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Designed composite showing the top of an ancient Greek sword handle and part of its decorated hilt.
Left: Sword Hilt with a Horned Handle, Minoan or Mycenaean, 1520–1440 BCE. Bronze, gold, and ivory. © Hellenic Ministry of Culture – HOCRED / Archaeological Museum of Chora, SN24–0044 / Photo © Palace of Nestor Excavations, Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati / Photo: Jeff Vanderpool; Right: Dagger (detail), Mycenaean, 1520–1360 BCE. Bronze, silver, and gold. © Hellenic Ministry of Culture – HOCRED / National Archaeological Museum, Athens, P8339

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Drawing, full body of a person with curly black hair, turned to the left and leaning against a stick

This sheet speaks to the artist's ceaseless interest in life's humanity and humility.

Ornate canopy bed, with draped blue curtains forming the canopy and blue upholstery on the gold bed frame

In the 1700s, grand beds like this one stood in deep niches in the bedroom of a palace or mansion belonging to wealthy patrons.

A statue of naked man petting a wolf and holding a large stick, photographed inside the Getty Villa gallery

This was found in 1790 near the ruins of the villa of the Roman emperor Hadrian at Tivoli outside Rome.

Purple flowers with bright green leaves and stems.

Each one of Van Gogh’s irises is unique. He studied their movements and shapes to create a variety of curved silhouettes.

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