Both these paintings share a similar formal structure that consists of an open landscape that is seen beyond and through the opening of a dark grotto.

They concluded that the grotto is actually a nymphaeum or underground triclinium from Neronian times.

* The Stalactic grotto of Antiparos ( Aegean Sea ) is discovered.

Troll Church ) is a marble grotto leading up to an underground waterfall.

The grotto is situated 30 minutes outside Molde, followed by a 1 hour hike up a steep trail.

The grotto now lies beneath Radnor House Independent Co-ed School, and is occasionally opened to the public.

The Cosquer cave is an underwater grotto in the Calanque de Morgiou, underwater, that was inhabited during Paleolithic era, when the sea level was much lower than today.

A grotto on the top of Mount Carmel is known as the " Cave of Elijah ", traditionally linked to the Prophet Elijah and his apprentice, Elisha.

Afqa is the sacred source where the waters of the river emerge from a huge grotto in a cliff 200 meters high.

In the film it is Dutour who is dying of cancer of the larynx at the end, and who goes to the Lourdes shrine, kneels at the gates to the grotto and says, " Pray for me, Bernadette.

On the shores of the lake is the grotto of the Cumaean Sybil and the entrance to a long tunnel ( Grotta di Cocceio, ca.

The church is built on rising ground and fronted by a sunken grotto.

According to the testimony of Bernadette Soubirous, the Virgin Mary spoke to her ( Lourdes, 25 March 1858 ) in Gascon saying: Que sòi era Immaculada Concepciou (" I am the Immaculate Conception ", the phrase is reproduced under this statue in the Lourdes grotto with a non-standard spelling ), confirming the proclamation of this Catholic dogma four years earlier.

T. S. Eliot's seminal poem of cultural disintegration The Waste Land is prefaced by a verbatim quotation out of Trimalchio's account of visiting the Cumaean Sibyl, a supposedly immortal prophetess whose counsel was once sought on all matters of grave importance, but whose grotto by Neronian times had become just another site of local interest along with all the usual Mediterranean tourist traps:

At the end of the garden is a grotto guarded by two life-sized statues of Roman soldiers.

The village of Crupet is noted for its grotto dedicated to Saint Anthony of Padua, the Château de Crupet, a moated medieval donjon, and its windmills.

On the northern aspect of this rock, near the riverbank, is a naturally occurring, irregularly shaped shallow cave or grotto, in which the apparitions of 1858 took place.

The spring water from the grotto is believed by some to possess healing properties.

The church is about a 10-minute walk from the basilica and the grotto, on a street named in honour of Ukraine, 8 Rue de l ' Ukraine, situated on a narrow piece of property close to the railroad station.

It is 5 km SE of the Buddhist temple Wat Tham Phu Wa which features a series of grotto shrines within a large limestone cave system.

The world's oldest known portrait was found in 2006 in the Vilhonneur grotto near Angoulême and is thought to be 27, 000 years old.

Hang Đầu Gỗ ( Wooden stakes cave ) is the largest grotto in the Hạ Long area.

An inscription seems to indicate that the Bishop of Paderborn consecrated the grotto in the north-western columns as a Christian chapel in the early 12th century.

The Empress upbraids him for doubting God, and at her insistence, the Emperor gives the order to reopen the grotto.

Following his beatification, his sarcophagus was placed under the Altar of St. Sebastian in the basilica's Chapel of St. Sebastian, where it remained until 8 April 2011 when it was moved to make way for the remains of Blessed Pope John Paul II ( 1978 – 2005 ) to be relocated to the basilica from the grotto beneath St. Peter's in honor of his beatification and in order to make his resting place more accessible to the public.

This castle and its grounds are now a major leisure destination in the county of Kent and feature a maze, a grotto, a golf course and what may be the world's only museum of dog collars.

The figures may be made of any material, and arranged in a stable or grotto.

For the grotto of the Villa Medicea of Castello he sculpted a series of studies of individual animals, from life, which may now be viewed at the Bargello.

In the first treasure room, in the pirate's grotto, the chest of cursed Aztec gold from Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl can be seen at the far right.

From the sanctuary the Grotta del Turco can be visited: it is a grotto which ends directly in the sea and where the waves create atmospheric effects of light.

The grotto was known to the locals under the name of Gradola, after the nearby landing place of Gradola, but it was avoided because it was said to be inhabited by witches and monsters.

The grotto cannot be visited during adverse weather conditions, as the entrance is barely large enough to accommodate the small rowboats, and waves can cause the gunwales of the small boats to be smacked upwards against the roof of the opening.

In the 19th century, when miniature Matterhorns and rock-gardens became fashionable, a grotto might be nearby, as at Ascott House.

Ponza is also suspected to be the island of Aeaea in Homer's Odyssey, as the island of the Circe the sorceress, where her cave or grotto was.

The hall of waxworks may also be inspired by the underground grotto of mummies in King Solomon's Mines, an image which Lewis found very powerful.

The interior of the grotto can now only be viewed through a glass wall, installed to protect it from the large number of tourists it attracts, as well as temperature change.

Image: Rinux2. jpg | The sea can be seen on a clear day from the grotto and it is hypothesized that the Buddha was made to protect the Silla kingdom from Wa attacks.

The recess of the grotto itself is undecorated, although a plain stone altar and lectern have been placed there so that Mass can be said.

The spring Bernadette is said to have dug can be seen at the rear of the grotto, shielded by a glass cover.

Also at the rear of the grotto is a metal box into which written prayers or petitions may be deposited ; they are collected daily and burnt.

A conglomeration of nine grottos depicting scenes in life of Jesus, the Grotto contains a large collection of minerals and petrifications and is believed to be the largest grotto in the world.

This new church, named for Saint Anne and completed in 1138 AD., was built over the site of a grotto believed by the Crusaders to be the birthplace of Anne, grandmother of Jesus.

Kircher's illustration in Musurgia universalis ( 1650 ), long thought to be a fanciful representation of a hypothetical possibility, has been found to be accurate in every detail when compared to the organ grotto at the Quirinale, except that it was reversed left to right.