1651
“Sfumato,” painted in 1972 by Salvador Dalí. Dalí developed a new technique here, where he embellished the image after first taking paper and scorching and smoking it with a candle.
1652
Cosmetic box. Place of origin: Egypt, c. 600–500 B.C. Medium: Faience. Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
1653
Theatre Masks of Ancient Greece. Image credit: The Kennedy Center Arts Edge.
1654
Viking Iron Lock and Keys, 9th-11th Century AD. Private Collection.
1655
Artemis statue from ancient city of Ephesus, c. 125-175 AD.- Now on display at Selcuk Museum, Turkey.
1656
Coin of the day: Didrachm circa 485 BC, Eagle standing, with closed wings. Rev. Crab seen from above; below, bird. Minted in Agrigentum, Sicily.
1657
Shell Pendant. Date: A.D. 1200-1500. Place of origin: Mexico. Medium: Shell. Collection: Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, California.
1658
His ghostly white sculptural forms are cut from and presented within raw stone, which allows for a striking contrast between his designs and the medium’s natural surface.
1659
Copenhagen-based artist Matthew Simmonds carves miniature architectural interiors, angular shapes, and tiny windows filled with symbolic objects, trinkets, and animals.
1660
25,000 year old structure made from the bones of 60+ mammoths. Russia, Paleolithic. Photo: A.E. Dudin.
1661
The dancer Nikolska on the Acropolis, Athens, 1929.
1662
At the Pyramids, 1842, by Leander Russ.
1663
Cube Statuary by Matthew Simmonds @mattsimm63. Medium: marble. Height 20cm Produced for the 19th edition of the Festival of Islamic Art, Sharjah National Art Museum, UAE, 2016.
1664
Mapuche medicine women with the symbols of their profession, Chile, 1908.
1665
This design inspired by the nave capital depicting the Dream of the Three Magi from Saint-Lazare, Autun, Burgundy, France. Carved by Gislebertus, c. 1120-32 AD.
1666
Rock carvings in Aspebérget. Tanum, Sweden. UNESCO World heritage site. Dating to 1800 - 500 BC. Aspebérget provides a rich pictorial treasure with its mass of images and fascinating activities.
1667
Electrum stater from the Greek polis of Cyzicus, bearing the head of a Gorgon. Artist unknown; ca. 500-450 BC. Now in the British Museum. Photo credit: ArchaiOptix / Wikimedia Commons.
1668
Clay mask of the demon Huwawa. Date: c. 1800-1600 B.C. Place of origin: Abu Habba, Iraq. Period: Old Babylonian. Medium: Fired clay. Now on display at the British Museum.
1669
Romulus and Remus. Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae - 1552. Engraving by Antonio Lafreri, French, 1512-1577.
1670
Pendant in the Form of a Spider. Culture: Possibly Chiriquí. Place of origin: Costa Rica. Date: c. A.D. 1000-1500. Medium: Gold. Now on display at the Brooklyn Museum. On View: American Art Galleries, 5th Floor, The Americas’ First Peoples.
1672
Vessel: fish with open mouth. Culture: Olmec. Date: 1150–550 B.C. Medium: Ceramic and slip. Now on display at the Dallas Museum of Art.
1673
Adam and Eve in Paradise by Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois (1852-1923).
1674
Detail, Master of the Rebel Angels - The Fall of the Rebel Angels. c. 1340 - 1345.
1675
Detail of a Roman mosaic of a grinning skeleton, Pompei - ca. 1st cent AD.
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