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Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern (mosaic glass). Egypt.

Ptolemaic Dynasty to Roman Period, 305 BCE-14 CE,

Image and text courtesy Freer Sackler. Ancient Egyptian Art

Copyright with museum.

[nyctaeus]

Philip Taaffe

Phasmidae,, 2014

[thunderstruck9]

Philip Taaffe (American, b. 1955), Double Acrosticum V, 1997. Oil on canvas, 49 x 36 in.

[thunderstruck9]

Philip Taaffe (American, b. 1955), King Snakes in Blue, 2000. Oil and silkscreen inks on paper on canvas, 34 x 44 in.

[discardingimages]

four elements

Ovide moralisé en prose, Bruges ca. 1470-1480

BnF, Français 137, fol. 1r

[mandalaish-blog]

excerpt from Carl Jung's Red Book

[pro-fro]

[iheartnouveau]

Anton Seder

from “Das Thier in der Decorativen Kunst“

[artistsanimals]

Title: Piggy Bank Date: 14th-15th cnetury Origin: Java, Majapahit Dynasty Medium: Terracotta Size: h. 24.20 cm (9 ½ inches) Source: Cleveland Museum of Art

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Jens Lund (Danish, 1871-1924)

[amare-habeo]

Othmar Zechyr  (Austrian, 1938-1996)

Landscape of 100 hills (Landschaft der 100 Hügel), 1990/92

Etching on paper, 78.5 x 41.6 cm

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Jens Lund (Danish, 1871-1924)

Illustration for Charles Baudelaire’s Fleurs du Mal, 1901

Floating Man, 1906

Night Flower, 1898

Montezuma’s Daughter and the Hummingbird, 1920

Adam, 1912

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Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Scottish, 1868-1928)

Flower Study, Mont Louis, 1925

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[tokyo-fashion]

QR code kimono.

[iki-mono]

Kinda fun but I bet once you put on an obi over it, you render the QR code unreadable

Someone should make QR code obidome instead

[kimonodrome]

That kimono is hot

[transoptic]

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Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, 1855

via transoptic

[thunderstruck9]

Yayoi Kusama (Japanese, b. 1929), Stars (F.U.S.), 1953. Acrylic and gouache on paper, 35.5 x 31 cm.

[natasianart]

Take in a deep Breath of Spring by zooming into this more than seven-foot-long Chinese handscroll. It’s just one of the highlights of our bilingual web feature on Song and Yuan dynasty painting and calligraphy. 

[yama-bato]

Piet Mondrian, Chrysanthemum,1906

By chris 9