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...
“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...
Architecture; Churches; Orthodox churches; Mosques; Religious facilities; Buildings; Drawings; Architectural drawings; Sections; Reconstructions; Plans; Architectural elements; Domes; Christianity; Islam
(After drawings by Van Nice and Antoniades); "In exterior view, the great dome dominates the structure, but the building's present external aspects are much changed from their original appearance. Huge buttresses were added to the Justinianic...
"Between 1970 and 1987 Zofia Kulik carried out performances in her native Poland with fellow artist Przenyslaw Kwick. Her more recent photographic works contain a 'time-based' aspect in that, rather than constituting montages made up from...
"Cornell's boxes of the 1940s and 1950s consisted of achingly melancholy juxtapositions of incongruously scaled objects implying temporal and spatial poetic leaps. A Victorian child's soap bubble set would be placed against a lunar map or a...
"In exterior view, the great dome dominates the structure, but the building's present external aspects are much changed from their original appearance. Huge buttresses were added to the Justinianic design, and four towering Turkish minarets...
"In exterior view, the great dome dominates the structure, but the building's present external aspects are much changed from their original appearance. Huge buttresses were added to the Justinianic design, and four towering Turkish minarets...
"In exterior view, the great dome dominates the structure, but the building's present external aspects are much changed from their original appearance. Huge buttresses were added to the Justinianic design, and four towering Turkish minarets...
"In exterior view, the great dome dominates the structure, but the building's present external aspects are much changed from their original appearance. Huge buttresses were added to the Justinianic design, and four towering Turkish minarets...
"The Lion Gate at Mycenae and the towering fortification wall circuit of which it formed a part were constructed a few generations before the presumed date of the Trojan War. At that time, wealthy Mycenaeans were laid to rest outside the...
"The Lion Gate at Mycenae and the towering fortification wall circuit of which it formed a part were constructed a few generations before the presumed date of the Trojan War. At that time, wealthy Mycenaeans were laid to rest outside the...
"The painted decorations were laid over the latter masonry, and this allows us to date them to the end of the second and the beginning of the first centuries B.C. The building itself must have been constructed earlier." (p.29)
"Vassily Kandinsky was a prominent member of the Bauhaus faculty from 1922, and he remained until 1933, when it was closed by the Nazis. His paintings of that period reflect the geometric angularity he espoused as part of the Russian...
Couples; Covered walks; Theaters; University of Louisville--Buildings; Buildings;
A couple stands on the covered sidewalk, known as Garth Walk, outside the Playhouse. Constructed in 1932, Garth Walk was named after Mrs. Charles M. Garth, then president of the theater group known as the Players Club of Louisville. Originally...
A group of men and women, including eastern head of the Kentucky Crippled Children Commission Dr. Arthur Shade Jones (in white suit), stand with a young boy in a pile of stones on a hill. This may be the site where Dr. Arthur Shade Jones...
A group of men and women, including eastern head of the Kentucky Crippled Children Commission Dr. Arthur Shade Jones (in white suit), stand with a young boy in a pile of stones on a hill. This may be the site where Dr. Arthur Shade Jones...
Youth organizations; Boy Scouts of America; Boys; Bridges; Uniforms
A group of nine Boy Scouts stand on or around a log bridge they have constructed in a field in a neighborhood park. Practicing rope lashing is one of the requirements for a merit badge. Title supplied by cataloger.
Today show (Television program); University of Louisville--Students; Broadcasting; Students;
A group of women stands on risers outside the newly constructed University Library (later renamed Schneider Hall). There is a microphone several feet in front of them. They are possibly going to perform on the "Today" television show with...
