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Fra Angelico - The Mocking of Christ. Detail of Convent of San Marco fresco. 1440-42.
Maurice (539 - 602; Byzantine Emperor 582 - 602). Painting by Emilian Stankev (20th Cen.).
Belisarius, general of the Roman Emperor Justinian, reduced to begging by Jacques-Louis David, 1784.
Illustration: Angel shows a model of Hagia Sophia to Justinian.
Ancient Roman statue of Antinous, dated to the 2nd century AD.
Orpheus Greeting the Dawn, 1862, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.
Photographs of Rome in the mid-1800s. The first two were taken by Calvert Jones, and the second two are attributed to him: Capitoline Hill (1846) Colosseum (1846) Temple of Concord (1850s) Temple of Antonina and Faustina (1850s)