Sentences with phrase «as steles»

Pieces of decorated sandstone, such as steles as well as lintels and door surrounds, have been discovered at the surface, providing magnificent examples of Meroitic funerary art.

For three months, she and an international research team mapped Naachtun's architecture and recorded ancient texts inscribed on altars and limestone blocks (known as stelae).

The old beams from the demolished warehouses cut down and sat upright as stelae had the breadth to bear just one word, such as «Moon» or «Orb,» or «Soul» and «Mate,» as did some of my first word paintings i.e. the diptych panels «Eat» and «Die,» but the sheer expanse of the wide canvases led to the proliferation of the word and whole passages and wheels of words appeared.

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Besides visiting the Terracotta Army, we went as well to the Provincial Museum, known as the «Forest of Stelae».

The Merneptah Stele confirms there was a people know as Israel that goes with the time period that the Tanakh said they were there.

In 2014 Visionect entered the digital signage market and Jaka Stele joined the team as chief operating officer.

The ruins are dotted with engraved stelae which document ceremonial life as well as significant events.

Tikal's sprawling urban site contains some of the most impressive Mayan palace, temple, and altar structures - many housing the ancient tombs of kings and important political figures of the time, as well as elaborately carved wooden door lintels and stelae (carved stone shafts).

Dating back to as early as 200 B.C., Xunantunich boasts carved stone slabs called stelae containing recordings of important events of Mayan civilization.

One of the most picturesque Mayan ruins in Belize, Lamanai features three large pyramids, various restored stelae, and open plazas as well as a small but unique ball court.

Exploring the caves will allow you to view large stalactite formations, intact ancient artifacts such as large storage vessels, plates, burial grounds and a mysterious stelae.

Copan in Honduras is not as grand or imposing as Caracol, but it's beautiful decorated buildings and sculptures, especially the enormous carved stelae make it a must see Mayan site.

Chabil Mar's location on the coast is also close to top destinations on the mainland such as the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary (where more than 200 jaguars roam), boat tours of the well - named Monkey River, and tours of ancient Maya sites replete with pyramids, palaces, enormous carved stelae, and ball courts where the losing team was sacrificed to the Maya Gods.

Giulio Paolini builds a landscape from gold nails, as Sotto le Stele (or «under the stars»).

They resemble steles, but as monuments to nothing but themselves.

Barbara Chase - Riboud makes it hard to say whether one is dealing with Pop Art or abstraction, in a stele sculpted as if draped in black fabric.

Known collectively as the Malcolm X Steles, the first thirteen sculptures were exhibited in 2014 to acclaim at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Berkeley Art Museum (University of California Berkeley).

At Vervoordt's stand the visitors of the fair are at the right address as the gallery exhibits a historical masterpiece — a rectangular stele, Head of a Man, Sabaean Kingdom, Yemen, 3rd to 1st century BC.

«This stele has a modern Modigliani / Picasso feel about it and people are amazed when I tell them it is 2,500 years old as it reminds them of something that was made 80 years ago».

Pencil sketches from 1997 proposed public monuments, while steles of bundled silk and bronze from roughly 2007 pay tribute to Malcolm X — as do bolder and larger monuments woven and cast for a second show three years later, in 2017.

Other steles take fabric as their subject as well as material, with a majestic robe for Chairman Mao or the stripes of a golden flag.

Resembling antique stelae, decorative reliefs or even geological sediments, these works can also be seen as minimalist sculptures akin to John McCracken's monolithic slabs.

The block - like forms, looking as if carved in stone, correspond with the contemporaneous vertical, statuesque stelae of the Personnages group of sculptures, and can be seen as representations of people who were close to her but no longer by her side after she left her French homeland for America.

Slight undulations of pink and blue push forward in paintings such as «Conjured Parts (Head), Aleppo», and «Stelae 3 (Bardu)» read as if light were pushing through the painting.