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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Page 60
... columns of the façade and the fourteen columns of the long sides , which support a massive architrave with decoration consisting of metopes and triglyphs ; the interior space is articulated from a pronaos offering access to the cella ...
... columns of the façade and the fourteen columns of the long sides , which support a massive architrave with decoration consisting of metopes and triglyphs ; the interior space is articulated from a pronaos offering access to the cella ...
Page 154
... columns topped by capitals in a wide variety of styles ( some Roman columns , some Gothic columns , and the rest Arab ) . Until the reign of al - Hakim II the decora- tions had been relatively sober and restrained , but from that point ...
... columns topped by capitals in a wide variety of styles ( some Roman columns , some Gothic columns , and the rest Arab ) . Until the reign of al - Hakim II the decora- tions had been relatively sober and restrained , but from that point ...
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... columns in the Corinthian style of the Temple of Heliopolitan Jove built during the reign of Augustus , first ... columns , the concave surfaces that shape the podium and the cornice , linked to it by columns , harmonized with the convex ...
... columns in the Corinthian style of the Temple of Heliopolitan Jove built during the reign of Augustus , first ... columns , the concave surfaces that shape the podium and the cornice , linked to it by columns , harmonized with the convex ...
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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