Ancient Art and Murals

Artworks featuring ancient cultures, including Egyptian and Maya murals, showcasing their unique artistic styles.

Maya, Maya Murals, San Bartolo, Guatemala, Dr. Bill Saturno

Egypt - Cairo - Ancient Memphis (UNESCO World Heritage List, 1979). Saqqara. Necropolis. Private funerary mastaba of head butcher Irukaptah Khenu, 5th Dynasty. Relief of butchery

Egyptian Art. Polychrome relief depicting a seated man. Mastaba of Iynefert. Old Kingdom. 5th Dynasty. Necropolis of Saqqara.

Maya, Maya Murals, San Bartolo, Guatemala, Dr. Bill Saturno

FRAGMENTO CON PINTURAS DE LA SINAGOGA DE SANTA MARIA LA BLANCA, EN EL MUSEO DE SANTA CRUZ.

Tumba Amonemhat (53).

Egypt, Thebes, Luxor, Sheikh 'Abd al-Qurna, Tomb of second priest of Amon Amenhotep Sise, Mural painting representing garden

Egipto. Tumba 100 Rekmire. La tumba TT100 se encuentra en Sheikh Abd el-Qurna y forma parte de la Necrópolis de Tebas, en la orilla oeste del Nilo, frente a Luxor. Se trata de la capilla funeraria del visir Rekhmire (o Rejmira) que vivió durante la XVIII dinastía del Antiguo Egipto.

A photograph taken within the Tomb of Setau, a nomarch of Elkab, in Upper Egypt and first prophet of Nekhbet, in the 20th Dynasty at the time of Ramesses III. Elkab, situated 90 km, to the south of Thebes. 1169 to 1149 BC.

Figure. Date: 4th-6th century. stucco with pigment. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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Egypt, Thebes, Luxor, Valley of the Kings, Tomb of Ramses IX (KV 6), Third passage, detail of the frescoed ceiling representing ""The Egyptian Amduat: The Book of the Hidden Chamber""

Gänseschwarm flock of geese, Romanesque mural painting, Church of Sant Joan de Boí, Alta Ribagorça, National Museum of Catalonia, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Copyright: xZoonar.com/TOLOxBALAGUERx 23146455

Egyptian soldiers in the expedition to the Land of Punt. Temple of Hatshepsut. C. 1490 b.C.18th Dynasty. New Kingdom. Deir el-Bahari. Egypt.

Egyptian tomb wall painting from the tomb of Djeserkaraseneb, Luxor. Dated 11th Century BC

Egypt, Thebes, Luxor, Sheikh 'Abd al-Qurna, Tomb of second priest of Amon Amenhotep Sise, Mural painting representing garden

Triumph of Death, by Buonamico di Cristofano known as Buffalmacco (active beginning of 14th century), sinopia.

Fragment. Central Asia. Date: 801 AD-1000. Dimensions: 45.5 × 46.7 cm (17 7/8 × 18 3/8 in.)Weft repeat: 9.4-12.7 cm (3 3/4-5 in.). Silk, complementary weft twill weave with inner warps. Origin: Central Asia. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

A photograph taken within Tomb KV1, located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, used for the burial of Pharaoh Ramesses VII of the Twentieth Dynasty. Although it has been open since antiquity, it was only adequately investigated and cleared by Edwin Brock in 1984 and 1985. The single corridor tomb itself is located in Luxor's West Bank and is small in comparison to other tombs of the twentieth dynasty. Usermaatre Setepenre Meryamun Ramesses VII (also written Ramesses and Ramesses) was the sixth pharaoh of the twentieth dynasty of Ancient Egypt. He reigned from about 1136 to 1129 BC and was the son of Ramesses VI. The decoration within the passageway of the tomb contains illustrations from the Book of Gates, the Book of Caverns as well as the Book of the Earth. The walls of the burial chamber are decorated with extracts from the Book of the Earth.

Mural paintings Mural paintings, besieged castle, Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, Alaitza, Álava, Spain, Europe Copyright: xZoonar.com/Tolox 21313963

Polychrome Copador type vase, height 21cm, diameter 16cm. From the Valley of Copan (Honduras), detail of the decorations. Mayan Civilization, recent classical period 650-859.

