This thesis traces the evolution of trends in stucco decoration during the late antique and early Byzantine periods. The focus of the thesis is to identify and explain the transition between the figural stuccowork trends of the fifth century and...
By "various hands." (Lucie-Smith, p.448). The following information is from the Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles: THE MURALS OF ESTRADA COURTS web page (http://www.lamurals.org/MuralFiles/ELA/EstradaCourts.html), accessed February 1,...
"[...] with the stucco decoration restored from the existing remains and from Renaissance drawings." (caption, p.194); “The Colosseum was begun by Vespasian in the 70s AD on the site of the lake of Nero’s Domus Aurea, and was financed...
"The painted decorations were laid over the latter masonry, and this allows us to date them to the end of the second and the beginning of the first centuries B.C. The building itself must have been constructed earlier." (p.29)
Two-story stucco building facing Peterson Avenue on the Peterson-Dumesnil property which probably antedates the 1869 summer home on the same property. With peaked gable porch, small windows, and a scalloped barge board trim under the cornice, the...
“The porch has sixteen Egyptian grey and red granite columns, each 40 Roman feet in height and weighing about 84 tons. […] The diameter and height of the rotunda are exactly the same, 43.2 metres [meters] (140 feet). […] The walls of 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...
A stone and brick house and its outbuildings are shown from a side view of the property. The home shows two floors of windows and a steeply pitched roof which may cover a third floor. The first floor windows on either side of a chimney have a...
Address: 11400 Ridge Road, Anchorage, Kentucky. Snow lies on the ground around the Anchorage Public School. A terra cotta roof tops this building with Mission Style and Greek Revival influences. The building appears to be made of stucco or concrete.
A delivery truck with the words "Bauer Bros. Grocers" and "St. Matthews" painted on it is parked in front of a brick home. Just under one of the truck's windows is a small sign stating "3 phones." The house has a...
