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
... interior space is articulated from a pronaos offering access to the cella , divided into three aisles by a double order of Doric columns , and from an opistodomos , which also features two columns in antis . In front of the principal ...
... interior space is articulated from a pronaos offering access to the cella , divided into three aisles by a double order of Doric columns , and from an opistodomos , which also features two columns in antis . In front of the principal ...
Page 90
... interior , these buildings contain extraor- dinary treasures : renowned wall mosaics which , with their refined figural scenes and their pro- fusion of ornamental inserts , testify to the im- perial richness of the art of Ravenna . In ...
... interior , these buildings contain extraor- dinary treasures : renowned wall mosaics which , with their refined figural scenes and their pro- fusion of ornamental inserts , testify to the im- perial richness of the art of Ravenna . In ...
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... interior , the visitor's eyes are greeted by the sight of miles and miles of decorations , sculpted mouldings and bas - reliefs that cover the entire interior wall of the second - storey gallery . There are visual descriptions of an ...
... interior , the visitor's eyes are greeted by the sight of miles and miles of decorations , sculpted mouldings and bas - reliefs that cover the entire interior wall of the second - storey gallery . There are visual descriptions of an ...
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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