I like the design elements on this window

The cross eyed reflection of what's outside the photo really makes this! Cool, to say the least! As for decorative facades - modernism, and the cost of decorating in this manner. After WWII all such decorations were piously repaired/restored. Then came the modernists. Glad the restoration was finished when the destructive modernists took over. Keep up the good work! :-)

It makes me wonder what the face is looking at up there. And what a fascinating window! This photo has so many things in it to keep me amused for a good long while. Great shot!

I see a face in the reflection of the iron scroll too!

Always a treat for the eyes, so beautiful compliments !!!

I love that guy staring out of the window the most LOL!

I wonder why the face is cross eyed maybe looking at her beautiful headdress a stunning image my friend :)

outstanding find and spectacular kind of window wonderful decorated 😊

you've softened this a bit, and 'irised' it (or something similar)---with a gentle shading on each end. (Maybe that's the shadow---I can't tell; but it feels like postwork.) You've made it, therefore, a keepsake, an intimate memory. I love how you did that. The glass is pristine and beautiful, as are the geometrics of its curve, and the patterns it throws on the flat glass behind. The head above---cross-eyed (some good responses to that, above)---is softened enough to make it like a gentle 'crown'. And as always, you crop the shot so that the top and bottom frames it. A perfect excerpt. And, as for modernism being functional, it was a reaction to the overburdened decorations of the late 19th C, no doubt; but also just the natural swing of styles...the western arts all swung from passionate/excessive to intellectual/formal/contained. And the Modern, in all arts, emphasized pure form much more than its predecessors; so it was natural that architecture would follow suit. Detail is coming back, though. The problem with architecture---unlike other arts---is that it takes over a whole chunk of land, and sky. So when modernists said, "lets get rid of as much detail as possible, and create a sheer, luminous 'sheet' (ie, for the facade)" the idea was stunning---pure form, that big? what a concept---but only a few actual buildings are stunning. Because the idea was copied over and over---architecture being driven by commerce more than almost any other major art---so you got glass-steel wall after glass-steel wall, most of them without any finesse or beauty---which you do find in the finest examples. That's because they're driven by the buyer, the business, corporation, etc. So it's more 'corrupted'. (You're gonna make something that spectacularly expensive? You have to do what the client wants. Most of them aren't interested in taste.) So we have tons of mediocre glass-steel walls, whereas if we just saw the best, and they were scattered through the city, it would feel different. Then, as TRex says, it costs a fortune to make these carvings and statuary etc. Those old churches were made over decades, and by highly dedicated artisans---all of whom were funded by the Church (talk about money influence in politics). Today, you have to get that money from the building owners, and they don't want to spend it. And then, there aren't as many artisans making these carvings, period; so you can't go to one and say, "I'd like a face for over my window". Commerce plays a big role. Anyway, your eye for these styles is acute and spot on, and you always serve them consummately with your camera.

(that was a long comment! you may wanna take a break...)