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Max Beckmann (1884-1950, German) ~ Türkenbundlilien, 1937

[Source: Sotheby’s]

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Beach, Joseph Mallord William Turner, c.1824

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The Crucifix (detail). Alberto Sotio ~ ca.1187 Thanx koredzas.tumblr.com

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Mask of a Satyr. Pompeii ~ 1st century AD Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli • via Bibliothèque Infernale on FB

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Rothko

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Śrī Viṣṇu in Trivikrama form during Vāmana Avatāra

The massive cosmic form assumed by Śrī Viṣṇu during Vāmana Avatāra the dwarf incarnation when he spanned the heavens and earth in one step, and pushed the Rākṣasa king Mahābalī into the netherworld with the third step.

Nepāla, 19th Century CE

Opaque watercolor on paper

LACMA

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David S. Herrerias >> Coatl.

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Rufino Tamayo (Mexican, 1899-1991), El Médico [The Doctor], 1930. Oil on canvas, 59.9 x 45.4 cm.

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Woman sitting in an armchair, Pablo Picasso

https://www.wikiart.org/en/pablo-picasso/woman-sitting-in-an-armchair-1941

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Ulysses and sirens, 1946, Pablo Picasso

Size: 450x300 cm Medium: oil on panel

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Capricorn and Aquarius with two lunar mansions in Capricorn, Persian Manuscript 373, Wellcome Collection, London.

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Twee ontwerpen voor een kelk van aardewerk, 1920, Museum of the Netherlands

http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.246200

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Fig.1: Detail of Buddha’s hands. Mustang caves in Nepal ~ ca.13th century

Fig. 2, 3, 4: illuminations from Sarvadurgatipariśodhanasamādhi (Nepal, 1866), a Tantric Buddhist text containing a series of instructions for the hand-gestures (mudrās) and rites for the elimination of fateful destinies, aimed at procuring a better rebirth for the dead and a better life for the living • via Bibliothèque Infernale on FB

Full manuscript, via Cambridge University Library:

http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-01278/1