act of memory

It's one of several iterations / It gets hard to keep track

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the shallow sea that once covered the Earth would have been beautiful this time of year

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A naked eye 3D pterosaur installation at Shanghai Natural History Museum

(The guide is describing the exhibit and talking about the various "flying dinosaurs" and their appearance through history as they emerge from the fossil displays)

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Sinosauropteryx, Microraptor and Ambopteryx

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1838 watercolour sketch emily brontë did of her beloved bull mastiff, keeper

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P. Tchaikovsky, autograph musical quotation from Romeo & Juliette, 1888.

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Vincent Van Gogh’s stream of thoughts

[modern-austen]

Fyodor Dostoevsky's manuscript draft of The Brothers Karamazov. via twitter

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Roman bow. 1st Century BC

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National Archaeological Museum of Aquileia, Italy

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In the club

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FRAMING STATUES (Greek, 590-450 BCE)

Marble statue of a kouros (youth). Greece, Attica (ca. 590–580 BCE) stance derived from Egyptian art

Marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head) Roman (ca. 69–96 CE) Copy of Greek statue (ca. 450 BCE)

Marble statue of a wounded warrior perhaps Protesilaos. Roman (ca. 138–181 CE) Copy of a Greek bronze statue (ca. 460–450 BCE)

sources: 32.11.1 ; 253370 / 25.78.56 ; 251838 / 25.116 ; 251929

CENTRE - SEQUENCE 1 (Indian, 10th-13th century)

Standing Parvati. Copper Alloy. India (Tamil Nadu) (ca. first quarter 10th century)

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Tree Dryad (Shalabhanjika). Ferruginous stone. India (Orissa) (12th–13th century)

Celestial Beauty (Surasundari). Marble. India (southern Rajasthan) (11th century)

sources: 57.51.3 ; 39325 / ? / 65.108 ; 38140 / 69.247 ; 38148

CENTRE - SEQUENCE 2 (Buddha. Asian, 10th-18th century)

Copper alloy. India (Tamil Nadu, Nagapattinam) (11th–12th century)

Ivory with polychrome. Sri Lanka, Kandy district (18th century)

Copper alloy with gilding. Sri Lanka, central plateau (10th century)

Gilt bronze. Thailand (15th century)

sources: 2004.63 ; 72392 / 2010.475.5 ; 75408 / 1993.387.8 ; 39197 / 1991.423.5 ; 39175

CENTRE - SEQUENCE 3 (Egyptian, 1900-1400 BCE, 400-200 BCE. Thai, 11th century. Aztec, 14th-16th century. Luba, 19th-20th century.)

An ancestral king. Wood, formerly clad with lead sheet. Egypt (390–246 BCE)

Lupona (royal seat). Wood, glass beads, cotton fiber(?). Luba artist. (Late 19th century–early 20th century)

Kneeling Female Figure. Bronze inlaid with silver, traces of gold. Thailand (second half of the 11th century)

Nurse Sitsnefru. Gabbro or diabase, paint. Found in Turkey, Anatolia, Adana. Egyptian (ca. 1900 BCE)

Fertility goddess with floral band. Stone. Mexica (Aztec) (1325–1521 CE)

Hatshepsut. Granite. Egypt (ca. 1479–1458 BCE)

Amenhotep II. Limestone. Egypt (ca. 1427–1400 BCE)

Hatshepsut. Granite. Egypt (ca. 1479–1458 BCE)

sources: 2003.154 ; 547689 / 1978.412.317 ; 310760 / 39096 / 18.2.2 ; 544176 / 1979.206.1386 ; 313579 / 30.3.1 ; 544448 / 13.182.6 ; 546745 / 30.3.2 ; 544447

CENTRE - SEQUENCE 4 (Christ. European, mostly French, 12th-14th century)

Copper, gilt; champlevé enamel. French (ca. 1185–95)

Copper alloy, gilt. French or British (ca. 1125–50)

Diptych. Elephant ivory. German (ca. 1375–1400) crucifixion pose follows 14th century Paris Gothic ivory workshop design (note almost identical French (ca. 1350–75): 50.195 ; 468339)

Tabernacle. Copper, gilt; champlevé enamel. French (ca. 1220–1230)

Copper alloy, gilt. German or South Netherlandish (ca. 1140–60)

Tabernacle. Copper, gilt; champlevé enamel. French (ca. 1200–1210)

Chasse. Copper, gilt; champlevé enamel; glass cabochons. French (ca. 1235–45)

Copper alloy, gilt. French (ca. 1150)

sources: 17.190.409a ; 464392 / 17.190.760 ; 464620 / 32.100.203 ; 467473 / 17.190.735 ; 464604 / 17.190.408a ; 464390 / 41.100.184 ; 467756 / 1974.228.1 ; 465977 / 17.190.763 ; 464623

“All Creative Work is Derivative” (2010) original animation on youtube creation process

Aaron Smith - Dancin (KRONO Remix) (2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpgJz5K1_zA

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Moldova Monastery. Byzantine art of the 15th and 16th centuries

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never let the haters get to you

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[ID: Wikipedia screenshot which reads: 1540 September The Jiajing Emperor announces his intention to seclude himself for several years to pursue immortality; a court official says this is nonsense and gets tortured to death /End ID]

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The Carpet Merchant, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Oil on Canvas, 1887.

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The Carpet Merchant depicts the Court of the Rug Market in Cairo, which Gérôme had visited in 1885.

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Austronesians did also rely on a form of a physical map called a stick chart, illustrating the specific wave and swell patterns surrounding different island chains. These were particularly helpful during cloudy conditions when the sun and stars were less useful. To navigate the Marshall Islands, the Marshallese represented ocean swell patterns using parts of coconut fronds and shells as islands. Like a subway map, they don’t so much represent distances as they do relationships. The complex and decorative stick charts were often only understood by the person who made them. They were memorised before a voyage by the pilot who would lie on the floor of a canoe to get a sense of swell movement and often lead a squadron of 15 or more boats.

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[Image description: A tweet by robotrowboat that says, "[inventing the hot air balloon] I don't give a fuck where I go". /End ID]

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Not only did I miraculously survive the first assassination you all know about, I also survived the assassination attempt on that other impostor too

[the-sad-oracle]

I should also note in adding onto this, that the first time a False Dmitry got killed, the Russians loaded his corpse into a cannon and fired it away. The Second False Dmitry claimed not only to be the original Prince Dmitry Ivanovich but also the one who got fired out of a cannon. There were at least four False Dmitrys who tried to rule Russia between 1605 and 1612. Eventually, Russians decided to canonize the original Dmitry (who I should note died at age 8) to prevent any further False Dmitrys because now if anyone where to try to pretend to be Dmitry they would be accused of heresy.

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Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey. Photograph by Daniel Ibanez, 2024

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Glass jug, Roman Syria or Palestine, 4th-early 5th century AD

from The Museum of Fine Arts Boston

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