Dark Rooks

A rook (♖ ♜ borrowed from Persian رخ rokh, Sanskrit रथ rath, "chariot") is a piece in the game of chess. In the past the piece was called the castle, tower, marquess, or rector.

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Girl Playing Knucklebones, 200 AD, Unknown

[This item is on display at the Altes Museum in Berlin]

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Terracotta Askos, 350 BC, Unknown

[This item is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art]

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Terracotta vase in the form of an astragal, 460 BC, Unknown

[This item is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art]

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Ukiyo-e Painter, 1908, Woodblock Print, Ehagaki Sekai

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Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido, 1852, Woodblock Print, Toyokuni

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Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido, 1852, Woodblock Print, Toyokuni

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Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido, 1852, Woodblock Print, Toyokuni

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Night Rain at Oyama, Unknown, Woodblock Print, Utagawa Toyokuni

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Country Scene, 1772, Woodblock Print, Tōshi-ya

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Sunset in Seta, 1857, Woodblock Print, Hiroshige

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Saint George and the Dragon, 1910, Allan Gairdner Wyon 

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Saint George fighting the dragon, 1509, Michel Colombe

[This item is on display at the Louvre Museum in Paris]

(Photo - Jebulon)

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St. George and the Dragon, 12th Century, Unknown

[This item is on display at the Walters Art Msueum in Baltimore]

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Archery arm guard, 16th Century, Ivory Carving, Unknown

[This item is on display at the Museum of War in the Middle Ages in Dordogne, France.]

(Photo - Jebulon)

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Portrait of Miquel Utrillo, 1889, Oil on canvas, Santiago Rusiñol

[This item is on display at the Catalonia Museum of National Art in Spain]

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The Morphine, 1894, Oil on canvas, Santiago Rusiñol

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Romantic Novel, 1894, Oil on canvas, Santiago Rusiñol

[This item is on display at the Catalonia Museum of National Art in Spain]