1576
Model is wearing replicas of a variety of ancient Sumerian jewelry offered for sale by New York’s Metropolitan Museum, photo by Nina Leen, 1952. #MuseumWeek #CreatorsMW
1577
Amethyst intaglio warship, Roman, 1st century AD. Photo Credit: Bertolami Fine Arts.
1578
Detail, Dante And Virgil In Hell by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1850. Collection: Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
1579
Where is everybody? Hidden spaces by José Manuel Ballester. Spanish artist José Manuel Ballester removes the people from classical paintings, revealing unnoticed hidden spaces (hence the name) and objects.
1580
“Among the Ruins”, 1902-04 Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912).
1581
A Masque for the Four Seasons, by Walter Crane, 1905-1909, oil on canvas - Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt - Darmstadt, Germany.
1582
St. Matthew writing his Gospel. Detail, Gospels, Britanny, late 9th or early 10th century. Collection: Bodleian Library, MS. Auct. D. 2. 16, fol. 28v.
1583
Helmet. Culture: Thracian. Date: 4th century BC. Medium: Silver. Collection: Detroit Institute of Arts.
1584
Elamite Dog Amulet of the goddess Gula, Circa 3rd Millennium BC. Credit: Private Collection / Bonhams. In ancient Elam, the significance of the dog was related to the goddess Gula, since they were her sacred animals.
1585
Memorabilia, Ludwig van Beethoven by Salomon Garf (Dutch, 1879–1943)
1586
A grotesque Burgonet for the armor of Guidobaldo della Rovvera, Duke of Urbino, attributed to Filippo Negroli, Milan, Italy, ca. 1535. Collection: State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.
1587
Rock Crystal Dish in the Form of a Temple. Period: Roman or Byzantine, 3rd–5th century AD. Found in a cistern in Carthage (now in Tunisia, North Africa) . On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 301.
1588
Arches in the underground - Colosseum, Rome, Italy.
1589
Discovery of the frozen mummy "Juanita" near the summit of Ampato, north of Arequipa, 1995. Photo by Johan Reinhard, "Peru in Images".
1590
A child’s toy (?) - Elephant, . Culture & Geography: Iran, probably Nishapur, 10th century AD. Medium: stone - (6.6 x 8.9 cm). Collection: Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
1591
Hippopotamus, Roman, Date: AD 1–100; found in Rome, red marble. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen. Photo: Ole Haupt.
1592
Pair of earrings. Place of origin: Eastern Mediterranean. Date: A.D. 200-300 - Period: Roman Imperial period. Medium: Gold set with garnet.
1593
Hypothetical reconstruction rendering of the Acropolis, Athens, 1876.
1594
Kevin Bubriski, Ritual Masked Dancers (Selenium-toned gelatin silver print), Limitang Village, Humla, Nepal, 1985.
1595
Sumerian bull lyre, c. 2550–2400 BC. Medium: Wood, lapis lazuli, gold, silver, shell, bitumen, in modern wood support, 46 × 55". From the King’s Grave, Royal Cemetery, Ur, Iraq. Now on display at the British Museum, London, England.
1596
Two bracelets in the form of a snake (gold), from Egypt. Dated back to the Roman Period, ca. 30 BC - 395 AD. Now in the Louvre.
1597
Detail, The School of Venus, or the ladies delight: Reduced into rules of Practice, Michel Millot, 1680.
1598
Sandal-Tying Hermes. Medium: Marble. Roman copy of the 2nd cent. AD after a Greek bronze original by Lysippos c. 330 BC. Collection: Copenhagen, New Carlsberg Glyptotek (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek)
1599
Detail of a floor mosaic, Roman period. Delphi Archaeological Museum, Greece.
1600
Ancient Roman marble torso, perhaps a copy of Polykleitos’s Doryphoros, dated to the 1st century AD. Greek original dates to the 5th century BC.
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