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Hiram Mattison. Ptolemaic Theory of the Structure of the Universe, The Copernican System, Terrestrial and Celestial Spheres, Equator of the Heavens, The Solar System, Solar System and Sidereal Heavens, View of the Solar System, Perpendicular View of the Rings of Saturn, Telescopic View of Saturn, The Sun. An Astronomy: In Which the Descriptive, Physical, and Practical are Combined, with Special Reference to the Wants of Academies and Seminaries of Learning. 1859.

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Mummy Portrait of a Woman, Attributed to the Isidora Master. Romano-Egyptian, Egypt, about A.D. 100 - 110. Made of linen, pigment, and gold; encaustic on wood.

A mature woman gazes out from this Romano-Egyptian mummy portrait. The name of the woman, Isidora, is written on what remains of the cartonnage, or linen mummy case. She wears an elegant, braided hairstyle that was fashionable in the early 100s A.D., and she is fully accessorized with a gold hairpin, gold-and-pearl earrings, and three necklaces heavy with gold and jewels. At the time of her burial, the wreath in her hair and the diamond pattern around the edge of the portrait were added in gold leaf. Also tiny bits of gold leaf were added to her necklaces and earrings, which were originally rendered only in yellow paint.

Although little of the mummy case is preserved, it belonged to a small group of mummies wrapped in characteristic reddish-colored shrouds. In Egyptian religion, red is associated with life and regeneration. (Text: getty)

Courtesy & currently located at the Getty Villa, Malibu. 

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PAT GUZIK

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A painted portrait of Kay Francis by Gerald Kelly

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1/ Found button, 1780. Mother-of-pearl. 2/ Button, late 18th century, Wax on painted metal. 3/ Attributed to Fragonard, late 18th century. Miniature on ivory. 4/ Henri Hamm, 1915. Galalith. 5/ Henri Hamm, 1915-1920. Horn. 6/ Sonia Delaunay, 1925. Marquetry. 7/ Alberto Giacometti for Elsa Schiaparelli, early 1930s. Gilt bronze. 8/ Jean Arp, 1940. Gilded and enameled metal. 9/François Hugo for Elsa Schiaparelli, 1940. Enamelled ceramic. 10/ Christian Dior ready-to-wear, 1960-1970. Gilded moulded plastic. From the “Déboutonner la mode” exhibition at Les Arts Décoratifs Paris, 2015. Photo : Jean Tholance.

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Zeus, in the form of a white bull, abducts Europa.  Detail from a red-figure calyx-krater signed by the painter Asteas (fl. ca. 350-320 BCE), from Paestum (Poseidonia) in south Italy.  Now in the National Archaeological Museum, Paestum.  Photo credit: Dave and Margie Hill.

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Guillaume Apollinaire, La Nuit d'avril 1915, Bibliothèque… http://ift.tt/2xR5IKB

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KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI Cuckoo and Azaleas [1834]

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Hooked rug ”M.A.D. Cats”, ca. 1885