Curious similarities in art history
January 18 2012
Picture: Baldwin & Sons/Sammlung Albertina
[Pointless post alert] Earlier this month the above ancient Greek gold coin sold for $3.25m. The only known example, it shows the head of a satyr from Pantikapaion. Don't you think it looks a bit like Peter Brueghel the Elder? Perhaps he had a Greek ancestor.
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