Gurzuf Night (1849) By Ivan Aivazovsky

La Belle Jardiniere – June (1896) by Eugène Grasset

He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (1896) by John William Godward

Joseph Oppenheimer

Fred Appleyard

British

1874 - 1963

The Spirit of the Summit

The Mermaid Pl 4, 1911 Edmund Dulac

Mermaid Mondays

~ Dionysos and maenad. Culture: Roman Period: Imperial Period Date: ca. A.D. 1st–2nd century

On the Seashore, George Elgar Hicks (1879)

Enameled gold memento mori ring, Netherlands, circa 1620-1650

from The Rijksmuseum

Gilded and gold inlaid iron sword uncovered by archaeologists at the Filipovka Kurgans, Orenburg Oblast, Russia.

Sarmatian, 7th century BC

Agate scepter head, Cyprus, circa 950 BC

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art