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Damned souls protest in vain and try to deny the colossal and minutely detailed account of sins, foolishnesses and assorted wicked things that they committed in life. Detail from the Triptyque de l'Apocalypse by Jacobello Alberegno. Date: ca.1390.
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Breastplate from a suit of parade armor by Giovan Paolo Negroli (Italian, Milan ca. 1513–1569). Medium: Steel, gold. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 374.
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Shopping list of Michelangelo, c. 1518. As you can see, he sketched out a little picture of most of the things he intended to buy – including, herring, fennel soup, and wine.
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Scaraboid of hedgehog. Date: Egyptian Late Period, Dynasty 25–30, 760–332 BC. Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
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Eros and the Goddesses of Destiny - Julius Kronberg, 1908.
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Floor mosaic, Hadrianic or Early Antonine Era. Round hall, Baths of the Seven Sages (regio III, insula X). Ostia Antica, Latium, Italy. (II century AD)
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Interior of the temple of Ramses II, Abu Simbel (now relocated), Dynasty XIX, ca. 1290-1224 B.C.
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Tomb in the Crypt of Arundel Castle by Samuel Rayner (English, 1806–1879)
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The Guardian of Paradise by Franz Von Stuck, 1889.
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A medieval book mended with silk thread. Parchment was difficult to make and expensive to replace, and so medieval scribes would often find other ways to restore them and help ameliorate further damage.
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Whales. Details from the "Log of the ship Susan" by Reuben Russell, 1841.
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Atlas / or Silenus, Theater of Dionysus, Acropolis, Athens, c. 4th century BC.
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“Athéna” - Art by Erté. (1892-1990). Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, handicraft, and warfare who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva.
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The Game of the Vestals, Ulpiano Checa Sanz (Spanish, 1860–1916).
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A gold sword hilt decorated with interlaced dragons. From China, Eastern Zhou dynasty, 6th-5th century BC. Now on display at the British Museum.
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Samourai helmet with octopus, 18th century, Japan. Collection: Stibbert Museum, Florence, Italy. Armor was a way for a samurai to display his personality and status.
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Ancient Greek Silver Coinage from 5th Century BC to 1st Century BC. Credit: Arkaio Nomisma via Wikimedia Commons.
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Orcus, Garden of Bomarzo, Italy. Photo by Milton Gendel -miltongendel.com.
Orcus was a god of the underworld, punisher of broken oaths in Etruscan and Roman mythology.
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Touch, detail by Anonymous Flemish artist. Collection: Musée national du Moyen Âge - The Lady and the Unicorn series of tapestries. Date: ca. 1484 – 1500 AD.
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Mantle, ca 1805. Culture: Spanish. Medium: silk, metal thread. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.
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Ancient Egyptian frog ring, c. 1543-1187 BC. Made of Egyptian blue, which was a “vibrant blue pigment, considered to be the first synthetically-produced pigment, composed of quartz sand, a copper compound, and calcium carbonate.
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The eye of a marble statue from Herculaneum, with surviving paint. Photo Credit: Herculaneum: Past and Future, by Andrew Wallace Hadrill (2011).
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Gustave Courtois - Death of Orpheus (1875).
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"Under the Protection of the Gods, 1908" - Watercolor Painting by Howard Carter.
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Head of Mars. The French School, 1800s. Private Collection (?)
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