1651
Scythian gold torque in the form of dragons, dated to the 2nd century BC to the 1st century AD. Private Collection (?) via Gemma-Antiqua.
1652
10th-century gold and enamel Byzantine icon of St Michael, in the treasury of the St Mark’s Basilica. Photograph: Stock Image/Alamy.
1653
Rebecca at the well by Francesco Hayez (Italian. 1791 - 1882).
1654
The Diakonikon-Baptistery mosaic (Mount Nebo, Jordan) with its hunting and pastoral scenes of colourful almost intact tesserae is one of the most remarkable Byzantine mosaics in Jordan. It was discovered in 1976 in the northern hall of the Moses Basilica. Image: Shutterstock
1655
Nose Ornament, Date: 2nd–6th century AD. Geography: Peru. Culture: Vicús. Medium: Gold. Collection: The Met, NYC.
1656
Caparison by Spiering, François, c. 1621. Medium: Wool and silk on a woolen warp. Collection: Royal Armoury, Stockholm.
1657
The eye of a marble statue from Herculaneum, with surviving paint. Photo Credit: Herculaneum: Past and Future, by Andrew Wallace Hadrill (2011).
1658
Komainu.Date: c. 1450 (15th century), Japan. Medium: cypress wood, gold lacquer (Urushi), and crystal. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore P. Van Vorhees Art Fund, IMA. Komainu are lion-like guardian dogs usually placed at the entrances to temples and shrines.
1659
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1956. Photographer: Maria Austria.
1660
Detail from Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus”, 1486.
1661
Louvre, Paris, 1975. Photographer: Henri Cartier-Bresson.
1662
Persepolis Bull, 1949. Photographer: © Horst P. Horst.– Credit & Collection: Galerie Bernheimer, Switzerland.
1663
Stairs into the Royal Tombs of Ur. 1920’s. (Colorized Photograph).
1664
"The Owl of Death" by Pablo Picasso,1952. Medium: oil on canvas.
1665
The Swan Maiden, from Among Gnomes and Trolls No. 2 by John Bauer (1907). Among Gnomes and Trolls (Swedish: Bland tomtar och troll), is a popular Swedish folklore and fairy tales annual and children's fairy tale anthology published since 1907.
1666
Venus de Milo prepared for transport during the second world war. Venus de Milo prepared for transport during the second world war.
1667
A Hoopoe, Goose, Partridge, Peacock, Heron, Caladrius Bird, Phoenix, Night Heron, and Swan from a Franco-Flemish bestiary from about 1270. Collection: The Getty.
1668
Details from the Comet Book (1587). This stunning set of images come from a 16th-century treatise on comets, created anonymously in Flanders (now northern France) and now held at the Universitätsbibliothek Kassel. Commonly known as The Comet Book (or Kometenbuch in German).
1669
Mesopotamian Elephant. Period: Jemdet Nasr Period - c. 3000 BC. Carved of limestone in stylized form, the straight trunk hanging between forelegs, pierced at the top to represent its eyes, the ears carved as spirals, a short tail between its hind legs. Credit: Christies.
1670
Tea bowl with design of spiny lobster (19th century) by Kashu Mimpei (Japanese, 1796–1871). Medium: awaji ware; stoneware. Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
1671
Fishing. Detail from the Pèlerinage de vie humaine by Guillaume de Deguileville, ca. 1490. Collection: Geneva, Library of Geneva. Ms. fr. 182, fol. 162v.
1672
Roman relief: Minerva. Date: c. 100 AD. Collection: Thorvaldsens Museum, Denmark.
1673
"Sirène" by Jean Lurçat, 1964. Medium: Gold. Collection: Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 1964.
1674
Francisco de Goya, Still Life with Golden Bream (Besugos), 1808-1812.
1675
Fragment of a stone plaque depicting *Enannatum. Date: c. 2450 B.C. Place of origin: Telloh, Iraq. Period: Early Dynastic III. Medium: Stone Now on display at the British Museum. *Eannatum was a Sumerian Ensi (ruler or king) of Lagash circa 2500–2400 BC.
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