Portrait of Vesalius featured in De Humani Corporis Fabrica / U.S. National Library of Medicine City streets, a...
Art History
Joseph Jackson Lister / Hulton Archive, Getty Images By Dr. Chris Hilton / 10.21.2016 Former Senior Archivist Wellcome Library...
Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos, Roman marble copy after 4th century Greek original (Palazzo Altemps, Rome) By Dr. Nancy Ross /...
Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well, folio 7 recto from the Vienna Genesis, early 6th century, tempera, gold...
Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus, marble, 359 C.E. (Treasury of Saint Peter’s Basilica) By Dr. Allen Farber /...
Pediment above the door of Santa Pudenziana, 4th century C.E., Rome By Dr. Allen Farber / 08.08.2015...
Colossal statue of Constantine the Great, 4th century (Capitoline Museum, Rome) (photo: Jean-Christophe BENOIST CC BY 2.5) By Dr....
Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar of Augustan Peace), 9 B.C.E. (Ara Pacis Museum, Rome, Italy) By Dr. Jeffrey A. Becker /...
Preparations for a Sacrifice, fragment from an architectural relief, c. mid-first century C.E., marble, 172 x 211...
Kehinde Wiley, Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps, 2005, oil paint on canvas, 274.3 x 274.3 cm...
By the British Museum / 08.29.2016 The wall paintings from Nebamun’s tomb-chapel depict an idealized vision of daily...
Frontispiece to Volume 1 of Oedipus Aegyptiacus (1652), showing Kircher as the Egyptian Oedipus before the hieroglyphic sphinx – Google...
A detail from the Book of the Dead of Aaneru from Thebes, Third Intermediate Period, XXI Dynasty, 1070-946 BCE. (Egyptian Museum,...
Coin (didramma) from the “Romano-campana” series, Herakles and the wolf suckling the twins, 265 B.C.E., silver coin...
Sarcophagus of the Spouses, Etruscan, c. 520-510 B.C.E., painted terracotta (Musée du Louvre) Author does not wish...
By Dr. Jeffrey A. Becker / 12.09.2015 Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies Binghamton University Temple of Portunus...
Mars of Todi, late 5th or early 4th century B.C.E., hollow-cast bronze, 141 cm high (Gregorian Etruscan...
Still Life with Peaches and Water Jar (left), Still Life with a Silver Tray with Prunes, Dried figs, Dates and...
Example of a Fourth Style painting, before 79 C.E., fresco, Pompeii By Dr. Jessica Leay Ambler / 08.08.2015 Professor of...
Mummy portrait of bearded man, encaustic on wood / Royal Museum of Scotland By the British Museum...
Tombs along the Via Appia, Rome Author does not wish to be identified To say that the...
View of the Forum from the slope of the Capitoline to the Palatine Hill By Dr. Jeffrey A....
Euthymides, Three Revelers (Athenian red-figure amphora), c. 510 B.C.E., 24 inches high (Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich) By Katarzyna Minollari /...
Tomb of the Reliefs, late 4th or early 3rd century B.C.E., Necropolis of Banditaccia (Cerveteri), Italy (photo,...
Etruscan civilization, 750-500 B.C.E. (image: NormanEinstein, CC BY-SA 3.0) Based on a map from The National Geographic Magazine Vol.173...
Illustration for “God’s Providence”, from the 1705 English edition of Orbis Sensualium Pictus / Internet Archive In the mid...
Arch of Triumph, Palmyra. Image credit: Bernard Gagnon, 2010 / Wellcome Library By Dr. William Schupbach /...
Wakeah Jhane’s mother and little sister in family heirloom cradleboard / Photo provided by Wakeah Jhane Native women...
Rustic figurines of a resigned-looking Virgin clutching her child may have no obvious literary or artistic merit...
Chemist and Druggist supplement: 6 January 1923 / Wellcome Library By Dr. Briony Hudson / 05.23.2016 Honorary...