Niches in the walls of each storey include carved couplets by the Qianlong Emperor and once held a set of bronze Buddhas.

Niches on the north and south sides of the chapel are the private oratories of the king and of his mother, Blanche of Castile.

Niches containing statues on exterior of Church of Orsanmichele, Florence, c. 1380-1404

It is accessed via a stairway that ends on a terrace with a half finished gate and the Enclosure of the Ten Niches, a one room building.

An MIT Sloan Management Review article titled " From Niches to Riches: Anatomy of the Long Tail " examined the long tail from both the supply side and the demand side and identifies several key drivers.

Niches where the statues would have been placed are found inside and outside the temple.

Niches are not pre-formed, empty receptacles into which organisms are inserted, but are defined and created by organisms.

Niches with pointed arches and containing statuary are a major external feature.

Located approximately 20 km north of the Knoll and main section of Tamborine Mountain, Niches corner sits looking towards the Gold Coast and delivers expansive views.

One of the best walks in the whole Tamborine area is the Niches Lookout Circuit ( 3. 2 km ) which explores the Niches Corners various cascades, rock pools and plant communities, such as open and dry rainforest and hoop pines.

Niches in the walls contain classical statuary ; above the niches are grisaille panels.

The main attraction is the Pyramid of the Niches.

From the time the city fell in 1230 to near the end of the 18th century, no European seems to have known of its existence, until a government inspector chanced upon the Pyramid of the Niches in 1785.

Its best-known monument is the Pyramid of the Niches, but other important monuments include the Arroyo Group, the North and South Ballcourts and the palaces of Tajín Chico.

The present-day view of the pyramid can be seen: Image: El Tajín Pyramid of the Niches. jpg | here.

One of the panels at the Pyramid of the Niches shows a ceremony being held at a cacao tree.

In 1785, an official by the name of Diego Ruiz stumbled upon the Pyramid of the Niches, whilst looking for clandestine tobacco plantings breaching the royal monopoly in this isolated area rarely visited by the authorities.

German architect Charles Nebel visited the site in 1831 and was the first to graphically and narratively detail the Pyramid of the Niches as well as the nearby ruins of Mapilca and Tuzapan.

The first building to be completely cleared of jungle growth was the Pyramid of the Niches.

The ' Pyramid of the Niches ', a masterpiece of ancient Mexican and American architecture, reveals the astronomical and symbolic significance of the buildings .” The site is one of the most important in Mexico and the most important in the state of Veracruz.

The enclosed room is for smaller objects that have been found during the years the site has been explored, most coming from the Pyramid of the Niches.

This pyramid has as a number of names including, El Tajín, Pyramid of Papantla, Pyramid of the Seven Stories and the Temple of the Niches.

Niches are also found underneath the stairway along the east face, which indicates that the stairway was a later addition.

It is unknown if the similarity between this building and the Pyramid of the Niches indicates a relationship between the two.

The sides of the enclosure are formed by a slender platform with sloping sides and free standing niches, resembling the Pyramid of the Niches.

The ancient population centers such as Chaco Canyon ( outside Crownpoint, New Mexico ), Mesa Verde ( near Cortez, Colorado ), and Bandelier National Monument ( near Los Alamos, New Mexico ) for which the Ancestral Pueblo peoples are renowned, consisted of apartment-like complexes and structures made from stone, adobe mud, and other local material, or were carved into the sides of canyon walls.

Amethyst was considered to be a strong antidote against drunkenness, which is why wine goblets were often carved from it.

Obsessed with creating his sculptures exactly as he envisaged through his unique view of reality, he often carved until they were as thin as nails and reduced to the size of a pack of cigarettes, much to his consternation.

Masks were generally carved from wood and were decorated with paints made from berries or other earthly products.

Feathers were also inserted into holes carved out for extra decoration.

Rock art of the " Round Head " style, found in the Ennedi region, has been dated to before the 7th millennium BC and, because of the tools with which the rocks were carved and the scenes they depict, may represent the oldest evidence in the Sahara of Neolithic industries.

This was more common on older coins because the coin dies were hand carved.

Decorations were usually carved into a stucco applied to the brick, rather than into the brick itself.

Its depth, steep east and west sides with shallow north and south ends is typical of the Finger Lakes, as they were carved by glaciers during the last ice age.

In Ancient Egyptian architecture as early as 2600 BC the architect Imhotep made use of stone columns whose surface was carved to reflect the organic form of bundled reeds ; in later Egyptian architecture faceted cylinders were also common.

Columns, or at least large structural exterior ones, became much less significant in the architecture of the Middle Ages, and the classical forms were abandoned in both Byzantine architecture and the Romanesque and Gothic architecture or Europe in favour of more flexible forms, with capitals often using various types of foliage decoration, and in the West scenes with figures carved in relief.

In many classical sites, sectioned columns were carved with a centre hole or depression so that they could be pegged together, using stone or metal pins.

Discussing idolatry, Clement contends that the objects of primitive religion were unshaped wood and stone, and idols thus arose when such natural items were carved.

It was built in the Ionic order and consists of seven fluted columns, unusually carved from single pieces of stone ( most columns were constructed from a series of discs joined together ).

After the downfall of feudalism, the landsknechts established a reputation as the most notorious dicing gamblers of their time ; many of the dice then were curiously carved in the images of men and beasts.

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In England in the 17th century the door panels were raised with bolection or projecting moldings, sometimes richly carved, round them ; in the 18th century the moldings worked on the stiles and rails were carved with the egg and tongue ornament.

In ancient times graffiti was carved on walls with a sharp object, although sometimes chalk or coal were used.

Images believed to depict the Great Auk were also carved into the walls of the El Pinto Cave in Spain over 35, 000 years ago, while cave paintings 20, 000 years old have been found in France's Grotte Cosquer.

Such works continued and after several millennia, in the 7th century, carved pillars of Ajanta, Maharashtra state present a fine example of Indian paintings, and the colors, mostly various shades of red and orange, were derived from minerals.