Table of Contents

Religion
• Sistine Chapel, Rome
• SensoJi temple Tokyo
• Battistero Neoniano Ravenna
• Derbre Burhan Ethiopia
• Sagrada Familia Barcelona
• Imam Mosque Iran
• Church of Saviour of Spilled Blood St.Petersburg
• Blue Mosque Istanbul
• Sant'Ignazio Rome
• San Pantalon Venice
• Brihadeeswarar Temple Tahnjavur Tamil Nadu India
• Cappadocia Cave Paintings TurkeyCulture
• Opera Garnier, Paris
• Louvre Cy Twombly, Paris
• Dale Chihuly Bellagio, Las Vegas
• Coimbra Library, Portugal
• Klimt University of Vienna ceiling
• Toluca Botanical Gardens Mexico
• Wind Palace Ceiling Salvador Dali, Dali Theatre-Museum, Figueres Catalonia
• Teatro Nacional Costa Rica
• Strahov Monastery Library PraguePower
• Summer Palace Beijing
• Topkapi Istanbul
• Palazzo Chiericati Vicenza
• Wurzburg Palace, Germany
• Rubens Banqueting House London
• Pietro da Cortona, Palazzo Barberini
• Giulio Romano Sala dei Giganti- Palazzo del Te Mantua
• Hercules Room Chateau Versailles
• Chinese Palace Oranienbaum, Russia
• Bahia Palace Marrakech
• Jan Fabre Belgian Royal PalacePolitics
• Miquel Barcelo - UN building Geneva
• Washington Library of Congress, USA
• Farnese Gallery ceiling, French embassy Rome
• Apotheosis of Washington, USA Capitol Building
• Thornhill Royal Naval College, London
• Carlos Murari, Presidential Palace, Havana
• Town Hall, Barcelona
• Salon Napoleon, Town Hall, Corsica
• National Assembly, Hungary
• Salon Blanco Casa Rosada Buenos Aires
• Augsburg City Hall, Augsburg Bavaria

About the Author

Catherine McCormack is a writer and art history lecturer based in London. She regularly teaches at Sotheby's Institute of Art, Dulwich Picture Gallery and UCL, where she completed her PhD and was a Teaching Fellow. Her writing has been published in The Independent, Architectural Review, Stylist, Glass magazine, LABEL magazine, and in international academic journals and museum exhibition catalogues. She is also resident art expert at Blacks Club Soho and has appeared on Sky News and BBC Breakfast talking about art. Catherine is also the author of Women in the Picture (Icon Books, 2020).

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