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“X Cherubino Alberti (Italian, 1553-1615)after...
“X Cherubino Alberti (Italian, 1553-1615)after Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, 1475-1564)Saint Jerome in the Desert, c. 1575”This is the information given at the Art Institute of Chicago, but the...
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glassonionsoup: A tomb painting that shows craftsmen in the...
glassonionsoup: A tomb painting that shows craftsmen in the workshop of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III. A scribe uses a bronze bull’s head to weigh rings of gold. To his right, artisans create djed pillars,...
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theancientworld: A Marble Group of Three Satyrs Fighting a...
theancientworld: A Marble Group of Three Satyrs Fighting a Serpent, Roman Imperial, circa 1st Century A.D.
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fuckyeahmyth: Ares-Mars represents Tuesday in a mosaic...
fuckyeahmyth: Ares-Mars represents Tuesday in a mosaic depicting the seven days of the week. He sits on a throne, armed with shield, helm and spear, and is attended by his son Phobos (Fear), and the...
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poisonwasthecure: Cain Killing Abel Albrecht Durer 1511
poisonwasthecure: Cain Killing Abel Albrecht Durer 1511
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centuriespast: CODDE, PieterYoung Scholar in His Study:...
centuriespast: CODDE, PieterYoung Scholar in His Study: Melancholyc. 1630Oil on panel, 46 x 34 cmMusée des Beaux-Arts, Lille
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Key Gompa (also spelled Ki, Kye or Kee) is a Tibetan Buddhist...
Key Gompa (also spelled Ki, Kye or Kee) is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery located on top of a hill at an altitude of 4,166 metres (13,668 ft) above sea level, close to the Spiti River, in the Spiti...
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a little Indo-Himalayan border village; Achinathang in Ladakh
a little Indo-Himalayan border village; Achinathang in Ladakh
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The pillar set by Asoka at the birthplace of Buddha...
The pillar set by Asoka at the birthplace of Buddha (Rummindei)…. taken by an unknown photographer for the Archaeological Survey of India Collections: Northern Circle (North-Western Provinces and Oudh)...
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centuriespast: CRANACH, Lucas the ElderLucretia1525-30Oil and...
centuriespast: CRANACH, Lucas the ElderLucretia1525-30Oil and tempera on limewood, 42 x 28 cmStaatliche Museen, Kassel
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Wang Shimin (1592-1680) From Scenes Described in Poems of Du Fu,...
Wang Shimin (1592-1680) From Scenes Described in Poems of Du Fu, 1666. One of twelve album leaves, ink and colour on paper. 38.8 x 25.6 cm. The Palace Museum, Beijing
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Night-Shining White Han Gan (active 742-783 A.D.) Tang...
Night-Shining White Han Gan (active 742-783 A.D.) Tang Dynasty
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Rudolf Weisse (Czech, 1859-died circa 1930) Nubian...
Rudolf Weisse (Czech, 1859-died circa 1930) Nubian Guard Weisse was born in the town of Usti, also known as Aussig, on the banks of the River Elbe. He studied at the Viennese Akadenie der Bildenden...
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Just a random image and a queote from a FOrbes magazine of a few...
Just a random image and a queote from a FOrbes magazine of a few yeras ago: “For decades Orientalism was an art market backwater. Paintings by a cadre of Western artists, including, most famously,...
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“ Ludwig Deutsch, a German painter of incredible skill is...
“ Ludwig Deutsch, a German painter of incredible skill is much more appreciated now than he was in his own lifetime. He studied first in Vienna and then in Paris, eventually becoming a citizen of...
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‘An Almeh’ by Jean-Leon Gerome, French. Oil,...
‘An Almeh’ by Jean-Leon Gerome, French. Oil, 1882.Almeh (Arabic عالمة `ālma, plural awālim, from علم ”to know, be learned”) was the name of a class of courtesans or female entertainers in Arab Egypt,...
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Jorge Santo— an Angola painter who had to relocate in the...
Jorge Santo— an Angola painter who had to relocate in the States in 1982
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How seriously are we supposed to take this? verbalresistance: Secret Russian Scalar Weapons Can Kill Millions, claims Top Russian Politician - threatens to annex Georgia entirely if it interferes with...
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this is a work by Nicolas whose blog is introduced with the...
this is a work by Nicolas whose blog is introduced with the following statement: “Hi, I am a volontaire and take care of Nicolas who is mental ill. A form of therapy for him is painting. It makes him...
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