Let yourself be seduced by the mermaid Idea - Let yourself be seduced by the mermaid Idea

From the Apocalypse to the cathedral of Orvieto, here is the dragon defeated by Saint Michael the Archangel. Pictured is the copy, preserved in the Opera Museum, of the original bronze group of the façade.

He lived in the cathedral of Spoleto but today he resides in the Rocca Albornoziana. The beautiful 13th-century marble sculpture actually represents Luke the Evangelist, who is also the patron saint of artists. The ox is also associated with goodness and peace.

It is a sculpture in painted ceramic, in the museum of Palazzo Collicola in Spoleto. The bird was modeled in the Spoleto Baroque phase, which ended in 1956, when the artist, in the words of Roberto Longhi, determined the relief not with sculpture but with painting.

The eagle reveals valuable information about the location of this fountain. In fact, the symbol of the city of Todi characterizes the Fonte Cesia which, built in 1606 by Bishop Angelo Cesi, was fed by the waters coming from the hill of the Rocca through one of the longest aqueducts in the city.

A small bronze sculpture, it was found in 1812 in the area of San Mariano in Corciano. Did this fantastic creature that inhabited the seas really exist? Better consult research on the history of medicine.

This elegant wild animal was made with mosaics by the Romans in the famous villa dei Mosaici. Will it be easy to find it in the almost 500 meters of this archaeological treasure?

As soon as it jumped out of the lake, it laid its egg and became petrified. The palmiped column, in sandstone, by Valeriano Trubbiani is located in the sculpture park of the Campo del Sole di Tuoro, designed by Pietro Cascella.