AIVAZOVSKY, Ivan Konstantinovich (1817-1900)

Rhyton

* Campania (Etruscan area)

* 3rd century BCE

* Allard Pierson Museum, Netherlands

Unique Roman ironage owl found on Bornholm,Denmark It is an owl fiber, ie. a bronze suit buckle that has the shape of an owl. The jewelry is cast as a flat figure, which has then been decorated with enamel and glass slides in brilliant colors. Dated 1st to the 4th century AD. (760 x 405)

Acrobatic dancers. 2500 B.C. Mural painting from the tomb of Mehu, Saqqara, Egypt. [786x390]

Details of the Dolphin’s Armor of Henry, the future King Henry II of France, made by Negroli Francesco in Milan in the 1540s. Now on display at the Army museum in Paris [2996x4000]

Another gilded mummy housed at the Louvre. His hair color and style (rows of curls died with henna, a hairstyle worn by ephebes, fashionable in Egypt during the reign of the philhellenic emperor Hadrian) date him to sometime between 117-138 CE. More info in comments [511x600]

The blue quran of Kairouan, written entirely in gold on vellum colored with indigo, 10th century CE, Raqqada museum, Tunisia [2048x1124]

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