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Details of a painted ceiling, in Vatican Museums, Vatican City, Rome, Italy.
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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.
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.
The monuments of Musawwarat es-Sufra have been studied in some detail since 1960, when Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin started its research at the site. Besides pursuing a range of research topics, Humboldt-Universität’s Musawwarat Project has always seen conservation-restoration measures as well as the public presentation of the site among its main tasks.
December 28, 2018 - On the ascent to see one of the architectural highlights of Petra - Ad-Deir (Monastery).
In the Ice Palace / The Extension of the natural listing of a United Nations World Heritage property of Jungfrau - Aletsch - Bietschhorn (first inscribed in 2001), expands the site to the east and west, bringing its surface area up to 82,400 ha., up from 53,900. The site provides an outstanding example of the formation of the High Alps, including the most glaciated part of the mountain range and the largest glacier in Eurasia. It features a wide diversity of ecosystems, including successional stages due particularly to the retreat of glaciers resulting from climate change. The site is of outstanding universal value both for its beauty and for the wealth of information it contains about the formation of mountains and glaciers, as well as ongoing climate change. It is also invaluable in terms of the ecological and biological processes it illustrates, notably through plan succession. Its impressive landscape has played an important role in European art, literature, mountaineering and alpine tourism / Jungfraujoch - Top of Europe includes several restaurants and a permanent exhibition about the Jungfrau Railway and the Alps and the Ice Palace ‘s ice sculptures include vaulted rooms, birds, animals, penguins, people, automobiles, furniture, and even a bar. The palace is an amusing novelty and is worth visiting when you're on the Jungfraujoch. It also includes Europe's highest-altitude post office. An older building includes a research station / Jungfraujoch (German: "maiden saddle") is a saddle [the saddle between two hills (or mountains) is the region surrounding the highest point of the lowest point on the line tracing the drainage divide (the col) connecting the peaks] connecting two major 4000ers of the Bernese Alps: the Jungfrau and the Mönch. It lies at an elevation of 3,463 metres (11,362 ft) above sea level and is directly overlooked by the rocky prominence of the Sphinx. The Jungfraujoch is a glacier saddle, on the upper snows of the Aletsch Glacier, and part of the Jungfrau-Aletsch area, situated on the boundary between the cantons of Bern and Valais, halfway between Interlaken and Fiesch. Since 1912, the Jungfraujoch has been accessible to tourists by the Jungfrau line, a railway from Interlaken and Kleine Scheidegg, running partly underground through a tunnel through the Eiger and Mönch. The Jungfraujoch railway station, at an elevation of 3,454 metres (11,332 ft) is the highest in Europe. It lies east of the saddle, below the Sphinx station, and is connected to the Top of Europe building, which includes several panoramic restaurants, shops, exhibitions, and a post office. Several tunnels lead outside, where secured hiking trails on the crevassed glacier can be followed, in particular to the Mönchsjoch Hut. The normal route to the Jungfrau and Mönch starts from there. The Sphinx Observatory, one of the highest astronomical observatories in the world, provides an additional viewing platform at a height of 3,572 metres (11,719 ft), the second-highest in Switzerland. It can be reached by an elevator from the Jungfraujoch. The observatory houses one of the Global Atmosphere Watch's atmospheric research stations. The Jungfraujoch radio relay station, which is not accessible to the public, is installed west of the Jungfraujoch, on the Jungfrau ridge. It is Europe's highest radio relay station
The next room is entered through this door. The lintel bears the names of Thutmose II on the exterior and Thutmose III on the interior. Described as “the one loved by Khnum of Itjenou-Pedjout”, the ancient name of Kumma, meaning “the one who repels the bows”