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This is an original unsigned 17th century painting.  The artist is unknown but it is in the style of Sir Peter Lely (Dutch/British, 1618-1680).  A portrait of Anna Maria Talbot (1642-1702), Countess of Shrewsbury from 1659-1668 by virtue of her marriage to Francis Talbot the 11th Earl of Shrewsbury, England. Francis Talbot died from wounds received in a duel with Anna's lover, the second Duke of Buckingham.  In a beat-up gilt wood frame.
Tight Shot Of Statue On Top California Statue Capital Building
Palermo, Italy - October 17, 2022: Detail of a fresco of the Pompeiana hall in the apartments of  the Norman Palace also known as the Royal Palace
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
Religious art in Sacro Monte di Varallo, Italy: Chapel's interiors
Rome - The marble statue of Ecstasy of Beata Ludovica Albertoni in the church Chiesa di San Francesco a Ripa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1671-1674).
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.
Chiang Mai, Thailand - February 7, 2018: Fresco depicting a scene from the life of Buddha at wall of Wat Phra That Doi Suthep, which is the major tourist destination in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
The Basilica of Saint-Denisis a large former medieval abbey church and present cathedral in the commune of Saint-Denis, a northern suburb of Paris. The church was completed in 1144 and widely considered the first structure to employ all of the elements of Gothic architecture. The image shows a tomb inside the cathedral.
Beautiful painting of a young man and woman of the Palatine Chapel or Cappella Palatina in the old town of Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Cupid in a chariot race.\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
A statue in Campo Santo, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy
Painting by Luigi Sabatelli dated 1806 in the Chapel of Madonna del Conforto, Cathedral of Arezzo
Naples - The painting of Saint Sebastian tended by Saint Irene in the church Chiesa di San Nicola alla Carita by Francesco Peresi (1709 - 1743).
Inside the church of Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Tuscany, Italy
The Sack of Baltimore took place in 1631, when the village of Baltimore, West Cork, Ireland, was attacked by Ottoman Empire slavers from the Barbary Coast of North Africa – Dutchmen, Algerians and Ottoman Turks. From an 1886 antique book \
Digital painting of Tanygrisiau reservoir and the surrounding area near Blaenau Ffestiniog in Snowdonia.
Noah's Ark and the Flood in the old book The Bible in Pictures, by G. Doreh, 1897
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.
Perseus with the Head of Medusa (1545–1554) by Benvenuto Cellini, in the Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence, Italy
Biella - The detail of Impenitent thief as the part of Crucifixion fresco in the church Chiesa di San Sebastiano by master of Lombard school from 16. cent.
Batumi, Georgia-July 27, 2018: Statue of Poseidon, God of the Sea in Batumi. The statue was taken as a half portrait.
Indian deity - Goddess Durga idols being prepared for the festival Durga Puja. Its a 5 day long festival which ends with the immersion of these idols in the river.
Painting in the church of San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore, Milan church of early Christian origin, Italy, Europe.
Monopoli, metropolitan city of Bari, Apulia, Italy - 26 march 2023: Cathedral Basilica Maria Santissima della Madia - The pictorial cycle, created around 1732 by Michelangelo Signorile from Bari, commissioned by Bishop Iorio, recalls, with four paintings, the story of the coming of the Icon of the Madonna
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13 May 2018, Budapest, Hungary: Statues of the Atlases holding an balcony
Religious art and architectural details in Sacro Monte di Varallo, Italy
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