Antique Monument

Key areas such as Grainger Town, Grey Street, and the vicinity of Grey’s Monument are clearly identifiable, reflecting the city’s nineteenth-century architectural development.

By 1874 Monteverde was receiving commissions for commemorative and funerary monuments, including a monument to Giuseppe Mazzini in Milan (1874).

Antique Louvre Paris Architectural Engraving, Colonnade View, Neoclassical 1803 This striking panoramic engraving presents a masterfully rendered view of the celebrated colonnade of...

Roman Chariot Relief and Imperial Allegories – Montfaucon Engraving, 1721 DESCRIPTION Large classical engraving illustrating Roman relief sculpture with chariot imagery and imperial...

Pol Noël exhibited at the Salon Yonnais in 1893 and created around this date for residences in Vendée decorative panels with themes of landscapes and monuments. this is how it repres...

The artist’s masterful use of line and contrast vividly conveys the chaos of battle, while highlighting the morale and steadfastness of the French troops. Plate 6 from Monument des ...

Featuring monuments to the states of New York and California.

The engraving records figures, animals, and pastoral imagery derived from ancient wall paintings, offering eighteenth-century scholars and collectors access to monuments that were ot...

Horse-drawn carriages and market stalls further emphasize the Pantheon’s role not only as a historic monument but as the living center of an active neighborhood.

His works, often depicting historic monuments and scenes of Parisian life, remain highly collectible.

The plate reflects Norden’s broader interest in documenting lesser-known sites alongside famous monuments, contributing to a more complete geographic and archaeological record of the...

The city appears less as a collection of individual monuments than as a living organism—crowded, unstable, and continually remaking itself.

The city appears less as a collection of individual monuments than as a living organism—crowded, unstable, and continually remaking itself.

The porphyry of the columns—a stone that in antiquity was reserved for the ornamentation of imperial monuments —indicates that we are dealing with a young girl of high rank.

Late in his life, when Neoclassial works were more popular, Clodion adjusted his style and worked on major public monuments in Paris. Alfred Emmanuel Louis Beurdeley (1847-1919) - S...

This engraving captures the architectural grandeur and daily life of one of the Ottoman Empire’s most iconic religious monuments, with elegant arcades, domes, and slender minarets ri...

The poster was produced at a time when Argentine railway companies actively promoted domestic travel, encouraging visitors to explore the country's natural wonders, historic monument...

He also received State commissions for monuments: that of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Montmorency, of Alexandre Dumas, in Villers-Cotterêts, of Masséna in Nice.

He made multiple trips down the Nile, sketching ancient monuments filtered through haze and heat, including delicate studies of Philae and Edfou.

Their engravings introduced European audiences to important cities, monuments, and landscapes across the world and are now highly collectible for their documentary value, refined eng...

The statue is modeled after the Arc de Triomphe in Paris conceived as a monument to military glory and national pride. In 1806, after Napoleon’s decisive victory at the Battle of Aus...

This is why the themes linked to his figure and his cult were especially suitable for a liminal space, halfway between the world of the living and the world of the dead, such as the ...

At the lower corners, finely executed vignette scenes add historical context, including a depiction of William Penn’s treaty with Native Americans and a commemorative monument scene ...

He also received State commissions for monuments: that of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Montmorency, of Alexandre Dumas, in Villers-Cotterêts, of Masséna in Nice.

The glass plate of this photograph was sold as one of 2600 "Art in Old Paris" series which Atget sold in 1920 to the Service Photographique des Monuments Historiques, which are curre...

Together, they form a unified allegorical monument celebrating the cultural and political legacy of Asia Minor in antiquity.

While he is internationally renowned for his colossal monument The Bronze Horseman (the iconic equestrian statue of Peter the Great in St.

Engraved by Marco Gatti for the celebrated Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae, the influential Renaissance series documenting and interpreting the monuments, sculptures, and mythologica...

Works: • Highland Mary 1853, Buckingham Palace • Venus and Cupid, Philadelphia Museum of Art • Statue of Lavinia for Mr Holmes of Liverpool (1849) • Statue of Ophelia for Thomas Bra...

Though dedicated to Constantine, much of the sculptural decoration consists of reliefs and statues removed from earlier triumphal monuments dedicated to Trajan (98–117), Hadrian (117...

