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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... style , and an unusual division of the cella . into two aisles : preceded by a vestibule to which an adyton corresponded on the oppo- site side , it features two niches in the far wall , which have led scholars to hypothesize that the ...
... style , and an unusual division of the cella . into two aisles : preceded by a vestibule to which an adyton corresponded on the oppo- site side , it features two niches in the far wall , which have led scholars to hypothesize that the ...
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... style ( from c . 200 to 90/80 B.C. ) is called the ' marble encrustation ' style inasmuch as it aims to recreate with stuccoes and paint the chromatic effects typical of marble facing , as we find in the ' House of the Faun ' . The second ...
... style ( from c . 200 to 90/80 B.C. ) is called the ' marble encrustation ' style inasmuch as it aims to recreate with stuccoes and paint the chromatic effects typical of marble facing , as we find in the ' House of the Faun ' . The second ...
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... style which led to new styles , not only architecturally but also for gardens , sculpture and all forms of decorative art . Rock - Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula The late prehistoric rock - art sites of the ...
... style which led to new styles , not only architecturally but also for gardens , sculpture and all forms of decorative art . Rock - Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula The late prehistoric rock - art sites of the ...
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Contents Vatican City 90 | 2 |
Germany | 26 |
Bamberg Cracow | 32 |
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