Ancient Mosaics and Frescoes

Images showcasing intricate ancient mosaics and frescoes, highlighting geometric patterns, historical ruins, and artistic fragments from archaeological sites.

Fragment of old canvas from an antique painting

Ancient drawings in the Baths and baths in the archaeological ruins of the Butrint or Butrinto National Park in Albania

shield fresco, of which over two hundred fragments were found, from the Inner Forecourt of the Old Palace at Tiryns. Mycenaean National Museum of Archaeology, Athens

Roman era. Opus sectile paviment. 1st century AD. House of the south-western suburb of Tarraco. Detail. Spain. National Archeological Museum. Tarragona. Spain.

mosaico con decoracion geometrica y vegetal, Opus tessellatum, siglos III - IV d.C, calle Cabezo , Calahorra, Museo de la Romanización, Calahorra, La Rioja , Spain, Europe.

Wandmalereien Wall paintings , Church of Our Lady of the Assumption , Alaitza, Álava, Spain, Europe Copyright: xZoonar.com/Tolox 22845941

fresco in villa oplontis APRIL 3, 2016. Torre Annunziata Naples, Italy Ancient roman fresco represented a scene of Roman mitology in the Poppea s Villa Copyright: xZoonar.com/MassimoxLamax 9562181

Nymph.Mosaics of the house of Venus Nymph.Mosaics of the house of Venus,the kidnapping of Hilas by the Nymphs. Roman City of VolubilisII d.c..Marruecos. Copyright: xZoonar.com/BartomeuxBalaguerxRotgerx 21345120

Ruined vandalised interior of Buzludzha monument former communist party headquarters, Bulgaria, eastern Europe, Europe

Fragment of old canvas from an antique painting

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Tunbridgeware Picture - Battle Abbey, 1800-50. Mosaic panel of Battle Abbey made in the Fenner and Nye workshop, possibly as early as 1820. This is a highly skilled piece which uses different shades of wood mosaic to achieve an almost "watercolour" appearance. The maker is able to show the abbey in perspective by increasing the size of the wood blocks from left to right... Purchased from Edward H Pinto, 1965... .

carving in Angkor,Cambodia

The White Obelisk of Ashurnasirpal I, found at the ancient Assyrian settlement of Nineveh, northern Iraq. Excavated by the British archaeologist Hormuzd Rassam in 1853 The White Obelisk is made from white limestone with engraved decoration in relief on all sides, showing campaigns and recreational activities. 1050 BC

The calendar plate with coat of arms of Prague in the center. Wallpaper background. It is situated below the astronomical clock in Prague, Czech Republic. . The calendar plate with coat of arms of Prague, Czech Republic. Wallpaper background

New Zealand, Rotorua. Close-up of Maori wood carving patterns.

Lion relief. Procession Street. Babylon. Neo-Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar II era. 604-562 BC. Glazed Brick. Istanbul Archaeoligical Museum. Turkey.

Reproduction of a fresco painting from Knossos ('The Grandstand Fresco'). Original dated to 1450BC-1375BC; from the Palace of Minos

St. filiberto church: fresco, pella, Italy

RELIEVE EN PIEDRA. Location: CASTILLO. BELMONTE. CUENCA. SPAIN.

Malta, Valletta, Local Stone with fossils visible.

A photograph taken of the Abu Simbel Temple, in Nubia, Southern Egypt, near the border with Sudan. The complex is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The temple dates to the 13th century BC, during the 19th dynasty reign of the Pharaoh Ramesses II. It is a monument to the king and commemorates his victory at the Battle of Kadesh. The complex was relocated in its entirety in 1968 under the supervision of a Polish archaeologist, Kazimierz Michalowski, on an artificial hill made from a domed structure, high above the Aswan High Dam reservoir.

Ottoman marble stone carving art in floral patterns

Vietnam, Da Nang. Old imperial capital city of Hue. Emperor Tu Duc's Tomb complex, dragon detail.

Italy, Siena, inlays of colored marbles of the Duomo's floor

Chichen Itza Jaguar Mayan temple Mexico Yucatan stone wall

Instrumentos diversos: La Guerra. Museum: CASA PELLIZZARI CASTELFRAN ITALIA. Author: G. DA CASTELFRANCO GIORGIONE.

