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  • Evening view of the London city skyline, anchored by the Swiss RE "gherkin" tower rising among the high rises.  A steeple of one of the Georgian City churches is also visible.  A composition of old and new.  Viewpoint from across the river Thames just west of London Bridge.  An anchor chain of HMS Belfast visible at right, a buoy at left, and a barge tied up on the opposite bank in front of an anonymous looking early 20th century neoclassical style government office building.
    London-City-skyline-ENG201101--0013.jpg
  • Old and new buildings on a street in the Garden City neighborhood of Cairo.  In the foreground, a leaky 1950s era plain concrete structure (apartment building?)  with sliding glass windows still taped up; beyond a carved and balconied 19th century apartment building.  The contrast is apparent.
    19th and 20th centuries in Garden Ci..airo
  • View down into the city of Dubrovnik from the top of its city walls.
    Dubrovnik HRV200606-249.jpg
  • Looking down from the city wall on the east, facing the Adriatic, there are leveled spots where people can sunbathe, and steps for going down to the water to swim.
    Dubrovnik-swimming-HRV200606-275.jpg
  • Stairway up to the city wall at Korcula, Croatia.  Tower gate and flag above.  Visitors descending the stair (two or three people).
    Korcula-Croatia-HRV200606-182.jpg
  • Restored Dubrovnik homes have largely new roofs,made from tiles specially manufactured in Spain by original methods.  Citizens saved many of the original roof tiles, however, and these are used when visible wherever possible, while the new tiles have been set underneath them.  This view taken from the top of the city walls.
    Dubrovnik-townscape-HRV200606-264.jpg
  • Telephoto shot of the harbor from the hill above the city.
    Dubrovnik-harbor-HRV200606-298.jpg
  • Aurelian wall from the top of the San Sebastiano gate, showing fields, trees, and the modern city in the distance along the horizon touched with sunlight.
    Aurelian-walls-sebastiano-Rome_ITA20...jpg
  • Rome, view from the Gianicolo (Janiculum)  hill at dusk.  Golden sunlight across the city roofs, hills beyond.
    Rome_cityscape_Janiculum_ITA200901--...jpg
  • St. Bride's Church spire (Christopher Wren, 1675) hidden behind office blocks just off Fleet Street, London.
    London_StBrides_church-steeple_ENG20...jpg
  • Restored Dubrovnik homes have largely new roofs,made from tiles specially manufactured in Spain by original methods.  Citizens saved many of the original roof tiles, however, and these are used when visible wherever possible, while the new tiles have been set underneath them.  This view includes an unrestored roofless abbey church, though its vegetable garden is in active use.
    Dubrovnik-townscape-HRV200606-265a.jpg
  • Restored Dubrovnik homes have largely new roofs,made from tiles specially manufactured in Spain by original methods.  Citizens saves many of the original roof tiles, however, and these are used when visible wherever possible, while the new tiles have been set underneath them.
    Dubrovnik-tile-roofs-restored--HRV20...jpg
  • Restored Dubrovnik homes have largely new roofs,made from tiles specially manufactured in Spain by original methods.  Citizens saved many of the original roof tiles, however, and these are used when visible wherever possible, while the new tiles have been set underneath them.
    Dubrovnik-tile-roofs-restored--HRV20...jpg
  • Aurelian Wall from outside San Sebastiano gate, with sun and shadow, bright blue sky and white clouds above.  One auto partly visible in the road.
    Aurelian-walls-sebastiano-Rome_ITA20...jpg
  • SS Quattro Coronati, chapel of St Sylvester, frescoes depicting  the legend of Emperor Constantine's cure from leprosy by Pope St. Sylvester and other miraculous events during the early pontiff's reign. They were completed and consecrated in 1246.
    Quattro-Coronati-Sylvester-Rome_ITA2...jpg
  • Ostia Antica. Floor mosaic propped up against a wall.
    Ostia_Antica_ITA200901--1043.jpg
  • Overview of the Roman forum from the overlook at the back of the Capitoline Museum, looking through an arched opening and over a protective barrier.
    Forum-Rome_ITA200901-4857.jpg
  • Vatican. St. Peter's Basilica, detail of facade looking up to two column capitals, and cornice, with fragments of sculpture projecting above, including a disembodied arm and a papal crown.
