82 — Otto Wagner — 4/5 — Secession
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The Early Christian Church in the Bjana
The main piece of art behind the altar is that it's a one point perspective extending the main axis of the church so you kind of got these stairs going up and you got what i suppose it's Christ at the top then surrounded by the company of saints. The chandeliers are like they're again sort of garlands or bunches of grapes made of light bulbs and they're hanging which is lovely in these little dangling dangling light bulbs with brass chains. There's an amazing church by plachnik um one of Wagner's pupils in the bjana which is very remember has an asphalt floor and it's kind of cubic but it's got every it's got 40 something different individually designed
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