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  • Hunting Room, an antechamber with allegorical wall paintings by Pietro Ricchi, 1606-75, of lion, deer, panther and boar hunting representing pride, refusal of others, senses and lust, at the Chateau de Flecheres, built 1610-16 by Jean de Seve, in Dombes, Fareins, Ain, France. The chateau was built on an earlier 12th century fortress and is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Chien barbet gardant du gibier, or Barbet dog guarding game, detail, oil painting on canvas, 1728, by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1686-1755, in the Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France. The dog is seen in a protective pose with one paw on the hunting rifle. Oudry was a French 18th century Rococo painter, known for still life and hunting scenes, many of which were commissioned by King Louis XV. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Dead game birds and leather hunting bag, detail from Chien barbet gardant du gibier, or Barbet dog guarding game, oil painting on canvas, 1728, by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1686-1755, in the Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France. Oudry was a French 18th century Rococo painter, known for still life and hunting scenes, many of which were commissioned by King Louis XV. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Chien barbet gardant du gibier, or Barbet dog guarding game, detail, oil painting on canvas, 1728, by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1686-1755, in the Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France. The dog is seen in a protective pose with a rifle, leather hunting bag, dead duck and 4 other game birds. Oudry was a French 18th century Rococo painter, known for still life and hunting scenes, many of which were commissioned by King Louis XV. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Chien barbet gardant du gibier, or Barbet dog guarding game, oil painting on canvas, 1728, by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1686-1755, in the Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France. The dog is seen in a protective pose with a rifle, leather hunting bag, dead duck and 4 other game birds. Oudry was a French 18th century Rococo painter, known for still life and hunting scenes, many of which were commissioned by King Louis XV. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Relief with hunting scene, with a man on horseback with a spear hunting a wild boar and a dog attacking a lion, Hellenistic period, from the Museum Of Apollonia near the Ardenica monastery in Fier, Albania. The museum was opened in 1958 to display artefacts found at the nearby Greek Illyrian archaeological site of Apollonia. Apollonia was an ancient Greek city in Illyria, founded in 588 BC by Greek colonists from Corfu and Corinth. It flourished in the Roman period and declined from the 3rd century AD when its harbour was silted up due to an earthquake. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Hunting scene with a male hunter holding a spear, and a lioness, fresco, late 1st century AD, from the balustrade of the podium of the Merida amphitheatre, in the Museo Nacional de Arte Romano, or National Museum of Roman Art, designed by Rafael Moneo and built 1981-86, housing Roman collections from the colony of Emerita Augusta, founded in 25 BC by Emperor Augustus, now modern-day Merida, Extremadura, Spain. The Roman remains in Merida are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Hunting scene with a male hunter holding a spear, and a lioness, fresco, late 1st century AD, from the balustrade of the podium of the Merida amphitheatre, in the Museo Nacional de Arte Romano, or National Museum of Roman Art, designed by Rafael Moneo and built 1981-86, housing Roman collections from the colony of Emerita Augusta, founded in 25 BC by Emperor Augustus, now modern-day Merida, Extremadura, Spain. The Roman remains in Merida are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Hunting hounds in the courtyard of a chateau, Touraine, Loire Valley, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France. Fox hunting is a popular sport in this region and many chateaux have their own hounds. Tourists can now take part in the hunts while on holiday in the region. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Dead game birds, detail from Chien barbet gardant du gibier, or Barbet dog guarding game, oil painting on canvas, 1728, by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1686-1755, in the Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France. Oudry was a French 18th century Rococo painter, known for still life and hunting scenes, many of which were commissioned by King Louis XV. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Hunting scene, detail from landscape frescoes which line the walls of the Loggia, in the Lower Courtyard of the Hotel Lallemant, a mansion built 1495-1518 in French Renaissance style by the Lallemant merchant family, in Bourges, Centre Val de Loire, France. Since 1951 the building has housed the Musee des Arts Decoratifs and it was listed as a historic monument in 1840. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Landscape with hunting scene, landscape fresco on the walls of the Loggia, in the Lower Courtyard of the Hotel Lallemant, a mansion built 1495-1518 in French Renaissance style by the Lallemant merchant family, in Bourges, Centre Val de Loire, France. Since 1951 the building has housed the Musee des Arts Decoratifs and it was listed as a historic monument in 1840. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Hunting scene, detail from landscape frescoes which line the walls of the Loggia, in the Lower Courtyard of the Hotel Lallemant, a mansion built 1495-1518 in French Renaissance style by the Lallemant merchant family, in Bourges, Centre Val de Loire, France. Since 1951 the building has housed the Musee des Arts Decoratifs and it was listed as a historic monument in 1840. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Hunting scene, detail from landscape frescoes which line the walls of the Loggia, in the Lower Courtyard of the Hotel Lallemant, a mansion built 1495-1518 in French Renaissance style by the Lallemant merchant family, in Bourges, Centre Val de Loire, France. Since 1951 the building has housed the Musee des Arts Decoratifs and it was listed as a historic monument in 1840. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Fresco of a hunting scene with bull and other animals, and on the right, the god Mars on a red background, from the back wall of the garden area with benches in a summer triclinium beneath a pergola supported by 4 stucco columns, in the Casa dell Efebo, or House of the Ephebus, Pompeii, Italy. This is a large, sumptuously decorated house probably owned by a rich family, and named after the statue of the Ephebus found here. Pompeii is a Roman town which was destroyed and buried under 4-6 m of volcanic ash in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Buildings and artefacts were preserved in the ash and have been excavated and restored. Pompeii is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Stone relief of a hunting scene with a mythological winged centaur creature holding a baby animal being chased by a wild animal, possibly a lion or tiger, in the Miletus Museum, Miletus, Aydin, Turkey. Miletus was an Ancient Greek city on the Western coast of Anatolia. Although settlement began here millennia ago, its heyday was in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The city was finally abandoned in the Ottoman era when the harbours silted up. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Stone relief of a hunting scene with a figure spearing an animal possibly a lion, in the Miletus Museum, Miletus, Aydin, Turkey. Miletus was an Ancient Greek city on the Western coast of Anatolia. Although settlement began here millennia ago, its heyday was in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The city was finally abandoned in the Ottoman era when the harbours silted up. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Stone relief of a hunting scene with a winged putto spearing a wild boar, in the Miletus Museum, Miletus, Aydin, Turkey. Miletus was an Ancient Greek city on the Western coast of Anatolia. Although settlement began here millennia ago, its heyday was in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The city was finally abandoned in the Ottoman era when the harbours silted up. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Frieze showing a hunting scene with a man spearing a wild boar from Aphrodisias, Aydin, Turkey. Aphrodisias was a small ancient Greek city in Caria near the modern-day town of Geyre. It was named after Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, who had here her unique cult image, the Aphrodite of Aphrodisias. The city suffered major earthquakes in the 4th and 7th centuries which destroyed most of the ancient structures. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Carved frieze probably depicting a hunting scene from the Temple of Apollo, 4th century BC, Didyma, Aydin, Turkey. Didyma was an ancient Greek sanctuary on the coast of Ionia near Miletus, consisting of a temple complex and the oracle of Apollo, or Didymaion, who was visited by pilgrims from across the Greek world. The earliest temple ruins found here date to the 8th century BC but Didyma's heyday lasted throughout the Hellenistic age. It was approached along a 17km Sacred Way from Miletus and is the largest sanctuary in Western Turkey. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Stucco relief of a hunting scene depicting a panther chasing a gazelle, from the Museum of Madaba, Jordan. This relief was on the lintel of the gate of the Ummayad qasr at Umm al-Walid and probably dates from the 8th century. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Scene of men hunting with spears in prehistoric times. Image taken from the filming of 'Paris la ville a remonter le temps' written by Carlo de Boutiny and Alain Zenou, directed by Xavier Lefebvre, a Gedeon Programmes production. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Scene of men hunting with spears in prehistoric times. Image taken from the filming of 'Paris la ville a remonter le temps' written by Carlo de Boutiny and Alain Zenou, directed by Xavier Lefebvre, a Gedeon Programmes production. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Scene of men hunting with spears in prehistoric times. Image taken from the filming of 'Paris la ville a remonter le temps' written by Carlo de Boutiny and Alain Zenou, directed by Xavier Lefebvre, a Gedeon Programmes production. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Scene of men hunting with spears in prehistoric times. Image taken from the filming of 'Paris la ville a remonter le temps' written by Carlo de Boutiny and Alain Zenou, directed by Xavier Lefebvre, a Gedeon Programmes production. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Scene of men hunting with spears in prehistoric times. Image taken from the filming of 'Paris la ville a remonter le temps' written by Carlo de Boutiny and Alain Zenou, directed by Xavier Lefebvre, a Gedeon Programmes production. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • General view of Patio de la Monteria, or Courtyard of the Hunt, where the King would assemble with his nobles and scouts or monteros to go hunting, and the facade of the Mudejar Palace, or Palacio del Rey Don Pedro, built by Pedro I of Castile, 1334-1369, in 1364, in the Real Alcazar, a Moorish royal palace in Seville, Andalusia, Spain. The Alcazar was first founded as a fort in 913, then developed as a palace in the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries and used by both Muslim and Christian rulers. The Alcazar is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Wild boar hunt, painted canvas, 18th century, in the Salon Vert or green living room, probably originally the medieval kitchen, at Fontfroide Abbey or l'Abbaye Sainte-Marie de Fontfroide, at Narbonne, Languedoc-Roussillon, Occitanie, France. In 1908 the abbey was bought by Gustave Fayet, an art collector and wine grower, who renovated many of the rooms and commissioned artworks. Founded by the Viscount of Narbonne in 1093, Fontfroide linked to the Cistercian order in 1145. Today the abbey estate produces AOC Corbieres wine. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Barbet dog in front of a mallard (Chien barbet devant un colvert), detail, oil painting on canvas, by Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin, 1699-1779, in a private collection, France. In this hunting scene, a dog approaches a dead mallard, which forms a still life element with a rifle and hunting bag. This painting is thought to have been completed in the 1730s, and is unusual for Chardin in that it depicts a live animal. