Ancient Murals and Frescoes

Depictions of ancient life through murals and frescos, showcasing artistry from Pompeii to Thebes, illustrating daily activities and mythological themes.

South America, Peru, Arequipa. Painting in Main Cloisters of Monasterio de Santa Catalina.

Stuccoed and frescoed lararium, Thermopolium of Vetutius Placidus, Pompeii, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Campania, Italy, Europe

Oplontis, Italy, Scenic frescos on the wall of famous Villa Oplontis, ancient Roman villa and world heritage sight, Southern Italy

Egypt, Thebes, Luxor, Sheikh 'Abd al-Qurna, Tomb of scribe of recruits Horemheb, mural paintings of birds egg baskets from eighteenth dynasty

Large mural painting from the 14th century, legend of Saint Mary Magdalene, final judgment, legend of the three living and the three dead, convent of San Juan and San Pablo, Peñafiel, Valladolid Museum ,Spain.

South America, Peru, Arequipa. Painting in Main Cloisters of Monasterio de Santa Catalina.

Spain. Basque Country. Villaro. Paintings of Palace of Riscal.

Tarquinia, Italy, around 470 B.C. Via a narrow corridor leading downstair one has access to the rectangular burial room with a sloping ceiling

Cave Hermitage of San Bernabé Cave Hermitage of San Bernabé, Ojo Guarena , Espinosa de los Monteros, Castilla y Leon, Spain Copyright: xZoonar.com/TOLOxBALAGUERx 21305646

Oplontis, Italy, Scenic frescos on the wall of famous Villa Oplontis, ancient Roman villa and world heritage sight, Southern Italy

Frescoes on the castle, arco di trento, Italy

Italy, Latium region, Tarquinia (Viterbo province), Etruscan Necropolis Auguri Tomb, detail of fresco depicting farewell scene before Hades' gate

Turkey, Trabzon. 13th century St. Sophia Church Museum (aka Ayasofya or Hagia Sophia). Very fine example of Byzantine frescoes.

Woman Having her Hair Dressed by a Maid-Servant, 1st Century BC. Artist: Unknown

Italy, Latium Region, Rome, Forum, Palatine Hill, fresco wall decoration in Room of the Pine Garlands at House of Augustus

Egypt, Thebes, Luxor, Valley of the Kings, Tomb of Ramses IX, painted ceiling illustrating Book of the Day and Book of the Night cosmology, in Burial chamber from 20th dynasty

Bath house mosaic from Herculaneum, a large Roman town destroyed in 79AD by a volcanic eruption from Mount Vesuvius, UNESCO World Heritage Site, near ...

Romanesque art in the National Art Museum of Catalonia,Barcrelona,apse of Santa Maria d'Aneu (late 11th century early 12th century).

PINTURAS ROMANICAS DEL PANTEON REAL DE LA COLEGIATA DE SAN ISIDORO DE LEON - SIGLO XII - ROMANICO ESPAÑOL. Location: COLEGIATA DE SAN ISIDORO. LEON. SPAIN. JESUS. SAN JUAN EVANGELISTA Y APOSTOL.

ABSIDE DE SAN PAU DESTERRI DE CARDOS - SIGLO XII - ROMANICO CATALAN. Location: MUSEU NACIONAL D'ART CATALUNYA. Barcelona. SPAIN. CRISTO EN MAJESTAD.

PINTURA MURAL - SANTA MARIA EGIPCIACA - DETALLE - SIGLO XIV. Location: MONASTERIO DE SAN SALVADOR. ONA. BURGOS. SPAIN.

Sitio Arqueologico de Bonampak Chiapas Bonampak Archaeology Site Chiapas

BOVEDA CENTRAL - FRESCO GOTICO FRANCES. Author: PIERRE SPICRE (S XV). Location: IGLESIA DE SAN CASSIEN. Savigny les Beaune. France.

