1851
The Slave Market by Boulanger Gustave Clarence Rudolphe, oil on canvas, 1886.
1852
Seahorse, made in Germany, c.1590-1600. Medium: Silver gilt, turban shell (Turbo marmoratus). Collection: © Los Angeles County Museum of Art .
1853
The Pergamon Altar is a monumental construction built during the reign of King Eumenes II in the first half of the 2nd century BC on one of the terraces of the acropolis of the ancient Greek city of Pergamon in Asia Minor. (Photo Credit: Thomas Struth)
1854
Standing Dignitary. Place of origin: Peru, South Coast. Culture: Wari. Period: Middle Horizon. Date: ca. A.D. 7th–11th century AD. Medium: Wood with shell-and-stone inlay and silver. Now on display at the Kimbell Art Museum, Texas.
1855
Vessel in the Form of a Shark. Place of origin: Mexico, Colima. Date: 200 B.C. - A.D. 500. Medium: Slip-painted ceramic. Now on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
1856
The goddess Thetis, riding a hippocampus (seahorse), delivers newly forged arms to her son Achilles. Mosaic from the main andron of the House of the Mosaics, Eretria; Greece. ca. 400-350 BC. Photo: Stock Image / Alamy.
1857
Carl Friedrich Lessing (German, 1808 – 1880) Mountainous landscape: ruins in a gorge, 1830, Städel Museum - Artothek, Germany.
1858
Bronze male head wearing a broad-brimmed hat (kausia) Greek, 3rd century B.C. Found in the sea off Kalymnos, Greece in 1997.
1859
Garden of Earthly Delights (details) by Hieronymus Bosch, 1490-1510.
1860
Bracelet with Agathodaimon, Isis-Tyche, Aphrodite, and Terenouthis. Period: Roman Period. Place of Origin: Egypt. Date: c. 1st century BC.–AD. 1st century. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 137, NY.
1861
Mycenaean Terracotta Octopus Goblet, 13th century BC. The Mycenaeans, like the Minoans, painted a wide range of sea creatures on their pottery, especially octopuses. Over time, Mycenaean artists produced ever simpler and more abstract depictions of octopuses.
1862
The Lion Gate was the main entrance of the Bronze Age citadel of Mycenae, southern Greece. It was erected during the 13th century BC, around 1.250 BC in the northwest side of the acropolis. Photographer: WitR / Stock Photo.
1863
Roman mosaic of spectators at a circus. From Gafsa, Tunisia, 5th century A.D. Photo Credit: Alamy Stock Photo.
1864
Roman bracelet, made of gold, glass, and emerald. Date: c. AD 300-400. Collection: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California.
1865
Preparations For A Wedding - Ancient Greek Ceramic Painting. Date: 5th century BC. Scanned by Szilas from the book J. M. Roberts: Kelet-Ázsia és a klasszikus Görögország (East Asia and Classical Greece)
1866
Jason and his Teacher by Maxfield Parrish, 1909. Private collection.
1867
Bronze Cauldron, from Regolini-Galassi Tomb, Caere, appr. 50–60 kilometres north-northwest of Rome. Date: (c. 650–625 BC) . Culture: Etruscan.
1868
Detail, The Vintage Festival by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1871.
1869
Gold ring decorated with saints. Place of origin: Western Europe. Date: c. 15th century AD. Collection: Trinity Antiques.
1870
A Byzantine Gold Coin dated to the 11th century, discovered at Rayy, Iran in 1937. Collection & Credit: Penn Museum.
1871
Votive double ax (Gold), Culture: Early Aegean, Minoan. Period: Bronze Age, Late Minoan Period. Date: 1550–1500 BC. Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, US.
1872
This statuette dates to the middle age period of the Upper Paleolithic time, and the cultural lay it belongs to has a radiocarbon date of 23000 years ago. Made from a Mammoth tusk. it was found at the Khotylyovo-2 site in the Bryansk region.Photographer: Alexander Pakhunov.
1873
Detail from the Hamonshu, a Japanese Book of Wave and Ripple Designs, 1919. Designs produced by the Japanese artist Mori Yuzan.
1874
Hagia Sophia, domes & apse mosaic. photograph date & photographer unknown. Image source: The Australian National University.
1875
Silver mirror on a bronze stand. Period/date: Roman, 200 BC-200 AD. Now on display at the Science Museum, London. Photo: Wellcome Images / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 4.0
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