Memorial Day

Vintage World War I poster of two soldiers holding flags.

French Soldiers Crossing a River at Night, Franco-Prussian War

Vintage World War I poster of General John Pershing between two red crosses.

Artifacts - Relief - Italy The Crucifixion. Relief in bronze by Antonio Pollaiuolo. (1432-1498) The artist was one of the first to employ dissection of cadavers to study form.

Artifacts - Relief - Italy Group from the Descent from the Cross. By Antonio Bergarelli (? -1565). San Francesco at Modena.

Artifacts - Relief - Italy Faith. Relief from the Loggia de` Lanzi at Florence. By Jacopo di Piero. 1384. This piece was created in the year Chaucer wrote his "Parlement of Foules" late Gothic, Italian, cross, saint, 14th century The Gothic style succ

Artifacts - Relief - Italy The Descent from the Cross. Relief in bronze by Donatello (1386-1466) in San Lorenzo at Florence. The sculptor is generally agreed to be one of the greatest of all Renaissance artists. He was born in the year work began on the

Artifacts - Cross - Austria - Italy Enameled Cross. 15th century. Austr. Museum. The Renaissance -- the revival of arts and literature under the influence of classical (Greek & Roman) models in the 14th - 16th centuries.

Artifacts - Metal - Italy Early Christian Cross from the Catacombs of Santa Ponziano, c. 450AD Early Roman converts to Christianity faced brutal suppression and punishment in pagan Rome. They held services in the underground catacombs beneath the city.

Architecture - Italy - line art Perspective Illustration Baroque/Rococo The courtyard of the Palazzo Della Consulta in Rome c. 1730. The Baroque period can be said to describe the art and architecture of the 17th century.

A drawing of a satanic like figure with a burning crucifix in their mouth and two rope nooses in the foreground

Crosses in soldiers cemetery, Italy