Cornerstone laying; University of Louisville. Speed Scientific School
Henry V. Heuser, Sr. of the Vogt Machine Company speaks during the cornerstone laying ceremonies for Sackett Hall which was constructed to house the mechanical engineering facilities at the University of Louisville. Heuser stands at a podium with a...
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...
Delta Zeta (University of Louisville); University of Louisville--Students; Fraternities & sororities; Parades & processions; Floats (Parades);
Float constructed by Delta Zeta sorority features members dressed in blackface riding on the back of a truck, above the slogan "Good Pickin's Tonight." The float travels down the street in the homecoming parade. There are cars on the...
Floats (Parades); University of Louisville; Mascots
View of the Cardinal Bird on the rear of the University of Louisville 1968 Derby Parade float while under construction in a tobacco warehouse on Cane Run Road. The rolling stock and base platform of the float were prepared by University Building...
“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; 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...
Aqua Appia: 312 BCE; Aqua Anio Vetus: 272 BCE; Aqua Marcia: 144 BCE; Aqua Tepula: 125 BCE; Aqua Julia: 33 BCE; Aqua Virgo: 19 BCE; Aqua Alsietina: 2 BCE; Aqua Claudia and Aqua Anio Novus: 52 CE; Aqua Traiana: [constructed under Trajan, CE]
"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)
Galvanized steel and concrete. "Deacon's organically related forms often derive from sources in the Bible, poetry, fairy stories, and figures of speech. In the two versions of the laminated wood sculpture For Those Who Have Ears (1982-3), for...
"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...
"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...
"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...
With the Middle Kingdom mortuary temple of Mentuhotep II at left; "If the most impressive monuments of the Old Kingdom are its pyramids, those of the New Kingdom are its grandiose temples, often built to honor pharaohs and queens, as well as...
"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...
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...
"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...