426
Face Mug. Culture: Etruscan. Date: 575–550 B.C. Medium: Terracotta. Place of origin: Etruria. Collection: Getty Museum.
427
Pegasus by Leonard F. G. Cattermole (active 1869–1886). Collection: Bristol Museum & Art Gallery.
428
Suzanne by René Lalique. Date:1925, France. Medium: Glass. Collection:The Corning Museum of Glass.
429
"Cheers!". Detail from the Hours of Saint-Omer, France ca. 1320 BL. Collection:, Add 36684, fol. 100r.
431
Cosmetic vessel in the shape of a hedgehog Egyptian. Date: 6th-5th century BC. Collection: The Walters Art Museum.
432
A lion eating the sun. Detail from the Alchemical and Rosicrucian compendium - c.1760. Credit: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
433
Constellation Draco. Detail from the Astrological Miscellany, Bohemia, 14th century. Collection: München, BSB, Clm 826, fol. 35r.
434
Julius Caesar reconstruction by Hidreley Diao.
435
An Owl’s Lunch by George William Sartorius (1759-1828)
436
An octopus battles a crayfish. Detail from a mosaic of sea creatures in the House of the Dancing Faun, Pompeii. Date: circa 100 BC. Collection: National Archaeological Museum, inv. nr. 120177, Naples.
437
“Aurore boréale” by Frederick Edwin Church, 1865.
438
Gold coin of Croesus, Lydia, circa 550 BC. Collection: British Museum.
439
Memento mori ring, made in Flanders, Belgium, or France, c.1526-1575 . The book opens to reveal an inscription and a figure with a hourglass and skull. Collection: British Museum.
440
The Treasury of Atreus or Tomb of Agamemnon is a large tholos or beehive tomb constructed between 1350 and 1250 BC in Mycenae, Greece. The tomb was used for an unknown period. Photographer: Dimitris Harissiadis, June 1954.
441
Hummingbird Cup. Culture: Mixtec. Period: Postclassic. Place of origin: Zaachila, Zimatlán valley, Monte Albán. Date: A.D. 1225. Collection: Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico.
443
An Indigenous Woman and Owl, Blind River, Ontario, Canada. c. 1910. Postcard published by The Photogelatine Engraving Co., LTD, Toronto, Canada and edited by PECO c.1930-1940.
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Olmec stone head from San Lorenzo. Photographer: Shirley Gorenstein,1972.
445
Finger ring with feline head in relief flanked by two snakes. Culture: Mixtec. Date: ca. 1200-1521 AD. Place of origin: Mexico. Medium: Gold alloy. Now on display at the British Museum.
446
The Etruscan Sorceress by Elihu Vedder.(1836-1923). Medium: Oil on Canvas.
447
Handle Spout Vessel in Form of an Owl Eating a Mouse. Culture: Moche. Geography: North coast, Peru. Medium: Ceramic and pigment. Collection: Art Institute of Chicago.
448
The Reunion of the Soul & the Body by William Blake. Illustration to Robert Blair’s The Grave, 1805.
449
Object with a handle, perhaps a weight; palm trees and guilloche. Period: Early Bronze Age. Date: ca. mid- to late 3rd millennium B.C. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art: Size: H. 22.9 cm; W. 25.1 cm; D. 4.6 cm. Medium: Chlorite schist.
450
Syria, The Night Watch by Briton Rivière (1840-1920).
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