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Jenny Shimizu in her apartment in NYC. I tried to find out exactly who the photographer was but all I found out was that this image was shot in 1994 for an issue of People magazine, probably for this article.

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Mary Magdalene, polychrome wood sculpture, Augsburg 1515-1520 musee du louvre

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Graveyard quilt

Elizabeth Roseberry [Mitchell] and her family were natives of Pennsylvania. She married Shadrach Mitchell on November 20, 1817 in Green County, Pa. In 1834, the family moved to Antioch, Ohio. They had the first seven of their 11 children with them during the move. In 1836, Elizabeth's young son, John Vanetta, died. At that time Elizabeth started a mourning quilt (different from this one, currently in the collection of the Kentucky Highlands Museum) and put a coffin with John's name on it in the graveyard at the center. The family moved again about 1840 to Lewis County, Ky. Brothers Roseberry and Mathias (called Bub) soon returned to Ohio. In January 1843, Matthias died at age 19; how or why is no longer known. Elizabeth added his name to the quilt that was still only in the quilt-top phase. Batting and backing had not been added and the quilting had not been started. Apparently Elizabeth was dissatisfied with that quilt and started a new one around Matthias' 1843 death. It is this second, finished quilt that is in the Kentucky Historical Society collections. Some fabrics are used in both quilts.

Each paper casket on the periphery bears a relative's name. All of Elizabeth and Shadrach Mitchell's children have a marked casket. The empty coffin space in the lower left corner once held the coffin labeled "Mother," which is now in the graveyard area. Some other family members were added. As each relative died, the year would be added to the tag and moved to the cemetery at the center. First Elizabeth Roseberry Mitchell then her daughters Sarah (Sis) and Elizabeth (Lib) cared for the mourning quilt. After Elizabeth's death in 1867, Sarah continued to alter the quilt until about 1870. Clearly she stopped making alterations before her father's death in 1875 although she lived until 1911. This quilt is an excellent example of nineteenth century mourning customs as well as an illustration of the emotions and experiences that were often expressed by women through their quilts.

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Attributed to Hunhar

“Girl at Prayer by Moonlight” (c. 1650s)

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Fan made of textured paper painted with gouache, and cedar wood

Made in the UK 1905-1914

Collection V&A

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Sarah Lamb and Steven Mcrae in Kenneth Macmillan’s Mayerling

Photo: Andrej Uspenski

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[snootyfoxfashion]

Vintage 70s Victorian Style Hands Belt from SHOPPOMPOMVINTAGE

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Mary Jane Newill, Bedcover, ca. 1908, linen embroidered with colored wools

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Giovanni dal Ponte - The Virtues of the Monastic Life of the Religious. 1420 - 1425

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A floor mosaic from the dining room of a Pompeii home. In Roman culture, the act of eating was often accompanied by reminders of mortality. Credit: Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli

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Wallace Stevens, ‘The Dwarf’, The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

[Text ID: “Now it is September and the web is woven. The web is woven and you have to wear it.”]

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Paul Sérusier, The Harvest of Buckwheat

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Sada Yacco as Ophelia. Japan, 1904

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Ten thousand martyrs of Mount Ararat (detail). Les Grandes Heures d’Anne de Bretagne, Jean Bourdichon. Tours or Paris ~ ca.1508. BnF • Bibliothèque Infernale on FB

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thecoloristartist:

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It’s never too late to back out, right girls?: The fifty sweet young dames known as Danaïdes killing their fifty husbands on the wedding night (except one). Les Epistres d'Ovide. Enlumineur Maître Robinet Testard ~ ca.1496 BnF • via Bibliothèque Infernale on FB