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Herakles in the Hesperides Garden
Herakles in the Hesperides garden. Side A from an Attic red-figure pelike, from Cyrenaica (Libya), 380-370 BCE.
Louvre, Paris.
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Mao's Garden at the Great Wall of China
Mao's Garden at the Great Wall of China. The reflecting pool in the center represents eternity while the flowers in bloom around it symbolize people's lives on earth which appear to make the world beautiful and then fade and die and are replaced...
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Pond Garden, Ryoanji
The pond garden of Ryoanji, a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, founded in 1473 CE.
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Julie with Pasie in the Garden at Bougival by Morisot
An 1882 oil on canvas painting, Julie with Pasie in the Garden at Bougival, by Berthe Morisot (1841-95), the French impressionist painter. Julie was the artist's daughter and Pasie was the nanny. This work appeared in an exhibition of impressionists...
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Model of an Egyptian House with Garden
Model of an ancient Egyptian house with a front garden. From the tomb of Meketre in Thebes, Egypt c. 1981-1975 BCE.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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Garden of the Fullonica of Stephanus
The garden area of the Fullonica of Stephanus, which had been converted to the drying area of the laundry, Pompeii.
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The Garden at Petit-Gennevilliers by Caillebotte
An 1893 oil on canvas, The Garden at Petit-Gennevilliers, by Gustave Caillebotte (1848-96) the French impressionist painter. This house, located near Paris, was the artist's home from 1881. Here Caillebotte indulged his interest in horticulture...
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Roman Egypt
The rich lands of Egypt became the property of Rome after the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 BCE, which spelled the end of the Ptolemaic dynasty that had ruled Egypt since the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE. After the murder of Gaius...
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Ninhursag - The Original Mother Earth
Ninhursag (also Ninhursaga) is the Sumerian mother goddess and one of the oldest and most important in the Mesopotamian pantheon. She is known as the Mother of the Gods and Mother of Men for her part in creating both divine and mortal entities...
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Roman Baths
Roman baths were designed for bathing and relaxing and were a common feature of cities throughout the Roman empire. Baths included a wide diversity of rooms with different temperatures, as well as swimming pools and places to read, relax...