Images Dated 3rd June 2010

Portrait of a middle-aged man in a blue cloak, Romano-Egyptian mummy portrait, late 1st century

Portrait of a middle-aged man in a blue cloak, Romano-Egyptian mummy portrait, late 1st century. Such portraits were apparently kept at home during the subject's lifetime and added on his death to his mummified corpse. They are often known as Fayum portraits after the place in Egypt where many of them were found. Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

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Portrait of Count-Duke of Olivares, 1638. Artist: Diego Velasquez

Portrait of Count-Duke of Olivares, 1638. Gaspar de Guzman, Count-Duke of Olivares (1587-1645) was a favourite and minister of King Philip IV of Spain. He embarked on an unsuccessful attempt to recapture the Netherlands during the Thirty Years War, and this, together with his domestic policies that led to revolts in Portugal and Catalonia, brought about Guzman's downfall in 1643. Found in the collection of the State Hermitage, St Petersburg

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Diogenes, after 1527. Artist: Ugo da Carpi

Diogenes, after 1527. Diogenes (c400-323 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher who was one of the founders of the philosophy of Cynicism. Ugo da Carpi was the first Italian artist to utilise the chiaroscuro technique of woodcut printmaking. Found in the collection of the State Hermitage, St Petersburg

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