1876
Detail from View of Venice by Jacopo de’Barbari, c.1500.
1877
Bearding box with representations of death and death attributes, with inscription. This silver coffin served to hold consecrated earth. Height: 5 cm (1.9 in); width: 5 cm (1.9 in) Date: between 1700 and 1799. Collection: Museum Catharijneconvent
1878
Saint George Killing the Dragon (details) by Bernat Martorell c. 1434-1435.
1879
Anubis from the tomb of Horemheb, KV57, Egypt.
1880
Cave painting with representation of the Weather Gods. Dated to c.6000 BC. Mount Latmos, modern-day Turkey.
1881
Erechtheion, The Porch of the Caryatids, Greece, 1928. Photographer: Walter Hege.
1882
Baghdad Battery: 2000 year-old Mystery archaeostore.com/blog/baghdad-b…
1883
Attic red-figure of Achilles. A Greek hero of the Trojan War and the central character and greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad. Photo Credit: Alamy / WorldHistoryArchive.
1884
Stained Glass Panel with Aconite Leaves, c. 1275-1300. Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art.
1885
"Hercules Fighting with the Nemean Lion" by Francisco de Zurbaran (1598-1664).
1886
‘Wonders of the Seven Seas’ section of ‘Aja’ib al-makhluqat wa-ghara’ib al-mawjudat (Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing) by Abu Yahya Zakariya’ ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini; ca. 1203-1283 AD.
1887
Fame escorting Pegasus by Eugene Louis Lequesne, 1875. Photographer: Louis-Emile Durandelle, Musee D’Orsay, Paris. @ClassicalMyths
1888
The different ages of Greek Military costumes. An officer,a heavily armed infantryman,an hoplite,a light infantryman,a cavalryman,a victorious soldier, an archer,the goddess Pallas Athena,Diana the Huntress,and mummies of a civilian man and woman.
1889
Alabaster vases of monkeys holding their young. Dimensions: 18.6 cm high and 13.7 cm high. Date: Egyptian, Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6, Reign of Pepi I, 2289 - 2255 BC. Collection: Metropolitan Museum, NYC.
1890
The Antikythera Youth is a 330 BC bronze statue of a young man discovered in 1900 by sponge-divers in the area of the ancient Antikythera shipwreck off the island of Antikythera, Greece. Photo Credit: National Archeological Museum of Athens.
1891
The lyre of Orpheus. Art by Eduard Ritter Von Engerth (1818 -1897)
1892
The 30.000-year-old Beauty: Venus of Willendorf archaeostore.com/blog/venus-of-…
1893
Detail, The death of the ancient Greek robot Talos as depicted on a 5th century BC vase now displayed in Jatta Archaeological Museum, Italy. Photo Credit: Forzaruvo94/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0.
1895
Clytie by Lord Frederic Leighton.(1892) Clytie was an Okeanid-nymph loved by sun-god Helios. When he forsook her for the love of Leukothoe (Leucothea), she pined away and was transformed into the sun-gazing heliotrope flower.
1896
Anglo-Saxon Pendant, 7th century AD. Collection: British Museum.
1897
Jonah. Detail from the Pamplona Bible, Navarre, c. 1197. Collection: Amiens, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 108, fol. 146r
1898
Hand Brand Used on Felons or Deserters, c. 1642. Collection & Credit: Science Museum, London. Branding tools were sometimes used to permanently stamp or tattoo army deserters or criminals. This hand-shaped example was made by the British Army during the English Civil War.
1899
Chess Problem, detail. Tempera colors and gold leaf on parchment. Northern France, late 14th century. Collection & Credit: #getty
1900
The Birth of Venus by John Bulloch Souter, 1890. Image: Christies.
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