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  • Row of columns of the quadriportico, planned by Luigi Poletti and concluded by Guglielmo Calderini, Basilica Papale di San Paolo fuori le Mura (Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls), 4th century, totally restored after a great fire in 1823, shrine of Saint Paul, Rome, Italy. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Row of columns of the quadriportico, planned by Luigi Poletti and concluded by Guglielmo Calderini, Basilica Papale di San Paolo fuori le Mura (Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls), 4th century, totally restored after a great fire in 1823, shrine of Saint Paul, Rome, Italy. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Saint Paul, by Giuseppe Obici (1807-1878), Basilica Papale di San Paolo fuori le Mura (Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls), 4th century, totally restored after a great fire in 1823, shrine of Saint Paul, Rome, Italy. The colossal statue stands right at the centre of the quadriportico, 70 meters long and composed of 150 columns, planned by Luigi Poletti and concluded by Guglielmo Calderini. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Basilica Papale di San Paolo fuori le Mura (Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls), 4th century, totally restored after a great fire in 1823, shrine of Saint Paul, Rome, Italy. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Basilica Papale di San Paolo fuori le Mura (Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls), 4th century, totally restored after a great fire in 1823, shrine of Saint Paul, Rome, Italy.
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  • Basilica Papale di San Paolo fuori le Mura (Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls), 4th century, totally restored after a great fire in 1823, shrine of Saint Paul, Rome, Italy. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Christ flanked by the Apostles Peter, Paul, Andrew and Luke, Apse mosaic (1220) made by Venetian artists. Basilica Papale di San Paolo fuori le Mura (Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls), 4th century, totally restored after a great fire in 1823, shrine of Saint Paul, Rome, Italy. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Christ flanked by the Apostles Peter, Paul, Andrew and Luke, Apse mosaic (1220) made by Venetian artists. Basilica Papale di San Paolo fuori le Mura (Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls), 4th century, totally restored after a great fire in 1823, shrine of Saint Paul, Rome, Italy. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Nave and apse, Basilica Papale di San Paolo fuori le Mura (Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls), 4th century, totally restored after a great fire in 1823, shrine of Saint Paul, Rome, Italy. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Christ flanked by the Apostles Peter, Paul, Andrew and Luke, Apse mosaic (1220) made by Venetian artists. Basilica Papale di San Paolo fuori le Mura (Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls), 4th century, totally restored after a great fire in 1823, shrine of Saint Paul, Rome, Italy. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Carved wooden tiki sculpture outside the reconstruction of the Maison du Jouir or House of Pleasure, a traditional 2-storey hut and home to French artist Paul Gauguin, 1848-1903, from 1901 to his death, now part of the Paul Gauguin Cultural Center, a museum which opened in 2003, in Atuona, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. Tiki sculptures represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses as protective statues. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Carved wooden tiki sculpture outside the reconstruction of the Maison du Jouir or House of Pleasure, a traditional 2-storey hut and home to French artist Paul Gauguin, 1848-1903, from 1901 to his death, now part of the Paul Gauguin Cultural Center, a museum which opened in 2003, in Atuona, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. Tiki sculptures represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses as protective statues. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Per Adriano, bronze sculpture by Igor Mitoraj, b. 1944, installed 2004 outside the new Musee des Beaux Arts on Place Saint Eloi, Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France. The museum is located in the Logis Barrault, and displays fine arts of the 19th and 20th centuries and exhibitions on the history of Angers. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Paving stones with 'pave a fendre', at 52 Rue de l'Arbre Sec, in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. The pave a fendre or cracked paver, is a paving stone larger than the surrounding ones, used to split the logs which were delivered in the streets for fuel for houses. People split the long logs outside on these larger stones to avoid damaging the cobblestones. This practice was in place from the 17th century. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tiki Makii Tau'a Pepe, carved in grey keetu or volcanic tuff, representing a woman lying on her stomach with outstretched arms and raised head with huge eyes and mouth, thought to be in the process of childbirth, at the Iipona archaeological site, near the village of Puamau, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. On the base of this sculpture are petroglyph reliefs of dogs, whose meaning is unclear. Tiki sculptures are usually carved in wood or stone and represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses as protective statues. The Iipona site was a religious sanctuary or meae, built by the pre-European Marquesian civilisation, arranged over 2 large terraces with 5 monumental tikis. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Statue of St. Paul outside of St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Rome, Italy. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tour de la Miotte, an observation tower built 1840 at the Fort de la Miotte, or Fort Kleber, built 1831-35 by Haxo on the Miotte Hill, at Belfort, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The tower was destroyed in the Siege of Belfort in 1870-71 and again in 1940, but rebuilt each time. The fort defends the road to Colmar and forms part of the Belfort fortifications outside the citadel. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Entrance to the Fort de la Miotte, or Fort Kleber, built 1831-35 by Haxo on the Miotte Hill, at Belfort, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The fort defends the road to Colmar and forms part of the Belfort fortifications outside the citadel. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tour de la Miotte, an observation tower built 1840 at the Fort de la Miotte, or Fort Kleber, built 1831-35 by Haxo on the Miotte Hill, at Belfort, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The tower was destroyed in the Siege of Belfort in 1870-71 and again in 1940, but rebuilt each time. The fort defends the road to Colmar and forms part of the Belfort fortifications outside the citadel. