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Ralph Harrington
ralphharrington
Fidelia Bridges died #OTD 1923 (b1834). Studied at @PAFAcademy. Among the finest of American C19 watercolourists, she created intensely observed, profound and exquisite images of nature. "Bird's Nest in Cattails"
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Dr HoArt 🌹
LuciaTantardini
A penny if you can tweet a more confidently virtuoso #silverpoint #drawing than #Leonardo's Warrior.Leonardo, Bust of a Warrior, ca. 1475-80, silverpoint on prepared paper @britishmuseum #DisegnoDiary #arte Great thread
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Dr Hannah Čulík-Baird
opietasanimi
today’s #RaceB4Race panel is making me think about how infrequently we actually see ancient representations of Black people discussed in classics... (“the Image of the Black in Western Art” Vol.
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🇺🇦 Dr. Emma Guest-Consales 🍎
EmmaTK
Thank you @HC_Richardson and @jbf1755 for another excellent episode of “Now and Then.” Here is the engraving by Paul Revere of “The Boston Massacre,” from 1770 which helped stir up
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Sean W. Anthony
shahanSean
The Qurʾan calls Pharaoh ‘Ḏū l-Awtād’ (‘possessor of stakes’; e.g., see Q. Fajr 89:10)—no one really knows the significance of it … I'm among those who think it refers not
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Jamie Hall
PrimitiveMethod
Something I have often wondered is how hard it is to do openwork, but without the modern jeweller's saw. Nowadays, we'd say fretwork, or piercing, but it's quite different to
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Dr. Audrey Truschke
AudreyTruschke
Some wanna-be American politician put out a hateful tweet about tearing down statues of Muhammad.In response, I’ve seen a lot of well-meaning people say that images of Muhammad are forbidden
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BlakeCLST6
BClst6
#FirstLookCloser #CLST6 This figure, dating from the late 8th to early 7th century BC, portrays an armorer crafting a Corinthian helmet. The simplicity and size of the figure is emblematic
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Dr. Stephennie Mulder
stephenniem
"The hospital shall keep all patients, men and women, until they are completely recovered. All costs are to be borne by the hospital whether the people come from afar or
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Michael Press
MichaelDPress
How did funerary reliefs and other ancient artifacts from Palmyra make their way around the world? And what, if anything, should be done about it today?A thread for #MuseumsUnlocked Left:
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Agniras (Gems of Indology)
GemsOfIndology
If you think these statues are Saree clad Indian woman from 12th Century, then you are WRONG !These statues 'godess?' are at least 2000 years old and were found in
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The Monster Files: Dr Surekha Davies
sourdoughchef
It’s #LockdownBestiary #unicorn day! Unicorns (animal w/ a horn) are real & many! Some even have several horns. How many unicorn types were there & did horns have special qualities?
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Chapps
chapps
Today is NYC Museums for #MuseumsUnlocked. Some selections from @metmuseum. A bronze statue of Artemis and a deer; a tombstone of Publius Sextilius Fortunatus; a polychrome funerary stele w/ two
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Erin L. Thompson
artcrimeprof
The @metmuseum's new installation, "Crossroads," is a master class in using your looted antiquities to justify keeping your looted antiquities. A short thread. The exhibit "examine[s] the idea of cultural
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Nathan Shipley
CitizenPlain
Reverse toonification! Here's what one of @robhrr's drawings of Miles from #Spiderverse might look like as a real person. Source on left / result on right.Using @yuval_alaluf and @EladRichardson's #pixel2style2pixel
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Marina Amaral
marinamaral2
Colorized by me: Virginia Oldoïni, Countess of Castiglione, the selfie queen of Paris high society, 1865.She was a significant figure in the early history of photography. More here: http://www.marinamaral.com In
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