Santa Maria degli Angeli,

Interior of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, showing central nave, baldacchino over altar, coffered ceiling, rich Baroque decoration, and crypt below

Interior of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, showing central nave, baldacchino over altar, coffered ceiling, rich Baroque decoration, and crypt below

View of the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore at night, Venice, Veneto, Italy

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Artifacts - Sculpture - Italy The Empress Elizabeth, Mother of Conradin, (claimant to the throne of Sicily) Santa Maria del Carmine at Naples. c. 1250

Architecture - Italy - line art Elevation Mannerist/Renaissance Cloister of Santa Maria Della Pace in Rome. Among the artists and architects who worked on this building were Pietro Di Cortona (1596-1669) and Francesco Albani (1578-1660). Mannerism was an

Artifacts - Sculpture - Italy From the Tomb of Cardinal Sforza by Andrea Sansovino (1467-1529) in Santa Maria del Popolo at Rome 1505. The sculptor`s original name was Andrea Contucci. He was born in the year the Turks first conquered Herzegovina, intro

Architecture - Italy - line art (f3) Perspective Illustration Renaissance Santa Maria della Croce near Crema, by Giovanni Battagli c. 1490-1500. The Renaissance -- the revival of arts and literature under the influence of classical (Greek & Roman) mode

Architecture - Italy - line art Perspective Illustration Interior Cloister of Santa Maria Della Pace in Rome. Among the artists and architects who worked on this building were Pietro Di Cortona and Francesco Albani.

Architecture - Italy - line art (ll3) Detail Renaissance Santa Maria Di Loreto in the Piazzo Trajana, Rome by Antonio Sangallo (1483-1546), the most influential architect of his time and a contemporary of both Bramante and Michelangelo. He designed the

Architecture - Italy - line art Elevation Renaissance Santa Maria In Domnica, attributed to Raphael (1483-1520). The artist and architect was a student of both Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci. Although he only lived to the age of 37 he made an enormo

Architecture - Italy - line art (ll3) Detail Renaissance Santa Maria Di Loreto in the Piazzo Trajana, Rome by Antonio Sangallo (1483-1546), the most influential architect of his time and a contemporary of both Bramante and Michelangelo. He designed the

Architecture - Italy - line art Interior Baroque Cloister of Santa Maria Della Pace in Rome. Among the artists and architects who worked on this building were Pietro Di Cortona and Francesco Albani. The Baroque period can be said to describe the art and

Architecture -Italy - line art Detail Renaissance ornament in Santa Maria della Pace at Rome by Donato Bramante (1444-1514). The architect was contemporary and friend of Andrea del Verrocchio and also of Leonardo da Vinci, with whom he worked to solve

Santa Maria Maggiore, Assisi