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Carnelian stamp seal featuring a kitty, Minoan, 1900-1600 BC

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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so.plein air april

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Cylinder seal with winged hero with bull and lion, Neo-Babylonian, 7th century BC

from The Morgan Library & Museum

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Carved ivory whip handle in the shape of a horse, Egypt, 1390-1350 BC

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Red figure calyx-krater depicting the abductions of Europa, crafted in Paestra, Greek Southern Italy (Magna Graecia), circa 380 BC

from The Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University

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Yuzen-painted geisha hikizuri.  Late-Meiji era (1890-1912).  This is a remarkable antique hikizuri - geisha dancing dress - with its vivid hawk, wave and pine motifs vividly created utilizing masterful yuzen-painting, sumi e painting, and silk and metallic embroidery. 48" from sleeve-end to sleeve-end x 67" height. In Japan, the hawk and pine tree in combination usually represents the power and longevity of the Tokugawa shogun. The Tokugawa shogunate was a feudal regime of Japan established by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family. This period is known as the Edo period and gets its name from the capital city, Edo, which now is called Tokyo. The Tokugawa shogunate ruled from Edo Castle from 1603 until 1868, when it was abolished during the Meiji Restoration.  The Kimono Gallery.

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~ Ariadne and Dionysus.

Period: Late Roman/Late Antiquity

Date: A.D. 3rd-5th century

Place of origin: Achmim, Egypt

Medium: Wool on linen, colored knitting

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Didrachm with head of Hercules (obverse) and she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus (reverse)

Roman, Republican Period, 269-266 B.C.

silver

British Museum

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the book of ornamental alphabets, ancient & medieval, on the internet archive

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Alien Covenant (behind the scenes)

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Bronze Etruscan applique with mermaid head (4th Century BC)

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A short animation of my cat Merlin begging to be fed. He usually starts this a full hour before food time.

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i know the development of the contrapposto was an important turning point in the history of greek art and i agree it's sexy as hell but there's something about a kouros that really speaks to me. i love me a classical statue but a kouros is just so cunty. the stiff posture, the archaic smile. and that one little foot forward? girl you shouldn't have.

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tng weed tribute!!!!!!

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Medieval marijuana, from a 12th-century medical and herbal collection: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/miniatures-from-a-12th-century-medical-and-herbal-collection

The Latin at the bottom reads: “Grows but in waste places, and at roadsides, and along hedges. The very best medicine for healing.”

Happy420 #fourtwenty #420day

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Omg this is like 800 metaphors rolled into one megaphor