HA Alabaster statue of religious figure in arched niche of ornate building facade near scrolled columns 00:09 HA Alabaster statues of a man and woman outside a stone building with red flowers in a window box and red window frames 00:28 AERIAL: Cement factory near open pit limestone 00:29...
The rare and exotic marble revetment of the church - which was assembled from all over the Roman world - was considered the greatest glory of its original decoration. In covering the walls of the church with it Justinian was following in the long tradition of Roman Imperial gifts of prestige ...
Sheltered by this gilded shrine was an alabaster chest set upon a sledge; the same guardian goddesses are shown in shallow relief at its four corners in similar attitudes." (id.) in a description of a relief: "The goddess Isis on one of the double doors of the gilt shrine, reminiscent...
an image so important as to seem sacred; and below, almost from A to Z, is my current (Fall/Winter 2005) study of icons, an iconography, which includes films such as Aeon Flux, Boesman