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Barbet dog in front of a mallard (Chien barbet devant un colvert), oil painting on canvas, by Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin, 1699-1779, in a private collection, France. In this hunting scene, a dog approaches a dead mallard, which forms a still life element with a rifle and hunting bag. This painting is thought to have been completed in the 1730s, and is unusual for Chardin in that it depicts a live animal. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Hunting scene, detail of dogs chasing and attacking a lion, painting, by Frans Snyders, 1579-1657, in the Main Hall or Grand Vestibule, an 18th century room with Louis XV ceiling frescoes, hunting scenes, a glass lantern and Rococo iron balustrade, in Freyr castle, Wallonia, Namur, Ardennes, Belgium. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tomb of Jovin, Gallo-Roman sculpted marble tomb, for Flavius Valerius Jovinus, 4th century AD, in the Musee Saint-Remi, an art and archaeology museum in the Abbey of Saint-Remi, founded 6th century, in Reims, Marne, France. The high relief depicts a lion hunting scene with the deceased preparing for departure (left) and hunting on horseback (right). The abbey is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tomb of Jovin, detail, Gallo-Roman sculpted marble tomb, for Flavius Valerius Jovinus, 4th century AD, in the Musee Saint-Remi, an art and archaeology museum in the Abbey of Saint-Remi, founded 6th century, in Reims, Marne, France. The high relief depicts a lion hunting scene with the deceased hunting on horseback. The abbey is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tomb of Jovin, detail, Gallo-Roman sculpted marble tomb, for Flavius Valerius Jovinus, 4th century AD, in the Musee Saint-Remi, an art and archaeology museum in the Abbey of Saint-Remi, founded 6th century, in Reims, Marne, France. The high relief depicts a lion hunting scene with the deceased hunting on horseback. The abbey is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Hunting scene with man on horseback and dog catching a hare, fresco from a room in a Roman house, with circus and hunting scenes on a red background, 4th century AD, from Merida, in the Museo Nacional de Arte Romano, or National Museum of Roman Art, designed by Rafael Moneo and built 1981-86, housing Roman collections from the colony of Emerita Augusta, founded in 25 BC by Emperor Augustus, now modern-day Merida, Extremadura, Spain. The Roman remains in Merida are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Detail of muqarnas niches and decorative plasterwork on the facade of the Mudejar Palace, or Palacio del Rey Don Pedro, built by Pedro I of Castile, 1334-1369, in 1364, in the Patio de la Monteria, or Courtyard of the Hunt, where the King would assemble with his nobles and scouts or monteros to go hunting, in the Real Alcazar, a Moorish royal palace in Seville, Andalusia, Spain. The Alcazar was first founded as a fort in 913, then developed as a palace in the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries and used by both Muslim and Christian rulers. The Alcazar is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Detail of the decorative plasterwork with the lions and 3-towered castles of Castile and Leon, on the facade of the Mudejar Palace, or Palacio del Rey Don Pedro, built by Pedro I of Castile, 1334-1369, in 1364, in the Patio de la Monteria, or Courtyard of the Hunt, where the King would assemble with his nobles and scouts or monteros to go hunting, in the Real Alcazar, a Moorish royal palace in Seville, Andalusia, Spain. The Alcazar was first founded as a fort in 913, then developed as a palace in the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries and used by both Muslim and Christian rulers. The Alcazar is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Detail of the decorative plasterwork with the lions and 3-towered castles of Castile and Leon, on the facade of the Mudejar Palace, or Palacio del Rey Don Pedro, built by Pedro I of Castile, 1334-1369, in 1364, in the Patio de la Monteria, or Courtyard of the Hunt, where the King would assemble with his nobles and scouts or monteros to go hunting, in the Real Alcazar, a Moorish royal palace in Seville, Andalusia, Spain. The Alcazar was first founded as a fort in 913, then developed as a palace in the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries and used by both Muslim and Christian rulers. The Alcazar is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Detail of the facade of the Mudejar Palace, or Palacio del Rey Don Pedro, built by Pedro I of Castile, 1334-1369, in 1364, with muqarnas niches, plasterwork, tiles and inscriptions, in the Patio de la Monteria, or Courtyard of the Hunt, where the King would assemble with his nobles and scouts or monteros to go hunting, in the Real Alcazar, a Moorish royal palace in Seville, Andalusia, Spain. The Alcazar was first founded as a fort in 913, then developed as a palace in the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries and used by both Muslim and Christian rulers. The Alcazar is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Deer hunt, fresco, from a recreation of a room in Roman house, with floor mosaic and frescoes of framed circus and hunting scenes on a red background, 4th century AD, in the Museo Nacional de Arte Romano, or National Museum of Roman Art, designed by Rafael Moneo and built 1981-86, housing Roman collections from the colony of Emerita Augusta, founded in 25 BC by Emperor Augustus, now modern-day Merida, Extremadura, Spain. The Roman remains in Merida are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi, built 1555-75 for Cosimo I de Medici as a hunting lodge, in the village of Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy. The architects who remodelled the building in the 16th century were Bernardo Buontalenti (who designed the ramps and steps known as Medici bridges or scalee medicee), Davide Fortuni and Alfonso Parigi. The villa was owned by the Medicis until the 18th century when passed to the Habsburg-Lorraines. It is now a museum, the Museo Storico della Caccia e del Territorio, or Museum of Hunting and Territory, and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Man hunting hippopotamus in the river Nile, man fishing with net, and (right), birth