Archaeology & Art(@archaeologyart)さんの人気ツイート(リツイート順)

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Pietro Befulco - Coronation of the Virgin Between Saint John the Baptist and Saint Jerome. Detail. 1492.
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Picture stone depicting a spiral motif and animals thought to be horses. Date: c. 1st-6th century AD. Collection: Gotlands Museum, Sweden. Photographer: Wolfgang Sauber via Wikimedia Commons.
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Carved sard plaque from a bracelet. Depicting a sphinx with a cartouche of King Amenhotep III. Culture: Egyptian. Date: c. 1390-1352 BC. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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The Persians adopted the Lydian tradition of minting coins following their conquer of Lydia in 547 BC. The shown example below is of the obverse and reverse of a double daric of Artaxerxes II, ca. 330–300 BC. Cabinet des Médailles, France. Photo taken by Marie-Lan Nguyen.
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Wall painting depicting scene in the Nile marshes, animals in a papyrus thicket, showing a genet and a mongoose hunting among bird-filled marsh. 1550-1292 BC. Now in the Louvre Museum.
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Silence is also conversation by Balaji Ponna. Medium:acrylic on canvas, 2017.
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Head of a Cat. Place of origin: Egypt. Period: Late Period. Date: c. 712-332 B.C. Medium: Bronze. Collection: Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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Ancient buddha statue under full moon - Old temple at Prasat Nakhon Luang, Ayutthaya, Thailand. Photo: Stock Image.
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Egypt, 1958. At the tomb of Ramses II. Photo by Elliott Erwitt / Magnum.
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Arachne, detail from the Ovide Moralisé, Paris ca. 1330. Collection: Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Ms 5069, fol. 78r. Arachne, (Greek: “Spider”) in Greek mythology, the daughter of Idmon of Colophon in Lydia, a dyer in purple.
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Briton Rivière - A Roman Holiday (1881).
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Detail, Salvator Mundi by Ambrosius Benson (Lombardy c. 1495-1550).
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Painted wooden ushabti of Ka-ha, Chief of Painters. Artist unknown; ca. 1279-1186 BCE (19th Dynasty, New Kingdom). Found at Deir el-Medina; now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
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Hellenistic Greek gold ring engraved with an image of a goddess, perhaps Nike Apteros (Wingless Nike), dated to the 4th century BC. Private Collection.
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Hellenistic or Roman bronze head of an athlete, dated to the 2nd to 1st centuries BC, likely after a 4th century BC original by Lysippos. Currently located in the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. #museumweek
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Janiform kantharos with addorsed heads of a male African and a female Greek. Date: ca. 480–470 B.C. Period: Greek, Attic. The Princeton University Museum of Art.
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Spiral Bracelet in the Shape of a Snake. Culture: Greek. Date: 3rd century B.C. Place of finding: Russia, Krasnodar Territory. Taman Peninsula, on Vasurinskaya Mountain. Material: gold. Collection: Hermitage Museum.
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Petroglyph depicting mountain sheep. Date: c. AD 600–1300. Place of origin: Sand Tank, Inyo County, California. Medium: Basalt. Collection & Credit: The National Museum of the American Indian.
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Souls in purgatory, looking up at the wounds of Christ and at the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart. Medium: Watercolour. Date: between 1700 and 1799 (?). Collection & Credit: Wellcome Collection.
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Josse Lieferinxe - The Crucifixion, Detail. (1500 - 1505)
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German Tournament Targe. Shields of this shape were inspired by Hungarian light-cavalry shields and were adopted in Germany and Austria for the Hussarisch Turnier. The German motto around the owl reads in translation, Although I am the hated bird, I rather enjoy that. 1499.
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The Mulberry Tree by Vincent Van Gogh. “As long as Autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colours enough to paint the beautiful things I see"
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Early Bronze Age Stone Double-Headed Disc-Shaped Figurine and Child. Place of Origin: Central/Western Anatolia, modern-day Turkey. Medium: Stone. Date: c: 3000 BC to 2500 BC. Collection - Photo Credit: Private Collection & Barakat Gallery.