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Morris Graves

American, 1910–2001. Cat with Red Cabbage, 1935

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Tuscany, Italy 🇮🇹

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Kitagawa Utamaro: The Hour of the Boar

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Rare Viking Gold Ring with Owl Faces Circa 900-1100 AD

A beautiful gold ring comprising a circular band with dotted decoration and an elaborate bezel with coiled and ribbed decoration that takes the form of two owls faces. In Norse mythology some associate the owl with Frigg, the wife of Odin and goddess of wisdom, marriage, and fertility.

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▪︎ Automaton in the form of a galley.

Date: 1626

Artist: Georg Burrer, (turning) (worked in Stuttgart 1598/99-1627), Georg Ernst, (turning work) (died after 1634), Christoph Schorkfel (mechanics)

Medium: Ivory, brass, linen, silk; Movement: iron

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Soviet art. Taiga Awakened by V. Yanke (published, 1978)

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Winter Landscape by Jacob Cats

Dutch, 1779

pencil and ink on paper

Rijksmuseum

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Jade tankard inlaid with gold, rubies, and emeralds, Turkey, circa 1550-1650

from The Victoria & Albert Museum

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Grindelwald , Switzerland🇨🇭

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Arch of Constantine in Rome, is a triumphal arch that is located between the Palatine Hill and Celio, on the Via Triumphalis. It was erected in the year 315 to commemorate the victory of Constantine I the Great, against Maxentius in the battle of the Milvian Bridge (year 312).

Its state of conservation is extraordinary, being with the Arch of Titus and the Arch of Septimius Severus (both in the Forum) the only ones still standing today in the city of Rome.

It is curious because it was built with pieces from different buildings, such as statues taken from Trajan's Forum and reliefs in which Marcus Aurelius appears distributing bread to the poor, and Trajan represented after his victory in Dacia. The monument is made up of three arches and is 21 m high and 25 m wide.

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The Hunterston Brooch, 700CE, likely Dunadd, Argyll, The National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

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Hallstatt Early Iron Age Small Spiral Brooch Found With A Female, 8th to 5th Century BCE, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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Head of Pharaoh

*New Kingdom

* Egyptian Museum, Turin

Turin, June 2023

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Rolf Ohst (German, b. 1952)

Amnesia, 2016

Oil on canvas

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Adolf Fassbender, Total Eclipse, 1925

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On board of the barque Europa

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Evgeny Lushpin