Architecture; Buildings; Gladiators; Athletes; People associated with entertainment & sports; Sports & recreation facilities; Educational facilities; Schools; Education; Teaching; Sports; Recreation; Games; Contests; Fighting;...
“A reconstruction of the Ludus Magnus, with the Colosseum in the background. Practice stakes (pali) are shown set up at the far end of the arena. The bottom righthand corner has been cut away to show the various rooms. Steps led up from the...
“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...
“The building, dating to the late Augustan period, presented the appearance of a two-storied cube. The ground floor is occupied by a wide hypostyle hall (13.5 x 15.7 m or 44 x 51.5 ft.) with four columns at its center, which was used for public...
400 block of West Breckinridge Street at 4th Street on the southwest corner looking west. View of a row of brick houses or apartments. Two men sit and stand against the wall of one building.
Streets; Buildings; Stores & shops; Commercial facilities; Restaurants; Construction
600 block of south 4th Street, with a view of businesses in a two-story brick building with advertisements painted on the wall. The stores are Younger Furs and Fred Haupt Company, with a chop suey restaurant on the second level. Just past the...
Architecture; Architectural elements; Towers; Walls; City walls; Forts & fortifications
"As the town's wealth grew and powerful neighbors established themselves, the need for protection resulted in the first known permanent stone fortifications. By approximately 7500 BCE, the town, estimated to have had a population of more than...
"Detail of the Second Style painted decoration partially covered by a later wall. Venus emerges from the central doorway of a sanctuary accompanied by a figure of Eros." (caption, p.216); "The Second Style painted decoration has been...
"Every so often as the excavation continued, one of the workmen would shout: 'Another marble here!' In the end, we found ourselves - entranced and speechless - before a group of sculptures lying side by side: from west to east ([in this...
"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...
"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...
"One of Dali's finest paintings from the 1940s." (Caption); "My Wife, Nude, Contemplating Her Own Body Transformed into Steps, the Three Vertebrae of a Column, Sky and Architecture, on the other hand, was one of the finest, and most...
"One of Dali's most Freudian paintings. Indeed, the elderly gentleman helping the lady in distress seems to be Freud himself, borrowed from [Max] Ernst's Pietà or Revolution by Night." (Caption); "Illumined Pleasures is one Dali's...
"The center of the north wall is occupied by the flying figure of Apollo with his lyre. The god, crowned with a laurel wreath and wearing a light blue mantle [...]." (p.167); "The excavation unearthed parts of a building, later...
"The construction technique and decorations of the villa suggest that it must have been built around the middle of the first century B.C. Only about thirty years earlier the Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla had conquered Pompeii and...
"The construction technique and decorations of the villa suggest that it must have been built around the middle of the first century B.C. Only about thirty years earlier the Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla had conquered Pompeii and...
Paintings; Body parts; Genitals; Urination; Obscenity; Censorship; Corruption; Political issues; Politics & government
"The exposed genitalia in Baselitz's uncompromising paintings and graphics of this period are essentially attempts to bring into the open, to make public, the effects of official 'cover-ups' and repressed emotions in post-Holocaust West...
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...
