Figures Collection (page 12)

INDIA. Ellora. Ellora Caves. Ellora. Cave 21. Hindu Temple Rameshwar or Rameshvara, carved in the rock, 7-8th c. Sculptures in the facade. Hindu art. Architecture

Venus of Willendorf. Paleolithic art
Venus of Willendorf. 23rd mil. BC. Representation of fertility. Upper Paleolithic. Gravettian. Sculpture on rock. AUSTRIA. VIENNA. Vienna. Natural History Museum. Proc: AUSTRIA. LOWER AUSTRIA

Saqqara. Mastaba of Mereruka
Mastaba of Mereruka. ca. 2323 BC. EGYPT. Saqqara. Capture of a hyena. Egyptian art. Old Kingdom. Relief on rock

Mexico. Villahermosa. Cultura Olmeca
MEXICO. Villahermosa. Parque-Museo de La Venta. Olmeca Culture. Head. Olmec art. Sculpture

France. Amiens. Cathedral of Our Lady
FRANCE. Amiens. Notre Dame cathedral. Bas-reliefs. North wall of the choir. Scenes depicting the life of John the Baptist. Gothic art. Relief

Bolivia Tiwanaku Site
BOLIVIA. Tiahuanaco. Sculpted head, 8th-10th c. A.D. Tihuanaco culture. Sculpture on rock

Argentina. Cave of the Hands. Cave paintings
ARGENTINA. SANTA CRUZ. Perito Moreno. Cave of the Hands. Cave painting depicting hands, guanacos and geometric figures (11000-7500 BC). Neolithic art. Cave

Akhenaten and his family... Egyptian art
Akhenaten and his family offering to the sun-god Aten. 1364 - 1347 BC. Detail of the Pharaoh. Egyptian art. New Kingdom. Relief on rock. EGYPT. CAIRO. Cairo. Egyptian Museum. Proc: EGYPT. MENIA

Festival of Empire exhibition, Pageant of London, 1911
Citizens of London as the living history of London City: the pageant at the Festival of Empire at the Crystal Palace. 1. visitors to the court of Queen Elizabeth: chiefs and women from afar; 2

A View of a Fortified Aqueduct, by Joseph August Knip (1777-1847). Date: early 19th century

A West Wind, by Sir John Lavery (1856-1941). Date: 1911

Manchester Street / 1950S
Figures hurry by the imposing form of an old school building in Manchester; the corner shop is covered with adverts for Lyons Tea and confectionery Date: circa 1955

Folioscope, 1896
more popularly known as the flicker-book, it is simply a succession of images which, if the pages are turned with sufficient rapidity, give the illusion of movement. 1896

Three views of a wolf bone excavated at Vestonice
Proof that the mammoth-hunters of 30, 000 years ago knew how to count: three views of a wolf bone (the radius) marked with numerical notches

Ufos / Sutton / Hopkinsville
At Kelly, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, the Sutton family see small figures around their farm, fire on them, driving them away, and report in panic to the police

Nostradamus / Magic Mirror
NOSTRADAMUS is commanded by CATHERINE DE MEDICIS, queen of France, to predict the future of the French royals : he does so, using a magic mirror in which figures seem to appear

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