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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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Dreams of Space -...
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over a year ago
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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5 Most Influential Blues Musicians of All Time
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Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
a year ago
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
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The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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Patterns in Humanity
When few do great harm
Power laws in criminal behavior
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Power laws in criminal behavior
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came...
over a year ago
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
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Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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Classical Wisdom
Who cares about Homer, anyway?
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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How to Save Democracy
The Importance of the Civic Bargain
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The Importance of the Civic Bargain
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Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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The Many Roads to Rome
The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
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The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
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6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar...
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
a year ago
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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Classical Wisdom
Happy Birthday Marcus Aurelius!
A Celebration of Virtue
8 months ago
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Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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Dreams of Space -...
Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
a year ago
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
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First Nations of the Canadian Subarctic: A Brief History
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Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
a year ago
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
TheCollector
Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election
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2 months ago
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Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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Flashbak
Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was...
8 months ago
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
10 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added galley refit, updated lifelines, seamed box cushions, and moisture prevention underliner.
Permacomputing, revamped the page.
Flappy Bird,...
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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Classical Wisdom
The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
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Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
2 days ago
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
3 days ago
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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Res Obscura
On 17th century "cocaine"
A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
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A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
Trying to Understand...
Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
over a year ago
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
Dreams of Space -...
Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
a month ago
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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Flashbak
Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
a year ago
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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3 Beautiful Places in the South of England Tourists Neglect
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Global Inequality...
Should poor countries remain poor?
Stock vs flow approach.
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Classical Wisdom
Early Christian Poetry
A Forgotten Genre?
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5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder
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Weekend Roundup
Blindspots and Biographies
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Blindspots and Biographies
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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9 months ago
Res Obscura
The most interesting things I read in 2023
Most of them are not from 2023
a year ago
Most of them are not from 2023
TheCollector
How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption
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Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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Classical Wisdom
Why Aren’t We Happy?
Count no man happy until the end is known
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Count no man happy until the end is known
TheCollector
10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
The Life and Work of Pheidias
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The Life and Work of Pheidias
TheCollector
How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
a year ago
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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Flashbak
Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
9 months ago
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844. “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
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Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Out Of Control.
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
2 months ago
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
TheCollector
3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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a year ago
African History...
Life and works of Africa's most famous Woman scholar: Nana Asmau (1793-1864)
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
7 months ago
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
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Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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History Today Feed
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Art of the Interesting
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The Art of the Interesting
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The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
And Most Mysterious...
2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Final Call
Class Begins Tomorrow
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Two Paintings Once Stolen by Nazis Are Donated to the Louvre Museum
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Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration,...
5 months ago
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
weird medieval guys
No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
So who does?
a year ago
Flashbak
Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
9 months ago
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions. Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
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Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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Johnny Cash: A Bio of Country Ballads & Boisterous Song
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