Antique Monument

Mortier drew on the best draughtsmen and engravers working in Amsterdam, among them Gerard Hoet, Arnold Houbraken, Jan Luyken and Bernard Picart, and the result is a monument of Dutc...

Title: Set of Two Ancient Greek Architecture Prints, Athens, Tardieu, 1825 Description: Set of two original antique engravings depicting important monuments of ancient Athens: the P...

Wade Park and Lake View Cemetery, where President Garfield's monument is specifically labelled, are picked out in green at the northeast corner of the sheet, with Woodland Cemetery a...

The boxed inset at lower right, "Business Portion of Indianapolis, on Enlarged Scale", zooms into the downtown core around the Capitol, the Court House, the Soldiers' and Sailors' Mo...

Rather than recording architecture, monuments or everyday life, Tryggelin turned his attention almost entirely towards the sky, producing a remarkably modern study of light, colour a...

Surviving as a priceless monument of Belgian heritage, this museum-grade textile offers an extraordinary portal into 17th-century European antiquity.

Part of Rug & Kilim’s Antique collection, it reflects a historic monument that honors a massive medallion composition.

Vasi studied architecture as well, so that he was able to represent the monuments of Rome with precision and in much detail.

His extensive studies of Italian monuments and early Christian art informed numerous ecclesiastical commissions, where archaeological fidelity was combined with academic precision.

The engravings in this work are among the earliest European archaeological illustrations of Inca architecture, documenting monuments that fascinated both scientists and travellers du...

To commemorate their role in his protection, he ordered the creation of three monuments. Artists and Engravers: Engraved by Jakob van der Schley (Amsterdam 1715-1779), a Dutch drau...

Saint-Gaudens was awarded the commission in 1883, largely due to the success and popularity of his earlier Civil War-related projects such as the Farragut Monument in Madison Square ...

The artwork is inscribed “Fontana Barberina, Rome, May 1844”, placing it during Stäck’s Italian period when he produced numerous studies of Rome’s monuments and historic cityscapes. ...

Mortier drew on the best draughtsmen and engravers working in Amsterdam, among them Gerard Hoet, Arnold Houbraken, Jan Luyken and Bernard Picart, and the result is a monument of Dutc...

The Barbedienne foundry was celebrated for producing meticulously scaled bronze reductions of important European sculpture, historic monuments, and decorative arts. This scholarly ca...

Raymond's meticulous rendering captures the extraordinary craftsmanship of the monument, from the interlacing geometric borders and Kufic inscriptions to the deeply carved muqarnas n...

The architectural structures surrounding her, in particular the columns (inspired by the monuments of Roman and Greek antiquity), evoke Solidity and Endurance over time, whilst the m...

This stunning lithograph captures the architectural majesty of Ravenna’s Mausoleum of Theodoric, one of Italy’s most significant Byzantine monuments, rendered in luminous dusk tones ...

There, he developed an international career, attracting an aristocratic and bourgeois clientele, particularly British and American, and produced busts, statues, and funerary monument...

Atop the seal rests a majestic peacock crest, reminiscent of the one found on the Harcourt Chapel monument dedicated to George Simon, 2nd Earl Harcourt (d.1809).

Designed and engraved by the distinguished French architect Louis-Pierre Baltard (1764–1846), the print was published in Paris in 1803 as part of the celebrated work Paris et ses Mon...

The plate was engraved by the distinguished French architect Louis-Pierre Baltard (1764–1846) and published in Paris in 1803 as part of the monumental Napoleonic-era publication Pari...

Popular during the Georgian period, these miniatures often depicted funerary monuments, weeping willows, grieving figures, or urns, serving as deeply personal tributes to deceased lo...

Le château de Rambouillet Consécutivement demeure royale, impériale et présidentielle, elle est aujourd’hui administrée par le Centre des Monuments Nationaux. Le comte de Toulouse ac...

The nearby gondolier, partly obscured by the edge of the building, reinforces this sense of daily life unfolding around a monument that has stood for centuries. The inscription itse...

The design thus oscillates between a plausible monument and a decorative apparition. Analysis At the center, a nude male figure is suspended beneath the upper canopy with his arms ...

'It upset me,' the artist recollected, 'it was like the feeling of a great oak or the toppling of a statue which had been for years a monument to a man.'" (Telling Stories: Norman Ro...

For the Queen Elizabeth Way Monument, a monument for Queen Elizabeth and her husband, King George VI, Loring designed and carved the lion and column, and Wyle carved the much smaller...

Beautifully executed with intricate linework, the engraving captures the monument's grandeur while reflecting the refined artistry of historic printmaking.

