Prehistoric art

Lion man of the Hohlenstein Stadel Germany 40,000 BC  mammoth tusk

Venus of Hohle Fels. Germany Mammoth tusk

 Horse - Germany Mammoth Tusk

South Africa 

77,000 BC

Inferno 5 - Dore's etchings

Gustave Dore 

There are 136 plates in the Dante series. 

Dante Series
http://www.worldofdante.org/gallery_dore.html

1.43 Lion

1.88 Shewolf

1.136 Dark Wood

2.1 Dark Wood

2.70 Beatrice

3.7 Gate of Hell

3.76 Charon

4.40 Limbo

4.94 Poets in Limbo

5.4 Minos

5.31 Lustful

5.136 Paolo and Francesca

5.142 Dante's swoon

6.25 Cerberus

6.61 Gluttons

7.7 Plutus

7.25 Avaricious and Prodigal

7.115 Wrathful

8.28 Styx

8.40 Wrathful

8.112 Outskirts of Dis

9.43 Furies

9.88 Celestial messenger

9.127 Farinata

10.40 Farinata

11.4 Anastasius' tomb

12.10 Minotaur

12.61 Centaurs

12.76 Centaurs 2

13.10 Harpies

13.31 Pier della Vigna

13.118 Spendthrifts

14.40 Violent

15.28 Brunetto

17.7 Geryon

17.121 Geryon

18.37 Panderers

19.49 Nicholas III

21.52 Tormented barrator

21.70 Malebranche

22.124 Alichino

22.139 Fighting devils

23.52 Malebranche

23.115 Caiaphas

24.91 Thieves

25.7Thieves

25.67 Agnello

26.46 False Counselors

28.73 Schismatics

28.118 Bertran de Born

29.4 Bertran de Born

29.55 Falsifiers

29.82 Falsifiers

30.37 Myhrra

31.70 Nimrod

31.91 Giants

32.19 Cocytus

32.97 Bocca degli Abati

32.130 Ugolino

33.64 Ugolino

33.67 Ugolino's Despair

34.133 Exit from Hell

34.139 Stars

34.34 Satan

Purgatory

These next two plates are from John Milton's Paradise Lost and show satan and his army of rebel angels getting cast out of heaven. these two engravings inspired the shot in LOTR where gandalf and the balrog fall into the underground lake

O fond Arachne! thee I also saw

Half spider now in anguish crawling up

Th’ unfinish’d web thou weaved’st to thy bane!

Complete book of Dante with Dore's etchings at appropriate chapters.
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dante/d19pu/complete.html