Category Archives: Ancient art

The Getty Villa, Los Angeles, California, United States

The Getty Villa is at the easterly end of the Malibu coast in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. One of two campuses of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Villa is an educational center and museum dedicated to the study of the arts and…

The Getty Villa, Los Angeles, California, United States

Choir of the Nuns, Santa Giulia museum

The choir allowed the cloistered nuns to attend the religious services held in the church of San Salvatore. The walls were covered in frescoes – with an iconographic theme inspired by the concept of salvation – painted by various artists between the 1520s and 1550s. A splendid frescoed chamber where…

Choir of the Nuns, Santa Giulia museum

Church of Santa Maria in Solario, Santa Giulia museum

The Romanesque chapel of Santa Maria in Solario was built in around the mid-12th century; it is square in plan and the octagonal upper portion has a closed loggia with reused Early Medieval columns and capitals. The facade of the medieval church of Santa Maria in Solario faces onto Via…

Church of Santa Maria in Solario, Santa Giulia museum

Church of San Salvatore, Santa Giulia museum

The church of San Salvatore is one of the most important surviving examples of Early Medieval religious architecture. The Lombard church of San Salvatore, erected in the mid-8th century AD, is an important example of Early Medieval religious architecture; the original building is easily distinguishable from later additions. King Desiderius…

Church of San Salvatore, Santa Giulia museum

Ancient origin of Casaforte Acaja, Madama Palace

In the basement of Madama Palace, at the level of the Roman foundations, there is the Medieval Lapidary, with stone sculptures and goldsmiths. Located in the heart of Turin, in what was to be the Roman Quadrilateral castrum, the complex stands on what, at the time of the ancient Roman…

Ancient origin of Casaforte Acaja, Madama Palace

Gothic and Renaissance Collection, Madama Palace

On the ground floor, characterized by fifteenth-century rooms, there are paintings, sculptures, miniatures and precious objects from the Gothic-Renaissance period. In the room of the Torre Tesori , one of the fifteenth-century towers of the old castle, you will find some of the most important pieces of this period such…

Gothic and Renaissance Collection, Madama Palace

Carlo Magno goes to War, Madama Palace

The exhibition Charlemagne goes to war, set up in the Medieval Court of Palazzo Madama, presents for the first time in Italy the extremely rare cycle of medieval paintings of the Castle of Cruet (Val d’Isère, France), a unique testimony of 14th century painting in Savoy. The cycle represents episodes…

Carlo Magno goes to War, Madama Palace

South Asia and Southeast Asia gallery, Oriental Art Museum in Turin

The South Asia gallery houses collections from three major cultural geographic areas: Gandhara, India and Indochina. Gandhara This collection includes artifacts from the Buddhist-inspired artistic production of Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan, from the 2nd century BC to the 5th century. Gandhara is the geographical term for an area between Afghanistan…

South Asia and Southeast Asia gallery, Oriental Art Museum in Turin

Chinese gallery, Oriental Art Museum in Turin

The Chinese gallery now houses works of art from ancient China, dating from 3000 BC to c.900 BC, with Neolithic ceramics, sacred bronzes, and lacquered and terracotta ware that include over two hundred examples of burial art works from the Han and Tang periods. In the Chinese collection it can…

Chinese gallery, Oriental Art Museum in Turin

Temple of Hera Lacinia, Agrigento, Valley of the Temples

The Temple of Hera Lacinia(Italian: Tempio Hera Lacinia), or Temple of Juno Lacinia (Italian: Tempio di Giunone), otherwise known as Temple D, is a Greek temple in the Valle dei Templi, a section of the ancient city of Agrigentum (ancient Greek Akragas, modern Agrigento) in Sicily. It was built in…

Temple of Hera Lacinia, Agrigento, Valley of the Temples

Temple of Concordia, Agrigento, Valley of the Temples

The Temple of Concordia (Italian: Tempio della Concordia) is an ancient Greek temple in the Valle dei Templi (Valley of the Temples) in Agrigento (Greek: Akragas) on the south coast of Sicily, Italy. It is the largest and best-preserved Doric temple in Sicily and one of the best-preserved Greek temples…

Temple of Concordia, Agrigento, Valley of the Temples

Temple of Heracles, Agrigento, Valley of the Temples

The Temple of Heracles (Italian: Tempio di Ercole) is a greek temple in the ancient city of Akragas, located in the Valle dei Templi in Agrigento. The building, in the archaic Doric style, is found on the hill of the temples, on a rocky spur near the Villa Aurea. The…

Temple of Heracles, Agrigento, Valley of the Temples

Main Staircase, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Capitoline Museums

The landings on the main staircase that leads to the upper floors feature large historical reliefs which originally were used to decorate public monuments. Three panels from a triumphal arch refer to the exploits of Marcus Aurelius and are lined up on the first landing, while another three portraying the…

Main Staircase, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Capitoline Museums

Courtyard, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Capitoline Museums

The courtyard of the Palazzo dei Conservatori has always represented, since the first formation of the Capitoline collections of antiquity, a sort of privileged place for the preservation of the memory of antiquity. The works that gradually flowed into the building were a sign of the cultural and temporal continuity…

Courtyard, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Capitoline Museums

Courtyard, Palazzo Nuovo, Capitoline Museums

The large central niche in the end wall features a large fountain with the colossal statue of a River god, known as Marforio. The three large grey granite pillars with a relief frieze portraying Egyptian high priests originate from the sanctuary of Isis and Serapis in the Campus Martius. The…

Courtyard, Palazzo Nuovo, Capitoline Museums

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