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A Fine Blue-laced Hon-Kozane ni-mai-do Gusoku, Japan, circa 1630

from Peter Finer

The Villa des Orangers, luxury five star hotel is located in the heart of Marrakech and is a true haven of peace. Everything has been carefully chosen to make your stay relaxing and sophisticated: an elegant decoration, delicious cuisine with Mediterranean and Moroccan flavours, a large garden and lush courtyards, three swimming pools, a traditional Moroccan Hammam, massage rooms, beauty salon, fitness, an open bar to enjoy a mint tea with Moroccan pastries during the day.

Champion of the Sun.

the jewel book of anna of bavaria

pages from the kleinodienbuch (jewel book), an illuminated inventory of the jewelry owned by duke albert v. and duchess anna of bavaria. illuminated by hans mielich in munich, c. 1552-55

source: Munich, BSB, Cod.icon. 429

Marguerite Churchill, photographed by Max Munn Autrey, 1930.

'Christ Mocked' by Gustave Dore, c. 1880

Quedlinburg, Germany 1920s

Winter Full Moon Night over the Ruins of a Gothic Chapel (Felix Kreutzer, 1835 - 1876)

Fred Appleyard (British, 1874-1963) St Cecilia, exhibited 1903

Architectural Scene (Wilhelm Schubert van Ehrenberg, 1664)

Bronze helmet, Crete, 630-600 BC

from The Heraklion Museum

Eve - Petra Brnardic

Gaze into the Abyss and the Abyss Gazes back…

The Fall of the Damned/The Fall of the Rebel Angels (1620) - Peter Paul Rubens

the transformation of daphne

miniature from a copy of ovid's metamorphoses (middle french translation by clément marot). france, after 1531

source: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 117, fol. 28v

Claude Paradin, Devises Heroïques, 1567

Kihoku Astronomical Museum

Architect: Takasaki Masaharu, 1995 Kanoya, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan

Enameled gold ring with emerald, Italy, 16th century

from The Louvre

Ceremonial dagger, Turkey, Ottoman Empire, 16th century,

Given to Gábor Bethlen, Prince of Transylvania.

Ebony, emerald, ruby, silver, steel, turquoise,

length: 38,5 cm, width: 6,8 cm.

Courtesy: Iparművészeti Múzeum (Museum of Applied Arts) Budapest

Gold Nike pendant, Greece, 4th century BC

from The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Bronze statue fragment uncovered near Geneva, Switzerland.

Roman, 1st century AD

from The Geneva Museum of Art and History

Codex Rotundus “266 almost perfectly circular pages of parchment have been bound together to build a block of 3cm height with a diameter of only 9cm.”

The initials of the metal clasps point us to Adolph of Cleves, Lord of Ravenstein (1425 - 1492) as the owner.

Ancient burial site of  Bukit Buntu Ke’su, Indonesia - Paul Koudounaris

A beautiful black and gilt Cup-hilt Rapier,

OaL: 44.6 in/113.3 cm

Blade Length: 36.8 in/93.5 cm

Width: 11.1 in/28.3 cm

Depth: 5 in/12.7 cm

Weight: 2.1 lbs/963.9 g

Italy, ca. 1650, housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

A transitional Rapier with a pierced blade,

OaL: 50 in/127 cm

Weight: 1.7 lbs/765 g

England or Germany, ca. 1635-1645, housed at the Royal Armouries War Gallery, Leeds.