EditorialEgyptian Art. Cornice Block with relief showing the Baptism of Pharaoh Roman Period. 41- 68 A.D. Sandstone. 1st Cataract, Philae, Temple of Harendotes. Egypt. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States.
EditorialMasks of the rain-god Chac with his trunk-like nose, symbolising lightning, form the cornice of the East Building. Quadrangle of the Nuns, Uxmal (7th-10th.
EditorialSaint Peter's Cathedral. Romanesque temple built during the kingdom of Ramiro I (1035-1063), king of Aragon. XI century. Outside view. Detail of the sculpted cornice with animals carved in the lateral apse. Jaca. Aragon. Spain.
EditorialSaint Peter's Cathedral. Romanesque temple built during the kingdom of Ramiro I (1035-1063), king of Aragon. XI century. Outside view. Detail of the sculpted cornice with animals carved in the lateral apse. Jaca. Aragon. Spain.
EditorialAllegorical Figures of the 'Four Continents', Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present, Friedrich Elias Meyer, German, 1723 - 1785, hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold, Four figures (a, b, c, d) together form a set...
EditorialArchitectural painting of an Ionic portico, with a cornice decorated with dolphins and tritons, and an entablature with vase. Perhaps a Coenaculum, the upper room on a country house. Vignette below shows a parrot pulling a cricket in a chariot. Copperp...
EditorialCollector's Cabinet, Table Cabinet, glued with rosewood and ebony on an oak core. The styles are decorated with festoons. Both doors have contoured profiled cushions. On the backs is a shell with trumpet-blowing angels in the swirls and a festoon in th...
EditorialEgyptian Art. Cornice Block with relief showing the Baptism of Pharaoh Roman Period. 41- 68 A.D. Sandstone. 1st Cataract, Philae, Temple of Harendotes. Egypt. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States.
EditorialToledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. Shrine of Cristo de la Luz. Former mosque, built at the end of the 10th century and converted into a Christian church in the 12th century. General view of the northwest facade and apse. Built in brick, it has three sem...
EditorialToledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. Shrine of Cristo de la Luz. Former mosque, built at the end of the 10th century and converted into a Christian church in the 12th century. General view of the northwest facade and apse. Built in brick, it has three sem...
EditorialToledo, Spain. Cristo de la Luz Shrine. Former mosque, built at the end of the 10th century and converted into a Christian church in the 12th century. Main facade, facing west. Built in brick with interlaced blind horseshoe arches, frieze with sebka de...