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.

Icon painting, Evangelist Saint Mark, wooden church of the Archangels, Rogoz, Maramures, Romania, Europe

Figures wearing 15th century clothing, detail from John the Baptist preaching, The Life of John the Baptist, 1416, frescoes by Lorenzo and Jacopo Salimbeni, Oratory of St John the Baptist, Anthony the Great and St James, Urbino, Umbria, Italy, 15th century.

Tile Mosaic Of An Historical Figure In The Hagia Sophia Museum, Istanbul Turkey

El Fayum portrait of a young man, 220-250 b.C., Gregorian Egyptian Museumn Musei Vaticani, State of the Vatican City, Roma, Lazio, Italia

Terracotta vase. Greek, Sicilian. Centuripe, 3rd-2nd century BC. Four women. The scene shows a bride surrounded by attendants. The vase was made for the tomb. Museum Metropolitan of Art. NY. USA.

Sybil, by Unknown artist, 15th Century, fresco. Italy: Lombardy: Varese: Santo Stefano church: sottarchi. Detail. Sybil bust woman headgear/headdress veil book

Pompeii. Fresco depicting Narcissus in the fountain. 1st century AD. It decorated the columbarium of the House of Loreio Tiburtino (Octavius Quartio). Italy, La Campania.

MOSAICO COSMOLOGICO - REPRESENTACION DEL RIO NILO - SIGLO II. Location: CASA DEL MITREO. MERIDA. Badajoz. SPAIN.

Fragment of a Mosaic Floor with Head of a Season. Unknown

The Bikini Girls, ancient Roman mosaic at the Villa Romana del Casale, Sicily, Italy, Europe

Ajanta Caves India. Cave painting dating from the second century BCE 2

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

Ajanta Caves India. Cave painting dating from the second century BCE 2

An Apsaras Ajanta Cave painting at Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India Copyright: xAnilxDave/DinodiaxPhotox

Head of the Virgin. Artist: Taddeo di Bartolo (Italian, Siena ca. 1362-1422 Siena). Dimensions: 7 3/4 x 5 3/8 in. (19.7 x 13.7 cm). Date: ca. 1397. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro/Giovanni da Fiesole c1400-55) Italian painter. 'Martyrdom of St Lawrence'. Fresco. Chapel of Nicholas V, Vatican Palace

Nine Stained Glass Fragments. Pot-metal glass, vitreous paint and lead. French, from the Cathedral of Saint-Etienne, Bourges. Painted 1200-1215. The Cathedral of Saint Etienne still preserves a distinguished series of stained glass in its chapels.

Encaustic roman-Egyptian mummy portraits from Fayum in Egypt; 150 AD

Die Heiligen Drei Könige Die Heiligen Drei Könige LicenseRF Copyright: xZoonar.com/TOLOxBALAGUERx 23160291

Soldier in Brown Armour, possible self-portrait of Piero della Francesca, detail, The Resurrection, Piero della Francesca, 1460's, Museo Civico, Sansepolcro, Tuscany, Italy, Europe

Scenes of the New Testament on the Northern Wall. Paintings of Sorpe. 2nd half 12th c. Detail, the Apostles Saint Andrew, Saint Peter and Saint James (fro mleft to right) fishing. Romanesque art. Fresco. SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona. National Art Museum of Catalonia. Proc: SPAIN. CATALONIA. LLEIDA. Sorpe. Church of St. Pere.

Germany, Cologne. 13th Century Gothic Cologne Cathedral, the largest in northern Europe. Spectacular medieval mosaic floors.

Colourful Crypt of the Frescoes, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy, Europe

Dispute With Simon Mago (Detail #1) (From The Life Of St. Peter Cycle) 1425-28 Masaccio(1401-1428 Italian) Fresco Cappella Brancacci, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, Italy

Gothic fresco near the tomb of the prior Jean Seyssel, 15th century, detail, Romainmotier, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland.

Italy, Sicily, Villa Imperiale del Casale, Ruins of Late 3rd century Roman Villa mosaic

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

Autun, Musée Rolin, Relief of the Temptation of Eve from the north portal of St-Lazare Cathedral, destroyed in the 18th century. Created around 1130 by Master Gislebertus, St, Saint, Saint

Angel Guariento di Arpo (ca.1338-ca.1378/Italian) Oil On Board Museo Civico, Padua, Italy

Woman with child on the arm. Draughtsman: Simon Andreas Krausz. Dating: 1770 - 1825. Measurements: h 75 mm × w 44 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Zoe Porphyrogenita (978-1050). Byzantine empress. Mosaic of the South Gallery. Hagia Sophia. Istanbul. Turkey.

