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Glass hunt-and-scroll bottle - Rome, 1st century
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Sunlight and Shadow, 1862 by Albert Bierstadt (German-born American, 1830–1902)
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god will reward me for my suffering by allowing me to pull off a crazy scheme
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Wedding dress ca. 1895
From Vintage Textile (archived)
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Tea Towels - Cindy Rizza , 2025.
American, b. 1984 -
Oil on linen , 61 x 76 in.
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It's crazy how many people use Death of the Author to mean "separating the art from the artist" when it's actually not supposed to have anything to do with who the author is as a person and is supposed to be about the idea that the author's interpretation of their own work should not be seen as the definitive, correct opinion on that work. Like you're not supposed to invoke Death of the Author when JK Rowling devotes her entire life and fortune to transphobia, you're supposed to invoke it when Trent Reznor says Closer by Nine Inch Nails isn't a sex song.
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Ancient Egyptian Senet gaming board inscribed for Amenhotep III with separate sliding drawer, ca. 1390–1353 BCE.
Faience, glazed, 23⁄16 × 31⁄16 × 81⁄4 in. (5.5 × 7.7 × 21 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 49.56a-b.
The Egyptians used a pigment called "Egyptian blue," which is a calcium copper silicate, to dye faience blue; this blue color was achieved by mixing copper compounds with silica and calcium carbonate, then firing the mixture at high temperatures to create the pigment.
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this website lets you listen to the sounds of all different forests around the world
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