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zikfried · 4 years ago
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All the Vermeers in New York (Jon Jost, 1990)
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zikfried · 4 years ago
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The radiating sun. Carte astronomique de l'Univers. 1878. Map detail.
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zikfried · 6 years ago
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zikfried · 6 years ago
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Dis-Connect Paintings by Kirti Chandak | Auroville Art Service
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zikfried · 6 years ago
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zikfried · 6 years ago
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zikfried · 6 years ago
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Eastern Kurdistan, 1976. Bruno Barbey
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zikfried · 6 years ago
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‘Santa Rosalia’ - Roberto Ferri
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zikfried · 6 years ago
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16th-century artillery manuals demonstrating how to use cats and birds to set fire to besieged cities
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zikfried · 6 years ago
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Airavatra, Indra´s elephant, Swaminarayan Akshardham - Gajendra Peeth
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zikfried · 6 years ago
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zikfried · 6 years ago
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Présentation du groupe GANAPATI
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zikfried · 6 years ago
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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5ck32yhB0s)
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zikfried · 7 years ago
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It’s been a while since we checked in on how the Renaissance is doing with its ocean mysteries, so here is a marine biology update circa 1550.
Seals come in two forms:
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& Triangular
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Walruses are horrifying
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But whales are worse
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Fish can have human faces
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but not always where you’d expect
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As for the rest
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… it’s probably better left alone.
[All images except chest face fish from Historiae animalium liber IV : De piscium & aquatilium animantium natura. Chest face fish from The noble lyfe & natures of man of bestes, serpentys, fowles & fisshes yt be moste knowen]
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zikfried · 7 years ago
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Botticelli c. 1490-1495
Madonna of the Pavilion
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zikfried · 7 years ago
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Detail of Bow-carving Amor 1534/1535
Collection Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
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