1251
Minerva and the Centaur (detail) by Sandro Botticelli. Date: c. 1482-1483 Medium: Tempera on canvas.
1252
Big Navajo, c.1879. Photographer: John Karl Hillers (1843–1925). From the online collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Navajo are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States.
1253
Renaissance fashions by Tom Tierney, 2000.
1254
Grouping of Dancers and Musicians, Late Formative period, c.300 BC–AD 300. Culture: Colima. Geography: from Colima state, Mexico. Material: Ceramic. Collection: Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri - On View, Gallery 114.
1257
Stela with snake-bodied figures of Isis and Dionysos. Place of orign: Egypt. Date: c. 1st c. BC - 1st c. AD. Medium: Limestone. Collection: British Museum.
1258
Greco-Roman medallion that depicts two lovers. Date: c. 3rd - 4th century BC. Collection: Williams College Museum of Arts, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
1259
Eros by Johan Julius Ferdinand Kronberg (1850 –1921).
1261
Female face. Provenance: Tarquinia, Tomb of the Orcus. The Tomb of Orcus is a 4th-c. BC Etruscan hypogeum in Tarquinia, Italy. Discovered in 1868, it displays Hellenistic influences in its remarkable murals, which include the portrait of Velia Velcha, an Etruscan noblewoman.
1262
Daniel in the Lion's Den by Briton Riviere (1840–1920), 1872. Collection: Walker Art Gallery.
1263
The Caryatid Porch of the Erechtheion, Athens. Photo by William J. Stillman (1828 - 1901)
1264
Alexander the Great in his griffin-powered flying chariot, detail from the Talbot Shrewsbury Book, Normandy, c 1444/5. Image: British Library via Discarding Images.
1265
The Palace of Knossos is located just at the south of modern-day Heraklion near the northern coast of Crete. The palace is over 20.000 square meters and the largest of all Minoan palatial structures.
1266
Rock tomb in the Phrygian Valley (Frig Vadisi), modern-day Seyitgazi, Eskisehir, Turkey: Tomb of Solon. Photos by archaeologyart:
1267
Painted wooden panel of Tabakenkhonsu.
Period: Late Period, Kushite Dynasty. Date: ca. 680–670 B.C. Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt; Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Temple of Hatshepsut. Medium: Wood, gesso, paint. Collection: The Met, NYC.
1268
Pazuzu Demon, Neo-Assyrian Bronze Figurine, c. 800-600 BC. Collection: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.
1269
The Young King of the Black Isles by Maxfield Parrish, 1906.
1270
Noah’s Ark. Detail from the Somme le Roi, Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand, c. 1294.
1271
Detail, Lion Hunt scenes from the new North Palace of King Ashurbanipal (667-627 B.C.) on the Citadel at Nineveh. Now on display at the British Museum, London. Photo Credit: Shutterstock / Stock Image.
1272
Bronze shaft-end from a carriage-shaft or fire-dog, decorated with a griffin’s head. Culture: Etruscan. Date: ca. 600 BC - 575 BC. Collection: The British Museum.
1273
Female Figurine. Place of finding: Southern Turkmenia, Site of Altyn-Depe. Material: clay. Technique: modelling. Period: Bronze Age. Date: 2nd Millennium BC. Now on display at the Hermitage Museum.
1274
Mandrake (gr. ΜΑΝΔΡΑΓΟΡΑ, in capital letters). Folio 90 from the Naples Dioscurides, a 7th century manuscript of Dioscurides De Materia Medica (Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, Cod. Gr. 1).
1275
Curious owl. Detail from the Bartholomeus Anglicus, ‘Livre des propriétés des choses’ (‘De proprietatibus rerum’, French translation of Jean Corbechon), Paris, c. 1447. Collection: Amiens, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 399, fol. 141v
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