Images

Iris as the goddess of the rainbow, marble sculpture by Italian sculptor Gaetano Matteo Monti, 1841. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

Iris and Jupiter, oil on canvas by Michel Corneille the Younger, 1701. Palace of Versailles.

Iris on an Attic lekythos, attributed to the Diosphos Painter, found in Tanagra, c. 500-490 BCE. Louvre, Paris.

Gypsies on the Road, oil on panel painting by Lorrainian painter Jacques Callot (1592-1635). 16.5 cm (6.4 in) x 47.4 cm (18.6 in). National Museum, Warsaw.

Spanish Gypsies, painting by Evgraf Sorokin (1821-1892), 1853.

Detail of Gathering of Gypsies in the Wood, oil on panel painting by Flemish painter Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625). Museo Del Prado, Madrid.

The Visit of the Gypsies, a Franco-Flemish tapestry depicting a group of European nobles hunting, while a procession of gypsies (Romani) arrive from the left of the scene, made c. 1510. Wool and silk, 350.52 cm (138 in) x 487.68 cm (192 in...

An illustration depicting the arrival of gypsies (Romani) in Bern, modern-day Switzerland. From the late 15th-century chronicle Spiezer Schilling by the Swiss author Diebold Schilling the Elder (c. 1436–1486).

Votive cone with cuneiform inscription of Lipit-Eshtar, from Mesopotamia, c. 1934-1924 BCE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Prologue to the Code of Lipit-Ishtar of Isin (r. c. 1870 to c. 1860 BCE), the fifth king of the First Dynasty of Isin. Louvre, Paris.