1051
Details, Thomas Cole - The Course of Empire Destruction, 1836.
1052
Bronze helmet, Assyrian, 8th-7th century BC. Image: Private Collection / Hermann Historica.
1053
The End of the World (the Great Day of His Wrath) by John Martin, 1851-53.
1055
Mask of the Red Queen. Date: AD. 672. Place of origin: Mexico, Chiapas. Culture: Maya. Medium: Jadeite, malachite, obsidian, limestone. Collection: Met Museum, NY.
1056
‘The Motherland’ - William Adolphe Bouguereau.
1057
Marcus Aurelius - face reconstruction by Hidreley Diao.
1058
The Illusion, Sister of Icarus by Auguste Rodin, 1894-96. Medium: marble.
1059
The Siren by John William Waterhouse.
The painting depicts a siren sitting at the edge of a cliff, lyre in hand, staring down at a shipwrecked sailor floating in water, who in turn is staring up at her.
1060
Assyrian relief sculpture from the North Palace at Nineveh, depicting King Ashurbanipal (r. 669-631 or 627 BC) killing a lion. Now in the British Museum. Photo credit: Aiwok/Wikimedia Commons.
1061
Detail, Man with pinks by Follower of Jan van Eyck (circa 1390 –1441). Now on display at the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.
1062
Black hole. Hours of Louis de Laval, France c. 1480 BnF, Latin 920, fol. 2v.
1063
Rediscovery of Antinous, Delphi, 1893. ...A statue of Antinous was accordingly erected within the sanctuary of Delphi after his death in 130 AD. It is universally recognized as one of the most beautiful and impressive cult statues of all time.
1064
The Wave by Ai Weiwei. 2005 (15,6 x 43 x 37,5 cm). Medium: Glazed ceramic.
1066
Bat by Aleksandra Waliszewska (born 1976 in Warsaw)
1067
Gold Snake Armlet. Diameter: 10 cm. weight: 295 g. Place of origin: Egypt. Roman Period, 1st century AD. Private Collection..
1068
Boot. Production Date: Late Medieval: early - mid-14th century. Collection: Museum of London, UK.
1069
Half-Suit of Armor for the Field. c. 1575 North Italy, Brescia (?), 16th century.
1070
Representation of a zodiac with in the centre the sun surronded by signs of the zodiac. Date: 11.c. AD. Collection: Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
1071
Detail, Apollo and Daphne by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1622 - 1625). Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy.
1072
The World’s First Known Female Author, Enhedu’anna.
This clay tablet from Babylonia is inscribed in Sumerian cuneiform and dates to the 20th-17th centuries BC. It mentions King Sargon’s daughter Enhedu'anna as the author of a hymn to the goddess Inanna.
1073
“Anubis and owl” by Joanna Karpowicz, 2016. Dimensions: 45 x 33 cm.
1074
Before and after of a reconstruction to an owl-shaped protocorinthian aryballos, ca. 630 BC. Opening in the tail, hole in the basis to suspend by a lace. Now on display at the Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich, Germany.
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