Saint-Paul-de-Vence
Yup.

Vézelay Abbey
The ones who have not yet received the Word of God are not quite human: some are dwarfes...

Château de Chenonceau
Lions on a 16th century Flemish tapestry. Their faces seem somewhat off.

Château de Chenonceau
Every room had its own fireplace, making the castle rather cosy. This is a detail on the fireplace in Chambre de François Ier.

Château de Chambord
The vaulted ceilings in the 2nd floor: F as the initials of François Ier and plenty of salamanders, some eating the good fire and others putting out the bad fire. Just don't know which are which.

Bayeux Cathedral
One of the many 12th century carvings in the cathedral. This one depicts a man with a monkey.

Bayeux Cathedral
I am confused. Are these dogs with their tails biting their asses? Or - more plausible - are they chimeras?

Swallows!

Puy de Pariou
Plenty of butterflies around here.

Puy de Pariou
A crowded thistle.

Spiderweb
Another upside of the fog are the pearl-like droplets on spiderwebs.

Pomposa Abbey
Ah, the apocalypse. One of the seven-headed beasts. But the real beast here is you, Alesso Bersano.

Pomposa Abbey
The unfortunate ending of Saint Eustace and his family in a brazen bull. Yes, this was a torture device: one was locked in the bronze bull and then fire was lit underneath the bull...

Museo Arcivescovile
Immortal peacocks on a sarcophagus.

Saint Andrew's Chapel
The ceiling in the narthex. Plenty of different birds, most notably the famous ducks, and the white lilies.

Saint Andrew's Chapel
Narthex of the chapel depicting Christ dressed as Roman emperor, standing on a lion and a snake (Psalm 91). His book says EGO SVM VIA VERITAS ET VITA - I am the way, the truth, the life. The top part is original mosaic, the bottom part is just painted!

Saint Andrew's Chapel
I told you it was fake. Just painted on the wall. Oh well.

Saint Andrew's Chapel
Saint Mark's lion holding the thickest Gospel - despite Mark's Gospel being the shortest of all four.

Classe
I took this picture because of the lion. Then I noticed the bull... Holy cow, what did they do to its face?

Classe
The later sarcophagi were decorated with simpler patterns, like these immortal peacocks drinking from the fountain of life.

Col de Montgenèvre
A historically super-important pass, known already to Romans (including Julius Caesar). But, as you can guess, also a possible route for Hannibal. "Does not lie in sleep."

Saint Francis
Saint Francis by Arte Legno Spello in Via Arnaldo Fortini.

Abbazia di Sant'Antimo
Capital with Daniel and the Lions by Master von Cabestany (12th century).

Detail
Detail of a lovely window grill.

Fountain
A relief on an early Renaissance water basin with the coat-of-arms of the monastery.

Fish market
A big market in old Zeppelin hangars. Interesting buildings and lovely market. Although the fish were super-cheap, I only bought some knitted mittens.

The Fourth Rider of the Apocalypse, detail
Detail of the Fourth Rider of the Apocalypse by Imants Lancmanis (from 2007-2009). Painting is in the National Museum of Art.

A swordfish!
A swordfish in the middle of the Alps. At least not as scary as gigantic ants nearby. Made by local artists (Lahu, Fermor & Ducret).

Pink Panther
Well... I did not expect to see him in Leoben.

Leoben
Something was founded in 1853. I just don't know what.

Fresh food
As fresh as it gets.

Fresh food on Jeju
Sea pineapples. Which have nothing to do with pineapples. They are edible ascidians.

A penguin
Of course.

Jeju

A peacock

A sea turtle!!!
Sorry but it was pitch dark and I didn't want to use the flash.

!
This is where the sea turtle lay her eggs.

Phaselis

Termessos. The tomb of Alcetas, 320 BC.

Termessos, necropolis.
A grave with lions.

Porto Azzurro
Via Nardelli Vincenzo

Elba aquarium
A jellyfish

Elba aquarium

Elba aquarium

Elba aquarium

Elba aquarium
Someone's hiding here.

Elba aquarium

Elba aquarium

Elba aquarium
That is a Sea pen (pennatula). An animal.

Elba aquarium

Elba aquarium
And these are shark eggs.

Elba aquarium
Aquarium in Marina di Campo

Elba aquarium
A piranha

Elba aquarium
A sawfish bone

Elba aquarium

Doggo!
Another old barn transformed into a new house. Is that a dog-shaped opening?

Basilisk
Basilisk in the Schönlaterngasse 7.

Cow with glasses
Bäckerstraße 12, probably 16th century. A cow. With glasses. Playing Backgammon. With a dog.

