ARGONAVTICA

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Sebastiansaltar der Schlosskirche Neubeuern (church in Bavaria)

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Hadrian. Statue of the Emperor Hadrian wearing the Corona Civica. Antalya Museum. Turkey.

http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

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“The Three Graces”, Antonio Canova.

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Virgil. Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis, 1798.

Typ 715.98.868

Houghton Library, Harvard University

[tierradentro]

“The Martyrdom of Saint Paul”, c.1556, Tintoretto.

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Khanjar Dagger 

Obtained by Lieutenant (later Major) William Hodson at Delhi, 1857

Hodson obtained this handsome dagger at Delhi during the Indian Mutiny (1857-1859). He probably took it from one of the royal princes when they surrendered on 21 September 1857. He is said to have stripped them of their jewellery and weapons before shooting them.

Alternatively, he may have obtained them later on at the sale of treasure organised by Delhi prize agents on the roof of a house overlooking the ‘Diwan-i-Khas’ (King’s audience chambers) at the Red Fort. Contemporaries estimated the auctioned treasure to be worth over half a million pounds.

Source: Copyright © 2013 National Army Museum

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Picture in Picture

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Hector and Astyanax, 1854. Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. France, Valenciennes, Musee des Beaux Arts

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[midwinter-tears]

Neapolitan Lighthouse - Ivan Aivazovsky

1842

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Copie d’anonyme grec  Musée du Louvre  Hermaphrodite endormie

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Moisés Huerta  Roma  1910 detail

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The Winged Victory of Samothrace. It’s from the second century BCE, and it represents the Greek god of victory, Nike. It was made to commemorate a successful sea battle.

[centuriespast]

FRÉMIN, René

A Companion of Diana

1717

Marble, height 180 cm

Musée du Louvre, Paris

[tierradentro]

“Ixion" (with detail), 1632, Jusepe de Ribera.

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