#ecclesiastic

[itsmypartyandillsingifiwantto]

[flowrats]

Welp, the Pope's dead, so I guess it's time for another season of "Rome's next top bishop" fingers crossed this will finally be the ecclesiastic drag edition

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Ecclesiastical gloves, 1720-50.

[docdm]

[vysjewelry]

Sapphire and gold niello work ring, c. 1912 (at 1stdibs)

The exterior niello work on this 24k ring has mostly worn off but the interior Nativity scene, flanked by a lion and a ram, and inscription 'XMAS 1912' remains. The subject matter, plus the fleur-de-lys (frequently associated with the Virgin Mary) bezel setting, suggest this may have been a piece of ecclesiastic jewelry, perhaps for a bishop.

[j-august]

The historian ministers to the economist, the politician, the diplomat, the musician; he is equally at the service of the strategist and the ecclesiastic and the administrator. He must learn a great deal from all of these before he can begin even his own work of historical explanation; and he never has the right to dictate to any one of them. He is neither judge nor jury; he is in the position of a man called upon to give evidence; and even so he may abuse his office and he requires the closest cross-examination, for he is one of these "expert witnesses" who persist in offering opinions concealed within their evidence. Perhaps all history-books hold a danger for those who do not know a great deal of history already.

Herbert Butterfield, The Whig Interpretation of History (1931)

[igormag]

Francis Picabia (1879–1953), Edtaonisl (Ecclesiastic), 1913.

oil on canvas, 300.5 x 300.5 cm

[docdm]