Platypus Nest
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Masterpieces of the Prado Museum
Masterpieces of the Prado Museum “Las Meninas” or “The Ladies-in-Waiting” by Diego Velázquez “The Triumph of Bacchus” by Diego Velázquez “Christ Falli...
Plastered Human Skulls from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Age
Plastered Human Skulls Tahunian Culture This Plastered Human Skull is a reconstructed human skull that was made in the ancient Levant about 9,000 BC ...
James Ossuary
James Ossuary Authentic or Forgery? The James Ossuary is a 1st-century limestone box that was used for storing the bones of the dead. This ossuary ha...
Neanderthal Flute
The worlds oldest Musical Instrument Divje Babe Flute The Divje Babe Flute is made from the bone of a cave bear femur, and it is pierced by holes tha...
Highlights of the Penn Museum
Highlights of the Penn Museum The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology or Penn Museum is dedicated to the understanding o...
Tomb of Philippe Pot
Tomb of Philippe Pot The Tomb of Philippe Pot is a funerary monument commissioned by Philippe Pot, for his burial at the chapel of Saint-Jean-Baptiste...
The Royal Cup-bearer and Fan-bearer
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“Tarascon Stagecoach” by Vincent van Gogh
Tarascon Stagecoach by Vincent van Gogh Tarascon Stagecoach by Vincent van Gogh depicts the courtyard of the inn at Arles with two stagecoaches. ...
Nuremberg Museums
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Dutch Proverbs and Quotes
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Indigenous Australian Rock Art
Indigenous Australian Rock Art Wandjina Style The Wandjina are cloud and rain spirits from Australian Aboriginal mythology that are depicted in rock ...
“Prayers at Sunset, Udaipur, India” by Charles W. Bartlett
Prayers at Sunset, Udaipur, India by Charles W. Bartlett Prayers at Sunset, Udaipur, India by Charles W. Bartlett depicts the Maghrib prayer in Udaipu...
National Gallery Singapore
The National Gallery of Singapore The National Gallery Singapore is an art gallery that oversees an extensive collection of Singapore and Southeast As...
Shanghai Museums
Museums in Shanghai Shanghai is the most populous city in the world, situated on the Yangtze River Delta and bounded to the east by the East China Sea...
The Secret by Auguste Rodin
The Secret by Auguste Rodin The Secret was modeled by Auguste Rodin and depicts an unknown object hidden by two palms. The secret is keeping the palms...
Swedish Proverbs, Quotes and Sayings
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Epidaurus Museum and Historic Site
Epidaurus Museum and Historic Site Epidaurus was a small polis in ancient Greece, on the Argolid Peninsula situated in Greece in the Peloponnese. In a...
Mariner’s Astrolabe from the Vergulde Draeck
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Les Invalides
Les Invalides Les Invalides formally the Hôtel national des Invalides (The National Residence of the Invalids), is a complex of museums and historical...
Carpentaria
Carpentaria Light Ship Carpentaria is a Light Ship or a lightvessel, which is a ship which acts as a lighthouse. They are used in waters that are too...
Brera Art Gallery, Pinacoteca di Brera
Pinacoteca di Brera Brera Art Gallery The Pinacoteca di Brera is the main public gallery for paintings in Milan, Italy. It contains one of the foremo...
South Island Adzebill
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The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt
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“Wheat Field with Cypresses” by Vincent van Gogh (MET)
Wheat Field with Cypresses by Vincent van Gogh Wheat Field with Cypresses at the MET is one of three similar 1889 paintings by Vincent van Gogh, as pa...
Imaginary Gallery of Ancient Roman Art by Giovanni Paolo Panini
Imaginary Gallery of Ancient Roman Art by Giovanni Paolo Panini Imaginary Gallery of Ancient Roman Art is the title given to each of three almost iden...
“Getting Ready for a Game” by Carl Larsson
Getting Ready for a Game by Carl Larsson Getting Ready for a Game by Carl Larsson depicts a view of idyllic family life in an idyllic Swedish home. Th...
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
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“Dance at Bougival” by Auguste Renoir
Dance at Bougival by Auguste Renoir Dance at Bougival by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, made in 1883, depicts two of Renoirs friends dancing at one of the ope...
Euclid by Jusepe de Ribera
Euclid by Jusepe de Ribera Euclid by Jusepe de Ribera, depicts the father of geometry, emerging from the shadows behind a table. Presented as a solemn...