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Hi, all--I'm going to take a break for a little while to recharge my batteries. I'll be back soon.

#personal

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Venice, Queen of the Adriatic, Crowning the Lion of St. Mark, Domenico Tintoretto, ca. 1595-9

#art #art history #Domenico Tintoretto #allegory #allegorical art #Venice #Venetian School #Mannerism #Italian Mannerism #Cinquecento #Italian art #16th century art #oil on canvas #National Gallery of Ireland

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Crane Among Reeds, Kawabata Gyokushō, between 1887 and 1892

#art #art history #Kawabata Gyokushō #Asian art #Japan #Japanese art #East Asia #East Asian art #Nihonga #album leaf #animals in art #birds #cranes #Meiji period #Meiji era #19th century art #Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Fog, Voisins, Alfred Sisley, 1874

#art #art history #Alfred Sisley #landscape #landscape painting #landscape art #fog #Impressionism #Impressionist art #French Impressionism #France #French art #19th century art #oil on canvas #Musée d'Orsay

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Stater, minted 380/379 BCE at Tarsus in Cilicia, of Pharnabazus II, former satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia under the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia and a major figure in the internecine conflicts of the Greek city-states during the late 5th/early 4th centuries. The coin shows the complex intermingling of Greek and Near Eastern cultures characteristic of Anatolia under Achaemenid rule. On the obverse, Ba'al of Tarsus is shown seated, holding a lotus-tipped scepter and wearing the Greek chlamys. On the reverse, a bearded man wears a helmet in Attic style. Both sides are inscribed in Aramaic, which served as the lingua franca of the Near East under the Achaemenids. Photo credit: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com

#history #ancient history #classics #tagamemnon #Persian Empire #Achaemenid #coins #ancient coins #Persian coins #numismatics #ancient numismatics #artifacts #artefacts

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View of the Ruined Castle of Hammershus, Ferdinand Richardt, 1849

#art #art history #Ferdinand Richardt #landscape #landscape painting #landscape art #ruins #Denmark #Scandinavia #Danish art #Scandinavian art #Danish-American art #19th century art #oil on canvas #Bornholm Art Museum

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The Rainbow: Osterspai and Filsen, J.M.W. Turner, 1817

#art #art history #J.M.W. Turner #JMW Turner #Joseph mall #joseph mallord william turner #landscape #landscape painting #landscape art #marine art #rainbow #Romanticism #Romantic art #English Romanticism #British art #English art #19th century art #watercolor #Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University

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Narcissus, variously attributed to Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio or a follower (Gian Giacomo Caprotti?), ca. 1490

#art #art history #Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio #Gian Giacomo Caprotti #classical mythology #mythological painting #Narcissus #imaginary portrait #Renaissance #Renaissance art #Italian Renaissance #Quattrocento #Italian art #15th century art #oil on canvas #National Gallery #National Gallery London

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Night View, Downtown Section, Dallas, Texas, Arthur Rothstein, 1942

#photography #history #historic photography #cityscape #Dallas #black and white #b&w #b&w photography #night scene #Arthur Rothstein #Office of War Information #Americana #1940s #20th century photography #Library of Congress

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The Earth, Maerten de Vos (1532-1603)

#Earth Day #art #art history #Maerten de Vos #allegory #allegorical art #Baroque #Baroque art #Flemish Baroque #Flemish art #16th century art #oil on canvas #Prado #Prado Museum #Museo del Prado

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Night, William Edward Norton, 1918

#art #art history #Willliam Edward Norton #landscape #landscape painting #landscape art #seascape #night #night scene #nocturne #American art #20th century art #oil on canvas #Museum of Fine Arts Boston #MFA Boston

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Incipit of the Gospel of Luke (Quoniam quidem multi...), fol. 188r from the Book of Kells, created in an Irish or Scottish monastery ca. 800. Now in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin.

#art #art history #Book of Kells #Irish art #Celtic art #illuminated manuscript #Gospel of Luke #incipit #medieval art #9th century art #Trinity College Dublin

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St. Paul Shipwrecked on Malta, Laurent de La Hyre, 1630

#art #art history #Laurent de La Hyre #religious art #Biblical art #Christian art #Christianity #Book of Acts #St. Paul #Apostle Paul #Baroque #Baroque art #French Baroque #Neoclassicism #French art #17th century art #oil on canvas #Birmingham Museum of Art

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Bonne Nouvelle Boulevard in Paris, Amédée-Julien Marcel-Clément, 1910

#art #art history #Amédée-Julien Marcel-Clément #genre painting #genre art #cityscape #street scene #Paris #France #Belle Epoque #rain #rain scene #rainy day #pluviophile #French art #20th century art #oil on canvas #National Museum in Warsaw

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Huzzah!

And to you!

#personal #answer

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Rain Drops (gelatin silver print), Alfred Stieglitz, 1927

#art #art history #photography #Alfred Stieglitz #rain #gelatin silver print #American photography #20th century photography #1920s #Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Me: "Oh, YouTube is auto-playing Vivaldi concerti! I'll listen to one or two more before I stop."

Me, three hours later: "...Oops."

#personal #ramblings