[hildegardavon]

Murzanov Vladimir Alekseyevich, 1872-1922

Hera, 1890, Academic drawing, pencil on paper, 50x66 cm

Museum MCSK, Ukraine Inv. G-31

[yiddisheyfe]

"Literacy is the path to communism!"

Yiddish language variation of a propaganda poster for the Soviet Likbez campaign which was established in 1920 to eliminate illiteracy through various means, including the establishment of reading rooms in villages, and reading competitions between trade union members in neighboring locals and factories.

[cornbelt]

[rozieramati]

[svdcvnt]

Early Bird Gets The Worm 🪱

[melowoof]

[pussymargiela]

[romegreeceart]

[auroraborealis22]

Hosio Hirotta

[classicalcanvas]

The Great Roads at Kronstadt (1836) by Ivan Aivazovsky

[vintagewildlife]

Barn owl with prey By: Unknown photographer From: Wildlife Fact-File 1990s

[venustapolis]

Great Comet of 1861 (Edmund Weiss, 1888)

[venustapolis]

Moon Night. Thinking (Arkhip Kuindzhi, 1841 - 1910)

[zegalba]

Gaza City, Palestine (2015)

Palestinian schoolgirls walk in front of a rainbow illuminating the sky over Gaza City's shore.

[venustapolis]

Illustration for the series titled 'Book of Death' (Kay Nielsen, 1911)

[honorthegods]

Opus Sectile floor detail, Hadrian;s Villa, Tivoli. Photo by: AlMare, 2000 via Wikimedia Commons (X).  License:  Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic

Opus Sectile is a mosaic technique that appeared in Rome around the 2nd century BCE.  It is made of pieces of stone or shell cut to-to-shape for the pattern, rather than the usual mosaic technique of using many small cubes of stone or glass (tesserae) to create the pattern. 

This particular flooring is composed of sections of Giallo Antico (golden), Serpentino (green),  Rosso Antico (red), and Pavonazzetto (white) marble.  

[leregretdestempspasses]

Cemetery somewhere in Slovakia, 1940 (Štefan Tamáš)