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Dallas A celebration of the aesthetics of hyper-consumption with zero sense of irony Mexico City A living altar to ritual, sacrifice, conquest, and compadrazo. Antidote to shyness

London Wet.

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Psaltix (@lucas.lejeune) on Threads

Psaltix (@lucas.lejeune) on Threads

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Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652) — The Public Domain Review

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The great German polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born #onthisday in 1749. As well as penning novels, poetry, criticism, and dramas, he also wrote various scientific treatises, including his 1810 book Zur Farbenlehre (Theory of Colours): https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/black-on-black #OTD

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Ukiyo-e woodblock, by the late Edo artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861), illustrating the legend of the “Sea Monk” or Umibōzu, a spirit in Japanese folklore. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-sea-monk-ca-1845

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Comets from The Augsburg Book of Miracles, 16th century. 💫 More in our post “Flowers of the Sky”, of depictions spanning almost a whole millennium of comets, meteors, meteorites and shooting stars: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/flowers-of-the-sky #comets #meteors #shootingstars #meteorshower

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Steel engraving illustration by Gustave Doré for a French edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, posthumously published in 1884.⁠ ⁠ One of 700+ prints available from our online shop — https://publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints

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Print from 1556 published by Hieronymus Cock , designed by Cornelis Floris II and engraved by Johannes or Lucas van Doetecum.

More of these highly elaborate ornament prints, mostly in the grotesque style, from the collection of the Rijksmuseum here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/16th-century-ornament-prints

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Happy #WorldWaterDay! Fetch yourself a big glass of the good stuff and take a look at the watery wonder which is Hamonshu (1903), a Japanese book of wave and ripple designs: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hamonshu-a-japanese-book-of-wave-and-ripple-designs-1903

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Emma Willard’s Maps of Time

In the 21st-century, infographics are everywhere. In the classroom, in the newspaper, in government reports, these concise visual representa

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Flowers of the Sky — The Public Domain Review

Flowers of the Sky

Depictions spanning almost a whole millennium — in chronological order — of comets, meteors, meteorites and shooting stars.

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Peking Opera Characters (ca. 1900) — The Public Domain Review

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Radiolaria: feudarians.

"The beauty of form in nature"

Ernst Heinrich Haeckel (1904)

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Illustrations by naturalist Ernst Haeckel.

From his collection Kunstformen der Natur.

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ernst haeckel : actiniae (1904)

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Radiolaria illustrations by Ernst Haeckel in Kunstformen der Natur, 1904 – plate 51: Polycyttaria; plate 21: Acanthometra