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Fresco in St. Charles's Church in Vienna
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 \
El Greco, Greek (active in Italy and Spain), 1541 - 1614, Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple, c. 1570-1575, Oil on Canvas
Religious art in Sacro Monte di Varallo, Italy: Chapel's interiors
Fagnano Olona, Italy - May 6, 2023: Fagnano Olona, Varese province, Lombardy, Italy: exterior of the historic Madonna della Selva church
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.
Como - The painting of Presentation of Virgin Mary in the Temple in church Santuario del Santissimo Crocifisso by Carlo Innocenzo Carloni (1686–1775).
Inside the church of Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Tuscany, Italy
Engraving from 1884 featuring the Japanese Buddhist monk from the 13th century, Nichiren.  He was miraculously saved from death by a shining light.
Hampshire, UK - September 17, 2021:  An historic manuscript,  hundreds of years old, handwritten in Norman French.
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
Religious art and architectural details in Sacro Monte di Varallo, Italy
Ancient mosaics in Antakya (Hatay), Turkey.
Roman fresco showing flower dealers. Cherubs represent the flower dealers, and the flowers are being carried in baskets over one cherub's shoulder and on the back of a goat. This fresco is from the triclinium (dining room) of the House of the Vettii in Pompeii\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
Milan, Italy - July 16, 2020: Sant Eustorgio, Paleochristian church in Romanesque style in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. Painting in the interior
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.
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)
statues of the monument of Victor Emanuel II seen from Piazza Venezia in Rome; Rome, Italy
Painting in the church of San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore, Milan church of early Christian origin, Italy, Europe.
Painting by Luigi Sabatelli dated 1806 in the Chapel of Madonna del Conforto, Cathedral of Arezzo
Noah's Ark and the Flood in the old book The Bible in Pictures, by G. Doreh, 1897
Vasari Fresco done in the 1500s. Brunelleschi Cupola, Florence Duomo. Tuscany, Italy.
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.
Dionysos discovers Ariadne on Naxos from the house of the colored columns in Pompeii.\nAfter Ariadne helped Theseus escape from the labyrinth, he abandoned her on the island of Naxos. His ship sails off in the upper right. Dionysus and his retinue discover her sleeping; the god falls in love with her and makes her his consort.
Granada, Spain - May 29, 2015: The fresco of scene as St Peter Healing the Cripple in the church Monasterio de San Jeronimo by Juan de Medina from 18.cent.
A certificate awarded to a school child by a British county council in recognition of “good conduct, industry and attendance during the year 1916-17” as the awarding of medals had been suspended “during the Great War”. (All identifying details have been removed.)
Vipiteno, Italy - September 19, 2020:  A Ghotic style fresco in the Holy Ghost church
Human figure sculptures at the base of the lamp posts on Pont Alexandre III
Jesus Christ and Roman Soldiers. Illustration from  an old german bible published by Johann Philipp Andrea in 1704See more BIBLE images here:
Views of the famous  Baroque Vrtbovska Garden in Prague, Czech Republic.  The composition effect of the garden is based on a terrace floor graduation.  The floors are all connected with stairs and supported by walls shaped in baroque curves.  The garden is popular with tourists and residents alike.
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