Only For Now

GOOD THINGS TO SEE AND HEAR - ONLY FOR NOW

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Pump Court in the Temple, London

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The Adoration of the Christ Child, Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen, 1510, Art Institute of Chicago: European Painting and Sculpture

According to tradition, the birth of Christ took place in a stable constructed in the ruins of King David’s palace in Bethlehem. In Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen’s painting, the garlands and scrollwork of the architecture and the tumbling musical angels demonstrate an exuberant adaptation of Renaissance motifs to an essentially late medieval scene. Jacob Cornelisz. was the first major painter established in Amsterdam; the importance of this city in the northern portion of the Netherlands increased dramatically over the course of the 16th century. George F. Harding Collection Size: 98.5 × 76.3 cm (38 ¾ × 30 1/16 in.) Painted surface: 97 × 74.9 cm (38 3/16 × 29 ½ in.) Medium: Oil on panel

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/100345/

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Insignia of a Knight Bachelor.

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A Hansom cab outside the Albert Hall in London. 

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Valle Crucis Abbey, Denbighshire

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Hands, 1885, Vincent van Gogh

Medium: chalk,pencil,paper

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Loewe Opta Bella 2711W

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Signet ring (gold), England late 15 th c.[750x950]

SWITCH TO FIREFOX AND ADD UBLOCK ORIGIN

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Detail from a calendar page (Flemish, mid 1200′s) - ‘Hawking in May.’

Tempera colours, gold leaf, and ink on parchment.

Images and text information courtesy The Getty.

This image is available for download, without charge, under the Getty’s Open Content Program.

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Miscellanea per i giovani studiosi del disegno - Giocondo Albertolli, Raffaello Albertolli, Giacomo Mercoli, and Michelangelo Mercoli - 1796 - via Internet Archive

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Tis a bear's talent not to kick, but hug

Alexander Pope, Satires and Epistles of Horace Imitated Book 2 Satire 1, line 13

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Winston Churchill’s coat and ostrich-feather trimmed bicorn hat (bottom left), both forming the principal parts of his official uniform as a Privy Counsellor. 

The goldwork on the coat is made up of shiny, reflective metal pieces, not just gold thread. This uniform is no longer worn by Privy Counsellors. 

Churchill was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1907. It is a lifetime appointment, and he died in 1965.

Photograph taken at his country house, Chartwell, Westerham, Kent, now owned by the National Trust and open to the public.

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1928 London

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I used to get this bus to school when I was a teenager. It was still route 15 (not 15A). It still took the route shown on the board in this photograph. Obviously the bus itself looked a little different 50 years on. It was bigger, there was a roof, and there weren’t so many hats. But, still.... Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose!

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Uta von Ballenstedt, donor figure in the Naumburg Cathedral, mid 13th century [2000x3000]

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Joyeuse, Charlemagne’s sword, 7th century [960 x860]