When I was about ten years old in 1961, I eagerly awaited the arrival of a movie called Atlantis, the Lost Continent. But it never showed up at my neighborhood theater on the north side of Chicago,…
19 Timelessly Entertaining Antique Roadshow Items - The internet has generated a huge amount of laughs from cats and FAILS. And we all out of cats.
Amatørfotograf dokumenterte på slutten av 1800-talet den samiske kulturen og folket i Kautokeino. I dag er biletsamlinga ein del av UNESCO si verdsarvliste.
History of costumes in chronological development. Fashion from Ancient to the 19th century. The Munich Picture Gallery 1848 to 1898.
Les jardins suspendus de Babylone Les jardins suspendus de Babylone sont considérés comme l'une des sept merveilles du monde antique suivant la liste laissée
The perfect combination of weird and savage.
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This is only our second sighting of a reused item from the silent era - the other being a costume from the 1922 Lorna Doone. The story of this magnificent bed in the shape of a boat begins with Gaby...
Giclee fine art print reproduction from antique oil painting titled "The Bear Dance" by William Holbrook Beard, 1870. 8x12 or 10x15 or 11x16 or 12x18 or 13x20 paper size. ***1/4 inch white borders are used for prints 5 inches and larger unless requested otherwise -- this means the image will be set 1/4 inch within the exact paper size listed above. Smaller prints (3.5x5, 4x4, 4x5, 4x6) will be sent without borders unless requested otherwise. See the last paragraph of this description for more available border options.*** Printed with a professional Giclee printer on Somerset Velvet 100% cotton rag fine art paper with archival pigment inks. These are fine art prints, not cheap posters -- produced with the highest quality inks, thick matte paper, and Giclee (museum quality) printing method. The image scans used are high resolution and printed at full quality. Although custom requests are welcome, please note that the print sizes are listed to the largest possible size for each image. Processing time before shipment is 1-3 business days. Shipping is USPS First-Class with tracking, and orders over $35 in the United States ship free. Shipping upgrades available in cart. Prints may be shipped either flat or rolled, depending on size. Rolled prints are packaged around the outside of a tube and then bubble-wrapped and placed inside a long box -- this is because the thick fine art paper cannot be rolled tightly enough to go inside the tubes without causing damage to the paper. To flatten rolled prints, they can be laid out under a stack of heavy books. Please note that since these are vintage images, they do not always conform exactly to the standard paper sizes -- this means some images will have a slightly larger white border on two sides to allow the image to fit with no cropping (the paper size stays the same, but if an image is more narrow or short than the closest standard paper size, the borders will be slightly larger on two sides). If you would like a particular image size, no border, or a larger border (1/2 inch or 1 inch), please send a request and most adjustments can be accommodated at no extra charge. If you would like a 1 inch external border, that can be done for no extra charge and increases the paper size by 2 inches each way (for example, an 8x10 image with 1 inch external borders will be printed on 10x12 paper). Please note the external border (making the paper larger) is only available as 1 inch, while the internal border (making the image smaller) is available as 1/4, 1/2, or 1 inch.
The Long Read: They may have been disproved by science or dismissed as ridiculous, but some foolish beliefs endure. In theory they should wither away – but it’s not that simple
Angus Mcbride Unfortunately this is the end of my collection as of now of Angus Mcbride, but if I get more images I will do updates with those as well in the future. Well I guess its on to other ar…
Repaganizing an ancient rite involves a lot more than adding an “s” everywhere you see “God” and changing “Lord” to “Lord and Lady.” But some ancient rituals and spells were created in a polytheist environment, so it stands to reason that if they’re restored to a polytheist environment they’ll still work… perhaps even better.
Gentside vous propose de découvrir en images les sept merveilles du monde du monde antique et du monde moderne.
The chapter about ancient Roman traitor Catiline was my favorite part of "Twelve Against the Gods."
