Images Dated 2010 February

Breugel, Pieter, The Elder. Hunters in the Snow

Breugel, Pieter, The Elder, called Peasant Bruegel (1525-1569). Hunters in the Snow. Work belonging to a series

© Mary Evans/AISA Media

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Winged Assyrian Bull

Winged, human-headed bull, from the facade of the Palace of King Sargon II, Khorsabad, Late Assyrian Period, c.725 BC (gypsum), One of two alabaster guardian genies called lamassu that assured the foundations of the world and those of the palace of Sargon of Assyria, at Khorsabad. Date: circa 725 BC

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Philemon and Baucis

Philemon and Baucis, two hospitable cottagers, ask the gods that they may die together, so P is turned into an oak tree and B to a linden, their branches intertwining

© Mary Evans Picture Library/ARTHUR RACKHAM

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