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Prints showcase antique busts, emphasizing philosophical figures from history while reflecting artistic techniques of their time.

DEMOSTHENES  Greek orator and statesman        Date: 384 - 322 BC
DEMOSTHENES Greek orator and statesman Date: 384 - 322 BC
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca. called Seneca the Younger (born around the year 1 in Corduba. died 65 AD near Rome). was a Roman philosopher. playwright. naturalist. politician and. as a Stoic. one of the most widely read writers of his time. from the book Crabbe's Historical Dictionary. 1825. Historical. colored. digitally restored reproduction from an original from the 19th century
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Ammanati, Bartolommeo .
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This illustration shows the bust of Antoninus that is housed in the Museum of Naples. Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Pius was Roman emperor from 138 to 161. He was one of the Five Good Emperors from the Nerva-Antonine dynasty. Born into a senatorial family, Antoninus held various offices during the reign of Emperor Hadrian.
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Archimedes von Syrakus, ca. 287 v. Chr. - ca. 212 v. Chr. Griechischer Mathematiker, Physiker und Ingenieur / Archimedes of Syracuse circa 287 BC- circa 212 BC Greek mathematician physicist engineer, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Record date not stated,
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Historical drawing from the 19th Century, portrait of Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1475 - 1553, a German painter and printmaker of the Renaissance
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Bust of Themistocles (524 -459 BC) Athenian politician and general.
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H. Jozef, Claude Mellan, c. 1643 print   paper engraving the foster-father of Christ, Joseph of Nazareth, husband of Mary; possible attributes: flowering rod or wand, lily, carpenter's tools
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'Galen', (129 AD-c216), 1830. Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus (129 AD-c216) known as Galen of Pergamon, Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman Empire. An accomplished medical researchers of antiquity who influenced anatomy, physiology and logic. From "Biographical Illustrations", by Alfred Howard. Thomas Tegg, R. Griffin and Co., J. Cumming, London, Glasgow and Dublin, 1830
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Homer, traditionally regarded as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey and thus as the earliest poet of the West, coloured woodcut from Crabbe's Historical Dictionary from 1825, Historical, digital reproduction
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Carneades of Cyrene (born 214/213 BC in Cyrene. died 129/128 BC in Athens) was a famous Greek philosopher in the Hellenistic period. from the book Crabbe's Historical Dictionary. 1825. Historical. colored. digitally restored reproduction from an original from the 19th century
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Euripides, 480 AC-406 AC. Ancient Greek dramatist and tragic poet. Engraved by J.W.Cook.
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Historic print, woodcut with autograph, portrait of Philipp Melanchthon, also known as Philipp Schwartzerdt, 1497 - 1560, a philologist, philosopher, humanist, theologist and reformer, from Bildatlas zur Geschichte der Deutschen Nationalliteratur, an illustrated atlas by Gustav Koennecke, 1887
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Bust of a wild man or rustic ca. 1525-30 () French This roundel and its three companions, 41.190.478-480, come from the Chteau d'Assier (Department of Lot), built for Galiot de Genouillac (1465-1546), Grand Master of the Artillery and Grand Master of the Horse under François I.. Bust of a wild man or rustic 199002
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ORAZIO GENTILESCHI Italian artist working  in England.        Date: 1563 - 1647
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Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar and Academic Skeptic, Ancient roman empire. Italy, Europe. Old 19th century engraved illustration, El Mundo Ilustrado 1881
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Aristides, ca. 140 A.D. Christian philosopher from Athens, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated
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Double-headed bust of Thucydides and Herodotus still image. Portraits. 1569. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Busts, Historians, Greeks , To 499, Thucydides
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Thucydides, Athenian historian and general, c.460-400 BC. Author of a History of the Peloponnesian War recounting the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens. Thucydides. Copperplate engraving after an illustration by Joachim von Sandrart from his LAcademia Todesca, della Architectura, Scultura & Pittura, oder Teutsche Academie, der Edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Kunste, German Academy of Architecture, Sculpture and Painting, Jacob von Sandrart, Nuremberg, 1675.
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John VI Kantakuzenos, (born ca. 1295 in Constantinople, died 15 June 1383 in Mistra) was Byzantine emperor from 1341 or 1347 to 1354, coloured woodcut from Crabbe's Historical Dictionary from 1825, Historical, digital reproduction
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Pericles, ca. 495 to 429 BC Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens. From the book History of the World by Harmsworth, published in 1908, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated
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Home, Giovanni della.
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1452-1519 Self Portrait Of Leonardo Da Vinci
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Plato  (427-347 B.C.) Greek Philosopher
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Konstan II., Ostroman Emperor.
