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Anthropomorphic Figure of a Polar Bear with its Cub. Medium: Carved Walrus Ivory. Culture: Native Alaskan. Date: c. 1800 to 1900. Place of origin: Bering Sea. Photo Credit: Private Collection - 1stdibs Inc.
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Jean-Léon Gérôme, The Grief of the Pasha (1882)
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Vincent van Gogh - The Starry Night (detail).
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The Priest King, fresco (replica). Palace of Knossos. Crete, Greece. 1550-1440 B.C. (Late Minoan).
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Moonstone enamel brooch: The winged maiden by Rene Lalique. Art Nouveau style. Now on display at the Gulbenkian museum in Lisbon, Portugal.
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The oldest animation created by man 3.000 BC. Discovered in Burnt city, modern-day Iran.
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Cave of Hands, Argentina - The art in the cave dates from 13.000 to 9.000 years ago.
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‘Conversation between the Moon and a Star’ by Paul Rumsey (b. 1956)
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Ancient loaves of bread from the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum that were carbonized in volcanic pyroclastic flows of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN).
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The Lovers of Valdaro, discovered by archaeologists at a tomb in San Giorgio near Mantua, Italy. The couple have been holding one another for 6,000 years.
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Ring, 1700s, with the inscription, “Many are the stars i see but in my eye no star like thee.” Collection: British Museum.
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Dog in the Wind by Stephanie Cunningham.
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The Famous Palladium Dress designed by Gianfranco Ferré for a 1992 Dior collection. Now on display at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.
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‘Warrior takes an armored cat for a walk’ (着甲武人猫散歩逍遥図) by Noguchi Tetsuya, 2014.
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The dancer Nikolska on the Acropolis, Athens, 1929.
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Theatre Masks of Ancient Greece. Image credit: The Kennedy Center Arts Edge.
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Gargoyle on the Salisbury Cathedral. Photographer: Akoliasnikoff via Wikimedia Commons.
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Veiled Truth (detail) by Antonio Corradini, completed 1750.
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Dante statue and the blood moon, Naples. Image via Alamy.
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Ancient Greek silver litra coin minted in Syracuse, Sicily, circa 466 BC.
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Gold throne of Tutankhamun. Egypt, 3300 years old.
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The snake god Nehebkau, Spell 87 from the Book of The Dead. Collection: British Museum, photograph via Mykola Tarasenko, Wikimedia Commons.
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A man stands on Ramses II lap. Abu Simbel. Egypt, c. 1910s.
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Hagia Sophia, Istanbul. Photographer: Erich Lessing.
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