Ancient Architectural Reliefs

Detailed carvings of mythological creatures, figures, and motifs from ancient temples, showcasing rich textures and historical significance.

Frieze at the apsis at monastery church in Koenigslutter, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

Turkey, Aydin, marble frieze with winged lions in the antique Apollon temple, archaeological site of Didyma

IMPOSICION DE LA CASULLA DE SAN ILDEFONSO - RELIEVE DE LA FUENTE DE SAN ILDEFONSO O DE LOS CUATRO CAÑOS FECHADA EN EL AÑO 1624. Location: EXTERIOR. AJOFRIN. Toledo. SPAIN.

Naked figures in a vineyard, Kings' gate, Isabeline Gothic style, Monastery of Santa María La Real, Nájera, La Rioja, Spain.

Main apse, Hunting frieze, Hare tie hunter, St., Saint, Saint

Roman Art. Arch of Constantine. Triumphal arch. It was erected to commemorate Constantine victory over Maxentius at the Batlle of Milvian Bridge (October 28, 312). Reuse of parts of earlier buildings. Detail of medallion (relief). IV century AD. Rome. Italy. Europe.

France, Marseille, Panier District, Decorated Lintel With Stone Sculture Of A Bearded Man

Statue carved on Kesar Bagh royal cremation ground, Bundi, Rajasthan, India Copyright: xAdityaxSingh/DinodiaxPhotox

Detail of an outside slab - Zoophorous, by Antelami Benedetto, 1196, 12th Century, . Italy: Emilia Romagna: Parma: Baptistery. Outside Baptistery bas-relief wings tail zoophorous allegory

Frieze at the apsis at monastery church in Koenigslutter, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

Roman sarcophagus. Strigillated. Bust of Selene (goddes moon) in a clipeus. 3rd C. Via Belluzzo. Rome. National Roman Museum. Baths of Diocletian. Rome. Italy.

ESTATUA DEL CORO PETREO ROMANICO (SIGLO XII) REUTILIZADA EN LA PUERTA SANTA TAMBIEN LLAMADA DEL PERDON. Author: MAESTRO MATEO. Location: CATEDRAL-EXTERIOR. SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA. Coruña. SPAIN.

figuras desnudas en una viña, puerta de los Reyes, estilo gótico isabelino, Monasterio de Santa María La Real, Nájera, La Rioja, Spain.

Zoppi palace: capital, cassine, italy

Josep Puig i Cadafalch / Sculptural relief of a pensive human figure in a left impost of the house Joaquim Coll i Regàs (detail), 1897-1898, Mataró, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Figures of knights above the portal of the Imperial Hall, Reichssaal, Old Town Hall, old town of Regensburg, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Fantastischer Löwe Fantastic lion, Romanesque sculpture, San Pedro da Mezquita, National Monument, municipality of La Merca, province of Orense, Galicia, Spain Copyright: xZoonar.com/Tolox 22762094

Detail of a column in Saint Mark Church in Korcula, Korcula island, Croatia Detail of a column in Saint Mark Church in Korcula, Korcula island, Croatia Copyright: xZoonar.com/ZvonimirxAtletix 21094275

Closeup half naked faunus statue under column at Zwinger palace in Dresden, Germany

Neuvy-Saint-Sépulchre, collegiate church of St-Jacques, rotunda, column capital, leaf capital with mythical creatures

LERIDA. SEU VIELLA. DETALLE CAPITEL INTERIOR.

SPAIN - Rioja Media (district) - LA RIOJA. Navarrete, romanesque detail of the cemetery (Roland´s legend); Sant James pilgrims way to Santiago

Maricel Palace, Sitges, Catalonia, Spain. Relief.

PORTADA-FRISO SOBRE EL VENTANAL-JARRA CON HIDRAS Y PUTTIS. Location: PALACIO DE ESCORIAZA-ESQUIVEL. VITORIA / GASTEIZ. ALAVA. SPAIN.

relieves de la Reial academia de belles Arts, Carrer de la Rosa, 3, Palma, Mallorca, balearic islands, Spain.

Garland sarcophagus. Marble. Tel Mevorah. Roman period, 3rd century CE. Detail. The open-mouthed mask indicates that the sarcophagus is from Asia Minor. Rockefeller Archaeological Museum. Jerusalem. Israel.

Maricel Palace, Sitges, Catalonia, Spain. Reliefs.

Detail from Lincoln Cathedral, 12th century. Artist: Unknown

In the old town centre of Nuremberg, figures at the Lorenzkirche, Sankt Lorenz, Middle Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Chartres Cathedral, South Porch left bay, pride falling from his horse 13th century

Benedictine abbey of Vezelay. Narthex. Sculptures. 12 th century. Vezelay. France.

Italy, Bergamo, detail of artwork on facade of Duomo

blur in iran the old decorative flower tiles from antique mosque like background

Marble sarcophagus with the myth of Endymion. Roman. Antonine period, 2nd c.AD. Selene, moon goddess alights from her chariot to visit her reclining lover, Endymion, a beautiful shepherd. Detail Selene. Metropolitan Museum. NY. USA.

combate entre hombre y dragone, Monasterio de San Juan de Duero, arquitectura románica castellana, siglo XII , Soria, Comunidad Autónoma de Castilla, Spain, Europe.

