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jewishhenna:letmypeopleshow:10 Lavishly Illustrated Medieval Haggadah Pages That Continue to Reveal

Only light , into light … water reflections … Claude MonetThe Seine At Vetheuil Effect

Some Birds details in the paintings of Vincent van Gogh:Haystacks under a Rainy Sky  (Detail) 1890Tw

Perdita (Detail)  -  Anthony Sandys   c.1866A young girl with a garland of flowers in her hair (Deta

Sarah Bernhardt  - Jules Bastien-Lepage 1879

history-of-fashion:ab. 1830 Fan (antler and paper, lithographed and painted)ab. 1833 Fan (mother-of-

humanoidhistory:Gorgeous pages from Astronicum Caesareum, 1540, a manual on the use of astronomical

nevver:Hotter than July

itcanbeabeautifulchaos:Different from the Others/Anders als die Andern (1919, dir. Richard Oswald)Th

19th-century lithographs of Massachusetts towns by LucienR. Burleigh: Amherst (1886), Ashburnham (c.

Illustrated cards for the provinces of the Russian Empire (publishedin St. Petersburg 1856).  Each c

Mogul emerald is a magnificent carved emerald, with a rich history, belonging to the period of the l

Corsican vendetta knife with floral detail. The blade reads: “Che la mia ferita sia mortale" -

Minoan clay pyxis (cylindrical vessel with lid), depicting a man in a long robe (possibly a priest)

Double Portrait of a Lady and a Gentleman, Jan Weesop, between 1641 and 1649

Mycenaean stirrup jar depicting an octopus. Artist unknown; Late Helladic IIIC (13th cent. BCE). Now

Plague doctor mask, Germany, c. 16th century. As protection against the disease doctors wore a leath

Samurai helmet (kabuko) shaped like an octopus. About 18th century, Japan.

Tsar Cannon, casted in 1586 in Moscow it is the largest bombard by caliber in the world

Romaine Brooks, Peter, a Young English Girl, 1923-24(Portrait of Gluck, aka Hannah Gluckstein)I&rsqu

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