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Title

Funchal / Madeira

Artist

Albert Kahn

Artist Life Dates

(1869 - 1942)

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

December 9, 1911

Accession Number

1972/2.694

Medium and Support

graphite on paper

relevance

rank 17.78915

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Title

Caen

Artist

Albert Kahn

Artist Life Dates

(1869 - 1942)

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

October 18, 1891

Accession Number

1972/2.586

Medium and Support

graphite on paper

relevance

rank 17.78684

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france

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Title

Basilica of Constantine

Artist

Anonymous Italian

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1860

Accession Number

1980/1.179

Medium and Support

albumen print on paper

relevance

rank 17.78684

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Title

Governor Langford Mansion, Portsmouth

Artist

Jane C. Stanley

Artist Life Dates

1863-1940

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1863-1940

Accession Number

1954/1.260

Medium and Support

graphite on white paper

relevance

rank 17.77519

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houses

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the natural world

Title

Distribution of Rewards, No. 18 from 'Les Grandes Misères de la Guerre'

Artist

Jacques Callot

Artist Life Dates

1592/3-1635

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

1633

Accession Number

1972/2.370

Medium and Support

Etching on paper

relevance

rank 17.77519

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Title

Roquebrune, from photo

Artist

Albert Kahn

Artist Life Dates

(1869 - 1942)

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1869-1942

Accession Number

1972/2.654

Medium and Support

crayon on paper

relevance

rank 17.77519

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mine

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Title

Rebecca Taking Leave of Her Family

Artist

Francesco Solimena

Artist Life Dates

1657-1747

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

17th century

Accession Number

1954/2.53

Medium and Support

pen, brush, graphite, brown ink, brown wash on white paper

relevance

rank 17.77519

Secondary Keywords

animals

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the natural world

Title

Stage Design: A Garden Setting

Artist

Lorenzo Quaglio, The Elder

Artist Life Dates

(active 1730 - 1805, )

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1753

Accession Number

1963/2.23

Medium and Support

pen and gray ink with watercolor on paper

relevance

rank 17.76504

Secondary Keywords

architectural elements

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the natural world

Title

The Steps

Artist

Childe Hassam

Artist Life Dates

1859-1935

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1859-1931

Accession Number

1931.18B-D

Medium and Support

etching on paper

relevance

rank 17.76504

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Title

Orpheus in the Underworld, No. 6 from the Orpheus Series.

Artist

Gerhard Marcks

Artist Life Dates

1889-1981

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1948

Accession Number

1964/1.112

Medium and Support

woodcut on paper

relevance

rank 17.76504

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Untitled

Artist

Albert Kahn

Artist Life Dates

(1869 - 1942)

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1869-1942

Accession Number

1972/2.535

Medium and Support

graphite on paper

relevance

rank 17.76504

Secondary Keywords

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Title

West Doorway at (?)

Artist

Louis Conrad Rosenberg

Artist Life Dates

1890-1983

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1890-1973

Accession Number

1973/1.732

Medium and Support

etching on paper

relevance

rank 17.74760

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Title

Ragamala series: Ragini Kedarau

Artist

Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Jaipur School

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1750

Accession Number

1975/2.160

Medium and Support

ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

relevance

rank 17.74760

Secondary Keywords

animals

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the natural world

Title

Mont Saint-Michel

Artist

Albert Kahn

Artist Life Dates

(1869 - 1942)

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1869-1942

Accession Number

1972/2.581

Medium and Support

red chalk on paper

relevance

rank 17.74760

Secondary Keywords

architectural elements

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man

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plants

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the natural world

Title

Augustinian Cloister, Garda

Artist

Jane C. Stanley

Artist Life Dates

1863-1940

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1863-1940

Accession Number

1954/1.179

Medium and Support

watercolor and gouache on gray paper

relevance

rank 17.74760

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vehicles

Title

Arco de la Sangre: Toledo, Spain

Artist

W. Keesey

Artist Life Dates

Born 1887

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

20th century

Accession Number

1968/1.84

Medium and Support

graphite

relevance

rank 17.74760

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Steps, Amsterdam

Artist

James McNeill Whistler

Physical Description

Seen frontally is a building along a canal. In front of the facade is a brick or cobble pavement; steps lead up to a triple doorway entrance while laundry and windows complete the second story. To either side of the central steps are doorways that lead down. In each of the doorways and on the pavement are grouped figures of women and children. The lower portion of the print shows the reflections of the building and figures.

