1726
Jean-Léon Gérôme - Ave Caesar! Morituri te salutant (1859)
1727
Ancient Coin of the day: Tetrobol from Akanthos, Macedon, c. 470-390 BC Forepart of bull left, its head facing right, Π inscription, swastika, and olive spray above. On the reverse, a quadripartite incuse square.
1728
Inside the Tomb of Pashedu. New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, ca. 1292-1189 BC. Deir el-Medina, West Thebes.
1729
Horace in the villa - Camillo Miola (1877). Naples, National Museum of Capodimonte.
1730
Stela D (also known as Monument 4), dated AD 766, Quiriguá, Guatemala. Quiriguá is an ancient Maya archaeological site along the lower Montagua river in south-eastern Guatemala. Photographer: Alfred Maudslay, 1890.
1731
By the Waters of Babylon by Arthur Hacker (1858-1919).
1732
This 7th century helmet was discovered inside a ship burial at Vendel, Uppland, Sweden. Photo: Swedish History Museum (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
1733
he diver depicted in this tomb, isolated against the sky, symbolizes the intensity of the moment of death. This man and his leap are the visual metaphor for the transition to eternity from earthly life.
1734
The Diver's Tomb is the only surviving example of Greek painting with figurative scenes from the Orientalizing, Archaic, or Classical periods. This is the only tomb decorated with frescoes depicting humans among thousands of Greek tombs (700 - 400 BC) known today.
1735
Detail, Tomb of the Diver, Salerno, Italy c. 470 BC. This fresco gave the tomb its name: "a young man diving into the curving waves in the waters."
1736
Crow tipi village, Montana 1906. Joseph Henry Sharp Photograph Album.
1737
Silence is also conversation by Balaji Ponna. Medium:acrylic on canvas, 2017.
1738
Gargoyle on the Freiburg's Cathedral (Freiburg Münster), Germany.
1739
The Lady of Elche, Spain, c. 300 BC. The Lady of Elche is a limestone sculpture of the bust of a woman, dated to the 5th or 4th century BC, discovered on August 4, 1897 on an ancient Roman site, the Alcudia, 2 km south of Elche, near Alicante, Spain.
1740
Syria by the Sea, by Frederic Edwin Church (1873).
1741
Panel with a Griffin, c. 1250–1300 AD, made in Greece or the Balkans. Culture: Byzantine. Medium: marble.
1742
Detail, Pieta by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905).
1743
Rock Crystal Dish in the Form of a Temple. Period: Roman or Byzantine, 3rd–5th century AD. Found in a cistern in Carthage (now in Tunisia, North Africa) . On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 301.
1744
Detail: Devils bite and scratch the damned, Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur. France, c. 1450-1470. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 134, f. 100r
1745
The Confusion of Tongues, 1868, Gustave Dore. Medium: engraving.
1746
Scarabeoid Intaglio - Griffin and Astragal. Place of origin: Ionia. Date: 5th century B.C. Medium: Rock crystal, gold. Private Collection (?)
1747
Replica of the helmet from the Sutton Hoo ship-burial 1, early 7th century. England. Image: British Museum. The Sutton Hoo helmet was buried around 625 and is widely believed to have been the helmet of King Rædwald of East Anglia.
1748
Dream Cloud - The winged female bust is a personification of The Dream, close to Beaux Arts traditional style with hints of late Art Nouveau. c. 1915, Photo: Maia Now on display at the © Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.
1749
Fresco of a ship procession - Room 5 of the West House, c. 17th c. BC (National Archaeology Museum of Athens). Discovery Place - Greek Pompeii: Akrotiri on Thera.
1750
Standard of Ur from the Royal Tombs at Ur (modern Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq). Sumerian. c. 2600–2400 B.C. Medium: Wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone. Now on display at the British Museum, UK.
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