1726
Antique leaded glass (c. 1900s) Spider Web window. Collection & Credit: Milleabros Auctioneers.
1727
Gustave Doré (1832 - 1883), Rosa Celeste (Dante and Beatrice gazing upon the highest Heaven, from Dante’s Divine Comedy).
1728
Fresco from Pompeii, depicting a man with a theater mask and a garlanded woman playing the lyre. Now in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples. Photo: Alamy / Stock Image.
1729
Curious owl. Detail from the Bartholomeus Anglicus, ‘Livre des propriétés des choses’ (‘De proprietatibus rerum’, French translation of Jean Corbechon), Paris, c. 1447. Collection: Amiens, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 399, fol. 141v
1730
Mandrake (gr. ΜΑΝΔΡΑΓΟΡΑ, in capital letters). Folio 90 from the Naples Dioscurides, a 7th century manuscript of Dioscurides De Materia Medica (Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, Cod. Gr. 1).
1731
Female Figurine. Place of finding: Southern Turkmenia, Site of Altyn-Depe. Material: clay. Technique: modelling. Period: Bronze Age. Date: 2nd Millennium BC. Now on display at the Hermitage Museum.
1732
Bronze shaft-end from a carriage-shaft or fire-dog, decorated with a griffin’s head. Culture: Etruscan. Date: ca. 600 BC - 575 BC. Collection: The British Museum.
1733
Detail, Lion Hunt scenes from the new North Palace of King Ashurbanipal (667-627 B.C.) on the Citadel at Nineveh. Now on display at the British Museum, London. Photo Credit: Shutterstock / Stock Image.
1734
Noah’s Ark. Detail from the Somme le Roi, Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand, c. 1294.
1735
The Young King of the Black Isles by Maxfield Parrish, 1906.
1736
Pazuzu Demon, Neo-Assyrian Bronze Figurine, c. 800-600 BC. Collection: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.
1737
Painted wooden panel of Tabakenkhonsu.
Period: Late Period, Kushite Dynasty. Date: ca. 680–670 B.C. Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt; Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Temple of Hatshepsut. Medium: Wood, gesso, paint. Collection: The Met, NYC.
1738
Rock tomb in the Phrygian Valley (Frig Vadisi), modern-day Seyitgazi, Eskisehir, Turkey: Tomb of Solon. Photos by archaeologyart:
1739
The Palace of Knossos is located just at the south of modern-day Heraklion near the northern coast of Crete. The palace is over 20.000 square meters and the largest of all Minoan palatial structures.
1740
Alexander the Great in his griffin-powered flying chariot, detail from the Talbot Shrewsbury Book, Normandy, c 1444/5. Image: British Library via Discarding Images.
1741
The Caryatid Porch of the Erechtheion, Athens. Photo by William J. Stillman (1828 - 1901)
1742
Daniel in the Lion's Den by Briton Riviere (1840–1920), 1872. Collection: Walker Art Gallery.
1743
Female face. Provenance: Tarquinia, Tomb of the Orcus. The Tomb of Orcus is a 4th-c. BC Etruscan hypogeum in Tarquinia, Italy. Discovered in 1868, it displays Hellenistic influences in its remarkable murals, which include the portrait of Velia Velcha, an Etruscan noblewoman.
1745
Eros by Johan Julius Ferdinand Kronberg (1850 –1921).
1746
Greco-Roman medallion that depicts two lovers. Date: c. 3rd - 4th century BC. Collection: Williams College Museum of Arts, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
1747
Stela with snake-bodied figures of Isis and Dionysos. Place of orign: Egypt. Date: c. 1st c. BC - 1st c. AD. Medium: Limestone. Collection: British Museum.
1750
Grouping of Dancers and Musicians, Late Formative period, c.300 BC–AD 300. Culture: Colima. Geography: from Colima state, Mexico. Material: Ceramic. Collection: Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri - On View, Gallery 114.
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