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Roman Carved Rock Crystal Fish. Date: c. 1st Century AD. Credit & Collection: Timeline Auctions.
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Venus in a Shell by Carlo Finelli (1847)
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Egyptian Ring. Decorated with flowers & baguettes. Medium: Gold, lapis, turquoise & carnelian. Period: New Kingdom. Collection & Photograph: Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Christian Decamps.
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Elephant Angel by Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd Ṭūsī. Detail from the "Ajāyib al-makhlūqāt va-gharāyib al-mawjūdāt", Baghdad, 1388 AD. Collection: BnF, Supplément persan 332, fol. 15r.
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Painted wooden cippus showing Horus standing on crocodiles surmounted by the head of Bes. Culture: Egypt. Date: Late period (from 664 BC to 332 BC). Collection: British Museum.
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Shaman’s Amulet. Carved in the form of an embryonic anthro/zoomorphic figure. Place of origin: Tsimshian, Northern British Columbia, around 1840. Photo Credit: The Thomson Collection © Art Gallery of Ontario.
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Statuette of the Goddess Taweret. Culture: Egypt, Ptolemaic Period. Date: 332–30 B.C. Medium: Glassy faience. Geography: Northern Upper Egypt, Qena area. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 134.
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Detail, Perseus and Andromeda by David Teniers the Younger. Collection: Museum Wuyts-Van Campen en Baron Caroly, Lier, Belgium. Image via Bibliothèque Infernale on FB.
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Giovanni Segantini – The Bell Ringer, 1879-80. Image via Arthur Digital Museum.
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Group of terracotta scent/perfume bottles. Culture: Greek, Rhodian. Findspot: Kamiros, Rhodes, Greece. Date: c. 610-550 BC. Collection: British Museum.
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The Great Hercules by Hendrik Goltzius, 1589. Medium: engraving on laid paperCredit & Collection: Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
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Votive Statuette. Date: c. 300–200 B.C. Culture: Etruscan. On view at Getty Villa.This statuette represents a male torso with an incision from the breast bone to the abdomen that exposes the internal organs. The dedicator perhaps suffered from stomach or intestinal problems.
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Indigenous Aymara mummy seated inside his stone tomb with little containers and ceramic bowls, South America. Ancient grey tone etching style art by Riou, Magasin Pittoresque, 1838.
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Bronze statuette of a veiled and masked dancer. Culture: Greek, 3rd–2nd century B.C. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, via their online collections, 1972.118.95.
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A Naiad or Hylas with a Nymph (1893) by John William Waterhouse (1849–1917). Oil on canvas, 66 x 127 cm (25.9 x 50 in). Private collection.
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Vassar college girls practicing Greek dances, 1923.
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Snake pendant of the Ebrié people, Lagunes region, southern Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa. Date: c. 19th century. Collection & Credit: Brooklyn Museum.
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Detail of a relief depicts backward-bending acrobats. Originally from the Red Chapel of Hatshepsut or the Chapelle rouge. On major religious holidays all Thebes came alive with music and merrymaking and entertainers performed for the pleasure of the masses. Photograph:Alamy.
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A grotesque Burgonet for the armor of Guidobaldo della Rovvera, Duke of Urbino, attributed to Filippo Negroli, Milan, Italy, ca. 1535. Collection: State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.
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Gem hunting. Detail from the "Le secret de l'histoire naturelle, France ca. 1480-1485". Collection: BnF, Français 22971, fol. 57r.
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“Danse Macabre” woodcut by Hans Holbein, 1526.
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The Devil’s Daughter by Margaret Lindsay Williams, 1917.
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One of the iconic Caryatids overlooking the city of Athens. Photographer: Walter Hege (1893-1955).
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Details from the Prodigiorum et ostentarum chronicon by Lycosthenes, Conrad. Date: 1557. Collection: Royal Collection Trust.
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Detail, Still life with Ivory Pokal between Fruit and Porcelan Plate with Grapes by Johann Georg Hinz (Hainz), German, 1639-1688. Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Hampel Auctions.
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