1551
Frog Effigy Pendant from northwestern Colombia. Dates from AD 900. Courtesy & currently located at the Walters Art Museum, via their online collections. Accession number: 2009.20.78.
1552
Mask depicting Yamantaka, painted resin and textile in form of blue bull’s head with two horns and five skull ornaments, part of a Cham Dance costume worn by Tibetan Buddhist monks. Place of origin: Tibet. Date: 19th century AD. Collection: National Museums Scotland, UK.
1553
Michelangelo Maestri - A bacchanale (detail).
1554
Gold Stater of Alexander the Great ca. 336-309 BC.
1555
Egyptian stele of the lady Taperet and Atoum, 10th or 9th cent BC, 22nd Dynasty. Collection: The Louvre Museum. Taperet prays to the god Atoum. Above them, the sky is represented in the form of the goddess Nut.
1556
Guennol Lioness. A Magnesite or Crystalline Limestone Figure of a Lioness. Culture: Elam circa 3000-2800 B.C. Height: 3 1/4 in. 8.26 cm. Private Collection..
1557
Floor mosaic fragment depicting Bacchus. Culture: Roman Date: A.D. 325-330 Medium: Limestone tesserae. Collection: Risd Museum, Denmark.
1558
St. Matthew writing his Gospel. Detail, Gospels, Britanny, late 9th or early 10th century. Collection: Bodleian Library, MS. Auct. D. 2. 16, fol. 28v.
1559
Detail: Devils bite and scratch the damned, Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur. France, c. 1450-1470. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 134, f. 100r
1560
Fayum Mummy Portraits - Egypt, c. 200 AD. They belong to the tradition of wood painting. They are faces of men, women, young people and children, painted mostly on boards, fixed with the bandages of their mummies on their faces.
1561
Passage flanked by two glowing walls full of Egyptian hieroglyphs, illuminated by a warm orange backlight from a door at the Edfu, Aswan temple, completed by Ramses II (-1200). Photo by Konstantin / Adobe Stock.
1562
Pendant in the Form of a Spider. Culture: Possibly Chiriquí. Place of origin: Costa Rica. Date: c. A.D. 1000-1500. Medium: Gold. Now on display at the Brooklyn Museum. On View: American Art Galleries, 5th Floor, The Americas’ First Peoples.
1563
Venus de Milo prepared for transport during the second world war. Venus de Milo prepared for transport during the second world war.
1564
Bracelet with Seated-duck Terminals, Place of Origin: Iran, Mid-6th to 4th centuries B.C. Now on display at the MIHO Museum, Japan.
1565
Lion Bowl. Place of origin: Northern Syria Date: 9th-8th century B.C. Medium: Steatite, carved. Now on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
1566
Cruciform (Cross) Tomb at Mitla, Oaxaca, Mexico. Period/Culture : Zapotec. Photograph Date: c. 1921. Photographer: Hugo Brehme.
1568
View of the Pantheon - Rome by Franz Kaisermann. Swiss (1810). Medium: pen and watercolor.
1569
Sandal-Tying Hermes. Medium: Marble. Roman copy of the 2nd cent. AD after a Greek bronze original by Lysippos c. 330 BC. Collection: Copenhagen, New Carlsberg Glyptotek (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek)
1570
Decapitator (a mythological being) Plaque. Date: A.D. 390–450. Geography: Perú. Culture: Moche (Loma Negra). Medium: Silvered copper, shell. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
1571
“Queen of the Night Scene, for Mozart’s Magic Flute” by Simon Quaglio (1818). Collection: Morgan Library & Museum.
1572
Textile doll with gold jewelry, a toy. Date: A.D. 2nd century. Place of origin: Egypt Medium: Leather, gilded; human hair, wool linen, paint. Credit / Collection: The Egyptian Museum of Berlin (German: Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung).
1574
Gold earring or hair ring, Southern Italy (at the time Greek), 4th century AD. Private Collection.
1575
Achilles Dragging the Body of Hector. by Alexander Rothaug Austrian, 1870 - 1946. Medium: oil/canvas.
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