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Leda

Detail gold ring depicting Leda and Zeus transformed into a swan from Thessaly, 2nd. BC (Benaki Museum)

Benaki Museum (Athens, Greece)

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Study of Angel Gabriel - Francesco Zuccarelli 

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scallop shell with transfer decal of the venus of willendorf, by shana sadeghi-ray ⋆

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• Dress.

Place of origin: Great Britain

Date: 1845-1850

Medium: Printed wool lined with glazed cotton, silk, boned, edged with braid.

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free my man there are good chances he did all that but i need him to make the late roman republic worse

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Decorated pages from the Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale University

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Women in Restoration by Isabella De Maddalena

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Mary with the Child and Singing Angels (detail), Sandro Botticelli, 1477

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Cesare Saccaggi (detail)

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- cassandra and helen- evelyn de morgan x the new barbie selfie maker

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princesses of sparta

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A student once asked anthropologist Margaret Mead, “What is the earliest sign of civilization?” The student expected her to say a clay pot, a grinding stone, or maybe a weapon. Margaret Mead thought for a moment, then she said, “A healed femur.” A femur is the longest bone in the body, linking hip to knee. In societies without the benefits of modern medicine, it takes about six weeks of rest for a fractured femur to heal. A healed femur shows that someone cared for the injured person, did their hunting and gathering, stayed with them, and offered physical protection and human companionship until the injury could mend. Mead explained that where the law of the jungle—the survival of the fittest—rules, no healed femurs are found. The first sign of civilization is compassion, seen in a healed femur.

— Ira Byock, The Best Care Possible: A Physician’s Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life (x)

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the workings of my evil little mind

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A FRAGMENTARY ROMAN BRONZE CAVALRY PARADE HELMET MASK, CIRCA LATE 2ND CENTURY A.D.

Probably depicting an Amazon, with outlined lip and finely incised diagonally striated lower lashes and chevron-patterned upper lashes, fragmentary iris rings in the eye sockets, a tongue pattern framing the forehead and temples and centering a small shell, the hair flowing in two rows of thick wavy curls down the side.

Height 14.5 cm.; width 18.3 cm.

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no homo • lenoir / bouguereau / schindler

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It’s a wonderful day on the Appian Way and you are a horrible praetorial candidate.