archaeology, history, environment, quirky stuff -- love London, arts, travel -- writer, organiser, modest activist/stirrer 🏺
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English Heritage debuts daily prize draw for ‘private time’ at Stonehenge this AugustWinners and their booking group will receive ‘a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to stand within the ancient stones with no one else around’ before opening hourswww.theartnewspaper.com
I think it's fair to say Structor wasn't a super skilled sculptor, but If you google 'roman phallus reliefs' and view images, the various iterations include others much like this. A Facebook entry has a very similar one in Senhouse Roman Museum in Cumbria: www.facebook.com/I.M.O.Histor...
www.facebook.com#TombTuesday Early 11th C tomb cover in Ringerike style popular in Scandinavia/Saxon England. Stylised serpent and lion fighting w inscription on left edge: 'Ginna and Toki had this stone made'. Found at St Paul's Cathedral 1852. BM loan to London Museum: but will we see it in new one in Nov?
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Trump orders signage to be erected outside Smithsonian museum warning visitors of political biasUS president’s executive order comes after the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History was grilled by a congressional subcommitteewww.theartnewspaper.comLove that: what wondrous colours with the 3D effect. Reminded me of a small perspective meander #MosaicMonday from Taranto's #Roman period, placed as doorstep to a room with a monochrome mosaic, 2-1 C BC. In MArTA.
Nina WillburgerFor #MosaicMonday a #Roman mosaic with a mesmerizing 3D effect. Domus Romana, near Rabat and Mdina, #Malta , dating 100 BC. 📷️ 🏺 #archaeology
#MedievalMonday #MosaicMonday Fridianus, 6th C Irish bishop of Lucca, had a church built here in Lucca, dedicated to St Vincent, martyr of Zaragoza. When he died, name changed to Ss Frediano + Vincenzo. Current basilica form is of 12th C, with dazzling mosaic of Ascension + saints from 13th C.
Love that: what wondrous colours with the 3D effect. Reminded me of a small perspective meander #MosaicMonday from Taranto's #Roman period, placed as doorstep to a room with a monochrome mosaic, 2-1 C BC. In MArTA.
Nina WillburgerFor #MosaicMonday a #Roman mosaic with a mesmerizing 3D effect. Domus Romana, near Rabat and Mdina, #Malta , dating 100 BC. 📷️ 🏺 #archaeology
#SteepleSaturday St Giles in the Fields in London has seen it all: *Queen Matilda's C12 leper hospital *burial of Catholic martyrs *gallows site *plague, gentrification, notorious squalor *rookeries, romantic poets *WWII bombing *music, theatre, entertainment, business And it's quite lovely.
