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1 inch tall hunchbacks; gondolas rowed by grasshoppers; mosquitoes reading from a book: the astonishing 17th century painting "Arrival of the wife", by Faustino Bocchi

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1 inch tall hunchbacks; gondolas rowed by grasshoppers; mosquitoes reading from a book: the astonishing 17th century painting "Arrival of the wife", by Faustino Bocchi

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Folding fan depicting scenes from the history of ballooning, made from molded horn sticks and skin leaf painted with gouache, c. 1785. MFA Boston

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Folding fan depicting scenes from the history of ballooning, made from molded horn sticks and skin leaf painted with gouache, c. 1785. MFA Boston

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A beautiful Roman mosaic from the 4th century CE, showing a labyrinth. The object was found in the imperial palace in Gamzigrad . The labyrinth is surrounded by a wall and watchtowers.

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A beautiful Roman mosaic from the 4th century CE, showing a labyrinth. The object was found in the imperial palace in Gamzigrad . The labyrinth is surrounded by a wall and watchtowers.

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St Patrick sleeps on a hillock, flanked by a pair of fighting beasts and a figure holding a book, from an illustrated manuscript of Wauchier de Denain's Lives of the Saints; French, 13th century

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St Patrick sleeps on a hillock, flanked by a pair of fighting beasts and a figure holding a book, from an illustrated manuscript of Wauchier de Denain's Lives of the Saints; French, 13th century

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The costumes of kings, royal mothers and a bishop from medieval Nubia have been reconstructed by Polish scientists and designers based on 10th-13th centuries CE paintings that once decorated the walls of the cathedral in Faras, Sudan

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The costumes of kings, royal mothers and a bishop from medieval Nubia have been reconstructed by Polish scientists and designers based on 10th-13th centuries CE paintings that once decorated the walls of the cathedral in Faras, Sudan

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A metalworkers’ assemblage from a grave at Bygland, Norway, 10th century CE. It contained a wide range of tools, from heavy sledgehammers, small chisels, and punches, to a long-handled iron pan for melting lead and tin resting on a soapstone mould for casting ingots

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A metalworkers’ assemblage from a grave at Bygland, Norway, 10th century CE. It contained a wide range of tools, from heavy sledgehammers, small chisels, and punches, to a long-handled iron pan for melting lead and tin resting on a soapstone mould for casting ingots

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Roman carnelian intaglio, showing a grasshopper driving a chariot pulled by two butterflies. From c.1st century BCE-1st century CE.

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Roman carnelian intaglio, showing a grasshopper driving a chariot pulled by two butterflies. From c.1st century BCE-1st century CE.

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