art/history

<n>Louis Gauffier</n>'s 1788 painting, <n>Cleopatra and Octavian</n>.

Nabeel S. Qureshi

<n>The Course of Empire: The Consummation of Empire</n> (1836) by <n>Thomas Cole</n>, commissioned by <n>Luman Reed</n>.

A detail from the <n>Baroque</n> painting <n>Virgin and Child with Angels</n> (c. 1618) by <n>Bartolomeo Cavarozzi</n>.

A detail of <n>Michelangelo</n>'s sculpture <n>David</n> (1501-1504). Photo by <n>Massimo Adami</n>.

<n>Michelangelo</n>'s statue of <n>David</n> at the <n>Galleria dell'Accademia</n> in Florence.

Detail of the painting <n>Saint Paul</n> (1611) by artist <n>Peter Paul Rubens</n>.

El cursus honorum, la carrera política en la antigua Roma

A detail from <n>Medusa</n> (1597), a painting by <n>Caravaggio</n>.