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Stephen Mackey

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Trident Parrying Dagger

Dated: circa 1600

Culture: German

Measurements: overall length 45 cm

The dagger has a straight, double-edged blade with slightly strengthened tip and tang grooved at the borders. At the back there’s a sliding button chiselled as a flower which, once pressed, releases the lateral blades in order to block the sword hits.

The iron hilt has quillons of octagonal section, bent toward the blade and ending in grooved drops. There’s a parry ring at the front, decorated en suite. The dagger has a hexagonal pommel with hollow faces and a wooden grip with iron and brass wire bindings, plus a moor’s heads. 

Source: Copyright © 2013 Czerny’s International Auction House S.R.L.

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The Persistence of Suppressed Thoughts IV, 2013 by Cara Thayer & Louie Van Patten

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The inside of a narwhal’s mouth — notice that there are no visible teeth.

Narwhals do, however, have vestigial teeth, in addition to their famous tusk, which is actually a canine tooth.

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Leading Men Age, Leading Women Don’t | Vulture

There are more charts if you click through.

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Unconditional Commitment to Sacred Love by Matthew Stone. His goal with this piece of work was to replace the archetypes of traditional nude portraiture with powerfully masculine subjects.

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Handel: he’s famous.  TOO famous?  Here’s a mix dedicated to the other opera composers of the baroque era. 

i. Graun: Montezuma // Passagero, che tenta la sorte ii. Hasse: Artaserese // Or la nube procellosa | Vivica Genaux iii. Arne: Artaxerxes // The Soldier tir’d | Joan Sutherland iv. Vivaldi: Juditha Triumphans // Veni, veni, me sequere | Magdalena Kozena v. Porpora: Orfeo // Dall'amor più sventurato | Philippe Jaroussky vi. Pergolesi: L'Olimpiade // Mentre dormi | Simone Kermes vii. Vinci: Eraclea // In questa mia tempesta | Filippo Mineccia viii. Vivaldi: Ercole sul Termodonte // Zefiretti che sussurate | Ann Hallenberg ix. Vinci: Semiramide riconosciuta // In braccio a mille furie | Franco Fagioli  x. Vivaldi: Orlando Furioso // Sol da te, mio dolce amore | Magdalena Kozena  xi. Bononcini: Griselda // Per la gloria d'adorarvi | Joan Sutherland xii. Vinci: Gismondo re di Polonia // Bella pace dal seno di Giove | Filippo Mineccia xiii. Vivaldi: L'Olimpiade // Mentre dormi | Magdalena Kozena xiv. Vivaldi: Juditha Triumphans // Non ita reducem  xv. Porpora: Polifemo // Alto Giove | Simone Kermes  xvi. Capelli: I fratelli riconosciuti // Ciel nemico | Philippe Jaroussky xvii. Telemann: Flavius Bertaridus // Lieto suono di trombe guerriere | Jochen Kowalski xviii. Graun: Montezuma // Non saprei curare il vanto  xix. Broschi: Idaspe // Ombra fedele | Vivica Genaux

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Furore - your lover’s just deserted you.  Your rival is on the throne of the kingdom.  You’re about to go into battle.  What is there to do, but sing your heart out?

Alcina | Barbara, io ben lo so //Laura Cherici

Rodelinda | Tuo drudo è mio rivale // Steve Davislim

Rodelinda | Lo faro, dirò, spietato //Sonia Prina

Arianna in Creta | Qui ti sfido // Philippe Jaroussky

Semele | Iris, hence away // Marilyn Horne

Ottone, rè di Germania | Dell’onde ai fieri moti // Drew Minter

Orlando | Fammi combattere // Drew Minter

Giulio Cesare | Al lampo dell’armi // Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Arianna in Creta | Mirami altero in volto // Lorraine Hunt Lieberson

Farnace | Se mi dai morte // Philippe Jaroussky

Alcina | Vorrei vendicarmi // Sonia Prina

Ariodante | Tu preparati a morire // Janet Baker

Giulio Cesare | Empio, dirò, tu sei // Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Berenice | Si, tra i ceppi // Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Juditha Triumphans | Armate face et anguibus // Marina Comparato

Tamerlano | A dispetto // David Daniels

Semele | No, no, I’ll take no less // Kathleen Battle

Scipione | Scoglio d’immoto fronte // Sandrine Piau

Arianna in Creta | Qual leon // Max Emanuel Cencic

Ariodanto | Il tuo sangue // Stuart Burrowes

Alceste | Divinités du Styx // Janet Baker

Amadigi di Gaula | Desterò dall’empia dite // Magdalena Kožená

Antigona | Sarò qual è torrente // Magdalena Kožená

Ariodante | Dover, giustizia, amor // Xavier Sabata

Giulio Cesare | Domerò la tua fierezza  // Xavier Sabata

Partenope | Furibundo spira il vento // Nathalie Stutzmann

La Lucrezia | Il suol che preme // Véronique Gens

Belshazzar | Destructive War // James Bowman

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being a student of european history and having learned a little about jean-baptiste lully through some readings on louis xiv, i was quite excited to watch opera atelier’s production of armide. i was not disappointed: the place was gorgeous (it’s only been my second time watching an opera at the elgin, so it never gets old) and the show itself was fantastic. if you live in toronto or versailles and have the chance … go see it!

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Suehiro Maruo

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Meghan Howland

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The following pieces of morbid art are by Nicola Samori, a 35 year old Italian artist. He says “My work stems from fear: fear of the body, of death, of men. I think my nature as an artist is something like feeling hopeless. Works are just temporary shelters and painting is a leisure place where you can conceal yourself.”

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Splashed some color onto this sketchbook page of Will. Bouncing on my heels waiting for the new season.

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BBC: Secrets of Bones - ep01 Size Matter

“The first one is an organic compound. It’s collagen and this gives bone it’s flexibility and durability. The opposite end of the scale here is something called calcium phosphate and this is a mineral compound and this gives bone it’s structure and strength. Combining the two makes bone the unique material it is.”