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A c. 1903 landscape in oils, Mont Sainte-Victoire, by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), the French post-impressionist artist. Cézanne painted the mountain, located in southern France just east of Aix-en-Provence, almost 60 times in all kinds of views...

Greek philosopher Pyrrho of Elis, engraving from the book Illustrium philosophorum et sapientum effigies ab eorum numistatibus extractae by Girolamo Olgiati, 1580.

Marble head of a philosopher, early Roman copy (2nd century BCE) of a bronze Greek original from the 4th century BCE. Archaeological Museum of Corfu.

Replica of an Eleventh Dynasty model of Nubian archers arranged in 10 rows of four. Each archer is holding in one hand a bow and in the other a bunch of arrows. From a tomb in Asyut. Original from c. 2000 BCE. Archers formed the core of Nubian...

A 1888 landscape, Mont Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine, by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), the French post-impressionist artist. Cézanne painted the mountain, located in southern France just east of Aix-en-Provence, almost 60 times in all kinds...

An 1890-94 still-life in oils, The Basket of Apples by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), the French post-impressionist artist. Cézanne was a master of looking at ordinary objects from multiple viewpoints, a technique that would be much copied in...

A c. 1880 self-portrait in oils by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), the French post-impressionist artist. The artist painted himself several times, always honestly and perhaps looking a little grimmer than he really was. The diamond shapes in the...

The Prophet Amos on circular fresco fragments (tondo) that was saved from the ceiling of the confessional at San Nicola (Rome). Dated to 1120-1130. Pinacoteca, Vatican Museums.

Fall of Gog and Magog, mural by John Singer Sargent, 1916. Boston Public Library

Vision of the Prophet Ezekiel, fresco by Feodor Bruni. St Isaak Cathedral, Saint Petersburg.