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Hace 4 días · We must remember that Aztec artisans and sculptors were heirs to a stone carving tradition that extended back 2,000 years through the Toltec, Teotihuacan, and Maya civilizations to the very remote Olmecs of 1,500-400 BCE. In fact, many Aztec sculptural forms and concepts were surprisingly similar to those first invented by the Olmecs, despite ...
Hace 4 días · From the early 1970s to 1995, the Port Authority installed seven specially commissioned, one-of-a-kind works of public art at the World Trade Center. Some of them—such as German sculptor Fritz Koenig’s 25-foot bronze The Sphere and American artist James Rosati’s 23-foot Ideogram —became emblematic of the World Trade Center, appearing in countless tourists’ snapshots and professional ...
Hace 6 días · Items relating to the field work of the pioneering female anthropologist and archaeologist. From Southern Methodist University Libraries Digital Collections. Materials come from research trips in the United States to study the Coast Miwok and Southern Paiute tribes, and trips to Mexico, Bolivia, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, and Pakistan.
Hace 2 días · Cave 19, Ajanta 5th-century chaitya hall. The Ajanta Caves are 30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments dating from the second century BCE to about 480 CE in the Aurangabad district of Maharashtra state in India. [1] [2] [3] Ajanta Caves are a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [2]
Hace 4 días · Covenant by Alexander Liberman, 1975. The University of Pennsylvania has huge amounts of sway within the city. The campus alone spans 30th st all the way to 40th, and while Penn does not own all the space in between, it's interesting to note that the University did not always own so much land. It was not until the 1950s when the school began ...
Hace 2 días · North wing of Louvre facing main courtyard. The Louvre Palace (French: Palais du Louvre, [palɛ dy luvʁ] ), often referred to simply as the Louvre, is an iconic French palace located on the Right Bank of the Seine in Paris, occupying a vast expanse of land between the Tuileries Gardens and the church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois.
Hace 2 días · Phidias (sculptor) The Parthenon ( / ˈpɑːrθəˌnɒn, - nən /; Ancient Greek: Παρθενών, romanized : Parthenōn [par.tʰe.nɔ̌ːn]; Greek: Παρθενώνας, romanized : Parthenónas [parθeˈnonas]) is a former temple [6] [7] on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, that was dedicated to the goddess Athena during the fifth century BC.