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Richard W Brown, Tasha Tudor making beeswax candles, 1990s

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Giovannino dei Grassi and Belbello da Pavia

Visconti Book of Hours, for Gian Galeazzo Visconti

Milan, late 14th century

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lucernarium / milkwood

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Vesper, Mikhail Nesterov

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Vilhelm Hammershøi 

 Interior Artificial Light

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I’d match that ;)

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Fantastic Ruins with St Augustine and the Child - oil on canvas (detail) 1623 | Francois de Nome

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George Herbert McCord - The Church Spire, Twilight

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By: Darby Old Hag Lahger

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Plague doctor mask, Germany, c. 16th century. As protection against the disease doctors wore a leather gown with a wrap and a mask. Herbs or sponges soaked with vinegar were put into a beak-like protrusion in order to filter the air.

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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.”

Lloyd Alexander  

www.myawesomequotes.com

(via myawesomequotes-com)

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“Dark star, I seek you in all the endless rooms of the universe.” (The Wormwood Star, 1955, Curtis Harrington)

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Damn

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The charms of Lincolnshire by Barbara Rich on Flickr.

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Some pictures from the Grayson Perry exhibition ‘The Charms of Lincolnshire’ - “a narrative three-dimensional poem between his works and historical artefacts selected by him from the museums of Lincolnshire.”  

This is a hobby horse costume worn when acting out a plough play, a medieval traditional representation of death and resurrection.