Proposal for a Neclassical library, by Carl Fredrik Sundvall (Swedish, 1754-1831)
Romanesque baptismal fonts from the province of Scania (Skåne), Sweden. These ancient stone basins have a talismanic power that usually only very old art has.
Estonian painter Ants Laikmaa designed his own house in the Estonian countryside in 1917. It is built in a particular and unique style, combining Arts and Crafts with traditional Estonian folk art. Today the well-preserved house, which includes the artist’s studio, is a museum.
Pictures found here.
The architecture featured in the background of the prints by Venetian Renaissance engraver Giulio Campagnola is often quite striking.
The Vicke-Shorler-scroll is an almost 20 metres long scroll made in 1586 depicting the German city of Rostock, on the Baltic Sea coast.
Apart from an extraordinarily detailed and charmingly naive depiction of the architecture of this medieval Hansa city complete with all its main churches and sights, the scroll includes nearby villages and castles such as Warnemünde and Güstrow Palace. There are also occasional drawings of contemporary citizens, students and traders milling around in the city above a formidable row of ships.
It is still preserved in the city archives of Rostock.
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Lars Lerin, Bibliotek, 2009
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Details from an 18th-century remake of the 12th-centuryof Along the River During the Qingming Festival, Taipei National Palace Museum (Taiwan)
Osvald Sirén points out in China and Gardens of Europe of the Eighteenth Century that Chinese cities traditionally were garden cities to a much larger extent than their counterparts in Europe. Even cities with a population reaching around a million such a Kaifeng were to a large degree characterised by the abundance of large and small gardens.
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St. Ambrose, Master of Grossgmain (1498)
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Ice on the River Drava, Franz Josef Felsner, 1766 Ptuj Ormož Regional Museum
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Landscape with a fantastical tower and riders
Girolamo dai Libri (his workshop?), 1500
St. John reading, with a girdle book hanging in a nice stand by his side, and possibly a third one in his belt.
Detail from altarpiece in Vall Church, Gotland (Sweden).
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Architectural frieze, travertine
Origin: Yemen, Date: 500 B.C.E.- 200 C.E.
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