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Author Archives: corvusfugit
1905: Grotta Azzurra
Detroit Publishing Company: La Grotta Azzurra [The Blue Grotto], Capri, photochrome print from “Views of Architecture and Other Sites in Italy” (1905) (source)
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Tagged 1900's, 20th Century, Detroit, Italy, Nature, Photography
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1842: Viennese
Rudolf von Alt: Solar Eclipse, Vienna (1842)
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Tagged 1840's, 19th Century, Art, Astronomy, Austria, Painting, Rudolf von Alt, The Moon, The Sun
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1921: New Planet
Konstantin Yuon: Новая планета [New Planet] (1921)
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Tagged 1920's, 20th Century, Art, Astronomy, Konstantin Yuon, Painting, Russia, Science Fiction
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1561: Something Else
In the morning of April 14, 1561, at daybreak, between 4 and 5 a.m., a dreadful apparition occurred on the sun, and then this was seen in Nuremberg in the city, before the gates and in the country – by … Continue reading
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Tagged 16th Century, Astronomy, Germany, Hanns Glaser, Oddities, Printmaking, The Sun
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1854: Eclipse
William and Frederick Langenheim: Eclipse of the Sun (1854) On May 26, 1854, William and Frederick Langenheim took the first photographs of a total eclipse of the sun visible in North America. (Other photographers did take pictures, but the Langenheims’ … Continue reading
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Tagged 1850's, 19th Century, Astronomy, Frederick Langenheim, Photography, The Moon, The Sun, William Langenheim
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1733: Vision / Eclipse
Cosmas Damian Asam: Vision of St. Benedict (1735) “The canvas shows an elderly saint who, confronted by a solar eclipse, seems to experience a seizure—as well as enlightenment—at the moment when light erupts from the celestial sphere, as described in … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th Century, Art, Astronomy, Christianity, Cosmas Damian Asam, Germany, Painting, Religion, St. Benedict, The Moon, The Sun
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1531: Codex
The Huexotzinco Codex is an eight-sheet document on amatl, a pre-European paper made in Mesoamerica. It is part of the testimony in a legal case against representatives of the colonial government in Mexico, ten years after the Spanish conquest in … Continue reading
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Tagged 16th Century, Aztecs, Colonialism, Documents, Hernando Cortés, King Charles of Spain, Moctezuma, Nahua, Native Americans
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1938: Death Loop
Tullio Crali: Upside Down Loop (Death Loop) (1938)
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Tagged 1930's, 20th Century, Art, Aviation, Cities, Flight, Italy, Painting, Tullio Crali
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1959: Even a Kid Knows it’s Wrong to Cross a Picket Line
“Helen Martinez and her children (her grandchild was too young to picket) wear placards announcing that Tex-Son workers are on strike.” (source)
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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, Anonymous, Children, Labor, Latino/as/x, Mothers, Photography, Strikes, Unions, Women
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1773: Withered Shrubs
In Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock’s epic poem The Messiah, published from 1748 to 1773, Satan tricks Judas into betraying Jesus by appearing to him in a dream “in the form of his father…with disconsolate looks of grief and perturbation,” telling him … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th Century, Christianity, Friedrich Klopstock, Germany, Judas, Poetry, Portraits, Printmaking, Religion, The Devil, William Blake
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