City of Pafos, Gazibaf, ruined site of the ancient city, archaeological park, mosaic in the House of Theseus, Cyprus, Europe

Fully frescoed oratory of Santa Maria in Solario, Romanesque building, Santa Giulia, City Museum, Brescia, Lombardy, Italy, Brescia, Lombardy, Italy, Europe

pinturas góticas, pesaje de las almas, Iglesia de San Martín de Tours, Gazeo, Álava, Spain, Europe.

Ancient Rome. Female headgear. Matrona. Engraving. (Later colouration). Iconographic Enclyclopaedia of Science, Literature and Art. 19th century. Author: HENRY WINKLES. Johan George Heck.

Tapestry of Pastrana. end 15th c. SPAIN. Pastrana. Cathedral. Portugal. Kingdom of Afonso V the African. Conquest of Asilah.Portuguese troops disembark in 1471. Flemish art. Tapestry.

Mummy Portrait

Painted head of a patron god, Taberna of the Four Deities, Via dellAbondanza, ancient city of Pompeii, Campania, Italy, Europe

José de Arimatea, conjunto gotico del descenso de la cruz de la capilla del Salvador, finales del siglo XII, sala Artur Perez cabrera, Museo arqueológico de Ibiza y Formentera, Patrimonio de la Humanidad «Ibiza, biodiversidad y cultura», Ibiza, balearic islands, Spain.

Boy with a Floral Garland in His Hair. Date/Period: Ca. 200-230. Painting. Tempera, wood. Author: UNKNOWN.

El Fayum portrait of a young man, 220-250 b.C., Gregorian Egyptian Museumn Musei Vaticani, State of the Vatican City, Roma, Lazio, Italia.

Roman Frescoes, Hall of Eight Columns, Luxor Temple, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Luxor, Egypt, North Africa, Africa Copyright: RichardxMaschmeyer 801-4102

Mosaic of St. James on a house wall, Way of St. James, Vezelay, Departement Yonne, Region Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, Burgundy, France, Europe

Portrait of a man, from Thebes, encaustic painting on wood

Cortege of the living, detail from the Triumph of Death, 1336-1341, attributed to Buffalmacco (active ca 1314-ca 1351), fresco transferred to canvas, 564x1497 cm, Hall of Frescoes, Campo Santo Monumentale (monumental cemetery), Cathedral Square or Square of Miracles (UNESCO World Heritage List, 1987), Pisa, Tuscany. Italy, 14th century.

Allegory of Good Government, by Lorenzetti Ambrogio, 1338 - 1340, 14th Century, fresco. Italy: Tuscany: Siena: Palazzo Pubblico: Sala della Pace. Detail. Armed knight horse

The Effects of Good Government in the City and Country, by Lorenzetti Ambrogio, 1338 - 1339, 14th Century, fresco. Italy, Tuscany, Siena, Palazzo Pubblico, Sala dei Nove. Detail. The Effects of Good Government in the Country the knight looking back as he rides out of town.

Allegory of Good Government, by Lorenzetti Ambrogio, 1338 - 1340, 14th Century, fresco. Italy, Tuscany, Siena, Palazzo Pubblico, Sala della Pace. Detail. Captives: prisoners bearded male figure headdress: headgear covers the eyes.

Medallion representing Bacchus and Bacchante from Italy, Bay of Naples, Herculaneum, painting on plaster, 55-79 A.D.

SANTA FAZ. Author: GEORGES ROUAULT (1871-1958). Location: CENTRO GEORGES POMPIDOU. France.

FACSIMILE OF THEATRUM SANITATIS - PROPERTIES OF THE MANDRAGORA - MANUSCRIPT 14th-15th CENTURY - SER NOV 2644. Author: UBUBEHASYM BALDACH O IBN BUTLAN. Location: CSIC. MADRID. SPAIN.

Fresco from Pompeii. Portrait of a man and his wife. She holds a stylus and writing tablet. 1st cent. AD.

Portrait of Deceased Young Woman in Red 120 A.D.

ARES Y AFRODITA (FRESCO DE LA CASA DE MARTE Y VENERE. Location: NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY. NEAPEL. ITALIA.

Royal Abbey of Fontevraud. Recumbent figures exhibited in the abbey church. Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II.. Fontevraud. France.

The Alexander Mosaic, dating from circa 100 BCE, is a Roman floor mosaic originally from the House of the Faun in Pompeii. It depicts a battle between the armies of Alexander the Great and Darius III of Persia and measures 2.72 x 5.13m (8 ft 11in x 16 ft 9in). The original is preserved in the Naples National Archaeological Museum. The mosaic is believed to be copy of an early 3rd Century BCE Hellenistic painting, possibly by Philoxenos of Eretria.

