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EditorialMemorabilia from Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn to Chris Hemsworth, Samuel L. Jackson and Star Wars to go under hammer at huge Hollywood auction
EditorialBeyonces Destinys Child costumes to hit auction block along with slew of other celeb memorabilia including Chers Turn Back time bodysuit and Whitney Houston gown
EditorialSavoyard-style close helmets or Totenkopf. Complete the armour of the cuirassiers or the heavy cavalry. North Italy. Ca.1600-1630. Armoury. Grandmaster Palace. Valletta. Malta.
EditorialTwo youths watching the crucifixion of Saint Peter. Detail. The young man turned towards the looker-on is painter Sandro Boticelli. From the series of murals in the private chapel of the Brancacci-family. 1481-1483. See 40-07-08 / 1-24.
EditorialSandro Botticelli (1445-1510). Italian painter. Virgin with Child and two angels,1468-1469. Farnese Collection. National Museum of Capodimonte. Naples, Italy.
EditorialRenaissance Art. Italy. Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510). Venus and Mars, c. 1483. Detail of Venus. Tempera on panel. National Gallery. London. England. UK.
EditorialSandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi) (1445-1510). Italian painter. "Portrait of a man with a medal of Cosimo the Elder (1475-1476). Uffizi Gallery. Florence. Italy.
EditorialThe Abbey-church of Sant'Antimo dates from the 12th century; the former abbey was founded in the 9th. Sant'Antimo stands quite alone in the Tuscan hills; today it serves as a spiritual retreat and is run by a community of Augustinian canons.
EditorialEntrance to the Church Santi Quattro Coronati, the saints Severo, Severino, Carpoforo and Vittorino, according to tradition four Roman soldiers martyred under Emperor Diocletian. Around 1100.
EditorialIvory plaque: Cain and Abel sacrificing; Cain kills Abel. From the cathedral of Salerno, Italy, around 1084, when the cathedral, founded by Robert Guiscard, was consecrated. Perhaps part of an ambo or a predella. OA 4052.
EditorialTree of Life from the coronation mantle of Norman King Roger II of Sicily. See 30-01-02 / 15-18 Embroidery, silk and pearls, Royal workshop Palermo, Italy. 1133-1134 Inv. XIII 14.
EditorialFacade of the cathedral of Otranto, southern Italy. The cathedral was built under Roger, Norman Duke of Apulia, and consecrated in 1088. The mosaic floor, of 1166, is a compendium of medieval knowledge and mythological lore. For mosaic see also 40-11-2...
EditorialItaly. Florence. San Miniato al Monte (St. Minias on the Mountain). Florentine Romanesque style, 11th-12th century. View of the geometrically patterned marble facade.
EditorialItaly. Siena. Basilica of San Francesco. Built between 1228-1255, later enlarged in the 14th-15th century. The original Romanesque styel. Interior.
EditorialItaly. Milan. Basilica of St. Ambrose. Consagred in 379. The edifice underwent several restorations, assuming the current appearance in the 12 century, when it was rebuilt in the Romanesque style. Porch.
EditorialItaly. Parma. Baptistery (1196-1260). Reliefs of different zodiacal signs and animals by Benedetto Antelami. 13th century. Detail. Sagittarius.
EditorialItaly. Parma. Baptistery (1196-1260). Statues and reliefs of different zodiacal signs and animals by Benedetto Antelami and their school. 13th century.
EditorialItaly. Rome. Basilica of Our Lady in Trastevere. Facade at night restored by Carlo Fontana in 1702. The mosaic depicts Virgin Mary nursing Jesus flanked by ten women holding lamps. 12th century.
EditorialItaly. Florence. East facade of the octagonal Baptistry (Baptistry of St. John), covered with marble white and green. Built between 1059 and 1128 in a Florentine Romanesque style.
EditorialConstantine I the Great (285-337). Roman Emperor. The Donation of Constantine. The emperor makes donation from the city of Rome to Pope Sylvester I. Fresco. 13th century. Chapel of St. Sylvester, Basilica of Four Crowned Saints. Rome. Italy.
EditorialFernando d'Avalos (1489-1525). Italian condottiero of Aragonese extraction. Chief commander of the Habsburg armies of Charles V in Italy during the Habsburg-Valois Wars. Engraving. Museo Militar, 1883. Later colouration.