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • View from a first floor window of the Fort de la Miotte, or Fort Kleber, built 1831-35 by Haxo on the Miotte Hill, at Belfort, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The fort defends the road to Colmar and forms part of the Belfort fortifications outside the citadel. In the distance is the Tour de la Miotte, an observation tower built 1840. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Inscription 'Pro Patria' (For the Fatherland), commemorating the liberated prisoners of war who rebuilt the tower in 1947, on the base of the Tour de la Miotte, an observation tower built 1840 at the Fort de la Miotte, or Fort Kleber, built 1831-35 by Haxo on the Miotte Hill, at Belfort, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The tower was destroyed in the Siege of Belfort in 1870-71 and again in 1940, but rebuilt each time. The fort defends the road to Colmar and forms part of the Belfort fortifications outside the citadel. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Path leading to the Tour de la Miotte, an observation tower built 1840 at the Fort de la Miotte, or Fort Kleber, built 1831-35 by Haxo on the Miotte Hill, at Belfort, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The tower was destroyed in the Siege of Belfort in 1870-71 and again in 1940, but rebuilt each time. The fort defends the road to Colmar and forms part of the Belfort fortifications outside the citadel. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mausoleum of the Julii, built c. 40 BC as the tomb of the parents of 3 Julii brothers (left), and Triumphal Arch, c. 10 AD (right), built just outside the north city gate of Glanum, a Celto-Ligurian oppidum founded by the Salyens tribe in the 6th century BC, near Saint-Remy-de-Provence, in the Alpilles mountains, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France. The town had a strong Greek and Hellenistic influence before becoming a Roman town in the 1st century BC. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mausoleum of the Julii, built c. 40 BC as the tomb of the parents of 3 Julii brothers (left), and Triumphal Arch, c. 10 AD (right), built just outside the north city gate of Glanum, a Celto-Ligurian oppidum founded by the Salyens tribe in the 6th century BC, near Saint-Remy-de-Provence, in the Alpilles mountains, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France. The town had a strong Greek and Hellenistic influence before becoming a Roman town in the 1st century BC. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Greeks and Trojans fighting for the body of Patroclus in the Trojan War, bas-relief on the Mausoleum of the Julii, built c. 40 BC as the tomb of the parents of 3 Julii brothers, built just outside the north city gate of Glanum, a Celto-Ligurian oppidum founded by the Salyens tribe in the 6th century BC, near Saint-Remy-de-Provence, in the Alpilles mountains, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France. The town had a strong Greek and Hellenistic influence before becoming a Roman town in the 1st century BC. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Bocairent, a medieval village in the Sierra de Mariola mountains in Vall d'Albaida, aerial view, Valencia, Spain. Just outside the village is the Parque Natural de la Sierra de Mariola, founded 2002, and also the Covetes dels Moros, a series of around 50 caves with rectangular openings in a cliff face on the Barranc de la Fos, created 10th - 11th century, thought to be Hispano-Arab storage barns from the Andalusian period. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Bocairent, a medieval village in the Sierra de Mariola mountains in Vall d'Albaida, aerial view, Valencia, Spain. Just outside the village is the Parque Natural de la Sierra de Mariola, founded 2002, and also the Covetes dels Moros, a series of around 50 caves with rectangular openings in a cliff face on the Barranc de la Fos, created 10th - 11th century, thought to be Hispano-Arab storage barns from the Andalusian period. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Bocairent, a medieval village in the Sierra de Mariola mountains in Vall d'Albaida, aerial view, Valencia, Spain. Just outside the village is the Parque Natural de la Sierra de Mariola, founded 2002, and also the Covetes dels Moros, a series of around 50 caves with rectangular openings in a cliff face on the Barranc de la Fos, created 10th - 11th century, thought to be Hispano-Arab storage barns from the Andalusian period. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Moorish style entrance gate to the main square in Bocairent, a medieval village in the Sierra de Mariola mountains in Vall d'Albaida, Valencia, Spain. Through the arch is the bell tower, rebuilt 1766, of the Iglesia Parroquial de la Asuncion de Nuestra Senora, built on the old Moorish castle in 1516. Just outside the village is the Parque Natural de la Sierra de Mariola, founded 2002, and also the Covetes dels Moros, a series of around 50 caves with rectangular openings in a cliff face on the Barranc de la Fos, created 10th - 11th century, thought to be Hispano-Arab storage barns from the Andalusian period. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Bocairent, a medieval village in the Sierra de Mariola mountains in Vall d'Albaida, Valencia, Spain. Just outside the village is the Parque Natural de la Sierra de Mariola, founded 2002, and also the Covetes dels Moros, a series of around 50 caves with rectangular openings in a cliff face on the Barranc de la Fos, created 10th - 11th century, thought to be Hispano-Arab storage barns from the Andalusian period. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Bocairent, a medieval village in the Sierra de Mariola mountains in Vall d'Albaida, Valencia, Spain. Just outside the village is the Parque Natural de la Sierra de Mariola, founded 2002, and also the Covetes dels Moros, a series of around 50 caves with rectangular openings in a cliff face on the Barranc de la Fos, created 10th - 11th century, thought to be Hispano-Arab storage barns from the Andalusian period. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Man walking up a narrow steep street in Bocairent, a medieval village in the Sierra de Mariola mountains in Vall d'Albaida, Valencia, Spain. Just outside the village is the Parque Natural de la Sierra de Mariola, founded 2002, and also the Covetes dels Moros, a series of around 50 caves with rectangular openings in a cliff face on the Barranc de la Fos, created 10th - 11th century, thought to be Hispano-Arab storage barns from the Andalusian period. