[carloskaplan]

Ollantaytambo (Perú, 2015)

[centuriespast]

The 1,700-year-old central architectural complex at Caracol, Belize.

Credit…Caracol Archaeological Project/University of Houston

[cosmonautroger]

Seated Cat Ring, Ancient Egypt

[egypt-museum]

Tomb of Amenemheb, a commander under Thutmose III. On the lintel, the deceased appears in a hunting scene. Theban necropolis (TT85), Sheikh Abd el-Qurna.

[visualjunkee]

[photo-reactive-deactivated20171]

Florence, Italy - photography by: Michelle Heimerman - Saveur April/May 2017

[foggydevils]

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me AJ Abualrub & Steffen Weng by Markus Pritzi

[great-and-small]

I can’t tell you how much I love this artwork from ancient Egypt (the Middle Kingdom). People have been raising cattle and practicing animal husbandry for so long, that there is something almost inherently human about this scene.

Everyone in the field of veterinary medicine or agriculture knows the feeling of staying up late with a laboring animal trying to make sure both mom and baby are okay. Delivering a calf is often physically and emotionally exhausting work that takes enormous patience and learned skill. It requires a unique balance of physical strength and gentleness to do correctly. There is no feeling quite like getting that baby out and everyone is okay. I’m certain ancient people must have felt the same way, and I wonder if the artist knew this feeling firsthand. I wonder if those humans depicted were people the artist knew, if the cow and calf maybe were as well.

[yama-bato2]

©yama-bato

The church of Sainte-Marie du Mercadal

[henk-heijmans]

Sweden, 2023 - by Jan Bernhardtz, Swedish

[portal2myfantasy]

Aggregation of Ruby Spotted Swallowtail caterpillars on a tree in the Yucatán Peninsula

[vintagewildlife]

Bee eater on a cattle skull By: Eric Hosking From: Life Nature Library: Eurasia 1964

[requiem-on-water]

Emily MacDonald

[animegirlharem]

@pit-choun

[academicgoblin]

candy (2006)

[boobookittenartblog]

Underwater forest with tadpoles, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada

photograph by Eiko Jones

[389]

Adobe detail at Chan Chan Kevstan

[uwmspeccoll]

Decorative Sunday

Here are some plates from Carl Heideloff's Ornamentik des Mittelalters published in Nuremberg in 25 parts by C. Geiger's Verlag from 1838-1855, comprised of nearly 1,000 copperplate etchings of medieval ornament, mostly of architectural elements from German Romanesque and Gothic churches and other buildings. Carl Heideloff (1789-1865) was a German architect, master builder of Nuremberg, and a restorer of buildings and monuments. The plates in this portfolio were intended to instruct and inspire architects and designers of his day. Unfortunately, nearly every plate has our library stamp across it.

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[useless-catalanfacts]

Early 14th-century decorated modillion from the Peratallada castle (Comarques Gironines, Catalonia), nowadays in the MNAC museum in Barcelona.