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...
"[…] Vija Celmins uses nature as a starting point. In her re-creations of the heavens and earth, Celmins prods the viewer into an expanded awareness of both her sources and the process of artistic vision. […] In 1968 Celmins's preferred...
"[...] with the stucco decoration restored from the existing remains and from Renaissance drawings." (caption, p.194); “The Colosseum was begun by Vespasian in the 70s AD on the site of the lake of Nero’s Domus Aurea, and was financed...
"Artaud's late drawings have been a comparatively recent discovery. His poetry and writings on the theatre were better known previously. In the latter respect, his notions of catharsis had a decisive impact on the Body Art of the 1970s. After...
"Autograph drawing. Schematic pen sketch for a figure on the Sistine Chapel Vault or for one of the Popes. (Florence. Casa Buonarroti. See Exhibition of drawings by Michelangelo. Catalogue edited by P. Barocchi, page 35)." (caption,...
"Autograph drawing. Study in pencil and pen for a cornice (at the left above) and for various movements of the 'Nudes' on the Sistine Chapel Vault. (Florence. Casa Buonarroti. 75 F. See Exhibition of drawings by Michelangelo. Catalogue edited...
Drawings; Graphite drawings; Pencil works; Seascape drawings; Seascapes; Seas; Oceans; Water; Bodies of water
"Born in Riga in 1938, and transplanted to America in 1949, Celmins has only recently become well known. Her strangely detached, unlocated subjects suggest a radical retreat from the concerns of modern life. Perhaps they relate to her early...
Paintings; Oil paintings; Abstract paintings; Abstract works
"By 1947 - even earlier in drawings - the artist had begun to experiment with all-over painting, a labyrinthine network of lines, splatters, and paint drips from which emerged the great 'poured' paintings of the next few years. These...
Environmental art; Islands; Trees; Bays (Bodies of water); Bodies of water; Water; Aerial photographs; Aerial views; Bird's-eye views
"Europe's great master of Environmental Art is, of course, Christo, who continues to work triumphantly with a significance equal to the ever-greater ambition and scale of his projects. For the recent Surrounded Islands, Christo spent over $3...
Environmental art; Islands; Trees; Bays (Bodies of water); Bodies of water; Water; Aerial photographs; Aerial views; Bird's-eye views
"Europe's great master of Environmental Art is, of course, Christo, who continues to work triumphantly with a significance equal to the ever-greater ambition and scale of his projects. For the recent Surrounded Islands, Christo spent over $3...
"Johns used letters or numbers as a means of reintroducing the signifiers of a collective sign system into a Modernist 'field' previously answerable to subjective judgments of taste. The textures in his drawings in particular are subtly...
Paintings; Oil paintings; Fantasy; Allusions; Symbols; Sex; Relations between the sexes; Lust; Gays; Martyrs; Saints; People associated with religion; Sailors; Men; Women; Bathing beauties; Portraits; Self-portraits; Nudes; Muscles; Standing;...
"One of Dali's greatest paintings from the mid-1920s, not exhibited since 1927. The influence of Picasso is manifest. It develops the theme of Saint Sebastian that so fascinated Lorca [Federico García Lorca] and Dali." (Caption);...
"The painting belonged to Edward James. Surely one of Dali's finest double images." (Caption); "Dali said that The Great Paranoiac had been conceived after a discussion with Josep María Sert about Arcimboldo, and that the...
"The painting belonged to Edward James. The 'paranoiac-critical town' is composed of elements principally from Cadaqués and Palamós." (Caption); "The reference was to Outskirts of the Paranoiac-Critical Town, one of Dali's finest...
"The progression of drawings here shows the steps used by Benin sculptors." Elements included: clay core; wax; tool; wax rods (drains) and wax cup; layer of fine sand; layer of clay; molten metal; draining wax; finished cast. (Stokstad,...
"This great painting was later renamed, with fitting opportunism, The Premonition of Civil War." (Caption); "The events of October 1934, and his scare in Barcelona, seem to have convinced Dali that civil war was a real possibility in...
"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...
A drawing of the new Kentucky state house, flanked by smaller drawings of the four previous structures. The smaller drawings, which are framed with circles, are labeled "temporary state house 1793," "1st state house 1794-1813,"...
Louisville Free Public Library; Segregation; Libraries; African Americans; People
Address: 604 S. Tenth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. African American children sit at tables or stand by bookshelves in the children's room of the Western Colored Branch of the Louisville Free Public Library. A number of books are on the tables and...
Buildings; Educational facilities; Universities & colleges; University of Louisville--Buildings
Architect's rendering of Belknap Campus, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 1936. Aerial view shows an oval path in the center surrounded by buildings nearby and in the distance. Trees line the campus in something like a diamond shape...
