Beginnings

Welcome to SuperStock's 'Beginnings' gallery, a collection of conceptual illustrations that capture the essence of starting anew. Our selection of images offers a unique perspective on the journey of life, from the first steps to the grandest ambitions. Our artworks are perfect for those seeking to evoke a sense of hope and po...Read more

East facade, south end. Pattadakal Virupaksa temple, circa 740 A. D. Karnataka, India.

Shuanglin Temple has a history of over 1500 years. It contains many clay sculptures of the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasty. The temple is listed as World ...

Marble portrait of Roman Emperor Octavianus Augustus, unknown provenance, Roman Imperial times 27 BC - 14 AD, Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, Cret...

Low angle view of a Buddha statue in a cave, Yungang Buddhist Caves, Datong, China

Stone statues at Mount Nemrut, Turkey

Sunlight through an oculus, Pantheon Rome, Rome, Italy

Lascaux cave painting Period: Paleolithic, c.18,000 years ago. Vezere Valley, Dordogne, France.

Four elaborate toranas, or gateways, guard the Great Stupa, India's finest surviving Buddhist monument begun by the Emperor Ashoka in the third century BC. Despite a fragmented wheel of life, this northern torana is the best preserved and depicts scenes from the Buddha's life.

China, Shanxi Province, Datong. Buddhist statues of Yungang Caves cut during the Northern Wei Dynasty (460 AD). Unesco World Heritage site near Datong.

China, Gansu Province, Shuilian Dong Water Curtain Cave, Sakyamuni rock sculptures at Lashao temple, Northern Wei dynasty (386-534)

Servants And Musicians 1st Half Of 5th Century B.C. Roman Art Wall Painting Tomba dei Leopardi, Tarquinia, Italy

Ancient ruins, Ramesseum, Thebes, Egypt

Aztec Mask Representing the God Quetzalcoatl Pre-Columbian Wood with mosaic British Museum, London, England

Greek Amphora: Boxing Greek Art

Greece. Hellenistic period. Statue of a woman. Marble. Ashkelon. 2nd century BC. Rockefeller Archaeological Museum. Jerusalem. Israel.

Greek art. Grave relief of Mnesarete. About 380 BC. The dead woman is seated in front of a sorrowing girl. The name is recorded on the pediment Mnesarete (daughter) of Socrates. Glyptothek. Munich.

Egyptian Art. False-door of the Official Dedu-hekenu. From Sakkara. Limestone. 6th Dynasty, c.2290-2150 BC. Old Kingdom. Hieroglyph. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark.

Relief with Amazonomachy. Athens, Greece. 2nd century AD. Marble. An Amazon wearing a short tunic and helmet is in combat with a naked Greek in a rocky landscape. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen, Denmark.

Tragedy mask. Detail of the Melpomene's statue, Muse of singing and Tragedy. Roman statue. 2nd century AD. Marble. From Monte Calvo. Italy. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen, Denmark.

Ancient Greek Art. Archaic Period (700 B.C-480 B.C.). Goddesses rearing children. Terracotta. Statuette. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark.

Roman Art. Sarcophagus with Dionysus and Ariadne. Marble. C. 200 A.C. From Vigna Casali, Rome. Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum. Copenhagen. Denmark.

Roman Art. Sarcophagus with Dionysus and Ariadne. Marble. C. 200 A.C. From Vigna Casali, Rome. Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum. Copenhagen. Denmark.

Stele of Roma the doorkeeper dedicated to Goddess Astarte. Limestone. 18th Dynasty. New Kingdom. C. 1400-1365 BC. Origin unknown. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark.

Head from a statuette of a princess. Limestone. Probably from el-Amarna, Egypt. Amarna Period, c. 1365-1347 BC. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark.

Relief depicting the lion goddess Mehit. Granite. From the Temple of Onuris-Shu at Sebennytos. Reign of Alexander IV. 316-310 BC. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark.

Relief depicting the lion goddess Mehit and the god Onuris-Shu. Granite. From the Temple of Onuris-Shu at Sebennytos. Reign of Alexander IV. 316-310 BC. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark.

Statue group of the egyptian priest Ahmose and his mother, Baket-re. Diorite. C.1490-1400 BC. 18th Dynasty. New Empire. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum. Copenhagen. Denmark.