Rock art paintings of Laas Geel, near Hargeisa, Somaliland, Somalia, Africa Copyright: MichaelxRunkel 1184-11434

A photograph taken within Tomb KV1, located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, used for the burial of Pharaoh Ramesses VII of the Twentieth Dynasty. Although it has been open since antiquity, it was only adequately investigated and cleared by Edwin Brock in 1984 and 1985. The single corridor tomb itself is located in Luxor's West Bank and is small in comparison to other tombs of the twentieth dynasty. Usermaatre Setepenre Meryamun Ramesses VII (also written Ramesses and Ramesses) was the sixth pharaoh of the twentieth dynasty of Ancient Egypt. He reigned from about 1136 to 1129 BC and was the son of Ramesses VI. The decoration within the passageway of the tomb contains illustrations from the Book of Gates, the Book of Caverns as well as the Book of the Earth. The walls of the burial chamber are decorated with extracts from the Book of the Earth.

'Beheading of St John the Baptist'. Russia, Pskov, Late 14th century. Dimensions: 170,0x149,0 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Egipto. Tumba 100 Rekmire. La tumba TT100 se encuentra en Sheikh Abd el-Qurna y forma parte de la Necrópolis de Tebas, en la orilla oeste del Nilo, frente a Luxor. Se trata de la capilla funeraria del visir Rekhmire (o Rejmira) que vivió durante la XVIII dinastía del Antiguo Egipto.

Egyptian tomb wall painting from Thebes, Luxor. Dated 11th Century BC

Textile Fragment 4th-3rd century B.C. Chavin Cloth making began in the Andes at least as early as the third millennium B.C. and remained a medium of artistic expression and carrier of important social, political, and religious information for millennia, preceding ceramics by more than a thousand years in Peru. Many different textile structures were developed. Designs could be woven into the fabric, or embroidered or painted onto a base fabric, as is the case here. Providing a portable and/or wearable surface for the depiction of complex imagery, textiles are thought to have facilitated the spread of Chavín imagery from the north, where it originated, to the southern Peruvian coast, where this fragment is said to have been found. The motifs and painting style closely resemble those of stone carvings at the site of Chavín de Huantar. The figure's clawed hands and feet, serpent hair, and serpent belt relate it to the staff god, one of the main deities worshipped at Chavín de Huantar.. Tex

Egyptian soldiers in the expedition to the Land of Punt. Temple of Hatshepsut. C. 1490 b.C.18th Dynasty. New Kingdom. Deir el-Bahari. Egypt. (PR).

The cow goddess Hathor breast feeding young Amenophis II. 1427 - 1401 BC. Detail. Bas-relief in polychrome limestone. Egyptian art. New Kingdom. Relief. EGYPT. CAIRO. Cairo. Egyptian Museum. Proc: EGYPT. QUENA. Dayr al-Bahri. Valley of the Kings.

Basilica of Aquileia from the 11th century, largest floor mosaic of the Western Roman Empire, UNESCO World Heritage Site, important city in the Roman Empire, Friuli, Italy, Aquileia, Friuli, Italy, Europe

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Tumba TT-104 Tutnefer. Egipto.

Egyptian tomb wall painting from Thebes, Luxor. Dated 11th Century BC

DET FIGURA DEL TECHO DE LA SALA HIPOSTILA - FOTO AÑOS 80. Location: HATHOR TEMPLE. DENDERAH. EGYPT. ATEN.

Ramses II massacres his enemies from Exhibition: Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

ARTE EGIPCIO. EGIPTO. TEMPLO DE HATSHEPSUT. XVIII Dinastía. Imperio Nuevo. Relieves policromados con la representación de egipcios trabajando. Deir-El-bahari. Egipto.

Ducks in a row, fresco, Necropolis of Veio, Lazio, Italy. Etruscan civilisation, 7th century BC.

Reliefs depicting the ankh, uady, scepter linked to power and wealth and djed pillar, symbol of stability. Temple of Hatshepsut. Temples of Deir el-Bahari. Dynasty XVIII. New Kingdom. Egypt.

