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  • Sculpture of the allegory of Charity in a medallion in the pediment of the South portal, designed by Andres de Vandelvira, 1509–75, in Plateresque style, and carved by Esteban Jamete, 1515-65, at the Sacra Capilla del Salvador, or Sacred Chapel of the Saviour, designed by Diego de Siloe and Andres de Vandelvira and built for Francisco de los Cobos in 1536 in Spanish Renaissance style and consecrated in 1559, on the Plaza Vazquez de Molina, in Ubeda, Jaen, Andalusia, Spain. The Renaissance buildings of Ubeda and Baeza are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Pediment above the door in the King's Apartment, designed in 1664 under Colbert during the reign of King Louis XIV, on the first floor of the Phare de Cordouan or Cordouan Lighthouse, built 1584-1611 in Renaissance style by Louis de Foix, 1530-1604, French architect, located 7km at sea, near the mouth of the Gironde estuary, Aquitaine, France. This is the oldest lighthouse in France. There are 4 storeys, with keeper apartments and an entrance hall, King's apartments, chapel, secondary lantern and the lantern at the top at 68m. Parabolic lamps and lenses were added in the 18th and 19th centuries. The lighthouse is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Pediment above the entrance with sculptures of Apollo and Rhea by Michel Anguier, 1612-86, on the North facade of the Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte, designed by Louis Le Vau, 1612-70, and built 1658-61 for marquis Nicolas Fouquet, in Maincy, Seine-et-Marne, France. The chateau is built in Baroque style, with decoration by Charles Le Brun, 1619-90, and grounds designed by landscape architect Andre le Notre, 1613-1700. The chateau is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Medallion relief of Paris, son of Priam in profile, wearing a helmet of a ram's head and horns, triangular pediment above a door in the Upper Courtyard of the Hotel Lallemant, a mansion built 1495-1518 in French Renaissance style by the Lallemant merchant family, in Bourges, Centre Val de Loire, France. At the top of this triangle is depicted a ball of fire, either a reference to the fire of 1487, or perhaps a symbol of alchemy. The sculptural decoration on the building, made by both French and Italian sculptors, has been interpreted by Fulcanelli and others as having an alchemical symbolism. Since 1951 the building has housed the Musee des Arts Decoratifs and it was listed as a historic monument in 1840. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • An angel overseeing arts and industries on the pediment of the Neues Museum or New Museum, built 1843-55 in neoclassical style by Friedrich August Stuler and reopened 2009, Museum Island, Mitte, Berlin, Germany. The latin motto translates as 'Only the ignorant hate art'. The museum houses the collections of the Egyptian Museum of Berlin and the Ethnological Museum of Berlin. The buildings on Museum Island were listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sculpted pediment with classical Greek figures on the front facade of the Alte Nationalgalerie or Old National Gallery, housing the Neoclassical, Romantic, Biedermeier, Impressionist and early Modernist artwork of the Berlin National Gallery and Berlin State Museums, designed in 1863 by Friedrich August Stuler and opened in 1876, Museum Island, Mitte, Berlin, Germany. The buildings on Museum Island were listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Pediment, 1911, by Jean Luc, with allegorical figures of City, with River and Mercury, capping the main entrance to the registered head office of Societe Generale, at 29 Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France. The building was originally built 1867-71 by Charles Rohault de Fleury as apartments, then transformed 1906-12 by Jacques Hermant, and in use from 1915. Societe Generale, founded 1864, remains one of the largest banks in the world, although its headquarters are now at La Defense. The Haussmann building is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sculptural detail on the pediment above the entrance to the Vestibule on the Phare de Cordouan or Cordouan Lighthouse, built 1584-1611 in Renaissance style by Louis de Foix, 1530-1604, French architect, located 7km at sea, near the mouth of the Gironde estuary, Aquitaine, France. This is the oldest lighthouse in France. There are 4 storeys, with keeper apartments and an entrance hall, King's apartments, chapel, secondary lantern and the lantern at the top at 68m. Parabolic lamps and lenses were added in the 18th and 19th centuries. The lighthouse is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Pediment above a door in the King's Apartment, designed in 1664 under Colbert during the reign of King Louis XIV, on the first floor of the Phare de Cordouan or Cordouan Lighthouse, built 1584-1611 in Renaissance style by Louis de Foix, 1530-1604, French architect, located 7km at sea, near the mouth of the Gironde estuary, Aquitaine, France. This is the oldest lighthouse in France. There are 4 storeys, with keeper apartments and an entrance hall, King's apartments, chapel, secondary lantern and the lantern at the top at 68m. Parabolic lamps and lenses were added in the 18th and 19th centuries. The lighthouse is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Pediment, 1911, by Jean Luc, with allegorical figures of City, with River and Mercury, capping the main entrance to the registered head office of Societe Generale, at 29 Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France. The building was originally built 1867-71 by Charles Rohault de Fleury as apartments, then transformed 1906-12 by Jacques Hermant, and in use from 1915. Societe Generale, founded 1864, remains one of the largest banks in the world, although its headquarters are now at La Defense. The Haussmann building is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Pediment, 1911, by Jean Luc, with allegorical figures of City, with River and Mercury, capping the main entrance to the registered head office of Societe Generale, at 29 Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France. The building was originally built 1867-71 by Charles Rohault de Fleury as apartments, then transformed 1906-12 by Jacques Hermant, and in use from 1915. Societe Generale, founded 1864, remains one of the largest banks in the world, although its headquarters are now at La Defense. The Haussmann building is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Registered head office of Societe Generale, at 29 Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France. The pediment, 1911, by Jean Luc, represents allegorical figures of City, with River and Mercury, and caps the main entrance to the building. Below are 6 statues, 1919, representing commercial and business activities, backed by Corinthian columns. The building was originally built 1867-71 by Charles Rohault de Fleury as apartments, then transformed 1906-12 by Jacques Hermant, and in use from 1915. Societe Generale, founded 1864, remains one of the largest banks in the world, although its headquarters are now at La Defense. The Haussmann building is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Pediment above the columns on the facade of the Library of Celsus, built 110-135 AD under Consul Julius Celsus Polemaenus, governor of the province of Asia, Ephesus, Izmir, Turkey. Celsus paid for the construction with his own personal wealth, and is buried in a sarcophagus beneath it. The library held nearly 12,000 scrolls in cupboards in niches in the double walls, which protected the documents from temperature and humidity. Ephesus was an ancient Greek city founded in the 10th century BC, and later a major Roman city, on the Ionian coast near present day Selcuk. