EditorialThe sphinx, a mythical animal with the body of a lion and the head of a pharaoh. The monument is partly hewn out of a natural knoll, and partly built up. Behind it the pyramid of Pharaoh Chefren, to which the sphinx belongs. 26th BCE, 4th Dynasty, Old ...
EditorialAnonymous, c. 1590, bentheim stone, sandstone, hewn, General: 29.4 x 17 x 17.8cm 294 x 170 x 178mm, Fragment of sculpture carved from bentheim stone. The fragment contains a part of a pillar with a cherub, underneath a wreath of fruit and a brush on ei...
EditorialSidewall, Machine-printed paper, Aesthetic style design. Dense all-over pattern reminiscent of a Rococo brocade with a chinoiserie theme; foliage with stylized fir and palm trees from which partially emerges small sets of garden-path steps with rough-h...
EditorialColumella des Apollonios, marble, chiseled, marble, total: height: 83.3 cm; diameter: 19.9 cm (shaft); diameter: 22.4 cm, inscription: on shaft: , Grave monument, grave equipment, Greek script, early Hellenistic, Greek antiquity, The small marble colum...
EditorialRoop Chund Roy Street, Calcutta. Roop chund roy street is near the Burra bazaar... The gamblers on the left ... Courtezan smoking her hubble-bubble, on the right ... The dwarf is well known in the bazaar ... The cloth suspended from lines, indicates th...
EditorialRoop Chund Roy Street, Calcutta. Roop chund roy street is near the Burra bazaar... The gamblers on the left ... Courtezan smoking her hubble-bubble, on the right ... The dwarf is well known in the bazaar ... The cloth suspended from lines, indicates th...
EditorialBalanje. Monument hewn in the rock, Ballana (Nubia), Signed: GAV; Besnart sc, Pl. 62, p. 114, Gau, Franz Christian (del.); Besnart (sc.), Franz Christian Gau; Barthold Georg Niebuhr: Antiquit?s de la Nubie: ou monumens in?dits des bords du Nil, situ?s ...
EditorialKalapsche. Small monument hewn in the rock, Egyptian ruin in Kalabscha, Signed: GAV, Pl. 12, S. 52, Gau, Franz Christian (del.), Franz Christian Gau; Barthold Georg Niebuhr: Antiquit?s de la Nubie: ou monumens in?dits des bords du Nil, situ?s entre la ...
EditorialRoop Chund Roy Street, Calcutta. Roop chund roy street is near the Burra bazaar... The gamblers on the left ... Courtezan smoking her hubble-bubble, on the right ... The dwarf is well known in the bazaar ... The cloth suspended from lines, indicates th...
EditorialEtruscan necropolis near Cerveteri, 7th-1st BCE. Some of the circular tombs are hewn directly into the local tuff. The largest are up to 30 m across and contain several rooms.
EditorialGothic vaulted hall and two naves hewn into the rock of Chillon Castle on Lake Geneva. Foundation Carolingian Period, present state from the 13th.
EditorialPetra was the capital and royal city of the Nabataeans, a semi-nomadic, Arab people who dominated the silk-and spice trade across the deserts. Next to the steep path leading to the " Monastery", are steps hewn into the rock wich lead to other...
EditorialThe sphinx, a mythical animal with the body of a lion and the head of a pharaoh. The monument is partly hewn out of a natural knoll, and partly built up. Behind it the pyramid of Pharaoh Chefren, to which the sphinx belongs. 26th BCE, 4th Dynasty, Old ...