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Month of January: snowy landscape with aristocrats and hunters. c.1535 (fresco)

LRI4684865 Month of January: snowy landscape with aristocrats and hunters. c.1535 (fresco) by Maestro Venceslao (fl.1390-1400); Castello del Buonconsilio, Torre dell'Aquila, Italy; (add.info.: Month of January: snowy landscape with aristocrats and hunters. Aristocrats play snowballs while hunters go hunting with their dogs. At the bottom the Castello di Stenico castle and a man with the key is ready to open the fortress door. Painting by the Master of the Months or Master Wenceslas (Maestro dei Mesi or Maestro Wenceslao in Italian, beginning of the 15th century) restores by Marcello Fogolino around 1535. Fresco. Trento, Sala del Buonconsiglio, Torre del Aquila (Italy, Trento, Hall of the Good Council, Tower of the Aquila)); Luisa Ricciarini; out of copyright

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Last Conversation between St. Benedict and St. Scholastica, 15th century (fresco)

LRI4690611 Last Conversation between St. Benedict and St. Scholastica, 15th century (fresco) by Umbrian School, (15th century); Monastero di San Benedetto (Santuario Sacro Spero), Subiaco, Rome, Lazio, Italy; (add.info.: The last meeting on 06/02/547 of Saint Benoit de Nursie and her sister Sainte Scolastique (Scholastique) (v. 480-v. 547), a few days before the death of the nun A thunderstorm breaks miraculously that forces Saint Benoit to stay with her sister all night. Detail. Fresco of the Umbria school of the 15th century. Superior Church. Monastery of Saint Benedetto (Sacro Speco), Subiaco (Rome), Italy); Luisa Ricciarini; Italian, out of copyright

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Egyptian antiquite: pectoral of Pharaoh Ramses II (1279-1213 BC) 19th Dynasty

LRI4633627 Egyptian antiquite: pectoral of Pharaoh Ramses II (1279-1213 BC) 19th Dynasty. In the center the goddess cobra Ouadjet and the vulture goddess Nekhbet, above a vulture with the head of belier. Made of electrum and colored glass. From Saqqara. Paris, Musee du Louvre - Egyptian Antiquities: Breastplate of Pharaoh Ramses II (1279-1213 BC).19th Dynasty. In the middle, the cobra goddess Wadjet (Ouadjet) and above, the vulture goddess Nekhbet with a ram's head. Made in electrum and colored glass. From Saqqara. Louvre Museum, Paris, France by Egyptian School; Louvre, Paris, France; (add.info.: Egyptian antiquite: pectoral of Pharaoh Ramses II (1279-1213 BC) 19th Dynasty. In the center the goddess cobra Ouadjet and the vulture goddess Nekhbet, above a vulture with the head of belier. Made of electrum and colored glass. From Saqqara. Paris, Musee du Louvre - Egyptian Antiquities: Breastplate of Pharaoh Ramses II (1279-1213 BC).19th Dynasty. In the middle, the cobra goddess Wadjet (Ouadjet) and above, the vulture goddess Nekhbet with a ram's head. Made in electrum and colored glass. From Saqqara. Louvre Museum, Paris, France); Luisa Ricciarini; Egyptian, out of copyright

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