Art, social media, lit, history, cats.
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8 Jan 2025
White flowers and small bird, by Kobayashi Kokei, 1930s
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2 Jan 2025
This is like something from a different planet
In 1935, Frank Waugh—one of the first landscape architects & an influential ecologist—authored a technical manual for the Civilian Conservation Corps to use for the improvement of national parks
Check out the writing in this thing
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JennetteM retweeted
13 Dec 2024
Here’s something really interesting I’ve learned from Townsend’s book. In the academic literature, various explanations have emerged over time for how a few hundred Spaniards managed to overthrow the Aztec Empire, which, at its peak, governed millions. #history #colonialism
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JennetteM retweeted
8 Nov 2024
Maple Tree, by Sakai Hōitsu, 19th century
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JennetteM retweeted
5 Nov 2024
Clara the rhinoceros, put on display (to a lot of masked people) in Venice in 1751 and immortalized by Pietro Longhi, born on this day 1701.
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JennetteM retweeted
31 Oct 2024
Butterfly fancy dress costume by House of Worth, 1912. Whitaker Auctions.
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JennetteM retweeted
24 Oct 2024
“you let your cat sleep with you” i’d let that mf represent me in court
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JennetteM retweeted
12 Oct 2024
Samurai-Class Man's Winter Formal Surcoat (jinbaori), 18th-early 19th century
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JennetteM retweeted
11 Oct 2024
This was my experience too. Moby-Dick is both exciting and hilarious. Jane Eyre full of crazy scenes I couldn't believe I was reading. Tolstoy, Dickens, Austen, Hugo, all legitimate page-turners. The classics didn't become classics by accident or by fiat. They fucking rock.
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JennetteM retweeted
20 Sep 2024
I'm writing today about kennings in Old English. Essentially these are two word-metaphors that were used instead of concrete nouns, and they are exquisite. A ship was a 'wave-horse', the sea was a 'whale-road', the mind was a 'thought-chamber', and the sun was a 'sky-candle'.
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JennetteM retweeted
13 Sep 2024
"Kogō" and "The Imperial Procession to Ōhara", from The Tale of the Heike, early 17th century
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JennetteM retweeted
7 Sep 2024
The challenge of Lord Tepoztecatl.
A syncretic ritual from the state of Morelos
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#mexican #aztec #INDIGENOUS
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JennetteM retweeted
4 Sep 2024
We’re right here in this tavern, as a Romani dancer performs, one arm dramatically outstretched. Along the atmospherical[y-shadowed back wall are guitarists, a singer & a man rhythmically clapping (JS Sargent, El Jaleo, 1882, Gardner Museum)
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JennetteM retweeted
31 Aug 2024
Back in the 12th century, French sculptor Gislebertus carved this angel as (s)he appears to the three Magi as they dream, waking one with the delicate touch of a finger, and pointing her other forefinger toward the Bethlehem star (Cathedral of St Lazare at Autun)
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JennetteM retweeted
28 Aug 2024
Here’s Utagawa Hiroshige’s fine woodblock View of Mt Fuji from Satta Point, Suruga Bay (from Thirty-Six Views of Mt Fuji, 1858). Interesting to see it next to the more dramatic (and famous) The Great Wave by Hokusai, a generation or so before
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JennetteM retweeted
26 Aug 2024
yes, these are real medieval dog names
ALT Medieval Dog Names (Real Names from medieval sources). Artus, Balbina, Bellina, Bembino, Bo, Borgettus, Curte, Dammast, Dyamant, Famia, Fortuna, Furstli, Gardiner, Gerland, Hapeguay, Hardy Hemmerli, Jakke, Lachne, Mamselle, Megastomo, Melesinn, Mignone, Monsieur, Mopsulus, Mopsus, Orsina, Petitcreiu, Purkoy, Rubino, Saphyrus, Sattin, Soldan, Speichli, Stosel, Sturdy, Terri, Turgk, Venus, Viola, Violina, Whitefoot, Zabot. List from Kathleen Walker-Meikle's book "Medieval Pets" @gettymuseum
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JennetteM retweeted
21 Aug 2024
“The Cat on the Pillow.” by Adolf von Becker
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