Maenad, female follower of Dionysus, wearing silk dress, 1st century AD, Naples National Museum.

Hannibal Crossing the Alps, Francisco Goya, 1771.

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Mosaic floor panel depicting a woman with a wreath of flowers around her head and a floral garland over her left shoulder. Roman Syria, 2nd century AD, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Lion attacking an onager (mule), Roman mosaic, AD 150-200, Getty Museum.

Caesar Restoring Cleopatra to the Throne of Egypt, Pietro da Cortona, 1637.

As @HeraklesCithare kindly pointed out, this is Hellenistic art from the Pergamene acropolis (not Roman!)

Floor Mosaic fragment depicting Bacchus, Roman, 325-330, RISD Museum.

Parrot mosaic, Roman, 2nd century BC, Pergamon Museum.

Funerary relief, Roman Syria, 125-150 AD, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Venus discovers Adonis' body (from Ovid's Metamorphoses), Francisco Goya, 1771.

French artist Joseph-Marie Vien's "La Marchande d’Amours" is based on the Roman fresco.

"The Cupid Seller", Roman fresco, 1st century AD, discovered in Stabiae, National Archaeological Museum of Naples. The fresco depicts a woman selling tiny cupids to a matrona.

Portrait of Demosthenes, 3rd century BC, Giovanni Barracco Museum of Antique Sculpture.

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Silver tetradrachm of Alexander the Great, reverse: seated Zeus, 315–308 BC, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Venus Reclining on a Sea Monster with Cupid and a Putto, John Deare, 1788–1790, Getty Museum.

Musical performance, fresco from Herculaneum, 1st century AD, Naples Archaeological Museum.

Theseus abandons Ariadne on Naxos, fresco, 1st century AD, Naples Archaeological Museum.

Zeus and Ganymede, Hellenistic period, 3rd century BC.