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Michel Lara

@VeraCausa9

7 years

Historical circumstances change Human nature doesn't...

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The evocative candlelit night scenes of Dutch Romantic painter Petrus van Schendel (1806-1870

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Did you know the mythical Pandora's Box wasn't really a box? Hesiod describes it as a pithos or a very large storage jar. Pithos (plural-pithoi) excavated from within the Minoan palace at Knossos on Crete ca. 1920s

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This superb dagger is a crossroad of civilizations. Found in Egyptian tomb's coffin of Princess Ita, daughter of Amenemhat II 1914-1879 BC Bronze blade form is Phoenician & the lapis lazuli/green feldspar patterns on gold hilt are Minoan. Crescent-shaped pommel is lapis lazuli.

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The timeless allure of the faces from antiquity will endure as long as we question them, and perhaps unseal their lips of oblivion. The Charioteer of Delphi intense stare(from his inlaid glass eyes) is still fixed on winning that chariot race at the Pythian Games ca. 478-474 BC

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This 1947 photographic series of Stonehenge under Snow by Bill Brandt are in my opinion the most beautifully haunting & enigmatic photographs ever taken of the ancient site.

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Maria Callas sits on the ancient Theater of Delphi in 1959. Perhaps hearing Medea's poignant words echoing among the stones: "My passion for you was greater than my wisdom"

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This is one of my absolute favorite figurines from antiquity: Barber cutting a man's hair-terracotta with traces of polychromy-Tanagra, Boiotia, Greece-early 5th century BC @mfaboston

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When you wait almost 3,000 yrs for a "rebirth" In situ discovery of a 'high priest' statuette within a vessel found in Uruk during excavations 1929-30 [Iraq]. Uruk is considered the first true city in the world & first city of Sumer, capital of King Gilgamesh c. 2800-2500 BC

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Did you know J.R.R. Tolkien besides being a master storyteller was also a wonderful illustrator. These are some from 'The Hobbit' [1937]

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One of most moving funerary stele is the one for hoplite Demokleides, son of Demetrios sitting on the prow of a trireme w/ his Corinthian helmet & shield besides him-he died in the naval battle of Corinth in 394 BC- from Piraeus-NAMA

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There are few photographers who have captured the timelessness of Greece like Robert McCabe's evocative camera lens.

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A thread on a classic of Japanese literature Tsurezuregusa (徒然草, "Essays in Idleness" by Buddhist monk-poet Kenkō written 1330-32. Let's start with Kenko's meditation on the act of reading: the meeting of another human life across time.

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What a stunning 1920 aerial view of Edinburgh by pioneer British aerial photographer Alfred G. Buckham [1879 – 1956]

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The Norwegian Romantic painter Peder Balke (1804-1887) sought to capture the dark sublimity of Nordic seascapes in the ominous luminosity of The North Cape (Nordkapp) by moonlight.

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Few painters can capture a moonglade or the moon's shimmering light mirrored on water at night like master Aivazovsky. Ivan Aivazovsky-Moonlight on the Bosphorus [1865]

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The unrivaled beauty of the "Horses of Saint Mark"-originally displayed as a quadriga at the Hippodrome of Constantinople-In 1204 they were looted by Venetian forces sacking the Byzantine capital during the 4th Crusade-made of copper not bronze-likely created ca. 2nd-3rd c. AD

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Boxer at Rest is a Greek bronze statue, the greatest surviving masterpiece from antiquity [Hellenistic] for the pathos that it still evokes across time capturing the spectator in the transcending immediacy that is our tragic human condition confronting fear, survival & mortality.

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A thread/photographic essay of humans among Classical ruins where Time, master of men, reigns supreme. A Peloponnesian shepherd sits among the ancient ruins of the athletes' entrance to the Olympic stadium in Olympia, Greece c.1907

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The mystical muses of French Symbolist painter Alphonse Osbert [1857-1939]. The liminal landscape is bathed in a blue-infused light, where these mystical muses seem to summon lyrical words yet to be born.

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Michel Lara

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A good illustrative guide to Ancient Greek & Roman Fashion: Hats-Helmets-Hairstyles-Accessories:

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There are few photographers who have captured the timelessness of Greece like Robert McCabe's evocative camera lens...

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This is an early XX century photo of Athens with the Acropolis in the distance taken by Frédéric Boissonnas, and yet there's a sense of timelessness captured in the sot light of day.

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I bought this Homer's Odyssey for my daughter as a Christmas present so we can read it together. The Italian artist Manuela Adreani did the wonderful illustrations & Giorgio Ferrero the excellent text adaptation. This is a splendid way to expose young readers to the Classics.

