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arthistoryeveryday: Twittering Machine by Paul Klee (1922)

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:35:57 +0300

arthistoryeveryday:

Twittering Machine by Paul Klee (1922)

escapeintolife: Maki Horanai & Hillel Weintraub - Escape...

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 23:29:39 +0300

escapeintolife:

Maki Horanai & Hillel Weintraub - Escape Into Life #art

“The house in which Franz Kafka was born is now a...

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:55:16 +0300

“The house in which Franz Kafka was born is now a restaurant bearing his name. While this house is significant to the author’s history, there are other locations throughout Prague that are of interest - like the Franz Kafka Museum in Mala Strana, the Minute House, and his sister’s home at number 22 Golden Lane.”

(via Franz Kafka House and Restaurant Jewish Quarter Prague)

An aerial photograph of a river flowing through a bed of...

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:09:51 +0300

An aerial photograph of a river flowing through a bed of volcanic ash in Iceland.

(via Aerial Photographs of Volcanic Iceland by Andre Ermolaev | Colossal)

Cloud installation by Caitlind r.c. Brown (via An Interactive...

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 03:32:10 +0300

Cloud installation by Caitlind r.c. Brown

(via An Interactive Cloud Made of 6,000 Light Bulbs | Colossal)

thecoolhunter: First Snowfall, Maple Orchard,...

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 23:09:00 +0300

thecoolhunter: First Snowfall, Maple Orchard, …
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First Snowfall, Maple Orchard, British Columbia, Canada. pic.twitter.com/BNINPWb9

theparisreview: A Partial Inventory of Gustave Flaubert’s...

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 13:50:07 +0300

theparisreview:

A Partial Inventory of Gustave Flaubert’s Personal Effects

As Catalogued by M. Lemoel on May 20, 1880, Twelve Days after the Writer’s Death.

In the bedroom on the first floor:

panama hat
top hat
red silk cravat
5 pairs of gloves
19 shirts
2 dressing gowns
5 waistcoasts
7 walking sticks
tobacco jar
two pairs of boots

In the dining room:

35 champagne glasses
48 porcelain dinner plates
a painting representing Napoléon I
a pocket watch in a gold case engraved with initials ‘GF’
a gold watch chain
a gold signet ring with square stone
a silver spoon and two forks marked ‘N flaubert’
5 oyster-knives with black handles and silver blades

In the study on the first floor:

Engraving in oakwood frame representing The temptation of Saint Antoine by Callot
Marble clock with bronze figurines, maker’s name ‘Destigny’ engraved on dial
Photographic reproduction of painting entitled Visions
Array consisting of lances, javelins, arrows, mandolin, Basque drum, axe, oriental pipe, cardboard Chinese statuette
Large round table in mahogany
Green woolen tablecloth
One tiger skin, one lynx skin, one bear skin, white
Penholder in the shape of dragon
Bronze inkwell
Three paperknives, one with initials ‘GF’
Two Egyptian lanterns
Unfinished manuscript of work entitled Bouvard et Pécuchet
Creuzer, Religions of Antiquity in 11 vols
Works of Saint Theresa in Migne edition
Works of Walter Scott in 32 vols.
(In the drawer of one of the small bookcases is found the sum of 2515 francs, which sum is deposited with Maitre Bidault to cover funeral expenses, burial charges, and other debts.)

#puppets #cairo (Taken with Instagram at Bashayer)

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 18:44:06 +0300

#puppets #cairo (Taken with Instagram at Bashayer)

Matchbox by Suzanne Alaywan. (Taken with Instagram)

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:14:00 +0300

Matchbox by Suzanne Alaywan. (Taken with Instagram)

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Sun, 02 Sep 2012 18:31:36 +0300

gwebarchaeology: ancientart: Relief at the ruins of Arsameia,...

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 15:59:44 +0300

gwebarchaeology:

ancientart:

Relief at the ruins of Arsameia, the capital of the kingdom of Commagene, 1st century BCE.

King Mithradates I Kallinikos of Commagene (100–70 BCE) dressed as the Zoroastrian Magi (left) shakes hands with the Greek demigod Hercules.

"How sweet the past is, no matter how wrong, or how sad. How sweet is yesterday’s noise…"

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 15:22:42 +0300

“How sweet the past is, no matter how wrong, or how sad.
How sweet is yesterday’s noise…”

- Charles Wright, from “The Southern Cross” (via proustitute)

frost-at-midnight: The necropolis of Qubbet el-Hawa in Aswan,...

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 15:54:01 +0300

frost-at-midnight:

The necropolis of Qubbet el-Hawa in Aswan, Egypt, 2012 ~ wooden sarcophagus unearthed by archaeologists from the University of Jaen.

mythologyofblue: Honoré de Balzac, manuscript page Illusions...

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 12:25:36 +0300

mythologyofblue:

Honoré de Balzac, manuscript page Illusions perdues, 1837-1843

(fsebmat)

deadpaint: Léon Spilliaert, Unknown Title

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 02:09:51 +0300

deadpaint:

Léon Spilliaert, Unknown Title

gwebarchaeology: Lachish Relief: Stone panel from the...

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 20:34:35 +0300

gwebarchaeology:

Lachish Relief: Stone panel from the South-West Palace of Sennacherib.

This alabaster panel was part of a series which decorated the walls of a room in the palace of King Sennacherib (reigned 704-681 BCE). It tells the story of the siege and capture of the city of Lachish in 701 BCE. (Nineveh is located in modern day northern Iraq, then Neo-Assyria)

The story continues from the previous panel (no. 9) of the relief. This section decorated a corner of the room.

Having been exiled from their city, the people of Lachish move through the countryside to be resettled elsewhere in the Assyrian Empire. Below them high officials and foreigners are being tortured and executed. It is likely that they are being flayed alive.

The foreigners are possibly officers from Nubia. The Nubians were seen as sharing responsibility for the rebellion. Much of Egypt at this time was ruled by a line of kings from Nubia (the Twenty-fifth Dynasty) who were keen to interfere in the politics of the Levant, to contain the threat of Assyrian expansion.

As Sennacherib’s forces laid siege to Lachish, an Egyptian army appeared, led by a man called Taharqa, according to the Old Testament. He may be the later pharaoh of Egypt with the same name (690-664 BCE).

Sennacherib’s account claims that the rebels had called on the support of the kings of Egypt (Delta princes) and the Kings of Kush (Nubia). The armies clashed on the plain of Eltekeh. While Sennacherib claimed victory, he was still not able to capture Jerusalem.

**The Panels are now located at the Bristsh Musuem

BM Webpage: http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects

/me/s/panel,_palace_of_sennacherib-4.aspx

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Wed, 01 Aug 2012 23:53:35 +0300

awesomepeoplereading: Gabriel Garcia Márquez rea … wears a book...

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:35:03 +0300

awesomepeoplereading:

Gabriel Garcia Márquez rea … wears a book on his head like a hat.

Detail from Self-portrait with pipe, September 1886 - November...

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 23:58:29 +0300

Detail from Self-portrait with pipe, September 1886 - November 1886
Vincent van Gogh

showslow: ephemeraa: Dissected - Dali, Van Gogh and...

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 15:52:55 +0300

showslow:

ephemeraa:

Dissected - Dali, Van Gogh and Picasso

by DDB Brazil for the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) Art School