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Alhambra: Patio de los Leones (Courtyard of the Lions), detail of central fountain (12 stone lions, possibly Visigothic Christian or earlier Islamic, reused in this context), 14th century

Alhambra: Patio de los Leones (Courtyard of the Lions), detail of fountain portico on W. side showing artesonado (wooden marquetry) ceiling and stucco mocarabes and muqarnas, 14th century

Alhambra: Patio de los Leones (Courtyard of the Lions), detail of fountain portico on W. side, 14th century

Alhambra: Patio de los Leones (Courtyard of the Lions), view from SE., 14th century

Alhambra: Patio de los Leones (Courtyard of the Lions), view from SW., 14th century

Alhambra: Patio del Cuarto Dorado (Golden Chamber), detail of NW. doorway with alfiz (decorative rectangular surround), glazed ceramic tile mosaics, and carved stucco decoration, 14th century

Alhambra: Patio del Cuarto Dorado (Golden Chamber), detail of stucco decoration from arcade on the N. side, 14th century

Alhambra: Patio del Cuarto Dorado (Golden Chamber), detail of [S.] portal with carved stucco and glazed ceramic tile mosaic decoration, 14th century

Alhambra: Puerta del Vino, view from NE., from 15th century (subsequently modified)

Alhambra: Sala de los Abencerrajes, detail of dome showing stucco mocarabes, muqarnas, and attawriq stylized foliate designs, 14th-15th century

Alhambra: site view towards the SW., from the Generalife

Alhambra: “Oratory” of the Mexuar, detail of windows filled with wooden grillework in geometric patterns, 14th century

Alhambra: “Oratory” of the Mexuar, view of Granada through fenestration, 14th century

Alphabet stone with inscribed cross motif incorporating the La Tene spiral, 6th century

Altar tomb with relief portraits of four saints, from the interior of St. Mary’s Abbey Church, Duleek, late 17th century

Amazonomachy; fragment from the frieze of the Theater

Amazonomachy; fragment of an entablature metope from the Tholas, Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia, ca. 380 B.C.

Amazonomachy; relief slab, perhaps from a frieze (style of Bryaxis), mid-4th century B.C.

Amazonomachy; relief slab, perhaps from a frieze (style of Bryaxis): detail of central warrior figure, mid-4th century B.C.

Amiens Cathedral: interior, S. aisle, view through transept towards W. entrance, ca. 1220-1236

Amiens Cathedral: interior, view E. from nave towards choir and apse, ca. 1220-1236

Amphitheater (Arena), Pompeii: exterior, view from W. showing stairways to upper level seating, original ca. 80 B.C.

Amphitheatre (Arena), Pompeii: interior, view from SW., orig. ca. 80 B.C.

Anastasis (Harrowing of Hell), apse fresco from the parecclesion, Church of the Savior in Chora (Kariye Camii), Istanbul, ca. 1315-1321

Anastasis (Harrowing of Hell), detail C. of apse fresco from the parecclesion, Church of the Savior in Chora (Kariye Camii), Istanbul, ca. 1315-1321

Anastasis (Harrowing of Hell): Christ raising Eve, with Old Testament precursors, detail RC. of apse fresco from the parecclesion, Church of the Savior in Chora (Kariye Camii), Istanbul, ca. 1315-1321

Anastasis (Harrowing of Hell): Old Testament precursors of Christ, detail R. of apse fresco from the parecclesion, Church of the Savior in Chora (Kariye Camii), Istanbul, ca. 1315-1321

Antinous, a youth of Claudiopolis in Bithynia (Asia Minor): detail of head, ca. 130-138

Aphrodisias: Nymphaeum, view from SE.

Aphrodisias: site view looking W. through Portico of Tiberius towards the Baths of Hadrian

Aphrodite (Greco-Roman variant on a cult statue by Praxiteles, the type known as the “Aphrodite of Cnidos”)

Aphrodite (perhaps a fountain figure?), 1st century B.C.(?)

Aphrodite (“Venus of Arles) (Roman copy after original attributed to Praxiteles, ca. 360 B.C.)

Aphrodite and Eros, mid-4th century B.C.E.

Aphrodite of Melos (“Venus di Milo”): detail, head in profile, ca. 150-100 B.C.

Aphrodite(?)

Aphrodite, Eros and Pan, ca. 100 B.C.

Aphrodite, Eros and Pan; group from Delos, ca. 100 B.C.

Aphrodite? (or nymph??); fragment of relief from Aphrodisias

Apollo of Piombino: detail, head and torso, ca. 480 B.C.

Apollo Parnopios (detail, head and torso of modern reconstruction after lost original, ca. 450 B.C.)

Apollo Parnopios (modern reconstruction after lost original, ca. 450 B.C.)

Aqueduct, Segovia [site view from E.], ca. early 1st - early 2nd century A.D.

Aqueduct, Segovia: detail of arcade, view from W., ca. early 1st - early 2nd century A.D.

Aqueduct, Segovia: detail of arcade, view from W., ca. early 1st - early 2nd century A.D.

Aqueduct, Segovia: detail, view from E., ca. early 1st - early 2nd century A.D.

Aqueduct, Segovia: view from NW., ca. early 1st - early 2nd century A.D.

Ara Pacis Augustae, 13-9 B.C.

Ara Pacis Augustae: detail of long R. wall and rear angle, 13-9 B.C.

Ara Pacis Augustae: detail, calyx scroll panel, relief from R. front, 13-9 B.C.