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Impossible for me not to reblog a reliquary head. I mean, come on.

Reliquary of John The Baptist.
Sint-Baafskathedraal Gent
Art in Flanders
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Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon, quae praeter naturae ordinem, et in superioribus et his inferioribus mundi regionibus, ab exordio mundi usque ad haec nostra tempora acciderunt. (1557) Conrad Lycosthenes
#sun#engraving#engraving illustration#medieval#medieval art#middle ages#medieval illustration#medieval engraving#1500s#etching#woodcut
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Skull of Saint Valentine
Basilica of Saint Mary in Cosmedin, Rome
#happy valentine's day#medieval#medievalcore#art history#saint valentine#relics#reliquary#religion#religious art#rome#catholic
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~ Helmingham herbal and bestiary.
Place oforigin/Published: Helmingham, Suffolk
Date: ca. 1500

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"Yearning" by Emile Corsi, 1863
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Alek Wek @ Betsey Johnson Fall/Winter 1997
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Broadway on a Rainy Evening, Everett Warner, 1901
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David Cambell, The seven angels with seven trumpets, Illustrations of Prophecy, 1840
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From the Last Judgement mosaic on the west wall of the nave of Torcello Cathedral.
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i must say.... it is inchrestring
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Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Utrecht ca. 1440
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Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “Afternoon on a Hill,” Collected Poems
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"It is June. I am tired of being brave."
—Anne Sexton, "The Truth The Dead Know."
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A Scythian (Tagar Culture II) Bronze Applique in the Form of a Coiled Animal

5th-4th century B.C.E.
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The way she is her paintings...I'm in love.




Deepti Naval with various paintings of hers
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