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Gothic pediment above the door to the sacristy, in the South ambulatory of the Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris, or Notre-Dame cathedral, built 1163-1345 in French Gothic style, on the Ile de la Cite in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France. In the sacristy, preparations are made for services and mass, and books and robes are stored. Photographed on 17th December 2018 by Manuel Cohen
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  • Detail of pediment with bas-relief sculpture, 19th century, 4 rue de Lobau, Paris, France. The street was enlarged during the Haussmann reconstruction of Paris. Picture  by Manuel Cohen.
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  • Pediment and colonnade, grand Roman portico added to the Palais Bourbon in 1806-08, by architect Bernard Poyet, Paris, France. The Palais Bourbon, is the seat of the French National Assembly, and located on the left bank of the Seine. Jean Pierre Cortot's allegorical low reliefs of the pediment, completed in 1842, depict France, between Liberty and Public Order. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Detail of Facade overlooking Trevi Fountain, Rome, Italy pictured on December 11, 2010 in the afternoon. This pediment, catching the winter light, features Putti blowing trumpets on either side of a heraldic device. A cross surmounting the pediment is silhouetted against the deep blue winter sky. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Pediment with allegorical sculpture of Law, on the Palais de Justice, housing criminal and appeals courts, on the Place Francois Arago in Perpignan, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. This neoclassical building with its corinthian columns and sculpted pediment, has 2 huge statues of Order and Justice flanking its door. It is to be replaced by a new courthouse. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Detail of Facade overlooking Trevi Fountain, Rome, Italy pictured on December 11, 2010 in the afternoon. This pediment, catching the winter light, features Putti blowing trumpets on either side of a heraldic device. A cross surmounting the pediment is silhouetted against the deep blue winter sky. The capitals of Corinthian columns are visible at the bottom of the image. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Pediment with allegorical sculpture of Law, on the Palais de Justice, housing criminal and appeals courts, on the Place Francois Arago in Perpignan, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. This neoclassical building with its corinthian columns and sculpted pediment, has 2 huge statues of Order and Justice flanking its door. It is to be replaced by a new courthouse. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Pediment with allegorical sculpture of Law, on the Palais de Justice, housing criminal and appeals courts, on the Place Francois Arago in Perpignan, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. This neoclassical building with its corinthian columns and sculpted pediment, has 2 huge statues of Order and Justice flanking its door. It is to be replaced by a new courthouse. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Pediment and colonnade (detail), grand Roman portico added to the Palais Bourbon in 1806-08, by architect Bernard Poyet, Paris, France. The Palais Bourbon, is the seat of the French National Assembly, and located on the left bank of the Seine. Jean Pierre Cortot's allegorical low reliefs of the pediment, completed in 1842, depict France, between Liberty and Public Order. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Angel statue on a broken pediment above a window, in Quattro Canti, or Piazza Vigliena, a Baroque square in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. The octagonal square is at the crossroads of Via Maqueda and the Corso Vittorio Emanuele, with 4 Baroque buildings, built 1608-20 by Giulio Lasso and Mariano Smiriglio. Palermo's Arab and Norman centre is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Pediment and dedicatory inscription AUX GRANDS HOMMES LA PATRIE RECONNAISSANTE (For great men the grateful Nation), Neoclassical facade of the Pantheon, 1758 -1790, by Jacques-Germain Soufflot and Jean-Baptiste Rondelet, Paris, France. The mausoleum contains the remains of distinguished French citizens and the facade was modeled on that of the Pantheon in Rome. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Henri François d'Aguesseau (1668-1751) by Jean Joseph Foucou, molding replica, circa 1810, with in the background, Jean Pierre Cortot's allegorical low reliefs of the pediment, 1842, grand Roman portico added to the Palais Bourbon in 1806-08, by architect Bernard Poyet, Paris, France. The Palais Bourbon, is the seat of the French National Assembly, and located on the left bank of the Seine. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Henri François d'Aguesseau (1668-1751) by Jean Joseph Foucou, molding replica, circa 1810, with in the background, Jean Pierre Cortot's allegorical low reliefs of the pediment, 1842, grand Roman portico added to the Palais Bourbon in 1806-08, by architect Bernard Poyet, Paris, France. The Palais Bourbon, is the seat of the French National Assembly, and located on the left bank of the Seine. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Panoramic view of the Temple of Concord, 5th century BC, a tree, and surrounding landscape, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy,  pictured on September 12, 2009, in the early morning light. Well preserved owing to its 6th century AD conversion to a church, the Temple of Concord is a typical example of optical correction whose tapering columns create the illusion of a perfectly aligned building. Its frieze consists of alternating triglyphs and metopes, and the pediment is undecorated. The Valley of the Temples is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen.
