mythicalsymplegma
mythicalsymplegma
Mythical Symplegma
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Anthropologist, Art historian, Author This is a curation of art and culture in addition to complaints about writing and eventually bits of works in progress and actual pieces of writing
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mythicalsymplegma · 2 hours ago
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Diana the Huntress, by Ettore Tito
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mythicalsymplegma · 6 hours ago
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Antique Victorian Memento Mori Skull Ring Gilt Silver and Enamel c1880's
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mythicalsymplegma · 6 hours ago
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Folk figures, Lucie on the left, Barbora on the right (From the Ethnographic Museum in Prague)
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mythicalsymplegma · 6 hours ago
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Coast Scene with Approaching Storm by Thomas Jones
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mythicalsymplegma · 6 hours ago
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Ange Anatomique (Anatomical Angel) from Myologie Complette en Couleur, Jacques Gautier-D’Agoty, ca. 1746.
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mythicalsymplegma · 7 hours ago
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artists: francisco de goya (1746-1828)
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mythicalsymplegma · 8 hours ago
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A beautifully blued, silvered, and gilt elbow Gauntlet,
Length: 21.5 in/54.6 cm
Germany, late 16th century, housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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mythicalsymplegma · 8 hours ago
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Randja. Laghouat, Algeria,
Jules Taupin ~ 1897
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mythicalsymplegma · 8 hours ago
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Joseph Wolf, 1853
Allaert van Everdingen (approx. 1650)
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mythicalsymplegma · 9 hours ago
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Wish we could go play (James Brade Sword, 1839 - 1915)
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mythicalsymplegma · 9 hours ago
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An enchanted garden (Thomas Edwin Mostyn, 1923)
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mythicalsymplegma · 9 hours ago
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by Lavera Grace
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mythicalsymplegma · 9 hours ago
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Katar with guarded hilt, from Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India, 16th century
from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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mythicalsymplegma · 9 hours ago
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Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923, Spanish) ~ Después del Baño, Asturias, 1904
[Source: coleccion.abanca.com]
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mythicalsymplegma · 9 hours ago
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medieval hunting techniques 1) archers behind a mock cow approaching deer 2) camouflaged hunters approaching a deer 3) a deer wounded by a spring trap 4) a wolf attracted with bait to a covered pit
miniatures from a manuscript of the livre de la chasse (book of the hunt), originally written by gaston phébus in 1387. this copy was created in brittany (france), c. 1430–40
source: Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. 27 (87.MR.34), fol. 111r, 110r, 102v, and 104v
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mythicalsymplegma · 9 hours ago
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Qin Ai (b.1973) - The End of World by My Side. 2011. Ink and colour on paper.
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mythicalsymplegma · 9 hours ago
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Fairy spinning on a branch - French School (French, 16th-20th Century)
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