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John Dee, 1560
Four Castles Gold Disk
John Dee, 15th-century scientist and wizard, commissioned this gold plate made to illustrate a vision received by his scryer, Edward Kelley. The pair spent more than a decade communing with angelic beings through an Aztec obsidian mirror, but this vision came to Kelley while plagued with morning insomnia: read more
Four Castles Gold Disk, John Dee
The Etruscans, 400BCE
Chimera of Arezzo
Chimera of Arezzo, The Etruscans
Toyen
What's in a name?
Toyen, The Artists
Sascha Schneider, 1904
Hypnosis
Hypnosis, Sascha Schneider
Born on July 30
Giorgio Vasari
The first art historian
Giorgio Vasari, The Artists

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