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Detail, Mummy Portrait of a Woman, about A.D. 100 - 110, Attributed to the Isidora Master. Collection & Credit: J. Paul Getty Museum.

Squirrel. Detail from the Book of Treasures, by Brunetto Latini, Rouen ca. 1450-1480. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 160, fol. 82r.

Nereids worshipping the moon - Moritz von Schwind (1804-1871).

Workers in a fullonica (dyer’s shop), Fresco from the fullonica of Veranius Hypsaeus, Pompeii; now in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples. Photo Credit: Alamy/Stock Image.

According to Procopius, at a meeting of the government council, Theodora spoke out against leaving the palace and underlined the significance of someone who died as a ruler instead of living as an exile or in hiding, saying, "royal purple is the noblest shroud".

Details from the Comet Book (1587). This stunning set of images come from a 16th-century treatise on comets, created anonymously in Flanders (now northern France) and now held at the Universitätsbibliothek Kassel. Commonly known as The Comet Book (or Kometenbuch in German).

The Swan Maiden, from Among Gnomes and Trolls No. 2 by John Bauer (1907). Among Gnomes and Trolls (Swedish: Bland tomtar och troll), is a popular Swedish folklore and fairy tales annual and children's fairy tale anthology published since 1907.

Nicolas Poussin - Four Seasons (Les quatre saisons) 1660/64 Paris, Musée du Louvre. Spring (The Earthly Paradise), Summer (Ruth and Boaz), Autumn (The Spies with the Grapes of the Promised Land), Winter (The Flood).

Artemis (1st century BC), amethyst gem, National Archaeological Museum, Naples.

Details, Circe Invidiosa by John William Waterhouse (1892).