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Fresco in St. Charles's Church in Vienna
Pompeii, House of the Vettii, Casa dei Vettii, VI, 15,1), wall painting of the oecus (room q) at the peristyle. Detail of wall painting showing small angels doing goldsmith work, on the right an angel weighs a piece of jewellery on hand held scales.\n\nAn ancient Fourth-Pompeian-Style Roman wall painting in the House of the Vettii or Casa dei Vettii or Domus Vettiorum. Excavated 1894-1895\n\nThe brothers Aulus Vettius Restitutus and Aulus Vettius Conviva commissioned their Fresco decorations from one of the leading artists; workshops so that their home would be not only a comfortable residence but also a status symbol. Cupids and their female equivalents ( psyches ) engaged in a number of different activities
Fagnano Olona, Italy - May 6, 2023: Fagnano Olona, Varese province, Lombardy, Italy: exterior of the historic Madonna della Selva church
The National Academy Building in Athens, which was built from 1859-1885. Composite photo
Copenhagen, Denmark - September 13, 2010: Mercurius or Hermes God white stone statue closeup on pillar at east side entrance to Churchill Parken under gray cloudscape
(469–399 BC), ancient Athenian philosopher. This is his statue, located before the Academy of Athens, Greece.
Painting in the church of San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore, Milan church of early Christian origin, Italy, Europe.
Florence, İtaly - 08/29/2023.\nFlorence is the capital city of the region of Tuscany in Central Italy. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 360,930 inhabitants in 2023, and 984,991 in its metropolitan area.\nFlorence was a centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era. It is considered by many academics to have been the birthplace of the Renaissance, becoming a major artistic, cultural, commercial, political, economic and financial center. During this time, Florence rose to a position of enormous influence in Italy, Europe, and beyond. Its turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful Medici family and numerous religious and republican revolutions. From 1865 to 1871 the city served as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. The Florentine dialect forms the base of Standard Italian and it became the language of culture throughout Italy due to the prestige of the masterpieces by Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini.\nThe city attracts millions of tourists each year, and UNESCO declared the Historic Centre of Florence a World Heritage Site in 1982. The city is noted for its culture, Renaissance art and architecture and monuments. The city also contains numerous museums and art galleries, such as the Uffizi Gallery and the Palazzo Pitti, and still exerts an influence in the fields of art, culture and politics. Due to Florence's artistic and architectural heritage, Forbes ranked it as the most beautiful city in the world in 2010.\nFlorence plays an important role in Italian fashion, and is ranked in the top 15 fashion capitals of the world by Global Language Monitor; furthermore, it is a major national economic centre, as well as a tourist and industrial hub.
A statue in Campo Santo, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy
The Academy of Athens with the philosophers Plato and Socrates. The building was completed in 1885.
The statue of Apollo. Member of the Twelve Olympians, God of oracles, healing, archery, music and arts, sunlight, knowledge, herds and flocks, and protection of the young
Python, in Greek mythology, a huge serpent that was killed by the god Apollo at Delphi either because it would not let him found his oracle, being accustomed itself to giving oracles, or because it had persecuted Apollo's mother, Leto, during her pregnancy.\n\nThe fresco shows the Omphalos stone covered with a net and the Python wrapped around it. A priestess stands at left with a sacrificial bull.\n\nA detail from a sacrificial scene shows a bull being brought to the omphalos - Made up of a stone and a snake it represents the navel of the world - Apollo plays the zither.\n\nThe ancient Greeks also used omphalos to refer to a sacred, rounded stone in the Temple of Apollo at Delphi that was supposed to mark the center of the earth.
A stamp printed by France 1978, shows The Sabine Women by Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825)
Large statues of the classical Greek philosophers Plato and Socrates at the Academy of Athens in the centre of the Greek Capital.\n\nThe statues was completed in 1885 by Leonidas Drosis.
Vienna, Austria - April 27, 2024: Sculpture of lionesses in the square in front of the entrance gate to baroque Schonbrunn Palace located in Hietzing. It was summer residence of the Habsburg rulers
Painting by Luigi Sabatelli dated 1806 in the Chapel of Madonna del Conforto, Cathedral of Arezzo
Inside the church of Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Tuscany, Italy
The Trevi Fountain is the largest of the famous fountains in Rome. Begun in 1732, it was finally entrusted in 1759 to Pietro Bracci helped by his son Virginio.
Io with bovine horns is kept under surveillance by Argos to prevent Zeus from seducing her, as requested by Hera.\nPompeii - House of Meleagro.\nIo was, in Greek mythology, one of the mortal lovers of Zeus. An Argive princess, she was an ancestor of many kings and heroes, such as Perseus.\nIo was tied to an olive tree in Heraion, the holy temple of Hera outside Argos, and the fierce hundred-eyed dog, Argus Panoptes, was guarding her and keeping Zeus away. However, Zeus found the way to set Io free and disregard his wife without doing it in person.\nHigh Resolution
Bavaria statue located at the border of the Theresienwiese in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, where the Beer Fest takes place each September.
Fontana Pretoria detail , look sideways sculptures at \nPiazza Pretoria (Palermo). Piazza della Vergogna , Italia. As you can see no sculpture look in your eyes, is called the shamefulness, embarrassment square.
A vertical shot of a stone statue of a young musician holding a violin
Human figure sculptures at the base of the lamp posts on Pont Alexandre III
Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, July 16, 2010: A stamp printed in Greece 1983 show Odysseus slaying suitors.
Madrid, Spain - June 28, 2023: View of the Biblioteca Nacional de España (National Library of Spain) in the city center of Madrid. The National Library of Spain (Biblioteca Nacional de España) is a major public library, the largest in Spain and one of the largest in the world. The library was founded by King Felipe V in 1711.
Paris, france, april 04, 2017 : mural paintings decor of saint merri church, anonymous artists, 18th century
Io with bovine horns is kept under surveillance by Argos to prevent Zeus from seducing her, as requested by Hera.\nPompeii - House of Meleagro.\nIo was, in Greek mythology, one of the mortal lovers of Zeus. An Argive princess, she was an ancestor of many kings and heroes, such as Perseus.\nIo was tied to an olive tree in Heraion, the holy temple of Hera outside Argos, and the fierce hundred-eyed dog, Argus Panoptes, was guarding her and keeping Zeus away. However, Zeus found the way to set Io free and disregard his wife without doing it in person.
Postage stamp isolated on black
Statue of the Dioscuri, the Castor twin placed there in 1584 at the Campidoglio square staircase Rome Italy
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