Maya, Maya Murals, San Bartolo, Guatemala, Dr. Bill Saturno

Barrier Canyon style pictographs, Indian Rockart Pictographs, Sego Canyon, Utah, United States of America, North America

Mexico, State of Mexico, Teotihuacan archaeological pre-Columbian 200 BC, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Frescoes of the Palacio de Tepantitla

Four horse chariot of Helios the Greek sun god, from the Parthenon Friezes at the Acropolis museum Athens.

Assyrian relief of the transport of wood. Artist: Unknown

Tumba Amonemhat (53).

Mural painting in the Tomb of the Baron (Tomba del Barone) at Tarquinia, Italy, (1928). Etruscan burial chamber, '2nd Half of 6th Century B.C....Left corner...Mounted youths and sacrificial scene. In the pediment sea-horses and flying fish' dolphins. After a water-colour by L. Cartocci. Plate XXI, fig 58, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928

seven deadly sins,, Sieso wall paintings, 16th century, fresco torn off and transferred to canvas, come from the church of San Miguel Arcangel in Sieso, Diocesan Museum of Jaca, Huesca, Spain.

Carpenter with Tools, Tomb of Rekhmire New Kingdom Nina de Garis Davies ca. 1504-1425 B.C. View more. Carpenter with Tools, Tomb of Rekhmire. Nina de Garis Davies (1881-1965). ca. 1504-1425 B.C.. Paper, tempera paint, ink. New Kingdom. Original from Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Tomb of Rekhmire (TT 100). Dynasty 18

Wall Paintings, Tomb of Roy, TT255, End of Eighteenth Dynasty, Tombs of the Nobles, Ancient Thebes, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Luxor, Eygpt, North Africa, Africa

Attic Black-Figure Neck Amphora Fragment (comprised of 4 Joined Fragments). Unknown

Ritual Slaughter of ox, held down by ropes. Tempera painting. Detail of man. 1st Intermediate period (2118-1980 BC). Egypt. Egyptian Museum of Turin. Italy.

A photograph taken of the Abu Simbel Temple, in Nubia, Southern Egypt, near the border with Sudan. The complex is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The temple dates to the 13th century BC, during the 19th dynasty reign of the Pharaoh Ramesses II. It is a monument to the king and commemorates his victory at the Battle of Kadesh. The complex was relocated in its entirety in 1968 under the supervision of a Polish archaeologist, Kazimierz Michalowski, on an artificial hill made from a domed structure, high above the Aswan High Dam reservoir.

The Yulin Caves are a Buddhist cave temple complex in Guazhou County, Gansu Province, China. The site is located some 100 km east of the oasis town of Dunhuang and the Mogao Caves. It takes its name from the eponymous elm trees lining the Yulin River, which flows through the site and separates the two cliffs from which the caves have been excavated. The forty-two caves house some 250 polychrome statues and 4,200 square metres of wall paintings, dating from the Tang Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty (7th to 14th centuries). The site was among the first in China to be designated for protection in 1961 as a Major National Historical and Cultural Site. In 2008 the Yulin Grottoes were submitted for future inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List as part of the Chinese Section of the Silk Road.

TESORO TUTANKAMON-COFRE DE MARFIL-CAZA DEL FARAON. Location: EGYPTIAN MUSEUM. KAIRO. EGYPT.

Fragment Made 969 CE-1171 Egypt. Border fragment, tapestry silk weft on dark blue silk warp; twisted rope design in yellow on outside edges . Islamic

Greek civilization, fresco depicting spring, from Akrotiri, Thera, Santorini

Egipto. Tumba 100 Rekmire. La tumba TT100 se encuentra en Sheikh Abd el-Qurna y forma parte de la Necrópolis de Tebas, en la orilla oeste del Nilo, frente a Luxor. Se trata de la capilla funeraria del visir Rekhmire (o Rejmira) que vivió durante la XVIII dinastía del Antiguo Egipto.

