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17th Century: Manual
Tantric Hindu Ritual Manual: Nepal, 17th Century (source)
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2013: Murmuration
Owen Humphries: A murmuration of starlings in Rigg near Gretna, Dumfriesshire, Scotland – November 26, 2013. (source)
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1894: The Angels of the Night
William Degouve de Nuncques: The Angels of Night (1894)
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Tagged 1890's, 19th Century, Angels, Art, Belgium, Painting, The Moon, Trees, William Degouve de Nuncques
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1894: The Feeling of Dependence
Sascha Schneider: Das Gefühl der Abhängigkeit [The Feeling of Dependence] (1894)
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1715: Plum Blossoms
Ogata Kōrin: 紙本金地著色紅白梅図 – Red and White Plum Blossoms (c. 1715)
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2012: Gods of New Jersey
Peter Ferguson: Gods of New Jersey (c. 2012)
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Tagged 2010's, 21st Century, Animals, Art, Birds, Canada, Cryptids, New Jersey, Painting, Peter Ferguson, USA
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2nd Century AD: I Was Trained to Run Boldly through Strange Forests
A 1st or 2nd century Roman epitaph for a pet dog named Margarita (“Pearl”), written from the point of view of the deceased: [G]ALLIA · ME · GENVIT · NOMEN · MIHI · DIVITIS · VNDAE CONCHA · DEDIT · … Continue reading
1875: An Absolute Democracy
The notion has always very generally prevailed that the queen of the bees is an absolute ruler, and issues her royal orders to willing subjects. Hence Napoleon the First sprinkled the symbolic bees over the imperial mantle that bore the … Continue reading
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16th Century: Dog and Cat
Dosso Dossi: Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Dog and Cat (16th Century) “This kind of moody portrait, or image of a particular human type, was popularised by Giorgione: here the dog and cat may allude to conflicting sides of … Continue reading
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1950: Murals
“In the Spring of 1950, Francine Weisweiller invited…Jean Cocteau to the villa for dinner and basically he and his handsome boyfriend…Edouard Dermit ended up moving in and staying for 13 years….Cocteau offered to do a drawing over the fireplace in … Continue reading
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