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The quiet interiors of Danish painter Peter Vilhelm Ilsted (1861-1933) where ghost-like female figures tread voiceless and without remembering their unfulfilled earthly desires.

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An exquisite example of Roman portraiture realism is this marble bust of an unknown man from around 240 AD [detail]-at Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Venezia

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This striking portrait of a man is one of the best examples of Roman portraiture realism evoking the virtues of gravitas, pietas, severitas, dignitas and virtus. Marble bust was made in mid-1st century AD [Early Imperial, Julio-Claudian] @metmuseum

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The ancient Greek word μέλισσα mélissa, “honey bee” comes from μέλι méli, “honey. Priestesses worshipping Artemis and Demeter were called Melissae or "bees" Minoan gold Bee ornament decorated with filigree & granulation, Crete c. 1700 BC #WorldBeeDay

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"Works of art are destroyed as soon as artistic sense disappears" -Goethe

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#OTD in 1959 two ancient bronze statues of Athena & Artemis were discovered together in Piraeus. This striking photograph shows them as found in situ, as if Artemis is embracing Athena for eternity.

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These doors from Morocco are spellbinding...as if weaved by a dream...

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In ancient Greece, an Asklepieion Ἀσκληπιεῖον was a healing temple, sacred to the god Asclepius, Greek god of medicine. Patients brought terracotta life-size human limbs as votives to thank the god for a cure. Anatomical votives found in the Asclepieion in ancient Corinth

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The dark & the beautiful in the folkloric illustrations of young Russian artist Alexandra Dvornikova. Here she evokes the shamanistic powers of the "Mistress of the Animals".

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The eerie calmness pervading Ivan Aivazovsky's moonlit Constantinople & Bosphorus strait...[1840-70]

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The magnificent artistry of the Greek bronze muscle cuirass.

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The Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Anaxagoras [c. 510 -c. 428 BC] was the 1st to explain that the moon shines by reflecting the sun's light: "The moon does not shine with its own light, but receives its light from the sun"

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The deserted Italian piazzas de Chirico painted seem now ominously prescient where a lone statue acts like a soothsayer silently reading augurs for the days to come.

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What cure did Prometheus implant in mortals for taking away their ability to forsee their death? In "Prometheus Bound", Aeschylus gaves us the answer:

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This mummy portrait of a boy named Eutyches (AD 100–150) is one of most lifelike portraits that have survived. It captures the features of the boy's face w/ a photographic naturalism giving today's viewer a deep emotional immediacy despite the almost 2,000 years separating us.

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The beauty of the geometric form visualized in the multicolored tiling patterns from the mosaic floors at the Baths of Caracalla, Roma likely built between 212-217 AD

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Marble Figure of a Young Satyr [or child ?] wearing an oversized Theater Mask of Silenus-Roman Imperial, ca. 1st c. AD-private collection

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Almost nightfall in Kamakura where a heavy snowfall feels like we're drifting away in this passing world and yet there's the Great Buddha blossoming like a white flame.

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A thread on the Italian pioneers of photography, the Fratelli Alinari. A man climbs up a staircase of the Tower of Palazzo Vecchio, in the background looms Brunelleschi’s Dome from Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence around 1900.

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The divine mosaic ceilings of the Roman Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, Ravenna, 425 AD-largest sarcophagus was thought to contain the remains of Galla Placidia (died 450), daughter of Roman Emperor Theodosius I. The iconography represent the victory of eternal life over death

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Hieronymus Bosch painted at least 20 owls scattered all over his paintings,often interpreted as a symbol of the occult & the ominous as seen through the eyes of a 15th century christian where the devil embodies temptation, the ever-menacing darkness preying on unsuspected souls.

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A marvelous "Green Man" mosaic-Byzantine c.450-550 AD- Great Palace Mosaic Museum , Istanbul

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A Gothic cathedral's rose window is intelligible beauty expressed as a multicolored woven light radiating outwards men's love for the divine... Notre Dame de Paris' south rose window [1260] #NotreDame

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Fascinating photograph of what you would've seen entering pre-industrialized Rome, still capturing some of the ancient pastoral allure of the eternal city Vista of the Aurelian Walls near Porta San Paolo (Porta Ostiensis) & Caio Cestio pyramid c.1864 by Carlo Baldassarre Simelli

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Wonderfully preserved pair of Byzantine men leather shoes decorated with gold leaf embroidery ca. 5th-8th century AD @byzantinemuseum

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The evolution of the Gorgon iconography: From otherwordly dreadful to satirical to humanly tragic. Moreover each of these terracotta Gorgons seem to bring forth a distinct personality through their apotropaic visage.

