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Philip Koch (American b.1948), Edward Hopper's Parlor, Nyack, 2019, Oil on canvas

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Cear Leon

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Book cover, Mamluk period, 1300s-1400s, Egypt or Syria.

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Book shop in Kőszeg, 1975. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

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A Doorway in Tauplitz, Austria, 1970s

Mickey Crisp

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大河内山荘/雨の庭園 Okouchi Sanso Villa/Rainy Garden

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Hope and Memory, 1900 by Kenyon Cox (American, 1856–1919)

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— Too-Ticky in Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson (first published in 1957, tr. by Thomas Warburton) 

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#Caturday:

Tunic with four felines

Nasca-Wari, 700-850 CE, camelid fiber.

On display at Dumbarton Oaks’ “Clothing for the Afterlife,” an exhibition of burial textiles from the ancient Andes.

“This short, horizontally proportioned tunic - sometimes referred to as a shoulder tunic - was created in the Nasca valley when the region was under Wari influence.

Such cultural mixing is reflected in the hybrid features of this textile. Its decoration is from south coast traditions; the broad outlines around the feline figures and the horizontal bands at the bottom of the tunic are unmistakably Nasca.

Its construction, however, is based on highland technology. The tunic was made from two panels of interlocking tapestries, a technique that was commonly used by Wari weavers. The major losses have been reconstructed based on the design of the original details.”

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St Wendreda is a 14th-century church famous for its “angel roof”, featuring 120 carved figures of martyrs, apostles, saints, and angels. The ornaments were created either at the end of the 15th century or in the first quarter of the 16th century.

March, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire

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Viggo Pedersen - Under the Chestnut Tree (1880)

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Unknown painter, Academic nude, study, 19th century

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White iris in UV light.  Fragrance and beauty together.

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The Caergwrle Bowl

This Middle Bronze Age bowl was discovered during drain digging beside the River Alun, near Caergwrle Castle, Wales, 1300-1150 BCE, St Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff, Wales