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centuriespast: Death of the Litigant, from the series Litis...
centuriespast: Death of the Litigant, from the series Litis Abusus (Abuses of the Law)Goltzius, Hendrick1597PRINTEngravingIntaglio Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
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Title : Cosmic...
Title : Cosmic BattleDate(s) : 2009-2010Material : bronze, paint, wire and lights Faith Matters is Subodh Gupta’s first major solo show in Eastern Europe. For this exhibition, Gupta has created four...
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Naqada III tomb - Minsjat Abu Omar - Eastern Delta - ca. 3300...
Naqada III tomb - Minsjat Abu Omar - Eastern Delta - ca. 3300 BCE. From Naqada II onwards, highly differentiated burials are found in cemeteries in Upper Egypt (cf. Gerzean, ca. 3600 - 3300 BCE). These...
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A hieroglyphic inscription can be expressed by a sound either...
A hieroglyphic inscription can be expressed by a sound either syllabically or alphabetically. Examples of syllabically expressed hieroglyphs include the glyphs pictured above: a picture of a feather...
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The ways of fortuneLabour and Industry; a naked male and female...
The ways of fortuneLabour and Industry; a naked male and female embrace and kiss; she holds a whip and a spur while he holds a flail; a spade, anvil and hammer lie on the ground.
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oldbookillustrations: A large street in Cairo - Mosque of...
oldbookillustrations: A large street in Cairo - Mosque of Sultan Baibars. From L’Afrique pittoresque (picturesque Africa), selected passages by Victor Tissot, Paris, 1890. (Source: archive.org)
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Isabel Samaras (Isab el Samaras) lives in California. Works in...
Isabel Samaras (Isab el Samaras) lives in California. Works in the genre of pop surrealism . She loves chocolate.Favorite color - red.
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J. Allen St. John (October 1, 1872 in Chicago–May 23, 1957 in...
J. Allen St. John (October 1, 1872 in Chicago–May 23, 1957 in Chicago) was an American author, artist and illustrator. He is especially remembered for his illustrations for the novels of Edgar Rice...
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harvestheart: Illustration of Coral - Vienna Dioscorides...
harvestheart: Illustration of Coral - Vienna Dioscorides Coral From 512 AD, a valuable source book for ancient science and early Byzantine art and cultural history.
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The unknown artist who illustrated Lorenz Faust’s 1585 ‘Anatomia...
The unknown artist who illustrated Lorenz Faust’s 1585 ‘Anatomia Statuae Danielis’ did a brilliant job of locating the rulers of the four great world monarchies on appropriate parts of the statue’s...
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Bees were important in the Minoan economy, as the honey they...
Bees were important in the Minoan economy, as the honey they produced was the main source of sugar….The bee was used as a decorative motif. The famous gold pendant found at Mallia seems to show a pair...
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mediumaevum: dated c.1430 Originally in the collections of the...
mediumaevum: dated c.1430 Originally in the collections of the dukes of Bavaria, these are considered amongst the earliest surviving sets of playing cards. The cards are made from pasteboard...
View ArticleI hope I do not offend you - but your tumblr's title has always made me...
why should I be offended? Yes, I am Turkish, liiving in Istanbul…
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Giant scarab beetle From: Istanbul, modern TurkeyDate:...
Giant scarab beetle From: Istanbul, modern TurkeyDate: Egyptian, perhaps 332-30 BC Scarab beetles lay their eggs in dung and they are often seen rolling balls of dung around. Watching the baby beetles...
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walkingcollage: Thank-you; regardintemporel. Jung Zseni -...
walkingcollage: Thank-you; regardintemporel. Jung Zseni - Daphnée, 1990s
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oldbookillustrations: Djeddah. From L’Afrique pittoresque...
oldbookillustrations: Djeddah. From L’Afrique pittoresque (picturesque Africa), selected passages by Victor Tissot, Paris, 1890. (Source: archive.org)
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Ancient Petroglyphs of Giraffe, Ostrich, and longhorned cow...
Ancient Petroglyphs of Giraffe, Ostrich, and longhorned cow being driven by a human, carved into rocks in what is now desert Gilf Kebir, Egypt.
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The Cave of Swimmers is a cave in southwest Egypt, near the...
The Cave of Swimmers is a cave in southwest Egypt, near the border with Libya, in the mountainous Gilf Kebir region of the Sahara Desert. It was discovered in October 1933 by the Hungarian explorer...
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