King Ashurbanipal hunting lions, detail from Palace of Nineveh - Assyrian (c.645-635BC) ( upload.wikimedia.org )
Gladiator fight mosaic (Nennig Roman Villa) - c.200-300A ( upload.wikimedia.org )
The retiarius was traditionally pitted against a secutor or, possibly on rare occasions, a murmillo. Despite the disparity between the nearly nude net-fighter and his heavily armoured adversary, modern re-enactments and experiments show that the retiarius was by no means outmatched. His lack of heavy equipment meant that he...
Young farmers wife with 3 children in window - Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller(1840) ( 1.bp.blogspot.com )
Peasants Playing Mahjong - Liu Xiaodong (1997) ( www.christies.com )
Scenery of Zhouzhuang double bridge - Pang Join (2017) ( www.christies.com )
Afternoon Landscape with Fox and Seabirds - Bruno Liljefors (1889) ( upload.wikimedia.org )
River Front - George Bellows (1915) ( upload.wikimedia.org )
Sixth Avenue and Thirtieth Street - John Sloan (1907) ( www.creativeboom.com )
Tyne bridge construction - Edward Dickey (1928) ( i.pinimg.com )
Il ponte di San Moisè, Venice - Harold Blackburn (1899–1980) ( d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net )
Ardvreck Castle in Sutherland, Scotland - George Blackie Sticks (1894) ( d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net )
Staffa, Fingal's Cave - Joseph Turner (1831-32) ( d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net )
Fferm Fynydd Hill Farm - Kyffin Williams (1918-2006) ( d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net )
Autumn - Joža Uprka (1922) ( upload.wikimedia.org )
Winter Flowers - Jakub Schikaneder (1887) ( upload.wikimedia.org )
The Pond at Benten Shrine in Shiba - Kawase Hasui (1929) woodblock print ( upload.wikimedia.org )
Tristram and Fox - Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) ( d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net )
The Absinthe Drinker - Viktor Oliva (1901) ( foodperestroika.com )
Landscape with a Cross and Pigeons - Josef Čapek (1937) ( upload.wikimedia.org )
Josef Čapek (1887 - 1945) was a Czech artist who was best known as a painter, but who was also noted as a writer and a poet. He invented the word “robot”, which was introduced into literature by his brother, Karel Čapek.
El Khasne Petra - Frederic Edwin Church (1874) ( upload.wikimedia.org )
Boat attacked by polar bears in the North Sea - François Auguste Biard (1839) ( culturezvous.com )
The Lady with the Veil (the Artist's Wife) - Alexandra Roslin (1758) ( upload.wikimedia.org )
The Prisoner - Nikolai Yaroshenko (1878) ( upload.wikimedia.org )
Landscape - Konstantin Kryzhitsky (1908) ( 4.bp.blogspot.com )
I love the scale of this piece, tiny people and vast forest far below.
The Chess Players - Honoré Daumier (c.1863-67) ( upload.wikimedia.org )
