Antique Monument

Although this ambitious monument was sadly never realised, Dalou worked tirelessly on it’s creation for over a decade, completing numerous sketches and maquettes.

The print originates from the rare architectural publication Paris et ses Monuments, mesurés, dessinés et gravés, produced by the French architect and engraver Louis-Pierre Baltard a...

Antique Caryatid Sculpture of the Louvre Interior – Baltard Paris 1803 Description: This impressive early 19th-century architectural engraving originates from the rare French public...

The figures are depicted in richly colored garments based on authentic medieval sources, including illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, paintings, tomb effigies, and historical monume...

These finely executed lithographs were issued by the renowned Parisian publishers Goupil & Vibert and were drawn from authentic monuments, paintings, sculptures, and manuscript sourc...

The Kapnikarea Church, dating from the 11th century, appears here as a living monument embedded within the evolving city of Athens.

As a group, these works read as an intellectual ensemble, illustrating how landscape, architecture, and monument were understood as interconnected systems by early Egyptologists.

Travelers, artists, and scholars visited the city to study its remarkable monuments, including the Maison Carrée, the Roman amphitheatre, and the Tour Magne.

The composition centers on the elaborate funerary monument of Henry V, one of England’s most celebrated medieval monarchs, famed for his victory at Agincourt in 1415.

His other works include Martyrs’ Monument in Beirut (1960), Monumento al Partigiano (Monumento to the Partisan) in Parma (1964) and the Monumento alle quattro giornate (Monument to ...

The most recurring theme in general is Rome, its inhabitants, its monuments, the ancient city and the one that is contemporary to him.

The interiors of these caverns, where the scenery always alludes to the ruined state of the monuments, should be interpreted as a kind of 'vanitas', they are not only fascinating to ...

Technique: Color lithograph Maker: Alexandre Marcel Raymond, France, early 20th century Keywords: Alexandre Raymond, L'Art Islamique en Orient, Islamic architecture, Seljuk art, Sel...

Alexandre Marcel Raymond devoted decades to recording these monuments at a time when many historic structures remained little known outside the Ottoman world.

Although Jeser, who ruled between 2682 and 2663 BC, belonged to the Third Dynasty, he kept a large number of stone vessels from the Thinite period in his funerary monument. Lauer int...

To our knowledge, these bears are the only two examples that have been cast from the monument.

Montfaucon’s monumental survey of classical antiquities became one of the foundational works of archaeology and architectural history, bringing together visual studies of ancient tem...

The second volume alone contains approximately sixty color plates depicting portals, windows, ironwork, doors, fountains, and decorative details from monuments throughout Turkey. T...

Exceptional statue of Jacques Callot, in plaster badged, having taken part in the 1869 competition in Nancy (Lorraine), to adorn the monument on the present-day Place Vaudémont. The ...

Montfaucon’s monumental encyclopedic study of the ancient world is regarded as one of the foundational works of archaeology and classical art history, bringing together visual materi...

Montfaucon’s monumental survey of classical antiquities became one of the foundational works of archaeology and architectural history, bringing together visual studies of ancient tem...

Montfaucon’s monumental study of the ancient world is regarded as one of the foundational publications of archaeology and classical art history, bringing together architectural monum...

It has been listed as a historical monument since 1940. Its chancel dates from the 11th century, and the nave and apse from the 12th century.

C-clamps are generally small tools, but here is a "monumental size" clamps more than likely used for specialized equipment such as handling heavy stone slabs or monuments during cons...

To possess an antique specimen of this scale with such a pristine black field is to hold a rare monument to 19th-century French craftsmanship, a work that transforms the floor into a...

On the background of the landscape the Monument of Castle Sant' Angelo, reference of the Roman commission.

A finely detailed late 19th–early 20th century decorative thermometer modeled after a Roman triumphal column, inspired by classical monuments such as Trajan’s Column in Rome. Cast in...

A handpainted late 18th century Grand Tour architectural model of a curved Ionic column monument or entrance originating from Italy, c.1780.

Several figures in 18th-century dress stand around the monument, offering a sense of scale and period context.

Horse-drawn carriages with brightly colored wheels move through the slush-lined avenue as pedestrians with umbrellas navigate the scene beneath an overcast sky. An equestrian monumen...

