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This mosaic comes from the east church at Theodorias (modern Qasr in Libya 🇱🇾) & shows a fish sinuously swimming. Originally, the church had 50 mosaics on its floor. They have now been removed and placed in the nearby, purpose-built museum. 🕰️c540AD 📷 @jonalendering.bsky.social #MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday The Lady of Carthage mosaic, made of marble and glass tesserae, has been dated to the sixth century. The unidentified woman with a halo represented here is wearing purple clothing, holding a scepter, and giving a blessing. Carthage Museum, #Tunisia #art #Archaeology
In Samuel van Hoogstraten's incredible perspective box you look in from 2 different angles & see 7 rooms & 3 outdoor areas of this house. Such an ingenious feat of painting. Today is Hoogstraten's day.
La criada. Posterior a 1712. Galería Uffizi, Florencia, Italia. Giuseppe Maria Crespi. Italiano, 1665-1747.
Sailor moon hitting her knee so badly her pain is depicted as her as a skeleton with hair bones is a perfect visual gag.
There story and scandal behind this is not the shredding of paper books itself. The shredding is still part of the regular book market dynamics: bsky.app/profile/dbel...
Daniel BellingradtAI companies scanning and shredding old and rare books is bad, but you should be aware that shredding new, old, and used books is an established practice of selling and marketing books. In fact, hundreds of millions of books are shredded every year discretly, and legally, in Europe alone. #booksky
I think most people know about the medieval fascination with saintly relics, but I didn't realize there was also an interest in pagan relics
persona 2: eternal punishment, magazine screenshot, playstation (2001) archive.org/details/psm-...
From: The Lion and the Song (1959), dir. Břetislav Pojar, Kreslený a Loutkový Film Praha
Jumping spiders are tiny, social, fuzzy creatures. Their popularity as pets has been fueled by their appeal on social media, where they appear in close up shots, perched on a human’s manicured fingernail, staring intently with eight penetrating, beady black eyes. nyti.ms/3RNFQxc
Many are the men, small and great, old and new, landsmen and seamen, who have at large or in little, written of the whale.
On a similar note, a lot of people engage with silent comedy from a "joke theft" lens. "Hey, I saw that gag earlier, they clearly stole it!" But silent comedy was more like jazz: a huge part of the pleasure is seeing different actors riff on the same theme.
Caught with matches! Photo from my collection, no date/info.
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「tiagorrech」is developing I SHALL NAME THE DEAD ～死者に名を～