    Vatican_Rome_ITA200901--1281.jpg
  • Cloister and Renaissance facade of Santa Clemente.  Woman tourist with camera.  Cobblestoned pavement, graceful arched 18th century facade using ancient columns for the colonnade.
    San-Clemente-Rome_ITA200901--1260.jpg
  • San Clemente, interior, looking out from the main doorway to the courtyard and street beyond
    San-Clemente-Rome_ITA200901--1255.jpg
  • San Clemente, ancient Roman street level underneath the later churches built over it.
    San-Clemente-Rome_ITA200901--0691-2.jpg
  • Colosseum; outer corridor with external pillars, heavily pockmarked.
    Colosseum_Rome_ITA200901--0343.jpg
  • Laocoon sculpture, Vatican museum; detail of a head of a boy looking frightened, as part of a snake coils over his upper arm..
    Boy_head_Vatican_Rome_ITA200901--029...jpg
  • Ostia Antica.  Closeup of an ancient Roman theatrical mask carved in stone; Corinthian pillar and umbrella pines behind.  Adjoins theater at Ostia.
    Ostia Antica theater mask ITA200901-...jpg
  • Ostia Antica, ruins of Republican era temple of Heracles.  Statue of C. Cartilius Poplicola on the temple platform.  Late afternoon sun, slanted shadows.
    Ostia_Antica_ITA200901--1044.jpg
  • Ostia Antica. Three theatrical masks displayed on short pillars, two columns and umbrella pines behind them.
    Ostia_Antica_ITA200901--1033.jpg
  • Trajan's Forum, looking along a re-erected colonnade toward Trajan's Markets and the Casa dei Cavalieri di Rodi (Knights of St. John, or Rhodes (Rodi).
    Trajans-forum-Rome_ITA200901--4837.jpg
  • San Clemente, interior, 12th century Paschal candlestick, twisted shaft with multicolored mosaic inlay, Cosmati work.  Looking up the candlestick from its base, showing part of the gilded and painted ceiling of the church.
    San-Clemente-Rome_ITA200901--1243.jpg
  • Sign inscription plaque on brick wall Via Appia Antica
    Appia-Antica-Rome_ITA200901--1224.jpg
  • Museo Nazionale de Roma, Palazzo Massimo, mosaic panel, two pigeons, border of waves and rope
    Rome_ITA200901--1142-2.jpg
  • Sta Costanza interior, ambulatory colonnade of the circular structure showing re-used ancient columns and Byzantine arrangement.
    Santa-Costanza-Rome_ITA200901--1087.jpg
  • Pantheon dome exterior top with seagulls flying around the oculus.  Grey sky with rain clouds above.
    Pantheon-dome-exterior-Rome_ITA20090...jpg
  • Bramante's Tempietto seen through barred iron gate, Embassy of Spain, Spanish Academy, Rome.
    Bramante_tempietto_Rome_ITA200901--1...jpg
  • Trastevere street scene: sculpture on corner of a house, man drinking from a fountain; sculpture stuck on the wall above.
    Trastevere-streetscape-Rome_ITA20090...jpg
  • Bocca della verita, in the porch of Santa Maria de Cosmedin, Rome.  Young woman  smiling, her hand in the mouth of the figure.
    Bocca-verita-Rome_ITA200901--0968.jpg
  • Rome, Fountain of the Turtles, Piazza Mattei, Rome ghetto; Fontana delle Tartarughe, the Tortoise Fountain. The fountain itself was designed by Giocomo della Porta at the end of the 16th century, but it was Bernini who added the tortoises in 1658.View of the entire fountain in its position in the piazza.  Boutique and house beyond.
    Piazza-Mattei-Rome_ITA200901--0954.jpg
  • Stairway up to the church of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli, on the Capitoline Hill, Rome.  It is a very long stairway.
    Ara-Coeli-stairway-Rome_ITA200901--0...jpg
  • Castel Sant'Angelo, shipping trunks and chests in an upper room of Pope Paul 3d; an interior of polished wood panels on walls and floor.
    Castel-Sant'Angelo-interior-Rome_ITA...jpg
  • Statue of an angel on the Ponte Sant'Angelo, Rome.  The figures, carrying the instruments of Christ's passion, were executed by Bernini's pupils (Antonio Raggi, Antonio Giorgetti and Ercole Ferrata) between 1660 and 1668 to Bernini's design.
