#InternationalDonkeyDay 🫏
A man feeding a donkey, detail of the 6th-century AD mosaic floor from the Great Palace of Constantinople (Palatium Magnum).
Palace Mosaic Museum, Istanbul.

Terracotta mask, China, Tang Dynasty (618-907). Credit & Courtesy: Alain Truong.

#Rom365 , May 7, 558, the dome of Hagia Sophia Church collapsed due to earthquake damage of Dec. 557 in #Constantinople . It would be rebuilt as a modified version that would channel weight stresses through the building to the ground rather than continued stress on just the walls.

This is an early XX century photo of Athens with the Acropolis in the distance taken by Frédéric Boissonnas, and yet there's a sense of timelessness captured in the sot light of day.

Pottery Vessel in the Form of Ram / Western Iran, 1350-800 B.C. Medium: Ceramic. Collection: Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

A Traveller Peering Through the Sky at the Cosmic Spheres - Camille Flammarion, 1888.

Temple of Hathor in Dandara, Egypt, c. 1900-1920.

L. Sprague De Camp, Ancient Capitals, The Ancient Engineers, 1966

Ivan Leonidovich Lubennikov (Bielorussian, b.1951) Guardian angel, 2001. Medium: Oil on canvas.

Byzantine art at Kariye Camii (formerly Chora Monastery), which was converted into a mosque by the grand vizier of Bayezid II in the early 16th century. It was converted into a museum in 1948, and converted back into a mosque in 2020.
Photo taken today

Ants. De Natura animalium, Cambrai ca. 1270. Collection: Douai, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 711, fol. 24r

Interesting photos from Chora today.

'Marine Life' mosaic. Date: 1st-2nd centuries AD. Collection: Santa Cruz Museum, Toledo, Spain. Photo: Stock Image.

Three-headed dragon of the underworld, from the Etruscan Tomb of the Infernal Chariot in Sarteano. The colours on this are stunning.

View on Oia in Santorini

Rome (Roma), by J.B. Homann. 1716-37

“Omen” by Emile Corsi

May Queen

Map of French Medieval Castles (Author: Jean Claude Golvin)

Jean-Paul Vroom - Metamorphoses (1971)