Divinity figure, by Unknown artist, 1st Century, mural. Italy: Lazio: Rome: Palazzo Massimo alle Terme: Cubicolo B parete dell'alcova. Detail. Frescoed wall red statuette

Detalle de la viga románica del Monasterio de Sant Miquel de Cruïlles, siglo XIII. Museum: Museu d'Art, Girona.

Wall Facing (Netherlands); tin-glazed earthenware, underglaze; 5 tiles tall, various wide

Mastaba of Nefer and Kahay. Polychromed relief depicting fighters on a boat. 5th Dynasty. Old Kingdom. Saqqara. Egypt.

Relief, mastaba tomb, near Sakkara, tomb, Egypt, Africa

Abydos, one of the oldest cities of ancient Egypt; king Rameses II

Illustrated Papyrus Illustrated Papyrus, 4th-3rd century B.C.E. Papyrus, pigment, ink, 37.1647Ea1: 13 9/16 × 6 9/16 in. (34.5 × 16.6 cm). Because papyrus was a costly material, it was normally reserved for important documents such as administrative records and funerary literature. For the same reason, talented artists usually drew the illustrations. This crudely drawn parade of important Egyptian deities is therefore quite surprising. Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art 4th-3rd century B.C.E.

El Cavaller, decoración mural procedente de la Iglesia de Sant Quirze de Pedret. Pintura al fresco, 197 x 135 cm.

Wall frieze from the tomb of Ramesses VI. Tomb KV9 in Egypt's Valley of the Kings was originally constructed by Pharaoh Ramesses V. He was interred here, but his uncle, Ramesses VI, later reused the tomb as his own. The layout is typical of the 20th dynasty - the Ramesside period. Ramesses VI Nebmaatre-Meryamun was the fifth ruler of the Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt. He reigned for about eight years in the mid-to-late 12th century BC

First Pylon at the Temple of Rameses II at Medinet Habu, Egypt. The Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu was an important New Kingdom period temple structure in the West Bank of Luxor in Egypt. The temple has inscribed reliefs depicting the advent and defeat of the Sea Peoples during the reign of Ramesses III. Initial excavation of the temple took place sporadically between 1859 and 1899

Limestone relief depicting list of offerings; Old Kingdom. The Old Kingdom is the period in the third millennium BC when Egypt attained its first continuous peak of civilization

Fragments from the Tiryns wall-painting.

Arabische Schatulle aus dem 13. 13th century Arabic casket, collegiate church of Sant Feliu de Girona, Girona art museum, Catalonia, Spain Copyright: xZoonar.com/Tolox 22283028

Detail of frieze of Archers of polychrome glazed brick, from Palace of Darius I, from Shush (ancient Susa), Iran

Fresco, Qusayr Amra or Quseir Amra, Hummayad Hunting Pavilion, Jordan.

Fragment of a fresco depicting the Egyptian God Osiris, god of the afterlife, the underworld, and the dead. From the Old Kingdom

vaso Chama,ceramica policroma, postclásico tardio, museo de la plaza central, Chichicastenango ,municipio del departamento de El Quiché, Guatemala, Central America.

Sketch of a King. Egyptian. Date: 1295 BC-1069 BC. Dimensions: 24.1 × 15.2 × 3.2 cm (9 1/2 × 6 × 1 1/4 in.). Limestone and pigment. Origin: Egypt. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA. Author: Ancient Egyptian.

Detalle de las pinturas del ábside de Santa Maria de Mur, siglo XII. Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya.

Egypt - Ancient Thebes (UNESCO World Heritage List, 1979). Necropolis. Private tomb of Rekhmire, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty. Vestibule. Mural paintings of tributes from foreign peoples. Detail of giraffe from Punt.

Tunisia, Dougga, Mosaic work depicting the Cyclops forging the Zeus thunderbolts in the Vulcan cave

Wall painting: Saint Mercury killing the spear of Emperor Julian the apostate; horse. X - early 11th century (975-00-00-1025-00-00);

Tomb painting from the tomb of the Ancient Egyptian official, Userhat who was the Royal Scribe, Child of the Royal Nursery, during the 18th dynasty king Amenhotep II

Hieroglyphs at the Philae Temple complex, The Temple of Isis, currently on the island of Agilkia, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

Fragment (from a Garment ), late 700s - early 800s. Iran or Iraq, early Abbasid period, late 8th - early 9th century A.D.. Tapestry (originally inwoven in tabby ground); goat hair, wool and cotton; overall: 15.3 x 19.7 cm (6 x 7 3/4 in.).