    Statue_Baroque_angel_Rome_ITA200901-...jpg
  • Vatican seen from in front of St. Peters,part of its facade showing on the left.  Heavy rain clouds.  Vatican structure looks distant, mysterious, closed, in contrast to the prominent columns of the St. Peter's facade.
    Vatican_Rome_ITA200901--0819-2.jpg
  • Keats and Severn graves, Protestant Cemetery, on a gray and gloomy day.
    Keats-grave-Rome_ITA200901--0708-2.jpg
  • Yellow motorbike passing remains of an ancient Roman aquaduct, on the Viale delle Terme di Caracalla.
    Rome_cityscape_ITA200901--0705.jpg
  • SS Quattro Coronati, exterior, entrance, patched with cement and draped informally with electrical wiring.
    Quattro-Coronati-Sylvester-Rome_ITA2...jpg
  • SS Quattro Coronati, chapel of St Sylvester, frescoes depicting  the legend of Emperor Constantine's cure from leprosy by Pope St. Sylvester and other miraculous events during the early pontiff's reign. They were completed and consecrated in 1246. Interior view of the chapel, showing floor inlaid Cosmati work, altar, and part of the wall paintings.
    Quattro-Coronati-Sylvester-Rome_ITA2...jpg
  • Roman Forum, Basilica of Constantine, seen beyond a grove of trees near the Arch of Titus, above which a pair of statues on top of Santa Francesca Romana's travertine façade (by Carlo Lambardi, 1615) seem to be floating on top of the tree branches.  Clear plain blue sky above.
    Constantine-basilica-Rome_ITA200901-...jpg
  • "Umbilicus Urbis Romae" inscription on a marble  plaque fragment attached to the side of the ancient speakers' platform near the arch of Septimus Severus, Roman Forum.  ...
    Forum-Rome_ITA200901--0517.jpg
  • Cat resident in Trajan's Markets area patrols Trajan's Forum.  Many ancient Roman sites are also cat sanctuaries.
    Trajans-market-Rome_ITA200901--0489.JPG
  • Interior corridor of the hemicycle in Trajan's Markets, Rome.  Sunlight streams through arched openings on the right to fall on shop entrances on the left.
    Trajans-market-Rome_ITA200901--0486.jpg
  • Sequence of empty arched windows piercing walls of Trajan's Markets, Rome.  Closeup of one, beyond which two more in sequence can be seen.
    Trajans-market-Rome_ITA200901--0482.JPG
  • Interior of a curving corridor along an upper floor in Trajan's Markets, showing arched windows and brickwork detail, with more windows seen through the nearest one.  Gentle daylight illuminates the floor and wall stumps.
    Trajans-market-Rome_ITA200901--0481.jpg
  • Pattern and texture of marble back of Dying Gaul statue
    marble-human-back-Rome_ITA200901--04...jpg
  • views of the interior details inside the 9-11 memorial in New York
    USA.NY201608--5884.jpg
  • views of the interior details inside the 9-11 memorial in New York
    USA.NY201608--5883.jpg
  • views of the interior details inside the 9-11 memorial in New York
    USA.NY201608--5882.jpg
  • views of the interior details inside the 9-11 memorial in New York
    USA.NY201608--5893.jpg
  • Model of Toledo showing the whole steep hill surrounded by a wall, below it the River Tagus.  The buildings of the town cluster near one of the bridges.
    Toledo_Spain_model_ESP201210--4150.jpg
  • Ostia Antica.  Theater, restored seats from behind the scene building ruins. Empty audience and cleared stage area so that summer performances can be played.
    Ostia_Antica_ITA200901--1037.jpg
  • Ostia Antica.  Closeup of a theatrical mask carved in stone; Corinthian pillar and umbrella pines behind.  Mask's mouth is wide open as though screaming.
    Ostia_Antica_ITA200901--1034-2.jpg
  • Rome, Capitoline Hill, looking up the ramped approach designed by Michelangelo, toward the Senatorio and its clock tower.  Statues of Castor and Pollux on their pedestals at the top.  Corners of the Capitoline Museums on either side.
    Capitoline-approach-Rome_ITA200901-4...jpg
  • San Stefano Rotondo, interior under repair.  Built 5th century.  Part of colonnade with Ionic capitals; small crane parked in the center.
