[historyarchaeologyartefacts]

Assyrian warship 700-692 BC From Nineveh [1197 x 874]

SWITCH TO FIREFOX AND ADD UBLOCK ORIGIN

[adelphe]

Flowers: Their Arrangement by J. Gregory Conway, photographs by Will Connell, 1940

[kafkasapartment]

Magnolia Blossom, 1925. Imogen Cunningham. Gelatin silver

[nobrashfestivity]

Henri Matisse, Studios

1&2 -Henri Matisse created his cut-outs in three different studios. In 1946 he developed Oceania, the Sky and Oceania, the Sea on the walls of an apartment at 132 Boulevard Montparnasse, Paris.

 3-Towards the end of his time at the Villa le Rêve, in Vence, where he lived and worked between 1943 and 1948, Matisse covered its walls with vibrantly colored cut-paper forms. 

4, 5.6- From 1949 until his death in 1954, Matisse’s cut-outs grew in ambition, expanding throughout the interiors of the Hôtel Régina, Nice.

MOMA

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[magictransistor]

John Dee. Primi Quadriui Mysterium. 1500s.

[neshamama]

votive statuette holding a dove

575 b.c., naukratis, egypt

[nemfrog]

“A greatly magnified figure of a full-grown Brachiolaria in its natural attitude, at rest.” Embryology of the starfish. 1865. Processed image.

Internet Archive

[fragrantblossoms]

Pere Català Pic (1889-1971).  Galletas Nanuk, n/d. 

[met-medieval-art]

Beaded Necklace, Medieval Art

Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Glass, agate, shell, glazed earthenware (faience)

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Yin/Yang and Hexagram 11 (‘Pervading’, ‘Peace’, 'Greatness’) of the I Ching. A sticker on the opening page of Atalanta Fugiens (1617, by Michael Maier), pasted onto C. G. Jung’s personal copy.

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Emblem which adorns the title page of Theatrum Chemicum Brittanicum 1652, by Elias Ashmole

[wike-wabbits]

Alchemical drawings from Sapientia veterum philosophorum, sive doctrina eorumdem de summa et universali medicina (18th c.) BnF

[nemfrog]

Aztec calendar. Les Aztèques; histoire, murs, coutumes. 1885. 

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Relief depicting gods Anubis and Thoth, detail from stone sarcophagus of Psusennes I. Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, ca. 1070-945 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.

[gacougnol]

Yasuzo Nojima Style Life 1933

[conversationswiththelight]

René Magritte, Le Chant de l'Orage (The Storm’s Song), 1937

[gingerbronson]