Items matching pillars

Frontispiece: The Horses of San Marco, Looking North.

Bronze (or painted) statues of horses in strong sunlight. The printed colours or this painting do not reproduce well on the screen. There is a caption, “By permission of the Hon. John Collier.”

Keywords: statuary, pillars, animals, horses

Places shown: Venice; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2006-04-12

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Colonnade of Medamot at Thebes

This temple (if such it was) seems mainly to be of interest to archaeologists because of its “Campaniform Capitals” or pillars with floral tops. To most other people it is a majestic ruin, beautiful [...]

Keywords: temples, pillars, ruins, architecture, backgrounds, wallpaper

Places shown: Thebes; Egypt

Added: 2006-08-17

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Arches of Cloister of S. Aubin’s Abbey, Angers

The Abbey of S. Aubin, founded in Merovingian times, seems to have been rebuilt by Geoffrey Greygown and Fulk the Black. “Only one huge tower remains, but fragments of it are still to be seen embedde [...]

Keywords: ruins, pillars, arches, abbeys, occult, spooky, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Angers; Maine-et-Loire; France

Added: 2008-07-07

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St. Simon Stylites, Hermit of the Pillar

(page 35)

Saint Simon, partly bald but with a long flowing beard, kneels barefoot on the top of a pillar and holds up a cross. He is wearing sackcloth.

Keywords: people, crosses, religion, bare feet, clouds, pillars, beards

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-01-09

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Porch of St. Mary’s

From a Drawing by A. Brunet-Debaines.

Keywords: entrances, colleges, churches, pillars, people, gothic

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-04

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p. 161. Arch of Severus, Column of Phocas and S. Martina

“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

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2005-12-29

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46.—Kilmarth Rocks, as seen from the South East.

“But there are some remains which have the appearance of works of art, which are, probably, nothing but irregular products of nature,—masses of stone thrown on a plane surface by some great convulsion [...]

Keywords: pillars, megaliths, ruins, rocks

Places shown: Scotland

Added: 2006-07-28

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568.—Capital and base, S.E. Transept, Canterbury

A column, or stone pillar, in Canterbury Cathedral.

Keywords: pillars, architecture

Places shown: Canterbury; Kent; England

Added: 2006-10-28

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47.—The Cheesewring, as seen from the North-west.

“But there are some remains which have the appearance of works of art, which are, probably, nothing but irregular products of nature,—masses of stone thrown on a plane surface by some great convulsion [...]

Keywords: pillars, megaliths, ruins, rocks, people, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Bodmin Moor; Cornwall; England

Added: 2006-07-28

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44.—hare Stone, Cornwall

“In the parish of Sancred, in Cornwall, is a remarkable stone called the Hare Stone (hare or hoar meaning literally border or boundary), with a heap of stones lying around it (Fig. 44). It is held tha [...]

Keywords: pillars, megaliths, ruins, rocks, people, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Harestone; Stanmore; Cornwall; England

Added: 2006-07-07

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Pillar

A candle in its holder rests on top of an old book, standing atop a decorative wooden pillar.

The book is an old dictionary by Nathan Bailey from 1736.

Keywords: books, colour, candles, pillars, pictures of books, pictures of books

Places shown: none

Added: 2003-07-13

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