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A red-figure kalyx-krater depicting the sun god Helios. The stars are represented by young male children descending into the ocean. Attica, c. 430 BCE. (British Museum, London)

A red-figure vase depicting Scylla, the monster who preyed on victims going through the Straits of Messina. Boeotian, 450-425 BCE. Louvre Museum, Paris.

Replica seen in The Cavern of the cluster of red dots seen in Chauvet Cave. The art in Chauvet Cave has been dated to between c. 33,000-c.30,000 years old.

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)

An 1894 illustration showing the uniform of a Grenadier, 40th Foot regiment, 1767. The soldier is wearing his famous "red coat" made with cochineal dye. From R. H. Raymond Smythies (1894). Historical Records of the 40th...

An Etruscan red on white slip pottery vessel from Vulci or Bisencio, c. 700 BCE. (Antikensammlung Berlin)

A red-figure hydria by the Kleophon Painter, 440-430 BCE. The scene depicts women dressing. (National Archaeological Museum, Athens)

The Red Pyramid at Dahshur, by Sneferu (4th Dynasty), was constructed on a solid base for stability, rising at a 43-degree angle, using reddish limestone.

Philoctetes, wounded, is abandoned by the Greek expedition en route to Troy, detail of an Attic red-figure stamnos, c. 460 BCE. Louvre, Paris.

Red-figured chous (jug). Girl playing with tortoise: in her left hand she holds a white oinochoe; in the right she holds out a tortoise, by a string tied to its hind-leg, to a spaniel to right which looks...