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  • View from the front of the Temple of Concord, 5th century BC, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy,  pictured on September 11, 2009, in the morning. Well preserved owing to its 6th century AD conversion to a church, the Temple of Concord is a typical example of optical correction whose tapering columns create the illusion of a perfectly aligned building. Its frieze consists of alternating triglyphs and metopes, and the pediment is undecorated. The Valley of the Temples is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen.
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  • View from below of the Temple of Concord, 5th century BC, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy,  pictured on September 11, 2009, in the morning. Well preserved owing to its 6th century AD conversion to a church, the Temple of Concord is a typical example of optical correction whose tapering columns create the illusion of a perfectly aligned building. Its frieze consists of alternating triglyphs and metopes, and the pediment is undecorated. The Valley of the Temples is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen.
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  • Detail of a ruined pediment, Apamea (Afamia), Syria. The city was erected by Trajan (AD 52 - 117) who ordered its complete reconstruction after the earthquake of AD 115.
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  • Carved pediment of the Baroque Church of the Holy Cross (Chiesa di Santa Croce), 1549-1695, Lecce, Apulia, Italy. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • St Paul's Cathedral, 1675 - 1710, architect Sir Christopher Wren : detail of the bell tower, the pediment (c. 1706) by Francis Bird, illustrating the conversion of St Paul, and the dome, one of the largest dome in the world, 111 metres high, London, England, UK. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Panoramic view of the Temple of Concord, 5th century BC, and surrounding landscape, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy,  pictured on September 11, 2009, in the warm evening light. Well preserved owing to its 6th century AD conversion to a church, the Temple of Concord is a typical example of optical correction whose tapering columns create the illusion of a perfectly aligned building. Its frieze consists of alternating triglyphs and metopes, and the pediment is undecorated. The Valley of the Temples is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen.
    LC0909_Agrigento_MC032.jpg
  • General view of the Temple of Concord, 5th century BC, and surrounding landscape, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy,  pictured on September 12, 2009, in the morning. Well preserved owing to its 6th century AD conversion to a church, the Temple of Concord is a typical example of optical correction whose tapering columns create the illusion of a perfectly aligned building. Its frieze consists of alternating triglyphs and metopes, and the pediment is undecorated. The Valley of the Temples is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen.
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  • View from the side of the Temple of Concord, 5th century BC, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy,  pictured on September 11, 2009, floodlit at night. Well preserved owing to its 6th century AD conversion to a church, the Temple of Concord is a typical example of optical correction whose tapering columns create the illusion of a perfectly aligned building. Its frieze consists of alternating triglyphs and metopes, and the pediment is undecorated. The Valley of the Temples is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen.
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  • View from the front of the Temple of Concord, 5th century BC, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy,  pictured on September 11, 2009, in the morning. Well preserved owing to its 6th century AD conversion to a church, the Temple of Concord is a typical example of optical correction whose tapering columns create the illusion of a perfectly aligned building. Its frieze consists of alternating triglyphs and metopes, and the pediment is undecorated. The Valley of the Temples is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen.
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  • Low angle view of the Temple of Concord, 5th century BC, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy,  pictured on September 11, 2009, in the warm evening light. Well preserved owing to its 6th century AD conversion to a church, the Temple of Concord is a typical example of optical correction whose tapering columns create the illusion of a perfectly aligned building. Its frieze consists of alternating triglyphs and metopes, and the pediment is undecorated. The Valley of the Temples is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen.
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  • View from the front of the Temple of Concord, 5th century BC, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy,  pictured on September 11, 2009, in the warm evening light. Well preserved owing to its 6th century AD conversion to a church, the Temple of Concord is a typical example of optical correction whose tapering columns create the illusion of a perfectly aligned building. Its frieze consists of alternating triglyphs and metopes, and the pediment is undecorated. The Valley of the Temples is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen.
    LC0909_Agrigento_MC013.jpg
  • Pediment and dedicatory inscription AUX GRANDS HOMMES LA PATRIE RECONNAISSANTE (For great men the grateful Nation), Neoclassical facade of the Pantheon, 1758 -1790, by Jacques-Germain Soufflot and Jean-Baptiste Rondelet, Paris, France. The mausoleum contains the remains of distinguished French citizens and the facade was modeled on that of the Pantheon in Rome. Picture by Manuel Cohen
    LC12_Paris_MC137.jpg
  • View from the front of the Temple of Concord, 5th century BC, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy,  pictured on September 11, 2009, in the morning. Well preserved owing to its 6th century AD conversion to a church, the Temple of Concord is a typical example of optical correction whose tapering columns create the illusion of a perfectly aligned building. Its frieze consists of alternating triglyphs and metopes, and the pediment is undecorated. The Valley of the Temples is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen.