Bayeux cathedral. Decorative geometric sculptures. Bayeux. France.

dancer with loose hair, Romanesque capital in the cloister, San Pedro el Viejo Monastery, Huesca, Aragon community, Spain.

Brauweiler near Pulheim, St Nicholas Abbey Church, choir, portal on the south side, right capital

Marble relief with rats, Karni Mata Temple, Temple of Rats or Deshnoke Temple, Rajasthan, India, Asia

Stone relief, coat of arms in gateway, Hohentuebingen Palace, Museum of the University of Tuebingen MUT, higher education institution, historical building, place of learning, Renaissance complex built in the 16th century, in the palace courtyard, Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Antique marble mask in Bodrum, Turkey

Josep Puig i Cadafalch / Sculptural relief of" la filosa "(the spinner) on the lintel of the entrance door of the house Joaquim Coll i Regàs (detail), 1897-1898, Mataró, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Archivolt with frieze with hunting scenes, Prothyrum of Portal of the Red Lions, 1353, by Giovanni da Campione (1320-1375), Basilica of Saint Mary Major, Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy.

Apollo, architecture and statue for temple, outdoor and sacred site for religion, oracle and ancient Greek. Culture, marble and object for history, belief and Branch of Delphi for knowledge in Turkey

Humorous carving of lion with ice cream at the entrance to the new Cathedral in Salamanca Ornate carvings including a lion with ice cream cone in the facade and entrance to the new Cathedral in Salamanca Copyright: xZoonar.com/StevenxHeapx 14609897

Close_up of sculptures including beasts and angels on the West Front of Eglise Notre Dame la Grande, in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou Charentes, France, Eu...

England, Oxfordshire, Oxford. Detail of stone carving on the outer facade of Magdalen College in Oxford.

monastery of San Cugat del Vallés cloister, Warriors fighting dragons capital, San Cugat del Vallés, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

PORTADA-1er CUERPO-EFIGIE DE FERNAN LOPEZ DE ESCORIAZA. Location: PALACIO DE ESCORIAZA-ESQUIVEL. VITORIA / GASTEIZ. ALAVA. SPAIN.

Double Capital late 13th-early 14th century French. Double Capital. French. late 13th-early 14th century. Marble. Made in Pyrénées-Aquintaine, France. Sculpture-Architectural

Sculpture of the medieval town hall of Bruges, Flanders, Belgium, Europe

St. George slaying the dragon, Old portal of the Hospital de San Juan de Acre in the municipal cemetery, Romanesque style, Navarrete, La Rioja, Spain.

Detail of The Flag Pole In St. Mark's Square. Venice. Veneto. Italy. Europe

Close-up of a sculpture on a wall

Perugia (Umbria - PG), Major Fountain in Piazza IV Novembre, Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, tiles. In each compartment there are two tiles. The spinario and the pruning of the vineyard. Aries and the month of March

Marshal Georgy Zhukov, bas-relief, Irkutsk, Siberia, Russia, Europe

Italy, Sicily, Selinunte, Detail of Heracles (Hercules) and the Cercopes, from metope of the temple C, limestone

Relief at the Roland Fountain, Market Place, Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

Middle East, Israel, Caesarea, Caesarea National Park, Ancient Roman Sarcophagus lid adorned with a Gorgon's head. Late Roman period (2nd and 3rd CE)

Saint Stephens cathedral, Auxerre, Yonne, France. Reliefs on the porch.

Mainz, St Martin's Cathedral, east choir, south portal, capital with lion, man and monkey

Sanctuary of Athena. 2nd century BC. Fragment of the frieze depicting a griffin. Acropolis of Pergamum. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany.

Ferentillo (Umbria - Tr), abbey of San Pietro in Valle. Portal of the cloister, detail with sculpture of Saint Paul

ARTE GOTICO. ESPAÑA. Relieve de una CRUZ esculpida en la pared lateral de la IGLESIA GOTICA DE SAN JUAN (siglo XIV). VILAFRANCA DEL PENEDES. Comarca del Alt Penedès. Provincia de Barcelona. Cataluña.

Ménsulas del Palacio Marc o Gualbes de Barcelona, siglos XII-XIII.

Samson kämpft Samson fighting, Romanesque capital in the cloister, San Pedro el Viejo Monastery, Huesca, Aragon community, Spain Copyright: xZoonar.com/BartomeuxBalaguerxRotgerx 22307599

Historic animal sculpture, Heilbronn, Heilbronn-Franken, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Europe

FLORENCE, TUSCANY/ITALY - OCTOBER 19 : Detail from the Fountain of Neptune statue Piazza della Signoria in front of the Palazzo Vecchio Florence on October 19, 2019

Cattle details in stone, Museum in Selçuk is the central town of Selçuk district, Izmir Province in Turkey

Perugia (Umbria - PG), Major Fountain in Piazza IV Novembre, Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, tiles. In each compartment there are two tiles. Fishermen. Pisces and the month of February

Relief. Genesis. Construction of Noah's Ark. 13th c. La Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, France.

