Images

The Agony in the Garden painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Andrea Mantegna (c. 1431 - 1506 CE). Tempera on panel, c. 1460 CE. (National Gallery, London)

The Lamentation of Christ painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Andrea Mantegna (c. 1431 - 1506 CE). (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan)

The Kiss of Judas panel by the Italian artist Giotto (b. 1267 or 1277 - d. 1337 CE). The scene is part of a cycle of frescoes showing the life of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ. Scrovegni Chapel (aka Arena Chapel) in Padua, northern Italy...

18th-century (Ming Dynasty) depiction of Mulan. Ink and colour on silk. School of Qiu Ying

Painting depicting Mulan in the album known as Gathering Gems of Beauty, by artist He Dazi. Qing dynasty Album leaf, ink and colors on silk National Palace Museum, Taipei

Terracotta bell-krater (mixing bowl) attributed to the Sarpedon Painter Obverse: Europa pleading with Zeus for the life of Sarpedon; Hera, Hypnos, Pasithea Reverse: Europa with attendants watching Hypnos and Thanatos bringing the body of...

The painted oculus in the ceiling of the Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, Italy. Painted by the Italian Renaissance artist Andrea Mantegna, 1465-74 CE.

Side A of the so-called “Euphronios krater”: Sarpedon’s body carried by Hypnos and Thanatos (Sleep and Death), while Hermes watches. Attic red-figured calyx-krater signed by Euxitheos (potter) and Euphronios (painter), c. 515 BCE. H...

Terracotta bell-krater (mixing bowl) attributed to the Sarpedon Painter Obverse: Europa pleading with Zeus for the life of Sarpedon; Hera, Hypnos, Pasithea Reverse: Europa with attendants watching Hypnos and Thanatos bringing the body of...

The interior of the Scrovegni Chapel (aka Arena Chapel) in Padua, northern Italy. The walls are decorated with a cycle of frescoes showing the life of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ. painted by Giotto from c. 1304 to c. 1315 CE.