    San-Stefano-Rotondo-repair-Rome_ITA2...jpg
  • Museo Nazionale de Roma, Palazzo Massimo, flying horse or unicorn, detail of a wall painting from an ancient Roman house.
    Rome_ITA200901--1139.jpg
  • Museo Nazionale de Roma, Terme Diocletiani, trompe d'oiel painting of a monk with a little dog coming through a door in the cloister of the Carthusian monastery adjoining the baths of Diocletian.    This fresco is probably later, 17th century.  A guard rope is secured in front of it.
    trompe-doeil-painting-Rome_ITA200901...jpg
  • Santa Costanza, apse mosaic, 5th - 7th century; Christ seated on a globe handing keys to St. Peter. Heavily restored Early Christian mosaic.
    Santa-Costanza-Rome_ITA200901--1105-...jpg
  • San Francesco a Ripa, Trastevere, statue of Beata Ludovica Albertoni in ecstasy, Gianlorenzo Bernini, 1674.
    Bernini_Ludovica_Albertoni_Rome_ITA2...jpg
  • Tempietto di Bramante, in courtyard of San Pietro di Montorio. 1502, on the site where St. Peter is supposed to have been crucified.  Round, Doric order, dome, seen through arched entrance.
    Bramante-tempietto-Rome_ITA200901--1...jpg
  • View from the top of the Vittoriale across the roofs of the church, and facades of the Senatorio and Capitoline Museum.  Graphic composition of angles and parallels.
    Capitoline-roofs-Rome_ITA200901--087...jpg
  • View from the top of the Vittoriale (Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II).  Visible are the Pantheon and the Castel Sant'Angelo.
    Cityscape-Rome_Vittoriale_ITA200901-...jpg
  • St Peter's Square in the rain, couple running under an umbrella, curved hemicycle of Bernini's colonnade beyond, grey clouds above.
    St-Peter-courtyard-Rome_ITA200901--0...jpg
  • Piazza Navona; Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers, detail of the lion lapping the water at the base of the fountain.
    Bernini-fountain-Navona-lion-Rome_IT...jpg
  • Shelley grave, Protestant Cemetery, next to a wall with barred window.  Vase of fresh white chrysanthemums next to it.  Inscription clear in the foreground: "Nothing of him that doth fade but doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange." [ Shakespeare, The Tempest  ]
    Shelley-grave-Rome_ITA200901--0710.jpg
  • Sta Prassede, mosaic details, Pope St Paschal I ca. 822.  Panel next to apse entrance showing a procession of saints bearing crowns, escorted by two angels .
    Santa-Prassede-mosaic-Rome_ITA200901...jpg
  • Santa Pudenziana, interior, apse mosaic detail, right side, late 4th century mosaic.
    Santa-Pudenziana-Rome_ITA200901--062...jpg
  • Interior of the dining room in the House of Augustus, on the Palatine Hill, Rome; opened to visitors in 2008 after years of careful restoration.
    Palatine-house-Augustus-interior-Rom...jpg
  • Rome, Imperial Forum, Arch of Titus seen from below and to the side of the Via Sacra.  Erected 81AD  by Domitian in honor of Titus' capture of Jerusalem.  Restored 1821.
    Forum-Rome_ITA200901--0529-2.jpg
  • Roman Forum, looking along the main street (Via Sacra)  toward the Arch of Titus.
    Forum-Rome_ITA200901--0510.jpg
  • Trajan's Markets seen from its roof, looking down on the hemicycle and part of the pavement of Trajan's Forum.
    Trajans-market-Rome_ITA200901--0477.jpg
  • HRV200606-183.jpg
  • views of the interior details inside the 9-11 memorial in New York
    USA.NY201608--5872.jpg
  • Ostia Antica. Floor mosaic, black and white tesserae, mules drawing a cart filled with children, muleteer carrying whip, partial view of a human-sea monster creature.  Baths of the Coachmen.
    Ostia_Antica_ITA200901--1030.jpg
  • Bronze statue of Hodge, Dr. Samuel Johnson's cat, seated on his Dictionary (with an oyster) looks across Gough Square at Johnson's house.  Early evening lamps lit, rain-sodden cobblestones.  Rain drops sparkle on the cat's head, neck, and body too. Statue, by Jon Buckley, 1997.
