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Leonidas at Thermopylae by Jacques-Louis David

Leonidas at Thermopylae by Jacques-Louis David Leonidas at Thermopylae by Jacques-Louis David depicts the Spartan King Leonidas before the final Battl...
5:23 11 February 2019

Alexander Sarcophagus

Alexander Sarcophagus The Alexander Sarcophagus is a Hellenistic stone sarcophagus adorned with bas-relief carvings of Alexander the Great. Classical ...
22:27 8 February 2019

“Perseus and Andromeda” by Titian

Perseus and Andromeda by Titian Perseus and Andromeda by Titian dramatically depict the Greek mythological story of Andromeda. Perseus is portrayed as...
11:31 8 February 2019

HMS Belfast

HMS Belfast HMS Belfast was cruiser built for the Royal Navy that is now permanently moored as a museum ship on the River Thames in London. Belfast wa...
7:41 8 February 2019

Cricket in Marylebone Fields, 1748

Cricket in Marylebone Fields, 1748 Cricket in Marylebone Fields, 1748 is the earliest known depiction of a cricket match and this engraved reproductio...
7:20 6 February 2019

Australian Native Police Uniform

Australian Native Police Uniform This Australian Native Police Uniform belonged to an Aboriginal trooper under the command, usually of a white officer...
9:06 3 February 2019

Joseph Banks’ Herbarium Sheet from Cook’s First Voyage to Australia

Joseph Banks Herbarium Sheet from Cooks First Voyage to Australia This sample of Joseph Banks Herbarium Sheet is from Cooks First Voyage to Australia....
5:58 3 February 2019

Forceful

Forceful Tugboat Forceful was an ocean-going tugboat built in Scotland. She arrived at her homeport of Brisbane, Queensland, in 1926. In Brisbane, Fo...
8:53 2 February 2019

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara Guanyin This wooden statue of Avalokiteśvara is a bodhisattva from Chinas Song Dynasty of about 960 1279. Seated in a po...
11:50 26 January 2019

Puzzle Answers for the National Gallery, London

The National Gallery, London – Crossword Puzzle 1 Answers Answers for the National Gallery, London – Crossword Puzzle are in Bold Across 1. The man Je...
7:12 26 January 2019

Lenbachhaus

Lenbachhaus The Lenbachhaus houses an art museum in Munichs Kunstareal, which is the museum quarter in the city centre of Munich, Germany. The gallery...
4:28 26 January 2019

Perth Mint

Perth Mint The Perth Mint is Australias official bullion mint and wholly owned by the Government of Western Australia. Established in 1899, before Aus...
4:22 26 January 2019

“Youth on the Prow, and Pleasure at the Helm” by William Etty

Youth on the Prow, and Pleasure at the Helm by William Etty Youth on the Prow, and Pleasure at the Helm by William Etty was inspired by a metaphor in ...
11:56 25 January 2019

Te Puawai o Te Arawa, Pātaka

Te Puawai o Te Arawa, Pātaka Te Pokiha Taranui (?–1901), who was a notable New Zealand Māori tribal leader and soldier commissioned traditional carver...
2:01 22 January 2019

“The Green Parasol” by E. Phillips Fox

The Green Parasol by E. Phillips Fox The Green Parasol by E. Phillips Fox delightfully captures the color differences in light and shade. Fox was an A...
8:30 19 January 2019

“Mystic Nativity” by Sandro Botticelli

Mystic Nativity by Sandro Botticelli The Mystical Nativity by Sandro Botticelli depicts the joy and celebration of earthly and heavenly delight at the...
23:55 17 January 2019

Aboriginal King Plate of Billie Hippie

Aboriginal King Plate of Billie Hippie This Aboriginal King Plate was presented to Billie Hippie about 1870. Billie Hippie was an Aboriginal stockman ...
2:14 16 January 2019

Moulin Rouge Paintings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

At the Moulin Rouge At the Moulin Rouge by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is one of several works by Toulouse-Lautrec depicting the Moulin Rouge cabaret bu...
6:36 11 January 2019

Fantine by Margaret Bernadine Hall

Fantine by Margaret Bernadine Hall Fantine by Margaret Bernadine Hall depicts the mother of Cosette from Victor Hugo’s epic novel Les Miserables (1862...
11:54 10 January 2019

“Fragment of the interior of Notre Dame in Paris” by Konrad Krzyżanowski

Fragment of the interior of Notre Dame in Paris by Konrad Krzyżanowski Fragment of the interior of Notre Dame in Paris by Konrad Krzyżanowski depicts ...
22:32 9 January 2019

Apollo 11 Command Module

Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia The Apollo command and service module (CSM) was one of two vital modules of the United States Apollo spacecraft, us...
4:00 8 January 2019

“The Card Players” by Paul Cézanne (Barnes Foundation)

The Card Players by Paul Cézanne The Card Players by  Paul Cézanne is one in a series of five oil paintings by the French Post-Impressionist artist pa...
11:31 6 January 2019

Photograph of Fuller Dancing

Loie Fuller Dancing This photograph is of the American dancer Loie Fuller demonstrating her famous dance in which she manipulates with bamboo sticks a...
10:10 2 January 2019

Marble Portrait of Agrippina the Elder

Marble Portrait of Agrippina, the Elder This Marble Portrait depicts Agrippina the Elder (14 BC 33 AD). Vipsania Agrippina, commonly known as Agrippi...
3:56 24 December 2018

Airbus A320 Simulated Cockpit

Airbus A320 Simulated Cockpit The Airbus A320 Simulated Cockpit reflects the modern glass cockpit, which is centered around computer monitors that sho...
4:05 21 December 2018

Relief of Horemheb with Nubian Prisoners

Relief of Horemheb with Nubian Prisoners This Relief of Horemheb with Nubian Prisoners shows Nubian prisoners with Negroid features, tightly curled ha...
0:15 7 December 2018

“Nude on a Divan” by Amedeo Modigliani (National Gallery of Art, DC)

Nude on a Divan by Amedeo Modigliani Nude on a Divan by Amedeo Modigliani is one of the dozens of nudes created by Modigliani in a modern style charac...
10:49 4 December 2018

“The Hunted Slaves” by Richard Ansdell

The Hunted Slaves by Richard Ansdell The Hunted Slaves by Richard Ansdell depicts two African American slaves who have escaped into the wilderness, fa...
12:18 27 November 2018

Throne of Emperor Haile Selassie

Throne of Emperor Haile Selassie The Throne of Emperor Haile Selassie was used by Haile Selassie I (1892 – 1975), who was Ethiopias emperor from 1930 ...
6:59 27 November 2018

Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe The Staatliche Kunsthalle (State Art Gallery) is an art museum in Karlsruhe, Germany. The museum is housed in a neocla...
2:49 20 November 2018