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#Caterday Kaoru Kawano (1916-1965), Japan, woodblock prints of kittens are adorable. After a terrible WWII experience, he focused mostly on pictures of innocence, children, birds, & animals such as, cats, etc. Two Kittens (1950) & Kitten (1950s).
@chartres_Fiona @todbooklady Kind of appropriate: St. Denis and St. Piatus, Livre d'images de madame Marie, Hainaut or Brabant c. 1280-1290. BnF, Nouvelle acquisition française 16251, fol. 84v. Ahem ...
@PeripateticMe And it always turns into this for me... Hieronymus Bosch, St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness (1489), Lázaro Galdiano Museum, Madrid, Spain
@doktorfrag @kaelinjewell
@amasinton & I used a VR game-- allowed students to construct church from parts. Then they rebuilt church solving a problem: angry donor, changing liturgy, etc. Students needed guidance for latter, so advice/examples/how to truly integrate it w/VR?
@archeohistories @CliosChronicles Some fun images showing surviving pigment and reconstructed pigment from the Qin Shihuangdi soldiers. I especially like the last image, which shows the complexity & delicacy of the paintwork. 😍
Love the kitty on the left and, well, everything else about this page. 😍Georg Bocskay, calligraphy; Joris Hoefnagel, painting, Calligraphic Specimen Book, fol. 94 (1591-94). Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, inv. no. KK 975
Paul Binnie (b. 1967), Cat Feathers, 2018, woodblock
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Another treasure from the Shōsōin Repository in Nara, Japan, 8th century, see also Ink, colors on silk Banner with Bodhisattva holding a similar glass bowl, Dunhuang, Tang Dynasty, China https://t.co/g1Zmuxs57I