night salt

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Ancient wooden church, Krasnaya Lyaga, Russia. It was built in 1655.

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Elisabeth Wild

[nightsalt]

Elisabeth Wild

[wearenapoleon]

works by carmen argote.

[nobrashfestivity]

Charles E. Prendergast, Fantasy, 1916-18

signed ‘C. Prendergast’ (lower left) tempera, gold leaf and pencil on incised gessoed panel 23 x 31in

[rotgospels]

Caroline Walker Bynum, Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion. 

[koredzas]

Lazzaro Bastiani - Madonna of Humility. 1470

[speciesbarocus]

Lambs carried by donkeys in special side-saddle as flocks of sheep move from pre-Alpine hills to summer pastures on Lombard plains.

> Photo by Elspeth Kinneir.

[nobrashfestivity]

Rabanus Maurus, De laudibus sanctae crucis, (“The praise of holy cross”) 810-814

Read about it here

[gwranda]

Bird pins (brooches) made out of scrap materials by Japanese Americans held in internment camps during World War II. From The Art of Gaman: Arts & Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps 1942-1946 by Delphine Hirasuna (Ten Speed Press, 2005). Gaman is a Japanese term of Zen Buddhist origin which means “enduring the seemingly unbearable with patience and dignity”.

[5centsapound]

[fotojournalismus]

Dmitry Gomberg: Akrak Vazha (The Shepherd’s Way)

Artist’s statement: 

“This is a story about Tusheti - mountain region in the Republic of Georgia. Tusheti lies near the Chechen border and it is culturally closer to Chechens than to Georgians.

The story is about shepherds who travel every summer to their ancestors’ land Tusheti and than return to spend the winter at the bottom of the mountain. Twice a year they travel with their sheep through the pass in the Caucasus which is 3,000 meters high. 

I was staying and documenting life of the Shepherds in the Caucasus mountains for 5 years. These people have been cheese makers since before Christ. Their life is simple and harsh, but beautiful.”

(via 5centsapound)

[nobrashfestivity]

Milton Avery, Woodcut, 1953

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Georges Braque, Oiseaux en vol (Bird in Flight), 1961

Lithograph in colors, on Arches paper, with full margins. I. 26 5/8 x 22 in. (67.6 x 55.9 cm) Signed and numbered 56/75 in pencil, published by Maeght, Paris

[nemfrog]

Fig. 2. The origin of clouds, winds and tornadoes. Atlas meteorologique. 1860.

David Rumsey

[nemfrog]

“Cross-section of outer part of secondary bark of English Oak.”  The microscopy of technical products. 1907.

Internet Archive

[neshamama]

murals in peasant house in Saratov, Russia, dating c. 1910

[nobrashfestivity]

Henry Darger, Human headed Blengins of Calverine Island Catherine Isles. Males. Venomous. Only the angels of heaven can combact these creatures. Mid-20th century Watercolor, pencil, and carbon tracing on pieced paper 19 x 24 in. American Folk Art Museum purchase, 2001.16.5 © Kiyoko Lerner; photo by James Prinz

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