Philographikon since 1974さんのイラストまとめ

The Vatican Loggie

The Loggie del Vaticano are part of the three-story papal palace building, planned by Pope Julian II and finished by Pope Leo X. The building is the living quarter of the popes. And it is imaginable how much emphasis and attention it therefore had.

An exceptional series of lithographs of African birds
Excessively decorative & colorful large folio-size African bird prints: Turocos belonging to the bird family of Musaphaga. In South Africa they are also known as Louries, living in sub-Sahara countries
https://t.co/i8kOKYwe94

"Aranzo oblongo"

"Palazzo del N. H. Conte Pio sop. Padoua"
Nuremberg Hesperides, 1708-1714 by Johann Volckamer (Volkamer)

Today this palazzo is titled "Villa Molin". It is in Mandria, Ponte della Cagna.

"The Cyclops at their Forge"
by John Murphy after Luca Giordano; 1788.
In Greek mythology cyclopes were three sons of Uranus and Gaea. Their names were Arges, Brontes and Steropes. They had to forge the thunderbolts for Zeus.

@orchidcommittee Sobralia Macrantha

Nat. Ord. Orchideae
Guatemala
Aus dem Garten d. H. Bon. v. Huegel

Page size: 56 x 42 cm (22 x 16.5 ")
Image size: 45.1 x 34.3 cm (17.7 x 13.5 "

Exquisite prints of Orchids

by Anton Hartinger
"Paradisus Vindobonensis" (Viennese Paradise)

"Accurate Vorstellung de Hoch Fürstl. Bischöffl. Residenz and Haupt-Stadt Würzburg des Herzogthums Franken..." Copper etching by Johann Baptist Homann in original hand coloring. Nuremberg, 1723.
https://t.co/jftqz9jNBA

"Ehemalige geistliche Maskeraden in Trier" ca 1800.

Creusa appearing to Aeneas
Rare mezzotint engraved by Valentine Green after Maria Cosway.
Aeneas tries to put his arms around Cerusa.
In the lower left are the flames of Troy burning.
Published 1781 in London.

"New Year's Day" celebration in Rome during Roman Empire. New Year's Day on January 1 actually began to be a holiday in the year 153 BC, when the Roman Imperial Council changed the beginning of each new year from March 1 to January 1. #JulianCalendar

@alcarbon68 "Eisgewinnung auf dem Rummelsberger See bei Berlin
unter Anwendung der Gasaether-Beleuchtung"

Wood engraving by Kollarz after Hosang published 1879.