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Jan-Maat
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The citadel at tabriz: "The architect, one feels, must have rejoiced intensely in the sheer mass of its brickwork"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arg_of_...
— Sep 13, 2017 03:10AM
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Jan-Maat
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Manafi al-Hayawan, the Usefulness of animals, circa 1294: "some of the illustrations are so Chinese that they might even be attributed to immigrant artists from the Far East...a phoenix is wholly Chinese, while one showing two rather delightful bears is in the solid two-dimensional homely manner that we met in Mesopotamia half a century or more earlier"
— Sep 13, 2017 12:50AM
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"The whole of the sculptured facade [of Mshatta] was presented to Kaiser Wihelm II of Germany by the Sultan of Turkey"
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Once you get to be an Emperor you get a different class of presents all together
— Sep 12, 2017 03:42AM
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Once you get to be an Emperor you get a different class of presents all together







