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View of the north nave of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. On the right one of the two lustration urns from Pergamon, transferred to the temple during the reign of Sultan Murat III.
Tags: Architecture and built environment, Byzantine architecture, Byzantine monuments, Carpets, Chandeliers, Children, Christian priests, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Hagia Sophia (Istanbul), Human types, Interiors, Istanbul, Murad III (III. Murat), Ottoman army, Ottoman officials, Ottomans, Religious practices, Sultans, Thrace, Turkey, Urns, Views
View of the central nave of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.
Tags: Architecture and built environment, Byzantine architecture, Byzantine monuments, Carpets, Chandeliers, Cherubs, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Hagia Sophia (Istanbul), Human types, Interiors, Istanbul, Muslim prayer, Ottomans, Quranic inscriptions, Religious practices, Thrace, Turkey, Views
View of the central nave of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, looking eastwards.
Tags: Architecture and built environment, Byzantine architecture, Byzantine monuments, Carpets, Chandeliers, Cherubs, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Hagia Sophia (Istanbul), Human types, Interiors, Istanbul, Mihrab, Ottoman army, Ottoman officials, Ottomans, Quranic inscriptions, Religious practices, Thrace, Turkey, Views, Women
View of the exonarthex of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.
Tags: Architecture and built environment, Beggars, Byzantine architecture, Byzantine monuments, Chandeliers, Children, Christian priests, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Hagia Sophia (Istanbul), Human types, Interiors, Istanbul, Muslim prayer, Ottomans, Religious practices, Thrace, Turkey, Views
Dance on the west bank of the Nile. On the foreground, two French travellers. The governors of the small vessels are smoking and drinking coffee while sitting on the ground, as are doing two dervishes and their servants farther away. According to Olivier's description, the scene depicts Egyptians dancing a war dance and a more sensual dance.
Tags: Beauty care, Boats and ships, Coffee, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dance, Dervishes, Egypt, Egyptian dances, Egyptians, Ethnic groups, French, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Percussion instruments, Priests, Professions, Servants, Ship captains, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Travel
The sources of Karamenderes (anc. Scamander) river around Mount Ida, in the Troad.
Tags: Architecture and built environment, Asia Minor, Baskets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Houses, Human types, Karamenderes /anc. Scamander, Laundresses / Washerwomen, Mosques, Mount Ida / Kazdağı (Turkey), Mountains, Mysia, Natural environment, Rivers, Social sphere and everyday life, Troad, Turkey, Views, Washing and laundering, Women
View of the Doric Temple in Segesta, Sicily.
Tags: Ancient temples, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Carriages, Columns / Pillars, Costume - Hats and headwear, Doric order, Doric temple of Segesta, Greek colonies, Horses, Human types, Italy, Natural environment, Professions, Segesta, Sicily, Social sphere and everyday life, Southern Italy
View of the Temple of Hera in Agrigento, Sicily.
Tags: Agrigento, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Columns / Pillars, Costume - Hats and headwear, Doric order, Ethnic groups, Europeans, Greek colonies, Human types, Italy, Natural environment, Nobility, Ruins, Sicily, Southern Italy, Temple of Hera (Agrigento), Views, Women
The fountain of Arethousa in Syracuse, Sicily.
Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Europeans, Fountain of Arethousa (Syracuse), Greek colonies, Greek mythology, Human types, Italy, Laundresses / Washerwomen, Painters / Engravers, Sicily, Social sphere and everyday life, Southern Italy, Syracuse, Views, Washing and laundering, Women
The ruins of the Temple of Zeus in Syracuse, Sicily.
Tags: Ancient temples, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Boats and ships, Costume - Hats and headwear, Donkeys, Ethnic groups, Europeans, Greek colonies, Houses, Human types, Italy, Natural environment, Nobility, Painters / Engravers, Ruins, Sicily, Southern Italy, Syracuse, Temple of Zeus (Syracuse), Views
View of the ancient theater of Syracuse, in Sicily.
Tags: Ancient theatre of Syracuse, Ancient theatres, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Donkeys, Ethnic groups, Europeans, Greek colonies, Houses, Human types, Italy, Natural environment, Painters / Engravers, Ruins, Sicily, Southern Italy, Syracuse, Theatres, Views
Composition: Hadrian's Arch together with the area where the Odeon of Pericles, stood. In the background the Temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens.