FRESCOS DE VILLA OPLONTIS. Location: VILLA OPLONTIS. NEAPEL. ITALIA.

mural painting torn off and transferred, fragment of the apse of the church of Sant Andreu de Pedrinya, 12th century, Baix Empordá, Girona art museum, Spain.

Ábside de Sant Quirze de Pedret, siglos X-XI. Museum: Museu Diocesà, Solsona.

Glazed brick relief panel 6th century BC Susa, East gate of Achaemenid palace This was part of a larger frieze depicting rows of guards converging from left and right.

Ercolano, Campania, Naples, Italy. Herculaneum ruins, wall paintings, frescos, Trojan horses, Romans. (Editorial Use Only)

Mosaic floor, Basilica, Aquileia, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy

Romanesque art in the National Art Museum of Catalonia,Barcrelona,paintings of Santa Maria in Taüll (1123 AC).Boí valley.

Tomba dei Baccanti. Extraordinary group of painted Etruscan tombs in the necropolis of Tarquinia. it is possible to admire some of the painted hypogea. Tarquinia; Viterbo; Lazio, Italy, Europe

The Villla Oplontis, Naples 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 10957616

Perugia (Umbria - PG), San Martino in Campo. Church of the Madonnuccia Ciribifera (also called 'Oratorio della Madonnuccia'). Cycle of frescoes from the school of Perugino (perhaps a pupil of his, Andrea d'Assisi). Right wall, St. George on horseback attacks the dragon

Murals on ceiling in interior of the Basilica of St George Prague Castle Czech Republic Eastern Europe EU

Frescoes in the old sacristy, by Da Ponte Jacopo know as Bassano, 1537 - 1539, 16th Century, fresco. Italy, Veneto, Cittadella, Padua, Cathedral. Front view of the frescoed wall to the left of the altar.

House shrine, lararium in a thermopolium, Pompeii, Campania, Italy, Europe

FRESCO DE LA CASA DEL SALON NEGRO - SIGLO I. Location: CIUDAD ROMANA. ITALIA.

Italy, Herculaneum. City covered in ash when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. where it stayed buried for more than 1,600 years. Colorful original frescoes. UNESCO (Large format sizes available).

Naples Campania Italy. Pompeii was an ancient Roman city near modern Naples in the Campania region of Italy, in the territory of the comune of Pompei. Pompeii is a UNESCO World Heritage Site status and is one of the most popular tourist att

VENUS EN UN CARRO TIRADO POR ELEFANTES - PINTURA POMPEYANA - SIGLO I. Location: TALLER DE VERECUNDUS. ITALIA. VENUS DIOSA ROMANA.

Wall painting in chitrashala, Garh palace, Bundi, Rajasthan, India Copyright: xShivjixJoshi/DinodiaxPhotox

Mexico.Mexico D.F.Museo Nacional de Antropologia.Pintura mural.El Observador de Venus.Cultura Cacaxtla.

Andromeda and Perseus Mosaic with Medusa, Gaziantep Archaeology Museum, Gaziantep (Antep), Turkey

Marble Sarcophagus Of Stilicone 385 Ad, Interior Of St. Ambrogio Church, Milan, Italy

Frescos of artisans on side aisle ceiling, Qusayr Amra, Umayyad bath complex, Jordan, Middle East

Fresco in cave no 32, Ellora, district Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India Copyright: xPhotochromy/DinodiaxPhotox

Cherubs holding a frame with landscape, docorative fresco in the Coat of arms hall, by Andrea Tibaldi, Landriano Castle, belonged to the Taverna family, Lombardy. Italy, late 16th century. Detail.

Syria. Bosra (Busra al-Sham). Daraa District. Roman mosaic from the 6th century discovered in the Theatre. Top: Camel caravan. Central zone: Hunting (dogs chasing hare). Lower zone: agricultural work (harvest of dates and pigeon breeding).

