Former home of railfan, photographer, and author, Lucius Beebe, the Amtrak certified luxurious private railcar, the Virginia City, is currently for sale (early 2024). Price comparable to a nice Bay Area home. If I don't win the Powerball this week, I hope that whoever purchases it keeps tagging the tail of Amtrak trains with it!
Serendipitously a few Sothern Pacific railfan videos have popped up on YT, featuring the Virginia City
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(although imho it has an ostentatiously gaudy godaweful interior decor...)
The interior of the Sansovino Hall, the Marciana Library, Venice
by Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner
Designed by Jacopo Sansovino between 1537 and 1553, the Marciana National Library, was built by order of the procurators of San Marco, as the Venetian Republic's state library. The building is today one of Italy's most important national libraries, occupying several spaces on the Piazzetta, directly across from the Doge's palace.
The ceiling of the elaborately decorated large hall, planned by Sansovino, is comprised of twenty- one tondos, the work of seven painters chosen by Titian and Sansovino. These paintings are of allegorical subject matter: the three most well-known amongst them are by Paolo Veronese. The walls are lined with paintings of philosophers by several distinguished sixteenth century artists including Veronese and Tintoretto.
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