The eye of a marble statue from Herculaneum, with surviving paint. Roman before 79 AD.
Datail — Ecce Homo, c. 1674 by Pedro de Mena † Agnus Dei (Lamb of God), circa 1635 - 1640 by Francisco de Zurbaran
~ Pectoral ornament with human profiles and pendant discs.
Cultures: Minoan
Date: 1850-1550B.C.
Place of origin: Attica, Greece, Aegina
Medium: Gold
Pedro de Mena - Ecce Homo (c. 1674). Detail.
bag
Cultures/periods: Late Intermediate (early?)
Production date: 900-1430
Made in: Peru
Found/Acquired: Peru
Provenience unknown, possibly looted
Textile; bag; cotton ground weave with paired warps and camelid supplementary wefts; supplementary weft design floats entirely on surface; diagonal arrangement of interlocked rhomboidal and scroll motifs; back of bag, textile is warp-faced plain weave shaped by spreading warps in centre; warps are single at back; cream cotton with red and blue wool.
Jacobello di Antonello - Madonna and Child. Detail. 1500 - 1510
Maquizcoatl -Double-headed serpent (coatl), Aztec culture (Mexico), 1400-1521, cedro wood covered with mosaic made of turquoise and red thorny oyster shell & conch shell, 20.30 x 43.30 x 5.90 cm, The British Museum.
GIOTTO No. 31 Scenes from the Life of Christ: 15. The Arrest of Christ (detail) 1304-06 Fresco Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua
Janiva Ellis at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Detail from an statue of the goddess Hygeia from Feneos, Greece
Bon Dance
Bon-odori zu
盆踊り図Attributed to:
latter half of the 17th to first half of the 18th century
MEDIUM/TECHNIQUEHanging scroll; ink and color on paper
DIMENSIONSImage: 41.4 x 63.4 cm (16 5/16 x 24 15/16 in.)
CREDIT LINEWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Detail of a Roman mosaic of a grinning skeleton, Pompeï - ca. 50 AD
Kawanabe Kyosai’s “Hyakki Yagyo”. 19th century, Japan. Ota Memorial Museum of Art
Kimono. Taisho period (1912-1926)
Various Antique “Lover’s Eye’ Jewellery Pieces, c. late 1700s
Madona (detail) Edvard Munch.
detail of mosaic in fountain of the hassan II mosque / ian cumming / getty images