The "Dove Basin", attributed to Sosus of Pergamon, from Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, Lazio, 2nd century AD
Wordless Wednesday– Alexander the Great
Detail of the Alexander Mosaic, showing Alexander the Great, Roman copy c. 100 BC from the House of the Faun in Pompeii, from an original Hellenistic painting of the 3rd century BC, possibly by Philoxenus of Eretria.
Rose Fairbanks 