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Detail of a painting depicting a chariot with two horses, found in a sarcophagus near Paestum, major Graeco-Roman city in the Campania region of Italy. Other images in:
Fragment of Nile mosaic or Palestrina Mosaic. Nilotic landscape from Palestrina, Italy
Italy, Pompeii - Roman house interior, antique fresco decoration, ancient wall painting
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
the artwork is a roman mosaic comes from the ruined Pompeii houses. today is showed in the Archaeological Museum in Naples, Italy
Religious art and architectural details in Sacro Monte di Varallo, Italy
Pompeii is known worldwide for the tragedy that struck it in 79 .C., when the rich Roman city was buried by the eruption of Vesuvius, along with Stabiae, Oplontis and Herculaneum. A huge tragedy that, however, has allowed us to find intact, after almost two thousand years, a vital historical testimony, a glimpse of common life in the greatest empire of antiquity.
Torre Annunziata, Italy - August 28, 2020: Ancient Roman ruins of Poppea Villa in the city of Oplontis now called Torre Annunziata, famous place for well preserved Roman frescoes, no people in the scene, photo taken in Torre Annunziata in Naples province, Italy.
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
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.
Mosaic from Villa romana del Casale in Piazza Armerina
Apollo, with his bow and quiver sits behind a wall or trellis with a muse at the moment when Admetos and Alkestis receiving the oracle\nFresco from House of the Tragic Poet ( Pompeii )\n\nAlcestis and Admetus of Pherae\nAlcestis, in order to comply with the prophecy of Apollo, agrees to sacrifice herself in place of her bridegroom, king Admetus.\nPompeii, House of the Tragic Poet, VI 8, 5, tablinum.\n45-79 AD.\n\nAlcestis was the fairest among the daughters of Pelias, king of Iolcus, and either Anaxibia or Phylomache. She was sister to Acastus, Pisidice, Pelopia and Hippothoe. Alcestis was the wife of Admetus by whom she bore a son, Eumelus, a participant in the siege of Troy, and a daughter, Perimele.\nIn Greek mythology, Admetus was a king of Pherae in Thessaly.
frescoes in Pompeii, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Campania region, Italy. Pompeii city destroyed in 79BC by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Pompeii ancient ruins, italy
Ancient fresco of man with cow and woman, Pompeii, Italy
Religious art in Sacro Monte di Varallo, Italy: Ornament detail
Concrete casts of the victims of volcanic eruption in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii
Bulgaria - Rila Monastery ( Rilski Manastir). The Monastery of Saint John of Rila, also known as Rila Monastery is the largest and most famous Eastern Orthodox monastery in Bulgaria. It is situated in the southwestern Rila Mountains, 117 km south of the capital Sofia in the deep valley of the Rilska River. It is a site UNESCO
Frescoes of Pompeii, Italy
Collegio degli Augustali - Hercules with Achelous and Deianira; Achelous was a river god whom Hercules defeated to conquer Deianira. In the fight Achelous turned himself into a bull, but Hercules tore apart one of the horns.\nHerculaneum, Archaeological Park, Hall of the Augustals (VI, 24) ( Ercolano, Parco Archeologico )\nFresco of the 4th style. 50—79 CE.
Ancient painted wall fresco at the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum, which was destroyed and buried during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD
Oceanus Tethys Mosaic from Daphne (Harbiye) in southern Turkey. Fourth century A.D.
Ornate wall painting in the house of the Tuscan Colonnade
Religious art and architectural details in Sacro Monte di Varallo, Italy
Herculaneum was buried under volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 - This wall painting depicts the contest between Hercules and the River Achelous for the hand of Deianira.
The old sea-god Okeanos, depicted with crab-claw horns, sits beside his wife Tethys, whose temples are decked with wings. Ancient Greek mythology of the period.
fresco in College of the Augustales, temple in Herculaneum, ancient roman town in Italy, destroyed by eruption of vulcano Vesuvius in AD 79
House of the Vettii - North wall of the exedra with painting by Daedalus depicting Pasiphae, the wooden cow.\nPasiphaë was the wife and queen of Minos of Crete. She fell in love with a bull Minos was supposed to sacrifice to Poseidon and told Daedalus to build her a wooden cow disguise so she could have sex with the bull.
Pompeii is known worldwide for the tragedy that struck it in 79 .C., when the rich Roman city was buried by the eruption of Vesuvius, along with Stabiae, Oplontis and Herculaneum. A huge tragedy that, however, has allowed us to find intact, after almost two thousand years, a vital historical testimony, a glimpse of common life in the greatest empire of antiquity.
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