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View of quarries in Syracuse. At the time of the author's visit, the quarry was within the garden of the Capuchin monastery.
Tags: Ancient Greek colonies, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Baskets, Capuchin friars, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Italy, Monasteries, Priests, Quarries, Quarries of Syracuse (Ear of Dionysius), Religious ceremonies, Religious practices, Sicily, Social sphere and everyday life, Southern Italy, Syracuse, Vestments (liturgical garments), Views
Offering to a goddess in the inner court of a house or temple (imaginary reconstruction).
Tags: Ancient pottery / Vase painting, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Fountains / Springs, Greece, Houses, Human types, Interiors, Italy, Religious ceremonies, Religious practices, Sculptures, Social sphere and everyday life, Women
The procession of Agios Spyridonas at Spianada, in the town of Corfu.
Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Baskets, Children, Churches, Clocks, Corfu, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Equids, Greece, Horses, Houses, Human types, Ionian islands, Procession of Agios Spyridonas, Religious ceremonies, Religious practices, Shoes and footwear, Social sphere and everyday life, Soldiers, Spianada (Corfu), Views, Weapons, Women
Memorial service on Saturday of the Souls, Athens.
Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Cemeteries, Central Greece, Children, Christian priests, Costume - Hats and headwear, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Funerary practices, Funerary steles, Greece, Mosques, Priests, Religious ceremonies, Religious practices, Shoes and footwear, Social sphere and everyday life, Views, Women
Procession on the Day of Corpus Christi, in which Venetian senators bid the pigrims to the Holy Land farewell.
Tags: Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Feast of Corpus Christi, Italy, Piazza San Marco (Venice), Pilgrims, Processions, Religious ceremonies, Religious practices, Senate of Venice, Senators of Venice, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Veneto, Venice
Interior view of the mosque of Sultan Suleiman I.
Tags: Architecture and built environment, Carpets, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Fatih, Human types, Interiors, Istanbul, Mosque of Suleiman I / Süleymaniye Mosque (Süleymaniye Camii), Mosques, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Ottomans, Priests, Religious ceremonies, Religious practices, Thrace, Turkey, Views, Women
Wedding ceremony, most probably of Ottomans of higher rank.
Tags: Animals, Carriages, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cultural activities, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Fountains / Springs, Goats, Horses, Human types, Istanbul, Mosques, Muslim ceremonies, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman officials, Processions, Religious ceremonies, Religious practices, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Ṭuğrā / Insignia of Ottoman officials, Turkey, Wedding ceremonies, Women
The tomb of Grand Master Robert de Julliac in the Franciscan church which was converted into a mosque, adjacent to the public baths of Rhodes (Yeni Hamam). Muslim people preparing to pray at the mosque.
Tags: Aegean islands, Baths of Suleiman / Town baths of Rhodes / Yeni Hamam, Churches, Coats of arms – Emblems, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dodecanese, Ethnic groups, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Funerary monuments, Grand Masters of the Knights Hospitaller, Greece, Human types, Inscriptions, Medieval monuments, Medieval old town of Rhodes, Mosques, Muslim prayer, Ottomans, Religious ceremonies, Rhodes, Robert de Julliac, Tomb of Robert de Julliac (Rhodes), Views, Weapons
Sutlan Ahmed III in ceremonial costume on Bayram day.
Tags: Ahmed III/ IIΙ. Ahmed, Animals, Bayram, Costume - Hats and headwear, Emir al-Akhor / Grand equerry of the Ottoman court, Horses, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Istanbul, Janissaries, Jewellery, Officials, Ottoman officials, Parades, Portraits, Processions, Religious ceremonies, Religious practices, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Sultans, Thrace, Turkey, Weapons
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