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Reversed bell-shaped crater with red figures

Description: Reversed bell-shaped crater, with red figures, used as a cinerary. There are depicted some domestic scenes on the main side and three young boys covered with a cape on the other.

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Decorative architectural parcel with some inscriptions

  SHORT DESCRIPTION: Decorative architectural parcel with an inscription. The carved part reproduces the monetary types of Himera.

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Agrippina the Elder

SHORT DESCRIPTION: Agrippina the Elder, a particular sculpture with the presence of painting on the iris and the pupils.

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Arabic epigraph with Kufic lettering

Arabic inscription carved in relief on a tuff stone – composed by 9 fragments whose B, C and F made of two pieces.

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Painted Triptych depicting the Virgin of Humility and the Saints; there are the Announcement to the Shepherds and the Adoration of the Child into the altar step

SHORT DESCRIPTION: The Virgin Mary while breast-feeding Jesus; two angels into S.S. Joan the Evangelist and Michael’s compartment. There are the figures of some Saints into the little lateral ribs; some others into the altar step; the Announcement to the Shepherds and the Adoration of the Child in the middle part of the picture. All […]

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Triumph of the Heresy – Vincenzo La Barbera

SHORT DESCRIPTION: The Holy Spirit’s Dove in the upper part of the work, Our Eternal Father, the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ while handling some darts in order to strike the Heresy; all this is surrounded by a crown of angels and Saints. On the right Saint Peter and Saint Paul. In the lower left […]

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Picture depicting Saint Katherine delivery to her wet nurse

SHORT DESCRIPTION: Saint Katherine’s parents, the king and the queen, while delivering their newborn girl to the wet nurse.

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Picture depicting the Annunciation

SHORT DESCRIPTION: The angel with a sceptre and a mantle full of gems; the Virgin Mary with her hands opened on the right side; the Dove of the Holy Spirit in the upper part

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Picture depicting Mary Immaculate

SHORT DESCRIPTION: The Virgin Mary supported by some little angels and the crescent moon under her feet. All around her there are some angels playing some musical instruments; in the upper part Our Eternal Father. A circular building in the lower right part and a town on the left part

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