Staircase, Palacio Barolo, Buenos Aires
by Venetia Featherstone-Witty
Title
Staircase, Palacio Barolo, Buenos Aires
Artist
Venetia Featherstone-Witty
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
AVILABLE ALSO IN BLACK AND WHITE - horizontal or vertical.This is one for the staircases of the famous Palacio Barolo.If you are ever visiting Buenos Aires be sure to take the tour in this fascinating building and go all the way up into the Lighthouse for amazing views of the city. Palacio Barolo is a landmark office building, located at 1370 Avenida de Mayo, in the neighborhood of Monserrat, Buenos Aires, Argentina. When it was built it was the tallest building in the city and South America. Its twin brother, Palacio Salvo, is a building designed and erected in Eclectic style, but of greater height, built by the same architect in Montevideo.
Italian architect Mario Palanti was commissioned to design the building by the empresario Luis Barolo, an Italian immigrant who had arrived in Argentina in 1890 and had made a fortune in knitted fabrics. The basic design, in eclectic style, was conceived simultaneously with one for the Palacio Salvo in Montevideo, Uruguay.
The Palacio Barolo was designed in accordance with the cosmology of Dante's Divine Comedy, motivated by the architect's admiration for Alighieri. There are 22 floors, divided into three "sections". The basement and ground floor represent hell, floors 1-14 are the purgatory, and 15-22 represent heaven. The building is 100 meters (330 feet) tall, one meter for each canto of the Divine Comedy. The lighthouse at the top of the building can be seen all the way in Montevideo, Uruguay. The owner planned to use only 3 floors, and to rent the rest.
FEATURED 9/1/18 in "Artistic Photography"
FEATURED 9/4/18 in "Images That Excite You"
FEATURED 9/10/18 in "Out of the Ordinary"
FEATURED 9/30/18 in "Your Very Best Photography"
FEATURED 10/1/18 in "New FAA Uploads"
FEATURED 11/27/18 in "Travel Art"
FEATURED 5/19/19 in"ABC Group - E is for Elevated"
SOLD a print to a customer in Buenos Aires Argentina 8/17/21
FEATURED 2/27/24 in "No Place Like Home"
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September 1st, 2018
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Jenny Revitz Soper
Congratulations! I am immensely pleased to inform you that your artwork was featured on the group No Place Like Home homepage on February 27, 2024. You are cordially invited to post the artwork in the Group's Features Discussion thread or any other suitable thread.
Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your marvelous art has been featured on the Home Page of the ABC Group. This art has been selected from the E IS FOR ELEVATED themed week! You are invited to add this wonderful art to the features archive.
Lyric Lucas
Congratulations, your creative and unique art work is Featured in the "Out Of The Ordinary 1 A Day" group! l/f
Marie Neder
Interesting shot. It reminds me of looking through a keyhole.....I enjoy images that stimulate the viewer.
Greg Hayhoe
Great capture... almost looks like you are look down a hallway... so whimsical... wonderful Venetia.
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