1576
Tournament shield (targe), c.1500. The German motto around the owl reads in translation, “Although I am the hated bird, I rather enjoy that.” Below this are the quartered arms of the Tänzl and Rindscheit families, which were united by marriage in 1499. - from the Met.
1577
Details - Sandro Botticelli, Primavera.
1578
Odysseus und die Sirenen - Otto Greiner - 1905.
1579
Jonah getting cast into the water, South Wall of the Armenian Church of the Holy Cross, Akdamar Island. Modern-day Ani, Turkey. From the exhibition "In Focus: Ara Guler's Anatolia" © Ara Guler, Freer Gallery and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archive, 1965.
1580
Atlantean figures from Temple of Jaguars, Chichén Itzá, circa 1895. Collection: A. D. White Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library.
1581
Bracelet in the form of a snake. Culture: Greek Period: Hellenistic Period Date: late 4th–early 3rd century B.C. Medium: Silver. Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
1582
Chichen Itza, Casa de Monjas, Mexico, circa 1898. Chichén Itzá, ruined ancient Maya city in south-central Yucatán state, Mexico. It is thought to have been a religious, military, political, and commercial centre that at its peak would have been home to 35,000 people.
1583
Great Ziggurat of Ur was built by the Sumerian King Ur-Nammu and his son Shulgi in approximately the 21st c. BC. The ziggurat was a piece in a temple complex that served as an administrative center for the city, and which was a shrine of the moon god Nanna.
1584
Offering Praxias to Asclepius for healing the eyes of his wife. c. 4rd c. BC. Now on display at the Acropolis Museum, Athens.
1585
Detail, The rock carvings at Litsleby (Tanum World Heritage Site, Vitlycke Museum, Sweden): the Spear God. The panel is dominated by a warrior 2.3 metres tall, known as the Spear God.
Photo via World Nomas, photograph date and photographer unknown (please dm).
1586
Mould Plaque for a Heron. Period: Greco-Roman Egypt, 2nd-1st Century BC. This mold depicts a heron, a bird associated with the sun, the annual flooding of the Nile, and the afterlife. Collection: The Walters Art Museum.
1587
Aerial view of the pyramid, Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico. Ruins of the ancient Mayan city of Calakmul surrounded by the jungle. Photo Credit: Alfredo Matus via Shutterstock.
1588
"Aztec Sacrificial Stone". Photograph date: ca. 1885 -1895. Sculpture Date: ca. AD 1325-1521.Location: Mexico City. Photo: Collection of Cornell University Library.
1589
Alphonse Osbert (French, 1857 – 1939) - The muse at sunrise, 1918. @Rataflax
1590
Caryatids, Acropolis, Athens, 1946. Photographer: Werner Bischof.
1591
The Second Hypostyle Hall of the “Great Temple” of King Sethi I at Abydos, view from the First Hypostyle Hall. On the background, the Inner Shrine of the Goddess Isis. Image via privatetoursinegypt.
1592
Chacmool statue on the top of the Temple of Warriors in the Chichen Itza complex, Mexico. Mayan, dates to the Late Classic-Early Postclassic. Photo taken by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen via Wikimedia Commons.
1593
Giant Griffin, Persepolis, Iran, circa 516-465 BC. Founded by Darius I in 518 BC, Persepolis was the capital of the Achaemenid Empire. Its name comes from the Ancient Greek: Περσέπολις, a compound of Pérsēs (Πέρσης) and pólis (πόλις), meaning "the Persian city".
1594
Wall fragment with two women. Culture: Roman. Date: A.D. 1 - 75. Medium: Fresco. Credit & Collection: Getty Museum.
1595
"Promise" by Victor Nizovtsev c.2010 (American artist, Russian born 1965]). Oil on canvas.
1596
Pool in a private bath of Sbeitla (Tunisia) decorated with mosaics of fish and sealife, from 4th-5th century AD. Late Roman/Early Byzantine, 4th-5th century AD. Photographer: Dennis Jarvis via Wikimedia Commons.
1597
Interior of Hagia Sophia - Main dome and semi-domes. Photo date & photographer: unknown. Possibly 40s. Image via Australian National University.
1598
Oil Jar (lekythos) with the serpent-entwined apple tree in the Garden of the Hesperides. Greek made in Paestum, South Italy. Date: c 350-340 BC. Medium: Terracotta. (Mary Harrsch/ CC BY NC SA 2.0 )
1599
Frog pendant. Place of Origin: Panama (Veraguas-Gran Chiriquí). Date: 800-1521 (Pre-Early Conquest). Credit & Collection: The Walters Art Museum.
1600
Thoth, God of Learning and Patron of Scribes. Culture: Egyptian. Date: 664–525 B.C. Medium: Slate. Image courtesy: Dallas Museum of Art.
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