Sentences with phrase «stelae with»

The name comes from one of the art piece on a stele with an ancient Maya carved unto a stele with a enormous head dress.

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A marble stele nine feet tall with a brief poetic inscription and two children carved in relief is enriched with a lion's head spout and basin.

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

The discovery, in the year 1901 - 1902, of a black diorite stele covered with column upon column of cuneiform characters, was an epoch - making event in the study of ancient Babylonia.

Kings filled these cities with lordly stone monuments called stelae and pyramids of gray stone.

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

Additional Mayan activities include a visit to Quirigua, an ancient Mayan site with stone carved animal figures and the world's largest Stelae.

Seven carved stelae, plus 13 uncarved stelae were found at Uxbenka, with one carved stelae dating back to the early Classic Period.

An Ethiopian 3 - star hotel located on the outskirts of Axum, along the historic route and with views of the major sites of Axum including the Queen of Sheba's bathing pool and stele field.

The «Stelae Chamber» contained carved slate stelae, blood letting tools, ceramic vessels and a decorated vessel with glyphs depicting a Maya lord being presented with a caStelae Chamber» contained carved slate stelae, blood letting tools, ceramic vessels and a decorated vessel with glyphs depicting a Maya lord being presented with a castelae, blood letting tools, ceramic vessels and a decorated vessel with glyphs depicting a Maya lord being presented with a captive.

It is a mystical place with numerous pyramids, stelae and temples and with the sounds of toucans, parrots and howler monkeys reverberating from deep within the jungle.

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.

Along with Caana, structures at Caracol include 24 known stelae, 24 alters, a ball court, reservoirs, causeways, 5 plazas, an astronomic observatory, central acropolis, two ball courts, over 35,000 known buildings and more than 100 tombs.

La Milpa is the third largest Maya site in Belize (after Caracol and Lamanai) and includes more than 20 courtyards, 19 stelae, 2 ball courts, 4 temple pyramids (the largest almost 79 feet high) and over 85 structures, with the Great Plaza being one of the largest public spaces constructed by the Maya.

With a palette of muted reds, blues, greens, and grays, the works are inspired by Chinese steles — monumental stone slabs carved with religious inscriptions dating back to AD With a palette of muted reds, blues, greens, and grays, the works are inspired by Chinese steles — monumental stone slabs carved with religious inscriptions dating back to AD with religious inscriptions dating back to AD 800.

The American Tour of Roads of Arabia contains around 200 objects, but there is a vast difference between exhibitions of 200 photographs or small paintings and a show like «Roads» with 200 objects, many of which are large stone sculptures and stele.

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.

Whether investigating the phenomenon of what she dubs «Turbo Sculpture» — monumental statues of American celebrities and movie characters like Bruce Lee, Johnny Depp, and Rocky Balboa, that have been erected across the former Yugoslavia — or constructing modest steles out of printer paper emblazoned with digital distortions of images from pre - and postwar life, or making semi-autobiographical forays into a rave scene that united the youth of the balkanized Yugoslavian territory, Domanović addresses the ways in which we attempt to heal the wounds of history through conviviality and denial.

This applies more to his «torqued» sculptures than the stelae, where each step brings with it a new sensation of self, who you are, and where you are in relation to your surroundings, and the volume of space around you.

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.

Chase - Riboud shares her dark mysteries with white artists herself, like the steles and Surrealism of Louise Nevelson or the craft and knotted fabric of Sheila Hicks — and she has lived in France for much of her career while casting bronze in Italy.

A sculpture by Barbara Chase - Riboud, whose bronze and fabric steles are on view at the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery in New York this fall, is divided horizontally, with a fabric skirt seeming to bear the enormous weight of a bronze torso.

Moroles has strong representation in Dallas which include commissions by the Belo Corporation, Stele Gateway, 1995, made with Fredericksburg granite; the Latino Cultural Center, Granite Weaving, 2001 made with Dakota Mahogany Granite; and three works installed at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

Mr. Matherly seems most interested in its iconography of power transmitted through touch; his steles show the Hellenistic king Antiochus I receiving divine authority through handshakes with the gods.

Three smaller side - chapel - like galleries are devoted to a progression of artists with Minimalist leanings: the colored steles of Anne Truitt, the slathered process paintings of Ms. Heilmann and finally a series of big, stuttering black inkjet X's on white linen by Wade Guyton that pledge allegiance to painting while crossing their fingers behind their backs.

The night's second - highest price was fetched by Alberto Giacometti's Stele III, a bronze sculpture with the bust of his brother Diego atop a column.

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.