Artist Life Dates

1834-1903

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1889

Accession Number

1954/1.403

Medium and Support

etching and drypoint, printed in dark brown ink on laid paper, trimmed to platem

relevance

rank 17.74760

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Fishing Boats (Recto and Verso)

Artist

Jean Paul Slusser

Artist Life Dates

1886 -1981

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

20th century

Accession Number

1990/1.215

Medium and Support

watercolor on paper

relevance

rank 17.71972

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Title

The Steps (copper plate)

Artist

Childe Hassam

Artist Life Dates

1859-1935

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1859-1931

Accession Number

1931.18A

Medium and Support

copper plate on paper

relevance

rank 17.71972

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Title

Rodez Cathedral

Artist

Alfred Hugh Fisher

Artist Life Dates

(1867 - 1945)

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1867-1945

Accession Number

1973/1.723

Medium and Support

etching on paper

relevance

rank 17.70855

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Untitled, New York

Artist

Walker Evans

Artist Life Dates

1903-1975

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1934

Accession Number

1990/2.54

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 17.70855

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Back Bay Houses

Artist

Lawrence Kupferman

Artist Life Dates

Born 1909

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1938

Accession Number

1943.69

Medium and Support

drypoint on paper

relevance

rank 17.60291

Secondary Keywords

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streets

Title

One Third of a Nation

Artist

Arnold Eagle

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1936

Accession Number

1980/2.236

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 17.53907

Secondary Keywords

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urban life

Title

Town Hall Steps

Artist

Kenneth Holmes

Artist Life Dates

Born 1902

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1902-1954

Accession Number

1954/1.118

Medium and Support

drypoint on paper

relevance

rank 17.53907

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women

Title

Brereton Cheshire

Artist

Joseph Nash

Artist Life Dates

1808-1878

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1849

Accession Number

1940.392

Medium and Support

hand-colored lithograph on paper

relevance

rank 17.53907

Secondary Keywords

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women

Title

Mont Saint-Michel

Artist

Albert Kahn

Artist Life Dates

(1869 - 1942)

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

October 14, 1891

Accession Number

1972/2.584

Medium and Support

red grease pencil on paper

relevance

rank 17.53711

Secondary Keywords

architectural elements

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Title

A Sand Party

Artist

John Sloan

Artist Life Dates

1871-1951

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1894

Accession Number

1964/1.106

Medium and Support

India ink, pen and brush on cream cardboard

relevance

rank 17.53711

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Title

St. Zeno Verona

Artist

Albert Kahn

Artist Life Dates

(1869 - 1942)

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

April 20, 1891

Accession Number

1972/2.698

Medium and Support

graphite on paper

relevance

rank 17.53711

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Canterbury Cathedral

Artist

Frederick Evans

Artist Life Dates

1853-1943

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1853-1943

Accession Number

1971/2.124

Medium and Support

platinum print on paper

relevance

rank 17.39469

Secondary Keywords

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united kingdom

Title

House, Los Angeles, from "Déja Vu"

Artist

Ralph Gibson

Artist Life Dates

born 1939

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1972; printed 1982

Accession Number

1987/1.274.5

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 16.97005

Secondary Keywords

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yards

Title

Businessman Ascending Escalator in Pan Am Building

Artist

Duncan Hartley

Physical Description

A man getting off the top of an escalator wearing a hat, suit and tie. Vibrant red, white and black rectangular wall behind.

Artist Life Dates

born 1941

Object Creation Date

1977; printed 2013

Accession Number

2013/2.6

Medium and Support

digital print on Hahnemuhle German Etching paper

relevance

rank 16.70916

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Title

Manhattan (Man Asleep, Woman on Stairs)

Artist

Louis Stettner

Physical Description

A man is lying at the top of an outdoor staircase sunbathing. A woman is sitting on the stairs with her head in her hands.

