The Prophet Jeremiah, by Michelangelo.

The Cumaean Sibyl, by Michelangelo.

The Erythraean Sibyl, by Michelangelo.

The Libyan, by Michelangelo.

The Spandrell above Salmon, by Michelangelo.

The Prophet Ezekiel, by Michelangelo.

The Lunette of Hezekiah, Manasseh, Amon, by Michelangelo.

The Prophet Hosea and the Delphic Sibyl, by Pinturicchio and assistants.

Lunette with Musical Cupids, by Pinturicchio and assistants.

The School of Athens, by Raphael.

Dancing Woman and Lyre Player, Etruscan, 5th Century BC.

Horemheb in the company of the gods, Valley of the Kings, Dynasty XVIII, 1330-1305 BC.

Hercules finds the baby Telephus, from Herculaneum.

A woman by marriage bed, in a frieze from Pompeii.

Goddess ISIS, Tomb of Horemheb, Dynasty XVIII, 1330-1305 BC.

Tomb painting of Nakht, the scribe of the granaries in the 18th Dynasty, over 34 centuries ago.

Rameses III confronting Isis, Valley of the Queens, Dynasty XX, 1190-1160 BC.

Queen Nefertari making an offering to Isis, tomb of Nefertari, Valley of the Queens, 1279-1212 BC.

Kingfisher, Dynasty XVIII 1372-1355 BC.

Perseus Liberating Andromeda, Pompeii.

A frieze painted 4,500 years ago for a princess at Meidum.

Group of Cherubim, by Melozzo da Forli, 1438-1494.

The Centaur Chiron and the young Achilles, Fresco from Herculaneum.

Bull Jumping, from the palace complex, Knossos, Crete, 1550-1450 BC.

An angel playing a drum and fife, by Melozzo da Forli.

An angel playing the Lute, by Melozzo da Forli.

An angel playing the Viol, by Melozzo da Forli.

Another angel playing the lute, by Melozzo da Forli.

A section of scenes from the life Moses, Zipporah in Egypt, by Pietro Perugino and Pinturicchio.

Detail of The Disputation on the Holy Sacrament, by Raphael.

Head of a woman from the Palace of Minos, Knossos, Late Minoan I, 1500 BC.

Primavera, from Stabiae, 1st Century AD.

Section of The School of Athens, by Raphael.

Portrait of a young woman from Pompeii.