Anthony Mark.

Lazio Roma Rome S. Croce in Gerusalemme6. 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.

Europe, Italy, Campania, Naples, National Archaeological Museum

Saint Martin Offering the Wine Cup to the Priest. Culture: Flemish. Dimensions: 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm) diameter. Date: 1430-35.This roundel, together with three others in the Lehman Collection (1975.1.1906, 1975.1.1908, and 1975.1.1909), and two in The Cloisters Collection (47.101.63 and 47.101.64), form part of the same series of early fifteenth-century Franco-Flemish embroideries depicting scenes from the life of Saint Martin. Originally part of a much larger ensemble (thirty-six roundels and panels are now dispersed among public and private collections), the embroideries may have decorated a liturgical vestment, an altar frontal, or possibly a combination thereof, constituting a set of vestments. In this banquet scene, Saint Martin, recognizable by his halo, dines with the Roman Emperor Maximus and the Empress Elen, shown at center, and a priest, at the far right. To the surprise of the guests, instead of offering the cup of wine to the Emperor, Martin passed it first to the priest,

Plaque with Saints James and John the Evangelist 1160-1180 Meuse. Gilt copper, champlevÈ enamel .

Bikini girl, a girl, playing ball, Roman mosaics, Villa Romana del Casale, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Piazza Armerina, Enna Province, Sicily, Italy, Europe

The Sudarium of Saint Veronica, 1450, tempera on panel, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Ceiling Fresco from Palace of Constantine and Helena at Trier 4th century. An Apostle. Museum: Diozescan Museum, TREVERIS, GERMANY.

Wall fresco in the Historic Villa San Marco, Stabiae, Castellammare di Stabia, Campania, Italy, Europe

This photo of a mosaic showing a small hunting scene sacrificing to Artemis, the g oddess of the hunt (also known as Diana) was taken in the summer of 1970 at Piazza Armerina in Sicily. Piazza Armerina is home to the Roman Villa del Casale and its famous mosaics, the 'finest mosaics in situ anywhere in the Roman world,' as described by UNESCO, which inserted it into its World Heritage list in 1997. Villa Romana was a lavish patrician residence built at the center of a huge latifundium (agricultural estate) at the end of the 4th century AD. It is thought to have belonged to a member of the Roma

Portrait of a Young Lady by Fayum mummy portraits National Gallery, Prague 2nd cen. AD Tempera on panel Egyptian Art Portrait Painting

Painted Tile with Bald-Headed Silenus InsideCircle

Italy, Lazio, Rome, Vatican City, Vatican Museums, Angels, detail from Angeli e Apostoli by Melazzo de Forli, Pinacoteca.

FRONTAL ROMANICO - MARTIRIO DE SAN CLEMENTE - PROCEDENTE DE SAN CLEMENTE DE TAHULL - SIGLO XIII. Author: MAESTRO DE TAHULL / MAESTRO DE TAULL. Location: MUSEU NACIONAL D'ART CATALUNYA, BARCELONA, SPAIN.

Pompeya, pintura mural, retrato de una pareja.

Hercules, part of Labours of Hercules mosaic in Triclinium, dining room, Villa Romana del Casale, Piazza Armerina, Sicily, Italy

Warrior with Shield first half 12th century (possibly 1129-34) Spanish. Warrior with Shield 471828

Erotic painting from the ruins of Pompeii in the Archeological Museum of Naples, Campania, Italy (museo archeologico nazionale)

Mural de la Prehistoria, Prehistoric Mural, Vinales, Pinar del Rio Province, Cuba, Central America

Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits (also Faiyum mummy portraits) is the modern term given to a type of naturalistic painted portraits on wooden boards attached to mummies from the Coptic period. They belong to the tradition of panel painting, one of the most highly regarded forms of art in the Classical world. In fact, the Fayum portraits are the only large body of art from that tradition to have survived. Mummy portraits have been found across Egypt, but are most common in the Faiyum Basin, particularly from Hawara and Antinoopolis, hence the common name. 'Faiyum Portraits' is generally thought of as a stylistic, rather than a geographic, description. While painted Cartonnage mummy cases date back to pharaonic times, the Faiyum mummy portraits were an innovation dating to the Coptic period at the time of the Roman occupation of Egypt. They date to the Roman period, from the late 1st century BCE or the early 1st century CE onwards. It is not clear when their production ended, but

PLANTACION DE ARBOLES - DETALLE DEL CALENDARIO AGRICOLA REPRESENTADO EN LAS PINTURAS MURALES DEL PANTEON DE LOS REYES - ABRIL - AÑO 1160/1170. Location: COLEGIATA DE SAN ISIDORO. LEON. SPAIN.

