A. A. Chickering in front of a building at the corner of Jackson and Gray Streets, Louisville, Kentucky, 1889. Three boys and a man stand at arm's length on the sidewalk in front of a one-story brick building with broken shutters located on a brick...
This image is part of a set of twelve photographs of houses where tax assessments were raised. In the photograph, five boys with caps sit on the front porch as a woman stands to the side with hands on her hips. The house is shotgun style with a...
Southern Railway underpass at Preston Street near Audubon Park, Louisville, Kentucky. Diagonal view of a railroad switch in the foreground of a bridge over a road. On the road below are three cars and a walking man in a white shirt. Another man in...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Actors; Men; Costumes; Posing; Military uniforms
Full-length character portrait of French actor Constant-Benoît Coquelin in costume as Napoleon II in "L'Aiglon," in which he performed opposite Sarah Bernhardt at Macauley's Theatre on March 18, 1901. He stands with hands on hips,...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Opera singers; Women
Photogravure portrait of French operatic soprano Emma Calvé, wearing a fascinator on her head and a dress with fringe, and posing with hands on hips. Born Rosa Noémi Emma Calvet de Roquer in Decazeville, France on August 15, 1858, Calvé died...
Oval-shaped, three-quarter length character portrait of Helen Byrne standing with hands on hips, wearing a hat with flowers at either side of her head, and a dress with floral corsage and tasseled shawl. She performed at Macauley's Theatre in...
This mosaic "decorated the vertical bar of the T-form figured composition of the dining room floor to which the mosaic of Pasiphae and Daedalus belonged. The thick swastika-meander band in perspective at the top was the partition between the...
"This mosaic decorated the bottom of a shallow pool […]. The hole at its center belonged to a water jet. […] Its border consists of a band of twisted ribbon between plain bands. The emblema shows one of the popular episodes related to the...
"In the center Achilles, still in a girl's clothes, is shown advancing to his left about to rush in the direction from which the sound of the trumpet comes. He is represented as a beautiful youth with red hair, his face bearing a feminine...
"Because precision in dating is impossible for the Paleolithic era, art historians usually can be no more specific than assigning a range of several thousand years to each artifact. But probably later in date than the Venus of Willendorf is...
"Sometime around 530 BCE a young man named Kroisos died a hero's death in battle, and his grave at Anavysos, not far from Athens, was marked by a kouros statue. The inscribed base invites visitors to 'stay and mourn at the tomb of dead...
Sculpture; Men; Athletes; People associated with entertainment & sports; Warriors; Nudes; Muscles; Genitals; Hairstyles; Reproductions
Roman marble copy from Pompeii, Italy, after a Greek bronze original of ca. 450-440 BCE. "One of the most frequently copied Greek statues was the Doryphoros (Spear Bearer) by Polykleitos, a work that epitomizes the intellectual rigor of...
"The face is Late Classical in type, as is the anatomy. Though the proportions are changed and she is higher-waisted than the Aphrodite of Knidos, the similarity is nonetheless there. The new proportions, the twisting spiral of the figure...
