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L. K. Scott - Backstairs
Pyramid Books 103, 1953
Cover Artist: Jim Bentley
"A society woman's strange craving."
I was the only one of our group to go down into the Bent Pyramid. There was a 80m low staircase down below ground to an inner chamber, whence another 20m or so of stairs took me up to a crawl tunnel and a second chamber.
There were rather too many people inside for my liking. Also the and stale air made the reascent a very strenuous undertaking. After you dissociate the history of where you are and what you're seeing of the ancient civilisation, actually I wouldn't recommend this endevour. But it has been done. Dhashour Pyramids site, Egypt.
William Brown Meloney - Farm Girl
(Original Title: Rush to the Sun)
Pyramid Books G460, 1959
Cover Artist: Lou Marchetti
"In the city they'd call her Jailbait."
Originally published in 1937 and got good reviews from the NYT and Kirkus:
This may appeal only to a limited market. Certainly not to your conservatives. But it is extraordinarily well done, and redeemed from being too wholly of the earth by the character of the central figure, Alf. Suggests Frances Frost's Innocent Summer and Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under The Elms. The setting is a rural community on the New York-Connecticut line. Written in stream of consciousness manner, but not too self-consciously so.
Actual picture of this place to stop and sit near Pyramid Lake in Nevada. What a lonely, but beautiful area. As I was setting up my camera, those waiting for the bus showed up. For all I know they're still there.
The pyramid of Khafre on the right with Menkaure's pyramid and three smaller satellite pyramids that belonged to Menkaure's three queens.
Anonymous - Madeleine: An Autobiography
Pyramid Books R-1136, 1965
Cover Artist: Mort Engel
"A girl's own story of a life of vice."
Sax Rohmer - The Yellow Claw
Pyramid Books R-1317, 1966
Cover Artist: Joe Lombardero
Joe Lombardero worked with William Teason at Sudler & Hennessey. You can see the similarity of their styles.
Born: 1922 in Tampa, Florida.
Died: 2004 in Arkansas.
Joseph Lombardero studied design at the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida. He moved to New York in 1948, working for Sudler & Hennessey as an illustrator specializing in pharmaceutical illustrations.
In the 1960s he began to illustrate book covers, primarily in the science fiction genre and for the Time-Life Science series. He also illustrated record jacket covers for RCA, Capitol, Camden and EMI, primarily in the classical and jazz genre.
The Pyramid of Khafre is one of the three ancient pyramids on the Giza Plateau, a neighbourhood that is just 25km from downtown Cairo.
Giza, Egypt, 2009
Louvre Arrondisement 1.
This is the courtyard of the Louvre Museum looking towards the Tuileries.........
1956; Let's go naked Anthology compiled by Donald A. Wollheim. Cover art by Ed Fisher. Authors: Thorne Smith, Erskine Calswell, Earl Wilson, Louis Charles Royer, H. Allen Smith, H.E. Bates.
1953; The Big Fake by Murray Forbes. Cover art by Jim Bentley. original title Hollow Triumph. The Lady is Marilyn Monroe the man could be the painter himself Jim Bentley or could it be mr. Heffner?
The great pyramids at Giza. From left to right: The Pyramid of Cheops (or Khufu), The Pyramid of Chephren (or Khafre), and The Pyramid of Mykerinus (or Menkaure). The fourth small mound on the right is a mini-pyramid for the queen.
The Louvre Pyramid (Pyramide du Louvre) is a large glass and metal pyramid, surrounded by three smaller pyramids, in the main courtyard (Cour Napoléon) of the Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre) in Paris. The large pyramid serves as the main entrance to the Louvre Museum. Completed in 1989 it has become a landmark of the city of Paris.
Architect: I. M. Pei
Le musée du Louvre, inauguré en 1793 sous l'appellation Muséum central des arts de la République dans le palais du Louvre, ancienne résidence royale située au centre de Paris, est aujourd'hui le plus grand musée d'art et d'antiquités au monde. Sa surface d'exposition est de 72 735 m.
Fin 2016, ses collections comprenaient 554 731 œuvres, dont 35 000 exposées et 264 486 œuvres graphiques. Celles-ci présentent l'art occidental du Moyen Âge à 1848, celui des civilisations antiques qui l'ont précédé et influencé (orientales, égyptienne, grecque, étrusque et romaine), les arts des premiers chrétiens et de l'Islam.
Situé dans le 1er arrondissement de Paris, sur la rive droite entre la Seine et la rue de Rivoli, le musée se signale par la pyramide de verre de son hall d'accueil, érigée en 1989 dans la cour Napoléon et qui en est devenue emblématique, tandis que la statue équestre de Louis XIV constitue le point de départ de l'axe historique parisien.
En 2017, avec environ 8,1 millions de visiteurs annuels, le Louvre est le musée le plus visité au monde. Il est le site culturel payant le plus visité de France. Parmi ses pièces les plus célèbres figurent La Joconde, la Vénus de Milo, Le Scribe accroupi, La Victoire de Samothrace et le Code de Hammurabi.
Le Louvre possède une longue histoire de conservation artistique et historique, depuis l'Ancien Régime jusqu'à nos jours. À la suite du départ de Louis XIV pour le château de Versailles à la fin du xviie siècle, on y entrepose une partie des collections royales de tableaux et de sculptures antiques. Après avoir durant un siècle hébergé plusieurs académies dont celle de peinture et de sculpture, ainsi que divers artistes logés par le roi, l'ancien palais royal est véritablement transformé sous la Révolution en « Muséum central des arts de la République ». Il ouvre en 1793 en exposant environ 660 œuvres, essentiellement issues des collections royales ou confisquées chez des nobles émigrés ou dans des églises. Par la suite les collections ne cesseront de s'enrichir par des prises de guerre, acquisitions, mécénats, legs, donations, et découvertes archéologiques.
Le musée compte pour sa gestion 2 091 employés (fonctionnaires, contractuels et vacataires), dont 1 232 agents de surveillance, un garde pour chacune des 403 salles d’exposition, que complètent les effectifs affectés aux 900 caméras du système de télésurveillance
A straight-on view of the found sculpture pyramid I saw at the Icehouse in downtown Phoenix this week. The wall of the old brick building is painted with this mural that glows early morning and late afternoons. This structure is "temporary", an installation by a visiting artist from Japan. It is about 2 stories tall. The image was gotten by poking my camera zoom lens through a cyclone fence. It is mostly obscured from the street and one would have to have come upon the peek at it from the side street. I must have taken 30 photos near the fence, a crumbling brick wall, and graffiti on rusted metal fence panels before a small opening in the barricades revealed this wonder. It was such a surprise to see!