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the transformation of daphne

miniature from a copy of ovid's metamorphoses (middle french translation by clément marot). france, after 1531

source: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 117, fol. 28v

Ian Breakwell, Visual Text No. 6, (photograph & collage), 1969 [British Council Collection. Art UK, Staffordshire University Incubator Unit, Stoke-on-Trent. © The Estate of Ian Breakwell / DACS, London]

mephistophelia

Hieronymus Bosch, The Cure of Folly (Extraction of the Stone of Madness), 1501-1505, Museo del Prado, source

#AOTY 1505

sharpeningtheblade

MORGENSTERN

Heavy, iron, spherical head with nineteen cusps, attached to a chain on a tapering ferrule, fixed by the straps on the rest of cylindrical, wooden, original shaft. Small, metallic, lateral plate with stamp “MARZOLI”. Extremely rare.

Germany, 16th Century

length totale circa 140 cm

hildegardavon

Nikolaus Pfaff, 1556(?)-1612

Cybele, ca.1610/20, ivory, partially painted, silver, gilded, 20.2×7.2×6 cm

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien Inv. 4660

koredzas

Giovanni del Biondo - So-called San Donnino Triptych - Stories of Saint Domninus. Detail. 1385 - 1390

theinternetarchive

'women picking olives,' oil on canvas, vincent van gogh, dutch c. 1889.

egypt-museum

Men gathering figs into a basket and a crate. Monkeys sit in the tree and eat figs.

Wall painting tomb of Khnumhotep II, BH No.3 (West wall), Beni Hasan.

Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, ca. 1920-1900 BC.

Ancient Egyptian Paintings selected, copied & described by Nina M. Davis, plate VII. Now in the Bibliothèque du Louvre.

dumbpuppyfag

"millionaire yank cunt appearing on christmas day to bitch about getting 5 days off from the most overpaid job in the universe" is some mkultra shit designed to make sure the next prime minister is mechahitler. all must condemn.

dumbpuppyfag

remember like two months ago when greta thunberg got abducted from international waters and tormented in an israeli dungeon for trying to get food into gaza?? remember when mahmoud khalil spent 104 days in an ice concentration camp for protesting apartheid?? remember when hundreds of people in this country got arrested simultaneously for protesting the banning of palestine action?? anyway here's brave free speech warrior jimmy fucking kimmel ig jesus christ

apologynote

there are hunger strikers on the brink of death in uk prisons rn on unproven terrorist charges who have been there for over a year without charge and are expected to be there for another year btw. because they damaged some weapons that were gonna be used in a genocide. just btw. more were hospitalised literally yesterday

museum-of-artifacts

Parchment holes in manuscript repaired using embroidery circa 1417, currently in University Library Uppsala, Sweden

handmadehistorypodcast

What wait WHAT

mydonkeyfeet

I love seeing parchment / vellum mended with stitching! Here are some more.

baebeylik

Bank in the form of a Cat by Jorge Wilmot. Mexican, 1958.

San Antonio Museum of Art.

funstealer

A hand-painted parchment, wood and hammered brass side chair by Carlo Bugatti. via Batiti Gallery

rossodimarte

Andrea Mantegna, Christ's descent into Limbo, ca. 1480

lionofchaeronea

The Amazonomachy. Lower tier of an Attic red-figure lekythos, attr. to the Eretria Painter; ca. 420 BCE. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo credit: © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY 2.5.