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Welcome to my studyblr! I’m Francis (he/him) and I’m currently writing my thesis about Roman archaeology. While that is my profession, I’m very interested in the American Revolution, 17th century lace and textiles, archival work, as well as pottery (though this is an overarching interest).

Trans rights are human rights, anti-fascist, anti-racist, and anti-zionist.

#pinned post #archives #studyblr #pottery #archaeology #amrev #academia

chaoticneutralwife

girl who is sitting in a chair quietly with a neutral expression actually screaming very loudly in her head

cottoncandylesbo

life tip: sometimes there's a bird outside & you can look at it

theambitiouswoman

iamwhatismissing

made me think of this

[id: x/twitter qrt from user styloshka that says "I read a forum post about art once, that it's a product of the dialectic between the effort of the artist and the friction of the medium. You push on the thing and the thing pushes back on you, it has its own voice. The weight of a piano key, the tension of a guitar string." original post from user colleen_daves says "Don't you want to skip over the mindless drudgery that is making art?" I do six stand embroidery and break like 10 needles a day, would I prefer that activity didn't hurt my hands and make me angry? Sure. But that's what makes having the finished piece after so worth it to me."]

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stellacartography

Love the you you become when you're making stuff.

#a dark aphorism

ltwilliammowett

Three blue and white Dutch Delft 'ship' tiles, Harlingen, 17th century

#netherlandish #tiles #nautical

ancientcharm

Among the latest discoveries in Pompeii:

A house with a private bathhouse , complete with hot, warm and cold rooms, and a plunge pool.

In a room were found the skeletons of a woman of about 40 years and a man of about 20 as well a pair of gold and natural pearl earrings.

The wonderful Pompeian red on the walls

Frescoes, various valuable objects, and gold coins.

Pompeii Parco Archeologico

@ancientcharm

#pompeii #archaeology

kimiko24

DOG MOSAICS (From Italy and Greece ××)

#mosaic #mediterranean

baroque-art-appreciation

A Man in a Room, 1627, Rembrandt Van Rijn

#rembrandt #baroque #netherlandish

baroque-art-appreciation

A River with a Sailing Boat on Nieuwe Meer, Rembrandt Van Rijn

#netherlandish #baroque #rembrandt

usurperss

Artists who know how to draw armors or very detailed clothing are powerful

usurperss

oh to draw embroidery like Alexander Roslin does

ashadeofpemberley

See it’s stuff like this that makes me believe that selling your soul to the devil in exchange for talent was a real career track in the 1700s.

nuggsmum

My god it’s beautiful

ochipi

I’m so sorry, I just have to add Rembrandt’s lace. He was so good at painting it, that it even helps to distinguish between him and his students.

* all of these are multi layered kerchiefs and collars, which makes it even more insane.

Bonus: Johannes Vermeer’s Lacemaker

#lace #art history

clockheartedcrocodile

Lovers of Human Flesh: Homosexuality and Cannibalism in Melville’s Novels [Caleb Crain, American Literature, 1994]

#a dark aphorism

romanceyourdemons

“oubliette” is such a fancy word for such an unbelievably simple thing. captain of the guard says “take their ass to the oubliette” and you think oh boy they must have some really high end perhaps grotesque punishment prepared for me and then they just throw you into a hole in the ground