Artist Life Dates

born 1922

Object Creation Date

1975

Accession Number

2012/2.154

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 16.50624

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Title

Vespers, San Zeno Maggiore, Verona

Artist

Jane C. Stanley

Artist Life Dates

1863-1940

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1863-1940

Accession Number

1954/1.239

Medium and Support

graphite on white paper

relevance

rank 16.47650

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Title

Facciata interna del Palazzo Ducale, con la Scala dei Giganti

Artist

Carlo Naya

Artist Life Dates

Active from the late 1860s

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1875

Accession Number

1995/1.72

Medium and Support

albumen print on paper

relevance

rank 16.25061

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Title

Roman Balusters Rebuilt, Spalato, Dalmatia

Artist

Jane C. Stanley

Artist Life Dates

1863-1940

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1863-1940

Accession Number

1954/1.171

Medium and Support

watercolor on white paper

relevance

rank 15.78330

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Florence - Loggia dei Lanzi

Artist

Anonymous Italian

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1875

Accession Number

1980/1.154

Medium and Support

albumen print on paper

relevance

rank 15.27985

Secondary Keywords

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streets

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Title

Lane, Brixen (Bressanone), Italian Tyrol

Artist

Jane C. Stanley

Artist Life Dates

1863-1940

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1863-1940

Accession Number

1954/1.173

Medium and Support

watercolor on white paper

relevance

rank 14.78673

Secondary Keywords

architectural elements

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stair components

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streets

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Title

Church Steps and Blacksmith Shop, from "Bodie"

Artist

George A. Tice

Artist Life Dates

Born 1938

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1965; printed 1971

Accession Number

1983/1.295.8

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 14.74485

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Front Porch

Artist

Julie Blackmon

Physical Description

Four kids on concrete steps, two boys and two girls. One boy has a frog in his hand.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1966

Object Creation Date

2003

Accession Number

2013/2.101

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 14.62208

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Title

San Francisco, CA

Artist

Chuck Bowman

Physical Description

Man holding a camera, wearing khakis, one leg up against a wall. The wall is shot is on an angle, view of the sidewalk.

Object Creation Date

20th century

Accession Number

2013/2.197

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 14.56801

Secondary Keywords

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transportation spaces

vegetation and vegetation components

vegetation components

woody plants

Title

Untitled (Girl and Water Fountain)

Artist

Manuel Carrillo

Artist Life Dates

(1906 - 1989)

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1960-1980

Accession Number

1987/1.220

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 14.13459

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the natural world

water distribution structures

waterscapes

Title

Gaiety Stage Door

Artist

James McNeill Whistler

Physical Description

A building with an arched doorway, windows at the center right, and the beginning of a flight of stairs on the right acts as architectural foils for the figures and a cart and horse (hansom cab?) arrayed in front of the building or grouped in the dark entryway.

Artist Life Dates

1834-1903

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1879

Accession Number

1954/1.419

Medium and Support

transfer lithograph with scraping on buff-colored paper, laid down on white wove

relevance

rank 13.90916

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

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windows and window components

Title

Tobit Burying the Dead

Artist

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Artist Life Dates

1609-1664

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1647-1651

Accession Number

1977/2.6

Medium and Support

etching on paper

relevance

rank 13.79520

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Pavement, St. Paul's, London

Artist

Joseph Pennell

Artist Life Dates

1857-1926

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1857-1926

Accession Number

1954/1.133

Medium and Support

etching and drypoint on paper

relevance

rank 13.68243

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european

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Title

The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido (Kichizo Edition): #1 Nihonbashi

Artist

Andô Hiroshige

Physical Description

"Nihonbashi" - A view of pedestrian traffic crossing a bridge in Edo.

Artist Life Dates

1797-1858

Object Creation Date

circa 1850

Accession Number

2008/2.322

Medium and Support

woodblock print on paper

relevance

rank 13.45637

Secondary Keywords

scale

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Title

Comparisons between Mountains and Seas: Mt. Rokuso in Kazusa Province, Kazusa Kanozan

Artist

Andô Hiroshige

Physical Description

The dark color pallette and black strip across the top indicate that the image is set at night. A mountain with pine trees and steps leading to the top loom over the image. The sea appears behind the mountain in the distance.

