World Heritage: Archaeological Sites and Urban CentresFirst volume of three that Skira and UNESCO are launching to illustrate and describe world heritage places. This volume, devoted specifically to archaeological areas and urban centres, focuses on forty-six emblematic instances of diverse geographic, cultural, and historic sites, distant in time and space, but presented together in a single, clear, and fascinating collection. With this instrument for learning and understanding, and through a particularly rich array of images, places of all sorts, distant in time and space, can be found together in a single, clear, and fascinating collection devoted to the complex paths of human history and culture: a true heritage of every nation and every individual. |
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... carved fifty years apart , are both evidently based on classical models : in both , the orchestration of the compositions in the relief panels and the plasticity of the figures attests to a profound knowledge of Roman funerary art ...
... carved fifty years apart , are both evidently based on classical models : in both , the orchestration of the compositions in the relief panels and the plasticity of the figures attests to a profound knowledge of Roman funerary art ...
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... carved reliefs at- tests to links exclusively with the Alexandrian world and the Hellenistic artistic tradition of the second half of the first century B.C. The programme of figuration , entirely linked to Hellenistic and Roman funerary ...
... carved reliefs at- tests to links exclusively with the Alexandrian world and the Hellenistic artistic tradition of the second half of the first century B.C. The programme of figuration , entirely linked to Hellenistic and Roman funerary ...
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... carved in the high rock wall , are the tombs of the Persian kings . The first king to select this valley as his final resting place was Darius I. The façade of his tomb carved in the rock presents an enormous cross at the centre of ...
... carved in the high rock wall , are the tombs of the Persian kings . The first king to select this valley as his final resting place was Darius I. The façade of his tomb carved in the rock presents an enormous cross at the centre of ...
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Contents Vatican City 90 | 2 |
Germany | 26 |
Bamberg Cracow | 32 |
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adorned Aerial view ancient Angkor archaeological arches architect architecture artistic Baalbek Baroque basilica buildings built Bukhara Campo dei Miracoli capital carved cathedral century B.C. Church city's columns complex construction Convention Copán courtyard cultural and natural Cuzco date back decorated dedicated depicting developed dome dynasty Emperor Empire enclosure walls façade Fatimid fifteenth fortified Forum founded frescoes Galla Placidia Gothic Greek Heian period Historic Centre houses Imperial Forums important Inca interior Islamic kilometres King layout Leptis Magna masterpieces medieval metres monasteries monumental Mosque Museum Nabataean natural heritage Old City Omayyad outstanding paintings Palace Palazzo period plaza portico preserved protection Pyramid religious Renaissance River Roman Romanesque Rome ruins sacred Saint San'a sculpture Septimius Severus settlement side sixteenth century sixth century square statues stone structure style Suzdal Temple tenth century tion tombs towers town tradition Trajan tury twelfth century urban Vatican World Heritage World Heritage Site