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Statuettes depicting the four sons of Horus (Late Period (664-332 BCE)) Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

Statuettes depicting the four sons of Horus (Late Period (664-332 BCE))

Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

This artwork by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec captures the lively presence of Yvette Guilbert, a celebrated singer and actress from the Belle Époque era. The piece illustrates her charismatic stage persona, enhanced by expressive brushwork and a fluid depiction of motion.

Yvette Guibert singing

People in the Middle Ages Slept Not Once But Twice Each Night: How This Lost Practice Was Rediscovered The importance of a good night's sleep has been featured now and again here on Open Culture. But were a medieval European to visit our time, he'd probably ask — among other questions — if we didn't me...

People in the Middle Ages Slept Not Once But Twice Each Night: How This Lost Practice Was Rediscovered

The Dutch anatomist Frederik Ruysch, known as the "The Artist of Death", met his own death #onthisday in 1731. Why the nickname? This engraving of one of his remarkable "still life" displays gives a clue. More in Luuc Koojimans' essay: publicdomainreview.org/essay/f... #OTD

A pair of eye inlays displayed against a gray background. The eyes are crafted from white material (calcite) with black circular pupils (obsidian) and outlined in a thin bronze frame.

Eye inlays from an Egyptian coffin 👀
The frame is made of bronze, the eye of calcite and obsidian. Dating ca 1500-1200 BC.

On display at Staatliches Museum für Ägyptische Kunst.

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‘And behold, on the day after Ash Wednesday the King did send officers to take his brother in charge, and upon Holy Island a wondrous prodigy, a rock with the teeth of a man, etc.’

Um pássaro vibrante com cabeça azul e corpo em tons de fúcsia e azul-cobalto repousa sobre um galho fino. Suas penas exibem um brilho intenso, e seu olho escuro contrasta com o azul da cabeça. O pássaro está ligeiramente virado para a esquerda, em meio a folhagens verdes exuberantes. A luz suave ilumina a cena, destacando a beleza da ave e a textura das folhas. Atenção: O alt da imagem foi gerado automaticamente.

🇧🇷Anambé-de-peito-roxo
🌎Cotinga cotinga
Conservação: Pouco Preocupante

O anambé-de-peito-roxo é uma ave passeriforme da família Cotingidae. Conhecido também como cotinga-roxo.

📷 Thiago Tolêdo (IBFN)

An Introduction to Outsider Artist Henry Darger and His Bizarre 15,000-Page Illustrated Masterwork The expression 'Don't quit your day job' is often used as an insult, implying that the recipient's creative skills aren't up to attracting a career-supporting audience.

An Introduction to Outsider Artist Henry Darger and His Bizarre 15,000-Page Illustrated Masterwork

Pic of Epstein, John Brockman, Harvard and the text - "The billionaires' eugenics project; how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science"

Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds. The files reveal it was something far darker

Extraordinary read by @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for the Nerve on Epstein, academia and eugenics

www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

Released 36 years ago
Stay Sick!, the fourth studio album by the American rock band the Cramps featuring the track Bikini Girls With Machine Guns

The Cramps - Bikini Girls With Machine Guns (1990-03-29 French TV Show NPA)

#punk #punks #punkrock #thecramps #history #punkrockhistory

Temptation of St Anthony

Temptation of St Anthony

The picture shows a necklace made of glass beads. The beads are of different size, shape and colour. Some are patterned, others monochrome.

In the early medieval period, colorful glass beads were a mark of prestige and fashion. This striking necklace, comprising over 60 beads in vibrant reds, blues, yellows, and intricate patterns, was discovered in the burial of a woman at Bissingen, southwest Germany, dating 7th century. 🧵1/2

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A detail from a 1591 German pamphlet about "Ketzerei", heresy. You see a man standing, carrying 7 cats. This detail is part of a title page: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/details/bsb00086437

Meet the 1591 cat man. I am counting 7 cats on and near him. #catcontent

Octopuses 🐙 have been wandering in the oceans for 296 million years.

They have three hearts and blue blood and are amazing
#MondayMorning

A diagram of the evolution of whales, from land dwelling mammals to the ocean giants we know today.

Whale evolution makes me uncomfortable

A ghostly figure holding a baby rises from a fire and two people leap back in fear.

'Ghost Mother and Child' - unknown Japanese artist, ca. 1890s.
#PhantomsFriday #JapaneseArt

11 | 2025 Les frontières du sacré Les historiens de l’art et les archéologues travaillant sur les édifices religieux s’intéressent à des techniques, des formes et des décors, mais ils tentent aussi de restituer les rituels qui s’...

Nouveau numéro | "Les frontières du sacré. Matérialiser les seuils dans l’architecture, de l’Antiquité à la fin du Moyen Âge"
👥 Sous la direction de Sidonie Bochaton, Haude Morvan et Natacha Trippé
📕 journals.openedition.org/frontieres/4...

A painted skull sat atop a pile of other bones.

The Purgatory Chapel of St Michael’s Church in Untergriesbach, Bavaria displays a small collection of bones, included skulls that have been painted, usually with the name and dates of the person, sometimes their occupation, and other decoration.

a medieval painting of a scruffy white dog with a strangely human face

normal dog, switzerland, 15th century

A Roman floor mosaic showing a square, geometric labyrinth made of thin, brown-colored lines on a neutral background, with a small central panel depicting a stylized Minotaur head.

For #MosaicMonday a #Roman mosaic showing the labyrinth of the Minotaur on Crete. The monster’s head is depicted in the centre. The simple depiction is alluding to the myth of Theseus, in which the Greek hero slays the Minotaur in the labyrinth with the help ... 🧵1/2

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#Archaeology

Mosaico De Los Ciervos.

Mosaico De Los Ciervos. https://www.wikiart.org/en/byzantine-mosaics/mosaico-de-los-ciervos-425

Uncovering the Secrets of Henri Rousseau’s Paintings A new exhibition freshly contextualizes many artworks in the light of his personal story, while conservators conducted revelatory technical studies.

Self-taught, self-confident, and inscrutable, Henri Rousseau was “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma,” to crib Winston Churchill’s famous characterization of Russia.

🎨 清初宮廷工筆重彩人物畫《十二美人圖》

In ancient China, the xiāngnáng (香囊), a fragrant pouch worn near the waist, was more than perfume. Hand-sewn and filled with herbs or scented powders, it carried layered meanings: lovers exchanged them as tokens of desire or secret vows, 1/2

#tradition #culture

Four images, artworks with symmetrical geometric designs in various colours with many lines

Emma Kunz (1892-1963), Swiss healer, visionary and outsider artist who published three books and produced many drawings #womensart

Aleksandra Waliszewska www.instagram.com/aleksandrawa...

Aleksandra Waliszewska www.instagram.com/aleksandrawa...

Wyoming’s Reckoning: Does the Law Permit Torture of Wolves? On Jan 28, a Wyoming judge will decide whether felony animal-cruelty charges against Cody Roberts can proceed to trial, or whether state law grants a free pass to torture wolves labeled ‘predators'.

🚨Tomorrow, a Wyoming judge will hear arguments on whether the case against Cody Roberts, the man who committed acts of torture and abuse to a wolf, will be dismissed.

If convicted, Roberts faces up to 2 years in prison. Justice for wildlife depends on accountability.
🔗: https://bit.ly/3LBLsaT

Aleksandra Waliszewska www.instagram.com/aleksandrawa...

Aleksandra Waliszewska www.instagram.com/aleksandrawa...