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Illumination depicting early artillery device. The gun is mounted on a trestle like a great crossbow might be and its ammunition is quite clearly an enormous bolt.
From Walter de Milemete's "De Nobilitatibus, Sapientiis et Prudentiis Regum". Illuminated Manuscript; 1326-27.
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Illumination depicting early artillery device. The gun is mounted on a trestle l...

Hours of the Holy Ghost - Pentecost. An angel and a man ringing bells. From the Bedford Hours; Workshop of the Master of the Duke of Bedford. France, Paris; 1414-1423.
Shelfmark: Add. 18850
Page Folio Number: f.132
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Hours of the Holy Ghost - Pentecost. An angel and a man ringing bells. From the...

Hemisphaerium Australe. Sphere containing signs of the Zodiac. 'Atlas Coelestis. Harmonia Macrocosmica seu Atlas Universalis et novus, totius universi creati Cosmographiam generalem, et novam exhibens...' by Andreas Cellarius.
Amsterdam, 1660.
Shelfmark: Maps.C.6.c.2
Page Folio Number: between 204-205
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Hemisphaerium Australe. Sphere containing signs of the Zodiac. 'Atlas Coelestis....

Jan Toorop: "Het Hoogeland Beekbergen". Netherlands, 1896. Lithograph, 99 x 69cm.
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Jan Toorop: "Het Hoogeland Beekbergen". Netherlands, 1896. Lithograph, 99 x 69cm...

Medallion, flying Amor.                                
Plaster, diameter 15,2 cm  Graeco-Roman                
From the Treasure of Begram, Afghanistan, 1st-2nd CE   
MA 196
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Medallion, flying Amor. Plaster, diameter 15,2 c...

Putto from a building in Petra.
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Putto from a building in Petra.

Victory goddess with cupid.                            
Terracotta (330 BCE-1 CE)                              
from Israel.
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Victory goddess with cupid. Terracotta (330 BCE-1 CE...

Theatrical masks.                                      
Marble     Inv. I 119
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Theatrical masks. Marble Inv. I 119

Apotheosis of Prince-bishop Carl Philipp von Greiffenklau, 
whose portrait in a medallion is born to heaven. An    
angel with tuba announces his arrival. Ceiling         
fresco in the staircase of Wuerzburg Episcopal         
Residence, 1753 See 14-02-02/46-58, 14-01-04/21-43
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Apotheosis of Prince-bishop Carl Philipp von Greiffenklau, whose portrait in a...

Painting on the ceiling panel of the "Kaisersaal",     
the Emperor's Hall, Wuerzburg, Episcopal Residence,    
detail. Putto with Imperial sword. 1752
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Painting on the ceiling panel of the "Kaisersaal", the Emperor's Hall, Wuer...

Staircase in the town palais of the Princes Kinsky.    
Vienna, Freyung Nr.4    1713-1716
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Staircase in the town palais of the Princes Kinsky. Vienna, Freyung Nr.4...

Sanssouci Palace, country residence                    
of King Frederic II of Prussia.                        
Above the double doors of the anteroom,                
putti and nymphs playing different                     
musical instruments.
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Sanssouci Palace, country residence of King Frederic II of P...