The Holy Face of Lucca, ancient wooden carving of Jesus crucified in the cathedral of San Martino, in Lucca, from 782 AD (1990×3537) by giolitti7594
October 15, 2025An 8th-century Quran manuscript being restored in Egypt. Considered one of the oldest surviving Quran manuscripts, it has 1087 leaves weighting around 80kg, each made of one entire animal’s skin. [1179×789]
October 15, 2025Tree spirit (yakshi salabhanjika). Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India, 2nd c AD (Kushan dynasty), reportedly from a Jain shrine. Mottled red sandstone. Loaned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art from the Victoria and Albert Museum [6000×4000] [OC]
October 15, 2025Closer look of one of the chamber portals behind the columns with Corinthian capitals of the Treasury in Petra, Nabatean Kingdom, 1st c. AD. Jordan. 2,000 years after it was shaped, much of the exquisite detail of the carvings that adorn both the capitals and the portal survives. [1280×408] [OC]
Surpriseborder on October 15, 2025 3:25 pm Did it get the Ecce Homo restoration treatment or is the paint by some miracle period-accurate?
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truly amazing
Was this funny back then too or is it just to us?
Did it get the Ecce Homo restoration treatment or is the paint by some miracle period-accurate?