[mollyjaw]

[patronsaintofweepingmothers]

2006

[buckskinboots]

Whale bones in Gufuskálar

[apricops]

say what you will about the Habsburgs but I really appreciate how many of them created massive baroque synecdoches of their own neuroses. Charles V drove himself crazy trying to manage an intercontinental empire in the 1500s and then spent his final years in a monastery surrounded by clocks, obsessively trying to get all of them to tick in unison. Philip II was a meticulous and obsessively pious introvert and he turned his palace into a bureaucratic warehouse with him sitting at the top floor, correcting the grammar of his advisors’s letters like he was grading essays. Rudolf II was completely checked out of his role as emperor, obsessively collecting foreign curiosities while wars and religious revolts slowly devoured the Holy Roman Empire, just like the live lions and tigers wandering the halls of Prague Castle and attacking servants at random. All of them (the Habsburgs not the lions and tigers) had debilitating prognathism from centuries of inbreeding to keep their ‘noble blood’ (and to keep their territories consolidated), their bodies falling apart from the sheer weight of their dynastic history and endless pursuit of purity and centralization. It’s bizarrely and tragically beautiful.

[chessasubbiondo]

[meetingpoints]

wait i dont come on here much anymore why did they separate notes like that?

[meetingpoints]

dissertation proposal is basically done okayyyyy

[meetingpoints]

last year i had to do a fake proposal for a dissertation i could not write (i was in a compulsory history dissertation prep class even though it is my minor & i cannot do your dissertation in my minor!!) which was 2000 words of total bs that i submitted at like 2am a few hours before the deadline and somehow my puny 100 word philosophy abstract was just as if not more stressful

[meetingpoints]

dissertation proposal is basically done okayyyyy

[real-life2021]

[ekihotz]

Collection of wood paintings

Josu Larrea

2025

[harvardfineartslib]

Slides were used to teach history of art and architecture since around 1880s until they were replaced by digital modes such as PowerPoint. Since the founding of the Fogg Art Museum in 1895, the Fine Arts Library has served the needs of teaching faculty, art museum staff, undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and historians at Harvard and around the world. By 1920s, many universities had slide libraries, including Harvard. Since then, over the decades, FAL has acquired over 600,000 slides, mainly from the courses taught by Harvard faculty for teaching.

In the past couple years, the Fine Arts Library’s Digital Images and Slides Collection has been engaged in a large-scale move of our 35 mm slides to off-site storage at the Harvard Depository. 

This collection of over 600,000 slides documents the history of world art and architecture up to the early 2000s. Access for retrieval of items needed by future researchers is being provided through creating HOLLIS records. We have digitized most of the slides, but the archiving of this significant teaching format, nearly in its original arrangement, will serve as a valuable record both of the past art historical interests of faculty and students, and as a tangible reminder of bygone classroom teaching practices.

These are some samples from our slide collections. We’ll be showing some of these slides at our Open House on September 18th.

[vintagewildlife]

Hen brooding kittens By: Keystone From: Life Nature Library: Animal Behavior 1965

[precious-silly-thing-deactivate]

Marie Cool Fabio Balducci

[lamignonette]

[rozieramati]

David Walker’s paper clip collection

[lamignonette]

[dan-choi]

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