Architect and scholar Alexandre Raymond devoted considerable effort to documenting these monuments before modern restoration campaigns altered aspects of their original appearance.

The Château d’Écouen itself is one of the most important Renaissance monuments in France. Built in the sixteenth century for the powerful Montmorency family, the château later became...

Period records document Karel Steyaert working as a bronze founder in Ghent and undertaking important sculptural commissions, including the casting of Frans Joris’s monument to the F...

The engraving was created by the distinguished French architect and engraver Louis-Pierre Baltard (1764–1846) and published in Paris in 1803 as part of the celebrated Napoleonic-era ...

The engraving was executed by the distinguished French architect and engraver Louis-Pierre Baltard (1764–1846) and published in Paris in 1803 as part of the celebrated Napoleonic-era...

The engraving was created by the distinguished French architect and engraver Louis-Pierre Baltard (1764–1846) and published in Paris in 1803 as part of the celebrated Napoleonic-era ...

The engraving was created by the distinguished French architect and engraver Louis-Pierre Baltard (1764–1846) and published in Paris in 1803 as part of the celebrated Napoleonic-era ...

Most notable is his grand memorial monument to General Sir Samuel Browne inside St Paul’s Cathedral in London.

The illustrations depict city views, monuments, landscapes, daily life and historical sites, making the volume both a literary and artistic document of the period.

From 1720 he created a more permanent monument to his success. Germain Boffrand, one of the foremost architects of the age, was commissioned to rebuild Haroué as the family seat.

Rather than concentrating solely upon celebrated monuments or picturesque scenery, she frequently turned her attention to working communities, markets, streets and harbours, capturin...

He achieved widespread acclaim for both his large-scale public monuments, such as the Bismarck Fountain in Breslau, and his elegant, smaller bronze and marble female nudes, including...

The plate offers a rare visual history of how local traditions, materials, and dynastic identities shaped one of the defining symbols of Islamic architecture. The monuments represen...

A striking example of the 19th-century fascination with Renaissance and Baroque Italy, the lamp would have appealed particularly to affluent travelers participating in the Grand Tour...

The design demonstrates the remarkable balance between architectural structure and decorative richness that characterizes the finest Ottoman monuments. The Yeşil Camii was commissio...

The Yeşil Camii, commissioned by Sultan Mehmed I, remains one of the most important monuments of Bursa, the first great capital of the Ottoman Empire.

However, the analysis of the monument reveals that, contrary to what Pliny the Elder wrote, it is composed of several blocks of marble, and not carved from a single block ("ex uno la...

The French key describes officials bearing ceremonial maces, a monument displaying the deceased king’s name, elephants, horses, and a funerary carriage drawn by eight deer.

The building is a scheduled monument. Biography: Francis Grose (before 11 June 1731 – 12 May 1791) was an English antiquary, draughtsman, and lexicographer.

However, the decoration of funerary monuments remained consistent, ranging from purely ornamental motifs such as garlands or animal heads to highly complex mythological scenes.

Throughout his career he became known for both public monuments and highly expressive genre sculptures inspired by life along the Adriatic coast.

In 1609 Rowland commissioned Inigo Jones to design a monument for his late wife Frances Cotton. It is around this time that Inigo was also producing drawings for the New Exchange in ...

The monumental mitre transforms the female body into an allegorical monument, while the globe beneath her reinforces the universal nature of the vice represented.

The engraving was created by the distinguished French architect and engraver Louis-Pierre Baltard (1764–1846) and published in Paris in 1803 as part of the celebrated Napoleonic-era ...

The engravings were created by the distinguished French architect and engraver Louis-Pierre Baltard (1764–1846) and published in Paris in 1803 as part of the celebrated Napoleonic-er...

Perhaps the painting's greatest appeal, however, lies in its lack of drama. There's no grand monument, spectacular sunset or carefully positioned narrative figure.

Whitaker died at Blackburn vicarage on 18 December 1821, and was interred at Holme. A monument raised by public subscription was placed in the Church of St Mary and All Saints, Whall...

Created c. 1899, "Bon Génie” is part of Rodin's mature, most celebrated period (post-Gates of Hell commissions, and contemporaneous with his major monument works). Bon Génie (Good Ge...

The artist balances archaeological interest with picturesque sensibility, framing the monument within an idyllic natural setting characteristic of late Georgian landscape engraving.

The surrounding Attic landscape is finely engraved with hills, rivers, roads, vegetation, temples and ancient monuments. The combination of topographical detail and classical referen...

To possess this ivory Peking floral antique area rug from China is to own a monument to Eastern philosophical art. It bridges the gap between the formal grandeur of the Imperial Cour...