Beautiful Art: architecture, paintings, sculptures, etc

[Christine]

Before and after:

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the after is ugly

 

[MK Scarlett]

The Pietà by Michelangelo

Details:

Edit: Changed one picture that was not visible.

 

[Zzartemis]

Before and after:

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[MK Scarlett]

The beautiful realistic art of Norman Rockwell

 

[Alix]

The Sarcophagus of the Spouses - Etruscan, Banditaccia necropolis, Cerveteri, Italy, c. 520 B.C.

 

[jebediah]

 

[Alix]

Okay, here's one that is both sculpture and architecture: Goreme, Turkey, a town mostly sculpted out of rock. Sculpturtecture!

 

[MK Scarlett]

San Giobbe Altarpiece, by the Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini - 1487 oil on panel painting. One can see it in the Venice-based museum gallery called Gallerie dell'Accademia.

Details

Bellini composed this image as a sacra conversazione, or holy conversation, between the Virgin Mary and Christ Child, three angels, St. Job, St. John the Baptist, St. Dominic, St. Sebastian, St. Francis of Assisi and St. Louis, Bishop of Toulouse.

More here about this painting and Bellini.

 

[PERLOU]

Basilique Saint Marc Venise Italie

L'intérieur de la basilique Saint-Marc

 

[jebediah]

 

[jebediah]

 

[jebediah]

 

[Pierre]

Carcassonne:

 

[Pierre]

"The Old City of Sanaa in Yemen is one of the oldest cities in the world, continuously inhabited for more than 2500 years. Meaning 'fortified palace', the city is a work of art in itself, & remains one of the greatest treasures of Arabia."

 

[loreta]

The beautiful realistic art of Norman Rockwell

Fantastic! Wonderful!