Items matching ancient greek remains

III. The Temple Over the Canyon, Segesta

“Everyone advised me to go to Segesta, and I am glad I wemt, but I should never have known how wonderfully the Greeks made architectural compositions if I had not seen the Grand Canyon. There I saw N [...]

Keywords: temples, ruins, hills, mountains, sketches, ancient greek remains

Places shown: Segesta; Trapani; Sicily; Italy

Added: 2004-01-05

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XXXII The Temple of Nike From Mars Hill, Athens

“This is the grandest grouping of the Acropolis. The way in which the whole, in solemn square masses, piles up—the temple dominating all—is marvellous. It is finer, I am sure, in ruin, than ever it [...]

Keywords: ruins, temples, hills, views, sketches, ancient greece, ancient greek remains

Places shown: Athens; Greece

Added: 2006-03-16

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II. The Theatre, Segesta

“Nothing, not even Taormina, is more magnificent than the set scene of the Theatre; how poor and mean must have been the forgotten mummers! The scene will exist till the end of time—even though scarc [...]

Keywords: temples, mountains, amphitheatres, sketches, ruins, ancient greek remains, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Segesta; Trapani; Sicily; Italy

Added: 2003-12-14

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IV. From Temple to Temple, Girgenti

‘Not only are the lines of the hills, looking toward the sea, perfect, but the builders of these, as of all the temples, took advantage of the lines in the landscape, making the temple the focus of a [...]

Keywords: ruins, temples, sketches, trees, ancient greek remains, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: GirgentiGirgenti; Sicily; Italy

Added: 2004-01-05

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[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 2: Eleusius

One corner of a mosaic floor, with a border of interlocking circles. It might make an interesting design element in a Web page or scrap book, perhaps faded out to one corner, or completed to make a f [...]

Keywords: borders, mosaics, ancient greek remains, colour, patterns, ornaments

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-02-27

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[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 5: Temple Floor pattern

A part of an Ancient greek mosaic floor in Sicily, uprooted and taken to the museum of the Court of Biscari.

Keywords: borders, mosaics, ancient greek remains, colour, patterns, ornaments

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-04-20

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[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 3: Temple Floor

A part of an Ancient greek mosaic floor in Sicily, uprooted and taken to the museum of the Court of Biscari. Note that the different elements in this border repeat at different rates, making it hard t [...]

Keywords: borders, mosaics, ancient greek remains, colour, patterns, ornaments

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-02-02

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[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 1: Olympia - full-page border/decorative frame version.

I made this decorative border, or full-page frame, gold on a black background, from one corner, for use in scrapbooking, Web design, or general publishing.

Keywords: borders, frames, ornaments, ancient greek remains, colour, mosaics

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-02-26

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[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 1: Olympia

One corner of a gold-on-black border for a mural, with urns and pineapples. Marble floor from Olympia, (Poppe Sammlung von Ornamentun u. Fragmenten antiker Architektur, Skulptur, Mosaik and Toreutik). [...]

Keywords: borders, ancient greek remains, design, ornaments, colour, mosaics

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-02-26

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