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Painting in the church of San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore, Milan church of early Christian origin, Italy, Europe.
Rome, Italy - December 27, 2015: church of Saint Lawrence outside the wall. Statue of Saint Lawrence which is the cast of the bronze statue placed on the column outside the church. The Basilica is the shrine of the tomb of its namesake, Saint Lawrence. The entrance is free and no taking photos advice is shown at the entrance.
Granada - The baroque fresco of early christian martyr Saint Catharine of Alexandria in nave of church Monasterio de San Jeronimo by Juan de Medina from 18.cent.
Pompeii, House of the Vettii, Casa dei Vettii, VI, 15,1), wall painting of the oecus (room q) at the peristyle. Detail of wall painting showing small angels doing goldsmith work, on the right an angel weighs a piece of jewellery on hand held scales.\n\nAn ancient Fourth-Pompeian-Style Roman wall painting in the House of the Vettii or Casa dei Vettii or Domus Vettiorum. Excavated 1894-1895\n\nThe brothers Aulus Vettius Restitutus and Aulus Vettius Conviva commissioned their Fresco decorations from one of the leading artists; workshops so that their home would be not only a comfortable residence but also a status symbol. Cupids and their female equivalents ( psyches ) engaged in a number of different activities
The Pieta in the Saint Peter's Basilica under the lights in Vatican City
Religious art and architectural details in Sacro Monte di Varallo, Italy
Life of Jesus. By Albert Welles. NY 1874 Completely redrawn (in a new style) ancient illustration.
Inside the church of Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Tuscany, Italy
Statute of an American Indian chief and an Australian aborigine woman and child on the side of the old Hofburg Palace in Vienna. Dates from the imperial period of the Hapsburgs when Vienna was a centre of power.
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Assisi - The fresco of Nativity of Virgin Mary in the church Chiesa Nuova (San Francesco Convertito) by Giacomo Giorgetti from 17. cent.
Pompeii fresco painting cupid making perfume\nAn ancient Fourth-Pompeian-Style Roman wall painting in the House of the Vettii or Casa dei Vettii or Domus Vettiorum. Excavated 1894-1895\n\nThe brothers Aulus Vettius Restitutus and Aulus Vettius Conviva commissioned their Fresco decorations from one of the leading artists; workshops so that their home would be not only a comfortable residence but also a status symbol. Cupids and their female equivalents ( psyches ) engaged in a number of different activities
Elements of an interior interior The Roman Catholic parish in the style of the Church of St. Peter in Vienna in Austria.
Ancient frescoes on the interior walls of the Church of the Annunciation (Italian: Chiesa di Santa Maria Annunciata), a Catholic church in the town of Bienno. The numerous frescos date back to the sixteenth century with works by Giovanni Pietro da Cemmo and Girolamo Romani, known as Romanino.
Vienna, Austria - April 27, 2024: Sculpture of lionesses in the square in front of the entrance gate to baroque Schonbrunn Palace located in Hietzing. It was summer residence of the Habsburg rulers
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.
Europe. France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Ain. Bourg-en-Bresse. 08/05/2019. This colorful image depicts Adoration of the Magi. Georg Pencz. 1500-1550. Oil on wood. Inv. 953.17. Municipal Museum of the Royal Monastery of Brou. Bourg-en-Bresse.
One of Tirol’s true architectural gems is the splendid Cistercian Abbey of Stams, founded in 1273. The photo shows the interior of the baroque collegiate church. The altar screen is overgrown with thick tendrils, a “Tree of Life”, springing from the base of the altar with the figures of Adam and Eve ascends via the central figure of the salvational “Immaculata” to the crucifixion as a symbol of redemption.
Vienna - skulpture of America and Austrailia from facade of Kunsthistorisches museum
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.
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
Religious art in Sacro Monte di Varallo, Italy: Adam and Eve
Seville, Spain, Dec 2 2021, Intricate 15th-century relief by Antonio Maria Aprile da Carona and Pace Gazzini depicting the tomb of Catalina de Ribera, housed in the Monastery of La Cartuja in Seville. Showcases Renaissance artistry and religious symbolism.
Statue of Perseus and Medusa in the historical center of Florence, Italy
Rome, Italy - February 26, 2015: An abandoned monument in front of the main entrance at Villa Albani in Rome, Italy. The Villa was built between 1747 and 1767 by the architect Carlo Marchionni
statues on the column of the Immaculate Conception in Piazza Mignanelli in Rome. The column was commissioned by Pope Pius IX and commemorates the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary proclaimed by Pope Pius IX in 1854. The monument was designed by architect Luigi Poletti and was placed in front of the Palazzo di Propaganda Fide; Rome, Italy
Frescoes in the Ruins of the old city of Pompeii, near Naples, Italy
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A vertical shot of St Sebastian statue in Sant'Agnese in Agone church in Rome, Italy
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.
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