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Detail, The School of Venus, or the ladies delight: Reduced into rules of Practice, Michel Millot, 1680.
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Stag with Herb Branch Mounted as a Ring. Date: 1567. Collection: Art Institute of Chicago. Size: Diameter: 2.2 cm (13/16 in.) Medium: Gold, enamel, ruby, opals, and pearls.
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Bactrian Statuette of an Indian Elephant. Date: c. 1000 BC. Medium: Terracotta. Private Collection.
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Dance of the Sabbath. Illustration from History of Magic by Paul Christian, Paris, 1870. Fantasy scene of nocturnal circle dance at a (European) witches' sabbath paralleling dance at Huilliche Latua ceremony (note also goat-headed Devil presiding). © Cornell University.
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Egyptian Bronze Ba-Bird Figurine, Roman Imperial Period, 2nd Century AD. The falcon body has the human head of a pharaoh. He wears the double-crown of which only the red crown of Lower Egypt is preserved, the upper part is missing. Private Collection.
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Site guards at closing time on the Acropolis, 1954. Photographer: ©Robert McCabe
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Aegean Memories, Temple of Poseidon, Cape Sounion. Photographer Robert McCabe, 1954.
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Mask stone, is a granite Viking Age memorial runestone that was discovered in Aarhus, Denmark. The inscription features a facial mask and memorializes a man who died in a battle. Date: c.1000 AD. Photographer: Gardar Rurak via Wikimedia Commons.
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A cat and pigeon strapped with rocket bombs from a 1584 German warfare manual by Franz Helm. Title: Feuer Buech [manuscript]. Collection: Penn Libraries & BibliOdyssey.
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Black Cats. Detail from the Bestiary, England. Date: c. 13th century. Collection: Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 533, fol. 13r.
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Female Figurine. Period: Late Palaeolithic Period. Date: c. 23.000-21.000 B.C. Archaeological site: Kostenky I settlement on the Don River, Russia. Material: Limestone Collection: Hermitage Museum.
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Ceremonial Dagger Dated: mid-19th century. Culture: French. Measurements: overall length 43 cm. The bronze hilt is depicting Death wrapped in a mantle and a snake on the quillon. Copyright © Czerny’s International Auction House S.R.L.
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Locket ring belonging to Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1575. It wasn’t discovered until her death that the ring opened up to reveal two portraits of her and her mother Queen Anne Boleyn (?). Photo Credit: © Bridgeman Images & Historic Royal Palaces.
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“Assyrian” Comb by Eugene-Samuel Grasset (1845-1917), Paul Vever (1851-1915), and Henri Vever (1854-1942). Date: c. 1900. Medium: Horn, repousse gold, cloisonne enamel, and sapphires. Collection: Musee des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Petit Palais.
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Torso of a fertility goddess (yakshi) from the Great Stupa at Sanchi. Date: c.25 BC-AD 25, Sunga period, Sanchi, Stupa 1, Madhya Pradesh, Central India Medium: sandstone. . Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, US.
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Model house. Place of origin: China. Culture/Period: Han Dynasty. Date: c.200 BC - 220 AD. Medium: Unglazed, modeled, and incised earthenware. Collection & Credit: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth.
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Still-Life with a Skull by Philippe de Champaigne (1602–1674). Collection: Musée de Tessé.
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Snake water pitcher by Gorham Manufacturing Company Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Medium: Sterling Silver. Date: 1885. Collection: MFA, Boston.
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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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A abracadabrangle (1726). Detail from the Pierre Guarin’s Grammaticae Hebraicae et Chaldaicae, ex optimis quae hactenus prodierunt, nova facilique methodo concinnatae, tomus II (Paris: Typis Jacobi Collombat, 1726-1728).
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Last Supper in Pompeii: Skeleton Mosaic. This decorative mosaic which would have been set into the dining room floor in Pompeii shows a grinning skeleton holding two Askoi or wine jugs.
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Snake ring. Place of origin: Egypt. Culture: Hellenistic. Date: c. 200-1 B.C. Collecttion: The Fitzwilliam Museum, UK.
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The Deluge (detail) by Gustave Doré, c. 1866.
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