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Cordoba - Jesus prayer in Gethsemane grarden fresco from 17. cent. by unknown artist in church Iglesia San Nicolas de la Villa.
Naples, Italy - October 31 2023: Fresco and wall paintings in House of the Vettii or Casa dei Vettii or Domus Vettiorum in the archaeological site of Pompeii
Psyches gather flowers ( Faniciulle Fioraie - Little flower girls )\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
Detail of monument of Franz Grillparzer, author of play titled Sappho, sculpted by Carl Kundmann (1838–1919) in Volksgarten public park
Painting by Luigi Sabatelli dated 1806 in the Chapel of Madonna del Conforto, Cathedral of Arezzo
Fresco on an ancient marble altar in the Roman city of Pompeii, Southern Italy
Religious art in Sacro Monte di Varallo, Italy: Adam and Eve
Amalfi, Italy, August 11, 2014: Amalfi Cathedral, Cloister of Paradise, built by Filippo Augustariccio between 1266 and 1268. Close up of the decoration
Inside the church of Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Tuscany, Italy
Como - The tapestry of Assumption of Virin Mary in The Cathedral (Duomo di Conmo) from 16. cent.
Roman fresco showing flower dealers. Cherubs represent the flower dealers, and the flowers are being carried in baskets over one cherub's shoulder and on the back of a goat. This fresco is from the triclinium (dining room) of the House of the Vettii in Pompeii\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
France. Haute-Savoie. St. Nicholas of Veroce / St. Gervais-les-Bains. April, 30, 2019. This colorful image of depictions painting (Unknown author): The Souls of Purgatory (details). Church St. Nicholas of Véroce buit in 1725.
14th Century oil painting of Jesus Christ Crucifixion depiction at interior wall of historic church Collégiale Saint Julien. It is a beautiful church located in the southern suburbs of Tournon-sur-Rhone. The church is known for its archaic setting and the Italian architecture that adorn. Built in the 14th Century, this building's main attraction is its awe-inspiring bell tower. Tournon-sur-Rhone, France
Santa Maria cathedral, Gerace in Calabria, Italy
The oldest part of the church - the nave - dates back to around year 1250 and is the only part of the original building, about year 1300 the 8 arches were build in and in 1350 the first frescoes were painted on the chancel arch at the choir, they portraits the four evangelists. Then 150 years later the church was white-washed and decorated by the much so mysterious Elmelundemestrer. In the beginning of the 16th century the old choir was replaced with the one present today and the tower was build.\nThe frescoes was covered for many years but then in 1932-34 they were brought back into the light. Due to the massive layer of dust the frescoes had been protected from the white-wash and in order to bring them forward the restorer only had to dry-out the church and knock/peel of the outer coat of white-wash.
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 \
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
Bergamo - Detail of painting \
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.
Gatchina, Russia - 16 July 2010: Fragment of the ceiling painting of the 18th century in the royal pavilion in the Gatchina Park. Plafond Triumph of Venus, was written in 1797 by artist I. Mettenleiter.
The ancient (2nd Century B.C.) city of Aphrodisias, dedicated to the goddess of love Aphrodite, was a Hellenistic city which also flourished under Roman and Byzantine rule. Aphrodisias today is in the Aegean region of Turkey.
Fresco prayer of a priest over the newborn Jesus
Workum, Friesland, Netherlands: An old (1700s) painting of St. Gertrude Church in the church. Workum is one the 11 historic cities of Friesland.
Villagers at Bassac, southern Laos, watching boat-racing on the Mekong. Bassac is the old name for the village known today as Champasak. The original artwork is a colour lithograph based on a sketch by Louis Delaporte, appearing in the Album Pittoresque, Paris, 1873. Delaporte was the artist on a French expedition exploring the course of the Mekong in the 1860s.
Milan, Italy - April 18, 2023: Interior of the historic Certosa di Garegnano in Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Assisi - The fresco Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise in church Chiesa Nuova (San Francesco Convertito) by Giacomo Giorgetti from half of 17. cent.
Cupid working as goldsmith\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
Fresco from Pompeii (Pompei). Naples, Italy
Ancient Rome: bass reliefs and marble ornamentation in Ostia Antica, representing a battle
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