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Front Cover Jugend [German art maagazine] (1900)

The front cover of Jugend from 1900 is a sort of German Industrial design that forshadows the next thirty or more years. A gianr Janu, or two-faced statue, draped with garlands, is inscribed with the [...]

Keywords: book covers, art deco, statuary, statues, people, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-05-23

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Frontispiece: The Horses of San Marco, Looking North. Venice (1907)

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, colour

Places shown: Venice; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2006-04-12

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Bust of William of Wykeham. 1394. The Lives of British Architects from William of Wykeham to Sir William Chambers (1909)

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, greyscale

Places shown: Winchester; Hampshire; England

Added: 2007-05-28

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Gable End, Shrewsbury. Art in England During the Elizabethan and Stuart Periods (1908)

The gable-end post is at one end of the roof; this one has a figure, probably female, on the top, standing on a face, with a coiled rope carved beneath that, and a smiling bearded man’s face at the bo [...]

Keywords: gothic architecture, architecture, carving, statuary, faces, beards, greyscale

Places shown: Shrewsbury; Shropshire; England

Added: 2012-06-27

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102.—Bronze, found at Richborough. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A woodcut showing three views of a bronze statuette, supposedly Ancient Roman, depicting a Roman soldier playing the bagpipes. I couldnot find a modern picture of the object. In the bean-field within [...]

Keywords: roman remains, statuary, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-07-20

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115.—Rome—A fragment after Piranesi. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

An engraving showing a fragment of a statue, or, more likely, a reproduction of a drawing by Piranesi of a Roman statue.

A short 1812 biography of Piranesi

Keywords: statuary, sketches, art, people, roman remains, shields, ruins, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-09-11

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116.—Roman Victory. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Succeeding emperors left the Britons in the quiet advancement of their civilization, until Claudius (Fig. 118) was stirred up to the hazard of an invasion. In the sonorous prose of Milton—“He, who wai [...]

Keywords: symbols, art, writing, statuary, roman remains, shields, cartici, borders, frames, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-09-12

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584.—Bracket, Lincoln. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

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

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

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2008-12-09

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63.—Bronze Well-Head by Alberghetti—Courtyard of the Palazzo Ducale. Venice (1907)

“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, colour

Places shown: Venice; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2006-04-12

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30.—Sculpture from the entrance to the chapter house, Westminster Abbey (1250) Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance (1896)

“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, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster Abbey; Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-08-08

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825.—Waltham Cross Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

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, greyscale

Places shown: Waltham Cross; Hertfordshire; England

Added: 2007-11-14

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826.—Charing Cross. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

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, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-11-20

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