He wrote the Encyclopaedia of Gardening in 1822, and invented a flexible iron-bar sash which made possible such monumental greenhouses as the Palm House at Kew Gardens and the Crystal Palace.

By 1556 Veronese was commissioned to paint the first of his monumental banquet scenes, the Feast in the House of Simon, which would not be concluded until 1570.

Continuously fascinated by geometric shapes, in 1975, Cardin applied his fetish for the bubble to a monumental domestic work which would become Le Palais Bulles ( the Bubble House ), along with the help of architect Antti Lovag.

Invited by US President Barack Obama, the band played on the White House South Lawn on July 4, 2010 for the second annual " Salute To The Military " United Service Organizations concert as part of Independence Day celebrations, which Flowers described as a " monumental honour ".

* 1964 Two monumental figures for the Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC

Notable for his design of the Crystal Palace, his " great conservatory " at Chatsworth House was an orangery and glass house of monumental proportions.

Thomas Holt was a large land holder in Sydney with another mansion at the edge of Gwawley Bay, Sylvania Waters, New South Wales in 1881 ,( his last and greatest residence, the monumental forty room Sutherland House mansion which was destroyed by fire in 1918 ) and vast property holdings from Sutherland to Cronulla.

One of his most prestigious commissions, which came in 1785, was to extend Pearce's monumental Houses of Parliament, for which he built the ( well known today ) curved screen wall which links his new corinthian portico for the House of Lords facing College Street to Pearce's original building.

Towards the end of his career he painted two monumental works: " Hungarian Conquest " for the House of Parliament and a fresco entitled " Apotheosis of Renaissance ", for the ceiling of Kunsthistoriches Museum in Vienna.

* The House ( trees ), a group of monumental Giant Sequoias in Sequoia National Park, California

" Tom Sinclair of Entertainment Weekly stated, " On the album's most gleeful hip shaker, " Do the Evolution ", Vedder howls throwaway lyrics ... while the guitars gnash and grind at the primitive melody, briefly evoking the gnarly cacophony of the Stooges ' monumental Fun House.

Consequently, the Wickham House is considered a watershed design by Parris, marking the shift from his earlier Adamesque period towards his later, more severe, monumental and architectonic period.

Danesmoate House ( formerly known as Glensouthwell or Glen Southwell ) is a Georgian-style monumental house in the greater Rathfarnham area of County Dublin, Ireland.

Though monumental architecture at the site dates back as far as the 4th century BC, Tikal reached its apogee during the Classic Period, ca.

The first report of a monumental inscription dates to 1850, when an inhabitant of Nevşehir reported the relief at Fraktin.

It provides dates of his appointments and death not found in his official biography in Hou Han Shu and is the earliest known example of a monumental stele in China.

It dates roughly to the same time as his monumental Death and the Maiden Quartet, emerging around three years after his previous attempt to write for the string quartet genre, the Quartettsatz that he never finished.

In 2001, Shady and others published radiocarbon dates from the site of Caral in the Supe Valley of Peru, indicating that monumental corporate architecture, urban settlement, and irrigation agriculture began in the Americas by 4090 years before the present ( 2627 calibrated years B. C.

They can hardly restrain themselves from raising the question of whether Republicans, if they had been in power, would have made `` amateurish and monumental blunders '' in Cuba.

Most of our information about him is derived from Herodotus ( 2. 161ff ) and can only be imperfectly verified by monumental evidence.

There was at the top of the Arc from 1882 to 1886, a monumental sculpture by Alexandre Falguière, " Le triomphe de la Révolution " ( the Triumph of the Revolution ), a chariot drawn by horses preparing " to crush Anarchy and Despotism ", that remained only four years up there before falling in ruins.

The preserved remains of two monumental fountains that received the water from the spring date to the Archaic period and the Roman, with the later cut into the rock.