    LC0909_Agrigento_MC005.jpg
  • St Paul's Cathedral, 1675 - 1710, architect Sir Christopher Wren : detail of the pediment (c. 1706) by Francis Bird, illustrating the conversion of St Paul, and the dome, one of the largest dome in the world, 111 metres high, London, England, UK. Picture by Manuel Cohen
    LC_London_MC018.jpg
  • General view of the Temple of Concord, 5th century BC, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy,  pictured on September 11, 2009, floodlit at night. Well preserved owing to its 6th century AD conversion to a church, the Temple of Concord is a typical example of optical correction whose tapering columns create the illusion of a perfectly aligned building. Its frieze consists of alternating triglyphs and metopes, and the pediment is undecorated. The Valley of the Temples is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen.
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  • Low angle view of the Temple of Concord, 5th century BC, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy,  pictured on September 11, 2009, in the warm evening light. In the foreground the Paleochristian Necropolis can be seen. Well preserved owing to its 6th century AD conversion to a church, the Temple of Concord is a typical example of optical correction whose tapering columns create the illusion of a perfectly aligned building. Its frieze consists of alternating triglyphs and metopes, and the pediment is undecorated. The Valley of the Temples is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen.
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  • Low angle oblique view of the Temple of Concord, 5th century BC, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy,  pictured on September 11, 2009, in the morning. Well preserved owing to its 6th century AD conversion to a church, the Temple of Concord is a typical example of optical correction whose tapering columns create the illusion of a perfectly aligned building. Its frieze consists of alternating triglyphs and metopes, and the pediment is undecorated. The Valley of the Temples is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen.
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  • Capitals, pediment and circular tholos on upper storey, Treasury of the Pharaohs or Khazneh Firaoun, 100 BC - 200 AD, Petra, Ma'an, Jordan. Originally built as a royal tomb, the treasury is so called after a belief that pirates hid their treasure in an urn held here. Carved into the rock face opposite the end of the Siq, the 40m high treasury has a Hellenistic facade with three bare inner rooms. Petra was the capital and royal city of the Nabateans, Arabic desert nomads. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • View from below of the pediment and carved inscription on the neo-classical amphitheatre built in 1787 and 1788 by Edme Verniquet, located in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 5th arrondissement, France. Founded in 1626 by Guy de La Brosse, Louis XIII's physician, the Jardin des Plantes, originally known as the Jardin du Roi, opened to the public in 1640. It became the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in 1793 during the French Revolution. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • British Museum, built in Greek Revival style by Robert Smirke, 1780-1867, on Great Russell St, Bloomsbury, London, England, UK. The central entrance portico with sculptures by Richard Westmacott, 1775-1856, was built in 1852 in Greek temple style, with columns with Ionic capitals and a pediment. The British Museum was established in 1753. It houses one of the largest public collections of art, history, culture and archaeology in the world and is the most visited museum in the world. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Director's House or Maison du Directeur, and (left) West Saltworks or Batiment des Sels Ouest and (right) East Saltworks or Batiment des Sels Est, part of the Royal Saltworks or Saline Royale, begun 1775 in Neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1736-1806, at Arc-et-Senans, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The Director's House has an imposing portico with 6 Doric columns, a triangular pediment with oculus and a belvedere. The building houses an assembly room, offices, bank, apartments, servants quarters and a basement for storage. The site is designed in a semicircle, with the Director's House, 2 saltworks containing drying ovens, heating pots and salt stores, workers' accommodation and Director's stables. An Ideal City was also planned but never built. The site is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Director's House or Maison du Directeur, and (left) West Saltworks or Batiment des Sels Ouest and (right) East Saltworks or Batiment des Sels Est, where the water was evaporated from the brine in huge iron basins, part of the Royal Saltworks or Saline Royale, begun 1775 in Neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1736-1806, at Arc-et-Senans, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The Director's House has an imposing portico with 6 Doric columns, a triangular pediment with oculus and a belvedere. The building houses an assembly room, offices, bank, apartments, servants quarters and a basement for storage. The site is designed in a semicircle, with the Director's House, 2 saltworks containing drying ovens, heating pots and salt stores, workers' accommodation and Director's stables. An Ideal City was also planned but never built. The site is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Director's House or Maison du Directeur, part of the Royal Saltworks or Saline Royale, begun 1775 in Neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1736-1806, at Arc-et-Senans, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The Director's House has an imposing portico with 6 Doric columns, a triangular pediment with oculus and a belvedere. The building houses an assembly room, offices, bank, apartments, servants quarters and a basement for storage. The site is designed in a semicircle, with the Director's House, 2 saltworks containing drying ovens, heating pots and salt stores, workers' accommodation and Director's stables. An Ideal City was also planned but never built. The site is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • View from below of pediment with allegorical figures on the Galerie d'Anatomie Comparee et de Paleontologie (Gallery of Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy), built from 1892 to 1898 by Ferdinand Dutert, located in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 5th arrondissement, France. Founded in 1626 by Guy de La Brosse, Louis XIII's physician, the Jardin des Plantes, originally known as the Jardin du Roi, opened to the public in 1640. It became the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in 1793 during the French Revolution. