The U of L Board of Trustees stand in a cafeteria line in the Jefferson Room of the Student Cafeteria. There are other people eating at a table in the foreground. From the front of the cafeteria line to the back, the trustees pictured are: Eli H....
Members of the U of L Board of Trustees dine in the Jefferson Room of the Student Cafeteria, at round tables. There is an empty table in the foreground. Trustees pictured are: Eli H. Brown, III, Miss Adele Brandeis, Lee P. Miller, Frederick Stamm...
Interior shot of the Registrar's Office when it was located in the Administration Building (now Grawemeyer Hall). Two women work behind a panelled counter; there is a picture of Grawemeyer Hall on the wall behind them. This photo was taken after a...
University of Louisville--Students; Fraternities & sororities; Fund raising; Students;
Fraternity and sorority members gathered around a round table with two older men. The older men are Gil Adams (left) and Sid Appel (right). There are packets and papers on the table. The students are being told what their part will be in...
University of Louisville--Buildings; Buildings; Student unions; Snow; Ford Hall (Louisville, Ky.);
Student Union Building after the fire that swept through the building on January 24, 1951. The charred frame and portions of the shell stand in the snow; Ford Hall and the Dean's Building are visible in the background. The picture appears to have...
"Dali at his miniaturist best in a tiny work expressive of his sexual anxieties." (Caption); "In the Maldoror illustrations we also find the presence of a slightly older Dali, the same child who, in The Spectre of Sex Appeal, stares...
This mosaic "decorated the vertical bar of the T-form figured composition of the dining room floor to which the mosaic of Pasiphae and Daedalus belonged. The thick swastika-meander band in perspective at the top was the partition between the...
"In a border of inverted rows of stepped pyramids (omitted in the picture) one of the most popular episodes of Greek mythology, the rescue of Andromeda by Perseus, is represented. […] To the right, identified by an inscription in Greek,...
Sculpture; Portraits; Men; Emperors; Rulers; People associated with politics & government; Military officers; Military personnel; People associated with military activities; Gestures; Clothing & dress; Hairstyles; Military uniforms;...
"This armored statue was discovered in the ancient city of Gabii. […] The portrait of Trajan, set on a modern neck, did not belong to the statue; it was furnished in 1793 by Vincenzo Pacetti, who produced this reconstituted piece for the...
"Soon after the creation of Composition VII, in late November, Kandinsky painted Dreamy Improvisation [Träumerische Improvisation] on 3 December 1913 followed by Light Picture [Helles Bild] and Black Lines [Schwarze Striche] in mid-December....
“The Panathenaic procession passing through the Propylaea, the gate of the Acropolis. The ceremonial boat, on which the new tunic (peplos) for Athena may have been hoisted as a sail, would probably have been parked alongside the Clepsydra...
“A section through the Propylaea, showing the northern half. The Pinakotheke is on the left. The gateway was approached by a broad ramp which was probably stepped. Visitors passed through a temple-like entrance composed of six Doric columns....
Paintings; Oil paintings; Still life paintings; Still lifes; Collages; Mixed media; Chairs; Furniture; Seating furniture; Wicker furniture; Textures; Ropes; Borders (Ornament areas)
Oil and pasted oilcloth on canvas, surrounded with rope; "Eager to recover other aspects of reality - positive color and texture, for instance - and increase the legibility of his pictures, without resorting to the outmoded conventions of...
“The sanctuary of the goddess Demeter and her daughter Kore at Eleusis, as it might have appeared in the fifth century BC. The Telesterium, the Great Hall of the Mysteries, is in the centre [center]. The procession entered by the gate at the top...
Architecture; Buildings; Theaters; Open-air theaters; Cultural facilities; Sports & recreation facilities; Social & civic facilities; Religious facilities; Temples; Racetracks; Racetracks (Horse racing); Horse racing; Chariot racing;...
“A reconstructed view over the Campus Martius, where many of the entertainment buildings were constructed. In the foreground is the Theatre of Pompey with the Portico, and the Theatre of Balbus beyond. At the top of the picture, on the banks of...
Canvas. Inv. no. L.1828. On loan from the collection of George Schafer, Schweinfurt. This is not in fact a picture of the cemetery of Inning, near Lake Ammer. The artist can only have drawn inspiration from the grave crosses he had seen in Bavaria...
"This is the painting Dali took to show Freud in London. It belonged formerly to Edward James." (Caption); "At Zürs […] Dali embarked on a new experiment: the composition, in French, of a 'paranoaic' poem, The Myth of Narcissus,...
"This fragment of a wall painting was among the very first ancient artworks discovered in Herculaneum after the volcanic eruption on August 23 in 79 A.D. […] This panel was executed using a technique similar to fresco painting. The design...
"Wols's painted surfaces register a variety of different activities. Paint was stenciled, smeared, trickled, or thrown onto his canvases. Markings were incised using the artist's fingers or sticks. In essence, though, these images were more...
"Bojewyan is a small village near St. Just in Cornwall, England. At the time of the painting local farmsteads were falling empty because they were uneconomic. Lanyon saw this as a serious threat to the region. His painting contains hints of a...
