Worldwide Art

Sul-Ansar Urshanabi and Etashi Redoleth at Vivec city
Commission for a returning client
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Female figure nursing a child at her left breast, seated on a cylindrical stool with flared base, with finely modeled facial features including long, thin nose, hemispherically shaped eyebrows and thin lips. The hairstyle consists of a series of nodules over the whole head and the neck and shoulder area have series of grooved incisions. The left arm has a series of bracelets with what seem to be cowrie shells, while the right arm of the woman and chlid have bracelets. The feet are flat, and the toes are indicated and appear webbed.

Female figure with child

🌍Igbo (Nigeria)
⌛Early to mid-20th century
🏺National Museum of African Art

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A bull's head with beard. The head, ears, and horns are made out of gold. The beard and hair on the bull's heads are carved from dark lapis stone. Its eyes are similarly inlaid in blue stone.

Lyre Fragment in the shape of a bull head

🌍 Ur (Iraq)
⌛ c. 2450 BCE
🏺 Penn Museum

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A portrait showing the Virgin Mary with the baby Jesus. She wears an elaborate hooded cloak of dark green with gold vegetal embroidery over a white veil and red dress, similarly embroidered. Her hair is blonde and done up in two side buns, and she wears a string of beads on her head. Her hand rests on the leg of Jesus, who stands upright and holds up his index and middle finger in the classic blessing pose. He wears a simple brown tunic with translucent shirt and looks VERY sleepy. The background of the piece is gilded and decorated in one corner with a realistic pear and a realistic apple in the other.

Madonna and Child

🌍 Carlo Crivelli, Venetian (Italy)
⌛ c. 1490
🏺 National Gallery of Art

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Red ceramic figurine of a woman with a huge, elaborate headdress. She also wears a loose full-body garment, bracelets, and a string of beads.

Mold-Made Female Figure

🌎Maya (Guatemala)
⌛ 600–900
🏺 Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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Tan architectural element showing the head of a gorgon. She has a beard, bulging eyes, and fangs that frame her protruding tongue. The gorgon and the geometric elements behind her are painted in two shades of red.

Antefix Fragment showing a Gorgon

🌍 Greek (Southern Italy)
⌛ c. 500 BCE
🏺 Getty Museum

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Off-white crab tightly folded in on itself. Its shell, legs, and claws are decorated with delicate blue color.

Inkstone in the form of a crab

🌏 Vietnam
⌛ 1400-1525
🏺 Art Gallery of South Australia

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Rough chunk of limestone on which is engraved a heavy set woman holding a horn. She faces to screen left and has long hair, large pendulous breasts, and thick hips. Traces of red ochre pigment can be seen on the stone.

Venus of Laussel

🌍 Gravettian Culture (France)
⌛ c. 23,000 BCE
🏺 British Museum

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Short round vessel painted in red and black on an off-white background. It shows a Maya lord in elaborate headdress and outfit communing with a monkey wearing a large necklace. The pot is trimmed in black chevron motifs.

Vessel with Young Lord and Monkey

🌎 Maya (Guatemala)
⌛ 600–800
🏺 Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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An earthenware figurine of a stylized bull with large head, long snout, and short legs.

Rhyton in the form of a Zebu bull

🌍 Amlash (Northern Iran)
⌛ c. 1000-800 B.C.E.
🏺 Indianapolis Museum of Art

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Japanese woodblock print. A person in a flowery kimono is at the bottom, dreaming. From them rise up a series of images in a comic-book word balloon fashion. The upper part of the print is the title of the series in large formal characters reserved in a black rectangle; on the left is a decorative panel with the name of the post-station and a short text.

Print showing the dream of O-matsu

🌏 Edo Period (Japan)
⌛c. 1845-1846
🏺 The Walters Art Museum

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Oil painting of a small, tan dog holding a lit candle in its mouth. On the floor is a bouquet of lilies. The ground is nondescript browns.

Dog with a Candle and Lilies

🌍 by Juan de Pareja (Spain)
⌛ 1660s
🏺 Newfields

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A sarcophagus made out of red clay shaped like a bed on which two figures (one male, one female) recline. The male figure gently holds the female one. The female wears a dress and hat and has her hair braided, while the male is shirtless and has elaborately coiled hair and a beard.

Closeup of the couple

Sarcophagus of the spouses

🌍 Etruscan (Italy)
⌛ c. 510 BCE
🏺 The Louvre

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Photo of a clay tablet. It is crisscrossed by a network of lines with text inside. Near some of the lines are circles with more text. Additional cuneiform writing is placed in the empty spaces between the lines.

Nippur Map Tablet showing canals (lines) and settlements (circles)

🌍 Kassite Dynasty (Iraq)
⌛ c. 1500 BCE
🏺 Penn Museum

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A ceramic figure of a naked woman wearing a large headband, several strands of necklaces, and big earrings. Like the museum title says, she's got huge breasts.

