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my own Wunderkammer

[mioritic]

Stained glass panel depicting three trees, ca. 1600-1799

Rijksmuseum

[toyastales]

Music box, clock and snuff box, 1820. China. Sotheby's.

[queercheersquad]

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everyone is deleting the caption to this but this work is called “perfect lovers” by the gay artist felix gonzalez-torres. the piece is about the illness and death of his HIV-positive partner ross laycock:

For Untitled (Perfect Lovers) (1991), he synchronized two industrial clocks placed side by side. Inevitably, because batteries fail and things tend toward entropy, the clocks would slowly begin to advance at differing rates, out of sync, having moved, however briefly, perfectly together. (x)

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“Don’t be afraid of the clocks, they are our time, time has been so generous to us. We imprinted time with the sweet taste of victory. We conquered fate by meeting at a certain time in a certain space. We are a product of the time, therefore we give back credit where it is due: time. We are synchronized, now and forever. I love you.” (Gonzalez-Torres, 1988)

[kaalbela]

Interiors of Wazir Khan Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan; photographed by Areesha Khalid

[beautiful-belgium]

Joos van Cleve - The Birth of Christ (c. 1520), Kunsthistoriches Museum Wien

[lightthereis]

Sleeping Beauty by Nadezhda Illarionova

[macrolit]

by Langston Hughes

[houghtonlib]

Unfinished business: this manuscript was intended to have illuminated initials, but for some reason they were never completed, which gives us an unusual opportunity to see an earlier stage in the process, preparatory sketches which would have eventually been covered over.

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. De mulieribus claris : manuscript, [ca. 1425]

MS Richardson 41

Houghton Library, Harvard University

[catsofyore]

Handwoven cat and bird curtains from 1910! Source.

[slobodyanuk]

Coptic textile, 6th - 10th century.

[koenji]

Folio from a Manuscript of the Qur'an. Iran, Shiraz, 1550-1575. Ink, colors and gold on paper.

[safije]

15th century Timurid Qur'an copied on Chinese paper from the Ming Dynasty.

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Gerard P. van Groenning, Acht Olifanten (etching), 1563.

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Nine interlocking tiles, 1250-1324, Iran.

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Cat finger ring

Faïence

New Kingdom Egypt, 18th Dynasty, c. 1390 B.C.E.

Art Institute of Chicago

#ancientEgypt #catmagick

[chituttomove]

21?

I think you sent this to the wrong blog lmao, but I'll reblog it with the one it should be on!

21. If you couldn’t study the subject you study now, what would you study?

That a very hard question for me because when I was starting university, I wasn't sure whether to study history or languages. I got a degree in history and I absolutely loved it. I'm now studying historical linguistics and literature, basically combining my two life-long interests. I have thought about studying other things though, like heritage studies, archival studies or anthropology. So probably I'd be doing something like that, but I'm a humanities gal through and through lmao

How far along are you in your studies? How far do you plan on pursuing academia? What made you want to attend university? What do you stu

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