PETROGLYPH found at NEWSPAPER ROCK date back to historic times - near CANYONLANDS NATIONAL PARK, UTAH

Wall-painting fragment depicting a woman from a ceremonial procession. From the later Tiryns palace. 14th-13th Century BC Mycenaean Greek

Roman mosaic floor, Auletta, river Tanagro valley, Salerno, Campania, Italy, Europe

Wall frieze from the tomb of Ramesses VI. Tomb KV9 in Egypt's Valley of the Kings was originally constructed by Pharaoh Ramesses V. He was interred here, but his uncle, Ramesses VI, later reused the tomb as his own. The layout is typical of the 20th dynasty - the Ramesside period. Ramesses VI Nebmaatre-Meryamun was the fifth ruler of the Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt. He reigned for about eight years in the mid-to-late 12th century BC

Detail of ceiling frescoes, Church Museum, San Agustin Church, Intramuros, Manila, Philippines

Wall decoration from royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings. Fragments of painted wall-decoration from the tomb of Sety I; 19th Dynasty, reign of Sety I, about 1294-1279 BC

Russia, Moscow, Red Square. Interior, St. Basil's Cathedral (aka Pokrovsky Sobor or Cathedral of the Intercession of the Virgin on the Moat). Restored 17th century mural covered walls.

Mycenaean Fresco wall painting of a figure of eight shield. Mycenae Acropolis, Greece, 14th - 13th Century BC

Egypt, Thebes, Luxor. Valley of the Kings, West Valley, Tomb of Ramses VII, mural paintings of Procession of gods in Burial chamber from 20th dynasty

Kero (jar) decorated with war scene. Peruvian pre-Columbian art. Madrid, Museum of America. Location: MUSEO DE AMERICA-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Spain, Catalunya, Barcelona, Parc Guell by Antoni Gaudi, ceiling Mosaic in the Hypostyle Room.

PLATO DE CERAMICA DE TALAVERA DE LA REINA. Location: MUSEE D'ARTS DECORATIFS. MADRID. SPAIN.

A photograph taken of the Abu Simbel Temple, in Nubia, Southern Egypt, near the border with Sudan. The complex is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The temple dates to the 13th century BC, during the 19th dynasty reign of the Pharaoh Ramesses II. It is a monument to the king and commemorates his victory at the Battle of Kadesh. The complex was relocated in its entirety in 1968 under the supervision of a Polish archaeologist, Kazimierz Michalowski, on an artificial hill made from a domed structure, high above the Aswan High Dam reservoir.

Paintings in fortress of Quasayr Amra, Jordan, Asia

Distorted reflection in Versailles Palace Hall of Mirrors

Winged Demons Tomb, Etruscan Necropolis of Sovana, UNESCO world heritage site, Sovana, Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy

The Effects of Good Government in the City, by Lorenzetti Ambrogio, 1338 - 1339, 14th Century, fresco. Italy, Tuscany, Siena, Palazzo Pubblico, Sala della Pace, eastern wall. Detail. A mule loaded up: burdened with wool.

Detail from the Parthenon Frieze. Greek marble sculpture, made between 443-438 BC. The full frieze shows a narrative procession of men, women & horses.

Gears on sand

Tile mural of swans and clouds in Forbidden City; Beijing; China, Asia

Roman fresco depicting a landscape with temple and sacred gate (the colours have been altered by heat of the materials by the eruption of the Vesuvius). Mid 1st century BC. From Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum. National Archaeological Museum. Naples. Italy.

PAISAJE CON BORRACHOS - 1949 - OLEO Y ARENA SOBRE LIENZO - ARTE POP. Author: JEAN DUBUFFET (1901-1985). Location: MENIL COLECCION. TEXAS-HOUSTON.

Casa Coll i Regàs, 1898. Detalle de la decoración esgrafiada del comedor con escenas bucólicas de patos y cigüeñas pescando. Mataró. Author: JOSEP PUIG I CADAFALCH.

MUERTE DE ADONIS- DET MARTE Y VENUS - MOSAICO DE LA VILLA DE MATERNO CINEGIO - S IV. Location: VILLA ROMANA. CARRANQUE. Toledo. MARS. VENUS DIOSA ROMANA.