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Bocairent, a medieval village in the Sierra de Mariola mountains in Vall d'Albaida, Valencia, Spain. Just outside the village is the Parque Natural de la Sierra de Mariola, founded 2002, and also the Covetes dels Moros, a series of around 50 caves with rectangular openings in a cliff face on the Barranc de la Fos, created 10th - 11th century, thought to be Hispano-Arab storage barns from the Andalusian period. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Wrought iron balcony with integrated reversed bench, designed for viewing the decorative facade, outside the main living room at El Capricho de Gaudi, or Villa Quijano, a Modernist villa designed by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1883-85 under his assistant Cristobal Cascante, in Comillas, Cantabria, Spain. The villa was commissioned by Maximo Diaz de Quijano as a summer house. It is from Gaudi's orientalist period, with azulejos tiles and domes. The building has housed a museum since 2009. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Toilet block outside La Nau Gaudi, or the Gaudi Warehouse of the Mataronense Workers' Cooperative, a bleaching warehouse for a yarn factory, designed in 1878 by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, in Mataro, Catalonia, Spain. The building, built for the textile cooperative La Obrera Mataronense, uses wooden parabolic arches. Gaudi had originally planned homes, an assembly hall and a factory in an extended socialist project, although his plans were uncompleted. The building was restored in 2008. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Torre dels Escipions, or Scipio's Tower, a Roman funerary tower built 1st century AD, on the Via Augusta outside Tarragona, in Catalonia, Spain. The tower is 3 storeys high and has 2 reliefs of the Phrygian god Attis. The city was an important fortified Roman colony named Tarraco and its remains are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Statue of Emperor Caesar Augustus, 63BC -14AD, outside the National Archaeological Museum of Tarragona, in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. The city was an important fortified Roman colony named Tarraco and its remains are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Torre dels Escipions, or Scipio's Tower, a Roman funerary tower built 1st century AD, on the Via Augusta outside Tarragona, in Catalonia, Spain. The tower is 3 storeys high and has 2 reliefs of the Phrygian god Attis. The city was an important fortified Roman colony named Tarraco and its remains are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Statue of Emperor Caesar Augustus, 63BC -14AD, outside the National Archaeological Museum of Tarragona, in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. The city was an important fortified Roman colony named Tarraco and its remains are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Circus, 1st century AD, used to hold chariot races, at Emerita Augusta, founded in 25 BC by Emperor Augustus, in Merida, Extremadura, Spain. The circus measures 400x100m and could hold 30,000 spectators. It is located outside the city walls. The circus forms part of the Merida UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Per Adriano, bronze sculpture by Igor Mitoraj, b. 1944, installed 2004 outside the new Musee des Beaux Arts on Place Saint Eloi, Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France. The museum is located in the Logis Barrault, and displays fine arts of the 19th and 20th centuries and exhibitions on the history of Angers. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Water fountain providing free chilled sparkling water, outside the headquarters of Eau de Paris at 19 Rue Neuve-Tolbiac, in the Paris Rive Gauche district of the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Water fountain providing free chilled sparkling water, outside the headquarters of Eau de Paris at 19 Rue Neuve-Tolbiac, in the Paris Rive Gauche district of the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mosaic numbers in the floor outside the shops in the Galerie de Valois at the Palais-Royal, designed in 1629 by Jacques Lemercier for Cardinal Richelieu, then royal palace for Louis XIII, and now a ministry, in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. The galleries and shops were added 1871-74 by Louis-Philippe d'Orleans. The Galerie de Valois runs along the Rue de Valois, linking the Galerie du Beaujolais in the North with the Peristyle de Valois in the South. The building and its Place du Palais-Royal are listed as historic monuments. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Deckchairs outside Le Centquatre Paris, a public arts space opened in October 2008 on the rue d'Aubervilliers, in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, France. The 104 space features screening rooms, event spaces, exhibition spaces and office space. It is used for performing arts, audiovisual arts, theatre and dance, with shows, concerts, exhibitions and classes, markets and pop-ups, with the public welcome. The building was originally designed by Edouard Delebarre de Bay and Godon and built 1870-74 as a municipal undertakers. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Deckchairs outside Le Centquatre Paris, a public arts space opened in October 2008 on the rue d'Aubervilliers, in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, France. The 104 space features screening rooms, event spaces, exhibition spaces and office space. It is used for performing arts, audiovisual arts, theatre and dance, with shows, concerts, exhibitions and classes, markets and pop-ups, with the public welcome. The building was originally designed by Edouard Delebarre de Bay and Godon and built 1870-74 as a municipal undertakers. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Paving stones with 'pave a fendre', and a water pump, at 52 Rue de l'Arbre Sec, in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. The pave a fendre or cracked paver, is a paving stone larger than the surrounding ones, used to split the logs which were delivered in the streets for fuel for houses. People split the long logs outside on these larger stones to avoid damaging the cobblestones. This practice was in place from the 17th century. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Paving stones with 'pave a fendre', at 52 Rue de l'Arbre Sec, in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. The pave a fendre or cracked paver, is a paving stone larger than the surrounding ones, used to split the logs which were delivered in the streets for fuel for houses. People split the long logs outside on these larger stones to avoid damaging the cobblestones. This practice was in place from the 17th century. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Paving stones with 'pave a fendre', and a water pump, at 52 Rue de l'Arbre Sec, in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. The pave a fendre or cracked paver, is a paving stone larger than the surrounding ones, used to split the logs which were delivered in the streets for fuel for houses. People split the long logs outside on these larger stones to avoid damaging the cobblestones. This practice was in place from the 17th century. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Dominique Anract, baker, holding baguettes outside his bakery La Pompadour, on the Rue de la Tour in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. Dominique Anract comes from a family of bakers and this is his third bakery, where he employs 30 people and 8 apprentices, housed in a building built in 1868 under Napoleon III. He is also president of the Confederation Nationale de la Boulangerie-Patisserie Francaise, or National Confederation of French Bakery, tasked to protect the quality and integrity of French bakery and patisserie. Photographed on 16th January 2019 by Manuel Cohen
