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Bitegue (protective) statue of the Bateke people, Republic of the Congo.  Artist unknown; 19th centu

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Perseus.  Attic red-figure squat aryballos, attributed to the Achilles Painter; ca. 440-430 BCE.  No

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Hadrian’s lover Antinous depicted as Osiris.  Unknown Roman artist, 1st half of 2nd cent. CE.  Found

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Aeneas and Anchises, Leonello Spada, ca. 1615

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Head of a Lion, Théodore Géricault (1791-1824)Happy World Lion Day!

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Madonna of the Blue Diadem, Raphael, between 1500 and 1520

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Triton carrying his half-brother Theseus.  Terracotta relief from Melos, artist unknown; ca. 470-460

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Two Knights Fighting in a Landscape, Eugène Delacroix, ca. 1824

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A woman washes herself in a louterion (washbasin).  Side B of a Boeotian red-figure bell-krater, art

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Apollo and Daphne, Francesco Albani, ca. 1615-20

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An Attic lekythos with relief decoration in the shape of Eros.  Artist unknown, ca. 400-350 BCE.  Fo

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Couples dance to the sound of the aulos (double flute).  Neck of a proto-Attic loutrophoros, attribu

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The Cathedral of Chartres, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, 1830Happy birthday to Jean-Baptiste-Camille

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Two boys play the game known as ephedrismos.  In this game, two participants try to knock over a sto

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Scene of War and Fire, Gillis Mostaert, 1569

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A physician treats a patient.  Attic red-figure aryballos, name-vase of the Clinic Painter; ca. 480-

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Heracles grapples with the Cretan Bull.  Attic black-figure lekythos, artist unknown; ca. 480-470 BC

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Hermes Kriophoros (”Ram-Bearer”).  Attic black-figure olpe, attributed to the Painter of Louvre F 16

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The Epsom Derby, Théodore Géricault, 1821

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A Chalcidian black-figure eye-cup with a kantharos.  Artist of the Phineus Cup Group; ca. 530 BCE.  

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