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The home of archaeology & arthistory enthusiasts. Designs by archaeologyart: https://t.co/GaIQdLL9ij
United States
Joined August 2016
Ancient art, made wearable. https://t.co/VphbjrW52C is now live in the US, UK, EU and Canada. From kylix figures to mosaic fragments, cave paintings to classical symbols, each design is inspired by the visual world of antiquity.
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Sergiu Ciochină (Moldovan, b.2001) : Home is where your heart is. Oil on board.
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Detail of the giant goldfinch from the central panel of Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' (c. 1490-1500, oil on oak panel), Museo del Prado, Madrid. For Bosch, scale is a tool for meaning. The giant fruit shows the magnitude of desire; the shrunken human shows
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Thomas Hoepker. Cinema in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, 1956
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Mooncat. Artist: Denise Warren, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA. Medium: Oil on canvas. It's one of the artist's contemporary pieces, created as part of the DWarren Fine Art collection. '...The cat curls once around the moon, and the night, finding no edge, closes its eyes...'
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Das Apokalyptische Weib. Matthias Gerung ~ ca.1532 Bayerische SB
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Original caption: "A fine example of carving associated with the Feathred Serpent. On the upper level of El Osario. Yucatan, Mexico. 1923." Notes: Photo of Maya man posed leaning on column with carved Feathered Serpent head in front of him. Date: 1923, Source: US Geological
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@archaeologyart I love vintage photos like this. Thanks for sharing. Here’s Machu Picchu in 1911-1912 taken by Yale professor Hiram Bingham III.
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Sun-Headed Deity of Tamgaly https://t.co/WFhRGZEztd This design is based on a petroglyph found in the Tamgaly Valley of southeastern Kazakhstan, possibly depicting the sun god. The petroglyph dates to the early Iron Age. (ca. 1200-500 BC).
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From Ancient Egypt to Edo Japan, mice across three thousand years.
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Shinji Ihara: The devil with an angel’s face, 2015, oil on canvas.
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Parasol, c. 1915-1929, Italy. Medium: silk, leather, wood, metal, synthetic.
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Silver Bracelets of Queen Hetepheres I Some of the earliest silver objects unearthed in Egypt are this rare pair of silver bracelets, belong to Queen Hetepheres I, inlaid with semi-precious stones in the form of a butterfly (silver, turquoise, lapis lazuli, and carnelian).
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Four Red Glass Perfume Vials Connected in the Form of a Cross. Each vial has its own silver screw cap. The topmost cap appears to have an additional metal loop for hanging the cross from a chain or cord.
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Seal made of vermeil, translucent painted enamel, and seashell, possibly crafted in Russia during the second half of the 19th century AD. The monogram engraved under the base displays the letters "RJ" beneath a crown. Collection: Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva.
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Ascension of christ, in an illuminated miscellany manuscript, germany, ca. 1471-1474. Source: Stuttgart, Württemb. Landesbibl., Cod. poet. et phil. 2º 4, fol. 24r.
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The Hands of Gua Tewet, Indonesia. Gua Tewet is one of the karst caves in the East Kalimantan region (Borneo, Indonesia). The age of the paintings here isn't measured directly from the pigment itself, but from the calcite crust that's built up over them. This involves analyzing
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