Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Friday, December 13, 2019

Italy



Le Cento Fontane (The Hundred Fountains)


Italy



Fontaine de Trevi 1


Italy



So-called Pseudo-Seneca. Commonly believed to represent Hesiod. Ancient Roman bronze now at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italy. Self-made by Massimo Finizio.


Monday, August 12, 2019


Cinque Terre, Italy. The predominant crops in the area have been grapes and olives. 


Saturday, August 10, 2019

Friday, August 9, 2019


Vatican

The papal throne (cathedra), in the apse of Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran, symbolises the Holy See.



Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni - 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564 - , known best as simply Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art


Wednesday, August 7, 2019


Italy

The Temple of Hercules Victor, Rome, built in the mid-2nd century BC, most likely by Lucius Mummius Achaicus, who won the Achaean War.



Italy

The Baths of Diocletian, Rome


Monday, August 5, 2019


Architecture

Temple of Concordia in Agrigento, Sicily.



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Architecture

Brunelleschi, in the building of the dome of Florence Cathedral (Italy) in the early 15th century, not only transformed the building and the city, but also the role and status of the architect.



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