swap_horiz Charlemagne's Throne Alternatives

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Sistine Chapel Ceiling

Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling is a series of large-scale frescoes created between 1508 and 1512 within the Vatic...

Renaissance Religious 16TH Century Fresco

9.90 Brilliant

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The Starry Night

Painted in oil in 1889 while Vincent van Gogh lived at an asylum near Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, The Starry Night turns a n...

Landscape Oil Painting Van Gogh Post Impressionist

9.85 Brilliant

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David (Michelangelo)

Completed in 1504, Michelangelo's David is a monumental marble sculpture showing the biblical hero before his confrontat...

Renaissance Marble Sculpture Michelangelo

9.85 Brilliant

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Gutenberg Bible

The Gutenberg Bible represents a pivotal moment in printing history. Produced circa 1455 by Johannes Gutenberg utilizing...

Religious Printing 15TH Century Movable Type

9.80 Brilliant

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Tutankhamun's Death Mask

Tutankhamun's gold death mask belongs to ancient Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty and was made for the young pharaoh's burial...

Gold Ancient Egypt New Kingdom Funerary

9.75 Brilliant

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Las Meninas

Painted in 1656, Diego Velázquez's Las Meninas presents a Spanish royal court scene centered on the Infanta Margarita an...

Baroque Oil Painting Velazquez 1656

9.75 Brilliant

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Newton's Principia Mathematica (first edition)

Published in 1687, the first edition of Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica is a printed Latin b...

Physics Mathematics Scientific Newton

9.75 Brilliant

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Guernica

Pablo Picasso painted Guernica in 1937 in response to the bombing of the Basque town during the Spanish Civil War. This...

Oil Painting 1937 Anti War Picasso

9.70 Brilliant

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Pietà (Michelangelo)

Carved from Carrara marble, Michelangelo's Pietà depicts Mary holding the dead Christ after the crucifixion. The Renaiss...

Renaissance Religious Marble Sculpture

9.70 Brilliant

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Darwin's On the Origin of Species (first edition)

The first edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species appeared in 1859, presenting natural selection as a centr...

Biology Evolution Scientific Darwin

9.70 Brilliant

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Parthenon Sculptures (Elgin Marbles)

The Parthenon Sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles, are intricately carved marble fragments originating from the...

Architectural Marble Ancient Greek 5TH Century Bc

9.45 Excellent

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Laocoön and His Sons

The Laocoön exemplifies Hellenistic sculpture’s dramatic intensity. This first-century BC marble artwork depicts the Tro...

Greek Marble Sculpture Hellenistic

9.30 Excellent

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Magna Carta (Salisbury Cathedral copy)

The Salisbury Cathedral copy represents a crucial medieval legal document—the Magna Carta of 1215. This parchment artifa...

Medieval Legal Document English Parchment

9.25 Excellent

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Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry

The Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry is a lavish 15th-century French illuminated manuscript. Created for John, Duke of...

French Medieval Illuminated Manuscript 15TH Century

9.10 Excellent

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Ara Pacis Augustae

The Ara Pacis Augustae is a Roman marble altar consecrated in 9 BCE on the Campus Martius to celebrate the peace establi...

Marble Roman Augustan Altar

8.90 Great

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Discobolus (Myron, Lancellotti copy)

The Lancellotti Discobolus is a 2nd-century CE Roman marble copy of a lost bronze original by the Greek sculptor Myron (...

Athletics Marble Sculpture Ancient Greek

8.60 Great

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Peplos Kore

The Peplos Kore is an Archaic Greek marble statue dating to around 530 BCE, discovered on the Athenian Acropolis, named...

Marble Sculpture Acropolis Archaic Greek

8.45 Great

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Lindau Gospels

The Lindau Gospels is a 9th-century illuminated manuscript notable for its jewel-encrusted gold front cover, an outstand...

Illuminated Manuscript Religious Carolingian 9TH Century

8.40 Great

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Voynich Manuscript

The Voynich Manuscript is an illustrated codex written on vellum in an unidentified script that has resisted widely acce...

Medieval Illustrated Vellum Undeciphered

8.35 Great

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Canterbury Tales Ellesmere Manuscript

The Ellesmere Chaucer is an early 15th-century illuminated manuscript containing Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. It...

Medieval English 15TH Century Chaucer

8.35 Great