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Abbey church of Saint-Pierre: portals

June 12, 2025

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The Abbey Church of Saint-Pierre in Moissac, France, is a Romanesque religious building featuring an elaborately sculpted south portal—originally the west portal—dating from around 1115–1135, renowned for its detailed archivolts, tympanum, lin...

Cathedral Notre Dame, Chartres

June 12, 2025

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A romanesque cathedral in Chartres (North of the Loire / Eure-et-Loir) ...

Reims Cathedral

June 12, 2025

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Reims cathedral medieval gothic architecture, the impressive west front with the typical combination of three huge entrance portals, a central rose window and two towers over each aisle. Champagne-Ardenne, France. ...

Veduta dell’Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo, from: ‘Vedute di Roma’ (Views of Rome)

April 19, 2024

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi's rendering of the Colosseum "revealing the plan and exposing the structure. Piranesi's labels ... inform us of the location in which each rank of Roman society would have been seated, from the emperor and his court to the...

Pantheon in Rome

April 19, 2024

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Reconstruction of the Pantheon in Rome, seen from the side, cut away to reveal the interior. ...

Mausoleum of Augustus

April 19, 2024

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Idealized painting of the heritage site of the Mausoleum of Augustus (1575) by Étienne Dúperac, with a view of the gardens of Cardinal Francesco Soderini. ...

Trajan’s Column and Roman Ruins

April 19, 2024

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Painting by Giovanni Paolo Panini (1691-Rome 1765) of this key heritage city, as it may have looked during Roman times. ...