emilia luisa

femina ingens animi. xxv | ♱ | ⚢ roman archaeologist

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[memories-of-ancients]

Green jasper cameo with cameo of Christ, Byzantine, 900-1000 AD

from The Penn Museum

[downtothemarrow]

Béa Henri

[16tinyfrogs]

on watching a parent age

i saw somebody say “what if you’re gone and i haven’t become anything yet” and basically that broke me on a random thursday evening

[tenderstems]

various sacred hearts (damien hirst; tim tate; antique ex-voto; 19th c. french religious card; 19th c. french reliquary; repousee antique; carved wood frame c. 1890-1920; unknown painting)

[barcarole]

Detail from Annunciation, Jan van Eyck, ca. 1434-1436.

[didoofcarthage]

The Arch of Constantine and The Arch of Titus by Canaletto, probably based on drawings by his nephew Bernardo Bellotto

Italian, signed and dated 1742

oil on canvas

Royal Collection Trust (acquired by King George III in 1762 and hung in the entrance hall of Buckingham House)

[threeamserif]

instagram | photos are my own, reblogs fine, do not repost/reuse

[cloisters]

some photos from when I visited my best friend at Oxford in college

[hagiomoto]

Christians in the West are celebrating Christmas while Jesus's homeland and birthplace were being bombed to their glee

Merry Christmas

[mioritic]

Posy ring, late Medieval period (15th century?), engraved with foliage and the motto "Je desir vous Ceruir" ("Jé désire vous servir" / "I desire to serve you")

Discovered by a metal detectorist in Essex, 2023

Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service / BBC

[howsublime]

Statue of poet Sappho (2nd century CE, Smyrna) at the Istanbul Archeological Museum.

[glimpsesofpeaceful]

ig credit: ichmiles

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thank god iwtv gave us the phrase "I could not prevent it" to say about things that you did on purpose and could prevent. honestly so essential

[venerable-thief]

"history will absolve me" as the e-mail signature

[threeamserif]

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