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82 — Otto Wagner — 4/5 — Secession

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The Golden Dome in Venice

There is a great altarpiece in the front they were not meant to because it's for mental patients so we're not meant to have any gruesome scenes in the like no crucifixions and things. The ceiling is a lattice work of gilding um as in a sort of grit succession of grid patterns which cut onto the various ceiling surfaces. They had different grades of gaps between seats there's like the quiet the quiet lunatics go in  and then the less quiet ones have to be three seats wide for big gaps between themso they can grab them if they start screaming and hollering.

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