Young man playing the piano: Did you mean...?

A Roman boy's rite of passage, a ceremony or ritual marking a transitional period in life from childhood to adulthood, was the assuming of the toga virilis, the adult toga. The ceremony usually took place sometime between...

Children playing ball games. Marble Roman artwork of the second quarter of the 2nd century CE. Probably a fragment of a Roman sarcophagus. Louvre, Paris.

Hindu deities Krishna and Radha playing chaturanga, painting on paper, c. 18th century. Depicted here is a game of chaturanga, the progenitor of contemporary chess, being played by the central Hindu gods of Krishna...

A miniature portrait by Nicholas Hilliard of Elizabeth I of England (r. 1558-1603 CE) playing the lute.

A 2nd-century CE Roman statue group of two sighthounds playing, discovered in 1774 CE in Monte Cagniolo, Italy. The group was once nicknamed "The Townley Greyhounds", after their owner Charles Townley. However, the dogs...

This panel, once identified as a music lesson, probably depicts a scene of love, set inside a house. A woman playing a kithara (a type of lyre) sits with her lover who gazes adoringly at her. From Pompeii...

Female skeleton playing the guitar, type-metal engraving by José Guadalupe Posada, c. 1890-1910. José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) was a Mexican illustrator best known for his satirical...

There are Akkadian cuneiform inscriptions as well as explanatory diagram and rules for playing the so-called the game of 20-squares (the Royal Game of Ur).This is the front aspect of the clay tablet which shows...

A fresco of Apollo playing the kithara, from a building in the Forum of Rome. Augustan period. (Museum of the Forum Romanum, Rome)

A red-figure vase painting of the Trojan prince (and cup-bearer to the god Zeus) Ganymede, playing with a hoop and rooster, or game-cock. The presence of a game-cock may be representative of Ganymede's relationship...