926
Sandro Botticelli, Primavera (detail), ca. 1482.
927
Women Picking Olives by Vincent van Gogh, 1889.
928
Vincent Van Gogh; detail of Wheatfield With a Reaper.
929
Gold snacelet, Egypt, 300 - 250 BC.Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
931
Olmec Heads. For a period of some 250 or more years (1.200-900 B.C), the massive heads and other monuments were carved from basalt which was floated on huge rafts and then dragged from the Tuxtla Mountains.
932
Rodent with Corn. Medium: Pottery. Place of origin: Peru. Culture: probably Moche, ca. 200-750 AD. Now on display at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
934
Palmyra - The village inside the Temple of Bel, early 20th century.
935
Scythian Gold Stag, c. 4th-3rd Century BC. Private Collection.
936
Male anti-masturbation device, British
This metal device is one of a number of similar devices which were invented in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries to prevent masturbation. A leather strap which would have kept it in place is now missing. The Science Museum, UK.
937
Excavation of the Royal tombs of Ur. This photograph gives some idea of the depth in which some of the tombs were buried.
938
The Consummation of the Empire by Thomas Cole, 1836.
939
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, “A Favourite Custom” (1909).
941
Lovers. Wall painting, from a bar in Pompeii. Epigraphic Collection - Naples Archaeological Museum, Italy. Photo by Carlo Raso (CC0).
942
A beautiful Mesolithic (12500-3900 BC) amber figure of a bear. It washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. , now on display at the National Museum of Denmark.
943
Atlas / or Silenus, Theater of Dionysus, Acropolis, Athens, c. 4th century BC.
944
‘The Emperor’ by James Carroll Beckwith (American, 1852-1917).
945
Detail of an alabaster relief depicting a pail of holy water, carried by a winged genie. The relief is from the Northwest Palace of king Ashurnasirpal II in the Assyrian Imperial capital of Nimrud, and it is covered with Cuneiform writing. (Photo by Babylon Chronicle)
946
Greek heroes from the Iliad by Tischbein, from left to right -Menelaus, Paris, Diomedes, Odysseus, Nestor, Achilles and Agamemnon.
947
Breastplate. Place of origin: Italy. Date: Late A.D. 6th century AD. Medium: Steel and bone. Collection: Hermitage Museum.
948
Michelangelo, The Torment of Saint Anthony, 1487.
949
Happy Christmas (1891) by Danish artist Viggo Johansen.
Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all our followers! We wish you peace, health and happiness during the holidays and all year long.
950
Devil bearing Jesus (Matthew 4:8‘the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them’)
Detail from the missal, France. ca. 1470-75. Collection: Beinecke Rare Book Library, MS 425, fol. 48r
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