A photograph taken within Tomb KV1, located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, used for the burial of Pharaoh Ramesses VII of the Twentieth Dynasty. Although it has been open since antiquity, it was only adequately investigated and cleared by Edwin Brock in 1984 and 1985. The single corridor tomb itself is located in Luxor's West Bank and is small in comparison to other tombs of the twentieth dynasty. Usermaatre Setepenre Meryamun Ramesses VII (also written Ramesses and Ramesses) was the sixth pharaoh of the twentieth dynasty of Ancient Egypt. He reigned from about 1136 to 1129 BC and was the son of Ramesses VI. The decoration within the passageway of the tomb contains illustrations from the Book of Gates, the Book of Caverns as well as the Book of the Earth. The walls of the burial chamber are decorated with extracts from the Book of the Earth.

Historic mural with ornaments and leafy vines, in the great hall of the medieval Burg Wildenstein Castle in the Upper Danube Valley, Sigmaringen district, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

The decoration of Assyrian Palaces. Assyrian Kings competed to make each new palace finer than the last. Carved reliefs decorated the interior walls, while colossal man-headed lions or bulls stood as guardians of gateways.

Wall painting in the fortress room of the Belvedere on the Pfingstberg in Potsdam, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany, Europe

Roman mosaic. Commercial boat. From the Forum of the Corporations or Piazza delle Corporazione. Ostia Antica. Italy.

France - Aquitaine - Decorated Grottoes of the Vézère Valley (UNESCO World Heritage Site, 1979). Lascaux Grotto, cave painting with hunting scene. Replica

19th century recreation of the Dendera zodiac a widely known Egyptian bas-relief from the ceiling of the pronaos (or portico) of a chapel dedicated to Osiris in the Hathor temple at Dendera, containing images of Taurus (the bull) and the Libra (the scales). This chapel was begun in the late Ptolemaic period

PINTURA. Author: J T G. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Can Castany, Mataró, siglo XIX. Pinturas salón.

Monumental silhar on a staircase. Detail of the tile panel depicting mythological decoration. Ashlar staircase from the the former San Bento da Saúde monastery in Lisbon, ca.1640. Polychrome earthenware. National Tile Museum. Lisbon, Portugal.

England, Sussex, West Sussex, Chichester, Fishbourne Roman Palace, Cupid on a Dolphin Mosaic

SPAIN - ASTURIAS. Iglasia de San Salvador de Priesca; capiteles del ábside (siglo X, prerománica)

Cartonnage (Ancient Egyptian mummy case) covering the chest of a mummy of a member of the middle class, Saqqara, Egypt. Egyptian Civilisation, Dynasty XXX, 4th century BC. Detail.

Roman Art. Early Christian Art. Roman Mausoleum in Centcelles. Built in the 4th century AD for Constans, son of the Emperor Constantine. Detail Mosaics. Hunting. Constanti, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.

Mural painting in the Tomb with the Banquet (Tomba del Triclinio), Tarquinia, Italy, (1928). Etruscan burial chamber, 'About 500 B.C...Left corner'. After a water-colour by L. Cartocci. Plate XXIII, fig 60, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928

Geometric mosaic. Roman Domus. 2nd-3rd century AD. Local stone. Spain. National Archaeological Museum. Tarragona. Spain.

POMPEII, ITALY, MAY 04, 2022, Scenic ancient frescoes in a room of a Pompeiian villa, Southern Italy

Roman pavement opus sectile, Italica, ancient Roman city, 206 BC., Andalusia, Spain.

Relief in Luxor, Ägypten Relief in Luxor, Ägypten LicenseRF Copyright: xZoonar.com/juliusxfeketex 23297769

OPLONTIS, ITALY, MAY 03, 2022, Scenic frescos on the wall of famous Villa Oplontis, ancient Roman villa and world heritage sight, Southern Italy

Ancient Native American rock art, Moab, Utah, USA.

Censing Angel Kneeling to the Left, 1862. Stained Glass Cartoon, after a design by: Dante Gabriel Rossetti.. Design drawn out for glass cutters and marked up with letters for colours.

REFECTORIO - AZULEJOS VALENCIANO S XVIII (DETALLE). Author: DOMINGO LUIS. Location: CONVENTO DE SANTO DOMINGO. Orihuela. Alicante. SPAIN.

Close-up of marble inlay, Taj Mahal, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

Deatil of Mosaic floor, Ruins of the Baths of Caracalla (Terme di Caracalla), Thermae Antoninianae , one of the most important baths of Rome at the time of the Roman Empire, Rome, Lazio, Italy, Europe, UNESCO World Heritage.

