Ancient worlds

<n>Echo Pavilion</n> by <n>Pezo Von Ellrichsausen</n> at <n>Palazzo Litta</n>, Milan. Photo by <n>Alex Lesage</n>, 2019.

<n>Fred with Tires II, Hollywood</n> (1984) by photographer <n>Herb Ritts</n>.

A spread from a book on artist <n>Giovanna Petrocchi</n>, designed by <n>Studio Sara Cristina Moser</n>.

Photograph by <n>Vassilis Karidis</n> for <n>Fantastic Man</n>.

A stone bas-relief known as <n>Raised hands of great finesse</n> at the <n>Kom Ombo Temple</n> in Egypt.

Cypriot <n>Stone votive relief of an eye</n> from the 4th century B.C. at <n>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</n>.

A detail of <n>Flora</n> from <n>Sandro Botticelli</n>'s painting <n>The Birth of Venus</n>, c. 1486.

A sculpture of <n>Antinous</n> on Henrietta Street in Dublin. Photo by <n>Simon Watson</n>.

<n>Lady at the Swan Lake</n> (1886), a <n>Symbolist</n> painting by <n>Max Nonnenbruch</n>.

<n>The Psycho-Magnetic Curves</n>, an 1845 illustration from <n>Jean-Baptiste de Laforest</n>'s book on mesmerism.

Detail of <n>Chactas</n> from <n>Anne-Louis Girodet</n>'s 1808 painting, <n>Atala au tombeau</n>.

A minimalist wooden daybed by designer <n>Caroline Coirault-Jonqueres</n>.

Ceramic <n>Vase</n> (2017) by artist <n>Peter Schlesinger</n>.

<n>Come Unto These Yellow Sands</n> (1847) by artist <n>Robert Huskisson</n>.

A fairytale-like view of the landscape in <n>Sintra</n>, Portugal.

An editorial photograph for the swimwear brand <n>EliseArmand</n>.

<n>The Archer</n>, a 1940s photograph by <n>Sam Tata</n>.

Sand sculpture by <n>Andy Goldsworthy</n>, 1987.

<n>The Kiss</n> (1907), a limestone sculpture by artist <n>Constantin Brancusi</n>.

Pleistocene-era <n>Heliophora orbiculus</n> fossils from Gambia, via <n>A guide to fossils</n>.

A still from the fashion film '<n>Dream of a Persimmon Girl</n>' by <n>Wenkai Wang</n> for <n>ZAMX</n>, shot in <n>Zhuchuan village</n>.

A close-up of <n>The Charioteer of Delphi</n>, a bronze sculpture from c. 478-474 BC.

<n>Homicide: Inside the NYPD's Brooklyn North Command</n> by <n>Theo Wenner</n> with text by <n>Michael Daly</n>.

A <n>Phoenician</n> <n>cosmetic vessel</n> carved from a Tridacna shell, c. 700-650 BC.

<n>Gator</n> (2017), a photograph by <n>Anastasia Samoylova</n> from her <n>FloodZone</n> series.

<n>Machiko Kyō</n> in a still from <n>Kenji Mizoguchi</n>'s 1955 film <n>Princess Yang Kwei Fei</n>.