Roman, Portrait Bust of Cicero

 

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Roman portrait busts took the realism of Greek art but emphasized the individual even more strongly, making the busts sometimes painfully faithful to the real-life model.

 

In this case the bust is meant to portray Cicero the late republican and orator as a man of principle and conviction.

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Prehistoric, “Woman from Willendorf”

 

These clay figures and others like them with exaggerated sexual features were probably used to bring fertility and used as charms to aid in childbirth.

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Mesopotamian – “Soundbox of a Lyre”

 

This ornately decorated sound-box found in a Sumerian tomb was probably used in a funeral rite which involved the ritual sacrifice of its player.

 

From what little myths survive, it seems the Sumerian religion was very brutal and bloody.

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Egyptian – “Wall Paintings from the tomb of Nefertari”
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Classic Greek, The Parthenon
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Classic Greek

 

Bronze Statue of a Warrior

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Roman

 

Augustus of Primaporta

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Roman – Early Christian

 

Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus

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Roman – Byzantine

 

Mosaics of Justinian and Theodora

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