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A portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger (d. 1554 CE) who infamously led a failed rebellion against Mary I of England (r. 1553-1558 CE) in 1554 CE. (The Weiss Gallery, London)

Thomas Cole, The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge, 1829 CE, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Katie Dean in memory of Minnibel S. and James Wallace Dean and museum purchase through the Smithsonian Institution...

Second Pompeian Style painting on the walls surrounding the viridarium (small garden) of the Villa Poppaea at Oplontis (Italy).

This Oecus (large room in a Roman house) in the Villa Poppaea at Oplontis (Italy) is decorated in the Second Pompeian Style with themes based around perspective views of theatrical backdrops (scaenae frons). 1st century BCE.

The Museum of Lepenski Vir, an ancient settlement on the banks of the Danube in eastern Serbia; c. 9500/7200 – c. 5500 BCE.

The Treskavac cliff on the left bank of the Danube (Romania) overlooking the prehistoric site of Lepenski Vir.

Flooring structure of a residential house with the hearth at Lepenski Vir - an ancient settlement on the right bank of the Danube in eastern Serbia; c. 9500/7200 – c. 5500 BCE

Progenitrix (Serbian Cyrillic: Прародитељка) is a sculpture dating back from c. 6300 – c. 5900 BCE found at Lepenski Vir (Serbia). Today, it is the symbol of Lepenski Vir. (Lepenski Vir Museum)

The Family Founder (Serbian Cyrillic: Родоначелник) is a quartz sandstone sculpture dating back from c. 6300 – c. 5900 BCE found at Lepenski Vir (Serbia). (Lepenski Vir Museum)

A quartz sandstone sculpture dating back from c. 6300 – c. 5900 BCE found at Lepenski Vir (Serbia). (Lepenski Vir Museum)