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Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a French neo-impressionist painter whose vivid paintings with their flat, bold colours and use of mystical and ambiguous symbols revolutionised art. Never quite gaining success in his own lifetime...

The Seikilos Stele, Copenhagnen NM inv.14897. This grave stele preserves the oldest complete song that has survived to our times, and dates to around the 2nd century CE. Found in 1883 by Sir William Ramsay at Aydin (Tralleis), the...

The Seikilos Stele, Copenhagnen NM inv.14897. This grave stele preserves the oldest complete song that has survived to our times, and dates to around the 2nd century CE. Found in 1883 by Sir William Ramsay at Aydin (Tralleis), the grave...

Statue of Asclepius, the Greek God of medicine, holding the symbolic Rod of Asclepius with its coiled serpent. The Glypotek, Copenhagen.

The horned-figure frequently identified as the Celtic god Cernunnos. A detail from an interior panel of the Gundestrup Cauldron. The cauldron was found in Denmark in 1891 CE but was produced in the Balkans. Gilded silver, likely 1st century...

Marble portrait of Caligula (with traces of polychromy), 37-41 CE. (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)

Portrait of Roman Emperor Tiberius (reigned 18 September 14 CE – 16 March 37 CE) in Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen.

Marble head of Livia Drusilla, wife of emperor Augustus, from Fayum (Egypt), copy from the 4th century CE or later after an original from 27-23 BCE (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)

A detail of the gilded silver Gundestrup Cauldron showing a Celtic deity. Likely 1st century BCE, produced in the Balkans but found in Denmark in 1891 CE. (National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen)

A bust of Roman statesman and general Marcus Licinius Crassus (c. 115-53 BCE). Glyptothek, Copenhagen.