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Portrait of the high admiral Alexius Apocaucos, illuminated manuscript page from the Hippocrates Manuscript, c. 1342; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Magnificat Romulus and Remus October, illuminated manuscript page from Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry by the Limburg brothers, c. 1416; in the Condé Museum, Chantilly, France. (Fol. 10v) 29 × 21 cm. Moses and the Israelites Bible Decorated initial for the story about the unicorn in a late 12th-century Latin bestiary (Harley MS. 4751, folio 6v); in the British Library Liberale da Verona: Jesus Before the Gates of Jerusalem Marco Polo sailing from Venice feudalism
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A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England
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Portrait of the high admiral Alexius Apocaucos, illuminated manuscript page from the Hippocrates Manuscript, c. 1342; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
Magnificat
Romulus and Remus
October, illuminated manuscript page from Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry by the Limburg brothers, c. 1416; in the Condé Museum, Chantilly, France. (Fol. 10v) 29 × 21 cm.
Moses and the Israelites
Bible
Decorated initial for the story about the unicorn in a late 12th-century Latin bestiary (Harley MS. 4751, folio 6v); in the British Library
Liberale da Verona: Jesus Before the Gates of Jerusalem
Marco Polo sailing from Venice
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