Cosimo Tura, “A Muse”, c.1455-60
Detail from ‘Portrait of Fra ‘Luca Pacioli’. Mathematician. Jacopo Barbari 1495 Perspective, light and shadow of rhombicuboctahedron.
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Golden pin. 14th century B.C.
Currently in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Clouded Yellow Butterfly on Fleabane ❀
by Stephen Watson
Arnold Dolmetsch and family, 1932
Lucas Cranach the Elder, Portrait of a Young Girl, c. 1540
Catherine of Saxony, Archduchess of Austria as Salome,1468 Portrait of a Woman of the Hofer Family
Gibson guitars, 1909
Antwerpen 16th c.
Notation Knives, c. 16th century, artist unknown. Fitzwilliam Museum. (Photo: (Johan Oosterman)
the Zodiac and the planets
Bartholomeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum (French translation), Ahun 1480
BnF, Français 9140, fol. 169r
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