Sentences with phrase «obelisk takes»

Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk takes one safely back forty years, and one realizes after all: in its heart, the Modern can never leave that moment.

It contained a number of remarkable constructions such as Augustus's Mausoleum (an enormous building, some forty metres high, topped with a bronze colossus of Augustus), the beautiful and ornate Ara Pacis, and a giant sundial (an obelisk taken from Egypt, signifying the defeat of Antony and Cleopatra which began his rule) erected in such a way as to demonstrate the cosmological significance of Augustus's birth (its shadow bisected the Ara Pacis on his birthday).

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Piazza del Popolo It's said to be one of the best people - watching spots in the city (which, for Rome, says a lot)-- that is, if you can take your eyes off the 17th - century churches and Egyptian obelisk, among other sights.

Take, for instance, the fact that the videos showing the beheadings and executions of Ethiopian and Egyptian Christians were entitled «A Message Signed in Blood to the Nation of the Cross», and that the cover of ISIS» official magazine, Dabiq, in October 2014 featured a picture of St Peter's Square with an ISIS flag superimposed atop the obelisk that adorns the centre of that iconic Christian building.

Orbit author N.K. Jemisin received a Hugo Award for The Obelisk Gate, the second year in a row she has taken that prize, and Grand Central Publishing has a National Book Award finalist in Fiction, Min Jin Lee's gorgeous immigration saga Pachinko.

It's still, on some level, that sinister, all - seeing obelisk that tried to take your pre-owned games away.

The story takes a page out of Space 2001, with the protagonists encountering a towering black obelisk endowed with some inscrutable alien power.

The sculptures that compose Whites take the form of anthropomorphic obelisks — bone - like shrunken monuments with eye sockets and nostrils cast from human skulls.

Broken Column takes the cliche of monumental Victorian cemetery masonry and turns it into something else (as Barnett Newman did with his Broken Obelisk in the 1960s).

It was only dusk when the town hall photo was taken, but almost completely dark when we took the picture of the obelisk.