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chart of architects and movements (From Architecture 2000) . 1973 and its revision in 2000 -   Charles Jencks

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From the programmes  of  “Comoedia”(famous  periodical  devoted  to  Ballets  russes), paris, 1922

artist: Leonid  Bakst

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The Bewitched Man (also known as The Devil's Lamp), c. 1798 by Francisco José de Goya

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A Funeral, c. mid-1870s-early 1880s

by Jean-Paul Laurens

Charcoal and brush and black and brown ink

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They light candles for the dead, 1878 by Félix Hilaire Buhot

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La Mort Saint-Innocent, 1520s. Louvre Museum, France [2004 × 3126]

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Figure of death with a bow, Germany 1520[1200x1800]

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RyZenx- Frostbite

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Remains of an Atlantikwall bunker, Normandy

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A winged person who has written “to be or not to be” on a stone sits with his foot on a skeleton. Uranie. 1889.

Gallica

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The ray of blazing, scorching, devouring sunshine.

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Tiled wallpapers from Windows 3.1

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Jean-Louis Chorel (1875-1946), ‘Spring-Song’, “Salon of 1908” Source

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Motherland Calls, (1970), near Mamayev Kurgan, Volgograd, by Yevgeny Vuchetich, Nikolai Nikitin.

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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:

Buff

& Triangular

Walruses are horrifying

But whales are worse

Fish can have human faces

but not always where you’d expect

As for the rest

… 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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THE CATSKILLS CRONE

While trekking off the beaten path in New York’s Catskill Mountains, two hikers discovered this strange, hand-carved statue in a small cave. Six rusty nails had been driven into its eyes, and a dirty length of cord was wrapped tightly around its neck. Despite their better judgement, the explorers removed the figure.

Soon, muddy footprints began to manifest in their home, and the pungent scent of stagnant pond water filled the house. On the seventh day, they saw her crouched in the shadows of the living room: The Crone, a horrifying apparition with an emaciated body and eyes that shined in the darkness. The hikers contacted the Newkirks, who placed the artifact safely in the museum collection.

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One of my #favourites!

The Triumph of Death is an oil panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted c. 1562.Museo del Prado in Madrid