2/2 Very elegant arrangement of flowers & shells; a later work by Balthasar van der Ast. It's his day.
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2/2 Very elegant arrangement of flowers & shells; a later work by Balthasar van der Ast. It's his day.
Tyre’s (Sour) World Heritage: Israeli strike narrowly misses the historic city's archaeological site
“Destroying such a city does not just mean damaging a place,” she wrote. “It is erasing entire chapters of human history.”
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Lee Krasner, Untitled, 1949
'The Morning Ride, Copenhagen.'
Bicycles were the perfect vehicle for a new generation of painters looking for subjects that would express their experience of the modern age. This work (1907) by Erik Ludvig Hennimoder depicts the new leisured classes.
Painting featuring a wide street scene. In the foreground is a woman leaning on a tandem bicycle, with a man adjusting its headlamp. A woman in a long white dress holds her hat on her head nearby.
Women Cyclists or A Postcard with Bikers
ca. 1890s
🎨Paul Gustave Fischer
Rock carvings from Foum Chenna, Morocco. Prehistoric engravings showing cattle and other animals in the Draa Valley, evidence that this area was once much greener and inhabited by pastoral communities thousands of years ago.
#Morocco #RockArt #Prehistory #Archaeology #FoumChenna #Sahara #Petroglyphs
July clouds New Mexico.
Stunning views crossing a frozen lake last night. And the trail was firm and fast too, which made a nice change from slogging through wet snow (at one point the night before Pulkee and I were doing 1 mph).
Maximum Dutch still life. Every type of flower, fruit, mammoth shells, ruins, classical palace... Balthasar van der Ast, what were you on when you painted this?
Close up photo of a group of Cladonia podetia. Each podetium is light grey in colour and shaped roughly like a golf tee. The top/bowl of each podetium is ringed with numerous small, roundish bright red blobs. These blobs are called apothecia - they are reproductive, spore producing structures.
Cladonia lichens. NWT, Canada.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends #mushroom adjacent:) Photo covers about 4cm, left to right.
Four images, three of patterned and colourful weaving designs and one of the head and shoulders of a white woman in a monochrome photograph
The work of Gunta Stölzl (1897– 1983), influential German textile artist and designer who played a fundamental role in the development of the Bauhaus school's weaving workshop #WomensArt ##WomensHistoryMonth
Museo della Natura e dell’Uomo - Università di #Padova
Hey, remember that music you loved when you were about 13 or 14? I bet you still loooove that music. Source: buff.ly/LAfSUwp
Johnny Hodges (1907–1970)
#Jazz #Swing #BigBand #JazzSky
Basket of peaches with walnuts, knife and a glass of wine, oil on canvas, painted in 1768 by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699-1779), French painter of tranquil, luminous still-life & genre scenes, admired by Manet, Cézanne, Matisse and Proust.
Musée du Louvre
Vestibule of an art museum with curving stairs on either side of a rounded space. Stained glass windows and a skeleton statue with arm raised is at the top. Stairs directly in front of the camera lead to the floor below.
Stair #scape
Palais des Beaux Arts
Lille, France
#EastCoastKin
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekIforInteriors
#ClassicMono
Haute Tour Eiffel #Samedyslexie
#UnJourUnePhoto
#PhotoMarch
7. Autour (de)
Fred Lyon, 1940s.
#photography #1940s #SanFrancisco #FredLyon
#Delft #Delftholland
BP’s new CEO to take home £11.7m this year, more than double her predecessor.
Daily pay > annual median pay of UK employee.
CEO pay at one company is a benchmark for another. Others will want more.
Govts, BOE, CBI and other neoliberals talk about wage inflation, but silence on fat-cattery.
Katharine Hepburn, partially in-costume, on a bike.
Katharine Hepburn on-location in London for George Cukor's LOVE AMONG THE RUINS, which debuted on ABC #OTD in 1975.
"A city seen from a bicycle is an entirely different city," Kate once said. #FilmSky #TCMParty
Enma Ai Cosplay in Furisode This photograph features a cosplay of the character Enma Ai from the anime series Jigoku Shoujo (Hell Girl). The subject is seen from behind, walking through a sun-dappled forest or park. She wears the character's signature black furisode, which is characterized by its exceptionally long, swinging sleeves. The garment is adorned with a bold, stylized floral pattern consisting of large, colorful circular motifs in shades of bright orange, blue, yellow, and purple, each accented with small green leaves. A vibrant red obi (sash) is tied in a large, prominent bow at the back, contrasting sharply with the black silk of the kimono. Her long, straight black hair falls past her waist, and she is wearing traditional white socks and wooden geta sandals. In her right hand, she carries a small wooden prop, completing the faithful recreation of the character's iconic look. The soft, natural lighting filtering through the trees enhances the vivid colors of the costume and creates a mysterious, ethereal atmosphere.
A cosplay for the character Enma Ai from the anime series Jigoku Shoujo (Hell Girl). The character is known for wearing this distinctive black furisode adorned with colorful, stylized floral motifs.
A pen and ink drawing of a dragon by Michelangelo
Here, Michelangelo drew in pen and ink to shape a winged, fire-breathing dragon. If you look closely, you can see two drawings of faces below the final sketch – these were drawn by a student of Michelangelo's before they were abandoned and drawn over by the artist.
I had that dream again
El arte también revela cómo funciona nuestra percepción. “VESUVIUS”, de Enzo Prina, transforma energía volcánica en ilusión de movimiento con color y patrones. El cerebro completa la escena. Por eso el arte abstracto no solo inspira: también nos enseña a detectar patrones y pensar diferente.
Museo della Natura e dell’Uomo - Università di #Padova
man painting a roadside sign, the sign advertising sandwiches, dinnera cigars and candy
Sign painter, Maryland
Jack Delano, 1940
