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Peggy (also known as The Devil’s Pepper Pot) is a 1916 American silent comedy film produced and directed by Thomas Ince and stars Billie Burke in her motion picture debut. It also featured this character called Dr Goat!

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Pierre-Adrien Pâris

Vases, Furniture and Objects Discovered at Herculaneum, 1777

The J. Paul Getty Museum

Pierre-Adrien Pâris studied and drew these ancient Roman tables, stools, ewers, and lighting devices while on a visit to a Roman museum. He based the chair with the sphinxes on a Pompeian wall fresco. He made many such drawings in preparation for illustrations in a book titled Voyage pittoresque; ou Descriptions des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile (A Picturesque Voyage; or Descriptions of the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily), published in 1783. Designers copied these images to furnish the homes of clients eager for rooms in the style of Pompeii.

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Architectural Fantasy – Ruins of a Circular Temple Seen through a Natural Arch (Pierre-Adrien Pâris, c. 1785)

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The delicate beauty of ancient Roman frescoes.

This fresco is a classic example of Roman wall painting from the 1st century AD, belonging to the "Fourth Pompeian Style" (c. 50–79 AD), characterized by fantastical architectural elements such as columns and elaborate ornamentation set against vividly colored backgrounds, in this case a deep Pompeian red.

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Stunning mosaic from the floor of the triclinium (dining room) of Hadrian's Villa, residence of Emperor Hadrian outside Rome

Altes Museum, Berlin

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Giuseppe Festino

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Villa of Franz von Stuck

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Gustave Doré

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“Thackerayana” — a remarkable compendium of nearly 600 doodles made by Vanity Fair author William Makepeace Thackeray, who was born #onthisday in 1811: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/thackerayana-1875 #OTD

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Mount Nemrut

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Leonor Fini, La Bête de la Mer for Josef Foret's L'Apocalypse de Saint Jean, 1960

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An illuminated page from the 16th-century manuscript "Hours of Jean Lallemant the Younger"

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Allegories of The Five Senses, in order: Sight, Hearing, Touch, Taste, and Smell (1617-1618) by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens, oil on panel, Museo del Prado, Madrid