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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.
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 \
Noah's Ark and the Flood in the old book The Bible in Pictures, by G. Doreh, 1897
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: Chapel's interiors
Digital painting of Tanygrisiau reservoir and the surrounding area near Blaenau Ffestiniog in Snowdonia.
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.
Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch (Acts 8). Copper engraving by Carl Schuler, published c. 1850.
Pallas Athena fountain pedestal with statues representing democratic virtues unveiled in 1902 in front of the Austrian Parliament building by Carl Kundmann (1838-1919)
Taken on 03/01/2015 at Belvedere palace in Vienna, Austria. It was built by Baroque architect Johann Lukas Von Hildebrandt.\nBelvedere's construction began as early as 1717. Beginning in 1718, interior ornamentation was done. The structure was finished in 1723.
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.
Rome - Fountain of Neptune in Piazza Popolo
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Tovia and Angel in the old book The Bible in Pictures, by G. Doreh, 1897
Palermo, Italy - June 18 2021. The underground of the Palermo Cathedral is full by bishops graves
Picture shows Saul spared by David in the cave from Hebrew bible story in biblical costume in desert lands.
Ruins of the ancient city of Milet, Aydın, Turkey.
Isfahan, IRAN - may 11, 2017 - Old paintings on the entrance wall of Qeysarie bazaar
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.
Marble sculpture of Zeus and Cupid, culture of Europe
Painting by Luigi Sabatelli dated 1806 in the Chapel of Madonna del Conforto, Cathedral of Arezzo
The bronze serpent that Moses placed in the old book The Bible in Pictures, by G. Doreh, 1897
The monumental statue of the fountain of the Goddess of Rome in Piazza del Popolo in Rome, under the Pincio gardens. In neoclassical style, Piazza del Popolo it was the work of the Roman architect Giuseppe Valadier, who in the early 1800s redesigned the entire square.
Zouave and Turk soldiers.Engraving aged 1864.
Warsaw, Poland - July 28: statue in the garden of Wilanow Palace July 28, 2022 in Warsaw, Poland
Statue in Hadrianic Baths in Aphrodisias Ancient City in Geyre, Aydin, Turkiye
Io with bovine horns is kept under surveillance by Argos to prevent Zeus from seducing her, as requested by Hera.\nPompeii - House of Meleagro.\nIo was, in Greek mythology, one of the mortal lovers of Zeus. An Argive princess, she was an ancestor of many kings and heroes, such as Perseus.\nIo was tied to an olive tree in Heraion, the holy temple of Hera outside Argos, and the fierce hundred-eyed dog, Argus Panoptes, was guarding her and keeping Zeus away. However, Zeus found the way to set Io free and disregard his wife without doing it in person.
Famous frescoes of the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii, which tell the initiation rites of a bride to the god Dionysus.
Statues adorning the Fontana della Dea di Roma, Piazza del Popolo, Rome, Italy
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