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Neptune sculpture in Trevi Fountain. Rome, Italy

Indian deity - Goddess Durga idols being prepared for the festival Durga Puja. Its a 5 day long festival which ends with the immersion of these idols in the river.

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

$Python, in Greek mythology, a huge serpent that was killed by the god Apollo at Delphi either because it would not let him found his oracle, being accustomed itself to giving oracles, or because it had persecuted Apollo's mother, Leto, during her pregnancy.\n\nThe fresco shows the Omphalos stone covered with a net and the Python wrapped around it. A priestess stands at left with a sacrificial bull.\n\nA detail from a sacrificial scene shows a bull being brought to the omphalos - Made up of a stone and a snake it represents the navel of the world - Apollo plays the zither.\n\nThe ancient Greeks also used omphalos to refer to a sacred, rounded stone in the Temple of Apollo at Delphi that was supposed to mark the center of the earth.$

Vienna, Austria - Oct 12, 2019: Classic Sculpture at Belvedere Palace Gardens - Vienna, Austria

Religious art in Sacro Monte di Varallo, Italy: Chapel's interiors

Close-up detail of a biblical figure in Bernini's sculpted Baroque Fountain of the Four Rivers in Piazza Navona, juxtaposed against a billboard for Travis Scott's album release in the historic old town.

Mosaic of Saints. Religion. Orthodox church in Kirowograd Ukraine

Inside the church of Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Tuscany, Italy

Marble Sculpture of the goddess of Glory by Pietro Baratta in Summer Garden, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Statue of the Dioscuri, the Castor twin placed there in 1584 at the Campidoglio square staircase Rome Italy

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$Io with bovine horns is kept under surveillance by Argos to prevent Zeus from seducing her, as requested by Hera.\nPompeii - House of Meleagro.\nIo was, in Greek mythology, one of the mortal lovers of Zeus. An Argive princess, she was an ancestor of many kings and heroes, such as Perseus.\nIo was tied to an olive tree in Heraion, the holy temple of Hera outside Argos, and the fierce hundred-eyed dog, Argus Panoptes, was guarding her and keeping Zeus away. However, Zeus found the way to set Io free and disregard his wife without doing it in person.$

Johann Strauss Monument in Stadtpark, Vienna, Austria

Religious art and architectural details in Sacro Monte di Varallo, Italy

Pallas-Athena-Brunnen Fountain in front of the Austrian Parliament in Vienna, Austria

$Florence, İtaly - 08/29/2023.\nFlorence is the capital city of the region of Tuscany in Central Italy. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 360,930 inhabitants in 2023, and 984,991 in its metropolitan area.\nFlorence was a centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era. It is considered by many academics to have been the birthplace of the Renaissance, becoming a major artistic, cultural, commercial, political, economic and financial center. During this time, Florence rose to a position of enormous influence in Italy, Europe, and beyond. Its turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful Medici family and numerous religious and republican revolutions. From 1865 to 1871 the city served as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. The Florentine dialect forms the base of Standard Italian and it became the language of culture throughout Italy due to the prestige of the masterpieces by Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini.\nThe city attracts millions of tourists each year, and UNESCO declared the Historic Centre of Florence a World Heritage Site in 1982. The city is noted for its culture, Renaissance art and architecture and monuments. The city also contains numerous museums and art galleries, such as the Uffizi Gallery and the Palazzo Pitti, and still exerts an influence in the fields of art, culture and politics. Due to Florence's artistic and architectural heritage, Forbes ranked it as the most beautiful city in the world in 2010.\nFlorence plays an important role in Italian fashion, and is ranked in the top 15 fashion capitals of the world by Global Language Monitor; furthermore, it is a major national economic centre, as well as a tourist and industrial hub.$

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.

The Seine and the Marne at the Jardin des Tuileries

Turin, Piedmont, Italy - 12 09 2023: The Count of Cavour was an Italian politician, businessman, economist and noble, and a leading figure in the movement towards Italian unification.

Vasari Fresco done in the 1500s. Brunelleschi Cupola, Florence Duomo. Tuscany, Italy.

The gilded bronze monument of Johann Strauß II, is one of the most known and most frequently photographed monuments in Vienna.

$Herculaneum, Augusteum (cd. Basilica)\nAs a boy the Greek hero Achilles was entrusted to the wise Centaur Chiron. The centaur Chiron raised Achilles at the request of Achilles' mother. This centaur, half man, half horse, was, in classical mythology, a famous teacher to various heroes and gods. Attributes in the oil sketch, such as lyre, arrow and hunting horns, refer to his lessons in music and poetry and hunting.\nThe prototype for this fresco was not another painting but a statue that Pliny the Elder recalls was exhibited in Rome in the Saepta Iulia.$

$House of Venus in the Shell\nA fresco Venus in the shell in ruins of Ancient Roman city Pompeii, Campania region, Italy. City destroyed by eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Wall fresco in House of Venus depicts goddess and two Cupids.$

The sculpture of Danubius Fountain in Budapest. The female figure symbolizes Sava river, one of the tributaries to Danube

Human figure sculptures at the base of the lamp posts on Pont Alexandre III

Fresco from temple of Isis. Io and Isis at Canopo from Ekklesiasterion of Pompeii (Pompei). Naples, Italy

Ornate stone statue on the Pont Alexandre III bridge and the Eiffel Tower in the background, Paris, France

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