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  • Dominique Anract, baker, holding baguettes outside his bakery La Pompadour, on the Rue de la Tour in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. Dominique Anract comes from a family of bakers and this is his third bakery, where he employs 30 people and 8 apprentices, housed in a building built in 1868 under Napoleon III. He is also president of the Confederation Nationale de la Boulangerie-Patisserie Francaise, or National Confederation of French Bakery, tasked to protect the quality and integrity of French bakery and patisserie. Photographed on 16th January 2019 by Manuel Cohen
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  • Dominique Anract, baker, holding a loaf of bread outside his bakery La Pompadour, on the Rue de la Tour in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. Dominique Anract comes from a family of bakers and this is his third bakery, where he employs 30 people and 8 apprentices, housed in a building built in 1868 under Napoleon III. He is also president of the Confederation Nationale de la Boulangerie-Patisserie Francaise, or National Confederation of French Bakery, tasked to protect the quality and integrity of French bakery and patisserie. Photographed on 16th January 2019 by Manuel Cohen
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  • Dominique Anract, baker, throwing a loaf of bread in the air outside his bakery La Pompadour, on the Rue de la Tour in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. Dominique Anract comes from a family of bakers and this is his third bakery, where he employs 30 people and 8 apprentices, housed in a building built in 1868 under Napoleon III. He is also president of the Confederation Nationale de la Boulangerie-Patisserie Francaise, or National Confederation of French Bakery, tasked to protect the quality and integrity of French bakery and patisserie. Photographed on 16th January 2019 by Manuel Cohen
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  • Dominique Anract, baker, throwing a loaf of bread in the air outside his bakery La Pompadour, on the Rue de la Tour in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. Dominique Anract comes from a family of bakers and this is his third bakery, where he employs 30 people and 8 apprentices, housed in a building built in 1868 under Napoleon III. He is also president of the Confederation Nationale de la Boulangerie-Patisserie Francaise, or National Confederation of French Bakery, tasked to protect the quality and integrity of French bakery and patisserie. Photographed on 16th January 2019 by Manuel Cohen
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  • Excavation of one of the Royal Burial Mounds of A'ali, aerial photograph, in the Bahrain National Museum, designed by Krohn and Hartvig Rasmussen, inaugurated December 1988 by Amir Shaikh Isa Bin Salman Al-Khalifa, in Manama, Bahrain. This is a royal cemetery built for the Dilmun kings outside their capital Qal'at al-Bahrain, with 14 mounds built along a ceremonial route. The Bahrain National Museum houses cultural and archaeological collections covering 6000 years of history, with rooms entitled Burial Mounds, Dilmun, Tylos and Islam, Customs and Traditions, Traditional Trades and Crafts, and Documents and Manuscripts. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Royal Burial Mounds of A'ali, photograph, in the Bahrain National Museum, designed by Krohn and Hartvig Rasmussen, inaugurated December 1988 by Amir Shaikh Isa Bin Salman Al-Khalifa, in Manama, Bahrain. This is a royal cemetery built for the Dilmun kings outside their capital Qal'at al-Bahrain, with 14 mounds built along a ceremonial route. The Bahrain National Museum houses cultural and archaeological collections covering 6000 years of history, with rooms entitled Burial Mounds, Dilmun, Tylos and Islam, Customs and Traditions, Traditional Trades and Crafts, and Documents and Manuscripts. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Palacio Consistorial, originally built 1502-04 as the mayor's residence, and remodelled in the 19th century in Neoclassical style, with the clock tower added in 1913, in Columbus Park, Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic, in the Caribbean. On the right is a bust of Pope John Paul II, commemorating his first visit to the Americas in 1979, on the Plaza de Colon outside the cathedral. Santo Domingo's Colonial Zone is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Elodie Michel, ropemaker, at work making a length of rope outside the rope makers' workshop at the Chateau de Guedelon, a castle built since 1997 using only medieval materials and processes, photographed in 2017, in Treigny, Yonne, Burgundy, France. The Guedelon project was begun in 1997 by Michel Guyot, owner of the nearby Chateau de Saint-Fargeau, with architect Jacques Moulin. It is an educational and scientific project with the aim of understanding medieval building techniques and the chateau should be completed in the 2020s. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Elodie Michel, ropemaker, at work with a length of rope at the fire, outside the rope makers' workshop at the Chateau de Guedelon, a castle built since 1997 using only medieval materials and processes, photographed in 2017, in Treigny, Yonne, Burgundy, France. The Guedelon project was begun in 1997 by Michel Guyot, owner of the nearby Chateau de Saint-Fargeau, with architect Jacques Moulin. It is an educational and scientific project with the aim of understanding medieval building techniques and the chateau should be completed in the 2020s. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Elodie Michel, ropemaker, at work with a length of rope at the fire, outside the rope makers' workshop at the Chateau de Guedelon, a castle built since 1997 using only medieval materials and processes, photographed in 2017, in Treigny, Yonne, Burgundy, France. The Guedelon project was begun in 1997 by Michel Guyot, owner of the nearby Chateau de Saint-Fargeau, with architect Jacques Moulin. It is an educational and scientific project with the aim of understanding medieval building techniques and the chateau should be completed in the 2020s. