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Can you guess this mythological figure? Some clues:  🔎King of the gods 🔎Armed with thunder and lightning bolts 🔎Often seen with an eagle
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If you guessed, Jupiter (or Zeus, as he is known in Greek myth), you’re correct! For more, check out Gods and Heroes in Art, a Getty Publication available now. 🖼️: Jupiter, model about 1670, probably cast about 1680–1700, After a model attributed to Jean Raon. Getty Museum
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Happy spooky season! Celebrate with Halloween greeting cards featuring art from our collection. 🧵
Greeting card depicting a skeleton popping out of a tomb. Text: Bone-jour!

ALT Greeting card depicting a skeleton popping out of a tomb. Text: Bone-jour!

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Charcoal drawing of a skeleton that's falling apart, it's head on the ground next to the rest of its body. Text: Rest in pieces

ALT Charcoal drawing of a skeleton that's falling apart, it's head on the ground next to the rest of its body. Text: Rest in pieces

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Featured art: 1. The Eleventh Sign before the Day of Judgment (detail), about 1480–1490, English. Getty Museum 2. The Beast Acheron (detail), 1475, Simon Marmion. Getty Museum 3. Amateurs playing ghost scene (detail), 1887, W. S. Hobson. Getty Museum 4. A Nightingale; Bats (detail), about 1250–1260, English. Getty Museum Amateurs playing ghost scene (detail), 1887, W. S. Hobson. Getty Museum 5. Damselfly, French Rose, Spanish Chestnut, and Spider (detail), 1561–1562; illumination added 1591–1596, Joris Hoefnagel and Georg Bocskay. Getty Museum 6. Initial D: A Skull in a Rocky Field (detail), about 1469, Taddeo Crivelli. Getty Museum 7. The Battle of the Bones (detail), about 1881, Odilon Redon. Getty Museum
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Happy Scorpio season! Scorpios are said to be determined and intuitive, but also obsessive and jealous. Sound like a Scorpio you know? Scroll this 🧵 to reveal the dos and don'ts of Scorpio season. ♏️
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According to medieval astrology, Scorpio season is a good time for sowing, doing battle, and taking medicine.
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According to medieval astrology, Scorpio season is a bad time for planting trees, bathing, bloodletting, buying gold or silver, buying horses, and making new clothes.
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Need a medieval Halloween costume? ⚔️ Our medievalist's creatures might spark some ideas.
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Our resident ancient coin expert took a pass at rating every 🪙 emoji.
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JoyPixels, 9 out of 10. This has an appropriately numismatic vibe to me. It makes good use of the elements of design and strikes a good balance between the monument, border motif, legend, and the date. The 'est.' abbreviation is more for a storefront or a clothing brand, but it’s close enough.
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Huawei, 8 out of 10. The horizontal lines unmistakenly echo those on a Chinese yuan. It looks like real pocket change to me. No denomination or legend, but honestly, maybe none are needed. There’s nice texture and a defined rim. It has a subtle depth and heft. It’s simple, but not cartoonish.
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