Picnic at the Cathedral

  • About this blog
Cultural travel on a budget








Tallinn, Estonia
Zamość, Poland

Prague, Czech Republic

Urbino, Italy
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Brasov, Romania
Giza, Egypt
Mtskheta, Georgia



If you ban photography, how am I ever going to get another shot like this?


Exorcism of the Demons at Arezzo by Giotto. c. 1297-99 Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi Image from Wikipedia

Beehives


Henry Hinds Laboratory for Geophysical Sciences, architect, I.W. Colburn, 1969
Rebecca Crown Center, architect Walter Netsch, early 1960’s
Prentice Hospital, architect Bertrand Goldberg. Built 1975, demolished 2014. Photo by Umbugbene – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0
St. Mary of Nazareth, architect E. Todd Wheeler, 1975
Campus North Residential Commons, Studio Gang architects. 2016
Regenstein Library, architect Walter Netsch, 1970


From the Science Museum of the University of Coimbra
From Jerónimos Monastery
Detail from a door Igreja Matriz da Batalha ou Igreja da Exaltacao de Santa Cruz
Door of Igreja Matriz da Batalha ou Igreja da Exaltacao de Santa Cruz
From Batalha Monastery
From Batalha Monastery
Door from Coimbra University

From Batalha Monastery


Igreja do Carmo, Porto
Igreja de São Francisco, Porto
Church of the Atonement, Chicagi
Pingyao
Pingyao
Pingyao



















Osaka, Japan
Osaka, Japan

Chicago, USA


Chicago, USA

Chicago, USA















2100 W Fargo
2100 W Fargo
1639 W Touhy

8424 Skokie Blvd, Skokie
4836 Main St, Skokie














Horner Park


Organ of St John Cantius Church 825 N Carpenter
St. Hyacinth Basilica 3636 W Wolfram Worthmann and Steinbach, 1921
Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church 1118 N Noble William Krieg, 1906
Tower of St. Stanislaus Kostka Church 1351 W Evergreen Towers by Adolphus Druiding, 1892
St. Hedwig Roman Catholic Church 2100 W Webster Adulphus Druiding, 1899 – 1902
Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church 1118 N Noble William Krieg, 1906
St. John Cantius
St John Cantius Church 825 N Carpenter

St, John Cantius
Ceiling painting Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church 1118 N Noble 1906
Stained glass window depicting Saint Salomea of Poland Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church 1118 N Noble 1906
St. Stanislaus Kostka Church 1351 W Evergreen Towers by Adolphus Druiding, 1892