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Fresco from Pompei, Casa di Venus, 1st century AD. Dug out in 1960. It is supposed that this fresco could be the Roman copy of famous portrait of Campaspe, mistress of Alexander the Great\nThe Venus Anadyomene ( Venus rising from the sea ) is considered one of Apelles’s masterpieces. Although the original is lost, we can imagine it somewhat similar to the Roman Venus o.  Venus or Aphrodite (the Greek equivalent) was the Goddess of beauty and love. Her birth took place near Cyprus when she rose out of the calm sea. This moment was that Apelles chose to depict. It is said that for this painting he used Campaspe or Phryne as his model. The latter was another courtesan famous for her beauty. According to Athenaeus, Apelles was inspired to draw Venus’s birth when he saw Phryne swimming naked. The painting eventually ended up in the temple of Caesar in Rome, where, according to Pliny, it sustained minor damaged. Eventually Nero had it removed and replaced with another painting.  After the success of the first Venus, Apelles decided to create an even better one. Unfortunately, he passed away before finishing it.
Villa Adriana (Tivoli, Italy) -  Statue of God at the side of pool named Canopus (background of the blue sky)
The Trevi Fountain is the largest of the famous fountains in Rome. Begun in 1732, it was finally entrusted in 1759 to Pietro Bracci helped by his son Virginio.
Religious art in Sacro Monte di Varallo, Italy: Adam and Eve
Rome, Italy - March 11, 2016: Rome - The  fresco of Jacob's Ladder by Antonio Viviani (1560–1620). Fresco from the vault of stairs in church Chiesa di San Lorenzo in Palatio ad Sancta Sanctorum.
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Famous frescoes of the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii, which tell the initiation rites of a bride to the god Dionysus.
A detail of the majestic fountain of Neptune in Piazza del Popolo in the historic center of Rome near Via del Corso. In neoclassical style, Piazza del Popolo it was the work of the Roman architect Giuseppe Valadier, who in the early 19th century redesigned the entire square and fountains. image in High Definition format.
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland - July 20, 2023 Statue of the goddess Artemis with a lamb. Statue in the \
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.
Religious art and architectural details in Sacro Monte di Varallo, Italy
Pompeii, Italy: fresco
House of Venus in the Shell\nA fresco Venus in the shell in ruins of Ancient Roman city Pompeii, Campania region, Italy. City destroyed by eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Wall fresco in House of Venus depicts goddess and two Cupids.
Oceanus in the Trevi Fountain of Rome, Italy
Inside the church of Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Tuscany, Italy
The Tiber statue in Tuileries Garden, Paris, France
Herculaneum fresco painting Telephus son of  Hercules being nursed by a doe, first century AD\nRoman fresco in the Augusteum ( so called Basilica ) at Herculaneum.\nIn Greek mythology, Telephus was the son of Heracles and Auge, who was the daughter of king Aleus of Tegea.
Senlis, France - June 28 2024: Antique statue of Diana in the Ruin of the Royal Palace (Park of the museum of Venerie) in Senlis - Oise, Picardy, France.
Crypt with a gilded stucco vault which houses the tomb of Andrea Doria, a sixteenth-century work by Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli
Lancut, Poland - October 7, 2018: Lancut castle is a complex of historical buildings located in Lancut, Poland. Historically the residence of the Pilecki, Lubomirski and Potocki families, the complex includes a number of buildings and is surrounded by a park. Gloriette of the Lancut Castle
Ruins of the Stadium in the ancient Greek city of Aphrodisias in western Anatolia, Aydin, Turkey.
Classical marble sculpture of Le Nil in the Tullary Gardens in Paris, France
Statue of the Dioscuri, the Castor twin placed there in 1584 at the Campidoglio square staircase Rome Italy
Sculpture in Villa Adriana
Views of the great beauty of Rome: the Capitoline Hill
The sculpture of Danubius Fountain in Budapest. The female figure symbolizes Sava river, one of the tributaries to Danube
Colosseum amphitheatre in Rome, Italy
Vasari Fresco done in the 1500s. Brunelleschi Cupola, Florence Duomo. Tuscany, Italy.
According to Doro Levi's chronology, Antakya mosaics are dated to the beginning of the 2nd century AD and just after the great earthquake of 526 AD.
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