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103 works · Five wings open · No flash photography
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Narcissus
The Pantheon · Stop No. 81

Narcissus

Felt cute, might delete
Era
Archaic Greece, front-facing camera era
Provenance
Boeotia, by the water
Medium
Single-ink stamp relief on cream stock
Edition
Unfiltered edition

The subject discovered the first mirror with a lake attached and never logged off. Scholars debate whether he starved or simply refused to leave before getting the angle right. The caption was added posthumously; he would have approved.

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