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This pelike, or wine jar, is a Greek piece, specifically Attic, displaying beautiful black-figure work customary of Athenian pottery. The scene shows a flute player and two boxers. It was dated to the...

Monument to Robert Cushman at Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts. It reads: Fellow exile with the Pilgrims in Holland, Afterwards their chief agent in England, Arrived here IX November, MDCXXI, With Thomas Cushman...

Base of the Derrynaflan Chalice, 9th century CE. Found on the island of Derrynaflan, in the townland of Lurgoe, Co. Tipperary, Ireland in 1980 CE. Height: 19.2 cm (7.6 in) Diameter: 21 cm (8.3 in)

A timeline showing all the key periods in ancient Egyptian history: - Old Kingdom (2613-2181 BCE) - First Intermediate Period (2181-2040 BCE) - Middle Kingdom (2040-1782 BCE) - Second Intermediate Period (1782-1570...

Protestant pilgrims on the deck of the ship Speedwell before their departure from Delfthaven, the Netherlands in 1620 CE. had studied art in Italy and taught art at the military academy at West Point. Oil on canvas...

A c. 1543 CE self-portrait by the German Renaissance painter Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497-1543 CE). (Uffizi Gallery, Florence)

The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1533 CE. The skull in the foreground is an example of anamorphosis - distorting an image so that it can only be seen clearly from one angle. (National Gallery...

A scene showing an Abbot and Death from the Dance of Death series of woodprints by Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497-1543 CE). c. 1525 CE.

Pilate Washing His Hands by Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese)(Italian, Taverna 1613–1699 CE Valletta), 1663 CE. According to the Gospel of Matthew, the Roman governor Pontius Pilate tried to save Christ from death and...

Jenifer Neils, Director of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.