1851
Hell. St. Augustine, La cité de Dieu. Maître François - ca.1475 AD .
1853
Underwater Archaeological Park of Baia - Some of the most famous figures of Roman Empire, such as Caesar, Augustus, Cicero, Agrippina and Nero at one point or another visited the ancient town of Baia. Back then, Baia was the resort town for rich Romans.
1854
“Feline heads“. Geography/Culture: Peru, Moche culture, c. AD. 625–645. This large hollow bead, recovered from a looted tomb at Sipán, is one of a group of perhaps ten that formed a necklace worn by a high-ranking individual. Collection: The Met.
1855
Hedgehog toy from 1500-1200 BC. Date: between 1500 and 1200 BC. Found at the temple of Inshushinak in the city of Susa, capital of the ancient Elamite civilization (modern day Iran). Now on display at the Louvre Museum, Paris.
Photo Credit: Rama / Wikimedia Commons.
1856
Preparations For A Wedding - Ancient Greek Ceramic Painting. Date: 5th century BC. Scanned by Szilas from the book J. M. Roberts: Kelet-Ázsia és a klasszikus Görögország (East Asia and Classical Greece)
1857
Hellenistic Greek gold earrings with pendants in the shape of Sphinxes, dated to the 3rd to 1st century BC. Private Collection (?)
1858
Ofelia by Ernest Hébert, c. 1910 (details)
1859
1973 Greece 2 Drachmai Athene noctua, symbol of goddess Athena which was first depicted on an ancient Greek tetradrachm (5th century B.C.)
1860
Happy June! Flaming June by Sir Frederic Leighton, 1895.
1861
Art Nouveau brooch made by Boucheron in November 1900 in Paris. In the shape of a butterfly, it was originally designed as a hair comb. The brooch is set in calibre cut emeralds, cabochon rubies, opal and aquamarine. Collection: Elizabeth Taylor collection.
1862
One of only two authentic old Jolly Rogers known in the world. This 19th century Barbary pirate flag is now on display at The Åland Maritime Museum in Finland.
1863
The Virgin of Consolation by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905). Collection: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg.
1864
High-Relief Owl Hieroglyph Late Period – Ptolemaic Period, c. 400 – 30 B.C. Purchased in Egypt from Panayotis Kitycas, 1907, now on view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 134, NY.
1865
Detail, Perseus with the Head of Medusa by Antonio Canova. (1804–6) Photo via xshayarsha/blog.
1866
Detail, "Louise Vernet, the artist’s wife, on her Deathbed" by Paul Delaroche (1845-46). Collection: © Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes.
1867
Moses Taken from the River. Medium: Fresco. Date: mid-3rd century AD. The synagogue at Dura Europos, Syria.
1868
Kore bust, detail. 5th century BC. Culture: Greek. Photo credit-via: drakontomalloi / tumblr-blog.
1869
The Famous Palladium Dress designed by Gianfranco Ferré for a 1992 Dior collection. Now on display at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.
1870
Queen Puabi’s gold beer cup. Date/Culture: 2600 BC, Sumerian. The cup was recovered from the "death pit" of Queen Puabi in the ancient city of Ur, in modern day Iraq, during an excavation led by archaeologist Leonard Woolley between 1922 and 1934.
1871
Archaic Greek Bronze Gorgon Figurine, c. mid-6th Century BC. Private Collection.
1872
Diogenes throwing away his Cup by John Martin, 1833.
1873
The Beautiful Lady Without Mercy by Frank Dicksee, 1902.
1874
A mosaic of the wolf suckling Romulus and Remus, the twin founders of Rome, from the Roman fortress site at Aldborough near Leeds, circa 300 AD. Collection: Leeds Museums and Art Galleries @LeedsMuseums .
1875
The cave of Lascaux is a system of caves in Dordogne (France) where they have discovered significant samples of the cave and paleolithic art, dated 17,000 or 18,600 years ago (Magdalenian period) according to the analysis of a rod of reindeer antler.
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