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Hans Sebald Beham, ‘Die Dame und der Tod’ (1541)

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Vintage Christian end times tract warns of 666, mysterious ice bombs, and so much more (Found here; For a related post, click here http://christiannightmares.tumblr.com/post/73415223992/evangelical-obsession-with-doomsday-and-the-atomic)

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Mickey’s Gala Premier (1933)

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World’s oldest animation

You are looking at a GIF of a phenakistiscope, a 19th-century revolving paper disk imprinted with a series of drawings, which was spun so as to produce a moving image. The device was invented around 1840 by Joseph Plateau and it is the world’s oldest animation. The disk above is one of the oldest to survive and it shows the remarkable resemblance to our modern GIF: they both create motion where there is none. It is simply mesmerizing.

Gif: this is the source of the 21st-century gif (of a 19th-century phenakistiscope).

[splattergut]

Engravings of the bones, muscles, and joints - illustrating the first volume of The anatomy of the human body

John Bell, 1804

[messier111]

Made this miniature victorian inspired house from a cardboard pizza box

https://www.instagram.com/messier111/

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(via (2) Posts liked by David Montgomery (@dpmont0407) / X)

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Hermann Warm (1889–1976)

set design art for “Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari”, 1920

© Deutsche Kinemathek

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Lover’s eye pendant miniature, watercolor on ivory within a gold frame, English, ca. 1800 [1800x1320]

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Manuel Neri

[fleshaesthetic]

Arcos De Geso I, 1985

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[yesterdaysprint]

The Sketch, London, February 7, 1912

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