theancientworld:

Incense burner supported by Nike

Greek, Taras, South Italy, about 500 - 480 B.C.
Terracotta and pigment

The J. Paul Getty Museum

triglifos-y-metopas:

Mirror and handle with the birth of Helen, bronze.

Italy

400-350 B.C.

[Museum of Fine Arts - Boston]

itsjohnsen:

North American B-25’s fly past an erupting Mount Vesuvius during the invasion of Italy. 1944.
U.S. Air Force

petitpoulailler:

allthingseurope: Trieste (Friuli-Venezia Giulia -Italia by orcapeppa

wanderlusteurope:

Medieval village, Anghiri, Tuscany 

flasd:

Date: ca. 10,000–5,000 B.C.

Culture: Italian, Tuscany

Miscellaneous Credit Line: Gift of Garrett C. Pier, 1908

Accession Number: 08.99.13

Architectural terracotta plaque (so-called Campana plaque) representing Hercules capturing the Cretan bull, discovered in 1828 in Quadraro (Roma Vecchia). - Gregorian Etruscan Museum (Vatican Museums), from the first half of the 1st century A.D.

alpenstrasse:

Old clock - Florence

Funerary monument in polychrome terracotta representing dying Adonis, discovered in 1834 in Tuscania Italy. – Dimensions: maximum height 62.0 cm, length 89.0 cm, width 40.5 cm - Accession number: 14147 - Room X of the Gregorian Etruscan Museum (Vatican Museums), from the second half of the third century BC.

triglifos-y-metopas:

Trajan’s column, marble.

Rome, Italy.

113 A.D.

Commemorating Roman emperor Trajan’s victory in the Dacian Wars, completed in 113 AD.