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ab. 1475-1480 The Cloisters Playing Cards by South Netherlandish master

King of Horns / Queen of Horns / Knave of Horns

King of Nooses / Queen of Nooses / Knave of Nooses

King of Collars / Queen of Collars / Knave of Collars

King of Tethers / Queen of Tethers / Knave of Tethers

(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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genichiro is so fine

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Silver tetradrachm (13.48 g) of Rhodes, minted between 205 and 190 BCE (Hellenistic period). The obverse shows the sun god Helios, readily identifiable by his radiant crown. While relatively unimportant in cult elsewhere in the Greek world, Helios was the patron deity of Rhodes. According to a mythical account already found in Pindar and popular in the Hellenistic age, Helios had been absent when the Earth was portioned out among the various deities. Upon his return, he sensed that a new island was about to rise from the sea and requested it from Zeus as his portion. The reverse bears a rose, punning on the Greek name of the island, Rhodos.

Photo credit: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

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Jan Štábl - Reenactment photography: Májový sněm 1315 (2021)

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Fate, Purpose, Destiny (Erica Peebus, 2023). (via Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia)

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Velvet brocade purse, Northern European, late 15th century. From The Cloisters Collection, 1952.

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Head of a Woman with the Horns of a Ram (detail), 1853, by Jean Léon Gérôme.

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Icon of St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki, silver plate on wood with a steatite plaque

Byzantine, 13th-14th century

from The Kremlin Museum

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Guinevere and Iseult: Cartoon for Stained Glass, William Morris. 1862.

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Praise!

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Robert Bateman - The Three Ravens (The Dead Knight), 1868

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Il bagno nel bosco (A bath in the woods) by Augusto Corelli (Italian painter, 1853-1918)

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