Maskerade

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Isola Bella - the world’s finest example of a baroque garden. • • #italy #lakemaggiore #isolabella (at Isola Bella)

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Isola di Loreto da wizardinf84 Tramite Flickr: Isola di Loreto

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Pio Fedi, Dionora de Bardi and Ippolito Buondelmonti

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Inside - Vadim Sadovski

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini, il Ratto di Proserpina, 1622

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Amerigo Vespucci 

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In the Polish village of Zalipie, all the buildings are covered in painted flowers. Over 100 years ago, when everyone had wood-burning stoves, someone painted a flower on their ceiling to cover a soot stain, and it became a trend. In 1948, the town started an annual painted cottage competition to help recover psychologically from WWII, and now all the homes, churches, bridges and barns are covered in flowers – inside and out. Source Source 2

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Pavimento Duomo di Siena

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Duomo Spires da Lee Sie

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Borromini’s Forced Perspective 2 by dzzzy27

The distance between us and the statue in the other photograph is an illusion. Borromini purposefully designed this passage to fool our eyes. Until we get this close we believe the passage is longer and the statue is taller than they really are. It is an extremely effective architectural illusion.

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Pieta (detail)

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This is a beautiful example of a fore-edge painting, a scene painted on the edges of the pages of a book.

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Being a nature photographer seems great, maybe I should try…

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nbd just sketching this incredibly detailed scene, how ‘bout you

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The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned secondhand bookshop, one that looks as though they were designed by M. Escher on a bad day and has more stairways than storeys and those rows of shelves which end in little doors that are surely too small for a full-sized human to enter. The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

Terry Pratchett (born on this day–28 April–in 1948)

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David - Michelangelo da rupertalbe - rupertalbegraphic