of a baby hippopotamus, painted relief at the Tomb of Sesheshet Idut, princess, probably the daughter of king Unas, 5th dynasty, Old Kingdom, on the Unas causeway at Saqqara, Egypt. The tomb of Idut has walls covered with painted reliefs of hunting, fishing, farming and tax payment. The mastaba was usurped and was originally that of the vizier Ihy. The burial site at Saqqara, containing pyramids, mastabas and tombs from 1st dynasty to the Greco Roman period, was the royal necropolis for Memphis. Saqqara is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Chapel, with Virgin and child painting by Andrea Mantegna, 1431-1506, and the Altarpiece of the Most Precious Blood, Madonna and Child with Saints John the Evangelist and Andrew of Padua, in the Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi, built 1555-75 for Cosimo I de Medici as a hunting lodge, in the village of Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy. The architects who remodelled the building in the 16th century were Bernardo Buontalenti, Davide Fortuni and Alfonso Parigi. The villa was owned by the Medicis until the 18th century when passed to the Habsburg-Lorraines. It is now a museum, the Museo Storico della Caccia e del Territorio, or Museum of Hunting and Territory, and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Main Room on the first floor, with paintings and vaulted roof with frescoes, in the Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi, built 1555-75 for Cosimo I de Medici as a hunting lodge, in the village of Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy. The architects who remodelled the building in the 16th century were Bernardo Buontalenti, Davide Fortuni and Alfonso Parigi. The villa was owned by the Medicis until the 18th century when passed to the Habsburg-Lorraines. It is now a museum, the Museo Storico della Caccia e del Territorio, or Museum of Hunting and Territory, and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Villas Room, with wall paintings of villas and displays of ceramics, in the Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi, built 1555-75 for Cosimo I de Medici as a hunting lodge, in the village of Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy. The architects who remodelled the building in the 16th century were Bernardo Buontalenti, Davide Fortuni and Alfonso Parigi. The villa was owned by the Medicis until the 18th century when passed to the Habsburg-Lorraines. It is now a museum, the Museo Storico della Caccia e del Territorio, or Museum of Hunting and Territory, and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Garden, 19th century, behind the Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi, built 1555-75 for Cosimo I de Medici as a hunting lodge, in the village of Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy. The architects who remodelled the building in the 16th century were Bernardo Buontalenti, Davide Fortuni and Alfonso Parigi. The villa was owned by the Medicis until the 18th century when passed to the Habsburg-Lorraines. It is now a museum, the Museo Storico della Caccia e del Territorio, or Museum of Hunting and Territory, and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Loggia on the first floor, with frescoes and displays of Romany art, in the Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi, built 1555-75 for Cosimo I de Medici as a hunting lodge, in the village of Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy. The architects who remodelled the building in the 16th century were Bernardo Buontalenti, Davide Fortuni and Alfonso Parigi. The villa was owned by the Medicis until the 18th century when passed to the Habsburg-Lorraines. It is now a museum, the Museo Storico della Caccia e del Territorio, or Museum of Hunting and Territory, and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Pieve di San Leonardo Church, seen from a loggia outside the chapel, in the Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi, built 1555-75 for Cosimo I de Medici as a hunting lodge, in the village of Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy. The architects who remodelled the building in the 16th century were Bernardo Buontalenti, Davide Fortuni and Alfonso Parigi. The villa was owned by the Medicis until the 18th century when passed to the Habsburg-Lorraines. It is now a museum, the Museo Storico della Caccia e del Territorio, or Museum of Hunting and Territory, and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Chapel, with Virgin and child painting by Andrea Mantegna, 1431-1506, and the Altarpiece of the Most Precious Blood, Madonna and Child with Saints John the Evangelist and Andrew of Padua, in the Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi, built 1555-75 for Cosimo I de Medici as a hunting lodge, in the village of Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy. The architects who remodelled the building in the 16th century were Bernardo Buontalenti, Davide Fortuni and Alfonso Parigi. The villa was owned by the Medicis until the 18th century when passed to the Habsburg-Lorraines. It is now a museum, the Museo Storico della Caccia e del Territorio, or Museum of Hunting and Territory, and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • First floor room with landscape wall paintings and displays of weaponry in cabinets, in the Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi, built 1555-75 for Cosimo I de Medici as a hunting lodge, in the village of Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy. The architects who remodelled the building in the 16th century were Bernardo Buontalenti, Davide Fortuni and Alfonso Parigi. The villa was owned by the Medicis until the 18th century when passed to the Habsburg-Lorraines. It is now a museum, the Museo Storico della Caccia e del Territorio, or Museum of Hunting and Territory, and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Room of the Medici Popes, with portraits, c. 1628, by Domenico and Valore Casini, of 2 popes from the Medici family, in the Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi, built 1555-75 for Cosimo I de Medici as a hunting lodge, in the village of Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy. The architects who remodelled the building in the 16th century were Bernardo Buontalenti, Davide Fortuni and Alfonso Parigi. The villa was owned by the Medicis until the 18th century when passed to the Habsburg-Lorraines. It is now a