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Damascus Gate, Jerusalem, late 19th century or early 20th century.
702
Sphinx probably a table support. Period: Roma, c 120-140 AD. from Monte Cagnolo outside Lanuvium near Rome, Italy. Photo by mharrsch on Flickr.
703
Roman "marine life" mosaic. Date: 1st-2nd centuries AD. Collection: Santa Cruz Museum, Toledo, Spain. Photo: Stock Image.
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Carnelian crocodile pendant. Culture: Egypt, 20th-18th century BC. Collection: The Michael C. Carlos Museum, Georgia, US.
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Then & Now: Grand Theatre of Ephesus (modern-day Selcuk, Izmir, Turkey), 2nd Century A.D. / Illustration Credit: akg-images.com.
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John William Waterhouse - Nymphs Finding the Head of Orpheus ( 1900 )
708
The Lewis Chessmen, 13th Century probably made in Norway; found on the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
709
The Venus of Willendorf dates to between 28.000-30.000 BC, making it one of the oldest and most famous surviving works of art. It was found in 1908 at a paleolithic site near Willendorf, a village in Lower Austria near the town of Krems.
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Charles Landelle, “Juive de Tanger” (1812-1908). Collection: Museum of Fine Arts of Reims.
712
Douleur d'amour / The pain of love by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1899.
713
Temple of the God Horus at Behdet (Edfu): a loving sparrow next to the “Sacred Living Falcon” of Horus of Behdet.
714
Laconian hound scratching its head, painted pottery. The Euergides Painter (active c. 500 BC).
715
Book covers. 1st image: Felix Schloemp. Das unheimliche Buch. Munich: Georg Mueller, 1914. 2nd image: Les chauves-souris, Robert de Montesquiou, 1892.
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Viking axe head. c. 1030 years old, found in Denmark. Photo Credit: Nationalmuseet i København.
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Aphrodite, by Briton Rivière (English, 1840–1920).
718
The Vogelherd horse – one of the oldest known sculpture of a horse. It was crafted in woolly mammoth ivory with flint tools over 35.000 years ago in southern Germany.
719
David, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Borghese Gallery, Rome.
720
The Iliad, cover illustration by husband and wife illustrator team Leo & Diane Dillon, 1969.
721
Vietnam, Sand dunes, 1956. Photographer: Ján Cifra (1929 - 1959).
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Detail, Perseus and Andromedaby Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael, 1611.
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Tomb in the Crypt of Arundel Castle by Samuel Rayner (English, 1806–1879)
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Hellenistic Gold and Glass Floral Wreath, 3rd-2nd Century BC. Private Collection (?)
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