Tag: History

• The Ramparts of Old Sarum, Wiltshire

  

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  14/02/2020

  Archaeology, Black and White Photography, Landscape Photography

  archaeology, Black and White Photography, Heritage, History, Photography, wiltshire

• Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome

  

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  21/03/2019

  Night Photography, Sites & Buildings

  architecture, Heritage, History, Night Photography, Photography, Rome, Vatican

• Treasures of Ancient Egypt from the Fitzwilliam Museum

  

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  02/10/2018

  Ancient Egypt, Museums & Galleries

  Ancient Egypt, archaeology, egypt, Heritage, History, Museum, Photography

• Neolithic Figurine from Hacilar, Anatolia

  

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  24/01/2018

  Archaeology, Museums & Galleries

  archaeology, History, neolithic, Photography

• Hetepni, an Ancient Egyptian Tax Collector

  

    Hetepni was an accountant and tax collector in the revenue office of the king over 4000 years ago in Egypt. Found in Saqqara, this mortuary statue tells us that he was was responsible: ‘…for the counting of everything that crawled or flew in the water and in the marshland‘. The statue dates from the…

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  12/10/2017

  Ancient Egypt, Museums & Galleries

  Ancient Egypt, Art, egypt, egyptian, Heritage, History, Museum, Neues Museum, Photography, sculpture

• ‘Lasts’ Art Installation by Elena Hutchcroft and Karolina Nieduza

  

  I was pleased to be involved in the exciting collaboration between artists Elena Hutchcroft, Karolina Nieduza and the Alfred Gillett Trust for Somerset Art Weeks 2017. ‘Lasts’ is an art installation in response to Street’s rich history of shoe making, bringing traditional lasts to life in a contemporary installation.

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  08/10/2017

  Abstract Photography

  Art, Heritage, History, Museum, Photography, sculpture, somerset

• Order at Palazzo Pitti

  

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  10/06/2017

  Museums & Galleries

  Art, Florence, Heritage, History, Museum, Palazzo Pitti, Photography, postaday, weekly photo challenge

• Tomb of Michelangelo, Basilica di Santa Croce

  

  The tomb of Michelangelo Buonarroti can be found in the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy. Realised by Vasari in 1570, the tomb includes three marble sculptures representing the personifications of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, saddened by the death of the great master. It is Sculpture however, that is most distraught to have lost…

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  04/05/2017

  Black and White Photography, Sites & Buildings

  Art, Florence, Heritage, History, italy, Michelangelo, Photography, sculpture, Tomb

• Michelangelo’s David, Galleria dell’Accademia

  

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  19/04/2017

  Museums & Galleries, Sites & Buildings

  Art, Heritage, History, Michelangelo, Museum, Photography, sculpture

• Palaeolithic Flint Hand Axe 400,000 BC

  

  Palaeolithic hand axe found at Swanscombe in Kent. Dating to 400,000 BC this is one of the earliest hand tools found in Britain. This can be seen at Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery. Save Save

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  05/01/2017

  Archaeology, Museums & Galleries

  archaeology, flint, Heritage, History, Museum, palaeolithic, Photography