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Celebrating #EarthDay, today and always -- through learning, through literature, through storytelling.
The Temptation of Saint Anthony is an often-repeated subject in the history of art and literature, concerning the temptation faced by Saint Anthony the Great during his sojourn in the Egyptian desert.
#art by Martin Schongauer, Michelangelo, Joos van Craesbeeck and Salvador Dalí
#worldartday2020? Hurrah. What on earth world would it be with art in any of its forms? (visual, music, literature, costume). Me? I scribble and enjoy it enormously but always standing on the shoulders of giants.
#TodayinHistory in 1788, the #Tagalog poet Francisco Baltazar y dela Cruz, or simply Francisco Balagtas, was born in Panginay, Balagtas, Bulacan, #Philippines. He is best known for producing great works of #Philippine literature, such as "Florante at Laura" & "Orosman at Zafira."
Torn in Twain over which book to buy? Is the decision a real Hawthorne in your side? Or maybe looking for something with Poe-tential to take your mind off things? To Whit(man), here's our latest e-list of American Literature, all at 40% off: https://t.co/umkUSZJwZ9
#rarebooks
I anticipate a flourishing of creativity - the sort that hardship always presages. Humour will get us through this and it will produce whole new genres of isolationalist literature, moves and art. Paintings reimagined in the world of #coronavirus
New guy! He's named Wheat!
He's a friend of Fern and really likes anything horror, whether it's occult, literature, anything!
He also likes witch house and (secretly) enjoys speedcore!
RTs appreciated!!
Our new catalogue, Children's Literature, is now out, and includes an Inscribed carte-de-visite belonging to Louisa May Alcott, a set of Japanese fairy tales and a first edition of Velveteen Rabbit. View the catalogue: https://t.co/1VGVO2mZlj
I drew the Byzantine princess Anna Komnene for #InternationalWomensDay . For those wo don't know_she is the author of the Alexiad (the epic-historical book about the reign of her father) and she is highly educated in literature, greek language, rhetoric, and sciences.
As for the Victorians & China—everything from willow-pattern to opium dens comes up in Gillen D'Arcy Wood's review of "Britain's Chinese Eye: Literature, Empire, and Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century Britain" by Elizabeth Chang https://t.co/iWdBlstR1k
Joseph Brodsky (1940 - 1996)
Nobel Prize Literature, 1987.
Brodsky ties a shoelace on the morning of his departure from Leningrad in 1972. (Copyright: Lev Poliakov)
A reminder that the Bromacker Paleoart contest is still going on! In case people need literature, message me and you get a link to a dropbox folder full of references. #paleoart #permain #bromacker #upland #sciart
; leonardo di ser poero da vinci
— EVERYONE KNOWS THIS DUDE
— areas of interest included invention, drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, paleontology, and cartography.
Today we're wishing @JackieWoodson, one of the greatest writers of children's literature, a very happy birthday!
Photo illustraton: @nytimes
@postman_shadow This is My derg, Alistair. It's a Rose Draconian (Dragón is the roses).
Lover of music, literature, rock, orchestral music, nature and dark things (especially if they mix Death and nature)
And loves a lot laying over any surface while he can see the stars in the dark night
Finally: Albrecht for @BenYd; Albrecht is a professor of... literature, I think? He’s a bard whose magic arises not from song but pure oratorical wonder.
We’re loving these books already!! The #mnbookawards finalists for Children’s Literature, sponsored by Books for Africa are: