Religious Frescoes and Mosaics

Historic frescoes and mosaics depicting biblical and religious themes, showcasing early art techniques from various cultures.

Coptic Textile, Portrait of Dionysus. 5th Century. Artist: Unknown.

A young Dionysus, accompanied by the panther sacred to him, holds a cantharus that he lowers to a Satyr who drinks its contents. Atrium. Italy.

Apostle, detail from Paradise, fresco on the counterfacade, church of San Michele al Pozzo Bianco (St Michael by the White Well), Bergamo, Lombardy. Italy, 12th-13th century.

Coptic Textile, Portrait of Dionysus. 5th Century. Artist: Unknown.

Mosaic at the Mizgaga Museum in Kibbutz Nahsholim

Frescoes at Ajanta caves , Aurangabad , Maharashtra, India

Apostle, detail from a fresco in the apse, former Basilica of St Zeno, Campione d'Italia, Lombardy. Italy, 14th century.

Pavement mosaic with the heas of a satyr. Antonine period, 138-192 century AD. From villa in Genazzano wich may have belonged to Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus. National Roman Museum. Palace of Massimo. Rome. Itay.

Detail of Roman floor mosaic of Spring, 2nd century. Artist: Unknown

bridal chest with an image of the annunciation, around the year 1500, gilded and polychrome wood, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.

Cardinal virtue of Temperantia, by Unknown, 11th - 12th Century, mosaic. Italy, Lombardy, San Benedetto Po, Mantua, Polirone Abbey. Detail. Cardinal virtue woman personification crown decoration.

Pintura mural, 1346, Capilla del Baptisterio de la Catedral de Tarragona.

Spain,Barcelona,City History Museum,Fresco depicting a Hunting Scene,4th century AD

painted fresco from a house, in the Roman city, Barcelona, Spain. 4th Century AD

Face of a young girl, painting on plaster, 19x15 cm, from Herculaneum, Campania. Roman Civilization, 20-10 BC.

Mosaic in the Triclinium, dining room, Villa Romana del Casale, Piazza Armerina, Sicily, Italy

Mosaic, currently in the museum, taken from the Greek and Roman site of Cyrene, Libya, North Africa, Africa

Sarcophagus of Olia Tertula (15 years ago). 2nd century. Roman era. Man. Detail. Ravenna, Italy.

The Tiburtine Sibyl, by Lotto Lorenzo, 1524, 16th Century, fresco. Italy: Lombardy: Bergamo: Trescore: Suardi Oratory. Detail. Tiburtine Sibyl tree yellow book

INDIA. Ajanta. Ajanta Caves. Detail with a feminine face . Wall painting inside the cave n. 17 (5th-6th c.). Hindu art. Gupta period.

Abruzzo, L'Aquila, Trasacco, SS. Rufino e Cesidio, Italy, 20th century, photo, photography, Europe

FRANQUESES DE MALLORCA S XIV. Location: PALACIO EPISCOPAL. MUSEO DIOCESANO. Palma. MALLORCA. SPAIN.

Praying, fresco detail from the Catacombs of Jordanians, Rome. Italy, 2nd century.

Helen embarks on Paris' ship, House of the Tragic Poet. Fresco. 1st century AD. National Archaeological Museum. Naples. Italy.

Abruzzo, L'Aquila, Bominaco, S. Pellegrino, Oratory, Italy, 20th century, photo, photography, Europe

Roman British mosaic. Venus. Bignor, Sussex. 4th cent. AD, ENGLAND.

Wall painting from a reception hall. Roman. Late Republican, 50-40 BC. From Villa P. Fannius Synistor at Boscareale, Italy. Woman playing a kithara. Metropolitan Museum. NY. USA.

Burning Bush, The, Artist Unknown, Mosaic

veiled female figure, 3rd century BC. From Numancia, Numantino de Soria museum, Soria, Autonomous Community of Castilla, Spain, Europe.

SPAIN - La Huerta de Murcia (district) - MURCIA. Murcia (capital); Monasterio / Museo de Las Claras; fragmento de fresco (temple sobre estuco) representando a flautista (inusual en arte musulman; siglo XII)

UK, England, London, British Museum, Mosaic depicting Head of Woman

JOVEN EN ACTITUD DE LUCHA EN LA ESCENA DE LA PALESTRA - FRESCOS OMEYAS DEL CASTILLO DE QUSEIR AMRA - SIGLO VIII. Location: CASTILLO. QUSEIR AMRA.

MEDUSA. MONSTRUOS DE LA MITOLOGIA GRIEGA. UNA DE LAS TRES GORGONAS , LA UNICA QUE FUE MORTAL. MOSAICO. MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO. TARRAGONA.

Fresco depicting a portrait of young girl known as Sappho, from Pompeii (UNESCO World Heritage List, 1997), Campania. Roman Civilization, 1st Century.

Wall painting depicting a woman holding a shield, from Room H of the Villa of Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale. ca. 5040 B.C.

Roman mosaic floor from a house (5th century) depicting winter season. Archaeological Museum of Argos. Greece.

MOSAICO ROMANO DE MINERVA S III. Location: ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM. JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA. Cadiz. SPAIN.

PINTURAS EN EL INTERIOR DEL CASTILLO DE QUSEIR AMRA - GRUPO DE MUJERES - SIGLO VIII - PINTURA OMEYA. Location: CASTILLO. QUSEIR AMRA.

Portrait of young girl, Sappho, from Pompeii, National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Campania, Italy, Europe

Detalle del Tapiz de la Creación, siglo XI, Museo Catedralicio de la Catedral de Girona.

POMPEII, ITALY, MAY 04, 2022, The famous ancient mosaic of the battle between Alexander the Great and the Persian king in the Pompeian house of the Faun, Southern Italy

restos de decoracion de Diana cazadora, La Clínica, siglos I-II d. C. , Museo de la Romanización, Calahorra, La Rioja , Spain, Europe.

Mosaic of Medusa on the floor of one of the Terrace Houses, Ephesus, Izmir Province, Turkey

St Mark the Evangelist, fresco at the parish church of St Catherine, Stanz im Muerztal, Styria, Austria, Europe

restos de decoracion de Diana cazadora, La Clínica, siglos I-II d. C. , Museo de la Romanización, Calahorra, La Rioja , Spain, Europe.

Gallegos / Head of a Wind God

Fresco depicting a priestess on a red background, Second Pompeian Style, from Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii (UNESCO World Heritage List, 1997), Campania. Roman Civilization, 1st Century.

Lazio Roma Rome S. Croce in Gerusalemme8. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Cosmati pavement, architecture (facade). Post-medieval: Architecture, architectural sculpture, sculpture, frescoes: "Leggenda della Santa Croce," Antoniazzo Romano (attr) & "S. Elena sale al cielo," Corrado Giaquinto; mosaic ceiling in Cappella di S. Elena; coats-of-arms German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

Roman fresco, Circa.60-50 BC, Italy, Pompeii, Villa of the Mysteries

Empress Zoe detail from the mosaic of Christ and Emperor Constantine IX 1030 AD Hagia Sophia Istanbul Turkey

Funeray mosaics from Edessa Region (Urfa, Turkey). Family portraits adorned the interior tombs. Roman Times. Woman's head. 2nd-3rd AD. century Louvre Museum. Paris. France.

Muchacha con libro y punzón. Museum: MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE NAPOLES ITALIA.

Mosaic portraying Iphigenia at Aulis, from Antioch, Turkey

Mummy Portrait; Attributed to Malibu Painter, Romano-Egyptian, active 75 - 100; Hawara, Egypt, Africa; 75 - 100; Encaustic on wood; Object: 40 x 20 x 0.2 cm (15 3/4 x 7 7/8 x 1/16 in.)

Frescoes, Matera, Basilicata region, South Italy, Italy, Europe

Detail of a mosaic, 4th century, in the Basilica of Aquilea, UNESCO world heritage site, Aquileia, also called Aquilegia, Udine province, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy

Mummy Portrait. Attributed to Malibu Painter (Romano-Egyptian, active 75 - 100)

Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah. (Fragment from a bathhouse. Fustat, Egypt), Anonymous master

Adam and Eve. 10th c. Coptic art. Fresco. EGYPT. CAIRO. Cairo. Coptic Museum. Proc: EGYPT. AL-FAYYUM. Al-Fayum.

Artist: Bernardo Daddi, Italian, ca. 1290-1348, Virgin andChild, ca.1345, Tempera on panel, 55.7 × 46.2 × 1.9 cm (21 15/16 × 18 3/16 × 3/4 in.), Made in Florence, Italy, Italian,Florence, 14thcentury, Paintings

Ceramic with white base, Lekythos depicting a dead warrior seated in front of his funeral stele, circa 430 b.c.

Fresco pompeyano del siglo I d. C. donde se representa un RITO DIONISIACO. "AGAPE SACRA", escena pastoril de SILENO que tañe una lira. Joven "panisca" toca la siringa y un "satirisca" amamanta un cervato. La inicianta corriendo. VILLA DE LOS MISTERIOS. POMPEYA. La Campania. Italia.

Judgment of Paris, Detail of Hera, Athena and Aphrodite, from Antakya, Mosaic

Woman with stiletto or Portrait of Sappho (), by Unknown artist, 1st Century, mural (detached fresco). Italy: Campania: Naples: National Archaeological Museum: 9084. Whole artwork. Circle portrait young woman hairnet hair curls stiletto hand mouth book Greek poet Sappho

DIANA - MOSAICO DE LA VILLA DE MATERNO CINEGIO- S IV - FOTO AÑOS 90. Location: VILLA ROMANA. CARRANQUE. Toledo. SPAIN. DIANA CAZADORA-DIOSA EN LA MITOLOGIA ROMANA.

Medioeval frescoes, Benedictine Abbey of Sant'Angelo in Formis, Capua, Campania, Italy, Europe

Romania, Bucharest, National Military Museum, lobby mosaic with children

Servants bringing in food on small tables, vase, Greek, 4th century BC (detail)

Italy - Veneto Region - Verona. Church of St. Anastasia. Pisanello (c. 1395 - c. 1455), St. George and the Princess, fresco detail

Brauweiler near Pulheim, abbey church of St Nicholas, chapter house, painting in secco technique: Prophet Daniel in the lions' den 11th-12th century

Saint Proculus, detail from the Escape of Saint Proculus from Verona, fresco in the church of Saint Proculus, Naturns, Vinschgau Valley, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy, 9th century.

Young with Roll, by Unknown artist, 55 - 79, 1st Century, painted plaster (mural). Italy: Campania: Naples: National Archaeological Museum: inv. 9085. Portrait of a young man with his head surrounded by a crown of laurel. He holds a scroll.

Pillar fresco depicting wool manufacturing, from Pompei, Fullonica of Veranio Ipseo

Mosaic Floor with Achilles and Briseis. Unknown

Officials watching the embarkation of wild animals, aisle of the great hunt, mosaic floor, 3rd, 4th c. Spaetroemic luxury villa, Villa Romana del Casale, Piazza Armerina, Sicily, Piazza Armerina, Sicily, Italy, Europe

Abruzzo, L'Aquila, Bazzano, S. Giusta, Italy, 20th century, photo, photography, Europe

Half-figure bust of Emperor Justinian, detail from Emperor Justinian with his entourage, mosaic, northern wall of the apse, Basilica of San Vitale (UNESCO World Heritage List, 1996), Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna. Italy, 6th century.

Christ of the Crown of Thorns from Sant Esteve d'Andorra. Date/Period: Ca. 1200-1210. Mural painting. Fresco transferred to canvas. Height: 1,100 mm (43.30 in); Width: 720 mm (28.34 in). Author: UNKNOWN.