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • View from below of the pediment of the Galerie de Mineralogie, de Geologie et de Paleobotanique (Gallery of Minerology, Geology and Paleobotany), built from 1833 to 1841 by Charles Rohault de Fleury and located in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 5th arrondissement, France. Founded in 1626 by Guy de La Brosse, Louis XIII's physician, the Jardin des Plantes, originally known as the Jardin du Roi, opened to the public in 1640. It became the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in 1793 during the French Revolution. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • View from below of the pediment of the Galerie de Mineralogie, de Geologie et de Paleobotanique (Gallery of Minerology, Geology and Paleobotany), built from 1833 to 1841 by Charles Rohault de Fleury and located in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 5th arrondissement, France. Founded in 1626 by Guy de La Brosse, Louis XIII's physician, the Jardin des Plantes, originally known as the Jardin du Roi, opened to the public in 1640. It became the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in 1793 during the French Revolution. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sarcophagus cover pediment with relief of reclining bearded man holding reins of a racehorse, Gallo-Roman, possibly belonging to a racehorse owner, late 2nd century AD, from Arles, in the Musee de l'Arles Antique, an archaeological museum built 1995 by Henri Ciriani and extended in 2013, at Arles, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France. The museum is built on the ruins of the Roman Circus, and houses many artefacts from the town's Gallo-Roman history from 1st century BC. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Passion facade, built 1954-2018, detail of crown of thorns above columns of the pyramidal pediment, at the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia, an unfinished catholic church designed in Gothic Revival, Art Nouveau and Modernist style by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and begun in 1882 by Francisco de Paula del Villar, continued from 1883 by Gaudi, consecrated 2010 and still undergoing construction, in Eixample, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The basilica is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Photographed 2021. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Director's House or Maison du Directeur, and (left) West Saltworks or Batiment des Sels Ouest and (right) East Saltworks or Batiment des Sels Est, part of the Royal Saltworks or Saline Royale, begun 1775 in Neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1736-1806, at Arc-et-Senans, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The Director's House has an imposing portico with 6 Doric columns, a triangular pediment with oculus and a belvedere. The building houses an assembly room, offices, bank, apartments, servants quarters and a basement for storage. The site is designed in a semicircle, with the Director's House, 2 saltworks containing drying ovens, heating pots and salt stores, workers' accommodation and Director's stables. An Ideal City was also planned but never built. The site is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Director's House or Maison du Directeur, part of the Royal Saltworks or Saline Royale, begun 1775 in Neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1736-1806, at Arc-et-Senans, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The Director's House has an imposing portico with 6 Doric columns, a triangular pediment with oculus and a belvedere. The building houses an assembly room, offices, bank, apartments, servants quarters and a basement for storage. The site is designed in a semicircle, with the Director's House, 2 saltworks containing drying ovens, heating pots and salt stores, workers' accommodation and Director's stables. An Ideal City was also planned but never built. The site is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Director's House or Maison du Directeur, part of the Royal Saltworks or Saline Royale, begun 1775 in Neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1736-1806, at Arc-et-Senans, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The Director's House has an imposing portico with 6 Doric columns, a triangular pediment with oculus and a belvedere. The building houses an assembly room, offices, bank, apartments, servants quarters and a basement for storage. The site is designed in a semicircle, with the Director's House, 2 saltworks containing drying ovens, heating pots and salt stores, workers' accommodation and Director's stables. An Ideal City was also planned but never built. The site is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. 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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  • Entrance to the sacristy in stone and marble, part of the rood screen of 1610 by Jacques Bugier, moved here in 1768, in the ambulatory of the Cathedrale Saint-Julien du Mans or Cathedral of St Julian of Le Mans, Le Mans, Sarthe, Loire, France. On the pediment are terracotta statues by Gervais I Delabarre of St John the Evangelist and St Matthew, and above the Virgin in mourning by Charles Hoyau. The cathedral was built from the 6th to the 14th centuries, with both Romanesque and High Gothic elements. It is dedicated to St Julian of Le Mans, the city's first bishop, who established Christianity in the area in the 4th century AD. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sculptural detail of a cannon on the pediment above the entrance to the Vestibule on the Phare de Cordouan or Cordouan Lighthouse, built 1584-1611 in Renaissance style by Louis de Foix, 1530-1604, French architect, located 7km at sea, near the mouth of the Gironde estuary, Aquitaine, France. This is the oldest lighthouse in France. There are 4 storeys, with keeper apartments and an entrance hall, King's apartments, chapel, secondary lantern and the lantern at the top at 68m. Parabolic lamps and lenses were added in the 18th and 19th centuries. The lighthouse is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Reichstag building, opened 1894, seat of the German parliament and meeting place of the Bundestag, refurbished by Norman Foster 1990-99, including the large glass windows behind the columns, Berlin, Germany. A frieze below the pediment reads 'Dem Deutschen Volke' or To The German People. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • View from below of pediment with allegorical figures on the Galerie d'Anatomie Comparee et de Paleontologie (Gallery of Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy), built from 1892 to 1898 by Ferdinand Dutert, located in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 5th arrondissement, France. Founded in 1626 by Guy de La Brosse, Louis XIII's physician, the Jardin des Plantes, originally known as the Jardin du Roi, opened to the public in 1640. It became the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in 1793 during the French Revolution. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Detail of the pediment of the Hotel de Magny (formerly Pavillon Cuvier) which houses the Cabinet d'Histoire (History office), was built between 1696 and 1700 by Pierre Bullet and is located in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 5th arrondissement, France. Founded in 1626 by Guy de La Brosse, Louis XIII's physician, the Jardin des Plantes, originally known as the Jardin du Roi, opened to the public in 1640. It became the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in 1793 during the French Revolution. