This study was part of larger, multimillion-dollar, nine-year-long collaboration between the Getty and Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities designed to assess the condition of the tomb and help prevent further deterioration.
The plan for the Forum Tauri, the largest public square known in antiquity, designed after the model of Trajan's Forum in Rome, is outstanding.
Fortifications in antiquity were designed primarily to defeat attempts at escalade, though cover was provided for archers and javelin throwers along the ramparts and for enfilade fire from flanking towers.
Exploring the fragment as a category with a trans-historical approach, the seminar brings art and architecture into dialogue with the management of knowledge, the making of history, the mapping of antiquity, the designing of museums, and the creation of spaces for learning.
Local nobles not only took their cues from antiquity when designing their villas, but borrowed ideas about town and country living as well, building impressive rural dwellings in the countryside, as the Romans had, to escape the intrigues and bustle of city life.
Drummed out of Egypt in 1914 over accusations of involvement in antiquity dealing, Weigall designed sets for musical revues that helped cheer up Londoners during the first world war.
The exhibition will look at antiquities for the origins of design in Japan, and will examine styles that developed in the 16th century.
I'm a pluralist in my collecting interested in antiquities, ceramics, painting, furniture and design.
By introducing us to the full sweep of this Venetian artist's career, from the early etchings of antiquities to his eccentric furniture designs to the haunting "Carceri d'Invenzione," or "Prisons of the Imagination," the show liberates him from clichés.
And Theodore Roosevelt provided political muscle, setting the canyon aside in 1908 as a national monument under a new law designed to protect American antiquities.
