1326
Neo-Assyrian Gold Lotus Bud Earrings, 9th-7th Century BC. Photo Credit & Collection: Antiquarium Ancient Art, New York, NY.
1327
Hellenistic Gold and Glass Floral Wreath, 3rd-2nd Century BC. Private Collection (?)
1328
The Emperor Justinian, by Benjamin Constant (1886). Collection: Ringling Museum.
1329
Fragment of a stone plaque depicting *Enannatum. Date: c. 2450 B.C. Place of origin: Telloh, Iraq. Period: Early Dynastic III. Medium: Stone Now on display at the British Museum. *Eannatum was a Sumerian Ensi (ruler or king) of Lagash circa 2500–2400 BC.
1330
Francisco de Goya, Still Life with Golden Bream (Besugos), 1808-1812.
1331
"Sirène" by Jean Lurçat, 1964. Medium: Gold. Collection: Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 1964.
1332
Roman relief: Minerva. Date: c. 100 AD. Collection: Thorvaldsens Museum, Denmark.
1333
Fishing. Detail from the Pèlerinage de vie humaine by Guillaume de Deguileville, ca. 1490. Collection: Geneva, Library of Geneva. Ms. fr. 182, fol. 162v.
1334
Tea bowl with design of spiny lobster (19th century) by Kashu Mimpei (Japanese, 1796–1871). Medium: awaji ware; stoneware. Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
1335
Mesopotamian Elephant. Period: Jemdet Nasr Period - c. 3000 BC. Carved of limestone in stylized form, the straight trunk hanging between forelegs, pierced at the top to represent its eyes, the ears carved as spirals, a short tail between its hind legs. Credit: Christies.
1336
Details from the Comet Book (1587). This stunning set of images come from a 16th-century treatise on comets, created anonymously in Flanders (now northern France) and now held at the Universitätsbibliothek Kassel. Commonly known as The Comet Book (or Kometenbuch in German).
1337
A Hoopoe, Goose, Partridge, Peacock, Heron, Caladrius Bird, Phoenix, Night Heron, and Swan from a Franco-Flemish bestiary from about 1270. Collection: The Getty.
1338
Venus de Milo prepared for transport during the second world war. Venus de Milo prepared for transport during the second world war.
1339
The Swan Maiden, from Among Gnomes and Trolls No. 2 by John Bauer (1907). Among Gnomes and Trolls (Swedish: Bland tomtar och troll), is a popular Swedish folklore and fairy tales annual and children's fairy tale anthology published since 1907.
1340
"The Owl of Death" by Pablo Picasso,1952. Medium: oil on canvas.
1341
Stairs into the Royal Tombs of Ur. 1920’s. (Colorized Photograph).
1342
Persepolis Bull, 1949. Photographer: © Horst P. Horst.– Credit & Collection: Galerie Bernheimer, Switzerland.
1343
Louvre, Paris, 1975. Photographer: Henri Cartier-Bresson.
1344
Detail from Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus”, 1486.
1345
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1956. Photographer: Maria Austria.
1346
Komainu.Date: c. 1450 (15th century), Japan. Medium: cypress wood, gold lacquer (Urushi), and crystal. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore P. Van Vorhees Art Fund, IMA. Komainu are lion-like guardian dogs usually placed at the entrances to temples and shrines.
1347
The eye of a marble statue from Herculaneum, with surviving paint. Photo Credit: Herculaneum: Past and Future, by Andrew Wallace Hadrill (2011).
1348
Caparison by Spiering, François, c. 1621. Medium: Wool and silk on a woolen warp. Collection: Royal Armoury, Stockholm.
1349
Nose Ornament, Date: 2nd–6th century AD. Geography: Peru. Culture: Vicús. Medium: Gold. Collection: The Met, NYC.
1350
The Diakonikon-Baptistery mosaic (Mount Nebo, Jordan) with its hunting and pastoral scenes of colourful almost intact tesserae is one of the most remarkable Byzantine mosaics in Jordan. It was discovered in 1976 in the northern hall of the Moses Basilica. Image: Shutterstock
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