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The Other Side, Dean Cornwell, 1918.
1102
Examples for the Viking “Bros/Oseberg Style” (c. AD 780-850) Animal-head post found in the Oseberg viking ship, seen in the Viking Ship Museum, Oslo, Norway.
1103
Female figurine (known as the Venus of Draguseni). Medium: Fired clay Dimenisons:, 20 cm height. Date: Cucuteni Culture -c. 6,500 years old, Neolithic Period. Found in the hills around Drăguşeni (Botosani) northeast Romania. Now on display at the Botosani County Museum.
1104
Roman sculptures of dogs, c. 1st - 2nd century AD.
1105
The Mulberry Tree by Vincent Van Gogh. “As long as Autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colours enough to paint the beautiful things I see"
1106
Winged Genie Wearing Fancy Bracelets - Room H, Northwest Palace, Nimrud (Kalhu), Iraq, Neo-Assyrian Period, reign of Ashur-nasir-pal II, c. 883-859 BC, alabaster - Brooklyn Museum - Brooklyn, NY.
1107
Four rats rowing a little boat in the margins of Pontifical of Guillaume Durand, 14th century France. Source: “Pontifical de Guillaume Durand” (Guillaume Durand), approx. 1390, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris, ms. 143, fol. 77v.
1108
Scythian Gold Sphinx Bracelet. Date: 400-350 BC. With sphinx protomes, stamped, filigreed and granulated. Found during excavations in 1830 in the Kul Oba Barrow located near Kerch, Crimea. Collection: Hermitage Museum.
1109
Hellenistic Greek gold ring engraved with an image of a goddess, perhaps Nike Apteros (Wingless Nike), dated to the 4th century BC. Private Collection.
1110
Gold throne of Tutankhamun. Egypt, 3300 years old.
1111
Otter statue. Period: Late Period or Ptolemaic Period. Date: 664–30 B.C. Geography: From Egypt. Now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
1112
Bracelet with Seated-duck Terminals, Place of Origin: Iran, Mid-6th to 4th centuries B.C. Now on display at the MIHO Museum, Japan.
1113
Facial Expressions. Detail from Luttrell Psalter, England. Date: ca. 1325-1340. Collection: British Library, Add 42130, fol. 104r.
1114
“Schlafende Diana (Sleeping Diana)”, 1913, “Emil Epple” (1877-1948).
1115
Today in History: Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman Empire falls to the Turks under Mehmed II; ends the Byzantine Empire.
Art by Jose Daniel Cabrera Peña.
1116
Women’s Hairstyles of the Byzantine Empire.
1117
Vincent van Gogh - The Starry Night (detail).
1118
A larnax, or chest, made to contain human remains, from Crete, Date/Culture: Mycenaean, c. 1400 BC.
1119
The most commonly used coin denominations and their relative sizes during Roman times.
1120
Sarcophagus and lid with husband and wife, Etruscan, 350–300 B.C. Made of marble, found Vulci, Lazio, Italy. Courtesy & currently located at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
1121
Our Wish for the End, art by @TheClayshaper, Digital Collage, 2020.
1122
The Serenade ~ Leonard Raven-Hill (British, 1867–1942).
1123
Medieval Bees. From Aberdeen Bestiary, England ca. 1200. Collection: Aberdeen University Library, MS 24, fol. 63r.
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Detail, The Vintage Festival by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1871.
1125
Fragment of a floor mosaic depicting a peacock. Culture: Roman. Place of origin: Turkey, Antioch-on-the-Orontes, Villa Daphne. Date: A.D. 3rd-4th century.
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