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The 'Big Four', Paris Peace Conference
A photograph of the 'Big Four' leaders at the Paris Peace Conference at Versailles which decided peace terms after the First World War (1914-18). Left to Right: Prime Minister of Italy Vittorio Orlando (1860-1952), Prime Minister of the United...
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Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, oil on canvas painting by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1887.
Glinka National Museum Consortium of Musical Culture, Moscow.
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Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs
Porphyry sculpture portraying the four Tetrarchs (Diocletian, Maximianus, Galerius and Constantius Chlorus) embracing. It is dated to c. 300 CE and was sculpted in Asia Minor. It probably originally decorated two separate pillars in Constantinople...
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The Four Elements
The Four Elements. Painting by Mana Lesman. Used with the permission of the artist.
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Four Greek Philosophers
Marble portrait heads of four Greek philosophers (Socrates, Antisthenes of Athens, Chrysippus, and Epicurus), Roman copies after Hellenistic originals.
The British Museum, London.
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Eos in Her Four-horse Chariot
Eos in her four-horse chariot, detail of terracotta red-figure lekanis vase attributed to the Stuttgart group, from Canosa, late 300s BCE.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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Bottles with Four Tubes from Roman Cologne and Trier
Four tubes are connected to the upper and lower portions of these ancient Roman glass bottles. The tubes were created by carefully cutting and bending the body of a free-blown glass bottle. Like similar piece from Trier, the Cologne bottle...
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Four Mohawk Kings
A London pamphlet about the arrival of the so-called Four Mohawk Kings, circa 1710.
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Apkallu with Four Wings
Alabaster bas-relief of an Apkallu with four wings. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Panel 26, Room B, the North-West Palace at Nimrud, modern-day Iraq. (The British Museum, London)
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Bare-headed Apkallu with Four Wings
This fragmented alabaster bas-relief depicts an Assyrian Apkallu, a protective spirit or genie. The striking features are that he is bare-headed (he does not wear a horned helmet or diadem) and his four wings, all of them, appear en face...