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Architectural Site #6, July 14, 1986

By: Barbara Kasten, American, born 1936

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The Historical Site of the Pontoon Bridge of Sano at Kuragano: Actor Iwai Tojaku I as Dote no Oroku, from the series The Sixty-Nine Stations of Kisokaidō

By: Utagawa Kunisada, Japanese, 1786 - 1864

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Chiryū: Historical Site of the Iris at Yatsuhashi Villiage, from the series Fifty-three Stations by Two Brushes

By: Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797 - 1858@and, Utagawa Toyokuni III, Japanese, 1786 - 1865

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Construction Site, AmSouth/Harbert Plaza

By: Bruce Davidson, American, born 1933

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Wide Field Site Pattern

By: Stephen Hendee, American, born 1968

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Mask

By: Teotihuacan culture, Mexico, 200 BC - AD 750

…ed around 750 AD, the site was never re-inhabited. Neither the ethnicity nor the language of the people of Teotihuacan is known….

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Prestige Cloth

…of King Njoya, work was carried out on 310 looms under the supervision of the royal treasurer to produce cloths such as these. The king presented the cloths, status symbols to his deserving subjects, who made them into prestige garments to be worn at festivals, or used them as wall hangings at the festival site. The designs on this cloth are created by a resist method. The white areas are sewn together with raffia fiber thread before the cloth is…

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Veduta della Piazza di Monte Cavallo, from Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)

By: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italy, 1720 - 1778

…e prints were dispersed throughout the continent by travelers on the Grand Tour. These souvenirs conveyed the grandeur of Rome through the artist’s unique rendering of each topographical site, as well as through the sheer size of the prints….

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Sweetmeat Dish

By: Worcester Porcelain Manufactory, Worcestershire, England, operated 1751 - about 1783

…several years prior to the earl’s unfortunate accident….

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Three-Piece Garniture

By: Imperial Vienna Porcelain Manufactory, Austria, operated 1718-1864@Era of, Conrad von Sorgenthal, German, 1735 - 1805

…ich was being excavated in Italy during the period. The popularity of ornamentation based on elements found in antiquity spread rapidly throughout Europe during the late eighteenth century. In England, Josiah Wedgwood made similar pieces using his black stoneware, of basalt, which he called Etruscan….

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Window

By: Frank Lloyd Wright, American, 1867 - 1959@Linden Glass Company, American, operated Chicago 1884 - 1934

…This window was originally made for the Joseph Jacob Walser house in Chicago, Illinois in 1903. The Walser house is one of Wright’s earliest examples of Prairie-style architecture. As with all of his residential work, this house was designed with the philosophy that a house needed to have a harmonious relationship with its site. The asymmetrical design of the house deceives the eye compensating for the narrowness of the lot….