"It was built illegally by private interests in the last decade of the first century B.C. [...]. Renovated in the Fourth Style after the earthquake of 62 A.D. [...]." (p.122); “The oecus is a rectangular vaulted hall six meters wide by...
Monuments & memorials; Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889; Parks
Woodland park behind Jefferson Davis monument in Fairview, Kentucky. Two suited men stand with a small boy between them (holding the hand of the man at right) amid tall slender trees, with a faint white vision of the Jefferson Davis monument in the...
"It was built illegally by private interests in the last decade of the first century B.C. [...]. Renovated in the Fourth Style after the earthquake of 62 A.D. [...]." (p.122); “The oecus is a rectangular vaulted hall six meters wide by...
"This ring is formed from a circular hollow band made from rolled and soldered gold leaf, which flares out near the bezel. The bezel, rectangular in shape but with rounded corners, is set with a blue-tinged agate in two layers against a white...
Architecture; Buildings; Religious facilities; Interiors; Rooms & spaces; Cults; Sculpture; Portraits; Men; Emperors; Rulers; People associated with politics & government; Clothing & dress; Architectural elements; Walls; Pilasters;...
Shows "the end wall (frescoed) and the side wall (on the south side) with the reconstruction of the architectural order." (Caption, p. 145); "The Hall of the Colossus was deliberately set in the northeast corner of the Forum, at the...
"The vast majority of prehistoric sculptures depict either animals or humans. In the earliest art, humankind consists almost exclusively of women as opposed to men, and painters and sculptors almost invariably showed them nude […]. When...
