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 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.

The grotto is closed and the Bishop of Tarbes ( Charles Waldron ) declares that unless the Emperor orders the grotto to be opened, there will be no investigation by the church.

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.

The Octagon Temple, situated two-hundred feet above the Thames, was originally designed as a gazebo and grotto but was later converted by the 1st Lord Astor to become the family chapel.

At the great Roman sanctuary of Praeneste south of Rome, the oldest portion of the primitive sanctuary was situated on the next-to-lowest terrace, in a grotto in the natural rock where there was a spring that developed into a well.

The oldest portion of the primitive sanctuary was situated on the terrace just above the lowest one, in a grotto in the natural rock where there was a spring that developed into a well.

Kandor 10A ( 2010 ), a yellow city housed in a hand-blown, pink glass bottle, is a grouping of tall skyscrapers situated within a full-scale rock grotto.

The grotto later added a Glass Chapel situated on a raised " Headland " where Mass was conducted ; a representation of Jesus ' life with Mary and Joseph in their Loretto house and carpentry shop, and a sunken garden.

At the Palazzo del Quirinale, the water flows from a hilltop spring ( once abundant, now only sufficient to play the organ for about 30 minutes at a time ), coursing through the palace itself into a stabilizing ‘ room ’ some 18 metres above the camera aeolis in the organ grotto.

30, the roof of the grotto collapsed while Tiberius was dining.

When the weather is fine, waterborne traffic jams frequently occur outside the grotto, as the rowboats jostle for positions to enter the cave in single file.

He hides his journal in a Virgin Mary grotto outside the castle and descends into the crypts, where he finds Dracula and the unnamed vampire woman resting in their coffins.

The grotto is remote enough that it can quarantine the Medusoid Mycelium from the outside world.

He later took refuge in Jezzine's grotto, closely followed by Koujak who eventually caught up with him and his family.

He later took refuge in Jezzine's grotto, closely followed by Kuchuk Ahmed Pasha who caught eventually with him and his family .< ref > Hitti, Philip Khuri ( 1962 ) Lebanon in History: From the Earliest Times to the Present ( 2 < sup > nd </ sup > edition ) Macmillan, London, page 384,

This is followed by Father Christmas giving presents to children in his grotto.

Frederick II managed to negotiate safe passage for pilgrims from Acre in 1229, and in 1251, Louis IX, the king of France, attended mass in the grotto, accompanied by his wife.

Archaeologists have recently discovered a Tudor garden including a grotto at Carew Manor, believed to have been created by Sir Francis Carew in the 16th century.

William Kent also added a cascade ( a symbolic grotto ), inspired by the upper cascade of the gardens of the Villa Aldobrandini.

The last rites were administered by Cyrus Smith, one of the castaways on the island who had been saved by Nemo himself, and the vessel was then submerged in the waters of the grotto.

At the time of the apparitions the grotto was on common land which was used by the villagers variously for pasturing animals, collecting firewood and as a garbage dump, and it possessed a reputation for being an unpleasant place.

Friar Park has extensive gardens and water features designed by Crisp, including a grotto, and stones just underneath the surface of the pond ( providing a walking-on-water illusion ).

In another strip he attempts to pick up a woman by telling her that he works as ' an assistant to a well-established provider of goods to the younger end of the market '; despite being exposed as an elf in Santa's grotto in a local department store ' by his derisive mates, he still attempts to keep up the pretence that his job brings him success with women --' Y ' see lasses fancy summat a bit special '.

By the time of the events at the grotto, her family's financial and social status had declined to the point where they lived in a one-room basement, called le cachot, " the dungeon ," where they were housed for free by her mother's cousin, Andre Sajoux.

Inside, the Blue Bayou has been replaced by Pirate's Cove and into a short grotto with Blackbeard, skeletons of dead pirates, the hurricane lagoon, and an echoing " Dead men tell no tales ".

to build an Italian Renaissance garden, with fountains, a labyrinth, and a grotto, decorated with faience images of plants and animals, made by Bernard Palissy, whom Catherine had ordered to discover the secret of Chinese porcelain.

Next to Parise Cape is a small beach accessible only by sea, through a low grotto.

A new monastery was later constructed directly over a nearby cave, after funds were collected by the Carmelite order for restoration of the monastery ; the cave, which now forms the crypt of the monastic church, is termed Elijah's grotto by the monks.