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mosaic-glass with the falcon-head of the God Horus; dated to the Ptolemaic Period, 304–30 BCE. Now in the Cairo Museum
The Swing of Uncertainty
(Pictured: Light Pendulum Oscillation by Peter Keetman.)
Certainty is a form of a bad faith.
Uncertainty helps keep our concepts open to constant refinement
Read more here.
Papa Ibra Tall, 1965
3D TYPEFACE - leotheartist
Stan Brakhage, The garden of earthly delights (1981)
MERIKOKEB BERHANU
UNTITLED XXXVI, 2019
Acrylic on canvas 59 7/8 x 48 1/8 in 152 x 122 cm
Kerry James Marshall Keeping the Culture 2010
Between Relating and Use (Nazli Dinçel, 2018)
Edouard Duval-Carrié, Kongo Queen, 2015.
A portrait of a little girl in the backseat of a car. Mali. ©Delphine Diallo
Aurora Consurgens (att: St. Thomas Aquinas or “Pseudo-Aquinas”)
f. 34v: Black Female Angel
Germany (c. 1420s)
Parchment Codex with Watercolor Miniatures, 20.4 x 13.9 cm.
Zürich, Zentralbibliothek.
This is one of those manuscript miniatures that is so beautiful and strange, it’s hard to believe it’s really as old as it is. Aurora Consurgens is an alchemical treatise; a commentary on the Latin translation of Silvery Waters by Muhammed ibn Umail at-Tamîmî (Senior Zadith), attributed first to Saint Thomas Aquinas and later attributed to “Pseudo-Aquinas”.
The miniatures are unusual not only for their quality, but also for the fact that they’re tiny watercolor paintings on the parchment codex. The whole text has been digitized here, and you can read like you were holding it:
*ETA*
The link has a photo with flash in which you can see the gilded portions a bit better, as well as the ability to zoom in to see the details. For those who were curious, inside the Angel’s body is a sheathed dagger and a coiled serpent:
Thai Map of the Universe
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