This list of 18 key thinkers of the Enlightenment from across Europe features biographical sketches for each. It also covers their best works.
The Bronze Age Aegean in the eastern Mediterranean encompassed several powerful entities: the Minoans on Crete; the Mycenaeans on mainland Greece, and the Cypriots on Cyprus. These cultures are often...
Buddy of mine had a nice chess set, so I had to take a pic.
This is a blog about Old European Culture.
On 3rd July 1799, a significant hoard of twenty-three early medieval gold vessels was found in an iron chest by Neru Vuin, a Serb farmer, near the small
Today I wish to share with you the amazing art of Tom Björklund, who creates stunning illustrations of life in the Ice Age.
A brief look at how the medieval world viewed the Intersex individual.
Rozmodlone święte niewiasty, sceny rycerskich pojedynków, pełne dostojeństwa portrety królów… A może króliki z toporami, nadzy biskupi i strzały wycelowane w pośladki? Udowodnimy ci, że wyobraźnia średniowiecznych miniaturzystów nie znała granic!
Go to the page you want to view, then click ‘Scans’ to see the pages of this fantastic Scottish Herbal Grimoire…
Owing to the fact that historians generally view the late medieval period as an "age of faith," the existence ofthese remarkable objects raises some fundamental questions about the exact socio-religious nature ofmedieval culture. The primary questions, however, that need answering are: when, where, and for whom were the badges produced, and perhaps most importantly, why.
Once upon a time, a knight was really pissed off. He had just discovered that his wife took a lover, and naturally, sought revenge in a joust to the death with his rival. But even that victory wasn't enough to quench his rage, so he cut out the heart of his wife's lover and gave it to his personal c
Statens Historiska Museum kulturarvsdata.se/shm/media/18093 Fertility God. Fruktbarhetsgud.
David et Bethsabée
Artist: Master of Charles of France (French, active ca. 1450–75). Date: 1465. Geography: Made in Paris, France. Culture: French. Medium: Tempera, ink, and...
If you think the notion to slap cutesy epigrams on top of photographs of kittens originated with the internet, think again. Deranged cat pictures have been around since the early days of photography. Once humans got their hands on cameras, the dignity of the domesticated feline was forever doomed.
72 p., 8 leaves of plates : 19 cm
Marble. In the collection of the National Gallery of Art. Chester Dale Collection. 1963.10.240
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After the Romans left in AD410 waves of Germanic invaders migrated to Britain, some knowing the land, who had served the Romans as foederati. The kingdoms of theJutes, Angles and Saxons grew...
Norah Neilson Gray (16 June 1882 – 27 May 1931) was a Scottish artist of the Glasgow School. She first exhibited at the Royal Academy while still a st
The chapter explores pictorial representations of the Arma Christi in late medieval visual art under the premise of their list-like character. The aim is to explain how artists designed the representations of the Arma with a conceptual purpose regarding the interplay of aesthetics and functionality to tie the beholder’s gaze and thoughts to the Passion of Christ. As will be shown, an examination of the Arma from the perspective of enumeration enables a more theoretical understanding of the list and its potential in the late medieval practice of piety.
Eight products and procedures that make Botox look downright reasonable.
Da Costa hours [1515] - Morgan Library - September
© Randall Hobbet - All rights reserved - 2014 Getty Center, Los Angeles: This portrait, produced in the workshop of Rogier van der Weyden in about 1445, was based on a now-lost prototype. A woman of political ambition and power, Isabella of Portugal (1397-1471) became the duchess of Burgundy when she married Philip the Good in 1430. A later inscription identifies her as the Persian Sibyl, a female prophet from antiquity.
The feeling when you wake up and all your responsibilities and deadlines come flooding back.
Looters using metal detectors discovered the artifact in 1999 near the German town of Nebra, 100 miles southwest of Berlin.
Apocalipsis - Beatus Libanensis
Forbidden love is the one that goes beyond what other people think is "normal". It's the one that breaks the established discourses and dogmas. It's the
W.K. Vanderbilt and his daughter, Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough, at the races in Paris.
