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Aeneas and the Sybil in the Underworld by Wenceslaus Hollar (1654)

Adrien de Montigny, Album Le Croy, villages in France, 1596-98. Watercolor on vellum. Read more: gra

The Devious Art of “Salting” a Gold Claim,In the mid 19th century to the 20th century go

maertyrer:Unknown ArtistThe forty Martyrs of Sebasteivory relief panel, Constantinople, 10th century

Illustrations from Boccacio’s “Le Livre des cleres et nobles femmes”, 1460 French

“Sangre torera" George Owen Wynne Apperley, 1928

Colour Sergeant William McGregor, Scots Fusilier Guards, Crimean War 1854-1856.

An ornate silver mounted flintlock pistol crafted by G.M. Logia, Brescia, Italy, mid 18th century.

peashooter85:Perhaps your job aint so bad —- Victorian matchmakers and the phossyjawIn 1826 an Engli

18th century Indian matchlock musket decorated with gold and ivory inlays.

heaveninawildflower:Gold ring with bee design (Greece, 3rd century B.C.).Images and text information

zhuanghongru:Early 20th Century Paris Art Nouveau Architecture Decoration

Italian Costumes by Hans Weigel, 1577Bologna;                             Parma and VeniceMilan and

arsvitaest:Piet Mondrian, Chrysanthemum, first half of the 20th century, oil on canvasThe Cleveland

love:The century carousel in Colmar, France (via vsco.co)

Richardson, H. H. (Henry Hobson), 1838-1886, architect. Photographs of stations for the Boston and A

British brass barreled blunderbuss with Tower markings, late 18th century.from Rock Island Auctions

deathandmysticism:Astronomical diagrams, Salzburg, early 9th century 

Funerary monument to Francisco Gómez de Sandoval and Dona Catalina de la Cerda y Portugal, Duke and

animus-inviolabilis:Fragment of a painted mummy shroudImperial, Roman, EgyptianLate 2nd–3rd century

Merry-go-round, by Anna Katrina Zinkeisen, 1935

Bone mounted koummiya, Morocco, early 20th century.from Czerny’s International Auction House

Theatrum Cometicum / The Theatre of Comets, first published in 1666-68. Amsterdam.Compiled by Polish

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