Spain. Italica. Roman city founded c. 206 BC. House of the Planetarium. Mosaic. Detail. Mercury. Andalusia.

Fresco. Pompeian girl in a rondel, before 79AD. From a cubiculum in the House of the Golden Cupids, Pompeii. Location: CASA AMORINI DORATI. POMPEII. ITALIA.

PANTEON REAL - PINTURAS ROMANICAS - HERODES DA ORDENES PARA EJECUCION DE LOS NIÑOS - SIGLO XII. Location: COLEGIATA DE SAN ISIDORO, LEON, SPAIN.

Tabula (Square) with the Head of Spring 5th-7th century This small tapestry panel comes from Egypt. It was originally used as an appliqué on a larger textile, probably as part of a set. Egypt had a major weaving (especially linen) industry throughout the ancient and medieval period, which brought the country a great deal of its trade and wealth. Unlike the textiles of other cultures, many of these pieces have been preserved by Egypt's hot, dry climate, which prevents rotting.Personifications of the seasons were thought to represent prosperity. The pink blossoms suggest that this figure is Spring.. Tabula (Square) with the Head of Spring 444327

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

Fresco in Church of the Serpent, figure could be St. George, Goreme, Cappadocia, Anatolia, Turkey, Asia Minor, Eurasia

Healing an infirm person, Romanesque painted ceiling, c. 1150, Grisons canton, Switzerland, detail

Abruzzo, L'Aquila, Bominaco, S. Pellegrino, Oratory, Italy, 20th century, photo, photography, Europe

The Roman Villa del Casale (Villa Romana del Casale), UNESCO World Heritage Site, Piazza Armerina, Enna, Sicily, Italy

Two Crusaders of the Minutolo Family, From The Cappella Minutolo 14th Century Pietro Cavallini (ca.1250-1330 Italian) Fresco Duomo, Naples, Italy

Detalle del mural de la adoración de los Reyes de Santa Maria d'Àneu, siglo XII. Museum: Museu Diocesà d'Urgell.

Allegory of Good Government, by Lorenzetti Ambrogio, 1338 - 1340, 14th Century, fresco. Italy, Tuscany, Siena, Palazzo Pubblico, Sala della Pace. Detail. Wisdom female figure prosopopeia crown headdress: headgear diadem: tiara wings she holds a book in her left hand she reads she holds a key in her right hand.

Figure with vase from Santa Maria de Taüll. Date/Period: After 1123. Mural painting. Fresco transferred to canvas. Height: 4,320 mm (14.17 ft); Width: 750 mm (29.52 in). Author: UNKNOWN.

Hermafrodite, Naples, Campania, Italy, Europe

The abduction of Simon, Stories of the life of the Blessed Simon of Trent, 1484, fresco by Giovanni Marinoni, church of Saint Bartholomew, Albino, Lombardy, Italy, 15th century.

Roman mosaic with the seasons. Rome, Le Campanelle, Via Appia Nouva. 4th-5th century AD. National Roman Museum. Palace of Massimo. Rome. Itay.

DIVINIDAD LECANOMANTICA GRUPO SILENO Y SATIRO - FRESCO SIGLO I AC. Location: VILLA DE LOS MISTERIOS. POMPEII. ITALIA.

Mosaic at base of St. Peter's Basilica Dome, Vatican City, Rome, Italy

Villa of Poppea, remains of frescoes, historical town of Oplontis, now Torre Annunziata, Campania, Italy, Europe

Fragmentary wall-painting: Showing the mask of a woman. Roman, made in Italy about 90-30 BC

Italy, Sicily, Piazza Armerina, mosaics of the roman villa of Casale, 3rd century

Italy. Ravenna. Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, 5th century. Mosaic. Martyrdom of of St. Lawrence. Mosaic.

Turkey KAPPADOKIA

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