Roman mosaics, Medinaceli, Soria, autonomous community of Castilla y León, Spain, Europe.

Detail of mural inside Cave 1, Ajanta, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Maharashtra, India, Asia

Mastaba of Irukaptah. 5th Dynasty. Old Kingdom. Relief depicting a sailing boat navigating on the Nile. Saqqara. Egypt.

Fresco of detail of procession of gift-bearers from Minoan Palace of Knossos Crete XVIth century b.C.

Egypt, Thebes, Luxor, Sheikh 'Abd al-Qurna, Tomb of standard-bearer of pharaoh Pehsukher, Mural paintings, Vine harvest

13th century Arabic casket, collegiate church of Sant Feliu de Girona, Girona art museum, Catalonia, Spain.

Athens, Kerameikos Necropolis, Geometric ceramic crater

A photograph taken within Tomb KV8, located in the Valley of the Kings, used for the burial of Pharaoh Merenptah of Ancient Egypt's Nineteenth Dynasty. Merneptah or Merenptah (reigned July or August 1213 BC - May 2, 1203 BC) was the fourth ruler of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt.

Fremont petroglyphs recorded over older and very faint Barrier Canyon style pictographs at the Sego Canyon rock art site, near Moab, Utah, United States.

Painting from the tomb wall of Nebamun, Thebes, Egypt. Showing Nebamun inspecting flocks of geese and herds of cattle. From late 18th Dynasty, around 1350 BC.

MOSAICO DE LOS COPEROS. VILLA DEL COMPLUTUM DE ALCALA DE HENARES. MUSIVARIA. (DEPOSITO: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO NACIONAL).

El Brujo Archaeological Complex near Trujillo, Peru, South America

Study for the equestrian monument to Giovanni Acuto by Paolo Uccello (1397-1475).

Dislocation of the Labyrinth; Dislocation du Labyrinthe. Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908-1992). Oil on canvas. Painted 1982. 60 x 73cm.

Tiraz fragment, Medium: linen, silk Technique: plain weave, slit tapestry, Tiraz fragment of natural-colored linen with a two-centimeter wide band of multicolored silk tapestry medallions with bird-like forms. Fragment of selvedge on one side. Possibly from the Fatamid period., Egypt, 10th-11th century, woven textiles, Tiraz fragment

Fresco con la representación del Arcángel (Rafael). Segunda mitad del siglo VIII-primera mitad del siglo IX. Escalinata. Catedral de Faras, Sudán. Galería Faras. Museo Nacional. Varsovia. Polonia.

Barbering, Tomb of Userhat A.D. 1922; original ca. 1427-1400 B.C. Twentieth Century; original New Kingdom Nina de Garis Davies This facsimile painting copies part of a scene in the tomb of Userhat (TT 56) at Thebes. This vignette depicts men waiting their turn to have their hair cut by the barber who is at work in the lower left. The facsimile was painted at the tomb in 1925-1926 by Nina deGaris Davis who was a member of the Graphic Section of the Museum's Egyptian Expedition.. Barbering, Tomb of Userhat 557688

Tomb of the Leopards. ITALY. Tarquinia. Necropolis of Monterozzi. Tomb of the Leopards. Flautist. Etruscan art. Fresco.

Emilia-Romagna Ferrara Pomposa Abbazia di Pomposa, Museo21. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Fragments: capitals (Byzantine, 6th century), also capitals carved with human faces; marble friezes (10th century, later inscriptions); cornices, (with spolia) 11-12th centuries; ciborium; frescos. Post-medieval: Terracotta statuary, "neo-classical" (Hutzel); frescos: Bolognese, 14th century Antiquities: Amphora; grave monuments 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.

Gathering Honey, Tomb of Rekhmire New Kingdom Nina de Garis Davies ca. 1479-1425 B.C.

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