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Painting in ancient Rome. Painting in ancient Rome is a still poorly understood topic in the history of painting, as its study is hampered by the scarcity of relics. Much of what we know today about Roman painting is due to a natural tragedy. When the volcano Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 it buried two thriving cities, Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Virgen Nuestra Señora de la Antigua, 16th century Of the three works mentioned, the most important is the Virgin de la Antigua , painted in Seville between 1520 and 1523. It was saved from a shipwreck in the vicinity of the Virgin Islands when it was brought by ship to Santo Domingo and considered the first large-format painting to arrive to ...
José Campeche y Jordán (December 23, 1751 – November 7, 1809), is the first known Puerto Rican visual artist and considered by art critics as one of the best rococo artists in the Americas. Campeche y Jordán loved to use colors that referenced the landscape of Puerto Rico, as well as the social and political crème de la crème of colonial ...
The Palacio de Bellas Artes (Palace of Fine Arts) is a prominent cultural center in Mexico City. This hosts performing arts events, literature events and plastic arts galleries and exhibitions (including important permanent Mexican murals ). "Bellas Artes" for short, has been called the "art cathedral of Mexico", and is located on the western ...
Corso Vittorio Emanuele, 166/A 00186 Rome, Italy. Coordinates. 41°53′46″N 12°28′38″E. / 41.89611°N 12.47722°E / 41.89611; 12.47722. Type. Art museum, Historic site. Website. www .museobarracco .it. Museo Barracco di Scultura Antica ( Italian, Barracco Museum of Antique Sculpture) is a museum in Rome, Italy, featuring a ...
Romería de El Rocío. The Romería de El Rocío is a procession/pilgrimage on the second day of Pentecost to the Hermitage of El Rocío in the countryside of Almonte ( Huelva ), Andalucia, Spain, in honor of the Virgin of El Rocío. [1] [2] In recent years the Romería has brought together roughly a million pilgrims each year.
Paris. On the left: Witches' Sabbath (The Great He-Goat) The Black Paintings (Spanish: Pinturas negras) is the name given to a group of 14 paintings by Francisco Goya from the later years of his life, likely between 1819 and 1823. They portray intense, haunting themes, reflective of both his fear of insanity and his bleak outlook on humanity.
Giovanni Paolo, also known as Gian Paolo Panini or Pannini (17 June 1691 – 21 October 1765), was an Italian painter and architect who worked in Rome and is primarily known as one of the vedutisti ("view painters"). As a painter, Panini is best known for his vistas of Rome, in which he took a particular interest in the city's antiquities.