Scott's Phone Photos

Shots taken using an iPhone, not professionally. Of course, if you can, please visit these locations in person!

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Illustrations by Murray Tinkelman for The Truth About Dragons (Rhoda Blumberg, 1980)

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Here comes the rain again/Raining in my head like a tragedy/Tearing me apart like a new emotion

August 2023

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Polearms, from left to right:

1. Venetian poleaxe, ca. 1500-1510

2. Italian halberd, ca. 1500-1540

3. French or German halberd, ca. 1540-1560

5. Austrian halberd for the bodyguard of the Archduke of Inner Austria (and later emperor) Ferdinand II, ca. 1596

Foreground: German or Austrian (possibly Innsbruck) close helmet, ca. 1510

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Two war hammers and an axe, from right to left:

15. German war hammer, ca. 1490-1510

16. German war hammer, ca. 1500-1530

17. German horseman’s axe, ca. 1500-1525

Housed at the Art Institute of Chicago. Phot. December 2019

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Three maces:

1. German, ca. 1480-1500

2. Italian or Spanish, ca. 1530-1550

3. German, ca. 1550

Housed at the Art Institute of Chicago. Phot. December 2019

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German crossbow, ca. 1460-1490. Comprised of steel, horn, bone, birch, cherry wood and hemp fiber.

Housed at the Art Institute of Chicago. Phot. December 2019

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Bollock Dagger, Northern European, ca. 1450-1500, ~14 in.

Housed at the Art Institute of Chicago. Phot. December 2019

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Central IL, August 25th 2021

Late afternoon storm

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Statue of Artemis and Dog

Mid 2nd century CE

Roman copy of the 4th century BCE Greek Colonna Artemis

Vatican Museums, Rome, Italy

Taken June 2016

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The famous Laocoön Group (or Laocoön and His Sons), Vatican Museums, Rome, Italy

Made between 200 BCE and 80 CE, and unearthed in 1506

About 6′7″ high

Taken June 2016

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Steel torso armor and helmet of unspecified origin and age

Possibly German Lobster-Tail Burgonet () and composite anima armor, 16th century

Housed at the Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome, Italy

Taken June 2016

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Mace, Italian, 16th or early 17th century

Housed at the Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome, Italy

Taken June 2016

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Skulls of Pleistocene animals - cave bear, hell pig and smilodon - housed at Illinois Central College

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Pimetoui Trail, Peoria, IL

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Two separate Wheellock Puffer Pistols for the mounted bodyguard of the Elector of Saxony, made by Abraham Dressler, Dresden, Germany, ca. 1589. 

Housed at the Art Institute of Chicago

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Sword and dagger (with scabbard and sheath) for an officer in the bodyguard of the Elector of Saxony. Dresden, Germany, ca. 1580. Silver mountings attributed to Wolf Paller and Urban Schneeweiss.