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"There is nothing easier than self-delusion. Since what man desires, is the first thing he believes" -Demosthenes [384–322 BC]

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The fascinating case of a statue metamorphoses: this bronze sculpture was originally Aphrodite made in the 3rd c. BC in Rhodes yet her wings were added around the 1st c. BC transforming her into a Winged Nike-at Museo Santa Giulia @BresciaMusei

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Pablo Picasso wearing a Minotaur's head mask on a beach in Golfe-Juan, Vallauris, France, 1949. Photo by Gjon Mili.

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J.R.R. Tolkien was born #OTD 1892. Besides being a master storyteller, Tolkien was also a wonderful illustrator. These are some from 'The Hobbit' [1937].

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This bronze Buddha is one of the earliest Shakyamuni icons from the ancient region of Gandhara [Pakistan] 1st to mid-2nd c. AD. He sits holding his right hand in abhaya mudra. His radiating halo is reminiscent of the Greek god Helios, his robes & hair shows Greco-Roman influence.

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In the ancient world, 'The Pillars of Hercules' marked the edge of the then-known world and the limits of human knowledge. A Renaissance legend says the pillars bore the warning Ne plus ultra ("nothing further beyond") as caution to sailors not to venture beyond them.

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In Greek drama, Prometheus best embodies the indomitable human spirit, unyielding to endless pain, ever defiant to tyrannical power. 'Prometheus Bound', marble sculpture by Harold Parker, 1909

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"The ideas ruins evoke in me are grand. Everything comes to nothing, everything perishes, everything passes, only the world remains, only time endures." *Denis Diderot words after seeing paintings of ruins by Hubert Robert at the 1767 Salon.

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This Byzantine gold solidus w/ Christ Pantokrator minted by Justinian II-692-695AD is the 1st time Christ is more prominent than the Emperor

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Pair of Byzantine leather shoes decorated with gold leaf- ca. 5th-8th century AD @byzantinemuseum

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This is the oldest surviving depiction of Saint Francis of Assisi. A fresco dating back to his retreat in Subiaco (1223–1224). Here he's depicted without halo or stigmata. The fresco is at Cappella di San Gregorio, Subiaco, Lazio. #SaintFrancis of Assisi Feast Day

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A thread on the French photographer Félix Bonfils (1831-1885) and his pioneering images of the Middle East and Egypt. Two men are dwarfed by the Cyclopean walls of the Roman Temple of Jupiter in the ancient city of Heliopolis or Baalbek, Lebanon ca. 1867-1876

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This portrait of Queen Uta von Ballenstedt [c. 1000-before 1046] is a masterpiece of Gothic art, the statue is at the west choir of Naumburg Catehdral, Germany ca. 1249-1255-her portrait possibly inspired the character of the Evil Queen in Disney's 1937 Snow White & the 7 Dwarfs

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This is the oldest surviving depiction of Saint Francis a fresco near the entrance of the Benedictine abbey of Subiaco painted 1228-1229

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In old Japan, they used to say that if a mother and child went out spring moon viewing, then their shared memory would light even the darkest of paths when called upon.

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Boscoreale Silver Cups engraved with Skeletons & Epicurean maxims like: "Enjoy life while you can, for tomorrow is uncertain"-Roman 1st century AD @MuseeLouvre

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In medieval Latin, a florilegium was a compilation of writings' excerpts (sententia). From Latin flos (flower) & legere (to gather): literally "gathering of flowers". Adapted from the Greek anthologia (ánthos, “flower, blossom”) + (lógos, “account”)

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"This age of indolence...darkened the face of learning, and the decline of genius was soon followed by the corruption of taste.” -Edward Gibbon, "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" (1776-1788) -The Ruins of the Roman Forum, 1951 photograph by Herbert List

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A short thread on favorite paintings depicting the Greek temples ruins in Magna Graecia: Caspar David Friedrich-Temple of Juno (Hera) in Agrigento-1828-30

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Little girl and three owls, Sweden, 1925 photograph by Oskar Jarén

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The unrivaled majesty of the Acropolis, Athens -ca.1900 photograph by Frédéric Boissonnas

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"First method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him" -Machiavelli, il Principe (1532)

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Did you know the Minotaur's birth name was Asterion Αστεριον, "Starry One"? So his depiction w/ spotted-skin is perhaps an allusion to his star-like name & association with the bull constellation: Taurus. Black-figure amphora, Theseus slaying the Minotaur, ca. 550 BC [detail]

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One of my favorite jewelry pieces from antiquity is this exquisite Minoan gold Bee ornament decorated with filigree & granulation-Crete-ca. 1700-1600 BC @britishmuseum

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I've decided to take some time off from Twitter. I'm deeply grateful for all who've shared my passion for the Classics, History, Art, Literature/ Poetry, Philosophy, Music etc. Remember you only need inquisitiveness & willingness to learn to expand your intellectual horizon.

