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I.—Detail of Façade of the Old Museum, Berlin, with sculpture group. Monumental Architecture (1910)

I.—Old Museum, Berlin: Detail of Façade, with Sculpture Group “The Amazon.” Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Architect. Kiss, Sculptor. panopticum took a photograph of these steps that helps to put them into [...]

Keywords: sculpture, statues, entrances, columns, animals, lions, people, bare feet, nudity, weapons, neoclassical, architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Berlin Berlin; Germany

Added: 2005-08-17

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IV.—West Front of Buckingham Palace. Monumental Architecture (1910)

The lack of a fag probably means the King (at the time) was not at home. Thewing on the left today is the Queen’s private disco and mosh pit.

Keywords: palaces, architecture, photographs, buildings, columns, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2012-06-09

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Interior of the Temple Church. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Temple Church was built by (or for) the Knights Templar in London in the 12th Century. Some time after the Knights Templar were destroyed (in 1307) the temple was given by Edward II to the Knights [...]

Keywords: interiors, colour, churches, people, ceilings, columns, arches, pillars, costumes

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2012-08-13

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43. St. Margarets at Cliffe, Kent, with its Normon clerestory [interior view] Mediæval Styles of the English Parish Church (1936)

Clerestories.—Those Norman churches which were built with aisles seem all to have had clerestories. I do not know of a Norman nave with original aisles without some indication that there was a cleres [...]

Keywords: churches, interiors, religoin, buildings, columns, pillars, arches, pews, windows, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Cliffe; Kent; England

Added: 2010-08-10

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46. The South Nave Arcade, Melbourne, Derbyshire, with stilted Norman arcade. Mediæval Styles of the English Parish Church (1936)

Like the pre-Conquest builders [i.e. before 1066], the Normans knew only one form of arch, th semicicular, with its variants, the segmental (used when the height was limited) and the stilted (46) or h [...]

Keywords: churches, arches, norman architecture, gothic architecture, interiors, pews, columns, pillars, greyscale

Places shown: Melbourne; Derbyshire; England

Added: 2010-08-10

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VI. Sunrise Behind the Temple of Concord, Girgenti In the Land of the Temples (1915)

The Land of Temples is the land of effects—and they must be seized when they are seen. I had no idea of making this drawing; but as I reached the temple, the sun rose behind it, and I never saw it so [...]

Keywords: ruins, temples, sunrises, greek architecture, pillars, columns, sunrises, sketches, greyscale

Places shown: Girgenti Girgenti; Sicily

Added: 2011-01-25

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New Post Office, London Youth’s Instruction (1830)

“March 1830. The New Post-Office, London. (With an Engraving) The magnificent building recently opened as the new metropolitan Post-Office is situated near the junction of Cheapside and Newgate-stree [...]

Keywords: columns, neoclassical, carriages, horses, people, streets, buildings, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2005-08-19

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p. 161. Arch of Severus, Column of Phocas and S. Martina Mediaeval Rome (1901)

“The great Pontiff [Pope Gregory the Great] died in 604. Four years later a fine Corinthian pillar, taken froms ome ancient building, was erected in the Forum [in Rome] to commemorate the worst of all [...]

Keywords: columns, ruins, pillars, roman remains, temples, colour

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2003-04-16

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Ladies at the Roman Palace The Idler (1797)

The ladies and the ruined temple illustrate Essay XXI (21) in William Shenstone’s Essays on Men and Manners (1797): I was, methought, transported into a winding valley, on each side of whose area, so [...]

Keywords: people, cosumes, temples, columns, buildings, bare feet, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-07-15

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The Owl Bible Animals (1877)

“I am a companion to owls.”—Job xxx 29. Taking these words in order, we find in the first place that the Jewish Bible accepts the translation of the words côs and yanshûph, merely affixing to them the [...]

Keywords: tombs, owls, death, spooky, gloomy, despair, birds, ruins, columns, ravens, moon, night scenes, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-08-31

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