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Bronze ceremonial helmet of a high-ranking warrior, 1500-1100 BC
Bronze ceremonial helmet of a high-ranking warrior, 1500-1100 BC. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Cupid and Psyche, Jacob Jordaens, 17th Century
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Portrait of a woman in Russian dress with a pearl necklace
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Mosaic glass bowl in dark blue and milk white, 1st century BC, in the Getty Museum collection
Bowl of translucent dark blue and milk-white mosaic glass, 1st century BC. Collection of the Getty Museum
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The Palace of Knossos, a Postcard of 1900
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How do you like the nereids at the base of the Fountain of Neptune in Bologna, mid-sixteenth century, by the sculptor Giambologna?
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The Exquisite Clouds of the German Artist Otto Modersohn, 1892
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The Seal of Cyrus the Great
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Villa with a white colonnade on a sandy hill
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The exhibition "Art and Sensuality in the Houses of Pompeii" at the Great Palaestra runs until 15 January 2023
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Ascalaphus, Hades’ gardener, is turned into an owl for betraying Persephone’s secret
Ascalaphus, Hades' gardener, is turned into an owl as punishment for revealing that Persephone had tasted the food of the dead, pomegranate seeds, and so cannot return to the world of the living. Ovid's Metamorphoses
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