1801
Snailcat, Bible, Paris ca. 1485 (Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, ms. 62, fol. 70v). Image via Discarding Images.
1802
Venus with a shell by James Pradier and Salvator Marchi, c. 1844. Medium: patinated plaster. Dimensions: 23.5x15.5x16 cm. Collection: Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Ville de Genève. Photo Credit: Pas besoin d'un dessin.Published by the Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, 2022.
1803
Bacchus and Ariadne by Tullio Lombardo (Tullio Solari), ca.1505. Medium: marble.
Collection & Photo Credit: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
1804
Vincent Van Gogh; detail of Wheatfield With a Reaper.
1805
Terrace of the Lions Delos, Greece. The original row of 9 to 12 (although there may have been as many as 16) stone lions was built around 600 BC by the people of Naxos in honor of the god Apollo. Illustration: Assassin's Creed Odyssey.
1806
Tile with rising griffin. Date: Second half of the 15th century. Origin: Kempten, Germany. Source: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Photo by Andreas Paasch, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
1807
Excavations at Assyrian capital-Khorsabad in 1853. Group of workers in front of the fully exposed facade. City door no: 3.Dur-Sharrukin(Fortress of Sargon),present-day Khorsabad, was the Assyrian capital in the time of Sargon II of Assyria. Photographer: Gabriel Tranchard.
1808
Aqueduct in Ruins by Hubert Robert (1733-1808).
1809
"Monkey riding a goat with a hunting owl". Detail from the Luttrell Psalter, England ca. 1325-1340. Collection: British Library via Discarding Images, Add 42130, fol. 38r.
1810
Picture stone depicting a spiral motif and animals thought to be horses. Date: c. 1st-6th century AD. Collection: Gotlands Museum, Sweden. Photographer: Wolfgang Sauber via Wikimedia Commons.
1811
Early Bronze Age Stone Double-Headed Disc-Shaped Figurine and Child. Place of Origin: Central/Western Anatolia, modern-day Turkey. Medium: Stone. Date: c: 3000 BC to 2500 BC. Collection - Photo Credit: Private Collection & Barakat Gallery.
1812
A devotional statue (a married couple ?) dating to 2600 BC. Found place: Nippur in Iraq. Dimensions: 3.5 inches. Medium: Gypsum (alabaster), resin, shell rock inlays. Now on display at the Iraq Museum, Baghdad.
1813
A cavalryman leads his horse beside a stream. Culture: Assyrian, ca. 704–681 B.C. Excavated at Nineveh in 1847-49 by Sir Austen Henry Layard. Medium: Gypsum alabaster. Now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
1814
Medieval diagram shows the orbits of the Sun and Moon around the Earth, late 13th century, France, unknown illuminator. Collection & Credit: the Getty Museum.
1815
Iron helmet with silver inlay decoration of dragons chasing the flaming pearl. Place of origin: Korea, c. 1550-1560. Collection & Credit: The Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK.
1816
Detail, Mummy Portrait of a Woman, about A.D. 100 - 110, Attributed to the Isidora Master. Collection & Credit: J. Paul Getty Museum.
1817
Maenad carrying a thyrsus and a leopard with a snake rolled up over her head. Tondo of an ancient Greek Attic white-ground kylix 490–480 BC from Vulci. Collection: Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich, Germany.
1818
Kawanabe Kyosai (1831 - 1889) - Skeletons dancing - Painting on silk, hanging scroll.
1819
The Tell Asmar sculpture hoard (also known as the Square Temple Hoard) is a collection of twelve human effigy statues, discovered in 1934 at the site of Tell Asmar, Iraq. Date: Early Dynastic I-II, ca. 2900–2550 BC.
1820
Detail, an Octopus fresco from the palace of Knossos, Crete. The palace is full of representations of marine animals, such as these tentacles that appear in another of its murals.
1821
Detail from a nude warrior with its original colour. From a Corinthian workshop, ca 490 BC.
1822
Roman ring with snake heads; found in Pompeii. Collection: National Archaeological Museum, Naples. Photo Credit: Mondadori Portfolio / Electa - Sergio Anelli.
1823
Pegasus/Bucephalus. Detail from the Armenian version of the Alexander Romance, 1544. Copied and illustrated at Sulu Manastir in Constantinople by Zakʿariay. Collection: Manchester, John Rylands University Library, Armenian MS 3, fol. 42v.
1824
Reconstruction of the palace of Knossos. Illustration: Mmoyaq - Wikimedia Commons.
1825
Lascaux Cave: the Sistine Chapel of Prehistory (article): archaeostore.com/blog/prehistor…
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