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Fun fact: Artists have always been able to draw and sculpt naturalistic figures. When we see paintings from ancient Egypt or the Middle Ages with a schematic and simplified style, it's due to stylistic and religious trends. These trends were less common when depicting animals.

Also, btw, I am very into Disneyland history, so I remember how the Lincoln ride was before the Walt animatronic. YOU REPLACED A FREDERICK DOUGLASS MEMORIAL WITH WALT DISNEY'S FACE!!!

View of the patolli board in Structure 6L-19.

Drawing of the patolli board in Structure 6L-19.

dealized reconstruction of the board according to the remaining elements, indicating the original number of tesserae calculated from the average distance between sherd centroids.

ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS: Researchers have found in the ancient Mayan city of Naachtun (in modern Guatemala) a mosaic in the shape of a Patolli game board (a popular Mesoamerican game), as part of the floor design, from the Early Classic period.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Most adverts seen around Rapture in Bioshock are edits of vintage fruit crate labels.

The tackiest of decor (now a bit more creepy!)

Anthro deers with trophy rooms in their house, but they are actually all their own antlers.

Do you collect them? Gift them as souvenirs? Build coat racks out of them?

Ok, now that we are approaching winter. Cervid people, what do you do with your antlers when you shed them?

I'm such a big fan of ancient board games, they are so esoteric and mysterious (and usually figuring out the rules is a bit like detective work)
You don't find stuff like "The House of The Three Truths" in modern tabletop boards.

Pigeon flying toward a metal roosting point in bridge infrastructure

Pigeon
#birds

HUE 24

Shocked Stone headgehog

Part 218 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd

Ceramic hedgehog dated to the Neolithic period found at the Hamin archaeological site near Shebotu Town in Inner Mongolia, China

Classic ✨Eurocentrism✨
But specially Petrarch is the one who started all this nonsense of the "Dark Ages", and how the classical period was the "light".
Then in the 17th century, during "the Enlightenment" (and in the middle of colonization) the idea got very popular.

Staphylinos Keras, the cultivated carrot. From the Juliana Anicia Codex of 512.

CORRECTION: I found a 2011 article discussing the history of carrots, and it seems that this story isn't entirely accurate, as the Codex Juliana Anicia, a Byzantine manuscript from 512, contains illustrations of orange carrots.
It seems that the Dutch did spread the modern version of carrots tho.

Old carrot variants (including white, yellow, red and purple)

Carrot farming in the Tacuinum sanitatis.

Fun fact: Orange carrots are relatively recent. In ancient Rome, they were usually white or purple; and in the Middle Ages, red and yellow carrots arrived in Spain through trade with Iran. It wasnt until the 16th century that Dutch farmers started cultivating an orange and sweeter hybrid version.

One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.

Typology of patolli game boards according to Swezey and Bittman (1983) and one graffito that is not a patolli board. A: Schematic drawing of gameboard from Pedregal, Mexico (Type V) B: Gameboard from Nakum (Type II) C: Gameboard from Teotihuacán (Type I) D: Gameboard from Chichén Itzá (Type III) E: Graffito from Structure E, Nakum. (Drawn by Yesenia García; not to scale.)

Patolli as depicted in Bernardino de Sahagún's General History of the Things of New Spain.

It could be one of the earliest examples of a Patolli board, slightly different from other known versions.

View of the patolli board in Structure 6L-19.

Drawing of the patolli board in Structure 6L-19.

dealized reconstruction of the board according to the remaining elements, indicating the original number of tesserae calculated from the average distance between sherd centroids.

ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS: Researchers have found in the ancient Mayan city of Naachtun (in modern Guatemala) a mosaic in the shape of a Patolli game board (a popular Mesoamerican game), as part of the floor design, from the Early Classic period.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Which painting do you think is the most copied/referenced for character art/fanart?
I'm between "The Fallen Ángel" by Alexandre Cabanel, or "Ophelia", by Sir John Everett Millais.

Ancient Maya game board with unique mosaic design discovered in Guatemala Centuries before Monopoly, there was Patolli, a high-stakes Mesoamerican game of strategy and luck where players wagered crops and wealth as they raced their opponents around a cross-shaped board.

Ancient Maya game board with unique mosaic design discovered in Guatemala.
phys.org/news/2025-11...

Tarot card cm!

Today I flipped to a random page of the dictionary of obscure sorrows.
The word is Sayfish.

A large ceramic sculpture of a Carnotaur (think T-Rex but has horns coming out of their head over their eyes) done with black underglaze. This piece features sgraffito markings and my signature California Poppies crawling up it's sides and back. Also noting that the dinosaur looks rather happy.

A photo of the back of the piece to show more of the Poppies curving up and around the back. The flower and it's stem have been coloured in using orange and green underglazes.

Carnotaur Totem 🦖✨

This friend will be available in my next shop update coming this Friday at 9am PT! 👀👀

Link for bookmarking: shop.lioninthetrees.com

#art #pottery #sciart

Cute!

Would love to see it!!

The Bartender

Arrival as well, Nosferatu too (as it has been said already)
If we are talking about videogames, Outer Wilds and Return of the Obra Dinn for example (😭)

Disney's Robin Hood, but a deer. He's leaning agains a tree with an arrow through his hat. toledoart

Disney's Robin Hood, but a deer. He's sitting in a basket, holding out a hand and smiling at the viewer.

Disney's Robin Hood, but a deer. He's looking fondly and lovingly into the viewer's eyes.

If Disney hadn't turned Reynard the Fox into Robin Hood, maybe we could have gotten... Robin HOOF!

(Did this series back in May 2021. I would definitely have swooned for this version... XD)

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Little John, as a bull instead of a bear, tromps along, looking happy! toledoart

Friar Tuck, but ACTUALLY A BADGER THIS TIME

And who are Robin Hoof's companions?

A bullish Little John, of course, and Friar Tuck, actually looking like a badger!

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