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Indonesian Jester Puppets, perhaps 19th c.

Indonesia, Tegal, Central Java Wood, cloth, and mixed media via Asian Art Museum; From the Mimi and John Herbert Collection Jesters or clowns are among the most popular figures in the folk puppet...

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St. Charles of the Flowers, 2008

By Thomas Christensen, based on historical photos by Nadar and Etienne Carjat Digital image, colored pixels Via the Sleep of Reason This image of nineteenth-century French poet Charles Baudelaire...

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Signed first edition of Plato’s Republic

Mofo Store Manager Kenneth  Whirlow is pleased to announce the acquisition of a special addition to our store’s rare books selection. The book is a rare signed first edition of Plato’s Republic....

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The fool and his sceptre, 1515, by Hans Holbein the Younger (Swiss, 1497-1543)

Ink on paper; marginal drawing in the first edition of The Praise of Folly, by Desiderius Erasmus (Dutch, 1466-1536) Kupferstichkabinett, Basel Erasmus, acclaimed as a great writer, was also a great...

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