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Detail of the pediment of the Hotel de Magny (formerly Pavillon Cuvier) which houses the Cabinet d'Histoire (History office), was built between 1696 and 1700 by Pierre Bullet and is located in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 5th arrondissement, France. Founded in 1626 by Guy de La Brosse, Louis XIII's physician, the Jardin des Plantes, originally known as the Jardin du Roi, opened to the public in 1640. It became the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in 1793 during the French Revolution. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • View from below of the clock face, pediment and carved inscription on the neo-classical amphitheatre built in 1787 and 1788 by Edme Verniquet, located in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 5th arrondissement, France. Founded in 1626 by Guy de La Brosse, Louis XIII's physician, the Jardin des Plantes, originally known as the Jardin du Roi, opened to the public in 1640. It became the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in 1793 during the French Revolution. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Close-up view from below of a balcony with pediment of the Grande Galerie de l'Evolution (Great Gallery of Evolution), built by Jules Andre from 1877 to 1889 and located in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 5th arrondissement, France. Founded in 1626 by Guy de La Brosse, Louis XIII's physician, the Jardin des Plantes, originally known as the Jardin du Roi, opened to the public in 1640. It became the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in 1793 during the French Revolution. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sarcophagus cover pediment with relief of reclining bearded man holding reins of a racehorse, detail, Gallo-Roman, possibly belonging to a racehorse owner, late 2nd century AD, from Arles, in the Musee de l'Arles Antique, an archaeological museum built 1995 by Henri Ciriani and extended in 2013, at Arles, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France. The museum is built on the ruins of the Roman Circus, and houses many artefacts from the town's Gallo-Roman history from 1st century BC. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Lion of Judah sculpture, on the pediment of the portico of the Passion facade, built 1954-2018, at the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia, an unfinished catholic church designed in Gothic Revival, Art Nouveau and Modernist style by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and begun in 1882 by Francisco de Paula del Villar, continued from 1883 by Gaudi, consecrated 2010 and still undergoing construction, in Eixample, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The basilica is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Photographed 2021. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Temple of Diana, dedicated to the Imperial cult, built late 1st century BC, in the Roman Forum of Emerita Augusta, founded in 25 BC by Emperor Augustus, in Merida, Extremadura, Spain. The temple is rectangular and bordered by granite columns with corinthian capitals, topped with an arched pediment. It was later used as a palace for the Count of Corbos, and is part of the Merida UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Temple of Diana, dedicated to the Imperial cult, built late 1st century BC, in the Roman Forum of Emerita Augusta, founded in 25 BC by Emperor Augustus, in Merida, Extremadura, Spain. The temple is rectangular and bordered by granite columns with corinthian capitals, topped with an arched pediment. It was later used as a palace for the Count of Corbos, and is part of the Merida UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Facade of the Hotel de la Marine overlooking the Place de la Concorde, in Neoclassical style with corinthian columns, pediment and sculptures, built 1757-74 by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, 1698-1782, architect to King Louis XV, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France. The building was made to house the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne, the king's furniture collection. From 1789, the building became the Ministere de la Marine, the navy ministry. It was restored 2017-20 and is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Facade of the Hotel de la Marine overlooking the Place de la Concorde, in Neoclassical style with corinthian columns, pediment and sculptures, built 1757-74 by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, 1698-1782, architect to King Louis XV, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France. The building was made to house the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne, the king's furniture collection. From 1789, the building became the Ministere de la Marine, the navy ministry. It was restored 2017-20 and is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Temple of Apollo, Roman, 2nd century AD, at the ancient city of Side, Antalya, Turkey. The temple was dedicated to Apollo, god of love, light and beauty, and the ruins consist of 5 fluted columns with Corinthian capitals topped by a frieze and broken pediment. Founded by the Greeks in the 7th century BC, Side flourished under the Greeks and Romans and was an important slave port. A large archaeological site remains today, including a theatre, 3 temples, an aqueduct, and a nymphaeum. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Keystone sculpture on the arched pediment over the entrance to the Well Staircase, a romantic interpretation of a medieval and Renaissance architectural feature, featuring a spiral staircase, a pulley mimicking that of a well, and a structure resembling an upturned boat, in Citeco, Musee de l’Economie, a new interactive museum on the economy, opened June 2019, in the Hotel Gaillard, on the Place du General Catroux, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, France. The staircase windows originally looked out on to the inner courtyard, a feature which was reinstalled during recent works. The Hotel Gaillard was built 1878-82 by architect Jules Fevrier in Neo Renaissance style for the banker Emile Gaillard, and later became a branch of the Banque de France. The building is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Entrance with arched pediment to the Well Staircase, a romantic interpretation of a medieval and Renaissance architectural feature, featuring a spiral staircase, a pulley mimicking that of a well, and a structure resembling an upturned boat, in Citeco, Musee de l’Economie, a new interactive museum on the economy, opened June 2019, in the Hotel Gaillard, on the Place du General Catroux, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, France. A portrait sculpture of Emile Gaillard marks the bottom of the handrail. The staircase windows originally looked out on to the inner