Architectural Elements
Roof Tile of Celestial Guardian on a Black Horse
Demon Roof Tile (Onigawara)
Centaur with Bacchante
Altar
Mantel
JUSTO DEI JUDICIO ACCUSATUS SUM (I have been called to account by the perfect judgment of God)
This is one of four windows that decorated Samuel H. Kress’ home at 1020 Fifth Avenue in New York City, which was designed in the style of an Italian palazzo. The […]
Apotheosis of Virgil
False Door
This sculpted limestone slab was located on the interior wall of a tomb—a place where the living could go and make offerings and prayers to the dead. It represents a […]
Bacchanalian, or Herculaneum, Figure
Staircase Panels for the Weaver Home, Selma
Tomb Tile
Tomb tiles were used as doors and to line the walls of tombs in Han dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220) China. Cheaper than carving blocks of stone, tiles could be easily […]