Double-headed eagle
On the corner of Stephansplatz and Jasomirgottstrasse.

Sea Urchin Fossil
Archaecidaris, Carboniferous, Brown County, USA

Traces of a permian reptile
Traces of a reptilian Orabates, Permian, from Bromacker, Germany. Approximately 270 million years old.

A prehistoric ray-finned fish
Gyronchus macropterus (Kugelzahnfisch), Eichstätt, Germany

Old jewellery
Some bracelets and fibulae. Sorry, forgot what it is.

Mammoth hut
A shelter made of mammoth bones and skin. Looks surprisingly comfy.

The giant oarfish
Regalecus glesne. It is the world's longest bony fish, reaching a length of 11 m.

Chelydridae
Skeleton of a turtle.

Kookaburra

Crocodile
Mexican crocodile, also called Morelet's crocodile, is a fresh-water crocodile, up to about 3,5 metres long.

Crocodile
Mexican (Morelet's) crocodile

Flamingo
This is American flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber, Roter Flamingo), which is slightly redder than the Greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus, Rosa Flamingo).

Flamingos
American flamingos

Flamingo
American flamingo

Flamingo
American flamingo

Jellyfish
They have over 25 different species of jellyfish in the Vienna Zoo so I'm not really sure which one is this. My guess would be white-spotted jellyfish (Phyllorhiza punctata), native to the western Pacific.

Almost there ...
Chrysalis stage of a soon-to-be butterfly.

Paper kite
Paper kite (Idea leuconoe) butterfly and its chrysalises (pupae).

Orang-Utan
This Orang-Utan's (Pongo pygmaeus) BFF is a waiter from the neighbouring restaurant.

Ein ... Vogel
Red-legged seriema (Cariama cristata). These birds live in grasslands, savanas and open forests of South America. They cannot really fly and mostly eat snakes, lizards, frogs, rodents and insects.

Arctic wolf
The arctic wolf (Canis lupus arctos) wasn't in the mood.

Grasshopper wings
A close-up of a grasshopper wing. It belongs to a giant grasshopper (Titanacris albipes).

Stephansdom
The roof of the Stephansdom.

Santi di Tito - Detail
Santi di Tito - Detail. Museo Civico, Sansepolcro.

Spoleto Cathedral, Interior

Volta pinta
Volta pinta (1556) - Loggia under Palazzo del Comune in Assisi. The frescoes are inspired by Nero's Domus Aurea in Rome. Painted probably by Raffaello Coda da Rimini.

Volta pinta
Volta pinta (1556) - Loggia under Palazzo del Comune in Assisi. The frescoes are inspired by Nero's Domus Aurea in Rome. Painted probably by Raffaello Coda da Rimini. Honestly, I don't know how to feel about this image...

Volta pinta (1556) - Loggia under Palazzo del Comune in Assisi
The frescoes are inspired by Nero's Domus Aurea in Rome. Painted probably by Raffaello Coda da Rimini. Inspired by Nero probably explains it.

Volta pinta (1556) - Loggia under Palazzo del Comune in Assisi
Volta pinta (1556) - Loggia under Palazzo del Comune in Assisi. The frescoes are inspired by Nero's Domus Aurea in Rome. Painted probably by Raffaello Coda da Rimini. Yes, Nero.

Fontana Maggiore
Fontana Maggiore (1275-1278), Perugia. Romulus and Remus and their wolf-mother.

Dragon underneath San Crescentino in front of the cathedral, Urbino
San Cresentino is the patron saint of Urbino.

Studiolo, intarsia
Palazzo Ducale, Urbino.

Remains of a Roman sarcophagus
Palazzo Ducale, Urbino.

Lantern
Lantern of what is now Higher Institute for Artistic Industries. Urbino

Napoleon's villa
First French Empire coat of arms with an eagle holding thunderbolts.

Napoleon's villa
Ceilings. They are different in every room.

Napoleon's villa
Sala del nodo d'amore: Ceiling with the lover's knot, expressing the love between Napoleon and Maria Luisa.

Elba

Santo Stefano alle Trane

An allegory of melancholy
An allegory of melancholy (1528) by Lucas Cranach, detail. At that time, melancholy was one of four humours making up the human temperament and character. Fancy shoes!

An allegory of melancholy
An allegory of melancholy (1528) by Lucas Cranach, detail. This is a group of witches riding in the sky (a boar, a cow, a cat? ...)

An allegory
An allegory (1590) by El Greco, Domenikos Theotokopoulos. A very unusual painting, probably illustrating "the simple moralising message that lust appeals to our foolish and baser instincts".