Imponderabilia

What I post/reblog: pictures of landscapes, works of art, ancient Egypt stuff, fantasy and sci-fi art, Slavic and Polish trivia, and some occasional random things.

[cma-korean-art]

Dagger, 1800s, Cleveland Museum of Art: Korean Art

Size: Overall: 38.1 cm (15 in.); Hilt: 6.4 cm (2 ½ in.); Scabbard: 42.5 cm (16 ¾ in.) Medium: metal

https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.246.a

[just--space]

Into the Shadow : On January 21, 2019 moonwatchers on planet Earth saw a total lunar eclipse. In 35 frames this composite image follows the Moon that night as it crossed into Earth’s dark umbral shadow. Taken 3 minutes apart, they almost melt together in a continuous screen that captures the dark colors within the shadow itself and the northern curve of the shadow’s edge. Sunlight scattered by the atmosphere into the shadow causes the lunar surface to appear reddened during totality (left), but close to the umbra’s edge, the limb of the eclipsed Moon shows a remarkable blue hue. The blue eclipsed moonlight originates as rays of sunlight pass through layers high in Earth’s upper stratosphere, colored by ozone that scatters red light and transmits blue. The Moon’s next crossing into Earth’s umbral shadow, will be on May 26, 2021. via NASA

[aic-asian]

Making a Snow Dog, Suzuki Harunobu, 1762, Art Institute of Chicago: Asian Art

Clarence Buckingham Collection Size: 10 7/8 x 8 ¼ in. Medium: Color woodblock print; chuban

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/20965/

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Natale Schiavoni (1777-1858) “Jealousy” (c. 1820)

[wiktorjackowski]

there is not II, 2020,  oil on canvas, 110 x 150 cm

[gralinska]

[lamus-dworski]

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[silmaspens]

Tolkien themed drawings from this year’s inktober prompts

1. Day 15- Outpost (Himring)

2. Day 18- Trap (Turin & Glaurung)

3. Day 20- Coral (Ulmo)

4. Day 24- Dig (Durin’s Bane)

5. Day 25- Buddy (Luthien & Huan)

6. Day 26- Hide (Elwing, Elured & Elurin)

7. Day 31- Crawl (Morgoth & Ungoliant)

[artmagine]

The amazing concept art of Porco Rosso (1992)

Artbook: The Art of Porco Rosso

[topielicaslavica-deactivated202]

Chłopi (2022)

Eng. verbatim 'Peasants'. Directed by Dorota Kobiela, based on a novel written by Władysław Reymont.

[just--space]

The Space Station Crosses a Spotless Sun : Typically, the International Space Station is visible only at night. Slowly drifting across the night sky as it orbits the Earth, the International Space Station (ISS) can be seen as a bright spot about once a month from many locations. The ISS is then visible only just after sunset or just before sunrise because it shines by reflected sunlight – once the ISS enters the Earth’s shadow, it will drop out of sight. The only occasion when the ISS is visible during the day is when it passes right in front of the Sun. Then, it passes so quickly that only cameras taking short exposures can visually freeze the ISS’s silhouette onto the background Sun. The featured picture did exactly that – it is actually a series of images taken a month ago from Santa Fe, Argentina with perfect timing. This image series was later combined with a separate image highlighting the texture of the spotless Sun, and an image bringing up the Sun’s prominences around the edge. At an unusually low Solar Minimum, the Sun has gone without sunspots now for most of 2019. via NASA

[polishcostumes]

Polish oberek dance by the ensemble Mazowsze, in costumes from Opoczno :)

Stay strong!

[lamus-dworski]

African volunteers in the Polish army during the Polish-Soviet War (1919-1921). Images via Afryka.org and Muzeum Lotnictwa.

There’s sadly not much of surviving records about them. One newspaper article specifies that name of one of them was “Dżek” (probably Jack) and he came from South Africa (or just southern parts of the continent). Most likely all of them acquired Polish citizenship before joining the Polish troops. Pictures show members of the 12th Air Intelligence Squadron (12. Eskadra Wywiadowcza).

The Polish-Soviet conflict broke out just after the end of the World War 1 in the Eastern Europe. It attracted many unexpected volunteers from around the world, who fought against the Bolshevism alongside the newly freed Poland - country that had just regained independence and returned to the map of Europe after over a century of the foreign occupations [see: Partitions of Poland]. The war largely determined the Soviet-Polish border for the period between the two World Wars.

[egypt-museum-deactivated2021071]

Tutankhamun’s Sarcophagus Artwork

Artwork showing the various parts of the sarcophagus of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun (ca. 1341-1323 BC). Science Photo Library

[egypt-museum-deactivated2021071]

Hatshepsut’s temple evening scenery

The Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut is one of the world’s most striking architectural masterpieces, but perhaps even more noteworthy is the woman who commissioned it.

[oldpaintings]

Cherry Blossoms (scene from Grez), 1884 by Bruno Liljefors (Swedish, 1860–1939)

[weirdlandtv]

Costume and backdrop designs by Alexander Golovin for Strawinsky’s THE FIREBIRD (1910).

[egypt-museum-deactivated2021071]

The Great Hypostyle Hall of Karnak. From Penrose’s Pictorial Annual, An Illustrated Review of the Graphic Arts, volume 14, (London, 1908-1909).