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Orpheus in Hades, 1897, by Pierre Marcel-Beronneau. Oil on Canvas. Located at Collection du Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseille

Detail from an altar dedicated to Saint Mary Magdalene in the crypt of the Abbey of Saint Victor in Marseille, France. It was carved in the 8th century CE by Pierre Puget, a well-known Marseillais sculptor, to cover the sarcophagus of St...

An 1876 landscape painting in oils, The Sea at L'Estaque, by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), the French post-impressionist artist. Cézanne lived in L'Estaque, 50 kilometres (31 mi) west of Marseille, in the 1870s. The artist was captivated by the...

Statue of Greek traveller, Pytheas. Marseille, Palais de la Bourse

Seated figures and stone columns with niches for human heads or skulls from a Celtic religious site at Roquepertuse, France. 3rd century BCE. (Musée d'histoire, Marseille, France)

A 5th-century CE paleochristian sarcophagus said to have contained the relics of Saint Ursula during the Middle Ages. It depicts Jesus giving the Holy Law to St. Peter, who stands on his left. (Crypt of the Abbey of St. Victor, Marseille...