EditorialMemorabilia from Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn to Chris Hemsworth, Samuel L. Jackson and Star Wars to go under hammer at huge Hollywood auction
EditorialGlass Negative, Shopfront Display, 'England Is Calling', George St, Sydney, 1936, Black and white, 1/4 plate glass negative of the shopfront display at Sydney's Kodak branch at 379-381 George Street, circa 1936. Several different cameras are displayed ...
EditorialThe Building of the Tower of Babel. Building works include stones being raised on pulleys, wooden platforms, from which a man falls, and mixing mortar. Stone being carried by a camel. In the foreground, stonemasons working with their tools. Bedford Hou...
EditorialIndonesia. Java. Borubudur. Mahayana Buddhist temple in Magelang. Six square platforms decorated with reliefs by the architech Gunadarma. 9th century.
EditorialWest face of the city of Mandalay. The camp of the 23rd Madras Infantry is pitched on the banks of the moat with tents raised on bamboo platforms. 'Burmah. A series of one hundred photographs illustrating incidents connected with the British Expedition...
EditorialAerial view of Municipal Offices and Victoria Terminus, Bombay. The Victoria Terminus with platforms and sidings to the north takes up the central portion of this print, with the Municipal Offices and Maidan in the foreground.The General Post Office is...
EditorialThe Building of the Tower of Babel. Building works include stones being raised on pulleys, wooden platforms, from which a man falls, and mixing mortar. Stone being carried by a camel. In the foreground, stonemasons working with their tools. Bedford Hou...
EditorialA pictorial representation of the north coast of Somerset. It shows the coast from the mouth of the River Avon near East Bristol to west Porlock and can be dated to 1539. At the top of the drawing round towers represent proposed blockhouses in the neig...
EditorialThe town / Village of Pomeiooc. Engraving of a bird's-eye view of a village, enclosed by a circular palisade. Within the enclosure are huts of pole and mat construction, with open ends or side, and raised sleeping platforms inside.The huts are grouped ...
Editorial???????, The Four Deities of Mount Koya, Muromachi period (1392?1573), 16th century, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink, color and gold on silk, Image: 40 3/16 ? 19 1/2 in. (102 ? 49.5 cm), Paintings, The four deities of Mount Koya sit on elaborately decorated...
EditorialBaker's Falls (No. 8 of The Hudson River Portfolio), 1823?24, Aquatint printed in color with hand-coloring; first state of two (Koke), Image: 14 1/16 x 20 3/16 in. (35.7 x 51.3 cm), Prints, after William Guy Wall (Irish, Dublin 1792?after 1864 Ireland ...
EditorialGreat Wisdom Sutra from the Chusonji Temple Sutra Collection (Chusonjikyo), ????(????), Heian period (794?1185), ca. 1175, Japan, Handscroll; gold and silver on indigo-dyed paper, 10 x 7 1/8 in. (25.4 x 18.1 cm), Paintings, The frontispiece of this sut...
Editorial???????, The Four Deities of Mount Koya, Muromachi period (1392?1573), 16th century, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink, color and gold on silk, Image: 40 3/16 ? 19 1/2 in. (102 ? 49.5 cm), Paintings, The four deities of Mount Koya sit on elaborately decorated...
EditorialKneeling Female Figure, 2nd?4th century, Mexico, Mesoamerica, Nayarit, Nayarit (Chinesco), Ceramic, Height 11-1/2 in. (29.2 cm), Ceramics-Sculpture, Paired sculptures depicting male and female figures frequently occur among the burial goods of the shaf...
EditorialSeated Male Figure, 2nd?4th century, Mexico, Mesoamerica, Nayarit, Nayarit (Chinesco), Ceramic, Height 11-1/2 in. (29.2 cm), Ceramics-Sculpture, Paired sculptures depicting male and female figures frequently occur among the burial goods of the shaft to...
EditorialBottle, 15th?17th century, United States, Arkansas, Caddoan, Ceramic, pigment, H. 8 3/4 x Diam. 6 in. (22.2 x 15.2 cm), Ceramics-Containers, The westernmost region in which Mississippian cultural patterns occurred was in eastern Oklahoma and adjacent a...
EditorialEarflare, 9th?11th century, Peru, Lambayeque (Sic?n), Gold, turquoise, Diam. 2 3/8 in. (6 cm), Metal-Ornaments, The religious-funerary precinct of Batan Grande, the presumed center of the Sican kingdom, comprised many stepped pyramids and temples built...
EditorialAfrican slaves washing silt from diamonds in troughs at the Mandanga diamond-works on the Jequitinhonha river, Brazil. Colonial overseers sit on platforms near the riverbank. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico from Giulio Ferrrario's Costumes...
EditorialPetin's design for a huge airship with viewing platforms raised by many balloons, 1850. Woodblock engraving by Mes from Louis Figuier's "Les Merveilles de la Science: Aerostats" (Marvels of Science: Air Balloons), Furne, Jouvet et Cie, Paris, 1868.
EditorialIndonesia. Java. Borubudur. Mahayana Buddhist temple in Magelang. Six square platforms decorated with reliefs by the architech Gunadarma. 9th century.
EditorialThe building of the Tower of Babel. Building works include stones being raised on pulleys, wooden platforms, from which a man falls, and mixing mortar. Stone being carried by a camel. In foreground, stonemasons working with their tools. From the Bedf...
EditorialWooden ladder and staircase connecting platforms and Defense galleries on the upper floor. Chillon Castle. Foundation Carolingian Period, present state from 13th.
EditorialIn front of ahus (ceremonial platforms) and toppled moai statues are circles laid out with stones. Their purpose is unknown-meeting places for common meals during festivals, meditation circles-there is no local tradition to explain these spaces.
EditorialAhu Tongariki has 15 moai statues. The tallest measures 8,90 m and weighs 88 tons. In the course of several centuries,older statues were toppled,broken up and used as filling material for larger platforms with larger statues.
EditorialTeotihuacan, " Place of the Gods" was the most important ceremonial center in Mesoamerica. At the height of its importance, Teotihuacan had a population of 200.000. Plaza of the Moon, two platforms and the Pyramid of the Moon. 3rd-6th. Height...