Items in Italy

4.—View on the Grand Canal

The Grand Canal, Venice; the Canal Grande is the largest canal in Venice.

Keywords: water, canals, colour, cities, buildings

Places shown: Venice; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2006-05-22

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Frontispiece: The Horses of San Marco, Looking North.

Bronze (or painted) statues of horses in strong sunlight. The printed colours or this painting do not reproduce well on the screen. There is a caption, “By permission of the Hon. John Collier.”

Keywords: statuary, pillars, animals, horses

Places shown: Venice; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2006-04-12

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63.—Bronze Well-Head by Alberghetti—Courtyard of the Palazzo Ducale.

“Marco tells of magnificent feasts made by the Great Kaan on his birthday and on New Year’s Day. He delights in stories of the chase within the domain of Cublay’s palace of Chandu (perhaps the Xanadu [...]

Keywords: statuary, fountains, courtyards, architecture, buildings, people, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Venice; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2006-04-12

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Head of a Roman House Offering Sacrifice

A man, bare-headed and robed, pours from a two-handled jug into a lamp or jug. He is standing by a shrine. “Rome had no sacerdotal caste because the heads of each house were also the priests of the [...]

Keywords: religion, spirit, people, night scenes, death

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2007-03-15

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Building A Roman Temple

Slave labour! The men working in this illustration are scantily clad: they wear shorts or loin-cloths, and have bare backs and bare feet. An ox-driver leans with his stick against two oxen; he has a [...]

Keywords: ancient rome, bare feet, slaves, animals, construction

Places shown: Italy

Added: 2005-03-20

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Porta San Paolo

“Gate in the Aurelian wall rebuilt by Belisarius. This is the gate of the Ostian Way to the basilica of S. Paul’s—one of the seven great pilgrimage churches—of which the Kings of England were Protect [...]

Keywords: castles, colour, towers, people

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2006-06-05

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S. Peter’s and Castel Sant’ Angelo From the Tiber

A painting showing St Peter’s Basilica and Saint Angelo’s Castle from the river Tiber, at sunset. There is also a version of this image cropped for use as a computer desktop background, or wallpaper i [...]

Keywords: rome, churches, cathedrals, colour, sunsets, christmas

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2006-02-09

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A Procession in the Catacomb of Callistus

Navigating the underground paths of the dead in Rome, carrying only a flickering torch to fend off the darkness! The note printed on the tissue-paper protecting this image reads: The nucleus of the gr [...]

Keywords: death, caves, people, roman remains, catacombs, interiors, colour, spooky

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2006-02-09

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St. Peter’s Rome from the River Tiber: wallpaper version

A version of the painting of St. Peter’s Rome from the River Tiber cropped for use as a screen background, desktop, wallpaper image, root window picture, or whatever you want to call it.

Keywords: backgrounds, wallpaper, colour, cathedrals, sunsets

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2006-02-09

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Porta San Paolo, Wallpaper Edition

A verison of the Porta San Paolo castle gate picture cropped so it fits on a computer desktop as a background image.

Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, castles, entrances, colour

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2006-06-06

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Porta San Paolo

p. 135. Porta San Paolo

Gate of St. Paul.

Keywords: arches, carts

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2005-12-29

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Cloisters of the Lateran

p. 153. Cloisters of the Lateran

See the entry in the Catholic Encyclopedia for more information.

Keywords: arches, villas, lions, interiors

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2005-12-29

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