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first tweet and art of the decade
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she’s a human that was given eldritch wings with the power of a button
but if people look into the galaxy they tend to go insane because it’s like looking into a literal galaxy
and churches hate her because it’s still the human world
BEHEMOTH Frontman's ME AND THAT MAN Project Releases 'Burning Churches' Christmas Song https://t.co/MbSiGi9fk5
The Adoration of the Magi.
A detail of a #medieval painted & gilded carved ivory crozier. Produced in #Venice .
It once belonged to Giovanni Aldobrandini, who was Bishop of Gubbio (Umbria, Italy) - 1370 to 1375
@V_and_A but on loan to @museecluny
#ChristmasInChurches
Follow the #NineElmsAdvent Calendar this month as a new ‘window’ is revealed each night around #NineElms! Theatres, cafes, pubs, churches, schools, shops & gyms open their doors for free festive celebrations! @9ElmsArtsRev @NineElmsTeam #OutdoorArts >>> https://t.co/1tRITgzwaH
BORN THIS DAY
John Piper (1906-1992)
British painter, printmaker & designer. An official WWII war artist, his depictions of bomb-damaged churches and landmarks, most notably Coventry Cathedral, made him a household name. Pistyll Maes-Glasau, 1940. #bornthisday #swindoncollection
Nativity scenes ~ C12th altar piece, from Church of Santa Maria d'Avia, #Catalonia #nativity #NativityScene #Navidad #ChristmasIsComing #art #folkart #naiveart #primitiveart #churchart #heritage #historical #MedievalTwitter #animalsinchurches
Check out this article in the latest issue of @TheArtsSociety_ It's all about the new approach of displaying contemporary art in churches, chapels & cathedrals. It has a nice mention of my #exhibition at @ChesterCath over the summer. Get your own copy now
In 1680, in what is now New Mexico, the indigenous Pueblo Indians revolted against their Christian Spanish colonizers. They burned all the churches, killed all the priests and forced out over 2,000 Europeans.
The religion of modern age is Capitalism, and banks are its churches!
Follow the @NineElmsTeam Advent Calendar this month as a new ‘window’ is revealed each night around the #NineElms area! Theatres, cafes, pubs, churches, schools, shops, gyms & more will be opening their doors for free festive celebrations! https://t.co/1tRITgzwaH
OTD in 1859, #JohnBrown is hanged for leading an anti-slavery insurrection. Find out how this occasion was marked by one of #GreenwichVillage's most outspoken #AfricanAmerican abolitionists and abolitionist churches, and the rest of their amazing work: https://t.co/tyXs1sioRz
#OTD 1508 Andrea Palladio, fundamental #Italian #Renaissance architects,born in Padova, #Venice known for his 24 Palladian villas of the Veneto, Churches (San Giorgio Maggiore, Il Redentore, Tempietto Barbaro) part of "Venice and its Lagoon" UNESCO World Heritage Site and others.
Arbroath Abbey slide image from the 1990's and watercolour reconstruction suggestion. Famous for Scottish Declaration of Independence in 1320. #ArbroathAbbey #ScottishChurches #watercolourpainting
A fierce guardian of churches haunts the lore of many lands. England had 'church grims', said to toll the bell to herald a death. As the first laid to rest was fated to be the guardian, an animal was ritually interred in a new cemetery, so human souls could RIP #FolkloreThursday
It’s the Church of Asinou, dedicated to the Virgin Mary w 12 cen frescoes & later periods. Among the finest examples of #Byzantine Christian mural painting on #Cyprus. #UNESCO World Heritage Site along with 9 other painted churches in the Troodos region. #CyprusArt #art https://t.co/8LdxC5bdgu
A version of St Giles painted last year. I’m just back from Italy looking at, and drawing churches. This winter is all about #architecture #churches #iconic #buildings #penandink #mixedmedia #drama
Some #WateryWonders from a favourite #JohnPiper memorial to a friend! #JohnBetjeman #AllSaints #Farnborough @BSMGP @LandscapeIan #AnimalsInChurchesHour
Some unusual #WateryWonders for #AnimalsInChurches.
325 million year old fossil corals & crinoids preserved in the black limestone known as Frosterley marble, in the Chapel of Nine Altars at @durhamcathedral.
#AnimalsInChurchesHour #Geology #Fossils
There are lots of harvest festivals happening at this time of year in schools and churches. These photos show Foregate Patisserie in the early 1980s with harvest loaves they'd created, and Brickfields Primary School with produce pupils had brought in for the harvest festival
This guy did not know the rules about exploring Abandoned Churches
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Im sure he's okay tho .
#Inktober #Inktober2019 #MONSTERS