    Cat_statue_bronze_London_ENG200401-2...jpg
  • Overview of the Roman Forum from the vantage point at the back of the Capitoline Museum.  Visible are the Arch of Septimus Severus on the left, Column of Phocas, Basilica Julia, Temple of Castor and Pollux, Sacred Way, and Arch of Titus gleaming in the distance.
    Forum-Rome_ITA200901-4859.jpg
  • St. Peter's Basilica: Michelangelo's Pieta behind protective glass, with barred window on the other side of the church reflected in the glass.  Multicolor marble sheets on the walls and on the base of the statue add warmth and atmosphere.
    Pieta_Vatican_Rome_ITA200901--1321.jpg
  • Navicella fountain in front of Santa Maria in Domnica; detail of the bow of the ancient marble gallley incorporated into the 16th century fountain.  A ferocious lion head is carved on the side
    navicella-Rome_ITA200901--1274.jpg
  • Rome, Aurelian walls from an embrasure at the top of the San Sebastiano gate, looking along the Appian Way as a bus turns to enter it.
    Aurelian-walls-sebastiano-Rome_ITA20...jpg
  • Santa Costanza, apse mosaic, 5th - 7th century; Christ in clouds handing scroll of the law to Peter and Paul. Heavily restored Early Christian mosaic.
    Santa-Costanza-Rome_ITA200901--1103.jpg
  • Sta Costanza, black and white mosaic detail in the curved ambulatory ceiling; 4th century.  Complicated design of grapevines interspersed with realistic figures doing the grape harvest, busts of other figures, and medallions with a variety of insets..
    Santa-Costanza-Rome_ITA200901--1091.jpg
  • Cloister, San Giovanni in Laterano; details of twisted columns with Cosmati mosaics
    Cloister-SanGiovanni-Lateran-Rome_IT...jpg
  • Three tourists (one on a mobile phone) near the base of the arch of Septimus Severus which bears a relief of three figures (captured slaves)
    Forum-Rome_ITA200901--0521.jpg
  • View of Bernini=s colonnade around St. Peter's Square, from outside the semicircle.
    Vatican_Rome_ITA200901--0289.jpg
  • Ostia Antica. Closeup of a theatrical mask carved in stone.
    Ostia_Antica_ITA200901--1035.jpg
  • Santa Maria in Domnica, exterior, colonaded facade with Roman era carved marble boat in forecourt. Boat is an ancient offering incorporated into the 16th century fountain.  An unusual example of Renaissance adaptive reuse of ancient work.  Church portico by Sansovino 1513  main church is 9th century basilica with three apses, and lovely mosaics.  http://romanchurches.wikia.com/wiki/Santa_Maria_in_Domnica
    navicella-Rome_ITA200901--1275.jpg
  • Imperial Forum from the Capitoline looking toward the Arch of Titus.
    Forum_Rome_ITA200901--0453.jpg
  • Naga balustrade, Angkor Thom.  Side view of the demons (asuras) holding the body of the Naga (cobra), visible in pieces held by each figure.  City moat beyond.  Some of the heads are modern replacements.  The figures hold a squatting position as they pull o the body of the serpent as they churn the sea of milk.
    Angkor_Thom_bridge-into-city-KHM2006...jpg
  • Telephoto view of The City of London from the South Bank of the Thames river.
    London-City-skyline-telephoto-ENG201...jpg
  • View down the main city street, toward the main city gate and distant landscape.  Street is lined with wall stumps of the ancient houses and shops, many with mosaic floors still in situ.
    Volubilis_MOR200411_0443.jpg
  • Crumbled city gate at the Harappan city of Dholavira, Gujarat, India.
    Harappan_Dholavira_IND201301--2780ed.jpg
  • Restoration of the city with UNESCO support emphasizes memory of the young men who defended Dubrovnik and the damage the city suffered.
    Dubrovnik-map-HRV200606-247.jpg
  • The city seen from the steep hill directly above the city.  The walls, harbor, and a part of the nearby island Lokrum projecting from the left.
    HRV200606-292.jpg
  • The city seen from the steep hill directly above the city.  The walls, harbor, and a part of the nearby island Lokrum projecting from the left.
    Dubrovnik-Croatia-HRV200606-292.jpg
  • Angkor Thom: a skinny little boy fishing in the rubble-filled city moat using a torn fish net; Bayon temple face towers beyond.
    KHM200602-039m.jpg
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