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Carved stone tiki sculpture with large eyes and mouth, found in the location of the altar where human sacrifices would have been made, at the meae or religious sanctuary of Tohua Upeke, in the Ta'a Oa valley, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. Tiki sculptures represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses as protective statues. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Smiling Tiki, stone carved male tiki sculpture with smiling face, 93cm tall, wearing a bonnet, with facial features and tattoos in relief and hands on the belly, at the meae or religious sanctuary of Utukua, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. Tiki sculptures represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses as protective statues. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Smiling Tiki, stone carved male tiki sculpture with smiling face, 93cm tall, wearing a bonnet, with facial features and tattoos in relief and hands on the belly, at the meae or religious sanctuary of Utukua, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. Tiki sculptures represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses as protective statues. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tiki Makii Tau'a Pepe, carved in grey keetu or volcanic tuff, representing a woman lying on her stomach with outstretched arms and raised head with huge eyes and mouth, thought to be in the process of childbirth, at the Iipona archaeological site, near the village of Puamau, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. On the base of this sculpture are petroglyph reliefs of dogs, whose meaning is unclear. Tiki sculptures are usually carved in wood or stone and represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses as protective statues. The Iipona site was a religious sanctuary or meae, built by the pre-European Marquesian civilisation, arranged over 2 large terraces with 5 monumental tikis. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tiki head, carved from a small stone, one of many placed on stones and logs about the site, made from rock from Toea peak, pebbles from the beach and blocks of volcanic tuff, at the Iipona archaeological site, near the village of Puamau, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. Tiki sculptures are usually carved in wood or stone and represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses as protective statues. The Iipona site was a religious sanctuary or meae, built by the pre-European Marquesian civilisation, arranged over 2 large terraces with 5 monumental tikis. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tiki Fau Poe, stone female tiki, 1.8m tall, in keetu or red volcanic tuff, in an unusual seated position with its legs stretched out in a position typical of women when they work in the fields, possibly representing Fau Poe, the wife of Takaii, a warrior chief, at the Iipona archaeological site, near the village of Puamau, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. Tiki sculptures are usually carved in wood or stone and represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses as protective statues. The Iipona site was a religious sanctuary or meae, built by the pre-European Marquesian civilisation, arranged over 2 large terraces with 5 monumental tikis. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tiki Fau Poe, stone female tiki, 1.8m tall, in keetu or red volcanic tuff, in an unusual seated position with its legs stretched out in a position typical of women when they work in the fields, possibly representing Fau Poe, the wife of Takaii, a warrior chief, at the Iipona archaeological site, near the village of Puamau, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. Tiki sculptures are usually carved in wood or stone and represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses as protective statues. The Iipona site was a religious sanctuary or meae, built by the pre-European Marquesian civilisation, arranged over 2 large terraces with 5 monumental tikis. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tiki Fau Poe, stone female tiki, 1.8m tall, in keetu or red volcanic tuff, in an unusual seated position with its legs stretched out in a position typical of women when they work in the fields, possibly representing Fau Poe, the wife of Takaii, a warrior chief, at the Iipona archaeological site, near the village of Puamau, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. Tiki sculptures are usually carved in wood or stone and represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses as protective statues. The Iipona site was a religious sanctuary or meae, built by the pre-European Marquesian civilisation, arranged over 2 large terraces with 5 monumental tikis. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Takaii and Te Tovae E Noho Tikis, stone carved tikis in keetu or red volcanic tuff, with Takaii (left), a warrior leader renowned for his strength, 2.67m tall, the largest tiki in French Polynesia, representing strength, power and beauty, and Te Tovae E Noho (right) which has a missing head and damaged torso, thought to be a leader or warrior, sometimes called Maiauto, at the Iipona archaeological site, near the village of Puamau, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. Tiki sculptures are usually carved in wood or stone and represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses as protective statues. The Iipona site was a religious sanctuary or meae, built by the pre-European Marquesian civilisation, arranged over  2 large terraces with 5 monumental tikis. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tiki Makii Tau'a Pepe, carved in grey keetu or volcanic tuff, representing a woman lying on her stomach with outstretched arms and raised head with huge eyes and mouth, thought to be in the process of childbirth, at the Iipona archaeological site, near the village of Puamau, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. On the base of this sculpture are petroglyph reliefs of dogs, whose meaning is unclear. Tiki sculptures are usually carved in wood or stone and represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses as protective statues. The Iipona site was a religious sanctuary or meae, built by the pre-European Marquesian civilisation, arranged over 2 large terraces with 5 monumental tikis. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tiki Makii Tau'a Pepe, carved in grey keetu or volcanic tuff, representing a woman lying on her stomach with outstretched arms and raised head with huge eyes and mouth, thought to be in the process of childbirth, at the Iipona archaeological site, near the village of Puamau, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. On the base of this sculpture are petroglyph reliefs of dogs, whose meaning is unclear. Tiki sculptures are usually carved in wood or stone and represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses as protective statues. The Iipona site was a religious sanctuary or meae, built by the pre-European Marquesian civilisation, arranged over 2 large terraces with 5 monumental tikis. