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ainsley ✧ opinions very much my own

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[blodwyrm]

snapshot from one of Oscar’s memorial paintings i did last year!

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Ex-libris by the Catalan artist Alexandre de Riquer (1856-1920), made around the year 1900. These ones are some of the examples preserved in the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC).

An ex-libris, also called bookplate, is a kind of printed stamp at the beginning or end of a book that says who owns it (think of the stamp you surely have seen in the books owned by a library). Though ex-libris have been used since ancient times, their "golden age" in Catalonia was during the Modernist movement (the Catalan equivalent of Art Nouveau), where many bookworm people commissioned artists to have a beautiful personal ex-libris that they could use to stamp all their collection.

The text in the 1st one, written in the Catalan language, says "no matter how much you know, there's always much more that you don't know" (per molt que sapies es molt mes lo que ignores).

Source: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya.

[hollow-head]

"who do you self insert as when you read?"

This is me when I read:

[mothcpu]

“Please answer.”

17776 excerpts + photos i took

edit: please read 17776

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[homura]

[biocrafthero]

perceived skill

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King René's Honeymoon, Ford Madox Brown, made by Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co, 1862

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art by Curtis Lanaghan

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Tsuchiya Rakuzan - Peacock - 20th century - via Harvard Art Museums

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i am just moved by everything now. i'm porous and everything gets inside me

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[manticoreimaginary]

I have so much affection for these models of mundane things found in Middle Kingdom tombs. What a beautiful glimpse into the every day lives of people 4000 years ago.

[manticoreimaginary]

oh my god, how could I forget my favourite

mama cow, so round

[elliespectacular]

I'm actually from Baltimost, Merrierland so forgive me if I'm less than impressed

[marylandofficial]

I think we have to kill you?

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