Standing Female Figure with Pendulous Breasts, Headband and Earspools

🌎 Michoacan (Mexico)
⌛ 300 BCE–300 CE
🏺 Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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A green bronze vessel with a wide bottom and narrower top, as well as a lid. The body is covered in curving designs. The lid is a face with wide eyes, large ears, and some sort of antennae. It looks like Shrek. The body of the vessel also has a sprout in a rather unfortunate location.

Spouted ritual vessel with dragons

🌏 China
⌛ c. 1200-1150 BCE
🏺 Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art

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A brown mask, its face and ears painted white. The eyes are heavily outlined in black. The head, cheeks, and chin are decorated with triangular patterns in a light ochre and dark brown.

Headdress for Efe Gelede

🌍 Yoruba (Nigeria or Republic of Benin)
⌛ Late 19th/early 20th century
🏺 Art Institute of Chicago

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A round ornament, its interior showing a running man with a bird head and wings, crafted out of a mosaic of blue, green, and orange stones and shells. It is trimmed with gold balls.

Ear ornament with winged runner

🌎 Moche (Peru)
⌛ 400–700
🏺 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Carved bone showing a bison bending its head backwards to lick at its side.

Bison Licking Insect Bite

🌍 Magdalenian (France)
⌛ c. 13,000 BCE
🏺 National Museum of Prehistory, Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil

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A round pot, tan with cracked glaze. The top is shaped like the frowning face of an animal with bulging eyes and round ears. The bottom is its body, with its back and front legs bunched up at the front of the pot.

Lime pot in the form of a frowning cat

🌏 Cambodia
⌛ 1100-1300
🏺 Art Gallery of South Australia

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A pair of moccasins made of yellow leather. There are long leather fringes at the heel and they are trimmed with red, white, and blue beads. Many silver cones form a fringe down the front of the shoes

Beaded leather moccasins with fringe and German silver cones

🌎 Comanche (Oklahoma, USA)
⌛ c. 1900
🏺 Gilcrease Museum

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Small model of an Egyptian river boat, made out of painted wood. It has a large back oar and many small figures sitting in it, each with short black hair, white cloth clothing, and tanned skin.

Model of a River Boat

🌍 Middle Kingdom (Egypt)
⌛ c. 2050 BCE
🏺 The Walters Art Museum

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Part of a rusted iron buckle inlaid with a brighter gold metal. The inlays are of stylized animals with long necks and swirling motifs

Lyre-shaped belt buckle

🌍 Hispano-Visigothic or early Umayyad period (Spain)
⌛ 8th century
🏺 The Morgan Museum & Library

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Brown and orange bottle shaped like some sort of animal with a long snout with pronounced nose and teeth. The top of the head is dark brown, with a light brown and white muzzle and neck. Its orange body is shaped like a fat round cone with tiny blobs of feet sticking out on four sides. It is decorated with circles inscribed with dots.

Bottle in the form of an animal

🌎 Nazca (Peru)
⌛ 50 BCE-300 CE
🏺 Dallas Museum of Art

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Back of a steel chest piece of armor. It is decorated with four flaming hearts, each pierced by two arrows. Around the trim is painted fire.

Closeup of a heart pieced by two arrows and with flame on the top. It's carefully shaded to show shadows and highlights.

Jousting armor for Gustav II Adolf's coronation

🌍 Swedish
⌛ 1617
🏺 Statens Historiska Museer

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A white tile that shows two dark figures with ox heads and human bodies. The figures appear to be dancing and wear yellow ochre skirts. They are surrounded by remnants of light blue glaze on the background.

Terracotta wall tile showing the ox-headed retinue of Mara

🌏 Myanmar
⌛ 1475-1500
🏺 Art Gallery of South Australia

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Humanoid torso with arms folded over chest. The coral material gives it a fuzzy texture of thousands of little holes in curvilinear patterns.

Figurative charm made of coral, placed by the fire to keep it alight when people were abscent

🌏 Torres Strait Islander (Queensland, Australia)
⌛ 19th Century
🏺 The British Museum

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A round bronze mirror with handle. The round part shows the relief of a face, smiling broadly with tongue extended.

Hand Mirror Decorated with the Head of Medusa

🌍 Greek (Southern Italy)
⌛ 500–480 BCE
🏺 The Getty

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Realistic sculptural portrait of a woman. She has rings on her neck and lines representing scars on her entire face.

Head of a woman

🌍 Yoruba (Nigeria)
⌛ 12th–15th century
🏺 Metropolitan Museum of Art

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A circular gold-plated silver brooch features an ornate design of garnet masks with green glass eyes and blue glass noses, arranged in the shape of a cross. Animal interlace decorates the space between the masks.The brooch is displayed against a black background.

An early #medival disc brooch decorated with animal interlace and masks forming a cross. From a woman's grave in Krautheim-Klepsau, late 6th century. During this period, the cross was often included in ornamental design. However, it can't always be clearly interpreted...🧵1/2

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🏺 #archaeology