u/Fuckoff555 — reddlx

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The main altarpiece of the Miraflores Charterhouse in Burgos, Spain, made between 1496 and 1499 CE. It was carved in wood by the artist Gil de Siloé and polychrome and gilded by Diego de la Cruz (whose gold came from the first shipments of the Americas after its discovery) [2736x3648]

u/Fuckoff555 — 3 hours ago

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A 10,000-year-old rock painting of figure smoking a beehive, located in Zimbabwe [2660x3597]

u/Fuckoff555 — 10 hours ago

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An aureus showing the Roman politician and general Marcus Antonius (83-30 BCE) and his son Marcus Antonius Antyllus (47-30 BCE) [402x804]

u/Fuckoff555 — 10 hours ago

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Excavations at the ancient city of Eridu, in Iraq, uncovered a sequence of 18 superimposed mudbrick temples built directly on top of one another over millennia (from 5300 to 3200 BCE). The temple, which began as a 2m×3m mud brick square with a niche, is dedicated to the god Enki [979x775]

u/Fuckoff555 — 10 hours ago

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The Ecce Homo chapel on the Sacro Monte di Varallo in Italy, made in 1609 CE. The Sacro Monte di Varallo comprises the minor basilica and 45 chapels, populated by 800 life size painted statues, in wood and terracotta, that illustrate the life, passion, death and resurrection of Christ [1440x1920]

u/Fuckoff555 — 4 days ago

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The Peacock Skirt is an 1893 illustration by Aubrey Beardsley. It shows a rear quarter view of the Jewish princess Salome, wearing a long robe decorated with stylised peacock feather pattern [3545x4941]

u/Fuckoff555 — 4 days ago

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“Mazda-worshipping Shapur, king of kings of Iran”, garnet intaglio, Iran, 3rd–4th century CE, now housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris [615x755]

u/Fuckoff555 — 3 days ago

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A 14th century CE Byzantine gold ring with the name Theodoros Silibritzianos, now part of the Guy Ladrière Collection [2048x3071]

u/Fuckoff555 — 4 days ago

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In the interior of the west façade of the Reims Cathedral, in France, much of the original stained glass (from the 13th century CE) remains, though it has gone through several restorations. The centre of the west rose window depicts the Dormition of the Virgin [1376x2048]

u/Fuckoff555 — 6 days ago

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A plait ornament (Jadanagam) from India, made of gold, and inset with rock crystal, rubies, emeralds, and amethysts. 18th–19th century CE, now housed at the Metropolitan Museum [1386x1977]

u/Fuckoff555 — 6 days ago

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A large Neo-Assyrian lapis lazuli cylinder seal from Babylon in Iraq, and dated to the reign of the king Esarhaddon (680–669 BCE), depicting the storm god Adad, standing on a stylized pedestal, with bolts of lightning in his hands, and a lion-dragon on a leash lying at his feet [664x934]

u/Fuckoff555 — 5 days ago

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The Relief of Three Dancing Nymphs is a marble relief found in Libya, believed to be a Roman-period Athenian copy (25 BCE–100 CE) of a now-lost 4th-century BCE original by the sculptor Praxiteles. Now housed at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in California [988x798]

u/Fuckoff555 — 6 days ago

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A Nazca wool belt adorned with a series of 54 birds, from Peru, 1st-7th century CE [1089x768]

u/Comfortable_Cut5796 — 3 days ago

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The Assumption of the Virgin (1717–1725 CE) located in the abbey church of Rohr in Germany. The dynamic sculptural group depicts life-size figures of the Apostles surrounding an empty tomb while the Virgin Mary seemingly floats up to heaven supported by angels [3072x4096]

u/Fuckoff555 — 9 days ago

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A prehistoric rock engraving located at the Aïn Naga archaeological site near Djelfa, Algeria, depicting a man and a woman known as "The Shy Lovers". 7650-6670 BCE [2418x4794]

u/Fuckoff555 — 9 days ago

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The Jalalabad seal is a late 3rd millennium BCE cylinder seal reportedly found in Fars, Iran. It features a scene showing a male supernatural character with snakes spreading out of his body, probably a divinity, and 3 women bowed for worship or submission in front of him [562x840]

u/-Geistzeit — 9 days ago

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A Tuareg crouches by shoulder of large engraved giraffe in Oued Djerat, Algeria. According to the French explorer and ethnographer Henri Lhote, the rock engravings of Oued Djerat date back more than 7000 years. He estimated that they comprise more than 4,000 drawings [537x800]

u/Fuckoff555 — 11 days ago

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A bronze statuette of 2 wrestlers grasping each other’s girdles and balancing jars on their heads. From Khafajah, 2600-2370 BCE, now housed at the Iraq Museum in Baghdad [2355x4761]

u/Fuckoff555 — 11 days ago

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Royal boots made of glass beads, cloth and leather. Yoruba culture (from Nigeria, Benin or Togo), 19th century CE, now housed at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts [709x660]

u/Fuckoff555 — 10 days ago

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A Hittite ivory plaque with winged sun-disks, from Megiddo, 1400-1200 BCE, now housed at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures in Chicago [676x1420]

u/Fuckoff555 — 11 days ago