Images

Red-figured hydria (water-jar) displaying a dance-training (gymnopaida) session. Two young girls practice dancing under the supervision of a female and a male tutor. The girls wear short tunics (chiton) and take identical steps towards each...

A portrait of Battista Sforza (l. 1446-1472 CE), Duchess of Urbino, by the Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca (d. 1492 CE). c. 1470 CE. (Uffizi, Florence)

A drawing by the Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca (c. 1420-1492 CE) showing his theories of mathematical perspective applied to representing the human form. From De prospectiva pingendi.

Original edition of Arthur de Gobineau's (1816-1882 CE) An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races. 1853 CE. Library of the National Museum of Natural History, Paris.

The painted panel the Flagellation of Christ by the Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca (c. 1420-1492 CE). c. 1455 CE. (National Gallery of Marche, Urbino)

The pen and ink on paper drawing of Jacopo Galli's Garden in Rome by Martin van Heemskerck. Galli was a famous collector of antiquities during the Renaissance. c. 1532-5 CE. (Staatliche Museen, Berlin)

The marble statue of Bacchus by the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo (1475-1564 CE). c. 1497 CE. (Bargello, Florence)

Priest-king statue, Indus Valley Civilization. The statue is 17.5 cm high and carved from steatite a.k.a. soapstone. It was found in Mohenjo-daro in 1927 CE. It is on display in the National Museum, Karachi, Pakistan.

Archaeological site of Harappa in modern-day Pakistan, one of the best-known cities of the Indus Valley Civilization.

Archaeological site of Mohenjo-daro in modern-day Pakistan, one of the best-known cities of the Indus Valley Civilization.