Italy, Tuscany, Casentino, Poppi, the castle interiors

Buonamico Buffalmacco. The Triumph of Death. Detail "The Hell". Torments. 1338-39. Camposanto. Pisa. Italy.

Painting on a Pompeian facade in Naples

Donor mosaic of the governor Ursus in the cemetery church of Teurnia, Lendorf, Carinthia, Austria, Europe

Ancient hieroglyphs on wall

La Cataluña eterna. Mural de Torres García. Palau de la Generalitat, Barcelona. Author: JOAQUIN TORRES-GARCIA.

Mural painting, historic Villa Arianna, Castellammare di Stabia, Campania, Italy, Europe

Hauptraum, Westwand.. Prints. 1907. General Research Division. Castles & palaces , Jordan, Murals , Jordan, Jordan , Antiquities, Arabian Peninsula , Antiquities, Art , Arabian Peninsula, Halls, Inscriptions, Arabic, Inscriptions, Greek, kings , Byzantine Empire, Swimming pools , Jordan, kings , Ethiopia, kings , Iran, kings , Spain, Architectural elements , Jordan, Athletes, bathing , Jordan

Roman art. Italy. Pompeii. House of Lucio Ceio Secondo. Pompeian painting that decorated walls of a little garden. Hunting scene.

Frescoes on the wall of a house in Pompeii, Naples

Italy, Pompeii, Fresco

Ebreuil village, wall painting of Saint-Leger benedictine abbey, abbey church from the 10th century, Allier department, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France, Europe

ARQUETA DE ZAMORA. DETALLE. ARTES SUNTUARIAS. (DEPOSITO: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO NACIONAL).

RESTOS DE LOS FRESCOS DE LA CASA DEL ATRIO CORINTIO - SIGLO I. Location: CIUDAD ROMANA. ITALIA.

Siena, Italien - Detail des Fußbodens des Doms mit Marmormosaik. Siena, Italien - Detail des Fußbodens des Doms mit Marmormosaik. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PaoloxGallox 23056917

Egipto. Tumba 133 Nefer Rompet.

Fresco in the garden of the Fontana Picola House, Harbour of Pompei (Pompeii), Campania, Italy, Europe

Italy, Herculaneum. City covered in ash when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. where it stayed buried for more than 1,600 years. Colorful original frescoes. UNESCO (Large format sizes available).

Treasure of Tutankhamen, royal chariot from New Kingdom

Paintings in fortress of Quasayr Amra, Jordan, Asia

Massacre of the Innocents and Flight into Egypt, by Maffiolo da Cazzano, 15th Century, fresco. Italy: Lombardy: Bergamo: Algua-Pagliaro. Detail. Massacre of the Innocents and Flight into Egypt

Man with two cups from Santa Maria de Taüll. Date/Period: After 1123. Mural painting. Fresco transferred to canvas. Height: 1,600 mm (62.99 in); Width: 2,090 mm (82.28 in). Author: UNKNOWN.

Interior detail from the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy. A massive, Romanesque fortress-palace designed by the architect Arnolfo di Cambio. Internally, The first courtyard was designed in 1453 by Michelozzo. In the lunettes, high around the courtyard, are crests of the Church and City Guilds. In the centre, the porphyry fountain is by Battista del Tadda. This image shows ornamental wall detail.

CASA DEL MOSAICO- SALON CON MOSAICO DE NEPTUNO Y ANFITRITE-SEPULTADA EN 97 D.C. Location: CIUDAD ROMANA. HERCULANO. ITALIA.

Italy, Herculaneum. City covered in ash when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. where it stayed buried for more than 1,600 years. Colorful original frescoes. UNESCO (Large format sizes available).

JAN 3, 2018 Goreme, Nevsehir, Turkey : Antique Fresco painting on a wall of cave church at Goreme Open air museum

Canteras Gebel Silsila (margen oriental).