Artist Life Dates

1797-1858

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1858

Accession Number

1948/1.136

Medium and Support

color woodblock print on paper

relevance

rank 13.40394

Secondary Keywords

transfer method

upward

architectural elements

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landforms

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objects we use

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prints

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relief prints

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stairs and stair components

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vegetation and vegetation components

vegetation components

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

woody plants

Title

Lady meeting her lover from the Rasamanjari of Bhanudatta series

Artist

India, Rajasthan, Mewar School

Physical Description

Brightly colored painting with three primary registers. The uppermost and smallest register contains a poem. The lower two are larger and similar in size. The bottommost depicts stairs, architectural structures, snakes, and flowering plants. Above, the middle register frames a seated man under a canopy-like architectural form, who reaches out to grasp the wrist of a woman. Behind her is a flowering tree, and and the far right, and open door.

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1630

Accession Number

1980/2.242

Medium and Support

Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

relevance

rank 12.63629

Secondary Keywords

architectural elements

buildings and the land

circulation elements

components

components and systems

components by specific context

deciduous trees

descriptors

document genres

document genres by form

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image-making processes and techniques

information forms

landscapes (environments)

natural landscapes

objects we use

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painting techniques

painting techniques by medium

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by activity

plants

processes and techniques

processes and techniques by specific type

settlements and landscapes

stair components

stairs and stair components

steps and step components

trees

trees by leaf life

vegetation and vegetation components

vegetation components

woody plants

writing (processes)

Title

Piazza di Spagna

Artist

Pompeo Molins

Artist Life Dates

1827 - c. 1893

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1860

Accession Number

1982/1.235

Medium and Support

albumen print on paper

relevance

rank 12.27291

Secondary Keywords

architectural elements

architecture

buildings and the land

circulation elements

components

components and systems

components by specific context

descriptors

inorganic material

materials

materials by composition

measuring devices

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objects

objects we use

open spaces

open spaces and site elements

open spaces by form

people and occupations

photographic prints

photographic prints by process

photographs

photographs by form

positives

rock

rock by form

squares (open spaces)

stair components

stairs and stair components

steps and step components

timepieces

timepieces by form

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

visual works by subject type

Title

Edo Meisho: Yushima Shrine in the Snow (Yushima tenmangu, Yukihare no zu)

Artist

Andô Hiroshige

Physical Description

A snow scene of people walking up the stairs leading to the snow-covered shrine and temple complex.

Artist Life Dates

1797-1858

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1853

Accession Number

1948/1.144

Medium and Support

color woodblock print on paper

relevance

rank 12.18115

Secondary Keywords

transfer method

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associated concepts

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prints

prints by process

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relief prints

religious buildings

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scientific concepts

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single built works

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stair components

stairs and stair components

steps and step components

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

weather and related phenomena

weather-related phenomena

woodcuts

Title

The Doorway, from the "Twelve Etchings", or the "First Venice Set"

Artist

James McNeill Whistler

Physical Description

A large ornate waterdoor faces onto a canal. On the threshold near the water, a woman bends down towards the surface of the canal. Behind the doorway stands another figure in the shadows and beyond is another opening to a small square or open-air workspace. The Doorway consists of a large lunette shaped transom light over the door and the portal is flanked on either side by large arched windows. The glazing is all fitted into a fine network of mullions in either square on diamond patterns. The door and windows are each framed by carved pilasters and engaged corinthian capitals. Below the windows are bands of rosettes and other carved ornaments that extends to the water level.

Artist Life Dates

1834-1903

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1879-1880

Accession Number

1954/1.375

Medium and Support

etching, drypoint, and roulette on laid paper on laid paper

relevance

rank 12.02283

Secondary Keywords

arches and arch components

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energy-related concepts

europe (continent)

geographic and political locations

hydraulic structures

hydraulic structures by form

italy (nation)

light-related concepts

openings (architectural elements)

openings and opening components

openings by form

people and culture

physical activities

physical activities by general context

physical sciences concepts

physics concepts

scientific concepts

single built works

single built works by function

single built works by specific type

spanning and projecting structural elements

stair components

stairs and stair components

steps and step components

structural elements

structural elements and structural element components

veneto (region)

venezia (province)

windows and window components