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.
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...
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...
EditorialOvermantel and Cornice from Great House in Cassiobury Park, Hertfordshire. Grinling Gibbons; English, 1648-1721. Date: 1675-1685. Dimensions: 335.3 ? 274.3 cm (132 ? 108 in.). Limewood. Origin: England.
EditorialThe Princesss Dollhouse by Pippa Rossi. On the outside a separate staircase that leads to the front door with steps of slate, a cast iron handrail and the cellar door. A slate sidewalk in front of the house. The exterior of the house is painted to the ...
EditorialOvermantel mirror, 18th century, French, Wood: painted and gilded, Overall, assembled dimensions: 195 x 132 in. (495.3 x 335.3 cm); Overall (Width including cornice): 103 1/2 in. (262.9 cm); Overall (Width inside pilasters): 84 in. (213.4 cm), Woodwork...
EditorialStage Frieze and Cornice. Louis-Emile Durandelle; French, 1839-1917. Date: 1865-1872. Dimensions: 37.9 ? 28.2 cm (image/paper); 63 ? 45.2 cm (mount). Albumen print, from "Le Nouvel Op?ra de Paris, Sculpture Ornementale" (1875). Origin: France.
EditorialStage Frieze and Cornice. Louis-Emile Durandelle; French, 1839-1917. Date: 1865-1872. Dimensions: 37.9 ? 28.2 cm (image/paper); 63 ? 45.2 cm (mount). Albumen print, from "Le Nouvel Op?ra de Paris, Sculpture Ornementale" (1875). Origin: France.
EditorialTHE Perilous Pass on the eight cornice of Purgatory, BY GUSTAVE DOR?. Gustave Dore, 1832 - 1883, French. Engraving for the Purgatorio or Purgatory by Dante Alighieri. 1870, Art, Artist, romanticism, colour, color engraving.