Address: 2116 Bardstown Road, Louisville, Kentucky. An automobile is parked in front of the Bardstown Road Pharmacy. The hood of the car appears to be seamed down the middle with hinges so that it can be opened from the side. Two headlamps, metal...
Kore: "Found at Merenda (ancient Myrrhinous), Attica, in 1972. […] Funerary statue. Found in a pit in the cemetery of Myrrhinous together with kouros [of Merenda] (inv. no. 4890). Preserved in excellent condition. The girl is depicted...
Kore: "Found at Merenda (ancient Myrrhinous), Attica, in 1972. […] Funerary statue. Found in a pit in the cemetery of Myrrhinous together with kouros [of Merenda] (inv. no. 4890). Preserved in excellent condition. The girl is depicted...
Sculpture; Metalwork; Myths; Legends; Men; Gods; People associated with religion; Supernatural beings; Fictitious characters; Nudes; Muscles; Genitals; Hairstyles; Beards
"With a serene expression in the eyes and the body of an athlete, the father of the gods hurls a thunderbolt. The statue, an original bronze by a great sculptor, dates from about 460 BC." (Caption, p. 350); "Bronze statue of Zeus or...
Address: 840 Ash Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A note on the invoice indicated the camera position as "in front of dividing line between 840-842 looking West." As the focus of the image is the brick sidewalk, this photo may have been...
A large grassy area with a few trees surrounds a multi-story stone home in the Indian Trails sub-division near Louisville, Kentucky. The front of the home has a low stone wall in front of it. The symmetrical home has canopied windows on the first...
Big Four Bridge; Rivers; Steamboats; Men; Women; Carriages & coaches; Boathouses; Piers & wharves; Waterfronts
Busy dock on the Ohio River. Three wharfboats line the shore and the City of Cincinnati steamboat is docked behind them. The City of Cincinnati steamboat traveled daily between Cincinnati, Ohio and Louisville, Kentucky. Several people and a horse...
Large three-story building, possibly a house. It is a long, white building with rows of windows and a front porch the length of the building. Men, women, and children stand on the porch and on the steps leading to the front entrance. More stand in...
Sculpture; Sarcophagi; Coffins; Death & burial; Containers; Monuments & memorials; Memorial works; Inscriptions; Human life cycle; Childhood & youth; Domestic life; Child rearing; Breast feeding; Feeding; Lifting & carrying; Riding;...
"[…] this child's sarcophagus has been reassembled from many fragments. The front panel is, however, in fairly good condition, with a few missing pieces reconstructed from Carrara marble. […] This sarcophagus is among the earliest of 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...
From Samothrace, Greece. [Perhaps by Pythokritos of Rhodes]. "The winged goddess of Victory standing on the prow of a ship overlooked the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on the island of Samothrace. This monument was probably an ex-voto offered by...
From Samothrace, Greece. Perhaps by Pythokritos of Rhodes. "The winged goddess of Victory standing on the prow of a ship overlooked the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on the island of Samothrace. This monument was probably an ex-voto offered by...
Sculpture; Metalwork; Myths; Legends; Supernatural beings; Fictitious characters; Goddesses; People associated with religion; Women; Clothing & dress; Hairstyles; Gestures
One of the Piraeus bronze statues; "The statue of the large Artemis reflects a different conception of the goddess, that of a serious young woman, in which her role as huntress is indicated only by the position of the fingers holding the bow...
