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[portalibis]

Mosaic of "Dionysus Riding a Leopard" c. 180 AD. House of Masks. Delos, Greece

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[charnel-grounds]

Julia Soboleva, “Thin red thread”

[portalibis]

Antonio Canova - Cupid and Psyche (1805) Musée du Louvre

[7pleiades7]

Bronze hydria (water jar), Greek 4th century BCE, bronze, H. 19 3/4 in. (50.2 cm), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

[oldpaintings]

Coucher de soleil avec la pompe Wallace et les terrasses de Bagatelle by  Pinckney Marcius-Simons (American, 1867–1909)

[thecolorblockcurator]

Thomas Jackson, Silk no. 10, Nantucket, Massachusetts, 2025

[lindahall]

The Institute of Egypt – Scientist of the Day

When Napoleon invaded Egypt in July of 1798 with 54,000 soldiers and sailors, his immediate problem was gaining control of Cairo, which he effectively did with the Battle of the Pyramids on July 21. 

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[illustratus]

Napoleon in Egypt by Robert Alexander Hillingford

[kindredwhimsy]

"History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes."

The Testaments – Margaret Atwood

[portrait-paintings]

Charles Dickens

Artist: Daniel Maclise (Irish, 1806-1870)

Date: 1839

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom

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Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812 – 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.

Dickens was one of the greatest Victorian novelists, with a reputation that endures. His best-known works include Oliver Twist (1838), A Christmas Carol (1843) and Great Expectations (1861). His novels are renowned for their vivid portrayal of the Victorian class system, and address issues of injustice and social deprivation. Dickens was friends with the artist of this portrait, Daniel Maclise. ‘Maclise has made another face of me,’ Dickens wrote, ‘which all people say is astonishing.’ An engraving of it was later used as the frontispiece to the first edition of Nicholas Nickleby (1839).

[minimoonpost]

Napoleon's Art in Chinese Mainland in the 1980s

[weepingwidar]

Laurent Grasso (French, 1972) - Studies Into the Past (2023)

[weepingwidar]

Tianshu Zhang (Chinese, 1992) - Untitled (2023)

[memories-of-ancients]

Terracotta statuette of a woman, Etruscan, 4th century BC

from The MET

[fffraw]

Andrea Mantegna, il Parnaso, 1497, Parigi, Louvre. Dettaglio di Mercurio.

[classicalcanvas]

Fog (1807) by Caspar David Friedrich

[fffraw]

This sketch of him can be found in "Vol. 1: Napoleon Bonaparte as General in Chief: Portraits and Autographs," from the collection of Theodore D. Buhl.

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This volume contains two manuscripts, both signed by Napoleon, and dated 1793 and 1795. There are 36 prints, all portraying Napoleon as he looked while serving as general in chief of the French army, from 1793 to 1798.