1426
Odysseus und die Sirenen - Otto Greiner - 1905.
1427
Details - Sandro Botticelli, Primavera.
1428
Tournament shield (targe), c.1500. The German motto around the owl reads in translation, “Although I am the hated bird, I rather enjoy that.” Below this are the quartered arms of the Tänzl and Rindscheit families, which were united by marriage in 1499. - from the Met.
1429
John William Waterhouse - Hylas and the Nymphs (detail).
1430
Sandro Botticelli - Venus and the Three Graces Presenting Gifts to a Young Woman, ca. 1483 (detail) Italian, 1445-1510 Fresco, detached and mounted on canvas.
1431
Ancient Egyptian carnelian ring, dated to the 18th dynasty, or 1550-1300 BC. Private Collection.
1432
Snail Houses. Detail from Secrets de l’histoire naturelle. Cognac, c1480-1485. Artist Robinet Testard. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Français 22971, f. 60v.
1433
Carl Gustav Carus - Faust In His Study, 1852.
1434
Painted wooden ushabti of Ka-ha, Chief of Painters. Artist unknown; ca. 1279-1186 BCE (19th Dynasty, New Kingdom). Found at Deir el-Medina; now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
1435
Ruins of an ancient maya pyramid (La Danta) deep in the Guatamalan jungle. Trees growing on the structure. Shot in El Mirador national park in Northern Guatemala.. Photographer: Raphael Rivest via Shutterstock.
1436
Assyrian Winged Bull, Palace at Khorsabad (Citadel of Sargon II), Iraq. c. 710 B.C. Limestone. Now on display at the Louvre Museum.
1437
Roman Gold Ring with Vulcan Intaglio. Date: 2nd-3rd Century AD. Inset carnelian cloison with intaglio image of a standing robed armorer (Vulcan?) with a hammer, working on a Corinthian-type helmet. Private Collection.
1438
Frigyes Friedrich Miess (German, 1854-1935) - Faun in Italian landscape.
1439
Ophelia by Arantza Sestayo. Medium: oil on canvas, 2017.
1440
Peacock mosaic, House of Dionysos, Paphos, Cyprus. Date: Roman, 2nd or 3rd Century AD.
1441
Godesses of night in paintings: . Jules Louis Machard (French, 1839-1900), Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (French, 1774-1833), Carl Schweninger, Jr. (Austrian, 1854-1903).
1442
Cycladic hedgehog statuette from Archaeological museum of Athens. Date: c. 2800-2300 BC. Photographer: by Matt Barrett athensguide.com/archaeology-mu…
1443
The snake god Nehebkau, Spell 87 from the Book of The Dead. Collection: British Museum, photograph via Mykola Tarasenko, Wikimedia Commons.
1444
Roman Marble Eagle, Roman Imperial, c. 1st-2nd Century AD. Private Collection.
1445
Seal in the form of a frog Egyptian New Kingdom (?) 1539–1075 BC. Medium: Faience. Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, US.
1446
Apulian red-figure terracotta fish plate. Attributed to the workshop of the Darius Painter; ca. 340-320 BCE. Now in the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas. Photo via Alamy.
1447
The Roman Empire at its Territorial Height in 117 A.D. Credit: Federali on MapPorn - Reddit.
1448
Egyptian Blue Porcelain Hedgehog c. 1800 BC. Collection: Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany.
1449
Roman silver ring depicting Romulus, Remus, and the wolf 2nd century AD. Image via Gemma Antiqua. Private Collection (?).
1450
Sculptor’s limestone trial piece depicting an owl-hieroglyph, in elaborately detailed raised relief, 15 cm high. Ptolemaic Egypt. (Collection: British Museum EA38276)
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