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Heart of Mary (c.1750, oil on canvas) | Miguel Ballejo y Mandirano
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I wish god was a little girl and death a place in her dollhouse
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Unknown Artist Martyrdom of St. Barbara
Oil on panel, 140 x 125 cm, 16th century
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Medallion painting of Venus Aphrodite with a golden diadem and scepter, pearl earrings and necklace, House of Marcus Fabius Rufus, Pompeii. 1st century BC
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Emily Dickinson, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Emily Dickinson
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Illustration of the swan of the constellation Cygnus, with text or scholia within the figure of the constellation.
Illustration of the constallation Aquila the eagle, with text or scholia within the figure of the constellation. 
from Aratea, a Latin version of the Phaenomena, with extracts from Hyginus's Astronomica in the constellation figures, 9th century France, N. (diocese of Reims).
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Reliquary of John The Baptist.
Sint-Baafskathedraal Gent
Art in Flanders
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Bluebells (German, 19th century) by Wilhelm Steinhausen.
Ink and watercolours.
Copyright © 2024 Städel Museum.
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The Girl's Own Paper - 1897 - via Internet Archive
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Florentine School Saint Sebastian; Saint Catherine of Siena
c. 1500
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Victorian rose gold locket, Vienna, 1880s.
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Emile Vloors (Belgian, 1871-1952)
Salome, 1912
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A black figure kalpis depicting the poet Sappho (ΦΣΑΦΟ) holding a barbiton, an ancient stringed instrument similar to a lyre. Attributed to the eponymous Sappho Painter, active in Attica c. 510 to 490 BC.
🏛️: National Museum, Warsaw
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Evelyn de Morgan, Night and Sleep (details), 1878
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Sevillian School Head of St. John the Baptist
Polychrome terracotta, 27 x 20 x 20 x 16 cm; 4 x 45 x 31 cm (base), 18th century
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Pair of scallop-shell dishes, Jacques-Nicolas Roettiers,(1736–1788)
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