The Botanical Building in Balboa Park, San Diego. The Botanical Building, at 250 feet long by 75 feet wide and 60 feet tall, was the largest wood lath structure in the world when it was built in 1915 for the Panama-California Exposition. The Botanical Building, located on the Prado, west of the Museum of Art, contains about 2,100 permanent tropical plants along with changing seasonal flowers. The Lily Pond, just south of the Botanical Building, is an eloquent example of the use of reflecting pools to enhance architecture. The 193' by 43' foot pond and smaller companion pool were originally referred to as Las Lagunas de las Flores (The Lakes of the Flowers) and were designed as aquatic gardens. The pools contain exotic water lilies and lotus which bloom spring through fall.
Location: Balboa Park, San Diego, California
Image ID: 28823
Downtown San Diego and USS Midway. The USS Midway was a US Navy aircraft carrier, launched in 1945 and active through the Vietnam War and Operation Desert Storm, as of 2008 a museum along the downtown waterfront in San Diego.
Location: San Diego, California
Image ID: 22289
The Louvre Pyramid at Night, Pyramide du Louvre, large glass and metal pyramid in the main courtyard (Cour Napoleon) of the Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre) in Paris.
Location: Musee du Louvre, Paris, France
Image ID: 28095
Preparatory sketch for plein air figures, Claude Monet, Musee d'Orsay, Paris.
Location: Musee dOrsay, Paris, France
Image ID: 35605
Les Invalides, officially known as L'Hotel national des Invalides (The National Residence of the Invalids), is a complex of buildings in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France, containing museums and monuments, all relating to the military history of France, as well as a hospital and a retirement home for war veterans, the building's original purpose.
Location: Hotel National des Invalides, Paris, France
Image ID: 28161
Tomb of Napolean Bonaparte in Les Invalides. Les Invalides, officially known as L'Hotel national des Invalides (The National Residence of the Invalids), is a complex of buildings in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France, containing museums and monuments, all relating to the military history of France, as well as a hospital and a retirement home for war veterans, the building's original purpose.
Location: Hotel National des Invalides, Paris, France
Image ID: 28122
The Thinker (Le Penseur) is a bronze sculpture on marble pedestal by Auguste Rodin. now in the Musee Rodin in Paris. It depicts a man in sober meditation battling with a powerful internal struggle. It is often used to represent philosophy.
Location: Musee Rodin, Paris, France
Image ID: 28173
Musee National d'Art Moderne, in Centre Georges Pompidou. Centre Georges Pompidou (also known as the Pompidou Centre) houses the Bibliotheque publique d'information, a vast public library, the Musee National d'Art Moderne which is the largest museum for modern art in Europe, and IRCAM, a centre for music and acoustic research.
Location: Musee National dArt Moderne, Paris, France
Image ID: 28136
The Shepherd Faustulus Bringing Romulus and Remus to his Wife, Nicolas Mignard (1654), Musee du Louvre, Paris.
Location: Musee du Louvre, Paris, France
Image ID: 35609
Madonna Enthroned with Saints Catherine and Rose of Alexandria and two angels, Pietro Perugino, 1489 - 1492, Musee du Louvre, Paris.
Location: Musee du Louvre, Paris, France
Image ID: 35611
City Dance, Country Dance, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Musee d'Orsay, Paris.
Location: Musee dOrsay, Paris, France
Image ID: 35613
Eglise de Knokke, 1894, Camille Pissarro, Musee d'Orsay, Paris.
Location: Musee dOrsay, Paris, France
Image ID: 35614
Water Lily Pond, Green Harmony, 1899, Claude Monet, Musee d'Orsay, Paris.
Location: Musee dOrsay, Paris, France
Image ID: 35615
Entrance to the Port of La Rochelle, 1921, Paul Signac, Musee d'Orsay, Paris, Musee d'Orsay, Paris.
Location: Musee dOrsay, Paris, France
Image ID: 35616