A broad selection of images featuring indigenous Australian art can be found on this site by Picture Australia. By clicking on individual images you'll find high quality photographs as well as a brief description.

An image of "Performance of Alceste in 1674", created by Jean Le Pautre in 1676 (Engraving, 308 x 427 mm).

An image of "Frenzied Romans at the First Performance of Hernani", created by Jean-Jacques Grandville in 1830 (Lithograph, 250 x 180 mm).

An image of "St Zenobius Performs a Miracle (predella 4)", created by Domenico Veneziano, c. 1445 (Tempera on wood, 28 x 32 cm).

An image of "Oriane Endavours to Perform Feats of Magic in the Garden of Apolidon", created by Karel van Mander the Elder from 1595-1600 (Pen and brown ink, brown wash, 272 x 496 mm).

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Digital cartoon of a woman performing a traditional Japanese tea ceremony.

The act of reclining at meals. The Greeks and Romans were accustomed, in later times, to recline at their meals; but this practice could not have been od great antiquity in Greece, since Homer always describes persons as sitting at their...

Ancilia carried by Salii. The sacred shield carried by the Salii, and made of bronze. The original ancile was found, according to tradition, in the palace of Numa; and, as no numan hand has brought it there, it was concluded that it had...

Auletris.- Performer on the double flute or diaulos. (From a Greek red-figured vase; 5th century B.C.)-Whitney, 1902.

A wind instrument, anciently made of horn, but afterwards of brass. Like the tuba, it differed from the tibia in being a larger and more powerful instrument, and from the tuba itself, in being curved nearly in the shape of a C, with a...

A musical instrument, in the shape of two half globes, which were held one in each hand of the performer, and played by being struck against each other. The cymbal was a very ancient instrument, being used in the worship of Cybele,...

Cattle doctors are exhibited performing operations upon sick oxen, bulls, deer, goats, and even geese. - Goodrich, 1844

Halteres were certain masses of stone or metal, which were used in the gymnastic exercises of the Greeks and Romans. Persons who practised leaping frequently performed their exercises with halteres in both hands; but they were also...

These words, besides denoting absolute nakedness, were applied to any one who, being without an Amictus, wore only his tunic or indutus. In this state of nudity the ancients performed the operations of ploughing, sowing and reaping. The...

A harp, was of oriental origin. The performances of sambucistriae were only known to the early Romans as luxuries brought over from Asia. - Smith, 1873

There are instances mentioned, however, where even women performed the wager of battle; in which case, to equalize the conditions, the man was placed in a pit waist-deep, with his left hand tied behind his back.-Myers, 1905

Flavius Josephus was a strange amalgamation of Jew, Greek, and Roman, admittedly not what he should have been, either as a teacher of Mosiac law, as a patriot, or as a public man; and yet he performed successfully what he could not have...

General Brannan, born in the District of Columbia in 1819, was graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1841, and stationed at Plattsburg, N. Y., in 1841-'42. During the Mexican War he was first lieutenant in the First...

Musical leader and composer, born in Washington, D. C., in 1854. He developed remarkable talent for music in early life, being noted as a performer in theater orchestras when only twelve years of age.

Reinmar was one of the most important Minnesingers in history. A Minnesinger is someone who wrote and performed poetry. Reinmar still has approximately 80 texts still in existannce.

(1857-1907) American actor famous for Gilbert and Sullivan operas and Shakespeare plays. He is also very well known for his performance as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

A portrait of William Shakespeare, an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminate dramatist. His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long...

The Chandos portrait of William Shakespeare, an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminate dramatist. This portrait is attributed to Joseph Taylor, and dated to...