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Nude at the Window by Paul Paede (1913)

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Undine (sculpture), 1904 - 1988.

by Isamu Noguchi.

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UNESCO-Welterbe Markgräfliches Opernhaus Bayreuth by baroqueblockbuster.

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St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh, Northern Ireland, Christmas morning.

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This is badass: Medieval Nubian Fashion Brought to Life. Click through to the link because there’s more replica clothing and it is all stunning!

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Memento Mori Ring, anonymous, c. 1620 - c. 1650

The passage in the opened book ‘’t Leven is mijn Christi, Sterven is mijn Gewin’ (For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain), the skull with the hourglass, and the angel reminded the ring’s wearer of the transience of earthly life. Inscribed on the inside of it is: ‘ons leven is een schadú op aerde’ (our life on earth is a shadow). (Source)

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Details by François Flaming 

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An Egyptian Faience Scarab, New Kingdom, 18TH dynasty, reign of Hatshepsut, 1473-1458 B.C.

Green in color, the well-detailed beetle with the underside containing her royal prenomen flanked by cobras, each head surmounted by a solar disk, a winged sun-disk with pendant cobras above

½ in. (1.3 cm.) long; ring size 4 ½ x

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Nature Inspired: Golden Cicada Resting On a Jade Leaf

Exquisite ornament of the Ming dynasty.

Total weight of the insect figurine, made of 95% pure gold, is 4.65 g. The thickness of the finely crafted wings is only 2 mm.

Unearthed in Boshiwu (博士塢), Wufeng Mountain, Suzhou. Now exhibited in Nanjing Museum (南京博物院).

Photo: ©南京博物院

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Pectoral and Necklace of Sithathoryunet with the Name of Senwosret II, Middle Kingdomca. 1887–1878 B.C.

„Hieroglyphic signs make up the design, and the whole may be read: The god of the rising sun grants life and dominion over all that the sun encircles for one million one hundred thousand years [i.e., eternity] to King Khakheperre [Senwosret II].”

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Gold diadem with carnelian Herakles knot, Macedonia, 3rd-2nd century BC

from The Walters Art Museum

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Ancient Roman amethyst intaglio showing Pan, the pastoral god, playing pipes under a crescent moon and a leaning tree, with a goat observing.

Dated between the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. The gold ring setting is of a later date.

Collection & Credit: Sands of Time Ancient Art.

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~ Ring Inscribed with Hieroglyphs.

Place of origin: Egypt

Date: 305–30 B.C.

Medium: Gold

▪︎ From the source: Upon death, people who were thought to have lived moral lives were reborn in the afterlife as a form of the god Osiris. This ring is inscribed with the title “Osiris,” followed by the owner’s names and titles, attesting to his faith that he would become one with the god after death.

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We have always loved and we will continue to love. Oh, the beauty of human connection!

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The Shape of Ideas