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Tamerlane using a captive king as a mounting block for his (late 16thC, BM) That's doing it despot style.

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2021-01-25

Christ in the Wine Press, 16thC, Netherlandish,
some vividly realised Eucharistic theology.

(National Gallery of Art, Washington)

"Torcular calcavi solus, et de gentibus non est vir mecum"

"I have trodden the winepress alone, & of the Gentiles there is not a man with me"

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2020-08-07

2 June: feast St. Elmo (Erasmus), 4thC, note his entrails wrapped around a windlass (BM)

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2020-06-02

Between 8th-10thC, there was a huge translation movement with caliphs sponsoring the translation of classical and late antique works of philosophy, science, literature into Arabic.

At the same time, the introduction of paper led to an explosion of book production and writing.

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2020-05-15

If at first you don't succeed (though these look good to me!).....bone motif (trial) piece from Lagore Crannog, dating to 8th-9thc, on display ; Lagore was an important royal residence

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2020-03-24

Platter from 17thC, in the style of Bernard Palissy (Art Institute Chicago) - for all those seafood occasions at parties.

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2020-03-05



Happy Chinese new year!! 新年快樂!!
Gender swap of !!
Someone asked me what will look like in 18thC, so I made these! XD

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2020-01-25

Yorkshire has its very own werewolf - Old Stinker. He is 8foot tall with red eyes, a human face and disgustingly bad breath (hence the name). Sighted since the 18thc, it was spotted again in 2016, prowling around an industrial estate near Hull

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2019-10-24

FAO attendees, we’d love some Victorianist papers at Victorian responses to & remediations of Romanticism, Romanticism’s persistence through the 19thC, its transformation by & thru new technologies (fitting in with our theme of ‘New Romanticisms’)

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2019-08-30

A little decorated ivory bead, probably strung on a Rosary - it depicts the Virgin and Child on one side and a female saint (probably Mary Magdalene).

(early 16thc, Germany, Met no. 30.95.127)

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2019-08-29


I hope that for the 10th anniversary of THC, Martin is included, one of my favourite villians in horror movies

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2019-04-22

Mostly a Western phenomenon, but they have an Asian counterpart in the kirin, a similar creature with 2 horns. Their existence was discredited by end of 16thC, but by then unicorns had a cultural stronghold in art: https://t.co/5zONSpbvhR via

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2019-04-09

Three of the most influential sculptors of the 20thC, Alexander Calder, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore - on view at our Stand 402 - shared similar ideas about imagination & abstraction, yet their sculptures are uniquely their own. Which is your favourite?

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2019-03-21

I'M TOO BUS Y TO PUT MORE EFFORT BUT HAPPY BIRTHDAY BITHC, I'M GLAD I WAS ABLE TO MEET YOU!

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2019-02-08

Realism in the late 16thc, and not that of Caravaggio. Head of a youth attributed to Agostino

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2018-12-25

Ever since i've finished THC, i've been in love with your character, Yukino. So, i focused my burning passion for her and i made this Fanart. Poured my sweat and blood to make this one, but here it is,i hope you like it!

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2018-08-02

Ever since i've finished THC, i've been in love with Yukino. So, i focused my burning passion for her and i made this Fanart. Poured my sweat and blood to make this one, but here it is,i hope you like it!

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2018-08-02



Ever since i've finished THC, i've been in love with your character, Yukino. So, i focused my burning passion for her and i made this Fanart. Poured my sweat and blood to make this one, but here it is,i hope you'll like it!

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2018-08-02

New tiles: Tibert, King of Cats, and Brenchimer the Stag carry the body of Renard the Fox, 13thc, Aberdeen Bestiary Cat, Palerma Pallazzo Dei_Morani cat with an attitude, 12th century, Cat Steed from Boulone-Sur-Mer 13thc. https://t.co/qvduXEH18b

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2018-07-10