2276
Motion by Bryan Randa (Art Glass Sculpture).
"..Skillfully crafted from glass using flameworking techniques, this remarkable sculpture captures an octopus's graceful movement and playful personality..." #glassart
2277
Details, Portrait of a Young Woman (Simonetta Vespucci) by Sandro Botticelli, c.1480–1485.
2278
Photograph of Stupa 3, Sanchi from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections taken by Deen Dayal in 1883. The Great Stupa at Sanchi is one of the oldest stone structures in India. It was originally commissioned by the emperor Ashoka in the 3rd century BC.
2279
Pectoral and necklace of Princess Sithathoriunet, Egypt 1887–1813 BC. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
2280
Votive crown: Crown of Recesvinto. Medium: gold, pearls, sapphire.. Geograph: Spain (Visigoths). Date: c. 649-672 AD. Collection: MAN - Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid.
2283
The lone figure of a soldier on the steps of the Parthenon on the Acropolis, Greece, 1941.
2284
The Garni Temple is the only pagan Hellenistic and Greco-Roman structure that has survived in Armenia and the Caucasus. It was built in honor of the ancient Armenian god Mythra (Mihr in Armenian), God of the Sun, light, and purity. Photo Credit: Stock Image - Istock.
2285
Diana the Huntress by Mathurin Moreau (1822-1912).
2286
The Wickham Market Hoard is a hoard of 840 Iron Age gold staters found in a field at Dallinghoo near Wickham Market, Suffolk, England in March 2008 by car mechanic, Michael Dark using a metal detector. The coins date from 40 BC to 15 AD. Photo: Portable A. Scheme, CC BY 2.0.
2287
17th-century memento mori ring. Showing a woman’s face on one side and an enamelled skull on the other. Medium: gold. Collection: © 2017 University of Oxford -Ashmolean Museum.
2288
Minoan Ostrich Egg Rhyton. This is anexample of a painted ostrich eggshell belonging to the Minoan (2000-1500 BC) or Mycenaean (1600-1100 BC) civilizations. It’s beautifully decorated with depictions of two giant octopi in red paint. Collection: Ariadne Galleries.
2289
Gold pendant in the form of a hawk. Date: early 18th dynasty (attribution according to style) (-1550 -1425), Egypt. Place of origin: treasure of Tell el Ajjoul, Palestine. Collection: The Louvre.
2291
Gold cup shaped like a grinning skull. Culture: Peru, Chancay culture, 1000-1450 AD. Collection: Museum Aan De Stroom, Belgium.
2292
"Pope Formosus and Stephen VI" - The "Cadaver Synod" by Jean-Paul Laurens (1838–1921). Collection: Nantes Museum of Arts.
2293
Le soleil de Rome / The sun of Rome (1865) by Pelle Swedlund (Swedish).
2294
The Parthenon, Athens in 1908. Photographer: Frédéric Boissonnas.
2295
Colossus of Memnon at the Necropolis of Thebes, Egypt, 1965. Photographer: Eliot Elisofon via Smithsonian. As you can see, the Nile has flooded at the time of this image.
2296
Statue of Uta von Ballenstedt (1000-1046), Naumberg Cathedral, Naumburg, Germany. Uta von Ballenstedt was the wife of Margrave Eckard II of Meissen, member of the German dynasty known as the House of Ascania.
2297
Mourning clothes worn by count Magnus Brahe at the funeral of king Karl XIV Johan of Sweden in 1844.
2298
Black and white photograph depicting two elderly ladies walking in profile in an Athens street. The facade of the shop has two caryatid ornaments with folded arms, at the front of a recessed balcony of the first floor of the shop.
Photographer: Henri Cartier-Bresson,1953.
2299
Graf Zeppelin over the Pyramids of Giza, Egypt, 1931.
2300
Ring with unicorn, heart, lady, and clasped hands. Made in Germany or Italy, c.1550-1600. Source: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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