Images Dated 19th September 2005

Millau viaduct spanning the Tarn Gorge, southern France

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Millau viaduct spanning the Tarn Gorge, southern France
At 336 metres the cable-stayed Viaduc de Millau is the highest bridge in the world and 2.5 kms long. Designed by British architect Sir Norman Foster the viaduct is higher than the Eiffel Tower. Costing 400 millions euros it was completed in December 2004 in 39 months.
Mark Boulton
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St. Joseph, c1445. Artist: Rogier Van der Weyden

St. Joseph, c1445. This fragment was sawn out of the same large altarpiece as the Mary Magdalene in the National Gallery, London. The aged Joseph stood behind the Magdalene; the lower part of his body can still be seen in the fragment. The exterior of the building in which the scene took place was richly ornamented with Gothic decoration, like a church. From the collection of the Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal

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The Entourage of Cleopatra, 1746-47. Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Entourage of Cleopatra, 1746-47. One of the most important commissions carried out by Tiepolo in the 1740s was, without a doubt, the decoration of the Palazzo Labia in Venice. Tiepolo's scenes, The Meeting of Anthony and Cleopatra and The Banquet of Cleopatra, are staged within an illusory architecture, the scenic framework lending them a theatrical character. The two female servants with the dog are typical secondary figures, used time and again by Tiepolo in numerous works to enrich the main action

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