World Heritage: Monumental SitesThis second volume, dedicated specifically to monumental sites, focuses on forty-seven emblematic instances of diverse geographic, cultural, and historic sites, providing each with a clear, well-documented explanatory text, enriched with in-depth boxes and a beautiful selection of pictures with detailed captions. This volume is a fabulous guide through wonderful sites such as the Palace and Gardens of Schonbrunn, the Palace and Gardens of Versailles, Mount Athos, The Kremlin of Moscow, the Great Wall of China, the Potala Palace in Lhasa, the Forbidden City in Beijing, The Taj Mahal, the Royal Palaces of Abomey, the Pueblo of Taos and the Statue of Liberty in New York among many others. |
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Page 51
... scenes are framed by high - relief stuccoes with elongated female figures and cherubs . Aside from a few paintings in the vestibule of the Porte Dorée , there also remain , although altered , the fres- coes done by Niccolò dell'Abate to ...
... scenes are framed by high - relief stuccoes with elongated female figures and cherubs . Aside from a few paintings in the vestibule of the Porte Dorée , there also remain , although altered , the fres- coes done by Niccolò dell'Abate to ...
Page 128
... scene , in fact , is located above the iconostasis , the carved and gilded wooden screen , covered with sacred images ... scenes taken from the Revelation , with demons and the damned , or the ' stairs of heaven ' , which portrays monks ...
... scene , in fact , is located above the iconostasis , the carved and gilded wooden screen , covered with sacred images ... scenes taken from the Revelation , with demons and the damned , or the ' stairs of heaven ' , which portrays monks ...
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... scene frescoed by Giotto in the other arm of the same transept , while both of the other scenes correspond in their locations to the large Crucifixions painted by Cimabue in the upper basilica . At the foot of this great painting ...
... scene frescoed by Giotto in the other arm of the same transept , while both of the other scenes correspond in their locations to the large Crucifixions painted by Cimabue in the upper basilica . At the foot of this great painting ...
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Westminster Abbey in London | 4 |
Denmark | 28 |
The Kronborg Castle Cecilia Gibellini | 154 |
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