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The Temple of Aesculapius located in the gardens of the Villa Borghese, in Rome, was built in the ionic style between 1785 and 1792 by Antonio Asprucci and his son Mario Asprucci, with help from Cristoforo Unterperger.
2102
Gargoyle on the Salisbury Cathedral. Photographer: Akoliasnikoff via Wikimedia Commons.
2103
Elliot Erwitt’s 1959 photo of an adorable cat proudly standing atop a garden statue of the ancient Egyptian dwarf-god Bes.
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Europe - The oldest company in (almost) every country.
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Landscape with a Roman Temple by Hubert Robert (French 1733-1808). Medium: oil-canvas.
2106
"Sounds of Spring" - Franz Stuck, 1910.
2107
John Collier, The Death of Cleopatra, 1890.
2108
Votive double ax (Gold), Culture: Early Aegean, Minoan. Period: Bronze Age, Late Minoan Period. Date: 1550–1500 BC. Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, US.
2109
Members of the Japanese Mission to Europe in front of the Sphinx, Egypt, by Antonio Beato, 1864.
2110
Shark Pendant, Costa Rica or Panama, Burica Peninsula, Period: 11th–16th century AD , Medium: Gold. Now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
2111
A pair of Greek gold earrings in the form of Dolphins, 4th c.BC.
2112
The Pharaoh’s Handmaidens, 1883, John Collier (1850–1934).
2113
“Gossip”, 1911, John William Waterhouse. (1848 – 1917).
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Ancient Greek ball player balancing the ball. Part of a marble grave stele, found in Piraeus, 400-375 BC. Item (NAMA) 873 of the National Archaeological Museum, Athens.
2115
Assistants at the Swedish History Museum, sitting on the 12th century bench from Kungsåra church. Stockholm, 1908.
2116
Statuette of Pazuzu, Assyrian, beginning of the 1st millennium BC. Now on display at the Musée du Louvre. Photo (C) Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Thierry Ollivier.
2117
The starry night sky, detail from the ceiling of the burial chamber of the Pyramid Temple [Ku16] of King Tantamani (last King of the XXV Dynasty, ca. 664–653 BC) in the Royal Necropolis of Karoy (now called “kurru”, in Sudan). Image via Alamy.
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Aulos player. Date: 5th century B.C. Provenaance: Tarquinia, Tomb of the Leopards. The Tomb of the Leopards is an Etruscan burial chamber so called for the confronted leopards painted above a banquet scene. The tomb dates to around 480–450 BC.
2119
Orvieto Cathedral, detail of a twisted column. Photographer: Simone Tagliaferri, Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0.
2120
Helios in his chariot, a relief sculpture excavated at Troy in 1872. Berlin, Pergamon Museum. Helios in ancient Greek religion and myth, is the god and personification of the Sun, often depicted in art with a radiant crown and driving a horse-drawn chariot through the sky.
2121
The Persians adopted the Lydian tradition of minting coins following their conquer of Lydia in 547 BC. The shown example below is of the obverse and reverse of a double daric of Artaxerxes II, ca. 330–300 BC. Cabinet des Médailles, France. Photo taken by Marie-Lan Nguyen.
2122
Fragments from Pair of Feet from Colossal Statue of Amenhotep III, Tenth Pylon, Photographer Unknown.
2123
Today in History: World's first adhesive postage stamp, the "Penny Black", is first used in Great Britain. 6 May 1840.
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Olive Trees with Yellow Sky and Sun, Vincent van Gogh, 1889.
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The Villa Adriana (Hadrian’s Villa) in Tivoli, Italy. Photo Credit: Aquilifer - Wikimedia Commons.
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