A museum curator shows the object in detail in a YouTube video
The Horned Max is kept in the collection of the Royal Armouries in Leeds.
Here a museum curator shows it in detail: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xMCI5vw_YgU
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Zurbarán exhibition at the Louvre opens with the 1627 “Crucifixion” from the Art Institute of Chicago
The Surbarán exhibition at the Louvre opens with the "Crucifixion" that launched the painter's fame in Seville in 1627. The Dominicans of the monastery of San Pablo el Real commissioned 21 paintings from the young Surbarán, and this vast canvas, almost three metres high, became the
Congressman Raskin proposes Smithsonian exhibition on Trump's propaganda
Jamie Raskin, the Democratic congressman for Maryland, has introduced in the US House of Representatives a bill that would oblige the Smithsonian Institution to create a permanent exhibition on the propaganda of Donald Trump. The bill is entitled the "Preserving and Remembering the History of Trump and Other Tyrants
Bronze Gallic bracelet of the 3rd or 2nd century BC from the Bucquoy necropolis
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How silver became the basis of the Ming tax system and why its shortage destroyed the dynasty
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