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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 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 \
close-up of The Rape of Polyxena statue in Florence Italy\nThe Rape of Polyxena is a marble statue located in the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence, Italy's Piazza della Signoria. It was sculpted by Pio Fedi in 1868, it was placed alongside several sculptures from the Renaissance.
Ares and Aphrodite - Pompeii, House of the Wedding of Hercules (or House of Mars and Venus).\nMars lifts the blue mantle of Venus, to admire her nakedness characterized only by a gold chain arranged in an X on her chest. Characteristic is the representation of the two sexes which provides a dark complexion for the man and a light and delicate complexion for the woman. Two cupids play with the weapons of Mars. The shield and helmet send back reflections of light.
Aiace holding up the body of Achilles or Patroclo and Menelao Sculpture in Piazza della Signoria in Florence, Italy.
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.
the beautiful oil painting of Judith and Holofernes - Holofernes speaks in Judith's ear
The City of Paris France on March 29, 2014: Statue on the Louvre Museum grounds in Paris France
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)
Religious art and architectural details in Sacro Monte di Varallo, Italy
Milan, Italy - July 16, 2020: Sant Eustorgio, Paleochristian church in Romanesque style in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. Painting in the interior
Ares and Aphrodite - Pompeii, House of the Wedding of Hercules (or House of Mars and Venus).\nMars lifts the blue mantle of Venus, to admire her nakedness characterized only by a gold chain arranged in an X on her chest. Characteristic is the representation of the two sexes which provides a dark complexion for the man and a light and delicate complexion for the woman. Two cupids play with the weapons of Mars. The shield and helmet send back reflections of light.
Venus statue inside a niche, Trieste - Italy
Statue of Perseus and Medusa in the historical center of Florence, Italy
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
Painting by Luigi Sabatelli dated 1806 in the Chapel of Madonna del Conforto, Cathedral of Arezzo
Parma - The fresco of Macacre of Inocents in Duomo by Lattanzio Gambara (1567 - 1573).
Medici Lion and Menelaus Carrying the Body of Patroclus (Pasquino Group) at Loggia dei Lanzi at Florence in Tuscany, Italy. The statue was done by Giovanni Girolamo Frezza in 1704. It depicts King Menelaus carrying the body of Patroclus away from the Trojan War.
Outdoor statue in the Piazza della Signoria, Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
Herculaneum, Augusteum (cd. Basilica)\nAs a boy the Greek hero Achilles was entrusted to the wise Centaur Chiron. The centaur Chiron raised Achilles at the request of Achilles' mother. This centaur, half man, half horse, was, in classical mythology, a famous teacher to various heroes and gods. Attributes in the oil sketch, such as lyre, arrow and hunting horns, refer to his lessons in music and poetry and hunting.\nThe prototype for this fresco was not another painting but a statue that Pliny the Elder recalls was exhibited in Rome in the Saepta Iulia.
France. Haute-Savoie. St. Nicholas of Veroce / St. Gervais-les-Bains. April, 30, 2019. This colorful image of depictions painting (Unknown author): The Souls of Purgatory (details). Church St. Nicholas of Véroce buit in 1725.
Il ratto delle Sabine statue, the Rape of the Sabine Women, also known as the Abduction of the Sabine Women or the Kidnapping of the Sabine Women from Artist Giambologna on the Loggia dei lanzi in the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, Italy, adjoining the Uffizi Gallery.
Possagno, Italy - June 2022: Venus and Mars - Venere e Marte - by Antonio Canova, 1816
Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel next to Louvre Museum at Paris, France
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).
Statue of Ratto delle Sabine, Loggia de' Lanzi in Florence
The impressive Louis XIV Equestrian statue outside the Louvre Museum in Paris.
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
Perseus with the Head of Medusa by Benvenuto Cellini at Loggia dei Lanzi on Piazza della Signoria. This sculpture which is in a public space on a town square was built between 1545-1554.
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