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Naked woman marble lied statue with lion skin, isolated on black background
Ares and Aphrodite - Pompeii, House of the Wedding of Hercules (or House of Mars and Venus).\nMars lifts the blue mantle of Venus, to admire her nakedness characterized only by a gold chain arranged in an X on her chest. Characteristic is the representation of the two sexes which provides a dark complexion for the man and a light and delicate complexion for the woman. Two cupids play with the weapons of Mars. The shield and helmet send back reflections of light.
close-up of The Rape of Polyxena statue in Florence Italy\nThe Rape of Polyxena is a marble statue located in the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence, Italy's Piazza della Signoria. It was sculpted by Pio Fedi in 1868, it was placed alongside several sculptures from the Renaissance.
Religious art and architectural details in Sacro Monte di Varallo, Italy
Bruges - Hagar and Ismael on the desert by Mathias de Visht  (1694)  in st. Jacobs church (Jakobskerk)
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.
Santa Maria cathedral, Gerace in Calabria, Italy
Il ratto delle Sabine statue, the Rape of the Sabine Women, also known as the Abduction of the Sabine Women or the Kidnapping of the Sabine Women from Artist Giambologna on the Loggia dei lanzi in the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, Italy, adjoining the Uffizi Gallery.
the beautiful oil painting of Judith and Holofernes - Holofernes speaks in Judith's ear
Pompeii Centaurs with man playing the zither Villa of Cicero ( later known as the Villa of Diomedes ), outside Pompeii 1-37 AD
Detail of the tapestry from Como Cathedral in Italy. Como Cathedral is the Roman Catholic cathedral opened at 1396.
Statues in Firenze, Piazza della Signoria
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Genius of the Arts, statue by Filippo Gnaccarini at the nymphaeum on Pincian Hill in the city of Rome the capital of Italy.
Marcialla (Fi), Italy - 11 July 2005: The fresco \
East Doors (Gates of Paradise) by Lorenzo Ghiberti on Florence Baptistery (Battistero di San Giovanni) in Tuscany, Italy. These doors consist of 10 panels depicting scenes from the Old Testament and were commissioned in 1424. Once completed, they were described by Michelangelo as being fit to be the 'gates of paradise'. The doors displayed are now a copy of the original, with those being displayed in a local museum.
Statue by Jean de Boulogne on the streets of Florence, Italy.\n\n
Ares and Aphrodite - Pompeii, House of the Wedding of Hercules (or House of Mars and Venus).\nMars lifts the blue mantle of Venus, to admire her nakedness characterized only by a gold chain arranged in an X on her chest. Characteristic is the representation of the two sexes which provides a dark complexion for the man and a light and delicate complexion for the woman. Two cupids play with the weapons of Mars. The shield and helmet send back reflections of light.
Naples - The painting of Saint Sebastian tended by Saint Irene in the church Chiesa di San Nicola alla Carita by Francesco Peresi (1709 - 1743).
Sculptures in Piazza della Signoria of Florence:Rape of the Sabine
Detail of the tomb of the constables in the cathedral of Santa María of Burgos, Castilla y León, Spain.
Possagno, Italy - June 2022: Venus and Mars - Venere e Marte - by Antonio Canova, 1816
Religious statue of nun Bordeaux church
Statue of Herkules at the Herkulespavillionen in Copenhagen.
Cupid in a chariot race.\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
Brescia, Italy - May 23, 2016: Brescia - The painting Prophet Elijah Receiving Bread and Water from an Angel in church Chiesa di San Giovanni Evangelista by by Alessandro Bonvicino - Moretto (1498 - 1554).
This international landmark, as seen on the external public-facing door of the baptistery, was designed by Lorenzo Ghiberti (between 1425-1452) and is an icon of the renaissance. The reliefs represent stories from the Old Testament. The visible heads are those of prophets. The doors displayed are now a copy of the original, with those being displayed in a local museum.
London, UK
Lyon Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church located on Place Saint-Jean in central Lyon. Begun in 1180 on the ruins of a 6th-century church, it was completed in 1476. The image shows a close up of a marble statue inside the gothic church.
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