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[maertyrer]

Lombardian School St. Anthony, Mary, St. Anne and St. Peter Martyr

first third of the 15th century

[necspenecmetu]

Antonio di Puccio Pisano (Il Pisanello), Madonna and Child in Glory with Saint Anthony Abbot and Saint George, c. 1445

[cabbagingcove]

“Winter,” from The Keepsake; or, poems and pictures for childhood and youth (1818)

[humanoidhistory]

The portico of the Temple of Dendera, Egypt, circa 1857, photographed by Francis Frith. (Wikimedia Commons)

[centuriespast]

PARMIGIANINO Pallas Athene c. 1539 Oil on canvas, 63,8 x 45,1 cm Royal Collection, Windsor

[uncertaintimes]

The Wisedom of Fools

[jeannepompadour]

Merry Company in a Park by Esaias van de Velde, 1614

[auspiciousplatypus-blog]

Georges Lacombe Blue Seascape, Wave Effect, 1893.

[carminagf]

Dressing Up. Julius Hare

[japaneseaesthetics]

Woodblock print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861), Japan 歌川 国芳

[medieval]

Beaver castrating itself.

Italy, 15th c. (via)

[laclefdescoeurs]

Flowering Pomegranate, 1930, Kamewari Ryuji

[publicdomainreview]

A game of tennis in 1616, as depicted in a “Friendship Book” from 17th-century Germany. Learn more here: http://buff.ly/1AbKaDf

[beatonna]

Friendship book!

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[jeannepompadour]

"Predella mit Heiligen; Barbara, Margaretha, Anna Selbdritt, Dorothea, Maria Magdalena" by Bartholomäus Zeitblom  (c. 1450 – c. 1519)

[everyartisthasabday]

Botticelli’s Mystical Nativity was hidden for many centuries. Once found, it earned its name from both the unusual Nativity symbolism and Greek inscription at the top.

Boticelli believed he was living through the Tribulation, which is clear in the mysterious inscription:

This picture, at the end of the year 1500, in the troubles of Italy, I Alessandro, in the half-time after the time, painted, according to the eleventh chapter of Saint John, in the second woe of the Apocalypse, during the release of the devil for three-and-a-half years; then he shall be bound in the twelfth chapter and we shall see [him buried] as in this picture.

It is the only surviving work with his signature.

[centuriespast]

GOGH, Vincent van Olive Picking December 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 72 x 90 cm Private collection

[maertyrer]

Workshop of Bernardo Cavallino Saint Catherine of Alexandria

c. 1640s