The Art of Looking Up

Probably it is not easy to visit all these beautiful places in person, but one can wonder at the beauty in the world, gazing at these detailed pictures. It is almost like you can touch them and imagine being surrounded by a frieze, stain glass painting.

How poetic - the meaning of looking up and what it means to humanity - ceiling originf from caelum - sky or heaven. Next time you see surrounded open space, see the sky in it. Reminds me of the sky ceiling in Caesar Palace,Vegas. (illusory sky - quadratura from another painting)

                                         Courtesy: flickr

Salvador Dali, Palace of the Wind

Gender aspect of the forgotten women painters.

You find out about the details of the painting, the challenges faced by the painters when it came to for exa - depicting 'living water'.

'weight bearing columns modelled on the hyperbolic paraboloids of tree trunks and their branches' of Sagrada Familia. Do the trees have that pattern, so they can hold the sky?

This book opens your eyes to ceiling sin many other parts of the world - Turkey, Japan.
Didnt know that Gustav Klimt did a ceiling painting.
What better place than a library to have a ceiling painting? Sweden Metrostations.
Toluca Botanical Gardens are amazing.
You might have seen Chihuly's ceiling in Bellagio.
Mocarabes honeycomb work like stalactites and stalagmites of cave.
Havent heard of badal mahal before.

Quadro riportato

And now, you can start 'looking up to this book'.