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Carlos, 28 (👴) | Portugal 🇵🇹 | Student and researcher (Early Modern literature)

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Biblioteca Joanina, Coimbra, Portugal

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At night, tiny bats fly through the library eating insects to protect the books. That’s not folklore, it’s true.

Imagine reading there knowing the guardians of the collection have wings.

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"Hellmouth" from MS Tanner 184, an English manuscript dated to the 13th century (circa 1250-55)

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Victor Frankenstein after achieving the impossible and building a fucking person from scraps of the dead: Oh god, ew, ew it's ugly! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew! Ew! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew!

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Ambrosius Benson. ' Saint Mary Magdalen Reading an Illuminated Manuscript ', ca. 1519-1550.

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Saint Anthony lies in a coffin and is besieged by a group of demons. In the background, Anthony appears sitting in prayer and is tempted by a woman.

Antonio Tempesta. Italy. 1598

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“what radicalized you” bro EMPATHY

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir - "Julie Manet with Cat (detail)" (1877)

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Allegory of human life - oil on canvas

— Guido Cagnacci (Italy, 1601–1663)

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Dieric Bouts (c. 1415–1475)

The Fall of the Damned, c. 1470

Oil on panel

Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, France

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Josefa de Óbidos (1630–1684)

English: Virgin and Child, oil on copper miniature, dated 1657, by Josefa de Óbidos (signed "Josepha de Ayalla" on the lower right corner). In the collection of the National Museum of Ancient Art, Lisbon, Portugal.

Português: Virgem e o Menino, miniatura em óleo sobre cobre, datada de 1657, da autoria de Josefa de Óbidos (assinado "Josepha de Ayalla" no canto inferior direito). Na colecção do Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, em Lisboa, Portugal.

Josefa de Óbidos (Portuguese: [ʒuˈzɛfɐ ð(j) ˈɔβiðuʃ]; c. 1630 – 22 July 1684) was a Spanish-born Portuguese painter. Her birth name was Josefa de Ayala Figueira, but she signed her work as "Josefa em Óbidos" or "Josefa de Ayalla". All of her work was executed in Portugal, her father's native country, where she lived from the age of four. Approximately 150 works of art have been attributed to Josefa de Óbidos, making her one of the most prolific Baroque artists in Portugal. Via W

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Broadside with 48 allegorical figures pertaining to the sun and the moon. Juan Llorens. c. 1860-1870.

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Flemish School, 16th Century

Mary Magdalene, ca.1530/35, oil on wood, 61.3x43.7 cm

Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC), Barcelona

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When I was a kid watching tv was idiot coded and nerds read books, but now scrolling shortform videos is considered braindead behavior and watching tv means you're some kinda intellectual. You might think this shifting assessment of media's consumers might make readers into absolute super geniuses, but no. Only perverts read now.

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Aurélia de Souza (Portuguese, 1866-1922) - Aspecto de jardim e exterior de casa

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Gilles of Rome - The Book of the Regime of Princes, 1279

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Rosalba Carriera (Italian, 1675 - 1757): Portrait of a Young Man (via Sotheby's)