EditorialPalais Bourbon and Hotel de Lassay, St. Germain, Paris. Large gilded and gouached pewter plaque in scrolled frame, showing a birds-eye view of Paris' most elegant quarter, the Faubourg St. Germain. In the far right the cupola of the Hotel des Invalides...
EditorialThe birth of Christ. From the Baptistery, Florence. Mosaics cover the entire cupola. They were begun in 1220 and completed a century later. The designs are by Florentine painters, among them Cimabue and the young Giotto.
EditorialWestern cult monument, Filitosa prehistoric settlement. The " torres", cupola buildings of uncertain use, were surrounded by much older menhir-type megalith rocks which marked the entrance to what may have been a fortress or a center of culti...
EditorialA view of the Eastern fa?ade of George Washington's two-storey country house with a veranda, colonnade, hipped roof, cupola and dormers built on a mound surrounded by landscaped grounds. Sailing ships can be seen on Potomac River in the background on ...
EditorialProphets, Patriarchs, Saints, and Music-Making Angels in Glory, 1639?1709, Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over black chalk, 16-1/4 x 20-13/16 in. (41.3 x 52.8 cm), Drawings, Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio) (Italian, Genoa 1639?1709 Rome...
EditorialSpanish school. Cupola of the coreto - The adoration of the name of God. Cupula del coreto - Adoraci?n del Nombre de Dios por los ?ngeles. Saragossa, Basilica del Pilar. FRANCISCO DE GOYA. DIOS PADRE. PADRE ETERNO.
EditorialThe young Virgin is led into the Temple by her parents, where she will spend most of her youth. Under the cupola, in a further scene, an angel feeds her bread. Narthex.
EditorialAn angel leading " the Just". From the Last Judgement sequence, the Baptistery, Florence. Mosaics cover the entire cupola. They were begun in 1220 and completed a century later. The designs are by Florentine painters, among them Cimabue and t...
EditorialCeiling in Hadrian's Villa, with Nymphs, Centaurs, Stags, and Elephants, Pen and colored inks, brush and watercolor, guache, over traces of graphite on paper, Design of a ceiling. In the center of the plan is a circle containing a square. The outlines ...
EditorialThe Royal Naval School at New Cross, Print made by Thomas Talbot Bury, 18111877, British, after Thomas Leeson Rowbotham, 17831853, British, Printed by Day & Co., 18241913, British, undated, Hand-colored lithograph on moderately thick cream card, Sheet:...
EditorialA manuscript sheet in Indian ink marking the donation of £1000 by Queen Caroline towards the building of the south front of Queen's College in 1733. The sheet bears Queen Caroline's coat of arms, a small portrait of Queen Caroline in the letter 'C' of...
EditorialStage Design, Staircase in a Half-Ruined Building, Pen and brown ink, brush and gray and brown wash, black chalk on laid paper, Horizontal rectangle. Stairs running up from middle to right under wooden framework or scaffolding. In front, part of cupola...
EditorialPalais Bourbon and Hotel de Lassay, St. Germain, Paris. Large gilded and gouached pewter plaque in scrolled frame, showing a birds-eye view of Paris' most elegant quarter, the Faubourg St. Germain. In the far right the cupola of the Hotel des Invalides...
EditorialThe estuary of the Canal Grande, Venice. Right the cupola of Santa Maria della Salute and the Dogana, left background the Doges' Palace and the Campanile. Canvas, 65 x 98 cm Inv. 585.