museum, the Museo Storico della Caccia e del Territorio, or Museum of Hunting and Territory, and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Corner Room of the sons of Ferdinando I de Medici, in the Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi, built 1555-75 for Cosimo I de Medici as a hunting lodge, in the village of Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy. The architects who remodelled the building in the 16th century were Bernardo Buontalenti, Davide Fortuni and Alfonso Parigi. The villa was owned by the Medicis until the 18th century when passed to the Habsburg-Lorraines. It is now a museum, the Museo Storico della Caccia e del Territorio, or Museum of Hunting and Territory, and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Trompe l'oeil wall painting at the bottom of the staircase leading from the ground floor to the first floor, in the Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi, built 1555-75 for Cosimo I de Medici as a hunting lodge, in the village of Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy. The architects who remodelled the building in the 16th century were Bernardo Buontalenti, Davide Fortuni and Alfonso Parigi. The villa was owned by the Medicis until the 18th century when passed to the Habsburg-Lorraines. It is now a museum, the Museo Storico della Caccia e del Territorio, or Museum of Hunting and Territory, and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Maids' Parlour Room, with frescoes, beside the Sala Isabella, bedroom of Isabella de Medici, in the Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi, built 1555-75 for Cosimo I de Medici as a hunting lodge, in the village of Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy. The architects who remodelled the building in the 16th century were Bernardo Buontalenti, Davide Fortuni and Alfonso Parigi. The villa was owned by the Medicis until the 18th century when passed to the Habsburg-Lorraines. It is now a museum, the Museo Storico della Caccia e del Territorio, or Museum of Hunting and Territory, and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Garden, 19th century, behind the Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi, built 1555-75 for Cosimo I de Medici as a hunting lodge, in the village of Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy. The architects who remodelled the building in the 16th century were Bernardo Buontalenti, Davide Fortuni and Alfonso Parigi. The villa was owned by the Medicis until the 18th century when passed to the Habsburg-Lorraines. It is now a museum, the Museo Storico della Caccia e del Territorio, or Museum of Hunting and Territory, and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sala Isabella, bedroom of Isabella de Medici, who was killed in the villa in 1576, with red 4 poster bed and painted wallpaper, in the Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi, built 1555-75 for Cosimo I de Medici as a hunting lodge, in the village of Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy. On the right is the painting Sacred Conversation, or The Medici as Holy Family, painting, 1575, by Giovanni Maria Butteri, 1540–1606, with portraits of Cosimo I de Medici's family. The architects who remodelled the building in the 16th century were Bernardo Buontalenti, Davide Fortuni and Alfonso Parigi. The villa was owned by the Medicis until the 18th century when passed to the Habsburg-Lorraines. It is now a museum, the Museo Storico della Caccia e del Territorio, or Museum of Hunting and Territory, and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sala Isabella, bedroom of Isabella de Medici, who was killed in the villa in 1576, with red 4 poster bed and painted wallpaper, in the Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi, built 1555-75 for Cosimo I de Medici as a hunting lodge, in the village of Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy. The architects who remodelled the building in the 16th century were Bernardo Buontalenti, Davide Fortuni and Alfonso Parigi. The villa was owned by the Medicis until the 18th century when passed to the Habsburg-Lorraines. It is now a museum, the Museo Storico della Caccia e del Territorio, or Museum of Hunting and Territory, and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Autumn tapestry, detail, manufactured by the Granducali Tapestries, designed by Giovanni Stradano in 1637, in the Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi, built 1555-75 for Cosimo I de Medici as a hunting lodge, in the village of Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy. The architects who remodelled the building in the 16th century were Bernardo Buontalenti, Davide Fortuni and Alfonso Parigi. The villa was owned by the Medicis until the 18th century when passed to the Habsburg-Lorraines. It is now a museum, the Museo Storico della Caccia e del Territorio, or Museum of Hunting and Territory, and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sala Isabella, bedroom of Isabella de Medici, who was killed in the villa in 1576, with red 4 poster bed and painted wallpaper, in the Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi, built 1555-75 for Cosimo I de Medici as a hunting lodge, in the village of Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy. The architects who remodelled the building in the 16th century were Bernardo Buontalenti, Davide Fortuni and Alfonso Parigi. The villa was owned by the Medicis until the 18th century when passed to the Habsburg-Lorraines. It is now a museum, the Museo Storico della Caccia e del Territorio, or Museum of Hunting and Territory, and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Autumn tapestry, manufactured by the Granducali Tapestries, designed by Giovanni Stradano  in 1637, in the Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi, built 1555-75 for Cosimo I de Medici as a hunting lodge, in the village of Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy. The architects who remodelled the building in the 16th century were Bernardo Buontalenti, Davide Fortuni and Alfonso Parigi. The villa was owned by the Medicis until the 18th century when passed to the Habsburg-Lorraines. It is now a museum, the Museo Storico della Caccia e del Territorio, or Museum of Hunting and Territory, and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Gilded leather with coat of arms and putti, made in central Italy, 16th century, in the Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi, built 1555-75 for Cosimo I de Medici as a hunting lodge, in the village of Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy. The architects who remodelled the building in the 16th century were Bernardo Buontalenti, Davide Fortuni and Alfonso Parigi. The villa was owned by the Medicis until the 18th century when passed to the Habsburg-Lorraines. It is now a museum, the Museo Storico della Caccia e del Territorio, or Museum of Hunting and Territory, and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Ground floor room in the Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi, built 1555-75 for Cosimo I de Medici as a hunting lodge, in the village of Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy. The architects who remodelled the building in the 16th century were Bernardo Buontalenti, Davide Fortuni and Alfonso Parigi. The villa was owned by the Medicis until the 18th century when passed to the Habsburg-Lorraines. It is now a museum, the Museo Storico della Caccia e del Territorio, or Museum of Hunting and Territory, and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi (right), built 1555-75 for Cosimo I de Medici as a hunting lodge, in the village of Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy.  The architects who remodelled the building in the 16th century were Bernardo Buontalenti, Davide Fortuni and Alfonso Parigi. The villa was owned by the Medicis until the 18th century when passed to the Habsburg-Lorraines. It is now a museum, the Museo Storico della Caccia e del Territorio, or Museum of Hunting and Territory, and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi, aerial view, built 1555-75 for Cosimo I de Medici as a hunting lodge, in the village of Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy. The architects who remodelled the building in the 16th century were Bernardo Buontalenti (who designed the ramps and steps known as Medici bridges or scalee medicee), Davide Fortuni and Alfonso Parigi. The villa was owned by the Medicis until the 18th century when passed to the Habsburg-Lorraines. It is now a museum, the Museo Storico della Caccia e del Territorio, or Museum of Hunting and Territory, and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Roman stone shrine with carving of Diana, goddess of the moon and hunting, reaching for an arrow with her bow poised, with a hunting dog and a stag watching, at the Housesteads Roman Fort Museum, Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland, England. Housesteads Fort was built in 124 AD and is the most complete Roman fort in Britain, built by legionaries to house 10 centuries of auxiliary soldiers based on the frontier. Hadrian's Wall was built 73 miles across Britannia, now England, 122-128 AD, under the reign of Emperor Hadrian, ruled 117-138, to mark the Northern extent of the Roman Empire and guard against barbarian attacks from the Picts to the North. The Housesteads Roman Fort Museum is run by English Heritage and forms part of the Hadrian's Wall UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Hunting scene, with men on horseback hunting a deer, traditional blue and white azulejos tile scene, 18th century, part of a series depicting the history of the monastery and the Siege of Lisbon in 1147, in the Monastery of Sao Vicente de Fora, an Augustinian order monastery and church built in the 17th century in Mannerist style, Lisbon, Portugal. The monastery also contains the royal pantheon of the Braganza monarchs of Portugal. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Petroglyphs depicting hunting scenes on a cliff face at Wadi Rum, Jordan. Here we see men with camels hunting various animals (ostriches, gazelles, lions, etc). Thamudic, Nabataean and Arabic inscriptions testify to widespread literacy in these peoples. In Wadi Rum there are 25,000 rock carvings and 20,000 inscriptions produced over 12,000 years of habitation, from Neolithic to Nabataean. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Petroglyphs depicting hunting scenes on a cliff face at Wadi Rum, Jordan. Here we see men with camels hunting various animals (ostriches, gazelles, lions, etc). Thamudic, Nabataean and Arabic inscriptions testify to widespread literacy in these peoples. In Wadi Rum there are 25,000 rock carvings and 20,000 inscriptions produced over 12,000 years of habitation, from Neolithic to Nabataean. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sala Orientale, with classical landscape wall paintings and displays of objects from around the world, in the Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi, built 1555-75 for Cosimo I de Medici as a hunting lodge, in the village of Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy. The architects who remodelled the building in the 16th century were Bernardo Buontalenti, Davide Fortuni and Alfonso Parigi. The villa was owned by the Medicis until the 18th century when passed to the Habsburg-Lorraines. It is now a museum, the Museo Storico della Caccia e del Territorio, or Museum of Hunting and Territory, and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mural painting in Abric number 1 showing details a hunting scene with a hunter with bow ans arrow in front of a deer, and on the top, probably the high priest of the hunting group, pictured on August 09, 2011 in Ulldecona, Serra de Godall hills, Catalonia, Spain. The prehistoric paintings over Serra de Godall hills declared world heritage in 1998 by UNESCO make up one of the most important sets of prehistoric Art Levanti in Spain. They date back to Post-Paleolithic time, more than 8000 years ago. These scenes represent the first narrations in European prehistory. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Hunting scene with men firing bows and arrows at wild goat, and a wounded goat, prehistoric rock painting, c. 8000 - 6000 BC, at the Cuevas de la Arana, Bicorp, Valencia, Spain. The Cuevas de la Arana are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Relief of a wild boar from a larger Roman hunting scene, in the Miletus Museum, Miletus, Aydin, Turkey. Miletus was an Ancient Greek city on the Western coast of Anatolia. Although settlement began here millennia ago, its heyday was in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The city was finally abandoned in the Ottoman era when the harbours silted up. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Petroglyphs depicting hunting scenes on a cliff face at Wadi Rum, Jordan. Here we see men with camels hunting various animals. Thamudic, Nabataean and Arabic inscriptions testify to widespread literacy in these peoples. In Wadi Rum there are 25,000 rock carvings and 20,000 inscriptions produced over 12,000 years of habitation, from Neolithic to Nabataean. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Petroglyphs depicting hunting scenes on a cliff face at Wadi Rum, Jordan. Here we see men with camels hunting. Thamudic, Nabataean and Arabic inscriptions testify to widespread literacy in these peoples. In Wadi Rum there are 25,000 rock carvings and 20,000 inscriptions produced over 12,000 years of habitation, from Neolithic to Nabataean. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Hunting scene with men and wild goats, prehistoric rock painting, c. 8000 - 6000 BC, at the Cuevas de la Arana, Bicorp, Valencia, Spain. The Cuevas de la Arana are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Relief of a man spearing a wild animal, in the Miletus Museum, Miletus, Aydin, Turkey. Miletus was an Ancient Greek city on the Western coast of Anatolia. Although settlement began here millennia ago, its heyday was in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The city was finally abandoned in the Ottoman era when the harbours silted up. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Portrait of Francois Pierre du Cluzel, 1734-83, intendant of Tours 1766-83, wearing hunting clothes, oil painting on canvas in oval frame, by Alexandre Roslin, 1718-93, in the Musee des Beaux Arts de Tours, a fine arts museum founded 1801, and housed since 1910 in the archbishop's palace on the Place Francois Sicard in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France. The museum houses paintings from 14th - 21st centuries, sculpture, prints, ceramics and furniture, and is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Painted window with river hunting scene, in the room containing the plaster copy of the tomb of Maximilien de Bethune, duke of Sully, 1560-1641, and his wife Rachel de Cochefilet, in a tower rebuilt 1900-02, at the Chateau de Sully-sur-Loire, begun 14th century by Raymond du Temple for Gui VI de La Tremoille, in Loiret, France. It is listed as a historic monument and forms part of the Loire Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Great entrance hall, late 18th century, with Italian ceiling frescoes, hunting paintings by Frans Snyders, 1579-1657, and a Rococo balustrade, at the Castle of Freyr, in Wallonia, Namur, Ardennes, Belgium. Originally a medieval keep then a Renaissance castle, Freyr was extended in the 17th century. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Urn with relief of hunting scene, marble, in Lugdunum Museum, an archaeology museum housing Celtic, Roman and pre-Roman artefacts, designed by Bernard Zehrfuss and opened 1975, on the Roman site of Lugdunum in Lyon, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France. The Roman city of Lugdunum was founded in 43 BC by Lucius Munatius Plancus on an existing Gallic site, now part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Ty standing holding his staff of office, on a papyrus boat in marshland with papyrus plants, with men hunting hippopotamus with spears, painted relief, on the north wall of the chapel in the mastaba tomb of Ty, or Ti, an official in the 5th dynasty, Old Kingdom, at Saqqara, Egypt. The burial site at Saqqara, containing pyramids, mastabas and tombs from 1st dynasty to the Greco Roman period, was the royal necropolis for Memphis. Saqqara is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sarcophagus fragment with relief of hunting scene, imperial Roman, from Arles, in the Musee Lapidaire, or Lapidary Museum, in Avignon, Provence-Alpes-Cote-d'Azur, France. The museum houses archaeological artefacts from the Collection Archeologique de la Fondation Calvet, from the Musee Calvet. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sarcophagus with relief of wild boar and deer hunting, detail, Gallo-Roman, marble, mid 4th century, in the Musee de l'Arles Antique, an archaeological museum built 1995 by Henri Ciriani and extended in 2013, at Arles, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France. The museum is built on the ruins of the Roman Circus, and houses many artefacts from the town's Gallo-Roman history from 1st century BC. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sarcophagus with relief of wild boar and deer hunting, detail, Gallo-Roman, marble, early 4th century, in the Musee de l'Arles Antique, an archaeological museum built 1995 by Henri Ciriani and extended in 2013, at Arles, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France. The museum is built on the ruins of the Roman Circus, and houses many artefacts from the town's Gallo-Roman history from 1st century BC. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sarcophagus with relief of wild boar and deer hunting, detail, Gallo-Roman, marble, early 4th century, in the Musee de l'Arles Antique, an archaeological museum built 1995 by Henri Ciriani and extended in 2013, at Arles, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France. The museum is built on the ruins of the Roman Circus, and houses many artefacts from the town's Gallo-Roman history from 1st century BC. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sarcophagus with relief of wild boar and deer hunting, Gallo-Roman, marble, mid 4th century, in the Musee de l'Arles Antique, an archaeological museum built 1995 by Henri Ciriani and extended in 2013, at Arles, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France. The museum is built on the ruins of the Roman Circus, and houses many artefacts from the town's Gallo-Roman history from 1st century BC. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sarcophagus with relief of wild boar and deer hunting, Gallo-Roman, marble, early 4th century, in the Musee de l'Arles Antique, an archaeological museum built 1995 by Henri Ciriani and extended in 2013, at Arles, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France. The museum is built on the ruins of the Roman Circus, and houses many artefacts from the town's Gallo-Roman history from 1st century BC. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Hunting scene with dog chasing deer, detail, Roman fresco fragment, 2nd – 3rd century AD, from the southern wall of a corridor in a luxurious house near the port, in the Museu Nacional Arqueologic de Tarragona, in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. It is thought the fresco was painted by a local artist. The city was an important fortified Roman colony named Tarraco and its remains are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Hunting scene with dog chasing deer, Roman fresco fragment, 2nd – 3rd century AD, from the southern wall of a corridor in a luxurious house near the port, in the Museu Nacional Arqueologic de Tarragona, in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. It is thought the fresco was painted by a local artist. The city was an important fortified Roman colony named Tarraco and its remains are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Recreation of a room in Roman house, with floor mosaic and frescoes of framed circus and hunting scenes on a red background, 4th century AD, in the Museo Nacional de Arte Romano, or National Museum of Roman Art, designed by Rafael Moneo and built 1981-86, housing Roman collections from the colony of Emerita Augusta, founded in 25 BC by Emperor Augustus, now modern-day Merida, Extremadura, Spain. The Roman remains in Merida are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Recreation of a room in Roman house, with floor mosaic and frescoes of framed circus and hunting scenes on a red background, 4th century AD, in the Museo Nacional de Arte Romano, or National Museum of Roman Art, designed by Rafael Moneo and built 1981-86, housing Roman collections from the colony of Emerita Augusta, founded in 25 BC by Emperor Augustus, now modern-day Merida, Extremadura, Spain. The Roman remains in Merida are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Homo erectus hunting wolves with a spear, model in the Musee de Tautavel - Centre Europeen de Prehistoire, Tautavel, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. The museum houses the Centre Europeen de Recherches Prehistoriques (CERP), who work on the excavations at the Caune de l'Arago or La grotte de Tautavel, or Arago Cave, in a limestone cliff in the Gorges du Gouleyrous in the Corbieres Massif, which contains the remains of the Tautavel Man, a subspecies of Homo Erectus, 450,000 years old, along with further evidence of stone age activity. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Homo erectus carrying an animal killed hunting, model in the Musee de Tautavel - Centre Europeen de Prehistoire, Tautavel, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. The museum houses the Centre Europeen de Recherches Prehistoriques (CERP), who work on the excavations at the Caune de l'Arago or La grotte de Tautavel, or Arago Cave, in a limestone cliff in the Gorges du Gouleyrous in the Corbieres Massif, which contains the remains of the Tautavel Man, a subspecies of Homo Erectus, 450,000 years old, along with further evidence of stone age activity. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Carved marble capital with a hunting dog catching a deer, 15th century, discovered in 1906 during demolition of the ramparts around the Eglise Saint-Mathieu, in the Musee d'Art Hyacinthe Rigaud, an art gallery housed in the Hotel de Lazerme, a private mansion built in the 18th century by the marquis Etienne de Blanes and bought in 1827 by Joseph de Lazerme, and the Hotel de Mailly, on the Rue de l'Age, Perpignan, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. The museum was renovated and reopened in 2017 and houses 3 exhibitions: Gothic Perpignan, Baroque Perpignan and Modern Perpignan, including works by local artists Hyacinthe Rigaud and Aristide Maillol. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Hunting scene with man on horseback, detail, Roman fresco, 4th century AD, from a domus of Barcino, the ancient name for Barcelona, founded 10 BC by Emperor Augustus, in the Palau Reial Major, built as residence for the counts of Barcelona and kings of Aragon and now the Muhba Placa del Rei, a history museum covering Roman to medieval periods, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The palace complex includes the Salo del Tinell, the Palatine Chapel of St Agatha built 1302 and the Palau del Lloctinent built 1549. The museum is part of the Museu de Historia de Barcelona. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Detail of relief depicting hunting scenes above the entrance of the Art Deco Fauverie (the big cats building), built by Rene Berger from 1934 to 1937 in the Menagerie of Jardin des Plantes, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 5th arrondissement, France. Founded in 1794 by Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, the Menagerie of Jardin des Plantes became the largest exotic animal collection in Europe in the 19th century and is the second oldest public zoo in the world. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Hunting scene, ceramic wall plaque with moulded and painted decoration and transparent glaze, 18th - 19th century, from Tehran, Iran, in the Musee des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, a fine arts museum opened 1801 in a former convent on the Place des Terreaux in Lyon, Rhone, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Great entrance hall, late 18th century, with Italian ceiling frescoes, hunting paintings by Frans Snyders, 1579-1657, and a Rococo balustrade, at the Castle of Freyr, in Wallonia, Namur, Ardennes, Belgium. Originally a medieval keep then a Renaissance castle, Freyr was extended in the 17th century. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Man hunting wild boar, Roman mosaic, mid 4th century AD, from the Villa de las Tiendas near Merida, in the Museo Nacional de Arte Romano, or National Museum of Roman Art, designed by Rafael Moneo and built 1981-86, housing Roman collections from the colony of Emerita Augusta, founded in 25 BC by Emperor Augustus, now modern-day Merida, Extremadura, Spain. The Roman remains in Merida are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Banquet scene, fresco, c. 450 BC, in the Tomba della Caccia al Cervo, at the Monterozzi Etruscan necropolis near Tarquinia, Vitero, Lazio, Italy. The fresco depicts 3 couples on klinai with above, a deer hunting scene and panthers. The necropolis was founded in the 7th century BC and contains around 6000 graves, many of which are covered in frescos. Monterozzi is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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