GREEK ART.GREECE. HEAD OF NIKE (II century A.D.). A copy of the Paionios' original dated in V century B.D. Agora Museum. Athens.

Lapith Woman. Battle of the Lapiths and the Centaurs. Decoration of the Temple of Zeus in the Sanctuary of Olympia. 5th century B.C. Parian marble. West pediment. Dated in 460 B.C. Olympia Archaeological Museum. Greece.

Prehistory. Neolithic. Marble female figure dated to the end of five millennium BC. Found in Aegina. National Archaeological Museum. Athens. Greece.

Greek Art. Greece. Funerary statue of a woman carved in marble. Found in Delos. Copy of 2nd century BCE from an original dated in 300 BCE. National Archaeological Museum. Athens.

Art greek. Gravestone. Attic. Early 4th BC century. Farewell scene. A woman sitting with her jewels with a slave. National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Greece.

FIGURA FEMENINA PROCEDENTE DE COLLADO DE LOS JARDINES-SANTA ELENA (JAEN). Location: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

AFRODITA. Author: CALIMACO. Location: MUSEO DEL LOUVRE-ESCULTURAS. France.

Xunantunich is a Mayan archeological site in western Belize. It was once the civic ceremonial center of the region.

Xunantunich is a Mayan archeological site in western Belize. It was once the civic ceremonial center of the region.

Xunantunich is a Mayan archeological site in western Belize. It was once the civic ceremonial center of the region.

Cahel Pech means "place of the ticks" because before excavations it was a pasture.

Bedroom frescoes, Villa of the Farnesina, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, National Museum of Rome, Italy

Fresco of octopus fighting Moray Eel, with lobster and mullet, St. PaulÍs River Port, 2nd century AD, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, National Museum of Rome, Italy

Painted Garden of the Villa of Livia, 20-30 BC, with birds and apple trees, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, National Museum of Rome, Italy

Painted Garden of the Villa of Livia, 20-30 BC, with birds and apple trees, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, National Museum of Rome, Italy

Painted Garden of the Villa of Livia, 20-30 BC, with birds and apple trees, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, National Museum of Rome, Italy

Painted Garden of the Villa of Livia, 20-30 BC, with birds and apple trees, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, National Museum of Rome, Italy

Pottery from Miletus, ancient Greece. 625-600 BC. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary.

Mesopotamian art. Bust of a ruler, dated between 2300 and 2000 BC. Early Bronze Age. It comes from Iran (?). Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States.

Early Christian Art. Greece. Marble pillar decorated with floral and zoomorphic motives representing birds drinking from a glass. Dated between VII and VIII centuries. It comes from the Basilica of Nea Anchialos. Byzantine Museum. Athens.

Roman Art. Sarcphagus Chest with the Phaeton Myth. The fall of Phaeton. Found in Ostia. Late 2nd cent. AD. Marble. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark.

Roman marble sarcophagus decorated with reliefs. Battle scene. Detail. Dated in the first quarter of II century a.C. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary.

Greek Art. Archaic Period. Horse. Bronze. Archaeological Museum of Olympia. Greece.

Blessed of Valcavado. 10th century. Illuminated codex of the comments made by Blessed of __Liebana in the 8th century to the Apocalypse of St. John. Miniature depicting the harvesting and grape harvest. Library of Saint Cross College. Valladolid. Spain.

Etruscan. Cineray urns on podium. Chamber tomb of the Pruni family near Chiusi, Etruria. 200-100 B.C. Reliefs. Detail. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark.

Greek Art. Parthenon. 5th century B.C. North frieze. XLIV-XLV. Riders. It comes from the Acropolis in Athens. British Museum. London. England. UK.

GREEK ART. VI B.C. GREECE. Persian rider in parian marble. Dated in 520 b.C. Acropolis Museum. Athens. Greece ..

CABALLO - PROCEDENCIA DESCONOCIDA - ESCULTURA IBERICA.

MONEDA-FILIPO II MACEDONIA(VITRINA DE LOS METALES) 359/366 AC-ESTRATERO-REVERSO 17,15 MM. Location: FABRICA NACIONAL DE MONEDA Y TIMBRE-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

MOSAICO CIRCENSE DE BELL-LLOCH - DETALLE DEL AURIGA CALIMORFUS - ARTE ROMANO EN ESPAÑA. Location: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO DE CATALUÑA. Barcelona.

