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Vintage engraving of Fountains Abbey, one of the largest and best preserved ruined Cistercian monasteries in England. It is located approximately three miles south-west of Ripon in North Yorkshire. The abbey operated for over 400 years, until 1539, when Henry VIII ordered the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

Published in 1880, the text accompanying this engraving read, in part, "The vestal virgins were girls chosen for a period of thirty years. In the first ten years they learned their duties, in the second ten they practiced them, and during the third they instructed the novices. Besides tending the sacred fire, the vestals offered sacrifice and poured on the altar libations of wind and oil."

Vestal Virgins, in the pre-Christian Roman religion, were priestesses, who tended the state cult of Vesta, the goddess of the hearth. Illustration published in Royal Manual by Henry Davenport Northrop (The Dallas Book Publishing Co.: Dallas, Texas) in 1891.

"The Papal Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, Basilica Papale di San Francesco, is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minoraacommonly known as the Franciscan Orderaain Assisi, Italy, the city where St. Francis was born and died. The basilica is one of the most important places of Christian pilgrimage in Italy. With its accompanying friary, the basilica is a distinctive landmark to those approaching Assisi. It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000.This illustration comes from a beautiful book on the history of arts in Italy. It was published in 1884 in Germany by the famous art historian Carl von LAtzow. The book is in an excellent condition, with superb copperplate prints fine on paper. You will find a lot more of these pictures in the lightbox below."

Small cloister of the Certosa di Pavia. The Certosa di Pavia Gra-Car ("Charterhouse of Pavia - Gratiarum Chartusia"), Shrine of the Blessed Virgin Mary Mother of Grace, is a monastery and complex in Lombardy, northern Italy.

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