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Plans of the cast-iron gate for the Petit Palais de Beaux-Arts in Paris | Charles-Louis Girault | 1896-1900

In Velemér church there are tiny windows placed into the walls, like slots, positioned to take account of changes in the angle of the sun’s rays during the year, and then the frescoes were positioned accordingly.

Ledikant via Rembrandt Van Rijn

~Wall fresco painting. Place of origin: From the subterranean hall of the Villa of Livia at Prima Porta. Date: 40—20 BCE. Provenance: Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme (Museo nazionale romano, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - La viuda romana (Dîs Manibus) [detail]

by Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1796, detail.

Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (detail)

Views of 19th century Berlin by Eduard Gaertner (1801 - 1877).

Drechsler. Detail from Still Life with Butterflies, Glass Bowl, and Grapes, 19th Century.

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Van Lint was a Flemish Baroque landscape and vedute painter who was part of the group of Flemish and Dutch painters active in Rome. He was one of the leading landscape painters in Rome in the first half of the 18th century and his patrons included Rome’s old aristocratic families as well as European travellers on their Grand Tour.

Duomo, Napoli, Italia