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Stone carved tiki sculpture, in grey keetu or volcanic tuff, 85cm tall, with crowned head and tattooed mouth, hands on the belly and male genitalia, on the Queen's Tomb, at Tohua Pehekua, a small cemetery with 4 tombs of chief Te Hau Moea and his family, who died in the early 20th century, near the Iipona archaeological site, near the village of Puamau, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. Tiki sculptures are usually carved in wood or stone and represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses or tombs as protective statues. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Stone carved tiki sculpture, in grey keetu or volcanic tuff, 100cm tall, with pierced ears and no facial features, hands on the belly, carved nipples and broken male genitalia, on the Queen's Tomb, at Tohua Pehekua, a small cemetery with 4 tombs of chief Te Hau Moea and his family, who died in the early 20th century, near the Iipona archaeological site, near the village of Puamau, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. Tiki sculptures are usually carved in wood or stone and represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses or tombs as protective statues. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Stone carved tiki sculpture, in grey keetu or volcanic tuff, 85cm tall, with crowned head and tattooed mouth, hands on the belly and male genitalia, on the Queen's Tomb, at Tohua Pehekua, a small cemetery with 4 tombs of chief Te Hau Moea and his family, who died in the early 20th century, near the Iipona archaeological site, near the village of Puamau, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. Tiki sculptures are usually carved in wood or stone and represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses or tombs as protective statues. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Pauto and Mani Tikis, in red keetu or volcanic tuff, carved into a small paepae or platform of a tomb, with Pauto (left), 80cm tall, with crowned and patterned head, tattooed mouth, pierced right armpit, hands on either side of the belly, and male genitalia, and Mani (right), 77cm tall, with crowned head, tattooed face, hand resting under the chin and broken male genitalia, on the tomb of the daughter of the chief, at Tohua Pehekua, a small cemetery with 4 tombs of chief Te Hau Moea and his family, who died in the early 20th century, near the Iipona archaeological site, near the village of Puamau, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. Tiki sculptures are usually carved in wood or stone and represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses or tombs as protective statues. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tiki Pauto, in red keetu or volcanic tuff, carved into a small paepae or platform of a tomb, 80cm tall, with crowned and patterned head, tattooed mouth, pierced right armpit, hands on either side of the belly, and male genitalia, on the tomb of the daughter of the chief, at Tohua Pehekua, a small cemetery with 4 tombs of chief Te Hau Moea and his family, who died in the early 20th century, near the Iipona archaeological site, near the village of Puamau, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. Tiki sculptures are usually carved in wood or stone and represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses or tombs as protective statues. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tiki Mani in red keetu or volcanic tuff, carved into a small paepae or platform of a tomb, 77cm tall, with crowned head, tattooed face, hand resting under the chin and broken male genitalia, on the tomb of the daughter of the chief, at Tohua Pehekua, a small cemetery with 4 tombs of chief Te Hau Moea and his family, who died in the early 20th century, near the Iipona archaeological site, near the village of Puamau, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. Tiki sculptures are usually carved in wood or stone and represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses or tombs as protective statues. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tiki Pauto, in red keetu or volcanic tuff, carved into a small paepae or platform of a tomb, 80cm tall, with crowned and patterned head, tattooed mouth, pierced right armpit, hands on either side of the belly, and male genitalia, on the tomb of the daughter of the chief, at Tohua Pehekua, a small cemetery with 4 tombs of chief Te Hau Moea and his family, who died in the early 20th century, near the Iipona archaeological site, near the village of Puamau, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. Tiki sculptures are usually carved in wood or stone and represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses or tombs as protective statues. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Pauto and Mani Tikis, in red keetu or volcanic tuff, carved into a small paepae or platform of a tomb, with Pauto (left), 80cm tall, with crowned and patterned head, tattooed mouth, pierced right armpit, hands on either side of the belly, and male genitalia, and Mani (right), 77cm tall, with crowned head, tattooed face, hand resting under the chin and broken male genitalia, on the tomb of the daughter of the chief, at Tohua Pehekua, a small cemetery with 4 tombs of chief Te Hau Moea and his family, who died in the early 20th century, near the Iipona archaeological site, near the village of Puamau, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. Tiki sculptures are usually carved in wood or stone and represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses or tombs as protective statues. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tiki Pauto, in red keetu or volcanic tuff, carved into a small paepae or platform of a tomb, 80cm tall, with crowned and patterned head, tattooed mouth, pierced right armpit, hands on either side of the belly, and male genitalia, on the tomb of the daughter of the chief, at Tohua Pehekua, a small cemetery with 4 tombs of chief Te Hau Moea and his family, who died in the early 20th century, near the Iipona archaeological site, near the village of Puamau, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. Tiki sculptures are usually carved in wood or stone and represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses or tombs as protective statues. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Pauto and Mani Tikis, in red keetu or volcanic tuff, carved into a small paepae or platform of a tomb, with Pauto (left), 80cm tall, with crowned and patterned head, tattooed mouth, pierced right armpit, hands on either side of the belly, and male genitalia, and Mani (right), 77cm tall, with crowned head, tattooed face, hand resting under the chin and broken male genitalia, on the tomb of the daughter of the chief, at Tohua Pehekua, a small cemetery with 4 tombs of chief Te Hau Moea and his family, who died in the early 20th century, near the Iipona archaeological site, near the village of Puamau, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. Tiki sculptures are usually carved in wood or stone and represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses or tombs as protective statues. