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Tomb [Judgment Tomb], Lefkadia, Greece, façade, reconstruction drawing.
Architecture; Buildings; Funerary facilities; Monuments; Monuments & memorials; Tombs & sepulchral monuments; Facades; Architectural elements; Structural elements; Walls; Doors & doorways; Architectural orders; Doric order; Ionic...
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Arena Chapel (Cappella Scrovegni), Padua, Italy, interior, view towards west wall and Last Judgment fresco.
Architecture; Chapels; Churches; Religious facilities; Buildings; Interiors; Naves; Walls; Ceilings; Barrel ceilings; Vaults (Architecture); Murals; Paintings; Christianity; Biblical events; Storytelling; Men; Women; Saints; Prophets; Angels;...
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Mataatua meetinghouse, New Zealand, interior view.
Architecture; Buildings; Interiors; Walls; Ceilings; Rafters; Paneling; Architectural elements; Architectural decorations & ornaments; Architectural sculpture; Sculpture; Wood carvings; Woodwork; Families; Patterns (Design elements)
Built by Wepiha Apanui of Ngati Awa in 1874.
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Arch of Septimius Severus, Lepcis Magna, Libya, attic relief, Concordia Augustorum.
Architecture; Monuments; Monuments & memorials; Arches; Memorial arches; Facades; Architectural elements; Friezes (Ornamental bands); Sculpture; Architectural sculpture; Architectural decorations & ornaments; Storytelling; Men; Emperors;...
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Arch of Septimius Severus, Lepcis Magna, Libya, attic relief, chariot procession.
Architecture; Monuments; Monuments & memorials; Arches; Memorial arches; Facades; Architectural elements; Friezes (Ornamental bands); Sculpture; Architectural sculpture; Architectural decorations & ornaments; Storytelling; Parades &...
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Arch of Septimius Severus, Lepcis Magna, Libya.
Architecture; Monuments; Monuments & memorials; Arches; Memorial arches; Facades; Architectural elements; Structural elements; Spandrels; Columns; Corinthian order; Architectural orders; Capitals (Columns); Pedestals; Pilasters; Pediments;...
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Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii, Italy, interior view, bedroom (16), painted decoration with architectural motifs.
Architecture; Buildings; Houses; Dwellings; Residential facilities; Interiors; Rooms & spaces; Bedrooms; Walls; Friezes (Ornamental bands); Optical illusions; Perspective; Paintings; Murals; Architectural elements; Structural elements;...
"The original building dates to the second century B.C., but it was renovated and enlarged many times, gradually transforming from a farmhouse into a true suburban villa. The period of its greatest splendor, however, began with the founding of...
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Villa Farnesina, Rome, Italy, interior view, Bedroom B, left wall of antechamber and rear wall of sleeping alcove.
Architecture; Buildings; Houses; Dwellings; Residential facilities; Interiors; Rooms & spaces; Bedrooms; Alcoves; Walls; Friezes (Ornamental bands); Optical illusions; Perspective; Paintings; Murals; Architectural elements; Structural elements;...
"The Villa Farnesina, which some scholars think was built by Agrippa in 21 B.C. to celebrate his marriage to Julia, daughter of the emperor Augustus, displayed one of the most refined examples of Roman domestic decoration. It is dated to the...
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Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii, Italy, interior view, tablinum (2), painted decoration.
Architecture; Buildings; Houses; Dwellings; Residential facilities; Interiors; Rooms & spaces; Walls; Friezes (Ornamental bands); Optical illusions; Paintings; Murals; Architectural elements; Structural elements; Architectural decorations &...
“Moving from the atrium to the exedra, one passes through a tablinum or open living room (2), decorated with Egyptian motifs. They were executed with a miniaturist’s precision on a black wall polished to a mirrorlike shine. It is one of the...
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Villa Farnesina, Rome, Italy, interior view, Bedroom D.
Architecture; Buildings; Houses; Dwellings; Residential facilities; Interiors; Rooms & spaces; Bedrooms; Alcoves; Walls; Friezes (Ornamental bands); Optical illusions; Paintings; Murals; Architectural elements; Structural elements;...
"The Villa Farnesina, which some scholars think was built by Agrippa in 21 B.C. to celebrate his marriage to Julia, daughter of the emperor Augustus, displayed one of the most refined examples of Roman domestic decoration. It is dated to the...
