Linke Portaltür der Bauakademie Berlin / Left portal door, Academy of Architecture Berlin

Linke Portaltür der Bauakademie Berlin / Left portal door, Academy of Architecture Berlin
Originally uploaded by josephdesarre

Currently installed in the so-called Schinkel Klause

Berlin Academy of Architecture: Built according to plans of the Prussian Chief Building Director Karl Friedrich Schinkel from 1832 to 1836. In the 2nd World War heavily damaged the building was build up again in 1953.
In 1961, demolished to create space for the construction of the building to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR . Following the demolition of the Ministry in 1996 decided to re-establish the Berlin Academy of Architecture on the plans of Schinkel.

Detail Linke Portaltür der Bauakademie Berlin / Detail Left portal door, Academy of Architecture Berlin

Detail Linke Portaltür der Bauakademie Berlin / Detail Left portal door, Academy of Architecture Berlin
Originally uploaded by josephdesarre

Hercules and the nemean lion
Currently installed in the so-called Schinkel Klause

Berlin Academy of Architecture: Built according to plans of the Prussian Chief Building Director Karl Friedrich Schinkel from 1832 to 1836. In the 2nd World War heavily damaged the building was build up again in 1953.
In 1961, demolished to create space for the construction of the building to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR . Following the demolition of the Ministry in 1996 decided to re-establish the Berlin Academy of Architecture on the plans of Schinkel.

Staatliche Antikesammlungen München

Staatliche Antikesammlungen München
Originally uploaded by Andrea Duranti

Staatliche Antikesammlungen München

Staatliche Antikesammlungen München
Originally uploaded by Andrea Duranti

Tarquinia - Archaeological Museum

Tarquinia - Archaeological Museum
Originally uploaded by Andrea Duranti

Egyptian vase that depicts a monkey eating from a palm, an iconography that evidences the contacts of the Aetruscan civilisation with the Egyptian one.
It belongs to the Archaeological Museum of Tarquinia (Latium, Italy).

3 tall ships visit Plymouth Mass

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Originally uploaded by jimcurran5

Roma - Pantheon - Tomba di Raffaello

Roma - Pantheon - Tomba di Raffaello
Originally uploaded by Andrea Duranti

Pergamon Altar Nordfries / The great Altar of Pergamon North frieze

Pergamon Altar Nordfries / The great Altar of Pergamon North frieze
Originally uploaded by josephdesarre

Great Altar of Pergamon / North frieze
An unidentifiable giant in the struggle against Aphrodite, goddess of love, her mother Dione “The Earth Mother” and her son Eros, god of sexual love and beauty

London by night

London by night
Originally uploaded by foreyesonly

Houses of Parliament and Big Ben

women playing a game with knucklebones

women playing a game with knucklebones
Originally uploaded by rosewithoutathorn84

Made in Campania
340-330 BC
Terracotta