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The arch of Titus in the Forum Romanum

Conductor: Herbert Von Karajan Berliner Philharmoniker

Marie Antoinette in a Muslin Dress, painting by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1783. This painting was criticized for depicting a queen in informal attire. Hesse House Foundation, collection of the prince Ludwig von Hessen und bei Rhein, Wolfsgarten...

A pen and ink illustration of a cat in a tree, being harassed by a man and his dogs. Folio 48 of Ms. Ludwig XV 1 (83.MR.171), amanuscript made in Germany (probably Trier), late 15th century. Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

Sophia Schliemann (1852-1932), born Sophia Engastromenou in Athens, Greece, wearing Priam's Treasure (1873). Sophia was the second wife of the German archaeologist Johann Ludwig Heinrich Julius Schliemann (1822-1890), famous for his discovery...

A pen and ink illustration of a cat wearing a bishop's miter and holding a crosier. Folio 48 from Ms. Ludwig XV 1 (83.MR.171), a manuscript made in Germany (probably Trier), late 15th century. Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

A red-figure drinking cup with a depiction of Eros. Attica, c. 470 BCE. On display as part of the 2018 CE exhibition 'Naked! The Art of Nudity' at the Antikenmuseum, Basel, Switzerland. © Ruedi Habegger, Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung...

The Aphrodite of Knidos in a reconstruction from plaster casts and “completed” by projected colours suggesting her former polychromy. This famous statue, created by Praxiteles around 340 BCE, was originally set up in the Aphrodite sanctuary...

The naked rear of a female figure. On display as part of the 2018 CE exhibition 'Naked! The Art of Nudity' at the Antikenmuseum, Basel, Switzerland. © Ruedi Habegger, Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

Photographic print of Ludwig Kohn, an injured American Civil War soldier, by Reed B. Bontecou, 1865. Reed B. Bontecou (1824-1907) was an American surgeon who recorded the wounds of Civil War soldiers, often including his own illustrations...