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Pauto and Mani Tikis, in red keetu or volcanic tuff, carved into a small paepae or platform of a tomb, with Pauto (left), 80cm tall, with crowned and patterned head, tattooed mouth, pierced right armpit, hands on either side of the belly, and male genitalia, and Mani (right), 77cm tall, with crowned head, tattooed face, hand resting under the chin and broken male genitalia, on the tomb of the daughter of the chief, at Tohua Pehekua, a small cemetery with 4 tombs of chief Te Hau Moea and his family, who died in the early 20th century, near the Iipona archaeological site, near the village of Puamau, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. Tiki sculptures are usually carved in wood or stone and represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses or tombs as protective statues. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tiki Fau Poe, stone female tiki, 1.8m tall, in keetu or red volcanic tuff, in an unusual seated position with its legs stretched out in a position typical of women when they work in the fields, possibly representing Fau Poe, the wife of Takaii, a warrior chief, at the Iipona archaeological site, near the village of Puamau, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. Tiki sculptures are usually carved in wood or stone and represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses as protective statues. The Iipona site was a religious sanctuary or meae, built by the pre-European Marquesian civilisation, arranged over 2 large terraces with 5 monumental tikis. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Stone carved tiki sculpture in grey keetu or volcanic tuff, with blunt facial features, wearing a crown and with hands on either side of the belly, at Te Fiifii, a religious sanctuary or meae, built by the pre-European Marquesian civilisation, 80m South West of the Iipona archaeological site, near the village of Puamau, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. This tiki is thought to have originally been on the North side of the paepae or platform. Tiki sculptures are usually carved in wood or stone and represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses as protective statues. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Stone carved tiki sculpture in grey keetu or volcanic tuff, with blunt facial features, wearing a crown and with hands on either side of the belly, at Te Fiifii, a religious sanctuary or meae, built by the pre-European Marquesian civilisation, 80m South West of the Iipona archaeological site, near the village of Puamau, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. This tiki is thought to have originally been on the North side of the paepae or platform. Tiki sculptures are usually carved in wood or stone and represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses as protective statues. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Stone carved female tiki sculpture in grey keetu or volcanic tuff, with finely carved features - a tattooed and pierced right ear, Mata-related motifs on the face, tattooed lips, a crescent moon diadem, and a hand resting under the chin, at Te Fiifii, a religious sanctuary or meae, built by the pre-European Marquesian civilisation, 80m South West of the Iipona archaeological site, near the village of Puamau, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. This tiki is thought to have originally been part of a facade on the North side of the paepae or platform. Tiki sculptures are usually carved in wood or stone and represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses as protective statues. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Te Ha’a Tou Mahi a Naiki Tiki, carved in grey volcanic tuff, with a less massive, more slender and harmonious form, with hands in front of the body and prominent female genitalia, and a head which was found and replaced on the torso, at the Iipona archaeological site, near the village of Puamau, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. Tiki sculptures are usually carved in wood or stone and represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses as protective statues. The Iipona site was a religious sanctuary or meae, built by the pre-European Marquesian civilisation, arranged over 2 large terraces with 5 monumental tikis. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tiki head, carved from a small stone, one of many placed on stones and logs about the site, made from rock from Toea peak, pebbles from the beach and blocks of volcanic tuff, at the Iipona archaeological site, near the village of Puamau, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. Tiki sculptures are usually carved in wood or stone and represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses as protective statues. The Iipona site was a religious sanctuary or meae, built by the pre-European Marquesian civilisation, arranged over 2 large terraces with 5 monumental tikis. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tiki Fau Poe, stone female tiki, 1.8m tall, in keetu or red volcanic tuff, in an unusual seated position with its legs stretched out in a position typical of women when they work in the fields, possibly representing Fau Poe, the wife of Takaii, a warrior chief, at the Iipona archaeological site, near the village of Puamau, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. Tiki sculptures are usually carved in wood or stone and represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses as protective statues. The Iipona site was a religious sanctuary or meae, built by the pre-European Marquesian civilisation, arranged over 2 large terraces with 5 monumental tikis. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tiki Takaii, stone carved tiki, in keetu or red volcanic tuff, representing Takaii, a warrior leader renowned for his strength, 2.67m tall, the largest tiki in French Polynesia, representing strength, power and beauty, at the Iipona archaeological site, near the village of Puamau, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. Tiki sculptures are usually carved in wood or stone and represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses as protective statues. The Iipona site was a religious sanctuary or meae, built by the pre-European Marquesian civilisation, arranged over 2 large terraces with 5 monumental tikis. