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Cabinet - Sources

Thomas Browne, 'Posthumous works' (1712)
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Luther's Bible of 1541
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Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)
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Botticelli, The Calumny of Apelles (1496-1497)
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Drawing of the interior of a church
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 164)
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Private Lives
Ceramic vessels, terrapin whistle and greenstone amulets, the Bay Islands, Cocal Period (1000–1530 AD)
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ABC Books for Bukharan Jews (Central Asia)
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Monstrances
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Bodleian, MS Canon. Misc. 559, fol. 2r
Popes
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T8: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Mithrapata of Antiphellos, c. 390-360 BC.
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Saami cradle
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Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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Haida Helmet (3D)
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Самовар (РСФСР/Афганистан, ок. 1925)
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Drawing of Ukonsaari
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Рисовые поля (Казахстан/Кыргызстан)
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Drawing of mountains
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Piero della Francesca, Flagellation (c.1455–1460)
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The end of the Hundred Years' War, 1453
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Inscriptions on ritual vessels, 11th century BCE
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Johanes Stradanus, Nova reperta (1600)
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