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...
Landscapes (Representations); Plains; Cities & towns; Walls; City walls; Hills; Temples; Religious facilities; Gymnasiums; Sports & recreation facilities; Streets; Roads; Islands; Bodies of water; Drawings; Landscape drawings; Illustrations
“An aerial view looking west across the Athenian plain from above Mount Lycabettus, with the island of Salamis in the background. The Sacred Way to Eleusis, which entered the city through the Sacred Gate, gave access from Athens to all parts of...
“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...
“The Erechtheum seen from the west, as it might have appeared at the beginning of the fourth century BC. A sacrificial procession with a lamb for the sacrifice is approaching the sanctuary of Athena Polias.” (p.77); "[...] in 420 BC the...
1261 Goss Avenue at Emerson Street. Camel-back house at a brick portion of Goss Avenue at the intersection with Emerson Street with a cemetery in the background.
1929 Kentucky Derby winner Clyde Van Dusen, in Winner's Circle draped with garland of roses, Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky. Owner - (of horse) H.P. Gardner, Trainer - Clyde Van Dusen, Jockey - Linus McAfee. A group of men, including two...
Streets; Construction; Maintenance & repair; Sewerage; Men; Construction workers
3rd Street at Whitney Avenue looking south. Portion of a street dug up and covered with dirt and sewer and construction materials. Men are in the background with machinery. Houses lines the block. Notes: Whitney-Berry.
500 block of West Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky, looking west at 600 block. Cars parked along street and people walking in background. Business in foreground, at 509 Main Street, is Guy W. Smith and Sons Movers, Packers, Storage, Shippers....
"Action behind the sheet, in the presence of the ubiquitous lion. Dali said the painting referred to his and Gala's repudiation by his father. There are allusions to Gala's operation, which Dali feared might be fatal." (Caption);...
"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...
"Durham's symbolic recoding of the imagery of modern America in the terms of its native Indians is interesting in relation to Joseph Beuys's use of Indian iconography for purposes of symbolic retribution. As a modernist, Beuys assumed his work...