Sculpture ornamental door

Dragon on a paper wall, Shoji, painting in Kennin-ji, Kenninji Temple, Komatsucho, Kyoto, Japan, Asia

Marble relief depicting people, Great Wall, Jinshanling section, People's Republic of China

Hieroglyphic writing. Relief. New Empire. Temple of Luxor. Egypt.

Ottoman marble stone carving art in detail on stone fountain

Astronomical clock at the Old Town City Hall in Prague

DETALLE DEL TAPIZ DE LA CREACION - SIGLO XII - ROMANICO ESPAÑOL. Location: CATEDRAL-MUSEO DIOCESANO. GERONA. SPAIN.

reliefs inside the Pyramid Complex of Unas, at Saqqara, near Cairo in Egypt. It was built for pharaoh Unas, the ninth and final king of the Fifth Dynasty in the mid 24th century BC. the pyramid of Unas is the first to have texts on the walls of its burial chambers. The spells of these Pyramid Texts were thought to be useful to the dead king in the afterlife; some were recited during his burial ceremonies. The hieroglyphs in Unas' pyramid are incised in fine sunk relief and painted blue, while the ceiling of the sarcophagus chamber is covered with stars

Tile with blue harp, tile picture footage fragment ceramics pottery glaze tin glaze h. 13,7, baked 2x glazed painted Three tiles with blue harp and hand Probably David music David bible religion Probably from rubble of Rotterdam after bombardment 1940.

Tile of chimney pilaster, blue on white, bottom of pleated lap with three hanging tassels underneath and garland edge, chimney pilaster tile pilaster sculpture fragment ceramics pottery glaze, baked 2x glazed painted one letter: V and flat underneath number: 9.

INTERIOR DEL GRAN SALON MIRANDO HACIA EL LADO OESTE - PINTURAS DE LA BOVEDA CENTRAL DEL CASTILLO DE QUSEIR AMRA - SIGLO VIII - DINASTIA OMEYA. Location: CASTILLO. QUSEIR AMRA.

Graffiti wall. Graffiti wall. Modern street art. Barcelona, Spain. ,model released, Symbolfoto ,property released Copyright: xZoonar.com/DanilxRoudenkox 3914766 ,model released, Symbolfoto ,property released

A socialist realist bas relief depiction of flames surrounded by swirling clouds in the Ho Chi Minh Museum, Hanoi, Vietnam.

Wandmalereien und Fresken in der Mysterienvilla Villa of the Mysteries, a well-preserved suburban ancient Roman villa on the outskirts of Pompeii, southern Italy. It is famous for a series of exquisite frescoes. Copyright: xZoonar.com/StefanxLawsx 23066498

Sundial, Hagnau am Bodensee, Bodenseekreis district, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Floor Mosaic with Depiction of a Parakeet From the Altar chamber in Palace V on the Acropolis Made of natural stone, ca. 150 BC.

Coat of arms of the Visconti, Stemma dei Visconti, Biscione, stone inlay, main facade, cathedral, Cattedrale di San Martino also Duomo di Lucca, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy, Europe

Siena, Duomo Santa Maria, interior, marble floor from 1369, detail

PILASTRAS VISIGODAS. Location: MUSEO NACIONAL DE ARTE ROMANO. MERIDA. Badajoz. SPAIN.

A photograph taken of the Festival Hall of Thutmose III (Akh-menu) is an ancient shrine in Luxor (Thebes), Egypt. It is located at the heart of the Precinct of Amun-Re, in the Karnak Temple Complex. The Hall is situated at the end of the Middle Kingdom court. It was initially built to celebrate the Jubilee (Heb-Sed) of the 18th dynasty Pharaoh, Thutmose III, and later became used as part of the annual Opet Festival. circa 1425 BC

Burial stone of Felipe Giudice. 14th century. Marble. Convent of St. Nicolas de Bari, Barcelona. Spain. National Art Museum of Catalonia. Barcelona. Catalonia. Spain. Author: ANONYMOUS.

Casa Milà. La Pedrera. Polychromed lobby ceiling (Provença St.). Author: ANTONI GAUDI.

CERAMICA DE JUNQUERA. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Spain, Catalunya, Barcelona, Antoni Gaudi's Casa Batllo building, colourful chimney pots on the roof terrace.

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