Thursday, December 3, 2015
Old farmer of Corycus
The earliest surviving painted Latin manuscript is a collection of the poet Virgil's works. This page includes part of the text of the Georgics and pastorals scene reminiscent of Roman of landscape murals.
Hagia Sophia
Looking north, it was the most magnificent of the more than 30 churches.Justinian built or restored in Contantinople alone.
Katholikon monetary
Katholikon monestary of Hosios Loukas Distomo Greece first quarter of 11th century
Christ before Pilate
Rossano Gospels, early sixth century.
Contemporaneous with the Vienna Genesis and also featuring purple dyed pages, and the somewhat later Rabbula gospels.
Dome of the rock
Looking east 687-692
Abd al-Malik erected the dome of the rock to mark the triumph of Islam in Jerusalem on a site sacred to Muslims, Christians and Jews. The shrine takes the form of an octagon with a towering dome.
Thursday, November 12, 2015
Restored cutaway view of the Christian community house
Dura euro pol, Syria
Ca 240-256
Accommodate 70 ppl
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Capitolione wolf
From Rome Italy ca. 500-480 bce bronze Palazzo dei Conservatori, Musei Capitolioni, Rome
The she wolf that nursed the infants Romulus and Remus, founder of Rome
Etruscan temple
Model of a typical Etruscan temple of the sixth century bce resembled
Greek temples but had widely spaced unfluted wood columns placed only at the front,walls on sun dried ,mud brick and a narrow staircase of the facade
Porta Marzia, Perugia, Italy
Second century bce porta Marzia was one of the gates in Pergia walls. The use of the fluted pilasters are engaged columns of the frame arches type flies Etruscan builders adaption of the Greek architectural motifs
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
The Perfect Temple
Designed it have perfect proportions
Introns, Parthenon (looking southeast)
Acropolis, Athens,
Greece, 447-438 BCE
Geometric Kramer
From the Dipylon cemetery, Athens, Greece, ca. 740 BCE . Metropolitan Meseum of art, new york
Okjjkkknamed for the abstract motifs on vases such as this funerary Kramer 
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
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