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A red-figure hydria (water-jar) made and found in Campania, Italy, from c. 325-350 BCE, attributed to The Foundling Painter. A dancing girl (orchestris) stands on her hands in an acrobatic act, which can be a somersault or a walk on hands...

Nikosthenic amphora, c. 550-525 BCE, signed (under the handle) by Nikosthenes, attr. to Painter N., Thiasos Group, Attic, from Caere, Etruria, The Cleveland Museum of Art, no. 1974.10 A group of Dionysiac dancers, seven satyrs alternating...

The Madonna with Canon van der Paele painting by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441 CE). 1436 CE. (Groeningemuseum, Bruges, Belgium)

Photo of psychiatrist and philosopher Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961 CE). Ortsmuseum Zollikon

The Man in a Red Turban painting by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441 CE). Believed to be a self-portrait. 1433 CE. (National Gallery, London)

The Ghent Altarpiece, aka The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441 CE). An inscription on the reverse also credits Hubert van Eyck (d. 1426 CE) but so little is known of this individual...

The Arnolfini Wedding oil on oak panel painting by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441). Created in Bruges in 1434 it shows the cloth merchant Giovanni Arnolfini with his wife Giovanna Cenami. The artist seems...

The Virgin of Chancellor Rolin painting by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441 CE). Nicholas Rolin was the Chancellor of Burgundy when the painting was created c. 1435 CE. (Louvre, Paris)

An artistic depiction of the infant Caesarion (47-30 BCE) being presented to the Alexandrians by his parents Cleopatra VII (69-30 BCE) and Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE). From the game Old World.

Depiction of the harbour of Alexandria (Egypt) as it may have appeared after the completion of the Lighthouse of Alexandria c. 280 BCE. From the game Old World.