1776
Fayum Mummy Portraits - Egypt, c. 200 AD. They belong to the tradition of wood painting. They are faces of men, women, young people and children, painted mostly on boards, fixed with the bandages of their mummies on their faces.
1777
Basalt Stele decorated with a bull’s head (Moon-god ?) from Bethsaida, Golan Heights. Date: c. 8th c. BC. Photo Credit: Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
1778
The Saffron Goddess (1600 B.C.) is a detail from a Minoan fresco depicting a saffron harvest, Akrotiri, Santorini island, Greece (National Archaeology Museum of Athens).
1779
The Loot by Carlos Barahona Possolo. Medium: oil on canvas, 60x80 cm, 2011.
1780
Bronze Cauldron, from Regolini-Galassi Tomb, Caere, appr. 50–60 kilometres north-northwest of Rome. Date: (c. 650–625 BC) . Culture: Etruscan.
1781
A young woman playing a harp to a large crowd, Rock of Cashel, Ireland, ca. 1910 - photographer unknown.
1782
The girl with a pomegranate (1875) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau.
1783
The Unicorn In Captivity (From The Unicorn Tapestries) c. 1495–1505. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
1784
Headdress. Period: Early Iron Age Culture: Pazyryk Place of origin: Altai Mountains, Pazyryk Boundary, Valley of the River Bolshoy Ulagan Archaeological site. Medium: Leather, fur, gold foil. Photo Credit: Hermitage Museum, Russia.
1785
Silver coin: Nike driving a quadriga. Selinunte mint. c. 420 BC. Collection: Berlin State Museums, numismatic collection.
1786
Venus de Milo at the Louvre about to be evacuated at the beginning of the World War II (1939), photographed by Angèle Dequier.
1787
Houses of Çatalhöyük (Reconstruction) - modern-day Konya, Turkey, c. 7,000 BC. The Mud-brick houses were clustered together and there were no outside doors. People went in and out of the houses through openings in the roos.
1788
John William Waterhouse, “Dolce Far Niente”, 1879
1789
Diana 1892-1893 Augustus Saint-Gaudens, American (born Ireland), 1848 - 1907. Diana is arguably the best-known work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, who was recognized at the turn of the century as the country’s finest sculptor. Photo Credit: Philadelphia Museum of Art.
1790
The Lewis Chessmen, 13th Century probably made in Norway; found on the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
1791
Romulus and Remus. Digital art bt studioMUTI on Dribble.
1792
Evening Bag by Aloisia Rucellai (1928-84), c.1968. Medium: gold and platinum, translucent enamel, diamonds and rubies. Collection: Khalili Collections.
1793
Notre-Dame , 1952. Photographer: Marc Riboud.
1794
Eagle devouring the liver of Prometheus, chained to a rock by Zeus in punishment for stealing fire from the gods and giving it to humanity. Illustration from Pohadky Staroveke (Ancient Myths), by Frantisek Ruth (Solc a Simecek, Prague, c1920).
1795
Fragments of Giant statue of Emperor Constantine, Capitoline Museums, Rome, Italy.
1796
The Shaft of the Wounded (Dead) Man: A wounded man, aurochs bull, bird and rhino. Dated to the Upper Paleolithic period. c. 17,000 years ago, Lascaux Cave, France.
1797
The White Owl by William J. Webbe. Signed in monogram and dated 1856 lower left. Medium: Oil on panel.
1798
Detail from the Carthusian miscellany of poems, chronicles, and treatises in Northern English, including an epitome or summary of Mandeville's travels (c. 1460), British Library, UK.
1799
The Asclepeion in Kos, Greece . The Asclepeion is an ancient medical center placed 4 km to the southeast of Kos Town, beyond Platani village.
1800
Rodent with Corn. Medium: Pottery. Place of origin: Peru. Culture: probably Moche, ca. 200-750 AD. Now on display at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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