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Illustrations from Hilde Krüger's constructivist children's book Der Widiwondelwald (1924).⠀
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Featured in our new book Affinities, an exploration of echoes and resonances across two millennia of visual culture: https://t.co/Lu1DQqPrMi

In Japanese the circular guard above the handle of a sword is known as a "tsuba", and they became important symbols for samurai in medieval and early modern Japan. Browse images of a wonderful collection from 1916 here: https://t.co/PUbDBD2LWf

Happy #MayDay and #InternationalWorkersDay! This poster by Dutch artist Jan Toorop was for the Hague's 1898 National Woman’s Labour Exhibition, which had the goal to improve women's wages and working conditions.

More posters from Toorop here: https://t.co/4Ns04vpRN2

Happy birthday Shakespeare! See our collection of art inspired by his plays, including works by William Blake, Henry Fuseli + George Cruikshank: https://t.co/1vPbmvdhHs #ShakespeareDay #onthisday #otd

Pictured here: Scene from The Tempest (Caliban), Franz Marc, 1914.

#OnThisDay in 1561, as the sun rose over Nuremberg, the residents described seeing an aerial battle take place in its glare — the erratic dance of orbs, crosses, cylinders and a crash-landing beyond the city. An early sighting of alien #UFO? https://t.co/PaGP8S57Eu #OTD

The genre of “ostentatio genitalium” (the display of the genitals) relates to a controversial theory in art history, that numerous religious artworks from the Renaissance purposively allude to and draw attention to the penis of Jesus: https://t.co/NZyUpRiKPO

Watercolour illustrations from Mary Gartside’s An Essay on a New Theory of Colours (1808). Hand-made and unique to each volume, the images have been deemed some of the earlier examples of abstraction in painting. More in our latest post on the site — https://t.co/QI1du5Q08d

Illustrations from Albert Robida’s La vie électrique (1890). While the flying cars have not (yet) come to pass, Robida's imagining of life 60 years in the future includes many prescient visions, such as a proto Zoom, Netflix, hyperloop + smart doorbell: https://t.co/9mxImCfZvG

Born #onthisday in 1837, A. C. Swinburne. Read Julian Barnes on when the poet had Maupassant round for lunch. A flayed human hand, porn, the serving of monkey meat + inordinate amounts of alcohol, all made for a truly strange Anglo-French encounter: https://t.co/6YzMe99w4R #OTD

In the 1850s, before it was denuded by archaeologists and the tourism industry, 420 species of flowers and plants grew on the Roman Colosseum — and every single one is catalogued in amateur botanist Richard Deakin's Flora of the Colosseum of Rome (1855): https://t.co/OEtpMfAJtM