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XIII century illuminated code from Virgil's Aeneid, National Library in Naples, Italy.
Detail with initial letter and musical notation from illuminated antiphonary manuscript from Ferarra
A Rabbi sits alone on his desk by the Western Wall of Jerusalem studying with his holy jewish books of Torah and Talmud.
A closeup of a book in the National Library of Madrid
Milan - The icon Jesus reproves the Scribes and Pharisees in the church Chiesa dei Santi Nereo e Achilleo by Iulian Rosu.
Old manuscript in Burgos cathedral
East Doors (Gates of Paradise) by Lorenzo Ghiberti on Florence Baptistery (Battistero di San Giovanni) in Tuscany, Italy. These doors consist of 10 panels depicting scenes from the Old Testament and were commissioned in 1424. Once completed, they were described by Michelangelo as being fit to be the 'gates of paradise'. The doors displayed are now a copy of the original, with those being displayed in a local museum.
Picture shows Saul spared by David in the cave from Hebrew bible story in biblical costume in desert lands.
Detail with initial letter and musical notation from illuminated antiphonary manuscript from Ferarra
Florence, Italy - May 13, 2019: Lorenzo Ghiberti's Gate of Heaven. Solomon receives the Queen of Sheba, the gate panel
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.
Illustration in 15th Century French Book of Hours, showing Joseph and Mary fleeing to Egypt. Photographed at the Dunedin Public Library, New Zealand and used with permission from curators of the Reed Collection.
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.
Berlin - The part of painting of Last Judgment in church Marienkirche by unknown artist of 16. cent.
Religious art and architectural details in Sacro Monte di Varallo, Italy
Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch (Acts 8). Copper engraving by Carl Schuler, published c. 1850.
Girona, Spain - 18 July, 2024: Illustrated manuscript of the Beatus of Girona
Hampshire, UK - September 17, 2021: An historic manuscript, hundreds of years old, handwritten in Norman French.
View of sculptures in Saint Barbara's Cathedral, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, located in Kutna Hora, Czech Republic. 15/July/2021
Zal (with a black beard) celebrates the birth of a son. Persian miniature from the Shahnamah
Vasari Fresco done in the 1500s. Brunelleschi Cupola, Florence Duomo. Tuscany, 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.
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
this is very old Chinese traditional herbal medicine ancient book(Golden Mirror of Medicine),from qing dynasty have more than 200 years(maybe 18th century).the book records the use of acupuncture,herbal medicine and book of changes with chinese script.It is preserved complete by one chinese doctor of my grandfather.
Temple restoration in the old book The Bible in Pictures, by G. Doreh, 1897
Vipiteno, Italy - September 19, 2020: A Ghotic style fresco in the Holy Ghost church
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.
Drollery on the lower margin of a medieval manuscript, showing a dragon
Religious art in Sacro Monte di Varallo, Italy: Statue detail
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