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In short
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Images
The paintings on the topic cards and the “Not in the Suda” page are public domain, served from this site:
- Rembrandt van Rijn, Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, 1653. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
- Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates, 1787. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
- Gustave Moreau, Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra, 1875–1876. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
- John William Waterhouse, Consulting the Oracle, 1884. Tate, London. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
- Anne-Louis Girodet, Hippocrates Refusing the Gifts of Artaxerxes, 1792. Musée d'histoire de la médecine, Paris. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
- Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends, 1868. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
- Viktor Vasnetsov, Bogatyrs, 1898. Tretyakov Gallery. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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