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Job and His Friends
Job and His Friends, oil on canvas painting by Ilya Repin, 1869.
Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg.
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Job
Job, oil on canvas painting by Léon Bonnat, 1880.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
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The Bourgeois Gentleman
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (The Bourgeois Gentleman), tableau by Jacques-Edmond Leman (1829-1889).
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The Deposition
The Deposition (also known as the Florentine Pieta), a marble sculpture by Michelangelo, 1547-1555.
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence.
Photo: George Groutas
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Florentine Pieta
Nicodemus' head, detail of The Deposition (also known as the Florentine Pieta), a marble sculpture by Michelangelo, 1547-1555.
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence.
Photo: George Groutas
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Map of the Third Dynasty of Ur - Sumerian Temples, Tablets, and the Birth of Legal Tradition in Ancient Mesopotamia
This map illustrates the rise of the Sumerian city-state of Ur following the collapse of the Akkadian Empire (reign: circa 2334 - 2154 BCE). In the aftermath of political fragmentation and regional instability, Ur emerged as a leading center...
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Cleric, Knight, and Workman Representing the Three Classes
An inhabited initial from 13th-century France depicting the tripartite order of the Middle Ages: the Oratores (those who pray – the clerics), the Bellatores (those who fight – knights or nobility) and the Laboratores (those who work – peasants...
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The Three Orders
The Third Estate of France carrying the other two orders (Clergy and Nobility) on its back, engraving with the initials M. P., Paris, 1789.
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.
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Frank Holt
Image of Frank Holt, the author of When Money Talks: A History of Coins and Numismatics.
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When Money Talks: A History of Coins and Numismatics
When Money Talks: A History of Coins and Numismatics by Frank Holt.