Ladies on a loge surmounted by a baldacchino and group of knights, by Antonio Pisano also known as Pisanello, 1422 - 1442, 15th Century, fresco. Italy, Lombardy, Mantua, Ducal Palace. Detail. Ladies under a canopy: baldacchino. Black background.

Italy, Close-up of fresco showing Deesis in Temple of Romulus

Italy, Latium Region, Rome, Forum, Palatine Hill, fresco in Room of the Masks at House of Augustus

Campana, relief whit nilotic scene, terracotta, Rome, 1st century, Gregorian Egyptian Museumn Musei Vaticani, State of the Vatican City, Roma, Lazio, Italia.

Tunisia, Carthage, Mosaic depicting Venus crowning herself, surrounded by female dwarves on boats

Frescoes of the Tomb of the Triclinium from the Etruscan necropolis at Tarquinia, Etruscan civilization

Murals in Tipu Sultan´s palace, Seringapatam, Mysore, Karnataka state, India, Asia

Wooden coffin of a noble (c. 1069-945 BC, Twenty-first Dynasty of Egypt)

Italy. Herculaneum. Mural paintings on the walls of College of the Augustales. 1st century AD.

Poseidon (Neptune) Mosaic with Oceanus and Tethys, Gaziantep Archaeology Museum, Gaziantep (Antep), Turkey

Ceiling painting in the King's Hall Sala de los Reyes, Alhambra World Heritage Site in Granada, Andalusia, Spain, Europe

Decoración del ábside meridional del arco triunfal y de parte del muro donde se abre el ábside. Procede de la iglesia de Sant Quirze de Pedret. Siglos XI/XII. Museum: MUSEU NACIONAL D'ART DE CATALUNYA. Author: CÍRCULO DEL MAESTRO DE PEDRET.

Fresco(XV), Vasca Limaria (XI Roman building), Capitular Museum, Atri, Abruzzo, Italy

18th Dynasty tomb of Paheri, at Elkab,south of Thebes, Egypt. dating from of the New Kingdom in the middle of the 18th Dynasty, under the reign of Thutmosis III. The tomb had already been located by the scholars of the Egyptian expedition in 1799. The titles associated with Paheri are those of nomarch (governor prince) and scribe. He is often called nomarch of Nekheb and Anyt

Tunis, Tunisia. Tile mosaic floor at the Baths of Antoninus in Carthage.

India. Ajanta Caves. Detail of the frescoes inside the cave number 2. Scenes depicting the life of Prince Visvantara, one of Buddha's incarnations. 5th century. UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Relieve del sepulcro de Pere de Sitjar, 1354. Iglesia parroquial de Rocafort, Municipio del Bages, Catalunya. Author: BERENGUER FERRER (S. XIV).

Mural in Ajanta Caves, Aurangabad, India

Frescoes in the Juggler's Salon of Torrechiara Castle, Langhirano, Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, Europe

Joshua and David (from the Nine Heroes Tapestries). Culture: South Netherlandish. Dimensions: 47.101.1: 168 x 250 in. (426.7 x 635 cm)47.152: 168 x 250 in. (426.7 x 635 cm). Date: ca. 1400-1410. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ancient fragments of sculptures in the Grado Lapidarium, Basilica di Sant Eufemia, Grado, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy, Europe

Marble mosaic floor of Siena Cathedral, Siena, Tuscany, Italy

MUERTE DE ADONIS - MOSAICO DE LA VILLA DE MATERNO CINEGIO - S IV. Location: VILLA ROMANA. CARRANQUE. Toledo.

Merida, Badajoz Province, Spain. Mosaic of men treading grapes to make wine at the Roman villa known as House of the Amphitheatre.

Arts Institute of Paris, France. Institute is a French learned society managing over 1000 foundations. Louis IV created the building in 1661

Mosaic of the Four Seasons. C. 325 AD. Found in Daphne (now Antakya, Turkey). Offering to the goddess Diana. Louvre Museum. Paris. France.

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