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The Destroyed City (De verwoeste stad) in 2007. The Destroyed City (Dutch: De verwoeste stad) is a bronze memorial sculpture in the Dutch city of Rotterdam.It commemorates the German bombing of Rotterdam on 14 May 1940, which destroyed the medieval centre of the city. [1]
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From the first century A.D. dates a fresco at the Baths of Trajan in Rome depicting a bird's eye view of an ancient city. [1] In the Middle Ages, cityscapes appeared as a background for portraits and biblical themes. From the 16th up to the 18th century numerous copperplate prints and etchings were made showing cities in bird's eye view. The ...
100 years ago—on May 31 and June 1, 1921—the Tulsa massacre occurred on "Black Wall Street," the wealthiest Black community in the United States at the time. Black businesses that ...
Troy was a city located in northwest Anatolia in what is now Turkey. It is best known for being the focus of the Trojan War described in the Greek Epic Cycle and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer. Repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt, the city slowly declined and was abandoned in the Byzantine era. Buried by ...
Plan for Neue deutsche Stadt Warschau ("New German city of Warsaw") On June 20, 1939, while Adolf Hitler was visiting an architectural bureau in Würzburg am Main, he noticed a project of a future German town – Neue deutsche Stadt Warschau. According to the Pabst Plan, Warsaw was to be turned into a provincial German city of 130,000. Third ...
The world's largest bronze sculpture of modern times stood between the Twin Towers on the Austin J. Tobin Plaza of the World Trade Center in New York City from 1972 until the September 11 attacks. The work, weighing more than 20 tons, was the only remaining work of art to be recovered largely intact from the ruins of the collapsed Twin Towers.
City of London: By Robert Hooke. Used as foundry after 1825, damaged by fire in 1879 and demolished in 1887. Royal Panopticon: 1854: 1882: Leicester Square: Showcase venue for the best achievements in science and arts of the time; converted to theatre after only two years. Destroyed by fire. St Antholin, Watling Street: 1678–1684: 1874: City ...