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New Orleans, USA - Dec 11, 2017: Ancient biblical text page opened on public display at the iconic St. Louis Cathedral at the French Quarter. Feature ornate decorative drawings and artful manuscripts.
Basilica di Santa Caterina d'Alessandria, Southern Italy, Galatina, Apulia: Interiors fresco details
Jerusalem, Israel - December 8, 2013: A Bible written in ancient Geez language in the in Ethiopian Patriarchate in Jerusalem.
old fresco of an angel with violin, unfinished restored
Hampshire, UK - September 17, 2021:  An historic manuscript,  hundreds of years old, handwritten in Norman French.
An artist painting frescos in the church.
Detail with initial letter and musical notation from illuminated antiphonary manuscript from Ferarra
San Michele, Venice, Italy - October 8th 2022:  San Michele is a small island in the Venetian lagoon where the cemetery for the city is placed.  The picture shows the the yard in connection to the church and chapels which are part of the cemetery activities.
Detail shot of an old and historic Islamic scientist is working in his studio writing, reading and exploring.
Religious art and architectural details in Sacro Monte di Varallo, Italy
Girona, Spain - 18 July, 2024: Illustrated manuscript of the Beatus of Girona
Galatina, Apulia (Italy): a composition made of details from the XVth century frescoes painted on the walls of the Basilica of St. Catherine of Alexandria.
Medieval Book of Armenia.Fragment of the manuscript.Vaspurakan ,15-16 centuries.
The 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.
Open old christian book in the Ipatievsky Monastery. Kostroma, Russia. May, 2013.
1989 old Positive Film scanned, Intrior of  Church of St. Gian - Reformierte Kirche San Gian, Celerina Schlarignar, Switzerland.
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Religious art in Sacro Monte di Varallo, Italy: Fresco detail
Detail with initial letter and musical notation from illuminated antiphonary manuscript from Ferarra
Freshly restored frescos in a church ceiling in Sankt Mariæ Kirke – The Church of Our Lady – is part of a former Carmelite Priory and the church is from 1430. Today it is a normal Danish church.
Girona, Spain - 18 July, 2024: Detail of the Tapestry of Creation, Girona Cathedral Museum
A closeup of an illuminated medieval manuscript on a  parchment with the historical Gregorian chant
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.
Musical angels, San Giovanni a Carbonara church, Naples, Italy
Head in medaillon. Roman fresco from the Casa dei Vettii (VI 15,1) in Pompeii.
Medieval Book of Armenia.Fragment of the manuscript.Vaspurakan ,15-16 centuries.
14th century frescoes in the Upper Basilica of St Francis in Assisi
Illustration of a scribe from a Title Page in a Facsimile of William Tyndale's 1525 edition of the English New Testament. From the Reed Rare Books Collection in Dunedin, New Zealand.
Detail of a fresco on a wall of the Romanesque church of Santa Maria Assunta, in Bominaco, L'Aquiila province, in Abruzzo (Italy). The church was founded around the year 1080, XII century
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