“The building, dating to the late Augustan period, presented the appearance of a two-storied cube. The ground floor is occupied by a wide hypostyle hall (13.5 x 15.7 m or 44 x 51.5 ft.) with four columns at its center, which was used for public...
“The metal syringes used for holding the colors can be seen clearly. The metal containers at each side are for oil, turpentine, and mastic and copal varnish.” (Dunstan, caption, p.15)
“The porch has sixteen Egyptian grey and red granite columns, each 40 Roman feet in height and weighing about 84 tons. […] The diameter and height of the rotunda are exactly the same, 43.2 metres [meters] (140 feet). […] The walls of the...
“Truth or consequence and believe-it-or-not notions umbrella Colescott’s work. Whether replacing Old Master work subjects with Black images or revealing the fantasies held about Black men and women, the subtext is race and sex and the power...
Maps; Cities & towns; City walls; Walls; Hills; Forums; Buildings; Temples; Religious facilities; Huts; Dwellings; Rivers; Bodies of water
1) Walls of Servius Tullius 2) Quirinal 3) Viminal 4) Cispius 5) Esquiline 6) Oppian 7) Caelian 8) Aventine 9) Palatine 10) Capitol 11) Temple of Jupiter on the Capitol 12) Volcanal 13) Temples of Fortuna and the Mater Matuta 14) Forum Boarium 15)...
1. West porch 2. Corridor of the procession 3. South propylon 4. Central court 5. "Theater area" 6. North-south corridor 7. Pillar hall 8. Magazines 9. Throne room 10. Palace shrine and lower verandas 11. Stepped porch 12. Grand staircase...
1. West porch 2. Corridor of the procession 3. South propylon 4. Central court 5. "Theater area" 6. North-south corridor 7. Pillar hall 8. Magazines 9. Throne room 10. Palace shrine and lower verandas 11. Stepped porch 12. Grand staircase...
Paintings; Oil paintings; Photographs; Activists; Left-wing extremists; Terrorists; Dead persons; Death; Suicides; Social justice; Political issues; Politics & government; Protest movements; Opposition (Political science); Student movements;...
"[…] the German painter Gerhard Richter […] looked back mournfully on painting's loss of public function in his October 18, 1977 (1988), a cycle of 15 paintings which mimicked the appearances of blurred black-and-white photographs. Richter...
"The assertive flatness of the implacable field of red is emphasized by the linear vertical 'zips'. Rather than functioning as 'drawing' within space, these reinforce and delimit the space as a whole. White 'zips' in Newman's works also evoke...
"The construction technique and decorations of the villa suggest that it must have been built around the middle of the first century B.C. Only about thirty years earlier the Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla had conquered Pompeii and...
"The construction technique and decorations of the villa suggest that it must have been built around the middle of the first century B.C. Only about thirty years earlier the Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla had conquered Pompeii and...
Paintings; Allusions; Anti-Americanism; Politics & government; Political issues; Capitalism; Imperialism; Wealth; Corruption; Poverty; Emigration & immigration; Social classes; Economic & social conditions; Domestic life; Child labor;...
"This enormous, collage-like painting is crammed with anti-American allusions. An electric chair sits on the plinth at the top center (the Rosenbergs were electrocuted as Russian spies in 1953). A GI nonchalantly reads a pornographic magazine....
A car parked next to debris in front of a large brick building. Water is on the ground. Labeled time is 1:15. Image is stamped Ohio River Flood January - February 1937 by Commissioners of Sewerage of Louisville, Ky. Original negative is...
Fontaine Ferry Park (Louisville, Ky.); Amusement parks; Exhibitions; People
A crowd of people stand around a display in one of the pavilions at Fontaine Ferry Park. The display looks like part of a car with a steering wheel and gauges. A large banner reads, "Gigantic display of daylight fire works, Labor Day, Monday,...
A group of women protest in front of a brick building under construction. One sign reads ""Telephone workers on strike."" Text in bottom right corner: Raymond Dial Bldg. Louisville, KY. April 15, 1947.
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Airships; Airplane propellers; Men
A man, possibly T. C. Benbow, of Columbus, Montana, adjusts the rudder and propellers for this airship, named the Montana Meteor, in a large, beamed room. Benbow launched the Montana Meteor at the 1904 World's Fair and remained aloft for 15...
A note on the photograph indicates, "View looking west after the Tornado of June 2d 1875." The Masonic Home for Widows & Orphans, located on 2nd Street south of Bloom in Louisville, Kentucky, was incorporated on January 15, 1867. In...
A pile of debris in the middle of a flooded street lined with houses. Labeled time is 12:15. Image is stamped Ohio River Flood January - February 1937 by Commissioners of Sewerage of Louisville, Ky. Original negative is deteriorated.
Streams; Bridges; Stone bridges; Billboards; Buildings; Stores & shops; Bakeries
A stone bridge crossing Beargrass Creek. This portion of the creek bed has been reinforced with stone walls. Billboards are on either side of the bridge, Heitzman Bakery is in the background to the left. Label: O.R.F.-66. 4:15 p.m.
