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 90
... original visual language in the sacred architecture and the figurative art of a crucial historical period . Between the fifth and the seventh centuries there developed in the field of art a transition from the tradition in late ...
... original visual language in the sacred architecture and the figurative art of a crucial historical period . Between the fifth and the seventh centuries there developed in the field of art a transition from the tradition in late ...
Page 96
... original manner motifs deriving from imperial Roman architecture with original elements of barbarian derivation , such as for instance the unusual roof and the frieze with its scissor formation used in the cornice . Theodoric's ...
... original manner motifs deriving from imperial Roman architecture with original elements of barbarian derivation , such as for instance the unusual roof and the frieze with its scissor formation used in the cornice . Theodoric's ...
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... original- ly been built at the behest of Prince Vladimir , and , in the centuries that followed , the cusped bell tower and the Episcopal Palace . The church , built between 1222 and 1225 , is an ex- quisite example of the white stone ...
... original- ly been built at the behest of Prince Vladimir , and , in the centuries that followed , the cusped bell tower and the Episcopal Palace . The church , built between 1222 and 1225 , is an ex- quisite example of the white stone ...
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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