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Villa Farnesina, Rome, Italy, interior view, Bedroom B, detail of painted decoration, mask crowned with diadem.
Architecture; Buildings; Houses; Dwellings; Residential facilities; Interiors; Rooms & spaces; Bedrooms; Walls; Friezes (Ornamental bands); Paintings; Murals; Masks; Faces; Heads (Anatomy); Clothing & dress; Headgear; Jewelry; Earrings;...
"The Villa Farnesina, which some scholars think was built by Agrippa in 21 B.C. to celebrate his marriage to Julia, daughter of the emperor Augustus, displayed one of the most refined examples of Roman domestic decoration. It is dated to the...
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Villa Imperiale, Pompeii, Italy, interior view, oecus (A).
Architecture; Buildings; Houses; Dwellings; Residential facilities; Interiors; Rooms & spaces; Reception rooms; Salons (Social spaces); Architectural elements; Structural elements; Ceilings; Arches; Vaults (Architecture); Barrel ceilings;...
"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...
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Villa Imperiale, Pompeii, Italy, interior view, oecus (A), Third Style wall painting, with scene of Daedalus and Icarus in center aedicula.
Architecture; Buildings; Houses; Dwellings; Residential facilities; Interiors; Rooms & spaces; Reception rooms; Salons (Social spaces); Architectural elements; Structural elements; Walls; Friezes (Ornamental bands); Paintings; Murals; Optical...
"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...
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Villa Farnesina, Rome, Italy, interior view, Bedroom B, rear wall, with inset of nymphs and infant Dionysus.
Architecture; Buildings; Houses; Dwellings; Residential facilities; Interiors; Rooms & spaces; Bedrooms; Walls; Friezes (Ornamental bands); Optical illusions; Paintings; Murals; Architectural elements; Structural elements; Architectural...
"Painted wall with inset showing nymphs with the infant Dionysus / rear wall of Cubiculum 2 of the villa under the Farnesina" (caption)
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Villa Farnesina, Rome, Italy, interior view, Bedroom B, left-hand side wall, Aphrodite and Eros attended by one of the Charites.
Architecture; Buildings; Houses; Dwellings; Residential facilities; Interiors; Rooms & spaces; Bedrooms; Walls; Friezes (Ornamental bands); Optical illusions; Paintings; Murals; Architectural elements; Structural elements; Architectural...
"Left-hand side wall of Cubiculum 2 of the villa under the Farnesina" (caption)
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John D. Rockefeller House, New York, [Moorish] smoking room.
Architecture; Buildings; Dwellings; Houses; Residential facilities; Rooms & spaces; Smoking rooms; Leisure; Upper class; Rich people; Wealth; Decorative arts; Architectural decorations & ornaments; Structural elements; Interiors; Walls;...
Built 1860. Reconstructed in the Brooklyn Museum.
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Loggia of Leo X, [Palazzi Pontifici], Vatican, Rome, Italy, eleventh vault, scenes from the life of David.
Architecture; Buildings; Interiors; Rooms & spaces; Loggias; Ceilings; Vaults (Architecture); Murals; Paintings; Storytelling; Biblical events; Campaigns & battles; Battlefields; Fighting; Death; Homicides; Men; Prophets; Kings; Rulers;...
"The panels with biblical scenes are framed by antique grotesques and fictive sculpture." (caption, p.462)
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Emetic Fields.
Paintings; Oil paintings; Feminism; Medicine; Health care; Sexism; Discrimination; Men; Women; Physicians; Medical personnel; People associated with health & safety; Older people; Children; Heads (Anatomy); Faces; Standing; Locomotion; Human...
8 panels.
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Samnite House, Herculaneum, Italy, interior view, fauces, First Style mural painting.
Architecture; Buildings; Houses; Dwellings; Residential facilities; Interiors; Rooms & spaces; Passageways; Architectural elements; Walls; Murals; Paintings; Optical illusions
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Arch of Septimius Severus, Forum Romanum, Rome, Italy, northeastern panel, war against the Parthians.
Architecture; Monuments; Monuments & memorials; Arches; Memorial arches; Facades; Architectural elements; Structural elements; Columns; Capitals (Columns); Sculpture; Architectural sculpture; Architectural decorations & ornaments;...
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