FROM THE PRICELESS BEST OF THE DECADE COLLECTION (2016)

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch-British

"So Then I Say To Caesar, 'Oh Yeah? You and Whose Army?' Which in Retrospect, Was Probably a Mistake," 1866

Oil on wood

MASTERPIECE #2289

Pierre Olivier Joseph Coomans, Belgian

Quote of the Day -- Young Julius Caesar (95 B.C.): "I Came, I Saw, I Stomped on Your Doll" ("Veni, Vidi, Barbi"), 1872

Oil on panel

MASTERPIECE #2110

Cesare Maccari, Italian

Cicero Accepting the Golden Globe For Best Orator in an Ancient Culture -- Republic or Oligarchy, 1889

Fresco

MASTERPIECE #2097

John William Waterhouse, English

Nero Taking a Break From Fiddling To Watch CNN's Coverage of the Big Fire, 1878

Oil on canvas

MASTERPIECE #1801

Edward Poynter, British

Sextus Marcellus Hated When the Roman Army Hired Temps, Because He Always Got Stuck With the Weirdos, 1868

Oil on canvas

MASTERPIECE #1800

Carlos Esquivel y Rivas, Spanish

Alaric II, King of the Visigoths, Stung By the Times' Bad Review of His Sack of Rome, 1856

Oil on canvas

MASTERPIECE #1534

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch-British

"So Then I Say to Caesar, 'Oh Yeah? You and Whose Army?' Which in Retrospect, Was Probably a Mistake," 1866

Oil on wood

MASTERPIECE #1491

Briton Riviere, British

Gladiator Attempting to Write the Word "Timeout," 1881

Oil on canvas