* St. Nicholas Cathedral-a monumental 13th century Gothic church ( cathedral only from 1992, before it was a parochial church ), damaged by fire in the late 18th century, then destroyed in World War II and reconstructed

Ximenes was involved in all the major official monumental projects in Italy from the 1880s on and devoted his energies as from 1911 primarily to commissions for important public works in São Paulo, Kiev, New York and Buenos Aires.

Until recently, the Preclassic was regarded as a formative period, consisting of small villages of farmers who lived in huts and few permanent buildings, but this notion has been challenged by recent discoveries of monumental architecture from that period, such as an altar in La Blanca, San Marcos, from 1000 BC ; ceremonial sites at Miraflores and El Naranjo from 801 BC ; the earliest monumental masks ; and the Mirador Basin cities of Nakbé, Xulnal, El Tintal, Wakná and El Mirador.

It caused a sensation in the London monumental trade and for some years all polished granite ordered came from MacDonalds.

This monumental work consists of 435 hand-colored, life-size prints of 497 bird species, made from engraved copper plates of various sizes depending on the size of the image.

In the absence of written sources and monumental ruins in this region, the history of the early centuries of our era must be based primarily on archaeological excavations, the writing of early geographers and travelers, written in Arabic and data derived from oral tradition.

However, excavations of Jerusalem have shown a distinct lack of monumental architecture from the era, and remains of neither the Temple nor Solomon's palace have been found.

The city is famous for having preserved almost intact its medieval spatial layout and many Gothic buildings, all built from brick, including monumental churches, the Town Hall and many burgher houses.

** St. James's church ( often mistakenly called St Jacob's ), a basilica from the 14th century, with monumental wall paintings and Gothic stalls

Linear Elamite is a writing system from Iran attested in a few monumental inscriptions only.

The monumental walls are headed with pieces of masonry copied from renaissance houses and palaces of Kraków and Zamość.

The monumental Meta Sudans was erected by the Flavians to mark the point where the triumph route turned from the Via Triumphalis into the Via Sacra and the Forum.

An important point to note is that out of Scorsese's selection of Italian films from a select group of directors ( Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Vittorio De Sica, Michelangelo Antonioni ) Rossellini's films form at least half of the films discussed and analyzed, highlighting Rossellini's monumental role in Italian and world cinema.

At first, these processes seemed so strange and unprecedented that they were taken as evidence of sheer incompetence .... Now it is recognized that Bruckner's unorthodox structural methods were inevitable .... Bruckner created a new and monumental type of symphonic organism, which abjured the tense, dynamic continuity of Beethoven, and the broad, fluid continuity of Wagner, in order to express something profoundly different from either composer, something elemental and metaphysical.

The appearance of these two monumental collections of Catholic polyphony reflects the hopes which the recusant community must have harboured for an easier life under the new king James I, who came from a Catholic background himself.

This technique of representing simultaneity, multiple viewpoints ( or relative motion ) is pushed to a high degree of complexity in Gleizes ' monumental Le Dépiquage des Moissons ( Harvest Threshing ), exhibited at the 1912 Salon de la Section d ' Or, Le Fauconnier ’ s Abundance shown at the Indépendants of 1911, and Delaunay's City of Paris, shown at the Indépendants in 1912.

In 1912, the monumental opera house and theater " Teatro Victoria Eugenie " in San Sebastián, Spain was named after her.

The area to the north of the Park ( between the latter and the railway line ) was developed since the end of the 19th century as a zone for private sanatoriums, villas ( Orlinoye gnezdo, 1912 – 14, Art Nouveau ), and resort constructions ; the monumental building of the therapeutic mud bath in the spirit of ancient Roman thermae decorated with a mighty Ionic portico and numerous sculptures ( 1913 – 1915, architect Shreter, sculptors L. A. Ditrikh and Vasily Kozlov ).

The original monumental front half was built in 1912 and opened for postal business in 1914 ; the building was doubled in 1934 by the then Postmaster General, James A. Farley, and replaced the 1869-80 Post Office at Park Row and Broadway.