courtyard, a feature which was reinstalled during recent works. The Hotel Gaillard was built 1878-82 by architect Jules Fevrier in Neo Renaissance style for the banker Emile Gaillard, and later became a branch of the Banque de France. The building is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Painted medallion with allegorical scene of woman as Diana the huntress, in the pediment above an oak door in the Grand Salle a Manger or Large Dining Room, decorated in Renaissance style, in the Hotel de la Paiva, an Italian Renaissance style mansion built 1856-66 by architect Pierre Manguin, on the Champs-Elysees in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France. The house was built for the courtesan Esther Bachmann, or La Paiva, and since 1904 has been used by the gentlemen's club, Travellers Club of Paris. The mansion was restored in 2010 by Etienne Poncelet and is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Nativity, painting by Alessandro Casolani, 1552–1606, housed in a marble structure with columns and pediment, in the Duomo di Siena or Siena Cathedral, built 1196-1348 and consecrated in 1215, designed by Giovanni di Agostino, Giovanni Pisano and Camaino di Crescentino, in Siena, Tuscany, Italy. The cathedral has elements of Italian Gothic, Romanesque, and Classical styes and is built from stripes of white and green-black marble. The historic centre of Siena is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Director's House or Maison du Directeur, and (left) West Saltworks or Batiment des Sels Ouest and (right) East Saltworks or Batiment des Sels Est, part of the Royal Saltworks or Saline Royale, begun 1775 in Neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1736-1806, at Arc-et-Senans, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The Director's House has an imposing portico with 6 Doric columns, a triangular pediment with oculus and a belvedere. The building houses an assembly room, offices, bank, apartments, servants quarters and a basement for storage. The site is designed in a semicircle, with the Director's House, 2 saltworks containing drying ovens, heating pots and salt stores, workers' accommodation and Director's stables. An Ideal City was also planned but never built. The site is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Director's House or Maison du Directeur, flanked by the (left) West Saltworks or Batiment des Sels Ouest and (right) East Saltworks or Batiment des Sels Est, part of the Royal Saltworks or Saline Royale, begun 1775 in Neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1736-1806, at Arc-et-Senans, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. On the right is the Berniers Est, housing saltworkers' accommodation. The Director's House has an imposing portico with 6 Doric columns, a triangular pediment with oculus and a belvedere. The building houses an assembly room, offices, bank, apartments, servants quarters and a basement for storage. The site is designed in a semicircle, with the Director's House, 2 saltworks containing drying ovens, heating pots and salt stores, workers' accommodation and Director's stables. An Ideal City was also planned but never built. The site is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Director's House or Maison du Directeur, part of the Royal Saltworks or Saline Royale, begun 1775 in Neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1736-1806, at Arc-et-Senans, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The Director's House has an imposing portico with 6 Doric columns, a triangular pediment with oculus and a belvedere. The building houses an assembly room, offices, bank, apartments, servants quarters and a basement for storage. The site is designed in a semicircle, with the Director's House, 2 saltworks containing drying ovens, heating pots and salt stores, workers' accommodation and Director's stables. An Ideal City was also planned but never built. The site is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Portico with Doric columns with alternating cubic and cylindrical forms, triangular pediment and oculus, on the Director's House or Maison du Directeur, part of the Royal Saltworks or Saline Royale, begun 1775 in Neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1736-1806, at Arc-et-Senans, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The building houses an assembly room, offices, bank, apartments, servants quarters and a basement for storage. The site is designed in a semicircle, with the Director's House, 2 saltworks containing drying ovens, heating pots and salt stores, workers' accommodation and Director's stables. An Ideal City was also planned but never built. The site is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • New York Stock Exchange, designed by George B Post in Neoclassical style, and built in 1903, at 11 Wall St, Lower Manhattan, New York, New York, USA. The facade of the building 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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  • Ambulatory, and the entrance to the sacristy in stone and marble, part of the rood screen of 1610 by Jacques Bugier, moved here in 1768, in the Cathedrale Saint-Julien du Mans or Cathedral of St Julian of Le Mans, Le Mans, Sarthe, Loire, France. On the pediment are terracotta statues by Gervais I Delabarre of St John the Evangelist and St Matthew, and above the Virgin in mourning by Charles Hoyau. The cathedral was built from the 6th to the 14th centuries, with both Romanesque and High Gothic elements. It is dedicated to St Julian of Le Mans, the city's first bishop, who established Christianity in the area in the 4th century AD. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sculptural detail of a head on a pediment above a door in the King's Apartment, designed in 1664 under Colbert during the reign of King Louis XIV, on the first floor of the Phare de Cordouan or Cordouan Lighthouse, built 1584-1611 in Renaissance style by Louis de Foix, 1530-1604, French architect, located 7km at sea, near the mouth of the Gironde estuary, Aquitaine, France. This is the oldest lighthouse in France. There are 4 storeys, with keeper apartments and an entrance hall, King's apartments, chapel, secondary lantern and the lantern at the top at 68m. Parabolic lamps and lenses were added in the 18th and 19th centuries. The lighthouse is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Renaissance doorway with pediment with carved mythological scenes and statues in niches, at the Castillo de La Calahorra, or Calahorra Castle, built 1509-12 near the village of La Calahorra in the Sierra Nevada mountains, Andalusia, Southern Spain. Built on the site of a former Moorish fort, the castle was built in Italian Renaissance style, with 4 corner towers and a crenellated outer wall. It was awarded to Cardinal Mendoza by the Catholic monarchs. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Reichstag building, opened 1894, seat of the German parliament and meeting place of the Bundestag, refurbished by Norman Foster 1990-99, including the addition of the huge glass dome, Berlin, Germany. Below the pediment reads the slogan 'Dem Deutsche Volk' or To The German People. The building sits on the river Spree. