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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 \
Cuenca, Castile-La Mancha, Spain- December 10, 2023: Painting of Biblical scene on broken stained glass in the Cathedral of Cuenca
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the beautiful oil painting of Judith and Holofernes - Holofernes speaks in Judith's ear
Painting by Luigi Sabatelli dated 1806 in the Chapel of Madonna del Conforto, Cathedral of Arezzo
Terracotta tondo, round bas-relief emblem with young couple in Roman tunics during wheat harvest
Building of the Pyramids by Gustav Richter
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Naples - The detail of Archangel Michael from painting of Fall of the Rebel Angels  in the church Chiesa dell' Ascensione a Chiaia by Luca Giordano (1657).
Pisa, Italy 04.27.2018: Pisa Cathedral (Catedral de Pisa), Italy
Iphigeneia carried to the sacrifice by Odysseus and Menelaos\nThe House of the Tragic Poet ( also called The Homeric House or The Iliadic House ) is a Roman house in Pompeii, Italy dating to the 2nd century BC. The house is famous for its elaborate mosaic floors and frescoes depicting scenes from Greek mythology.\nFrom left to right : Agamemnon - Odysseus - Menelaos ( holding Iphigeneia ) - Calchas
VENICE, ITALY - JULY 02, 2017: Detail from an old historical greek paint over a dish. Mythical heroes and gods fighting on it
Detail of a bas relief from the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, built around 1113  in Sessa Aurunca, a small town of the Caserta province, in  Campania, Italy. The bas relief was sculpted on a marble slab by the medieval artist Pellegrino da Sessa, also known as Peregrinus, in the XIII century.
Milan, Italy - July 16, 2020: Sant Eustorgio, Paleochristian church in Romanesque style in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. Painting in the interior
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.
Fresco in St. Charles's Church in Vienna
Pamukkale, Turkey - Sep 19, 2013: Tourists visiting the Pamukkale travertines or Cotton Castle in Denizli Province, Turkey.
Brescia, Ialy, May 23, 2016: Brescia - The Madonna with the child and st. Charles and st. Latino in church Chiesa di Angela Merici by Julio Cesare Procaccini (1570 - 1625)
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.
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
Part of Roman mosaic in the House of Aion in Nea Paphos, Cyprus
Italy, Pompeii - Roman house interior, antique fresco decoration, ancient wall painting
This international landmark, as seen on the external public-facing door of the baptistery, was designed by Lorenzo Ghiberti (between 1425-1452) and is an icon of the renaissance. The reliefs represent stories from the Old Testament. The visible heads are those of prophets. The doors displayed are now a copy of the original, with those being displayed in a local museum.
The Victorian bronze Achilles statue known as the Wellington Monument at London's Hyde Park corner was sculpted by Richard Westmacott and erected in 1822, as a monument to the Duke of Wellington
Interior of the Cathedral of Braga, whose construction started in the 10th century
Naples - The detail of painting of Fall of the Rebel Angels in the church Chiesa dell' Ascensione a Chiaia by Luca Giordano (1657).
Herculaneum Italy relief of Achilles consulting Oracle of Delphi and Achilles healing Telephus with his spear\n\nTelephus, son of Hercules, who was the mythical founder of Herculaneum.
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 Pallas-Athene Fountain (Pallas-Athene-Brunnen) is a wonderful example of artwork created between 1893 and 1902 to give an allegorical representation of the four most important rivers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It stands in front of the Austrian Parliament building, a Greek revival style palace. This impressive architectural complex is one of the most famous landmark of Vienna.
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