GARGOLA CABEZA DE LEON - TEMPLO DE HIMARA. Location: NATIONAL MUSEUM. PALERMO. ITALIA.

Sardinia Sassari Sassari S. Pietro di Silki7. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Romanesque architecture (13th century), considerably altered; architectural sculpture. German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

puerta de acceso al templo ,gótico flamigero, puerta de nogal con casetones decorados con motivos platerescos, siglo XVI, Monasterio de Santa María La Real, Nájera, La Rioja, Spain.

EVA - DETALLE DE LA PORTADA PLATERESCA DEL HOSPITAL DE LOS REYES CATOLICOS - SIGLO XVI. Author: BLAS MARTIN DE / COLAS GUILLEM. Location: HOSTAL DE LOS REYES CATOLICOS, CORUA, SPAIN.

PORTICO DE LA GLORIA - DETALLE DE DOS MUSICOS- ESCULTURA ROMANICA - S XII - Conj nº 40070. Author: MAESTRO MATEO. Location: CATEDRAL-INTERIOR. SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA. Coruña. SPAIN.

Sencelles cemetery, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, Europe

Mosteiro dos Jerónimos de Belém, s.XVI. Detalle de la ornamentación de las columnas.

"L'Hiver", Sculpture by Georges Clère, Decoration of the Louvre, Paris. Édouard Baldus (French, born Germany, 1813 - 1889)

Spain. Region of Murcia. Totana. Baroque fountain made by Juan de Uceta, Pedro Litran and Juan Moreno in 1753. Topped by the coat of arms of the city and the Cross of the Order of Santiago. Constitution Square.

Gefallenendenkmal in Helpup Gefallenendenkmal in Helpup Copyright: xZoonar.com/MartinaxBergx 7390422

Relief der Jungfrau Maria an der Fassade einer Kirche in Verona, Italien Virgin Mary relief on facade of church in Verona, Italy Copyright: xZoonar.com/ZvonimirxAtletix 21198436

Spain. Catalonia. Barcelona Cathedral. Fight with a lion in a relief of San Ivo Portal. Panels reused from Romanesque Cathedral.

Spain. Galicia. Padron. On the route of the Camino Portugues from Porto to Santiago de Compostela a bas relief of an old symbol of Santiago on the boat.

Austria, Salzburg, Hohensalzburg Castle, coat of arms

bacchus fountain in Marche Italy An image of a bacchus fountain in Marche Italy Copyright: xZoonar.com/magannx 13851955

CAPITEL DEL ARPISTA Y DEL CONTORSIONISTA EN LA PORTADA OESTE DE LA IGLESIA DE SAN SALVADOR - SIGLO XIII - ROMANICO ESPAÑOL. Author: MAESTRO DE AGÜERO. Location: IGLESIA DEL SALVADOR. EJEA DE LOS CABALLEROS. Saragossa Zaragoza. SPAIN.

Scaliger tombs, a group of five gothic funerary monuments celebrating the Scaliger family in Verona, Italy Scaliger tombs, a group of five gothic funerary monuments celebrating the Scaliger family in Verona, Italy Copyright: xZoonar.com/ZvonimirxAtletix 21065557

Romanesque image with sexual scene, Collegiate church of San Pedro, 12th century. Cervatos. Cantabria. Spain.

Sandskulpturen Ausstellung Prora, Ostseebad Binz, Rügen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Deutschland *** Sand sculptures Exhibition Prora, Baltic seaside resort Binz, Rügen, Mecklenburg Western Pomerania, Germany 1020927343

escudo de los Forcimany, 1618, Can Fussimany, siglo XVI-XVII, Deià, comarca de la Sierra de Tramontana, Mallorca, balearic islands, Spain.

Spain, Basque Country, province of Biscay, Zeberio (Ceberio). Saint James the Moor-slayer (Santiago Matamoros) on horseback victorious over the infidels. Sculpture in the tympanum of the Chapel of Saint Anthony of Padua.

Corigliano d'Otranto, Lecce, Salento, Apulia, Italy

Lisbon, Portugal. Old wall fountain in the Jewish section of Lisbon

Ornament, Art Nouveau, Wilhelmshaven, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

Wall relief in Pompeii, Campania, Italy, Europe

Marches Macerata Castelsantangelo sul Nera S. Stefano3. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Architecture, architectural sculpture, sculpture Post-medieval: Architecture, architectural sculpture, sculpture, painting, fresco painting German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

Relieves de distintos SIGNOS ZODIACALES existentes en la fachada del Baptisterio de Parma. (1196-1260). Parma. Italia.

Tomb of the Dukes of Cardona, 16th century, Poblet Monastery. Author: DAMIA FORMENT.

Ventanal gótico. La Riera. Santa Magdalena. Mataró. Siglo XVI.

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