Beauty

Source: Following Hadrian, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Pont Alexandre III, Paris, 1900

1. Aquamarine oval gem with Kassandra kneeling at the Palladion, late Hellenistic Creek, late 1st century BCE 2. Carnelian gem with Gugustus as Neptune mounting a sea-chariot, Roman, 31-27 BCE, includes dolphin and young triton, owner was probably Popilius Albanus 3. The impression that this gem makes when pressed in wax or clay 4. Carnelian scaraboid gem with a dove carrying a scroll, classical Greek, 450-425 BCE 5. chalcedony scaraboid gem of a griffin clutching the corpse of a youth, late archaic Greek, early 5th century BCE 6. chalcedony scaraboid gem with a 2-horse chariot, classical Greek, late 5th to early 4th century BCE. The position of the horses indicates that they are rounding a post at high speed 7. chalcedony scaraboid gem wtih crouching panther, classical Greek, late 5th to early 4th century BCE 8. chalcedony scaraboid gem with griffin, eastern Greek, classical period, 475-400 BCE 9. chalcedony scaraboid gem with lion, eagle, and snake; Greek, ca. 480 BCE 10. The imprint this gem makes when pressed into wax or clay

Statue of Queen Arsinoe II identified with the Goddess Isis (black granite). Ptolemaic Period, ca. 305-30 BC. Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin.

Autumn  English Classicist painter

https://clevelandart.org/art/1984.25

Photographe anonyme. Etude de nu. Vers 1930. Tirage argentique. | src Lumière des Roses, Anonymous online

Church of Resurrection in Foros, Crimea. Photo by I. Radchenko (1987)

Source: Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz.CreatoR: Lutz-Jürgen Lübke (Lübke und Wiedemann)          Copyright Notice: CC BY-NC-SA            

The Source (1856), Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Vassar college girls practicing Greek dances 1923

Moscow, house of Pyotr Pashkov (1780s) and entrance to the Lenin Library metro station (1935).

The Unfinished Pagoda

- Capitoline Museums, Rome.

https://clevelandart.org/art/1927.436

Grodno, Belarus. Photo by Georgiy Likhtarovich (1989)

The Battle of Teutoburg Forest. 1870-73. Peter Janssen. German 1844-1873. oil/canvas.       http://hadrian6.tumblr.com