thomasapolis

intellectual encounters of a wandering mind

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Étienne-Louis Boullée, Projetee pour l'agrandissement de la bibliotheque du roi, 1780

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Étienne-Louis Boullée, Bibliotheque Nationale (Paris, 1788)

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Silver-gilt cup in the form of a parrot, Germany, circa 1620 - Victoria & Albert Museum

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Jacques Miron, Masque

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Érik Desmazières, “Portrait of Sir Thomas Browne” (2012)

"But who knows the fate of his bones, or how often he is to be buried?"

- Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia: Urn Burial; or, A Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk (1658)

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The Soul exploring the recesses of the Grave - Blake for Blair, 1808

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The Soul hovering over the Body - Wm. Blake for R. Blair's The Grave

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Athanasius Kircher, Tower of Babel