2076
Gypsum bas-relief head of King Ashurnasirpal II from the Northwest Palace (room B, panel 4) in the Assyrian city of Nimrud. The relief dates back to 875-860 BC. Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME.
2077
Tournament Scenes by Azzo di Masetto, 1289. Medium: fresco. Collection: Fondazione Musei Senesi.
2078
Part of a muse cycle. Roman fresco (4th style) from the thermae of the Hospitium dei Sulpicii in Murecine near the Porta di Stabia of Pompeii. Photo Credit: Pompeji. Hirmer, München 2002.
2079
Lilith, Eve and Adam Ulmannus. Detail from the Buch der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit, Franconia ca. 1470. Collection: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 598, fol. 2r.
2080
The Fall of the Tower of Babel by Cornelis Anthonisz, 1547.
2081
Allegory of the River Nile from the Chiaramonti Sculpture Gallery. The Nile surrounded by sixteen children that represent the flooding of the river. A Roman copy of a Greek Hellenistic original from the temple of Isis and Serapis, found in the Campo Marzio, Rome.
2082
Water Birds. Detail from the "On The Art of Hunting with Birds", France ca. 1310. Collection: BnF, Français 12400, fol. 6r.
2083
Detail from View of Venice by Jacopo de’Barbari, c.1500.
2084
Demon from The Fall of the Rebel Angels by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1562. Edited by Geum on Redbubble.
2085
Mummiform Falcon with Inscribed Menat. Place of origin: Egypt Period: Third Intermediate Period (1070 - 712 B.C.) Medium: Wood, gesso and polychrome paint. Now on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
2086
Burrup Peninsula (Murujuga, Australia) is famous for its petroglyphs. It is thought that there are more than one million petroglyphs on the peninsula. You can take a journey in the history of humankind which dates about 47.000 years ago.
2087
A Hoopoe, Goose, Partridge, Peacock, Heron, Caladrius Bird, Phoenix, Night Heron, and Swan from a Franco-Flemish bestiary from about 1270. Collection: The Getty.
2088
Swabian - Portrait of a Woman of the Hofer Family and detail, c.1470. Collection: The National Gallery, London, UK.
2089
A pair of gold and garnet peacock head appliques. Culture: Hunnish, 3rd-4th century AD. Collection: Dumbarton Oaks.
2090
Musei Vaticani Under Construction, Rome, Italy. Photographer: Massimo Listri, 2005.
2091
Statuette of Daphne by Abraham Jamnitzer (late 16th c.) - It tells the story recounted by the classical poet Ovid of the nymphe Daphne who transformed herself into a bay tree to escape the approaches of god Apollo. Photographer: Jürgen Karpinski.
2092
Alexandre Cabanel, Vénus Victorieuse (1875)
2093
Gold pedant with sphinx. Place of origin: Cyprus. Date: 5th-4th century BC. Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
2094
La Tène Copper Crown & Its Owner, C. 250-150 BC from Mill Hill, Grave 112, Deal, Kent, England. Copper alloy crown found in situ still on it’s owner’s skull. Now on display at the British Museum.
2095
Wall painting on black background from the Roman Imperial villa at Boscotrecase, depicting an aedicula and miniature landscape. Artist unknown; last decade of the 1st cent. BC. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
2096
Kylix from Tarquinia. Dance scenes around the central medallion. In the central medallion is represented a scene of struggle between Heracles and Triton. Etruscan art. VI century BC. National Museum of Tarquinia, Italy.
2097
Greek ring dating to c. 350 BC depicting an image of the goddess Aphrodite weighing two figures of Eros. Medium: Gold. Collection of the Getty Museum.
2098
Discovery of the frozen mummy "Juanita" near the summit of Ampato, north of Arequipa, 1995. Photo by Johan Reinhard, "Peru in Images".
2099
Art nouveau ophelia ring, France, 1909. Medium: Gold. Credit & Collection: Les Enluminires, Paris.
2100
The Alexander Mosaic, Roman floor mosaic originally from the House of the Faun in Pompeii (an alleged imitation of a Philoxenus of Eretria or Apelles' painting). Date: circa 100 BC.
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