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Map of Byzantium/Constantinople/Istanbul, 16th century AD (Franz Hogenberg)

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Engraving of Trier, Germany, 16th century AD (Franz Hogenberg)

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Bedouin Encampment in Lebanon

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Italian 16th century AD imagining of the 2nd century AD Roman port of... uh... Portus.

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Aeneas of Troy fleeing the city, carrying his elderly father (Bartolomeo Pinelli)

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Depiction of ship mills under a bridge in Paris, France, ~1317 AD

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Fish market in Venice, Italy (Myles Birket Foster, illustrated 1875 AD)

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Drawing of Ethiopian warriors (Henry Aaron Stern, 1862 AD)

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Engraving of a Turkish family by German artist Albrecht Dürer, made ~1495 AD

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Turkish Bazaar (Amadeo Preziosi, watercolor illustrated 1854 AD)

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Mounted lancers escorting PoWs (Wojciech Kossak, painted 1927)

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Harry Gottlieb (1895-1992, American) Old Woman (10/10), 1932 Lithograph

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A monochrome artwork depicts a figure with a bowed head and a hand partially covering the face, with a small, light-colored cross visible near the bottom. The bottom of the artwork features the handwritten text "Harry Gottlieb 32".

Harry Gottlieb (1895-1992, American)Old Woman (10/10), 1932Lithograph

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House of a Mandan (Native American) chieftain (Narcisse Desmadryl, made 1843 AD)

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Harvesters in the Netherlands (Pieter Bruegel the Elder, painted 1565 AD)

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Gardez l'eau! Urban waste disposal in Tudor England (Pat Nicolle)

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Street corner bakery in the Netherlands (Jacob Vrel, painted ~1660 AD)

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Christian king of Norway, Haakon Haraldsson, in dispute with his pagan subjects, 10th century AD (oil painting 1860 AD, Peter Nicolai Arbo)

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King Harald Hardrada of Norway dying at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, England, 1066 AD (painted 1870 AD, Peter Nicolai Arbo)

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Norwegian Ski Competition (painted ~1898 AD, Gustav Wentzel)

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Watercolor of Krakow, Poland, made in ~1536 AD

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Hand-drawn map of Turkiye (David Cook)

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Roman fresco of a harbor, Italy, painted 1st century AD

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[Microblog] Pablo Picasso

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A small, stout woman stands center-frame, her body wide and low to the ground. She wears a vivid orange-red ruffled skirt that fans outward like a flame, and a pale blouse. Her face is broad and direct, meeting your gaze without apology. The background is dark and spare. Despite her marginalized status, Picasso paints her with full presence — solid, colorful, and unashamed.

Pablo Picasso. La Nana, 1901. Oil on cardboard.

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[Microblog] Las Meninas

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Picasso's Las Meninas (1957) is a bold, cubist reimagining of Velázquez's famous painting. Figures are shattered into sharp geometric fragments — angular black outlines filled with stark blacks, whites, and grays. The Infanta Margarita looms large at center, blocky and monumental. Attendants crowd around her as fractured, almost puppet-like forms. A tall, skeletal Velázquez dominates the left. The room feels tilted, electric, and slightly menacing — order deliberately broken apart.

Las Meninas. Pablo Picasso. 1957

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Sketches of Rome, Italy, drawn around ~1500 AD

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Map of Leiden, the Netherlands (Pieter Bast, 1600 AD)

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Medieval Novgorod Marketplace (Apollinary Vasnetsov, watercolor, ~1908 AD)

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Children at play in the Netherlands, 16th century AD (Pieter Bruegel the Elder)

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The Favourites of the Emperor Honorius (John Williams Waterhouse, 1883 AD)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Favourites_of_the_Emperor_Honorius

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The Peasant Wedding (Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the Netherlands, ~1566 AD)

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Depiction of a Tibetan Weaver (William Simpson, watercolor, 1895 AD)

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"The Ancestor", French cuirassiers visit the army museum (Jules Monge, 1921)

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Japanese depiction of the US Civil War, 1879 AD

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British soldier in Afghanistan (William Skeoch Cumming, painted 1894 AD)

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“A scrimmage in a Border Station

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Bayonet charge by Bulgarian troops in the First Balkan War (Jaroslav Věšín, ~1913 AD )

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Painting of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 19th century AD

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Battle of Slivnitsa, Serbo-Bulgarian War, 1885 AD (Dimitar Gyudzhenov, painted ~1935 AD)

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Defense of a Spanish church during the Peninsular War, 1809 AD (César Álvarez Dumont, painted 1887 AD)

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Oldest known sketch of Venice, Italy, drawn ~1350 AD

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https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/oldest-known-city-view-of-venice-discovered/

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Muscovite troops in the 16th century AD (Sergey Ivanov, painted ~1900 AD)

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Sketch of an ambush near the woods (Sebastiaan Vrancx, ~1610 AD)

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Forces of Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible clash with Siberian tribes (Vasily Surikov, painted 1895 AD)

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Medieval court of a Slavic prince (Watercolor, Apollinary Vasnetsov, 1908 AD)

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Mining town of Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia (Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli, 1726 AD)

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The Great Fish Market (Jan Brueghel the Elder, the Netherlands, 1603 AD)

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The Battle of Hastings between Anglo-Saxon and Norman forces (Tom Lovell, 1966)

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Negotiated surrender of Polish troops, Moscow, Polish-Muscovite War, 1612 AD (Ernst Lissner)

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Mongol official collecting tribute in a medieval Rus town (Sergey Ivanov, 1909)

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A tournament in the city of Free City of Worms, the Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany), 1487 AD

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Manuscript page showing troops being transported by wagon, Germany/Holy Roman Empire, ~1500 AD

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https://kdih.badw.de/datenbank/handschrift/39/20/10

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French and Ottoman troops clash at Heliopolis, 1800 AD (Léon Cogniet, oil on canvas, painted 1837 AD)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Heliopolis_(1800)

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Moscow Plague Riot of 1771 AD (Watercolor, Ernst Lissner)

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