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irish harpist mary o’hara (1954)

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Aileen Balcon as Minerva

by Yevonde tri-colour separation negative, 1935

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Gymnopédies no. 1 played at 7-11 as a loitering deterrent

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2000-year-old green serpentine stone mask found at the base of the pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan, Mexico.

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Stained glass panels: “Triumph of Death over the Laity”, and “Triumph of Death over the Clergy”

Artist unknown, probably from the Church of Saint Herbland in Rouen, Normandy, ca. 1520-1530. The French Revolutionary authorities closed the church in 1791, and it was torn down in 1824.

Victoria & Albert Museum

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Saint Anthony Preaching to the Fish in Rimini, detail, 1518, fresco, anonymous painter from the circle of Gerolamo Tessari, Basilica di Sant’Antonio, Padua

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Bull Sculpture, Achaemenid Period (ca. 550–330 BCE) ◉▮

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Goya, "Look how solemn they are!" (¡Miren que grabes!), Plate 63 of "Los Caprichos" (1799).

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Brompton Cemetery (London, UK)

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"Woman Attacked by a Kamikiri" by Utagawa Yoshifuji, Japan, 1868. This is what an encounter with a kamikiri looked like—a mischievous yokai (monster from Japanese folklore) that attacked its victims, usually women, and mercilessly cut off their hair.