From caption: Il violinista verde (cm 195.6 x 108) / 1923; from Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, website (http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/) (11-2011): Green Violinist (Violiniste), 1923–24. Oil on canvas, 78 x 42 3/4 inches (198 x 108.6...
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“A reconstruction of the Agora in about 400 BC, seen from the east. […] In the bottom left hand corner is the Mint, with the south-east fountain house behind. Next to this is the South Stoa. The Pnyx assembly platform is above the stoa to the...
"...the largest of the three late classical houses south of the Agora just west of the Panathenaic Way." (caption, p.50); "...the middle house is much larger, about 25 by 19 metres (82 by 62 1/2 feet) overall." (p.50)
“Athens in the mid-fourth century BC. N4- Dromos, leading through the Kerameikos (the graveyard) to the Academy, L6- Dipylon Gate, N12- Piraeus Gate, H11- Agora, G16-Areopagus, C15-Acropolis, I19- Pnyx, G- Olympeion, B19- Kynosarges, B10-...
"In this view, the palace of Nebuchadnezzar II, with its famous Hanging Gardens, can be seen just behind and to the right of the Ishtar Gate, to the west of the Processional Way. The Marduk Ziggurat looms up in the far distance on the east...
“ View of the excavations in Ostia Antica with imperial mosaics from the so-called Bacchus and Ariadne House in the foreground. Roman housing from the same era has not survived, but the remains of this residential complex convey a sense of the...
"Frank Lloyd Wright developed numerous plans for Broadacre City, a paradigm for suburban development that included modest, single-family houses such as the one pictured here. Although his planned community was never built, the low-pitched...