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Aelius Caesar 1854-58 Roger Fenton British. Aelius Caesar. Roger Fenton (British, 1819-1869). 1854-58. Salted paper print from glass negative. Photographs
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Pericles, approx. 495 to 429 BC. BC Greek statesman, speaker and general of Athens. From the book History of the World von Harmsworth, published in 1908., Historically, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date Not Stated
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Karneades .
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Parrhassians
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Jupiter in laurel wreath, chief Olympian god of the Roman pantheon; god of the sky, husband of Hera/Juno. Zeus in Greek mythology. Iupiter. Copperplate engraving by Pieter Bodart (1676-1712) from Henricus Spoors Deorum et Heroum, Virorum et Mulierum Illustrium Imagines Antiquae Illustatae, Gods and Heroes, Men and Women, Illustrated with Antique Images, Petrum, Amsterdam, 1715. First published as Favissæ utriusque antiquitatis tam Romanæ quam Græcæ in 1707. Henricus Spoor was a Dutch physician, classical scholar, poet and writer, fl. 1694-1716.
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Owain Glyndwr (c. 1359 - c. 1415), sometimes called Owen Glendower; Welsh ruler and the last native Welshman to hold the title Prince of Wales. Carreras cigarette card
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George Brooke, 9th Lord Cobham, 1497-1558, English peer, soldier and magnate, Lord of Cobham Hall, Kent. Brooke Ld Cobham. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving by Anthony Cardon after a portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger printed on pink paper from Imitations of Original Drawings by Hans Holbein, John Chamberlaine, London, 1812.
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Callisthenes of Olynth, (born around 370 BC, died around 327 BC) was a Greek historian and philosopher from the city of Olynth, coloured woodcut from Crabbe's Historical Dictionary from 1825, Historical, digital reproduction
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Bustes van Plato en Diogenes; Galleria Giustiniana del Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani II.Two Roman sculptures. Above the portrait of Plato with beard and long hair. Left on the side of the image The coat of arms of Vincenzo Giustiniani. Under the bust of Diogenes. Left on the side of the image The coat of arms of Vincenzo Giustiniani. Print from a series to the sculptures in the collection in the Galleria Giustiniani in Rome.
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Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, geboren um 1040, gestorben 1099, auch bekannt als El Cid Campeador. Kastilischer Adliger, Militärführer und Diplomat. Aus dem Buch Spain A Summary of Spanish History from the Moorish Conquest to the Fall of Granada 711 to 1492 von Henry Edward Watts, erschienen 1893., Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Record date not stated
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SOFOCLES. POETA GRIEGO. 496 - 406 AC. GRABADO RETRATO DEL LIBRO " ILLUSTRIUM IMAGINES ". BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL. MADRID.
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Leonardo da Vinci (born April 15. 1452. died May 2. 1519 at Clos Lucé Castle). Italian painter. sculptor. architect. anatomist. mechanic. engineer. and natural philosopher. digitally restored reproduction of an old original. historical. exact date unknown
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Theophrastus .
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'Professor Alphonse Legros', late 19th-early 20th century, (1926). Artist: Charles Holroyd
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GREECE, CRETE, Iraklio Province, Fodele: Birthplace of Artist El Greco, El Greco House and Museum with bust of El Greco
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PLUTARCO. ESCRITOR GRIEGO. 50-125. GRABADO RETRATO. BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL. MADRID.
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Homer.
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Roman heads, 1814., 1814., London. Publisher, printed for H. Setchel & Son by G. Smeeton. Costume history, Emperors and Empresses of Rome. Notable figures include Augustus (30 B.C.-14 A.D.), Hadrian (117-138), and Vespasian (69-79)., 22.5 x 15 cm
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Portrait medallion: Stefan Czarniecki. Kuntze, Edward J. (1826-1870), sculptor, Josiah Wedgwood & Sons (Stoke-on-Trent ; wytwórnia ceramiki ; 1790-1895), factory
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MORALES , CRISTOBAL DE. COMPOSITOR ESPAÑOL . SEVILLA 1500 - 1553. GRABADO RETRATO. ILUSTRACION ESPAÑOLA Y AMERICANA.
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Hadrian, Roman emperor.
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Old color lithography portrait. Socrates, was a classical Greek philosopher considered one of the greatest, both Western and universal philosophy. He
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David Waldie. Photograph.
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Publius Terentius Afer, often simply Terence, (born between 195 and 184 BC in Carthage, died 159 or 158 BC in Greece), was one of the most famous comedy poets of Roman antiquity, colored woodcut from Crabbe's Historical Dictionary from 1825, Historical, digital reproduction.
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