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Fresco in St. Charles's Church in Vienna
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 \
the beautiful oil painting of Judith and Holofernes - Holofernes speaks in Judith's ear
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.
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).
Painting by Luigi Sabatelli dated 1806 in the Chapel of Madonna del Conforto, Cathedral of Arezzo
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
Workum, Friesland, Netherlands: An old (1700s) painting of Dutch ships at sea in St. Gertrude Church, Workum, one the 11 historic cities of Friesland.
Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch (Acts 8). Copper engraving by Carl Schuler, published c. 1850.
Anthony van Dyck, Flemish, 1599-1641, The Betrayal of Christ, c. 1618-1620, Oil on canvas
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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Palma de Mallorca - The painting of God the Creator and St. Michael archangel in presbytery of church San Miguel by Juan Muntaner Cladera (end of 18. cent.).
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
Milan, Italy - July 16, 2020: Sant Eustorgio, Paleochristian church in Romanesque style in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. Painting in the interior
Religious art and architectural details in Sacro Monte di Varallo, Italy
Austria. Vienna. September, 13, 2013. This colorful image depicts a woman giving food or drink to a sick person. Details. Fresco dating from 1726-1729. The frescoes of the cupolas extend over 1,250 m2 and trace the glory of St. Charles Boromée. Johann Michael Rottmayr (1654-1730). Karlskirche. St. Charles's Church. 1716.
Qusayr Amra,probably built between 730 - 740 AD, is located near Wadi Butum, a seasonal watercourse There was both a fortress with a garrison and a residence/pleasure palace that comprised a reception hall and hammam bath complex with changing room, warm and hot rooms - all decorated with figurative murals and extensive fresco paintings The bath building and reception hall are unique for Islamic architecture, depicting bathing and hunting scenes, Byzantine style portraits, crafts and trades and  animals, together with inscriptions in both Greek and Arabic The  zodiac on the domed ceiling of the caldarium, hot room, is one of the earliest known surviving examples of a map of the heavens on a dome
Venice, Italy - November 2022: Ceiling of San Pantalon church, the biggest canvas painting in the world, depicting the Martyrdom and Apotheosis of St Pantalon, by Giovanni Antonio Fumiani 1680 - 1704
One of the sculptures of the Twelve Apostles in the niches of the Basilica of St. John Lateran. It shows Matthew, the tax collector.
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)
Dionysos discovers Ariadne on Naxos from the house of the colored columns in Pompeii.\nAfter Ariadne helped Theseus escape from the labyrinth, he abandoned her on the island of Naxos. His ship sails off in the upper right. Dionysus and his retinue discover her sleeping; the god falls in love with her and makes her his consort.
Milan, Italy - April 8, 2023: Milan, Lombardy, Italy: interior of the medieval San Marco church. Andata al Calvario by Ercole Procaccini
Workum, Friesland, Netherlands: An old (1700s) painting of St. Gertrude Church in the church. Workum is one the 11 historic cities of Friesland.
Chapel of the Third Order, painted decoration from the 18th century, Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales
Part of an alabaster pulpit showing Christ healing the sick, within St Bartholomew the Less church in the grounds of St Bartholomew’s Hospital. The hospital was founded in 1123.
Detail of the tapestry from Como Cathedral in Italy. Como Cathedral is the Roman Catholic cathedral opened at 1396.
Religious art in Sacro Monte di Varallo, Italy: Ornament detail
Parma - The painting of The Battle of the Angels after Apocalypse of St. John in church Chiesa di San Giovanni Evangelista by unknown artist.
House of Meleagro\nHandmaiden of Dido ( also known as Elissa was the legendary founder and first queen of the Phoenician city-state of Carthage ( located in Tunisia ), in 814 BC. )\nHandmaiden is a female personal attendant or servant.
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