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[naturalist-journal]

[michaelnordeman]

Waking up. Värmland, Sweden (March 6, 2015).

[tea-with-mrs-mourning-dove]

[michaelnordeman]

Ice, ice, ice. Värmland, Sweden (March 17, 2024).

[evergreendrip]

[naturalist-journal]

[suonko]

by John Henry Twachtman

[yama-bato]

© Martin Ogolter

[organizationallyimpaired]

Giovanni da Udine c. 1515-1520

[centuriespast]

LIEZEN-MAYER, Sándor Venus and Tannhäuser c. 1875 Oil on canvas, 84 x 55 cm Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest

[didoofcarthage]

Denarius with head of Julius Caesar (obverse) and Venus holding Victory (reverse), minted under P. Sepullius Macer at Rome

Roman, Republican Period, 44 B.C.

silver

British Museum

[rn-deliabusby]

flickr

[nemfrog]

In Heinrich Kley's ecstatic drawing, a horned-satyr swings his partner with abandon. Skizzenbuch : hundert Federzeichnungen. 1909.

Internet Archive

[oilpaintinggallery]

Konstantin Korovin

Winter 1894

[memories-of-ancients]

Treasure hoard of Roman jewelry uncovered near Lyon, France, 5th century AD

from The Gallo Roman Museum, Lyon

[unusual-suspects]

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[portalibis]

Khepri, Late Period, ca. 664-332 BC. Egyptian Museum of Berlin