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i want to help more people experience art and history check out 9,000+ years of human art and history in one place: https://museumoftheweb.vercel.app

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Inlay / Bead Blank with Face

100 BC-100AD,  Egyptian Art in the Ptolemaic Period–Roman Period

"A mosaic glass technique allowed multiples of an image to be created: a figural or design composition was made by bundling colored glass canes, which were then drawn out into a long bar. The bar was then sectioned at right angles, probably by striking the bar with appropriate tools, to produce small inlay tiles. The tile would then be smoothed and polished on the face intended to appear outwards."

Source: Museum of the Web

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Inlay / Bead Blank with Face

100 BC-100AD,  Egyptian Art in the Ptolemaic Period–Roman Period

"A mosaic glass technique allowed multiples of an image to be created: a figural or design composition was made by bundling colored glass canes, which were then drawn out into a long bar. The bar was then sectioned at right angles, probably by striking the bar with appropriate tools, to produce small inlay tiles. The tile would then be smoothed and polished on the face intended to appear outwards."

Source: Museum of the Web

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Jun’ichiro Sekino, 1914-1988 "Lovesick Cat"

関野準一郎「恋猫 love sick cat」木版画

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Earrings: 6th century Korea

Found on: Museum of the Web

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Figure of a Baboon

664-525 BCE, Egypt

found on: Museum of The Web - a site I'm building to help people discover 9,000+ years of art from museums all over the world, all in one place. If you check it out, I'd really love to hear from you! :)

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Portrait of a Young Man

artist: Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano), an Italian artist. Painted in 1480

found on: Museum of The Web - a site I'm building to help people discover 9,000+ years of art from museums all over the world, all in one place. If you check it out, I'd really love to hear from you! :)

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why am i building museum of the web?

i want more people to see and experience history, art, beauty. instead of doomscrolling on instagram or tiktok, i want more people to see great works and be reminded of how small our existence is on this planet. i want people to be able to discover works they never would have been able to see before. i want people to see works and be inspired to create their own, or learn about a civilization they never heard of before. i want people to see the little finger marks in a piece of pottery, or the speckles of paint left by someone's hand hundreds or thousands of years ago. i want more art and beauty and culture for everyone.

i want to connect people through art, and help people feel a little less alone in this world through art.

also should i call it patina instead? i feel like museum of the web has a nice ring to it but i don't want it to sound like it's a museum about the internet or something

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Marble Seated Harp Player

Cycladic art, from 2800-2700 BCE

Source: Museum of The Web, a site I'm building to help people discover 9,000+ years of human creation from museums around the world, all in one place.

I'd like to keep improving the site and helping more people discover art! If you check it out, let me know what you think :)

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Roman Terracotta Oil Lamp - 1st century CE

Found on: Museum of The Web - a site I'm building to help people discover 9,000+ years of art from museums all over the world, all in one place. If you check it out, I'd love to hear from you! :)'

I'll be posting some of the highlights I've discovered through the site on Tumblr. Follow along!

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Proto-elamite Boar 🥹

From 3100-2900 BCE

Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Source link: https://museumoftheweb.vercel.app/object/met-326617

see more cute animal representations in ancient art here! https://museumoftheweb.vercel.app/exhibit/e2e19e1b-fc7e-4cbb-badd-4260ca294cfc

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Reason and Instinct - Sun and Moon

Renato Christiano - 1958

Found on: Museum of the Web - currently at The Getty Museum

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Outer Robe (Uchikake) with Phoenixes and Paulownia

20th century Japan

Source: Museum of the Web - The Metropolitan Museum

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Proto-elamite Boar 🥹

From 3100-2900 BCE

Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Source link: https://museumoftheweb.vercel.app/object/met-326617

see more cute animal representations in ancient art here! https://museumoftheweb.vercel.app/exhibit/e2e19e1b-fc7e-4cbb-badd-4260ca294cfc

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4600 year old necklace from Sumerian civilization

Medium: Gold, lapis lazuli

Source: https://museumoftheweb.vercel.app/object/met-322910

Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[exhaled-spirals]

There are times when the world so exasperates me that I feel I cannot go on living in it for another moment and I want to disappear for good. But then, if I happen to obtain some nice white paper, Michinoku paper, or white decorated paper, I decide that I can put up with things as they are a little longer. 

— The Pillow Book, Sei Shōnagon (c. 966–1017)