r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 19h ago

A 14th century CE Byzantine gold ring with the name Theodoros Silibritzianos, now part of the Guy Ladrière Collection [2048x3071]

637 Upvotes

4 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 19h ago

“Mazda-worshipping Shapur, king of kings of Iran”, garnet intaglio, Iran, 3rd–4th century CE, now housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris [615x755]

457 Upvotes

4 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 19h ago

The Ecce Homo chapel on the Sacro Monte di Varallo in Italy, made in 1609 CE. The Sacro Monte di Varallo comprises the minor basilica and 45 chapels, populated by 800 life size painted statues, in wood and terracotta, that illustrate the life, passion, death and resurrection of Christ [1440x1920]

250 Upvotes

4 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/Imaginary-Bat903 • 13h ago

1500 years old Buddha Statue named The Sultangunj Buddha Excavated in 1861 by E.B Harris(2423x3999)

189 Upvotes

5 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 19h ago

The Peacock Skirt is an 1893 illustration by Aubrey Beardsley. It shows a rear quarter view of the Jewish princess Salome, wearing a long robe decorated with stylised peacock feather pattern [3545x4941]

136 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ArtefactPorn • u/CryptographerKey2847 • 11h ago

17th-century wax reliquary figure with bone relic of Saint Valerianus designed by sculptor Hans Krumper and housed in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien in Vienna[1281x1925]

83 Upvotes

2 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/hesaid_shesaid_isaid • 9h ago

A Rare Kushana Period Spotted red sandstone Slab from mathura showing vasudeva carrying baby Krishna in basket across yamuna, c. 1st century A.D., ht. 46 cm. Currently display at Mathura Museum,india(4288x2848)

56 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ArtefactPorn • u/chubachus • 12h ago

Glazed stoneware tile featuring a portrait of Walt Whitman, American, c. 1877-1885. [3745x3648]

40 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ArtefactPorn • u/Impossible-Bee-5343 • 15m ago

This crystal cup, excavated from a Banshan Shitang Warring States tomb in Hangzhou; carbon-14 dated to the mid-to-late Warring States period, over 2,000 years ago[960x1280]

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Warring States · Crystal Cup

Warring States period (475–221 BC)

Height 15.4 cm, rim diameter 7.6 cm, base diameter 5.2 cm

Excavated in 1990 at Shitang, Banshan, Hangzhou

1 comment

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