Items matching statuary

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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63.—Bronze Well-Head by Alberghetti—Courtyard of the Palazzo Ducale.

“Marco tells of magnificent feasts made by the Great Kaan on his birthday and on New Year’s Day. He delights in stories of the chase within the domain of Cublay’s palace of Chandu (perhaps the Xanadu [...]

Keywords: statuary, fountains, courtyards, architecture, buildings, people, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Venice; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2006-04-12

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Bust of William of Wykeham. 1394.

On a corbel in Muniment Room, Winchester College. The photograph shows a stone bust of William of Wykeham, wearing a bishop’s mitre and carrying a bishop’s crook. “Although William of Wykeham can in a [...]

Keywords: portraits, carving, statuary, people, religion, interiors

Places shown: Winchester; Hampshire; England

Added: 2007-05-28

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Waltham Cross

On the death of Eleanor, wife of King Edward I: “A long and melancholy journey the mourning king made with [her remains] to the chapel of King Edward the Confessor; and the nation, to whom Eleanor had [...]

Keywords: crosses, statuary, monuments

Places shown: Waltham Cross; Hertfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-30

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826.—Charing Cross.

This is a picture of an engraving of a reproduction of a cross originally built for King Edward I to commemorate his late wife, Queen Eleanor. For more details see Fig. 825.

Keywords: crosses, statuary, monuments

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-11-20

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584.—Bracket, Lincoln.

A bracket, possibly a corbel supporting the end of an arch, in th form of a winged angel holding a shield with a cross on it.

Keywords: angels, statuary, carving, religion, spirit, christmas

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; English

Added: 2008-12-09

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1156.—Tomb of Henry IV and his Queen

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Keywords: tombs, royalty, statuary

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-02-17

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30.—Sculpture from the entrance to the chapter house, Westminster Abbey (1250)

“Examples abound, but both for beauty and accessibility we can refer to no better example than the carving which enriches the entrance to the Chapter House of Westminster Abbey (Fig. 30).” (p. 68) Car [...]

Keywords: statuary, people

Places shown: Westminster Abbey; Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-08-08

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XXXIV.—Monument in the Cemetary of Père Lachaise, Paris.

Monumental architecture. XXXIV.—Monument in the Cemetary of Père Lachaise, Paris. Albert Bartholomé, sculptor. A stone entranceway is marked Aux Morts, which is, To Death; we see a naked man and a nak [...]

Keywords: sculpture, statuary, carving, monuments, nudity, bare feet, death, architecture, people, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-12-11

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The Pyramids.

The pyramids were accounted by the ancients one of the seven wonders of the world. They are alike famous for their vast size and remote antiquity. History furnishes no authentic information respecti [...]

Keywords: pyramids, ruins, temples, statuary, backgrounds, wallpaper

Places shown: Cairo; Egypt

Added: 2009-01-27

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