551
The Iliad, cover illustration by husband and wife illustrator team Leo & Diane Dillon, 1969.
552
Attic Greek Black-Figure Cup representing Duel Scenes. ca. 530-520 B.C.
553
Orpheus’s Sorrow by Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (1852-1929).
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Vessel in the Form of a Deer Impersonator. Culture: Moche culture, 100 B.C./A.D. 500, Chimbote, Santa Province. Collection: Peru Art Institute of Chicago.
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Mayan plate with monkey tail in spiral. Date: c. 300-850 AD. Collection: Museo Nacional de Antropología, México
556
A akkadian large lapis lazuli cylinder seal with bronze axle in situ, frieze with standing robed female surrounded by opposed pairs of animals, winged sun disc and anthropomorphs with animal legs. Date: c 3.000-2.334 BC
557
The Priestess of Bacchus by John Collier (1885-1889). Medium: oil on canvas, private collection.
558
Head of a Goat. Date: 300-100 B.C. Place of origin: Greece. Period: Hellenistic period. Medium: Bronze. Now on display at the Cleveland Art Museum.
559
Humanoid Khepri Scarab. Date/Period: Late Period, ca. 664-332 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin, Germany.
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The goddesses of fate by Stanislav Plutenko (b. 1961)
562
Dog Effigy Vessel. Place of origin: Colima, Mexico. Date: 100 BC.-AD. 300. Medium: Earthenware, burnished slip paint in red and light brown. Collection: The Walters Art Museum.
563
Hummingbird Cup. Culture: Mixtec. Period: Postclassic. Place of origin: Zaachila, Zimatlán valley, Monte Albán. Date: c. AD. 1225. Now on display at the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico.
564
Stele of the Royal Scribe Ipi. Date: Second half of the 14th century B.C. Period: New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty. Medium: Limestone. Now on display at the Hermitage Museum.
565
Scene of wrestling with the figure of an augur on the left, and a masked figure (phersu) on the right. Date: ca. 520 BC. Place of origin: Tarquinia, Tomb of the Augurs, Italy. © 2006. Photo: Archivio Fotografico SCALA Group (S. Lampredi) © 2006.
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Cat on a handle. Date: 664–30 B.C, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period. Medium: Cupreous metal. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY.
567
Scythian Gold Stag, c. 4th-3rd Century BC. Private Collection.
568
Close-up detail of Venus Callipyge also known as Aphrodite Kallipygos or Callipygian Venus, is a Roman marble copy “Venus of the Beautiful Buttocks”, National Archaeological Museum of Naples.
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Temple of Nefertari at Abu Simbel, Egypt ,1965-1968. Photographer: Kees Scherer.
570
Two Bird Ornaments. Date: 1st–2nd century Geography: Peru Culture: Nasca Medium: Gold. Collection: The Met.
571
Vase in the shape of a duck, Egypt, 3rd century BC. The vase is made of faience, a mixture made with powdered quartz, making it closer to glass than pottery. Multicolored faience objects like this one are rare because they were difficult to produce. Walters Art Museum.
572
The God Horus of Behdet in His form of sacred falcon spreading his wings in protection and holding the ‘Ankh’ (Life). Detail from the White Chapel of King Sesostri I at ‘Ipet-Sut’ (“Karnak”), the highly sacred Precinct of the God Amon-Ra at ‘Uaset’-Thebes.
573
Intaglio Ring with Scene of Nike and Trophy. Date: 4th–3rd century B.C. Culture: Greek. Medium: Gold. Collection: North Carolina Museum of Art, US.
574
Il Consiglio alla Vendetta by Francesco Hayez (detail) Italian, 1791-1881. Medium: oil on canvas.
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Detail, roman fresco, Pompeii, Casa del Bracciale d'Oro.
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