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This vessel is decorated with an incised herring-bone pattern. The pyxis, commonly used in burials of the Early Cycladic I Period, was probably used as a container for jewellery or other small items. Early Cycladic I Period...

The dense incised decoration is infilled with white paste in order to create a chromatic effect. Bowls of this type were probably used for carrying liquids, while their round bases indicate their setting in hollows in the floor...

A Cycladic female figurine of the 'folded-arm' type. Early Spedos Variety. Attributed to the Fitzwilliam Master, Early Cycladic II Period (2700-2300 BCE). Made from marble. The red pigment (found on the neck and head) is from cinnabar...

St George slaying the dragon. From a Macedonian workshop. Made from wood and egg tempera. Dating to the second half of the 16th century. (Hellenic Museum, Melbourne, Victoria).

The Trinity, tempera on wood painting by Agnolo Gaddi, c. 1390-96. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Erfurt (Thuringia, Thüringen) today has one of the most outstanding examples of medieval church architecture in Germany with the cathedral and the neighbouring Severikirche. It was Boniface who first founded a diocese in 742 at the place...

An illustration depicting the structural elements and composition of the Great Pyramid of Giza, the tomb of King Khufu (called "Cheops" by the Greeks), the largest of the pyramids of the Giza necropolis and the only member of the Seven Wonders...

An illustration of the layout and relationships of various architectural and geographical elements on the Giza plateau in the region of Memphis (around modern Cairo) during the Old Kingdom of Egypt ("The Age of the Pyramids"). The image also...

Painting depicting the Tennis Court Oath, taken by members of the National Assembly on 20 June 1789. Painted by Jacques-Louis David in the 1790s. Musée Carnavalet, Paris.

Painting depicting the opening session of the Estates-General of 1789. By Auguste Couder, 1839. Museum of the History of France, Versailles.