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otherwise known as mayhap everywhere else on the internet

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Paradiso, Canto Ventesimosettimo [Eighth Heaven, the Sphere of the Fixed Stars] (from Dante, Divine Comedy)

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woodcut, ca. 1564

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Some wacky illustrations for a short dissertation I wrote for my Masters, exploring the relationship between medieval illuminations, marginalia, and online ads.

Markers on cartridge paper.

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Gold finger ring, Europe, 16th century

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Rabbit. mid-19th century. Credit line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/59689

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Glass Fragment. 12th–14th century. Credit line: Gift of Ella Brummer, in memory of her husband, Ernest Brummer, 1977 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/465994

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German school, An Open book, early 16th century

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The Star-Journal, Warrensburg, Missouri, December 30, 1924

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Fun fact but according to historians, tamagotchi were a popular commodity for noble ladies in the 14th century

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Put one of these on your chatelaine along with your scissors and your thimble and your keys!

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Giacomo Pacchiarotto, A Young Lady Writing in a Hymnal (detail), turn of the 16th century

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nancy drew and the case of the color work sweater🔍

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Grete Stern :: Dream No. 6: Untitled, 1948 / source: MoMA via The New Yorker

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Mouse eating a walnut. 

 Roman mosaic from 200 BC.

via Waldemar Januszczak

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Glass Fragment. 13th–14th century. Credit line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/467332

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Another Lord Peter and Harriet portrait.

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Hieronymus Bosch, Detail from the Triptych of The temptations of St. Anthony

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You’ve got a fast carp,

I’ve got a plan to get us out of here

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“In Pieces but Still Holding It Together.” By Bouke de Vries (2020).

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