EditorialJosep Puig i Cadafalch / Decorative sculptural relief of the lintel of the entrance door of the facade of the Casa Mart? - Els 4 Gats (detail), 1895-1896, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
EditorialGothic Art. Cathedral of Saint Mary. Fourteenth century. Tympanum of the Virgin of Mainel door, made by Jaume Cascalls workshop. Rosette with lintel decorated with a seated figure of Christ and the souls of the dead. Tarragona. Catalonia. Spain.
EditorialPre-Columbian art. Central America. Maya. Lintel 16 from Yaxchilan, Late Classic Maya. 8th century. Lord Bird Jaguar IV with a captive. British Museum, London.
EditorialEntrance and lintel of the Secession building, home of Vienna's Secession Artists' Association. Inscription above the door says " To each era its Art-to Art its freedom". The three female heads represent Painting, Architecture, and Sculpture ...
EditorialNorth porch, Chartres cathedral, tympanon. On the lintel, Saint Mary's death and entombment, in the tympanon Mary's glorification; she is seated on a throne next to Christ who blesses her.
EditorialAmboise Castle, lintel of the St. Hubertus Chapel. Virgin and Child adored by French King Charles VIII (1470-1498) and his wife Anne de Bretagne (1477-1514).
EditorialInterior view toward the simple iconostasis with carved lintel and two paintings by the Cretan artist Damaskinos (1570), (possibly El Greco's first teacher) .
EditorialLintel, from a series illustrating the accession rituals of the ruler Lord Bird. One of his wives conjures a vision of an ancestor who emerges from the mouth of a serpent coiled through a beaded blood scroll.770 CE Limestone,69.2 x 76.2 cm, Temple 21, ...
EditorialLintel 24, one of three panels from structure 23 at Yaxchilan, Mexico. It represents a bloodletting ritual performed by the king of Yaxchilan, Shield Jaguar II, and his wife, Lady K'ab'al Xook. The Maya king holds a flaming torch over his wife, who i...
EditorialHouse of the Turtles, Uxmal, with small turtle sculptures on the lintel. Turtle shells were used in the Mayan rain-invoking rituals (7th-10th CE) .
EditorialThe caves of Araq el-Emir, above the " Palace of the Slave" have been variously interpreted as tombs, stables or refuges for the Hyrkanus of the palace. One of the caves has an Aramaic inscription " Tobias" left of the lintel, the f...
EditorialModern reconstruction of the citadel gate of Hazor. Proto-Ionic capitals and lintel were found in the excavation-from the time of King Ahab of Israel.
EditorialLintel with Hebrew inscription: this is the school of Eliezer Ha-Rapad. Rabbi Eliezer was known for his interpretations of the Mishnah. From a building near El-Al, Golan Heights, Israel.
EditorialA wagon, probably a Roman carruca, possibly the Holy Ark from the Synagogue of Capernaum, Israel Stone sculpture from lintel decorations (late 2nd or early 3rd CE).
EditorialThe god Mandulis, with a crown of ram-horns and high plumes on a lintel in Kalabsha. When the new high-dam was built and Lake Nasser flooded the Nile Valley, the Nubian temples were moved to higher locations under a Unesco project completed in 1968.
EditorialLintel with green plover design (14th BCE). Green plovers were used as a symbol of the lower classes who had to be taught submission to the pharaoh (here represented by his cartouche) .
EditorialThe winged sun-disk, protected by two cobras, from the lintel of the temple of the god Mandulis or Marul, a Nubian fertility god. Kalabsha, Egypt.
EditorialEntrance gate to the Mnajdra Temple complex, Malta. The entrance was originally covered by a heavy monolith lintel. Benches right and left of the door were used for offerings (4th mill. BCE) .
EditorialThe Lion Gate of the Citadel of Mycenae, lintel and relief with two lionesses rampant (1350-1330 BCE). Wall and Lion Gate were discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in 1876-1877.