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ltwilliammowett

A Bone and Brass Sundial, 19th century

#maritime art #scrimshaw

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Pocket sundial, a Butterfield dial compass for navigation and timekeeping, by Edmund Culpeper, 1695-1725

#maritime history #maritime art

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Centaur Watching Fish by Arnold Böcklin (1878).

I love love love Böcklin’s mythical pieces, they have this sense of realism, and often even sensitivity.

thestuffedalligator

I thought I recognized the style so I looked it up and I’m so happy because this is the same artist who painted Centaur at the Village Blacksmith.

I love that this was a subject he apparently went to multiple times. Centaurs in perfectly mundane situations.

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Don’t worry, he also painted them doing what they do best - beating the shit out of each other.

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@horsefigureoftheday

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My own favorite paintings of centaurs in mundane situations include "The Centaur Playing with Her Child" by Otto Soltau and "A Centaur Playing with His Son" by Otto Bache

#art #illustration #i <3 genre painting

iamthemaestro

people have said it before but if you read a lot of historical literature you do begin to just sort of think in that style of language. I’ll put down the 18th century journal I’m reading and have to resist the urge to send academic emails with every Noun capitalized and punctuated only by the profuse Usage of the Em-Dash — it is a deceptively challenging Instinct to resist, & worse is that Instinct when spelling certain Words to utilize what would, some Centuries prior, be an appropriate Spelling, excepting that my Correspondence occurs in the Twenty-First Century, where Men are inflexible and uncreative in their Methods, & this Propensity of mine would appear only foolish & incorrect, instead of suggesting what it in actuality reflects, which is that I am simply an Incorrigible Nerd — O! the Woes of modern Sociability! Why should I be compelled to conform to these d——d modern Conventions! Is it not enough to be unabashedly and impudently Autistic?

#text post #me fr

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UMA THURMAN as GODDESS VENUS the adventures of baron munchausen (1988) dir. terry gilliam

#film #the adventures of baron munchausen #20th century #costume design

thegrimphantasm

The Age of Madness: The History of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization (1973) with cover art by Edward Gorey

#edward gorey #illustration #20th century

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I recently learned an old French euphemism for bisexuality. It means to be powered "by sail and steam," and it absolutely comes from a specific flavor of 19th-century ship.

HMS Terror and Erebus were bisexual, you heard it here first.

Happy Pride!

#this is excellent #happy pride 🌈#pride