stone carving

It was a rainy day in Austin

Stone Gryphon ornament on a building at Wacker Drive and Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois.

heksenkring: “Artist? ”

This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook demonstrates how to get the right-shaped stones for hardscaping projects using a variety of tools.

Love this guy. There is no doubt that he's in charge.

The Morgan Library and Museum has received much favorable attention in recent years for its drawings-focused and literary exhibitions. But in March 2012, the institution named Joel Smith its first ever curator of photography, and now, nearly two years later, it will open its first exhibition organized by the new department.

antonio-m: “ Hercules Battling the Hydra ”

by Todd Walker The power of simple machines, smartly employed, are capable of moving most anything. Over the years I helped my daddy move really heavy stuff in his plumbing/welding business and on …

photo en Bretagne - Finistère - cheval filé pose longue paysage rivage Quimper rivière mer photographie bzh Paul Kerrien Toilapol

Good governance gave Venice a thousand years of prosperity and renown. The idea that the US is the oldest democracy in the world is far from the truth. Even if you qualify it as "existing" or "continuously existing", the Swiss have one far older, (making allowances for a brief Napoleonic regime), as do the Icelanders. But more important is that forms of government are very plastic. What we call a democracy in the US is a far cry from actual self-rule, given the vastly greater influence of…

Art Deco at the Tulsa Fairgrounds

"La Musique" vers 1910 ? Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929) Plâtre préparatoire au bas-relief (métope) réalisé pour la façade du théâtre des Champs-Elysées à Paris. Isadora Duncan a inspiré l'artiste pour représenter le personnage de droite. Musée Bourdelle www.bourdelle.paris.fr/

Das 1855 von König Maximilan II. gegründete Bayerische Nationalmuseum zählt zu den großen kunst- und kulturhistorischen Museen in Europa.