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sweeping up the alphabet

border illustrations from the hours of marguerite d'orléans, france, 15th c.

source: Paris, BnF, Latin 1156 B, fol. 135r

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The eye of a marble statue from Herculaneum, with surviving paint. Roman before 79 AD.  

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Datail — Ecce Homo, c. 1674 by Pedro de Mena † Agnus Dei (Lamb of God), circa 1635 - 1640 by Francisco de Zurbaran

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~ Pectoral ornament with human profiles and pendant discs.

Cultures: Minoan

Date: 1850-1550B.C.

Place of origin: Attica, Greece, Aegina

Medium: Gold

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Pedro de Mena - Ecce Homo (c. 1674). Detail.

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bag

Cultures/periods: Late Intermediate (early?)

Production date: 900-1430

Made in: Peru

Found/Acquired: Peru

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

Textile; bag; cotton ground weave with paired warps and camelid supplementary wefts; supplementary weft design floats entirely on surface; diagonal arrangement of interlocked rhomboidal and scroll motifs; back of bag, textile is warp-faced plain weave shaped by spreading warps in centre; warps are single at back; cream cotton with red and blue wool.

British Museum

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Jacobello di Antonello - Madonna and Child. Detail. 1500 - 1510

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Maquizcoatl -Double-headed serpent (coatl), Aztec culture (Mexico), 1400-1521, cedro wood covered with mosaic made of turquoise and red thorny oyster shell & conch shell, 20.30 x 43.30 x 5.90 cm, The British Museum.

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GIOTTO No. 31 Scenes from the Life of Christ: 15. The Arrest of Christ (detail) 1304-06 Fresco Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua

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Janiva Ellis at the Whitney Museum of American Art

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Detail from an statue of the goddess Hygeia from Feneos, Greece

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Bon Dance

Bon-odori zu

盆踊り図Attributed to:

Hanabusa Itchô

latter half of the 17th to first half of the 18th century

MEDIUM/TECHNIQUEHanging scroll; ink and color on paper

DIMENSIONSImage: 41.4 x 63.4 cm (16 5/16 x 24 15/16 in.)

CREDIT LINEWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection

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Detail of a Roman mosaic of a grinning skeleton, Pompeï - ca. 50 AD

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 Kawanabe Kyosai’s “Hyakki Yagyo”. 19th century, Japan. Ota Memorial Museum of Art

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Kimono. Taisho period (1912-1926)

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Various Antique “Lover’s Eye’ Jewellery Pieces, c. late 1700s

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Madona (detail) Edvard Munch.