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Front CoverJugend [German art magazine] (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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61.—Gaulish Costume.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“The dresses of the inhabitants of Britain before the Roman invasion are not, like those of the people of ancient Egypt, and other countries advanced in the practice of the imitative arts, to be trace [...]

Keywords: statues, costumes, people, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-12-20

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62.—Gaulish Costume.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“The dresses of the inhabitants of Britain before the Roman invasion are not, like those of the people of ancient Egypt, and other countries advanced in the practice of the imitative arts, to be trace [...]

Keywords: statues, costumes, people, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-12-20

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63.—Gaulish Costume.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“The dresses of the inhabitants of Britain before the Roman invasion are not, like those of the people of ancient Egypt, and other countries advanced in the practice of the imitative arts, to be trace [...]

Keywords: statues, costumes, people, beards, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-12-20

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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. These steps sre indeed of monumental proportions! The naked woman in th [...]

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

Places shown: BerlinBerlin; Germany

Added: 2005-08-17

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133.—Roman Citizen.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The engraving shows a statue of a man, the head long gone. the feet also missing; he wears a toga and stands in a niche. When Hutton surveyed the Wall, he found one solitary house upon the site of the [...]

Keywords: roman remains, people, statues, statuary, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2021-01-08

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II.—Old Museum, Berlin, Lion Slayer.Monumental Architecture (1910)

The statue in this photograph is called Löwenkämpfer, or lion fighter. It was made by Albert Wolff in 1858 and is outside the Altes Museum.

Keywords: statues, architecture, buildings, spears, weapons, nudity, are feet, people, men, animals, lions, horses, victory, battles, greyscale

Places shown: BerlinBerlin; Germany

Added: 2020-08-22

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418.—Ancient Statue of Guy at Guys CliffOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This is Guy of Warwick, mentioned in some of the Robin Hood stories.

Guy’s Cliff is pretty ruined now. It’s between Warwick and Coventry.

Keywords: statues, people, colour

Places shown: Guy’s Cliffe; Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2003-03-20

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The Lion Gates, Hampton CourtThe Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897)

Hampton Court Palace was built by Cardinal Wolsey, starting in 1514, although some time in the 1520s it became the property of King Henry VIII. The Lion Gates are at the Bushey Park entrance to the Pa [...]

Keywords: gates, entrances, statues, trees, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: East Molesey; Surrey; England

Added: 2006-01-19

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Niches at OrielOxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

From a Drawing by A. Brunet-Debaines.

Keywords: gothic, windows, entrances, statues, colleges, colour

Places shown: Oriel College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2003-04-13

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Gods of our Saxon Ancestors.Error’s Chains: How Forged and Broken (1884)

In the engraving, Thor is seated at a throne; he wears a crown and voluminous regal robes, and has a halo or stars. Woden is also crowned, and wears medieval armour. In the back, in statue niches, the [...]

Keywords: gods, religion, weekdays, anglo-saxons, statuary, statues, kinds, thrones, worship, crowns, stars, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2023-03-10

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The Gateway of St. John’s CollegeOxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

From an Etching by H. Toussaint. St. John’s College, Oxford, was founded in 1555, replacing an earlier college abolished during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The statue of St. Bernard [I think] [...]

Keywords: colleges, gothic, arches, entrances, statues, people, greyscale

Places shown: St. John’s College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-08-29

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Charles-Quint TriomphantMusée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880)

Dessin au fusain de C. Molony, d’après le bronze de Leone Léoni. (Musée du Prado, à Madrid.) This is an engraving of a charcoal drawing made by C. Molony after the bronze statue of Leone Léoni depicti [...]

Keywords: statues, statuary, art, drawings, wariors, armour, nudity, people, bare feet, chains, prisoners, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-10-15

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Statue of MirabeauMusée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1881)

A well-dressed man in a suit has one arm outstretched to point the way forward, a French sculpture that could have been used as a directional signpost. The statue was exhibited at the Paris exhibitio [...]

Keywords: pointing, men, statues, statuary, portraits, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-08-16

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Colossal BullMagazine of Art Illustrated (1878)

By M. Cain. Grand Basin of the Trocadéro Palace.) “One of the chief features of the paris Exhibition of 1878 was the magnificent waterfall beneath the Trocadéro Palace and the grand basin at the foot [...]

Keywords: statues, bulls, animals, greyscale

Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France

Added: 2005-10-27

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Grotesque HeadMagazine of Art Illustrated (1878)

By M. Legrain. From the Cascade Basin. [at the Paris Exhibition of 1878] A good gargoyle picture for All-Souls Night or Halloween! “These masks, modelled by M. Legrain, were among the most amusing ex [...]

Keywords: heads, statues, fountains, gargoyles, spooky, horror, mythical creatures, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France

Added: 2005-10-27

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Grotesque Head [detail]Magazine of Art Illustrated (1878)

A good picture for All-Souls Night or Halloween!

A detail from Grotesque Head

Keywords: heads, statues, fountains, gargoyles, spooky, horror, mythical creatures, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France

Added: 2005-10-27

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Lord John RussellMagazine of Art Illustrated (1878)

By J. E. Boehm, A.R.A. Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1880. This is a digital image made by scanning a print of an engraving that depicts a sculpture of a person. Lord John Russell (1792 – 1878) wa [...]

Keywords: people, sculpture, statues, portraits, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-09-13

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St. George and the DragonMagazine of Art Illustrated (1878)

An engraving showing a statue of St. George slaying the dragon, by J. E. Boehm, A.R.A. St. George is here depicted as an almost-naked man riding a horse, a Roman centurian wearing only sandals and a h [...]

Keywords: statues, dragons, people, weapons, animals, horses, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-10-28

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St. George and the Dragon [detail]Magazine of Art Illustrated (1878)

A detail from St. George and the Dragon showing the dragon’s head.

Keywords: dragons, statues, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-10-28

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