A fine 18th century ink and wash drawing by an unknown hand depicting Parthamasiris, King of Armenia in a scene from Ancient Rome, likely a monument or relief sculpture. In 113 CE, ...

Ahead, pedestrians, carriages, and monuments suggest a city caught between tradition and technological progress.

His workshop cast works by many of the era’s foremost sculptors and played a pivotal role in advancing large-scale bronze sculpture for public monuments and decorative arts across Ge...

It is one of the few bronzes in Paris that was not melted during the German Occupation of Paris. The Monument to Condorcet was not so lucky, which was installed in 1894 destroyed in ...

However, the decoration of funerary monuments would maintain a continuous flow, including from simply ornamental motifs such as garlands or animal heads to highly complex mythologica...

Strindberg became particularly well known for his portrait busts and public monuments, through which he contributed significantly to Sweden’s civic landscape.

His lifetime output included more than thirty monuments, including commission for The Triumph of the Revolution which surmounts the Arc de Triomphe, at least fifty portrait busts as ...

A student of Antoine-Laurent Dantan and Francisque Duret, and a friend of Carpeaux and Falguière, Jean-Paul Aubé distinguished himself during the Third Republic, which commissioned h...

His picturesque scenes, populated by peasants and classical monuments, and set in and around Florence, Rome, Naples and Venice, brought him much attention.

Some other limestone monuments with only the reclining woman are preserved in Brussels (E. 2591), Florence (2142), or Dublin (E. 72:77).

The surrounding architecture—featuring domes, arcades, and finely detailed façades—suggests a grand imperial complex, likely inspired by monuments such as those in Delhi or Agra. The...

Sadly, the original structure was destroyed in the nineteenth century during the Taiping Rebellion, bringing an end to one of China’s most celebrated historic monuments. In recent ye...

Published Small Sculpture from Ancient Egypt, November 1970, Folio Fine Art, London. Monument Gallery Los Angeles Volume III, 2023, illus. 9, p. 34.

Provenance: Historically recorded in a Central European monument inventory of circa 1900 as located within the princely chapel of the Church of St.

Benoist captures not only the monument itself but also the awe it inspired in contemporary visitors, shown gathered within the vast basilica.

Pioneering this technique, the company elevated the medium from industrial use to a refined artistic expression, producing everything from fountains, memorials, and equestrian monume...

Modeller: WALTER SCHOTT (1861 - 1938) German sculptor and medalist; 1880-1883 he studied at the Berlin Art Academy, worked as a freelance artist in Berlin from 1885 and created numer...

Modeller: WALTER SCHOTT (1861 - 1938) German sculptor and medalist; 1880-1883 he studied at the Berlin Art Academy, worked as a freelance artist in Berlin from 1885 and created numer...

At the heart of the composition stands a monument adorned with a figure and draped flags, serving as a symbolic focal point for the proclamation.

It deals with two volumes of engravings showing the main antique monuments or statues collected by the Prince Borghese in his Villa in Pincio Hill.

During the 19th century, discerning travelers collected finely crafted bronze reductions of Rome’s most iconic monuments as cultured mementos of their journeys. The Temple of Hercule...

Likely from the second edition of Les ruines des plux beaux monuments de la Grèce, by Julien Davis Le Roy, printed later.

Apart from portraits, there are some religious subjects, intended for church decorations (such as the 1791 fresco The Concert of Angels, adorning the choir of the chapel of the forme...

It deals with two volumes of engravings showing the main antique monuments or statues collected by the Prince Borghese in his Villa in Pincio Hill.

As a romantic landscape painter, Gato de Lema is known for his compositions depicting monuments, ruins, and seaside landscapes in the 1840s and 1850s.

Produced during a period of intense European fascination with classical antiquity, the series sought to document Greece’s historic monuments and landscapes for an audience eager to r...

The figure is made of gray schist, it showcases the fusion of Hellenistic and Indian styles, very often such figures were used as ornamental supports (Stupas) for Buddhist monuments....

This elegant breakfront commode is veneered in richly toned woods and adorned with finely detailed architectural and landscape marquetry panels, depicting classical ruins, trees, and...

On his return, he did a series of Pre-Columbian and Baroque monuments that he had seen in Mexico. In the 1950s and 60s, many international shows of his work were held, including exh...

Executed during Raffet’s travels in Eastern Europe in the 1840s, this print forms part of his celebrated series documenting the landscapes, monuments, and peoples of Wallachia and Mo...