Tags: Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Hadrian's Arch (Athens), Human types, Natural environment, Odeon of Pericles, Odeons, Olympeion - Temple of Olympian Zeus (Athens), Ottomans, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Ruins, Social sphere and everyday life, Women
Composition: The Choregic monument of Thrasyllus (Panagia Spiliotissa) together with the Propylaea of the Acropolis of Athens.
Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Choregic monument of Thrasyllus (Panagia Spiliotissa), Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Natural environment, Ottomans, Propylaea of the Acropolis, Ruins, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Women
Composition: The Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos (Tower of the Winds) together with the Temple of Apollo in Ancient Corinth.
Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Corinth, Costume - Hats and headwear, Doric order, Greece, Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos / Tower of the Winds (Athens), Human types, Natural environment, Ottomans, Ruins, Social sphere and everyday life, Temple of Apollo (Ancient Corinth)
Composition: The Erechtheion together with the Gate of Athena Archegetis (mod. Pazaroporta).
Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Caryatids, Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Erechtheion, Gate of Athena Archegetis / mod. Pazaroporta, Greece, Human types, Ionic order, Mosques, Ottomans, Parthenon, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Ruins, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Women
Composition: The Temple of Poseidon in Sounio together with the Monument of Philopappus in Athens.
Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Boats and ships, Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Doric order, Funerary monuments, Greece, Human types, Monument of Philopappus, Natural environment, Ottomans, Reliefs, Ruins, Social sphere and everyday life, Sounion, Temple of Poseidon (Sounio), Women
Composition: The Temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens. On the left a Muslim cemetery and a mosque. In the background the Acropolis of Athens, the Parthenon and Hadrian's Arch.
Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerary monuments, Greece, Hadrian, Hadrian's Arch (Athens), Horses, Human types, Ionic order, Mosques, Muslim cemeteries, Natural environment, Olympeion - Temple of Olympian Zeus (Athens), Ottomans, Parthenon, Roman monuments, Roman Εmperors, Ruins
Hadrian's Library in Athens.
Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Baskets, Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Hadrian, Houses, Human types, Itinerant traders, Libraries, Library of Hadrian / Church of Megali Panagia (Athens), Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Roman Εmperors, Shops, Social sphere and everyday life, Women
Composition: The Monument of Philopappus. Scene of excavations at Thoricos, ancient settlement near Lavrio.
Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Boats and ships, Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Europeans, Excavations, Funerary monuments, Greece, Human types, Lavrio, Monument of Philopappus, Natural environment, Nobility, Professions, Reliefs, Ruins, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Thorikos
Composition: Choregic monument of Lysicrates in Athens together with the port of Faliro, close to Piraeus.
Tags: Argo-Saronic gulf, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Boats and ships, Central Greece, Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Choregic monuments, Christian priests, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cultural activities, Dance, Dancers, Ethnic groups, Europeans, Faliro, Greece, Greeks, Houses, Human types, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Natural environment, Ottomans, Ports, Ruins, Social sphere and everyday life
Composition: The porch of Hadrian's aqueduct (Dexameni) together with the Parthenon. In the background the columns of the Temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens.
Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Aqueduct of Hadrian /Dexameni (Athens), Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Hadrian, Houses, Human types, Natural environment, Olympeion - Temple of Olympian Zeus (Athens), Ottomans, Parthenon, Roman monuments, Roman Εmperors, Ruins, Women
Composition: The Odeon of Herodes Atticus together with the Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion) in Athens.
Tags: Ancient temples, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Doric order, Greece, Horses, Human types, Natural environment, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Odeons, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Ruins, Social sphere and everyday life, Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion), Women
Composition: The bridge of Ilissus and the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens. The Temple of Rome and Augustus in Pula, Croatia.
Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Bridges, Central Greece, Corinthian order, Costume - Hats and headwear, Croatia, Greece, Houses, Human types, Ilissus (Ilisos) river, Natural environment, Ottomans, Panathenaic Stadium, Pula / anc. Polai, Rivers, Ruins, Social sphere and everyday life, Temple of Rome and Augustus (Pula)
Frontispiece: Imaginary representation of the Propylaea of the Acropolis of Athens, together with a topographical map of the Acropolis of Athens and plans of its monuments.
Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Erechtheion, Greece, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Maps, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Odeons, Ottomans, Parthenon, Plans and drawings, Propylaea of the Acropolis, Roman architecture, Roman monuments
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