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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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Architecture (full page print)The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

The characteristic marks of this [early Norman] style are these: The walls are very thick, generally without buttresses; the arches, both within and without, as well as those over the doors and window [...]

Keywords: architecture, pillars, columns, norman architecture, colour

Places shown: England

Added: 2014-08-30

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Frontispiece: The Snow Sweepers (1865)The Circling Year (1870)

A man in boots and tall hat, scarf, jacket and rolled-up trousers, stands on the steps of a grand front porch with stone columns while two faces peer out of a window in this city scene. A boy on the s [...]

Keywords: winter, street scenes, snow, people, cities, pillars, children, boys, men, snow shovels, victorian costume, top hats, colour

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2018-01-20

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Initial letter I with Transitional CapitalEnglish Cathedrals (1910)

This letter “I” is set about a sketch of an English “transitional” capital from the Galilee Chapel of Durham cathedral. The decorated top-part of a pillar is called a capital, and transitional architc [...]

Keywords: capitals, sketches, architecture, historiated initials, letteri, initials, pillars, architecture, transitional architecture, cathedrals, greyscale

Places shown: Durham; County Durham; England

Added: 2025-03-31

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Rome: PantheonDie Kirchliche Baukunst des Abendlandes (1884)

This architectural drawing of the Pantheon in Rome features intricate detail, drawings of the statues and columns with their capitals, a cut-away showing the passages inside the walls, and includes sh [...]

Keywords: architecture, diagrams, temples, roman remains, backgrounds, wallpaper, widescreen, domes, pillars, colour

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2014-03-05

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St. Simon Stylites, Hermit of the PillarHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

(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, easter, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2003-03-31

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44.—hare Stone, CornwallOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“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, greyscale

Places shown: Harestone; Stanmore; Cornwall; England

Added: 2006-07-07

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46.—Kilmarth Rocks, as seen from the South East.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“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, greyscale

Places shown: Scotland

Added: 2006-07-28

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47.—The Cheesewring, as seen from the North-west.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“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, greyscale

Places shown: Bodmin Moor; Cornwall; England

Added: 2006-07-28

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8.—Ornate Renaissance Border (1536)Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol II.) (1881)

This ornate early baroque border is from a 1536 title page and features cherubs, shields, medallions, grape vines and pineapples, strange sea-creatures (at the bottom), oak leaves and more. This would [...]

Keywords: borders, surrounds, frames, cherubs, bare feet, nudity, pillars, rennaissance, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2017-06-25

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Murder in the CastleLa Civilizacion 3 (1881)

This engraving (i think) actually shows the discovery of the body of the Roman emperor Nero just after he had killed himself, but i am far from certain; the men’s swords are drawn. There are three men [...]

Keywords: death, discovery, accusation, people, men, weapons, soliders, interiors, castles, pillars, throne rooms, greyscale

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2023-02-02

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One Bay of the “Angel Choir,” Interior, Lincoln CathedralEnglish Cathedrals (1910)

A view as if one were standing in the chancel between the stone Rood Screen and the small step leading up to the sanctuary with its alter, and looking to the side of the great building. The architectu [...]

Keywords: decorated style, gothic architecture, transitional architecture, cathedrals, interiors, columns, windows, tracery, churches, chuch architecture, stonework, pillars, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-04-07

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Interior of S. Sepulchre Church, Cambridge.A Short History of the English People (1902)

Built c. 114 – 1130. Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge. Built by a Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre, to whom the Abbot and Convent of Ramsey gave for that purpose, between 1114 and 1130, a buri [...]

Keywords: churches, norman england, interiors, pillars, norman architecture, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2011-07-26

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Arches of Cloister of S. Aubin’s Abbey, AngersA Short History of the English People (1902)

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, greyscale

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

Added: 2008-07-07

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ivy-covered crubling stone sundialOld English Country Cottages (1906)

This little woodcut of a pillar with a sundial (you can see the gnomon) covered with ivy and leaning to one side was used as a tail-piece at the end of a chapter. Tempus Fugit.

Keywords: ornaments, sundials, pillars, time, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2017-02-22

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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, religion, 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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525.—The Crypt, St. Bartholomew’s Church.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A dark stone-vaulted crypt extends as far as we can see; a man walks away from us, holding a burning taper out to light his way and carrying a heavy key. In the foreground a wine-barrel serves to hold [...]

Keywords: crypts, people, drinking, barrels, darkness, interiors, churches, arches, pillars, lamps, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2013-06-04

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527.—The Western Entrance, Interior, St. Bartholomew’s church.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

There can be no doubt that we have the original walls, pillars, and arches of the twelfth century; the massive, grand, and simple style of the whole tells truly through the date of their erection. (p. [...]

Keywords: churches, interiors, norman architecture, people, arches, pillars, windows, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2013-09-24

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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: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2012-08-13

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