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tiki head, carved from a small stone, one of many placed on stones and logs about the site, made from rock from Toea peak, pebbles from the beach and blocks of volcanic tuff, at the Iipona archaeological site, near the village of Puamau, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. Tiki sculptures are usually carved in wood or stone and represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses as protective statues. The Iipona site was a religious sanctuary or meae, built by the pre-European Marquesian civilisation, arranged over 2 large terraces with 5 monumental tikis. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tiki Fau Poe, stone female tiki sculpture, 1.8m tall, in keetu or red volcanic tuff, in an unusual seated position with its legs stretched out in a position typical of women when they work in the fields, possibly representing Fau Poe, the wife of Takaii, a warrior chief, at the Iipona archaeological site, near the village of Puamau, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. Tiki sculptures are usually carved in wood or stone and represent Ti’i, a half-human half-god ancestor who is believed to be the first man. Tiki often have a huge head, symbolising power, and big eyes symbolising knowledge. Tiki are respected and are often placed outside houses as protective statues. The Iipona site was a religious sanctuary or meae, built by the pre-European Marquesian civilisation, arranged over 2 large terraces with 5 monumental tikis. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Reflections in a glass window on Wall St, Lower Manhattan, New York, New York, USA, including the New York Stock Exchange, designed by George B Post in Neoclassical style, and built in 1903, at 11 Wall St, and the bronze statue of George Washington, 1882, by John Quincy Adams Ward, outside Federal Hall National Monument. The facade of the NYSE features 2 square corner pillars and 6 columns with Corinthian capitals. The pediment features a sculptural scene by John Quincy Adams Ward entitled Integrity Protecting the Works of Man. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Modern sculpture of twisted linear form by Enrique Carbajal or Sebastian, born 1947, outside the yacimiento arqueologico de la Casa del Obispo (archaeological site of the Bishop's House), in Cadiz, Andalusia, Southern Spain. Cadiz is one of the oldest cities in Europe, founded by the Phoenicians in 1100 BC, and later became a Carthaginian then a Roman city, and Spain's constitution was signed here in 1812. It is situated on a peninsula on the Costa de la Luz. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Relief representing Jacques Coeur's departure into exile, on the base of the marble statue of Jacques Coeur, 1395-1456, by Auguste Preault, 1809-79, 1874, inaugurated 1879, outside the Palais Jacques Coeur, on the Place Jacques Coeur, Bourges, France. Jacques Coeur was a wealthy merchant and was made master of the mint to King Charles VII in 1438. He had his huge manor house built 1443-51 in Flamboyant Gothic style although he never lived there. The building is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Marble statue of Jacques Coeur, 1395-1456, by Auguste Preault, 1809-79, 1874, inaugurated 1879, outside the Palais Jacques Coeur, on the Place Jacques Coeur, Bourges, France. Jacques Coeur was a wealthy merchant and was made master of the mint to King Charles VII in 1438. He had his huge manor house built 1443-51 in Flamboyant Gothic style although he never lived there. The building is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Marble statue of Jacques Coeur, 1395-1456, by Auguste Preault, 1809-79, 1874, inaugurated 1879, outside the Palais Jacques Coeur, on the Place Jacques Coeur, Bourges, France. Jacques Coeur was a wealthy merchant and was made master of the mint to King Charles VII in 1438. He had his huge manor house built 1443-51 in Flamboyant Gothic style although he never lived there. The building is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Giant sculpted head of an Ogre or Orcus with open mouth screaming (he is said to eat children) and the inscription 'Ogni pensiero vola' or 'All thoughts fly', as the mouth's acoustics enable a whisper to be heard outside, also known as the Gate of Hell in reference to Dante, in the Garden of Bomarzo, also known as the Sacro Bosco or Sacred Grove, or the Parco dei Mostri or Park of the Monsters, a monumental Mannerist park complex, c. 1550, made by Pier Francesco Orsini, or Vicino, 1523–1585, Duke of Orsini, designed by Pirro Ligorio, 1512-83, with sculptures by Simone Moschino, 1533-1610, in Bomarzo, Viterbo, Lazio, Italy. The gardens are in a wood at the bottom of a valley beneath the Castle of Orsini, with many large sculptures, small buildings and inscribed poems. The layout of the garden is chaotic, in contrast with formal Renaissance gardens, and it has a surrealistic air. The garden was restored in the 1970s and is now a major tourist attraction. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Giant sculpted head of an Ogre or Orcus with open mouth screaming (he is said to eat children) and the inscription 'Ogni pensiero vola' or 'All thoughts fly', as the mouth's acoustics enable a whisper to be heard outside, also known as the Gate of Hell in reference to Dante, in the Garden of Bomarzo, also known as the Sacro Bosco or Sacred Grove, or the Parco dei Mostri or Park of the Monsters, a monumental Mannerist park complex, c. 1550, made by Pier Francesco Orsini, or Vicino, 1523–1585, Duke of Orsini, designed by Pirro Ligorio, 1512-83, with sculptures by Simone Moschino, 1533-1610, in Bomarzo, Viterbo, Lazio, Italy. The gardens are in a wood at the bottom of a valley beneath the Castle of Orsini, with many large sculptures, small buildings and inscribed poems. The layout of the garden is chaotic, in contrast with formal Renaissance gardens, and it has a surrealistic air. The garden was restored in the 1970s and is now a major tourist attraction. Picture by Manuel Cohen
    LC16_ITALY_MC_0344.jpg
  • Giant sculpted head of an Ogre or Orcus with open mouth screaming (he is said to eat children) and the inscription 'Ogni pensiero vola' or 'All thoughts fly', as the mouth's acoustics enable a whisper to be heard outside, also known as the Gate of Hell in reference to Dante, in the Garden of Bomarzo, also known as the Sacro Bosco or Sacred Grove, or the Parco dei Mostri or Park of the Monsters, a monumental Mannerist park complex, c. 1550, made by Pier Francesco Orsini, or Vicino, 1523–1585, Duke of Orsini, designed by Pirro Ligorio, 1512-83, with sculptures by Simone Moschino, 1533-1610, in Bomarzo, Viterbo, Lazio, Italy. The gardens are in a wood at the bottom of a valley beneath the Castle of Orsini, with many large sculptures, small buildings and inscribed poems. The layout of the garden is chaotic, in contrast with formal Renaissance gardens, and it has a surrealistic air. The garden was restored in the 1970s and is now a major tourist attraction. Picture by Manuel Cohen
    LC16_ITALY_MC_0343.jpg
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