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Giovanni Gellini, 1475 & a sketch by his father, Jacopo (c.1450).

@LoshadSpaceport @archaeologyart And yet it was the Genestealers who have a Patriarch. 🤔

@JBarbagiannis @arisroussinos Even the Scots have been in on it.

@Twhittermarsh The Genoese & Venetians were firing rockets at each other in the middle ages & the Chinese long before that.

Although it was always more for the castles than the Lord of the Rings.

Going to use #TolkienReadingDay as an excuse to post pictures by Alan Lee, probably my all time favourite illustrator.

This triggers a lethal curse upon his children. To lift it, Cadmus begs the gods turn him into a snake. His wife, Harmonia, distraught at his metamorphosis, embraces his serpentine form as it snakes up her body & begs the gods to transform her into a serpent also.

#FolkloreThursday St Kyriakos of Ancona. Helped Helena, mother of Constantine, recover the true cross from under a temple dedicated to Venus. That led to his martyrdom by angry pagans but he had the last laugh. His church in Ancona sits over the site of another temple to Venus.

Kubadabad Sarayi, a C13th Seljuk Summer Palace on lake Beyşehir in Konya. I'm not sure when it fell into disuse, but Sehzade Mustafa was reportedly fond of sailing & carousing around Beysehir while governor of Konya in the 1470s, so perhaps it was his retreat too?

Vlad's Wallachians bursting through the gates of Giurgiu (1462) as drawn by Radu Oltean.