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Untitled. Italian work of the 17th century. Painted by a follower of Vincenzo Campi. Oil on canvas, 57 x 47 cm. The painting was sold at Gros & Delettrez in 2012 with an estimate of 2,000 to 3,000 Euros.
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Untitled. Italian work of the 17th century. Painted by a follower of Vincenzo Campi. Oil on canvas, 57 x 47 cm. The painting was sold at Gros & Delettrez in 2012 with an estimate of 2,000 to 3,000 Euros.

u/1O218 — 7 days ago
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When you buy a unicorn from Temu

Physiologus , in the Dicta Chrysostomi form. Williram von Ebersberg, Expositio in Cantica Canticorum. Decorated Manuscript in Latin on vellum. Germany, Erfurt, Saint-Peter's Abbey, c. 1150-1180. c. 175 x 132 mm. Details from: f. 65r, f. 66r.

u/1O218 — 7 days ago
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All hail the borb!

Rochechouart Hours, use of Rome. Manuscript on vellum, illuminated by a master from the circle of Jean Poyer and Giovanni Todeschino. France, Tours, c. 1500 (before 1504).

u/1O218 — 8 days ago
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"ok, which one of you pooped on the carpet?"

Manuscript - Bibliothèque Nationale de France, lat. 16169 [De animalibus], folio 286r

CONTEXT - Albertus Magnus, dressed as a bishop holding a crozier, introduces the quadrupedal animals, including sheep, goat, ape, horse, dog, lion, stag, elephant, boar, hedgehog (with fruit stuck to its spines), and others.

u/1O218 — 11 days ago
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who let the dogs out

France [Loire School]; circa 1500.

Context - Dives sits at a dining table with his wife, and watches as Lazarus, surrounded by dogs, begs in the street, and is chased by Dives' servants

u/1O218 — 12 days ago
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happy bats

Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 304, 13th Century

u/1O218 — 14 days ago