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Reichstag building, opened 1894, seat of the German parliament and meeting place of the Bundestag, refurbished by Norman Foster 1990-99, including the addition of the huge glass dome, Berlin, Germany. A frieze below the pediment reads 'Dem Deutschen Volke' or To The German People. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • View from below of pediment with allegorical figures on the Galerie d'Anatomie Comparee et de Paleontologie (Gallery of Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy), built from 1892 to 1898 by Ferdinand Dutert, located in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 5th arrondissement, France. Founded in 1626 by Guy de La Brosse, Louis XIII's physician, the Jardin des Plantes, originally known as the Jardin du Roi, opened to the public in 1640. It became the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in 1793 during the French Revolution. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Detail of the pediment of the Hotel de Magny (formerly Pavillon Cuvier) which houses the Cabinet d'Histoire (History office), was built between 1696 and 1700 by Pierre Bullet and is located in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 5th arrondissement, France. Founded in 1626 by Guy de La Brosse, Louis XIII's physician, the Jardin des Plantes, originally known as the Jardin du Roi, opened to the public in 1640. It became the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in 1793 during the French Revolution. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • View from below of pediment with allegorical figures on the Galerie d'Anatomie Comparee et de Paleontologie (Gallery of Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy), built from 1892 to 1898 by Ferdinand Dutert, located in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 5th arrondissement, France. Founded in 1626 by Guy de La Brosse, Louis XIII's physician, the Jardin des Plantes, originally known as the Jardin du Roi, opened to the public in 1640. It became the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in 1793 during the French Revolution. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • View from below of a female figure on the pediment of the neo-classical amphitheatre built in 1787 and 1788 by Edme Verniquet, located in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 5th arrondissement, France. Founded in 1626 by Guy de La Brosse, Louis XIII's physician, the Jardin des Plantes, originally known as the Jardin du Roi, opened to the public in 1640. It became the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in 1793 during the French Revolution. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Close-up of windows and pediment of the Hotel de Magny (formerly Pavillon Cuvier) which houses the Cabinet d'Histoire (History office), built between 1696 and 1700 by Pierre Bullet and located in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 5th arrondissement, France. Founded in 1626 by Guy de La Brosse, Louis XIII's physician, the Jardin des Plantes, originally known as the Jardin du Roi, opened to the public in 1640. It became the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in 1793 during the French Revolution. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Detail of sculpture on pediment, St Peter's Cathedral, Vatican City, Rome, Italy, pictured on December 13, 2010 in the morning against the deep blue winter sky. The Vatican City, centre of the Roman Catholic Church, is an independent state, founded in 1929. St Peter's Basilica was rebuilt during the Renaissance period. Its first architect was Donato Bramante (1444-1514), and the dome was designed by Michelangelo (1475-1564) and completed by Giacomo della Porta (c.1533-1602). The Piazza di San Pietro with its magnificent Baroque colonnades was designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680). Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Choir screen, made 1717 by Nicolas Chapuis and installed in 1792, in the choir, built 1150-70, the oldest part of the building, in the Cathedrale Saint-Mammes de Langres, or Langres Cathedral, built 1150-96 in Romanesque and Gothic styles, in Langres, Haute-Marne, France. The screen is topped by a pediment with palmettes and urns, with the intertwined initials of Sainte-Marie and the Abbey of Morimond. The choir screen and the cathedral are listed as historic monuments. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Pediment of a funerary monument, with the deceased, the goddess Diana and the god Apollo, erected by P Sacrovirus and dedicated to the Mane gods or the souls of the deceased and to Pubilicus Sarasuset and his children, 2nd century AD, limestone, discovered in 1863 at the citadel of Langres, in the Musee de Langres, or Langres Museum of Art and History, in Langres, Haute-Marne, France. Founded in 1841, the museum has been housed in a new building in the old town since 1997. It exhibits art, artefacts and archaeology from prehistory to the 20th century. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Temple of Diana, dedicated to the Imperial cult, built late 1st century BC, in the Roman Forum of Emerita Augusta, founded in 25 BC by Emperor Augustus, in Merida, Extremadura, Spain. The temple is rectangular and bordered by granite columns with corinthian capitals, topped with an arched pediment. It was later used as a palace for the Count of Corbos, and is part of the Merida UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Facade of the Hotel de la Marine overlooking the Place de la Concorde, in Neoclassical style with corinthian columns, pediment and sculptures, built 1757-74 by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, 1698-1782, architect to King Louis XV, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France. The building was made to house the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne, the king's furniture collection. From 1789, the building became the Ministere de la Marine, the navy ministry. It was restored 2017-20 and is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mansion, 18th century, with balconies with iron consoles and 2 large cornucopias on the pediment, on the Place de la Bourse, in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. Nantes was an important trading port, profiting from the slave trade from 17th - 19th century. The city houses large mansions built by wealthy shipowners and slave traders. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Temple of Apollo, Roman, 2nd century AD, at the ancient city of Side, Antalya, Turkey. The temple was dedicated to Apollo, god of love, light and beauty, and the ruins consist of 5 fluted columns with Corinthian capitals topped by a frieze and broken pediment. Founded by the Greeks in the 7th century BC, Side flourished under the Greeks and Romans and was an important slave port. A large archaeological site remains today, including a theatre, 3 temples, an aqueduct, and a nymphaeum. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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