1551
Hermes leads a goat to the sacrifice. Side A of a Campanian red-figure bell-krater. ca. 360-350 BC. Found in Campania, Italy. Now on display at the Musée du Louvre.
1552
In Mesoamerican myth Quetzalcóatl was the god of winds and rain, and the creator of the world and humanity. The name of Quetzalcóatl comes from the ancient Nahuatl word quetzalli, meaning “long green feather”.
1553
Pietro Befulco - Coronation of the Virgin Between Saint John the Baptist and Saint Jerome. Detail. 1492.
1554
Sculptor’s limestone trial piece depicting an owl-hieroglyph, in elaborately detailed raised relief, 15 cm high. Ptolemaic Egypt. (Collection: British Museum EA38276)
1555
Roman silver ring depicting Romulus, Remus, and the wolf 2nd century AD. Image via Gemma Antiqua. Private Collection (?).
1556
Egyptian Blue Porcelain Hedgehog c. 1800 BC. Collection: Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany.
1557
The Roman Empire at its Territorial Height in 117 A.D. Credit: Federali on MapPorn - Reddit.
1558
Apulian red-figure terracotta fish plate. Attributed to the workshop of the Darius Painter; ca. 340-320 BCE. Now in the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas. Photo via Alamy.
1559
Seal in the form of a frog Egyptian New Kingdom (?) 1539–1075 BC. Medium: Faience. Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, US.
1560
Roman Marble Eagle, Roman Imperial, c. 1st-2nd Century AD. Private Collection.
1561
The snake god Nehebkau, Spell 87 from the Book of The Dead. Collection: British Museum, photograph via Mykola Tarasenko, Wikimedia Commons.
1562
Cycladic hedgehog statuette from Archaeological museum of Athens. Date: c. 2800-2300 BC. Photographer: by Matt Barrett athensguide.com/archaeology-mu…
1563
Godesses of night in paintings: . Jules Louis Machard (French, 1839-1900), Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (French, 1774-1833), Carl Schweninger, Jr. (Austrian, 1854-1903).
1564
Peacock mosaic, House of Dionysos, Paphos, Cyprus. Date: Roman, 2nd or 3rd Century AD.
1565
Ophelia by Arantza Sestayo. Medium: oil on canvas, 2017.
1566
Frigyes Friedrich Miess (German, 1854-1935) - Faun in Italian landscape.
1567
Roman Gold Ring with Vulcan Intaglio. Date: 2nd-3rd Century AD. Inset carnelian cloison with intaglio image of a standing robed armorer (Vulcan?) with a hammer, working on a Corinthian-type helmet. Private Collection.
1568
Assyrian Winged Bull, Palace at Khorsabad (Citadel of Sargon II), Iraq. c. 710 B.C. Limestone. Now on display at the Louvre Museum.
1569
Ruins of an ancient maya pyramid (La Danta) deep in the Guatamalan jungle. Trees growing on the structure. Shot in El Mirador national park in Northern Guatemala.. Photographer: Raphael Rivest via Shutterstock.
1570
Painted wooden ushabti of Ka-ha, Chief of Painters. Artist unknown; ca. 1279-1186 BCE (19th Dynasty, New Kingdom). Found at Deir el-Medina; now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
1571
Carl Gustav Carus - Faust In His Study, 1852.
1572
Snail Houses. Detail from Secrets de l’histoire naturelle. Cognac, c1480-1485. Artist Robinet Testard. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Français 22971, f. 60v.
1573
Ancient Egyptian carnelian ring, dated to the 18th dynasty, or 1550-1300 BC. Private Collection.
1574
Sandro Botticelli - Venus and the Three Graces Presenting Gifts to a Young Woman, ca. 1483 (detail) Italian, 1445-1510 Fresco, detached and mounted on canvas.
1575
John William Waterhouse - Hylas and the Nymphs (detail).
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