Two-story building near corner of Fourth and Avery Streets (now Cardinal Boulevard), Louisville, Kentucky, advertising "Pool Parlor" and a concert featuring "the Florentine Singers" in the windows. Two ads for beer (Frank Fehr...
Central Kentucky Asylum for the Insane; Mental institutions; Gardens
Lakeland Asylum in Louisville, Kentucky; front view including the gardens in front of the building. The building is partly obscured by trees and other plants. Lakeland Asylum, or Lakeland Hospital, was a common name for Central Kentucky Asylum for...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Hospitals;
University Hospital's Ambulatory Care Building, visible in the foreground. University Hospital rises behind the ACB. Outpatient services: primary care center and clinics. The official name of University Hospital became "University of...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Educational facilities;
Central House, at the center of its "cluster." Central House was built as part of a dormitory complex on the campus of Kentucky Southern College. Eight dorm buildings were arranged around one central building providing common space. This...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Hospitals; Parking lots; Parking garages; Automobiles;
University Hospital's Ambulatory Care Building. University Hospital parking garage rises behind the ACB. The visitor pay parking lot along Preston Street is in the foreground; there are cars parked in the lot. Outpatient services: primary care...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Health care facilities;
Inpatient hospital services. Location: 545 Jackson Street. The formal name of University Hospital was changed to "University of Louisville Hospital" in the mid-1990s, but it is still common practice to refer to the hospital as...
“The first part of the project, which began perhaps as early as Augustus, was a grandiose temple to Jupiter; an inscription suggests it was completed by 60 CE. The Jupiter temple is a typical example of the compromise between Greek and Roman...
“Truth or consequence and believe-it-or-not notions umbrella Colescott’s work. Whether replacing Old Master work subjects with Black images or revealing the fantasies held about Black men and women, the subtext is race and sex and the power...
“In various letters and diary notes the artist has explained how the preoccupation with ethnological problems, with the symbolism of colors, and certain literary concepts participated in the genesis of this canvas: ‘I painted the nude of a...
From caption: C'est le chapeau qui fait l'homme / collage; from the MOMA website (http://www.moma.org) (11-2011): The Hat Makes the Man / Max Ernst (French, born Germany. 1891-1976) (1920). Gouache, pencil, oil, and ink on cut-and-pasted printed...
Cut and pasted paper, pencil, ink, and watercolor on paper. “Ernst's appreciation for visual and linguistic puns was likely fostered by Freud’s book Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious. Here, Ernst cut, pasted, and stacked photographs...
Photograph of exhibition installation, ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), London, September-October 1953; "In this early Independent Group exhibition photographs of varying sizes were attached to the gallery walls. Others were suspended by...
Sculpture; Urns; Death & burial; Containers; Soldiers; Military personnel; People associated with military activities; Death & burial; Friezes (Ornamental bands); Cartouches; Pediments; Tympana; Architectural elements; Inscriptions; Names;...
"The front of this rectangular urn is decorated with two friezes of hearts and darts. Smooth strips frame the decoration along the top and bottom rims and emphasize the container's shape. The central surface of such objects was inscribed. This...
Mixed media assemblage including: an old wooden door, black velvet, bricks, wooden table, leather stretched over an armature of metal and other material to form a female nude, human hair, gas lamp (bec Auer type), twigs, aluminum, iron, glass,...
Sculpture; Figurines; Human body; Heads (Anatomy); Animals; Lions
"One of the earliest sculptures discovered to date is an extraordinary ivory statuette, which may be as old as 30,000 BCE, from a cave at Hohlenstein-Stadel in Germany. Carved out of mammoth ivory and nearly a foot tall - a truly huge image...
"Because precision in dating is impossible for the Paleolithic era, art historians usually can be no more specific than assigning a range of several thousand years to each artifact. But probably later in date than the Venus of Willendorf is...
From Gizeh, Egypt, Dynasty IV. "The seated statue of Khafre is one of a series of similar statues carved for the pharaoh's valley temple near the Great Sphinx. The stone is diorite, an exceptionally hard dark stone brought some 400 miles down...
Sculpture; Portraits; Emperors; Rulers; Men; People associated with politics & government; Clothing & dress; Capes (Clothing); Fasteners; Hairstyles; Beards; Mustaches
Discovered at Acqua Traversa (near Rome), 1674. "This bust, in nearly perfect condition, is characterized by the contrast between the light and brilliant skin of the face and the dark mass of hair, covered with concretions. Numerous grooves...
Architecture; Buildings; Stores & shops; Cafes; Restaurants; Fast food restaurants; Eating & drinking facilities; Commercial facilities; Mercantile facilities; Business enterprises; Business & finance; Commerce; Selling; Interiors;...
"A fine example of a thermopolium in Pompeii (I, 8, 8), with a stone counter and the jars ready to hold foods and beverages." (Caption, p. 135); "Among commercial enterprises of these types [shops, taverns and cafes], the most common...