The Beringarius Codex. The adoration of the Lamb from the Codex Aureus of St. Emmeram. Dated 9th Century

Fresco from the Church of Old Andorra depicts a servant filling three vases simultaneously from an amphora. Dated 13th Century

Fresco titled 'The Baptism of Christ' from the Gospel Book of Vysehrad'. Dated 11th century

Fresco titled 'Life and Martyrdom of St. Savin and of St. Cyprien. Dated 11th century.

Mural titled 'The Miracle of the Underwater Tomb of St. Clement'. Dated 11th century

Mural titled 'St Augustine de Civitate Dei'. Dated 11th century.

The Leningrad Codex (or Codex Leningradensis) is the oldest complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible in Hebrew. dated AD 1008

The Lady of Elche. Painted limestone bust of 5th century BC from La Alcuidia de Elche. Carthaginian influence

Painting of a Buddhist monk from the Ajanta cave temples, India. 5th-6th century AD

Noah's Ark in form of a Viking ship with dragon prow. 10th century manuscript of St Caedmon (fl 670) poet and monk of Whitby Yorkshire

Eschines - Ancient Greek. Portrait bust

Sophocles (c496-405 BC) Athenian writer of tragedies. Great figure in Ancient Greek drama. Marble portrait bust said to be of Sophocles

Jade plaque showing Mayan king seated, 400-800.

Brewer: Ancient Egyptian model. Louvre, Paris

Painted wall relief showing royal barge. Temple of Rameses III (1198-1167 BC) Medinet Habu. Egypt

Jug with round base and round spout, Incised Red Polished Ware, Early Bronze Age, 2000 BC. from Cyprus.

Elaborate capitals, with plant like motifs, on the pillars at the temple of Kom Ombo, Egypt.

The burial mask of Tutankhamun, Cairo Museum, Egypt.

Stylized female figurines, Cairo Museum, Egypt. Late XIII Dynasty-XVII Dynasty (Hyksos Period-Second Intermediate Period) (1630-1539 BC)

Ancient China: Food vessel (Fang Ding), Shang Dynasty, late period, 14th to 11th century BC. Bronze.

Ancient China: Galloping horse with polo-playerr, Tang Dynasty, 618 -906 AD. Unglazed pottery.

Ancient art: female terracotta figurine, northern Syria, 2000 BC.

Ancient art: female terracotta figurines, northern Syria, 2000 BC.

Ancient China: Reclining guard-dog, grey pottery, Eastern Han Dynasty, 24 - 220 AD.

Ancient China: Gilt Jade figure of the compassionate deity, Kwan Yin, Eastern Han Dynasty, 24-220 AD. Holding the implements of power in six arms.

Roman Mosaic-Tragic Mask Mosaic Laterano Museum, Rome, Italy

Great Black Bull Prehistoric Art Lascaux Caves, France

Tutankhamen: The Gold Mask Egyptian Art Egyptian National Museum, Cairo, Egypt

Bust of a King 1350 BC-Amarna Period Egyptian Art Staatliche Museum, Berlin, Germany

Mask of a Woman 100 B.C. Egyptian Art Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Germany

Holy Saturday Scroll: Enthroned Christ, manuscript, 11th century

Queen Tiy ca. 1352 BCE (18th Dynasty) Egyptian Art Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Germany

Ancient Greek amphora

Italy, Florence, Museo Archeologico, Francois Vase by Kleitias and Ergotimos, 570 B.C

Tutankhamen: Selket 1342 B.C. Egyptian Art Gilded wood Egyptian National Museum, Cairo, Egypt

Great Stag Prehistoric Art Lascaux Caves, France

Slaughtering Scene 2250 BC Egyptian Art(- ) Relief Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, (Agyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung), Berlin

Mask of a Man, 1350 B.C., Egyptian Art, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz,

Gigaku Mask, circa 7th Century,, Japan, Tokyo, National Museum

A Banquet in the Open Air; early 300s; Marble; glass; clay Unknown artist; Roman

King Menkaura (Mycerinus) and queen From Giza; Menkaura Valley Temple Dynasty 4; reign of Menkaura; 2490-2472 BC Greywacke

Votive Stele Early 6th century Northern Wei Dynasty; 386-535 Sandstone with incised and relief decoration

Tomb gate with carved decoration China Eastern Han dynasty; 1st century A.D. Limestone

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