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The reliefs on the interior of the temple are smaller-scale scenes related to the cult practices in the temple. It is the earliest Meroitic temple with relief decoration, providing insights into the perceptions of religion.
Details of a painted ceiling, in Vatican Museums, Vatican City, Rome, Italy.
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Entrance to the temple: the temple of Apedemak illustrates profoundly the fusing together of artistic influences by the Kushites. As in the Hathor Temple, the lintel is topped with a row of sacred uraei (cobras).
Venetians could denounce fellow citizens by inserting a signed charge in the Bocca di Leone ("The Lion’s Mouth"). If the charge was unfounded, the sentence for the crime would be imposed upon the filer of the complaint.
Staré Město ✶ Prague ✶ Czech Republic
street address Dušní 928/1
Dlouhá 928
"Apartment building. The four-story corner house was built according to the plans of Emanuel Dvořák from 1899–1900 in the style of late historicism with Neo-Baroque and Art Nouveau elements.
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The four-story corner building in the historicist style has two wings on an L-shaped floor plan, copying the non-rectangular line of the corner. The house has three wings, with a two-flight staircase of a horseshoe-shaped ground plan, located between both wings, and an elevator was built in the staircase mirror in 1905. A small courtyard with galleries is adjacent to the house. The house is covered by a saddle roof, from which a square tower with a lantern and an onion dome protrudes in the corner."
Listed as a Czech cultural monument, 2009
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During the 2017/18 field season, a first set of replicas was created. Two sculptures of seated lions in front of Temple 300 in the East of the Great Enclosure were re-assembled and copied using silicone moulds in which artificial stone was cast. The two lions complete the set of architectural sculptures adorning the access route into the temple, guarding once again the ramp leading into the porticus of the building.
Zomer paleis
World Heritage
Het zomerpaleis in Beijing – voor het eerst aangelegd in 1750, tijdens de oorlog in 1860 grotendeels vernietigd en weer herbouwd in 1886 – is een meesterwerk op het gebied van Chinese landschapsarchitectuur en tuinontwerp. Het zomerpaleis omvat een gebied van bijna 3 vierkante kilometer, waarvan het merendeel bestaat uit water. Het natuurlijke landschap van heuvels en open water is gevuld met allerlei uitbundig versierde en goed bewaarde paviljoenen, hallen, paleizen, tempels en bruggen. De keizerlijke tuin bestond uit drie gedeelten, elk met een aparte functie: politieke en administratieve activiteiten, woonverblijven en recreatie en toerisme. In 1924 werd het zomerpaleis een openbaar park.
The ground plan is a squared spiral, characteristic of the monuments built by Senenmut. This type of ground plan is called peripteral, and later became very widespread in Greece (in the Parthenon and every important Hellenistic sanctuary).
Inscription on the northern wall of the first rock cut chamber of B 300. (Hand-held camera, by torchlight)
The hieroglyphs are of extraordinary quality, enhanced by the preservation of the pigments. Each hieroglyph is a small painting - at the bottom is written "like the Sun".
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Scene of the coronation of Hatshepsut: This image is in the sanctuary. Hatshepsut is being crowned by the god Amun. In front of her is Inmutef, the tutelary god of crown princes.
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With ten computer-controlled climate zones, the Princess of Wales Conservatory is a glassy labyrinth leading you through a series of fascinating ecosystems.
In our zone dedicated to carnivorous plants, you’ll discover the conditions that helped predatory species like Venus flytraps (Dionaea muscipula) or pitcher plants (Nepenthes) evolve to swallow their prey in less than half a second.
There’s a new surprise at every corner of this winding glasshouse. Take in spiky cacti and succulents as you travel through the dry tropics and emerge into the dense, steamy zones where tropical orchids and bright bromeliads come alive.
There’s plenty of beauty on display too. The celebrated giant waterlily Victoria amazonica floats in the wet tropical zone, where its spectacular white flowers open at sunset, filling the air with a strong perfume before they are pollinated and turn bright pink by the morning.
This Grade I listed building is the largest surviving Victorian glasshouse in the world.
It was built to display Kew’s temperate plant collection. These plants need to live under glass where the temperature stays above 10°C.
It is home to 1,500 temperate species from five continents and 16 islands. These are some of the world’s rarest and most threatened temperate plants.Designed by Decimus Burton, who also designed the Palm House for tropical plants
Opened in May 1863 but construction continued for 36 years
Built on a mound of gravel and sand, the spoil from Kew's Lake
127 bombs dropped on Kew during WWII caused structural damage to the Temperate House.
May 15, 2019 - "The project, known as Taliesin—Welsh for “shining brow”—consisted of a house with a living room, kitchen, three bedrooms, two bathrooms, sitting room, and garden; studio with a workroom and small apartment; and service wing with stalls for horses, a garage, space designated for carriages and cows, and a milk room. It was located close to other projects Wright designed for members of his family, including the Romeo and Juliet tower (1897); Hillside Home School (1902); and Tan-y-deri (1907), the house Wright built for his sister, Jane Porter.
Like the suburban Prairie-style residences of his early career, Taliesin featured hipped roofs, overhanging eaves, broad chimneys, an open floor plan, and bands of casement windows. The rolling topography of Southern Wisconsin allowed Wright to expand upon his earlier experiments linking site and structure. Here Wright responded to the natural landscape by building Taliesin around a hill top. The architect wrote, “I knew well that no house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and home should live together each the happier for the other.” Indeed, Taliesin was situated to create picturesque views of distant hills and valleys, as well as nearby landscaped gardens. The multiple facets of its hipped roofs appear to follow the contours of the landscape, and Wright chose to build with limestone and other materials native to the area.
Taliesin’s living quarters were tragically destroyed when a disgruntled employee set fire to the property and killed Mamah Borthwick, her two children, and four others on August 15, 1914. Wright subsequently rebuilt the structure, and it was incorporated into a larger estate that is now open to the public." Previous text from the following website: flwright.org/researchexplore/wrightbuildings/taliesin
Pyramid Nu 1 - Taharqo (690-664 BCE): The largest and best- preserved pyramid is that of Taharqo, measuring c. 51.75 metres on each side, with a height of 67m and an angle of inclination of 69 degrees. Beneath the pyramid is a burial chamber with six columns and arched ceilings, replicas of the Osireion built by Seti I at Abydos and symbolising the mythical burial chamber of the assassinated god.
vistaquest 1015, anapji, gyeongju historic areas, gyeongju, south korea
One of my favourite images. This image proves how good the vistaquest is.
December 28, 2018 - On the ascent to see one of the architectural highlights of Petra - Ad-Deir (Monastery).