenda]

Casa Batlló, by Antoni Gaudí, Barcelona, Spain.

Did you take the tour, Murph?

The video on this page should bring back memories.=> https://youmedia.fanpage.it/video/ah/WGYudeSwBoEHqziW

[healey36]

Whazzzit?

Onamental masonry on Notre Dame cathedral?

Hey...I wasn't too far off!

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Casa Batlló, by Antoni Gaudí, Barcelona, Spain.

Did you take the tour, Murph?

The video on this page should bring back memories.=> https://youmedia.fanpage.it/video/ah/WGYudeSwBoEHqziW

You are correct, Wayne. Of course you are! In architecture, Art Nouveau was certainly unique, and Gaudi a leader among the curvilinear advocates/architects. Some folks feel his name was the origin of the word, "gaudy," to say something was far over-the-top, even though the word predates Antoni Gaudi by quite a bit. Yet, one could say his apartment building was over-the-top for many.

In my view, I think he was simply having fun.

P.S. Did you ever see his cathedral, "Sagrada Familia," considered still unfinished to this day, I believe, even though Spain has moved to make progress with/in/on/at it.

Part of the apartment building is pictured here...

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Whazzzit?

Onamental masonry on Notre Dame cathedral?

Hey...I wasn't too far off!

"Hey," is right, Healey, because you brought the discussion directly into the realm of architecture. I had been theorizing, throughout my cropping and editing for the first presentation of this object, that somebody might think we were looking at a living thing, perhaps flora, given the design precincts infused throughout Art Nouveau.

Regarding not being "too far off," you were just one country off and a couple centuries of artistic styles distant , but you headed us in the right direction. Bravo.
PLUS, you got "ornamental masonry" right, too!

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Wayne, The photo you shared of the "Curvy Church" is quite a serious testimony to so much sadness that has inflicted our society, IMHO, nowadays. It reminds me of a defunct R.C. church that used to be a much loved neighborhood congregation in Duquesne, Pennsylvania, which suffered a similar fate and destruction. At least, the Blessed Sacrament and its Tabernacle had been removed, of course, before the vandals took over either edifice.

[webenda]

Murph, the angel painted on the wall of the church (Holy Trinity?) reminds me of this 1797 church. It was once in the same condition.

Whatzit? What is the name of the church with this Sanctuary?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church? (Michael is not really a "saint," he is an angel, the leader of all the angels.)

[webenda]

No, not St. Michael's.

Hint, it is named after this guy:

[webenda]

You might not recognize his nationality from the carving so here is part of his Bio.
To protect his real name for the moment, we will call him, Saint X (like in Malcolm X.)

Born in the Castle of Xavier near Sanguesa, Navarre, 7 April 1506; died on the Island of Sancian near the coast of China, 2 December 1552. In 1525, having completed a preliminary course of studies in his own country, X went to Paris, where he entered the Collège de Sainte-Barbe. Here he met the Savoyard, Pierre Favre, and a warm personal friendship sprang up between them. It was at this same college that St. Ignatius Loyola, who was already planning the foundation of the Society of Jesus, resided for a time as a guest in 1529. He soon won the confidence of the two young men; first Favre and later X offered themselves with him in the formation of the Society. Four others, Lainez, Salmerón, Rodríguez, and Bobadilla, having joined them, the seven made the famous vow of Montmartre, 15 Aug. 1534.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Francis Xavier, co-founder of the Jesuits ?

[webenda]

You got it, St. Francis Xavier Church, Tucson, AZ.

When I went into it in 1972 I had no clue there was artwork on the walls. It was covered with a few hundred years of candle smoke and desert dust.

In 1989 the Patronato San Xavier began raising money to restore the mission. The interior restoration was a six-year project. It took two years to restore the main altar (retablo mayor), which was a difficult process that involved the use of chemicals to clean and protect the gold and silver leaf coverings. The sixth and final year of the interior work restored the choir loft, the area below the loft (sotocoro) and the sacristy.
The work on the mission exterior was to stabilize the walls and domes of the mission. The cost of just this exceeded 1.5 million dollars. Currently the church's exterior is being repaired and restored. To do this, the construction crew is using a recipe used by the Tohono O'odham peoples, which when baked in the hot Arizona sun makes the church's exterior a bright white color which helps in being able to resist the harsh desert weather.

I watched one of he O'odham workmen boiling prickly pear cactus and mixing the concoction with plaster to apply duriing the restoration during that time. The goop bakes to a brilliant white but only lasts about ten years. They seem to be reapplying it to some section every year. This year they had had scaffolding around the right tower in February but did not begin restoration. It needs it, as you can see in this photo taken in June of this year.

[webenda]

The angel painted on the wall in your photo and this carving in Mission San Xavier del Bac have a title. Whatzit?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

A Seraph of the Seraphim?