Caracalla had Geta assassinated in Rome; in the practice now known as damnatio memoriae, Geta's memorials were destroyed and all images or mentions of him were removed from street bu...

A handpainted late 18th century Grand Tour architectural model of a Corinthian column monument or entrance originating from Italy, c.1780.

Several pieces depict dancing classical figures and Bacchic imagery, while others feature richly carved decorative motifs inspired by ancient Roman marble sculpture and funerary monu...

Lucchesi’s influence extended to Florence, where he created the monument to Donatello outside the sculptor’s studio, and to Viareggio, where he crafted the impressive monument to the...

The artist’s perspective infuses the monument with new life, turning a national symbol into a deeply personal expression of hope and grace.

The impressive and Gothic monument was erected in honour of the Scottish author Sir Walter Scott in Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh.

He was one of Belgium’s most famous medal designers, and he was also known for his sculptures, monuments and fountains in France and Belgium. He became a close friend of the architec...

He also produced highly regarded ornamental designs, public decorative monuments, and portrait medallions across Belgian towns like Geel and Aver bode.

The work gathered visual material from ancient monuments, sculpture collections, engraved gems, architectural remains, and Renaissance interpretations of antiquity, creating one of t...

Though best known for major public monuments such as Cesare Beccaria and the Monument to the Five Days, his smaller studies, marked by expressive modeling and pictorial surface effec...

The city walls, gates, towers, and religious monuments are rendered in fine engraved detail. Decorative rococo-style borders frame the image elegantly, giving the work strong visual ...

To possess antique tribal rugs such as this antique red Kuba scatter rug is to hold a monument to a vanishing tribal heritage, a work that bridges the gap between rugged nomadic util...

Masson specialized in depictions of animals, as well as equestrian monuments (including a fine monument to Napoleon Bonaparte) and Orientalist subject.

Norden’s view captures the site before later modern development, preserving a historically important moment in the monument’s visual history. With its strong vertical emphasis and c...

Today, the obelisks remain as enduring monuments to Florence’s Renaissance tradition of public festivities and its deliberate revival of classical Roman pageantry.

In Rome, sphinxes often adorned funerary monuments, garden architecture, and decorative reliefs, particularly during the Imperial period when Egyptian cults—most notably that of Isis...

The Nymphaeum is an ancient monument that was part of a villa owned by Herodes Atticus in the 2nd century A.D.

He studied sculpture under the renowned Mathurin Moreau (French, 1822-1912) at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and Emile Thomas (French, 1817-1882), a prominent sculptor responsibl...

Created by the French architect and engraver Louis-Pierre Baltard and published in Paris in 1803, the print originates from the important Napoleonic-era work Paris et ses Monuments, ...

The engraving captures the monument in remarkable detail, from the sculpted frieze winding up the column to the statue crowning it—here shown as St.

The other depicts the Arch of Constantine, one of Rome's most important surviving triumphal monuments. Piranesi emphasizes the arch's weathered stone, sculptural reliefs, and imposin...

Horter traveled to Europe for the first time in 1921 on a commission to draw European monuments for a client, the Joseph Dixon Crucible Company.

It was there that he produced some very beautiful watercolors of monuments in Rome (ceiling of the Villa of Pope Julius II, plan and elevation of the churches of Saint Lawrence and S...

Horter traveled to Europe for the first time in 1921 on a commission to draw European monuments for a client, the Joseph Dixon Crucible Company.

Horter traveled to Europe for the first time in 1921 on a commission to draw European monuments for a client, the Joseph Dixon Crucible Company.

Alongside Schoksha porphyry and pink Rapavki granite, Serdobol granite was used for the pedestal of the Monument of Nicholas I, completed in 1859. The use of green granite for obje...

Commonly described as a Gothic targe or heater-shaped shield, it appears frequently in French and Italian sigillography, funerary monuments, and architectural decoration of the perio...

He forged the upper and right-hand star of the Freedom Monument. Participated in exhibitions since 1932.

The engravings accompanying these editions introduced European readers to exotic cities, monuments, and cultures that many would never personally encounter.

Her image appears frequently in Roman coinage, sculpture, and public monuments, becoming one of the most recognizable symbols of Roman identity.