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design-is-fine: Watch-cases and pendants of the 17th and 18th Century. Chromolithograph. Published by Fimrin-Didot. © The Trustees of the British Museum
davidjulianhansen:The Elgin Marble aka The Parthenon Marbles. The British Museum, London
design-is-fine: Albrecht Dürer, Elk, 1501-1504. Drawing, pen and ink. Nuremberg, Germany. © The Trustees of the British Museum
warriormale: The Greeks were the first to see male nudity as, literally, a heroic state.‘Greek nudity is a sign not of humiliation, but of moral virtue among the social elite of male citizens,’ says Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum. ‘When
expatesque:5.6.17 // The British Museum, Elgin Marbles
clawmarks:Emblem of Johannes Philippus Papius - Anonymous - c. 1700-1750 - via The British Museum
ancientpeoples: Marble inscription: extract from regulations for sacrifices at Athens about 550BC, including the perquisites of officials at the Dipoleia, a festival in honour of Zeus Source: British Museum
'Defining Beauty: The Body in Ancient Greek Art' opens at the British Museum
lionofchaeronea: A maenad, possessed by Dionysus, dances in a frenzy. Red-figure skyphos found at Paestum (Gk. Poseidonia), south Italy; signed by the painter Python; ca. 330-320 BCE. Now in the British Museum. Photo credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen.
ancient-egypts-secrets: Egyptian gold finger-ring; cornelian bezel in form of cat; wedjat-eye on under-side. 1070 - 712 BC © British Museum
goldisblood: Viking Treasure Trove Unearthed from English Field Source: History A nationally significant discovery of Viking treasure dating from the 9th century was unveiled yesterday at London’s British Museum. The hoard of silver coins and jewelry
coolartefact: Dagger - 1600-1500 BC - Mycenean The British Museum [750x376]Source: http://imgur.com/RNe3f61
historyfilia: Map of the WorldFrom the British Museum.This tablet contains both a cuneiform inscription and a unique map of the Mesopotamian world. Babylon is shown in the centre (the rectangle in the top half of the circle), and Assyria, Elam and other
irisharchaeology: One Ring to rule them all…..this Tolkienesque ring dates from the 8th/9th century AD & was found at Greymoorhill, England (British Museum)
ahencyclopedia: EXHIBITION: Vikings: Life and LegendTHE British Museum’s first blockbuster exhibition in their new temporary exhibition gallery received plenty of publicity, mostly about the arrival of the longest Viking longship ever discovered –
d-d-dangerous: fieldbears: end0skeletal: Collected from the Egyptian desert in March of 1846, the Helix desertorum specimen was sent to the British Museum, where scientists thought it had expired in transit. It was glued to a cardboard display card
Update: British Museum Torpedoes Greek Request for Loan of Parthenon Sculptures
antonio-m:Dionysus, The British Museum
blondebrainpower: Medieval walled garden combining a grassy and shaded pleasure area with an herb garden, illumination from a 15th-century French manuscript of the Roman de la rose (“Romance of the Rose”); in the British Museum.
blondebrainpower: Hercules and the centaur Pholus shaking hands. Attic black figure neck amphora, c. 530-510 B.C. Photograph courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum, London.
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sapphic-giraffic: alilat: dildonius: 125534: Early Bronze Age, Human figurine of unfired clay; very crude; probably female.British Museum Collection gang me and the girls My new gender: very crude; probably female
ancientpeoples: Fragment of a bust of a woman 200-100 BC Hellenistic (Source: The British Museum)
ubu507: The Harpist Print made by Daphne LindnerDate1934 British Museum
centuriespast: Jupiter and Semele Published by John Boydell After Giovanni Battista Cipriani Print made by James Heath Date1791 British Museum
centuriespast: Neighbouring river-gods consoling Peneus in the foreground on the loss of his daughter Print made by Master of the Die After Baldassare Peruzzi Date1530-1560 British Museum
centuriespast: Orpheus Print made by Hans Wechtlin Date1510 (circa) British Museum
centuriespast: Portrait of Edmond de Goncourt, Print made by Félix Bracquemond, 1882 The British Museum
heracliteanfire: Portrait of the boxer Tom Tring. Edward Francis Burney, ca 1790 (via British Museum)
bblacha: Timoteo Viti (Attributed to); Self-portrait of Timoteo Viti. British Museum by renzodionigi on Flickr.
bblacha: Timoteo Viti (Attributed to); Self-portrait of Timoteo Viti. British Museum
artistandstudio: Gustave Courbet, Self-portrait. British Museum
artistandstudio: Jim Dine, Portrait of the artist seated, wearing tie. British Museum.
heracliteanfire: Giovanni Andrea Maglioli (Italian, fl. 1580-1610), A Triton holding a conch shell, a naked child at lower left. Engraving, 16.1 x 11.3 cm. (via British Museum)
heracliteanfire: Arthur d’Échèrac. Félix Bracquemond, 1883. (via British Museum)
heracliteanfire: James Nevay, 1755-1811 (via British Museum)
Death of Lord Nelson. Published by P Stampa, 1806, (via British Museum)
After the ideal head of a warrior. Count of Canossa. c. 1550-80. chalk. Michelangelo. Italian.1475-1564. British Museum. UK.
Drawing after Michelangelo. 1601-02. Peter Paul Rubens. Flemish. 1577-1640. red chalk on paper. British Museum. UK.
Self-portrait, No. 8. William Strang, 1889. (via British Museum)
Icones Principum Virorum, Portrait of Paul de Vos, first state with head only. Etching with engraving. ~1630-40 (British Museum) after van Dyck
The Wrestlers, Black chalk on light blue paper, squared for transfer Rodolphe Julian, (1839-1907) The British Museum
alanspazzaliartist:The Head of the Warrior, also known as the Count of Canossa, is one of the splendid drawings by Michelangelo Buonarroti belonging to the collections of the British Museum.
aucelo: Roman school. Two studies of a nude male torso, three-quarter length, and a lioness, 1498-1520. Red chalk, over stylus, 419 × 286 mm. British Museum
Purari Delta; Papua New Guinea, 1900-1930. (via British Museum)
adreciclarte: British Museum, 1960 by Willy Pragher
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amntenofre: detail from a bronze statuette of the Goddess Bastet in Her form of sacred cat with golden earring and nose-ring.From Saqqara (necropolis of Memphis, I nome of Lower Egypt), ca. 712–332 BCE. Now in the British Museum…
ganymedesrocks: antonio-m: Emperor Hadrian, British Museum, London excellent picture
amorbidwitch: Exitus Acta Probat Allegory Of Death. Print By Cornelis Galle the Younger, After Nicolaas van der Horst; DCXXVII-MDCLXXVIII (The British Museum)
donia-alshetairy: An Iraqi man cries at the British Museum when he sees his country’s cultural heritage on display. 💔💔💔
fuckinmiki: Aztec knife The Trustees of the British Museum The heart’s symbolic power was central to Aztec culture. In sacrificial rituals hearts were cut out of live captives and offered to the gods. The handle of this sacrificial knife is covered
1bohemian: Man standing next to a papaya tree, Fiji. J.M. Booth, 1930s.(via British Museum)
luz-natural: The Great Lovers. Hadrian and Antinous. British Museum. UK.
loveandpleasure: ©AC ~ british museum
wollmaus: seventeeth century gold pictogram posy ring w/ inscription reading: “two hands, one heart, till death do us part.“ | via the british museum. posie rings (sometimes spelled “posy ”, “posey” or “poesy rings”) are finger rings
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