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...
“A reconstruction of the three figures […], based on fragments of sixth-century sculptures found on the Acropolis. […] Although it is known that these figures would have been painted, no trace of the colouring [coloring] remains.” (combined...
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...
“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...
“This building, some 17 metres [meters] (56 feet) wide and 40 metres [meters] (131 feet) long, is divided along its length by a corridor with five square cells on the right and three on the left. The corridor leads through to a walled courtyard...
“This stoa received its name (poikile, ‘painted’) from the series of large paintings which decorated its walls. These were painted on wooden panels by the three great Athenian painters of the day, Polygnotus, Micon and Panaenus. The paintings...
1. Large central nave, which reached a height of 39 m under three groin vaults 2. Aisles in concrete with octagonal coffers 3. Western apse, which contained the colossal statue of Constantine.
1100 block of Eastern Parkway. Three men stand in a long ditch where a large pipe has been laid. More men stand outside the ditch near construction machinery.
200 block west Walnut Street, now Muhammad Ali Boulevard, on the north side. Three narrow three-story brick buildings in a row. The middle one has a For Rent sign posted.
416 West Broadway, site of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. 416 West Broadway, site of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. The building is a three- to four story brick building with turrets and cupolas. A For Lease sign is in the...
"...the largest of the three late classical houses south of the Agora just west of the Panathenaic Way." (caption, p.50); "...the middle house is much larger, about 25 by 19 metres (82 by 62 1/2 feet) overall." (p.50)
"Duchamp's Boîte 'unpacked' in such a way that certain sections slid out to become free-standing display boards, whilst a sheaf of folders and black mounts bore other reproductions of works from his output. In all, it contained 69 items....
"Duchamp's Boîte 'unpacked' in such a way that certain sections slid out to become free-standing display boards, whilst a sheaf of folders and black mounts bore other reproductions of works from his output. In all, it contained 69 items....
"For their palace walls the Assyrian kings commissioned extensive series of narrative reliefs exalting royal power and piety. The sculptures record not only battlefield victories but also the slaying of wild animals. […] The degree of...
Paintings; Acrylic paintings; Abstract paintings; Abstract works
"In Louis's enormous 'veils' of the 1950s the physical operations of pouring paint or tilting a canvas so that the paint floods down it are powerfully implied." (Caption, p.28); "[Clement] Greenberg's conception of 'Modernism' as...
Sculpture; Coins; Money; Medals; Jewelry; Necklaces; Goldwork; Metalwork; Effigies; Portraits; Men; Emperors; Rulers; People associated with politics & government; Upper class; Military officers; Military personnel; People associated with...
"In this medallion, a gold coin is set within the center of a gold disc. A ring for hanging it projects from the top. The coin is a double solidus with an imperial effigy on the front [...]. In bust view, the emperor is seen in left profile,...
Paintings; Oil paintings; Civil wars; War; Politics & government; Political issues; Dictators; Nazis; Fascism; Civilization; Bombings; Military tactics; War destruction & pillage; Death; Dismemberment; Body parts; Mental states; Despair;...
"In this monumental work of 1937, Guernica, Picasso combined Analytic and Synthetic Cubist forms with several traditional motifs, juxtaposing them in a new Surrealist way. The combination serves the political message of the painting - namely,...
"Just inside the Lion Gate, [Heinrich] Schliemann uncovered what archaeologists now designate as Grave Circle A. It predates the Lion Gate and the walls of Mycenae by some three centuries. Grave Circle A encloses six deep shafts that had...
"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...
