Tiny Jacobin

Almost entirely historical things, especially the French Revolution and mediaeval history.

[undr]

Unknown Photographer. A lamplighter lighting a gas lamp in a street in Glasgow, Scotland, 1955.

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“Berlin, Germany, 1930s, a woman lighting a Hanukkah candelabrum during Hanukkah”

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Rotting in hell

Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur, France ca. 1450-1470.

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snailstags

‘Hours of Joanna the Mad’, Bruges 1486-1506

BL, Add 18852, fols. 305r and 305v

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Francisco de Zurbaran, Saint Serapion, 1628. Oil on canvas, The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund.

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El Greco

Portrait of the Artist’s Son, Jorge Manuel; c. 1600-1605

Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla, Spain (CE0097P)

Jorge Manuel Theotocópuli (1578, Toledo - 29 March 1631, Toledo) was a Spanish painter and architect. He was the only son of the iconic painter, Doménikos Theotokópoulos, known as El Greco.

[did-you-know]

These rare color photos of Paris were taken over 100 years ago. 

In 1909, a wealthy French banker named Albert Kahn wanted to document the world using a new color photo process called Autochrome Lumière, so he commissioned 4 photographers to take their cameras all over the world.

One of the cities they documented was Paris.

Starting in 1914, Kahn’s photographers, Leon Gimpel, Stephane Passet, Georges Chevalier and Auguste Leon, documented life in Paris using color filters made from dyed potato starch grains.

They made these color photos over a century ago (with a small amount of color enhancing done on the original shots).

In addition to the many shots of Paris, around 72,000 Autochromes from around the globe were created through Kahn’s project.

Source

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God’s Year by Piotr Stachiewicz (Polish, 1858–1938)

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me, circa early 1800s, paying a stable boy a few coppers to ride overnight to deliver you an urgent letter with a thick wax seal that after you struggle to break it just says “bitch!” in tiny little writing 

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  Albrecht Durer c. 1517

Knight, Death, and the Devil

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For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings

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Self Portrait (c. 1630) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (7 December 1598 – 28 November 1680)

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Ancient loaves of bread from the sister cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum that were carbonized in volcanic pyroclastic flows of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD

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Yatagans from the Wallace Collection

Short sword with scabbard, Turkey, 1806 / Steel, ivory, gold, silver, wood, velvet and chased, 57.1 cm blade

Short sword with scabbard, early 19th century / Steel, silver, gold, walrus ivory and wood, embossed and chased, 58.4 cm blade

Short sword with scabbard, Southeastern Europe, 1825-1830 / Steel, gold, silver, coral, walrus ivory, glass and wood, embossed and chased, 60.3 cm blade

Short sword with scabbard, Istanbul, Turkey, 1820 / Steel, silver, gold, walrus ivory, embossed and chased, 60.9 cm blade

Short sword with scabbard, 1806 / Steel, velvet, silver, cornelian and gold, embossed and chased, 56.5 cm blade

Short sword with scabbard, Turkey, early 19th century / Iron or steel, gold, silver, ivory and wood, embossed and chased, 48.2 cm blade

Short sword with scabbard,  late 17th century (blade), late 18th century  (mounts and scabbard) / Steel, gold, silver, wood and leather, chiselled and embossed, 54.6 cm blade

Short sword with scabbard, Albania, 1797 / Iron or steel, silver, metal, gold and wood, embossed and chased, 66 cm blade

Short sword with scabbard, Albania, late 18th century / Iron or steel, silver, gold, walrus ivory and wood, chased, engraved and embossed, 53.3 cm blade

Short sword with scabbard, Turkey, 19th century,  c. 1830 (blade) / Iron or steel, gold and silver, embossed and chased, 55.2 cm blade

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dragon litany

book of hours, Flanders c. 1300-1310

Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, W.37, fol. 128r

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Prayer of the Penitent Monks by Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667–1749)

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mourner

Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt, France ca. 1230

BnF, Français 19093, fol. 23v