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Couple on a bed called "The Lovers of Bordeaux" w/ a dog asleep at their feet-terracotta figurine-Gallo-Roman 2nd-3rd c. AD-Pistillus potter

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Michelangelo was born #OTD in 1475-Sculptor, Painter, Architect...Genius

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Florence, 1943-44: During WW2 Michelangelo's David was too massive to be transported so it was entombed in a brick silo to protect it from damage of airborne bombs.

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A wonderfully preserved 2nd c. AD Roman bridge known as Eurymedon Bridge (Oluk Köprü) over the river/gorge Eurymedon (modern Köprüçay) near Selge in Pisidia in southern Turkey. The bridge is 14 m long and 3.5 m wide w/ a roadway of 2.5 m & a span of its single arch of c. 7 m.

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The great Hokusai died #OTD 1849-this ink painting was the master's last creation : "Dragon Flying over Mount Fuji" [1849], perhaps seeing himself as the Dragon rising from mortal ashes into artistic immortality.

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Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius was born #OTD 121 AD who ever strived to be a Philosopher King. Cameo profile of a young Marcus Aurelius as Mercury with winged caduceus, made of nicolo agate (layered brown on pale blue) Roman middle 2nd c. AD.

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Egyptian Ivory Board Game w/ 6 Pieces, associated w/ a game called ‘Mehen’, coil, played on a circular limestone board like a coiled snake,skin divided into squares.3 pieces represent lions & 3 lionesses-Early Dynastic Period, 1st Dynasty, ca. 3100-2890 BC- Egyptian Museum, Cairo

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Four fantastic details of the iconic Nefertiti Bust-painted stucco-coated limestone created by Thutmose 1345 BC

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The Paradox of Greek Gods The very immortality of a god impedes the taste of a noble death. As they lack the urgency born out of the finitude of being, thus gods yearn what mortal heroes possess: selfless sacrifice in the face of an inevitable end.

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The first recorded use of a palinode [an ode in which the poet retracts a former view] appears in the lyrical verses fragment by Stesichorus [7th c. BC] in which the poet retracts his earlier poem vilifying Helen by stating that the Trojan War was all the fault of Helen.

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A thread on vintage b&w photographs from Greece. #WorldPhotographyDay Shepherds on top of Mount Parnassus, Delphi- 1903 photograph by Frédéric Boissonnas.

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This is one of the beautifully carved thirty-one Phoenician Anthropoid Sarcophagi found in Ayin el Helwe near Sidon, Lebanon-the Parian marble came from the Greek island of Paros & its visage shows Greek influence-5th century BC-at Beirut National Museum

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Fascinating 3rd c. AD Roman pavimental polychrome mosaic showing a schola cantorum or sacred choir [of 13 girls/2 boys] & their choirmaster. from Temple of Diana Tifatina over which the Abbey of Sant' Angelo in Formis [11th c.] was built on the slope of Monte Tifata near Capua.

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Magnificent details of a steel & gold Medusa Shield [c.1550-55] created by Milan's Renaissance master armourer Filippo Negroli, who's considered the most famous & skilled armourer of all time. This Gorgon's repoussé is worthy of Hephaestus, the divine smith of the Olympian gods.

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Rules of the Athenian Library of Pantainos built ca. AD 100: “No book is to be taken out because we have sworn an oath. (The library) is to be open from the first hour until the sixth.” *Pantainos is the only library from antiquity where the hours & circulation rules are known.

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Pillar with a votive offering to Asclepios: Marble part of a female human face with inlaid eyes placed inside a niche, dedicated by Praxias after his wife’s eyes were cured-ca. 350-300 BC-at the Acropolis Museum, Athens

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The elegant hands of Italian Renaissance men holding status-symbol attributes: a book, a sword, a cameo & a hunting dog by Florentine painter Agnolo Bronzino (1503–1572)

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Niccolò Machiavelli, the godfather of modern political science died #OTD 1527 "First method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him" -Machiavelli, il Principe, 1513

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A thread on ancient Greek Funerary Sculpture, that is grave markers/stelai to commemorate the dead, a common human sentiment about loss & life impermanence. This stele seems to evoke a 4th c. BC epitaph found in Piraeus: "I lie here, but I do not lose your love"

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"Whenever men are not obliged to fight from necessity, they fight from ambition" -Machiavelli, "Discourses on Livy" (1517)

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Few painters have captured the bucolic living beauty of a tree like John Constable's 'Study of the Trunk of an Elm Tree' painted around 1821, oil on paper.

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