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

“The Ancient Greeks, writes Robert M. Pirsig […], saw the future as something that came upon them from behind their backs with the past receding away before their eyes. When you think about it, that’s a more accurate metaphor than our present one. Who can really face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?”

— Stefano Gualeni, Virtual Worlds as Philosophical Tools (via exhaled-spirals)

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Silver locket with Cupid and the inscription ‘Noe Heart More True Than Mine To You’. Made in England, 1690-1700. (source).

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A painted plaster wall taken from Pompeii. The decoration is in “carpet” style. Within the lozenges alternate human figures, birds, discs, and corollas.

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“Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot.”

— Simon Schama