Studiolo Gubbio (ca. 1478–82) by Francesco di Giorgio Martini.

Source: The Metropolitan Museum

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#wood #painting #woodwork #books #marquetry #intarsia #craftmanship #cabinets #instruments #art #publicdomain

“Calavera Oaxaqueña” (ca. 1910) by José Guadalupe Posada.

Source: Library of Congress

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#calaveras #cartoons #sombreros #mexico #dancing #skeletons #skulls #art #publicdomain

Italian woman (ca. 1905) by Augustus Sherman.

Source: New York Public Library / Flickr: The Commons

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#earrings #europe #lace #portraits #headscarves #immigration #art #publicdomain

Phenakistoscope (1833).

Source: Library of Congress

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#monkeys #technology #zebras #phenakistoscopes #movement #balls #art #publicdomain

A Boy Blowing Smoke Bubbles (ca. 1750).

Source: Städel Museum

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#bubbles #soap #tables #death #impermanence #blowing #hats #vanitas #art #publicdomain

Gundelia (G. Tournefortii L.) (ca. 1900–20) by American Colony, from Wild Flowers of Palestine.

Source: Library of Congress

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#plant-photography #wildflowers #herbs #israel #botany #natural-history #floral #jerusalem #christianity #flowers #palestine #plants #art #publicdomain

Illustration by Ernst Schneidler, from Deutsche Märchen seit Grimm (1919).

Source: University of Connecticut Libraries / Internet Archive

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#initials #typography #design #lettering #art #publicdomain

Histioteuthis bonelliana (1851) by Jean Baptiste Vérany, from Mollusques méditeranéens.

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Internet Archive

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#cephalopods #zoology #chromolithography #squid #art #publicdomain

Americas (1719) by Johann Baptist Homann.

Source: Stanford University Libraries

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#maps #calexit #islands #california #geography #oceans #art #publicdomain

Illustration by Anton Seder, from Das Thier in der Dekorativen Kunst (1896).

Source: The Getty / Internet Archive

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#reptiles #art-nouveau #beasts #modernism #lizards #frogs #ornament #art #publicdomain