Roman Mosaic - tragedy mask. Location: NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY. NEAPEL. ITALIA.

The Triumphs of Petrarch Tapestry. Detail. Made in Brussels. 16th century. Tapestry Museum. Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso. Spain. National Heritage.

Male figure portrait from an encaustic funerary painting Egypt (Greco- Roman circa 3rd Century AD

England,London,Natural History Museum,The Ceramic Staircase,Mosaic Detail

Mummy Portrait of a Woman; Attributed to the Isidora Master (Romano-Egyptian, active 100 - 125); Egypt; A.D. 100; Encaustic on linden wood; gilt; linen; 48 × 36 × 12.8 cm (18 7,8 × 14 3,16 × 5 1,16 in.)

Mosaic depicting theatrical masks, from Rome

Josep Guinovart /Murales del teatre de les Llars Mundet, siglo XX, Barcelona, España.

Egypto-Roman portrait panel, from the Faiyum, Lower Egypt. Dated 2nd Century

Symbol of St Luke, vault fresco from the seventh chapel, Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio, Milan. Italy, 15th century.

Allegory of bad government, detail from Allegories of Good and Bad Government and their effects on town and countryside, 1338-1339, by Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1290-ca 1348), fresco. Hall of Peace, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena.

Inca Roca, Sixth Inca, 1 of 14 Portraits of Inca Kings Unknown. Inca Roca, Sixth Inca, 1 of 14 Portraits of Inca Kings, mid-18th century (probably). Oil on canvas, 23 3/8 x 21 1/2in. (59.4 x 54.6cm). The blue background of these twelve portraits of Inca kings could have been produced with a variety of pigments that were available in the Viceroyalty of Peru in the eighteenth century: Prussian blue, from Germany; indigo, from the Americas; and smalt, imported from Europe. In the Viceroyalty of Peru, the choice of a blue back-ground for these portraits was strategic, elevating the subjects as blue did in European paintings of rulers and nobles. Following the European tradition, Cuzcos surviving Inca aristocracy likely commissioned these portraits to document their royal heritage and thus legitimize their political and social authority. American Art mid-18th century (probably)

Woodcutting, detail of Queen Mathilda's Tapestry or Bayeux Tapestry depicting Norman conquest of England in 1066, France, 11th century.

Boy with a Floral Garland in His Hair by Fayum mummy portraits Brooklyn Museum, New York ca 200-230 Egypt Tempera on panel Painting Portrait

Ancient famous wall paintings (frescoes) at Sigirya, Sri Lanka, Asia

Portrait of a woman. Coptic style. El-Fayum. Egypt.

Africa, Egypt. Woman of Hawara from mummy case. Coptic. 2nd cent. Egypt

Plaque: Simon and Thaddaeus, c. 1160. Mosan, Valley of the Meuse, Romanesque period, 12th century. Gilded copper, champlevé enamel; overall: 6.1 x 6.3 cm (2 3/8 x 2 1/2 in.).

Frieze from the François Tomb (Tomba François) at Vulci, Italy, (1928). Etruscan burial chamber, 'About 300 B.C.' After a water-colour dated 1862. Plate XXIV, fig 62, 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

Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits (also Faiyum mummy portraits) is the modern term given to a type of naturalistic painted portraits on wooden boards attached to mummies from the Coptic period. They belong to the tradition of panel painting, one of the most highly regarded forms of art in the Classical world. In fact, the Fayum portraits are the only large body of art from that tradition to have survived. Mummy portraits have been found across Egypt, but are most common in the Faiyum Basin, particularly from Hawara and Antinoopolis, hence the common name. 'Faiyum Portraits' is generally thought of as a stylistic, rather than a geographic, description. While painted Cartonnage mummy cases date back to pharaonic times, the Faiyum mummy portraits were an innovation dating to the Coptic period at the time of the Roman occupation of Egypt. They date to the Roman period, from the late 1st century BCE or the early 1st century CE onwards. It is not clear when their production ended, but

Coptic.Portraits from mummy case painted in wax. Haware. 2nd cent. AD.

Portrait of a Boy. unknown, author

Fresco of Baker & Wife, National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy

Decoration of the Camera degli Sposi (Camera Picta), by Mantegna Andrea, 1465 - 1474, 15th Century, fresco and dry tempera. Italy. Lombardy. Mantua. Ducal Palace. West wall. The meeting between Ludovico Gonzaga and his sons Francesco and Federico. Right episode. Detail of the face of Cardinal Francesco Gonzaga light blue/azure pink face

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