Lately, we’ve been getting up well before sunrise, so I took advantage of it and tried for a few night shots. That was the same trip where we found the owls.
Built for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, The Palace of Fine Arts was designed by Bernard Maybeck. It was built to house a large art exhibit that features works from the Renaissance to the modern.
The picture below shows the entry and ceiling of the rotunda. When it was first built, the ceiling had murals. The entire complex was replaced back in the 60s and the murals were lost.
According to wiki:
Originally intended to only stand for the duration of the Exhibition, the colonnade and rotunda were not built of durable materials, and thus framed in wood and then covered with staff, a mixture of plaster and burlap-type fiber. As a result of the construction and vandalism, by the 1950s the simulated ruin was in fact a crumbling ruin.
In 2009, the Palace and lake underwent a massive restoration and seismic refitting. Since then, the area has been fully replanted and new walkways created.
Those are absolutely beautiful pictures.
Thank you. I was quite happy with them. Those are the benefits of a hubby working graveyard. 🙂