These 27 Fake Antique Roadshow Pics Make for An Absolute Comedic Goldmine - The internet has generated a huge amount of laughs from cats and FAILS. And we all out of cats.
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In her "Sleeping Beauty, Dreaming and Awake," Midori Snyder wrestles with her ambivalent feelings towards its problematic protagonist. Out of all the brave, bold, and clever heroines to be found throughout the fairy tale canon, why (she asks) are we...
Le 19 mai, les musées rouvriront enfin après plus de six mois d’arrêt. Paul Signac, Magritte, Renoir, Picasso, Arcimboldo, Cartier-Bresson, Vivian Maier, Jeff Koons… On a répertorié les expositions les plus attendues ce mois-ci partout en France. À vos agendas !
Shakti, Junha Mahal, Dungarpur Completed in 2014 this photograph by Karen Knorr depicts a Tiger moments before jumping out of a doorway into a mirrored blue room. In her ongoing series "India Song" Karen Knorr combines animals and architecture to question what is real or imagined. More on the artist: Karen Knorr was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, raised in San Juan Puerto Rico, and educated in Paris and London. She has lived in England since the 1970s creating a large body of work that has developed a critical and playful dialogue with photography. Her themes range from investigating the patriarchal values of the English upper classes to addressing the role of animals and their representation in art. Using photography to explore cultural traditions, from the gentlemen's clubs of Saint James to the luxuriant interiors of Indian palaces, Knorr's work reaches out to engage conceptual art, visual culture, and feminism. From the 1980's onwards, Knorr's work has been increasingly engaged with examining issues of power that underlie cultural heritage. This is the principal theme of her work but one that lies subtly under the visual richness and inventiveness of her images. Knorr's photographs satisfy many of the requisites of traditional photography which address the surface appearance of a species or place, but then move to a paradoxical space where they begin to question the overt assumptions of the picture's content. In "India Song", her most recent work, Knorr's photographs engage two formal constants - first the insertion by digital means of the animal subject(s) within the consistently frontal interior photograph and secondly the pose or action expressed. Each finished photograph is both a mystery and a fable – referencing both the vast tradition of picturing animals in art along with the western appreciation/appropriation of eastern culture and form. Like the pioneering early photographers who found in India a wealth of exotic subject matter, Knorr celebrates the visual richness found in the myths and stories of northern India using sacred and secular sites to highlight caste, femininity and its relationship with the animal world. She considers men's space (mardana) and women's space (zanana) in Mughal and Rajput architecture be it in palaces, mansions, or mausoleums. These interiors are meticulously photographed with a large format analogue camera. Knorr's own photographs of live animals are then inserted into the diverse rooms and sites, fusing high resolution digital with analogue photography. The results create original and stunning images that reinvent the Panchatantra (an ancient Indian collection of animal fables) for the 21st century and further blur the boundaries between reality and illusion. Although widely exhibited in Europe and India , "India Song" will be Karen Knorr's first solo show in the United States. This past October, the work was nominated for the 2012 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize - Europe's most prestigious award "for a living photographer who has made the most significant contribution to the medium of photography over the past year".
Rathcroghan in County Roscommon, an ancient Irish site, is a hidden gem on par with the famous burial sites at Newgrange and Tara.
One of the most interesting things about studying history is learning about the marvelous things that our ancestors created. But it can be frustrating not to be able to see them. One picture is worth a thousand words, as they say; and while there have been many things written about these awesome historical monuments, not everyone can imagine how they actually would've looked. But some artists actually put in the effort to recreate history in image form, and not only that, they bring this long-lost past into the present and try to imagine what it would look like if it had survived to this day.
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Cities like London, Moscow, and New York weren't always the bustling metropolises they are today.
Learn the basics of the Romantic Art period so you know what you're looking at on your next trip to the museum
The Celts were a collection of tribes that may have evolved as early as 1200 B.C. before spreading their religious beliefs and traditions across western Europe.
Even today, the 1863 edition of the "Dictionnaire Infernal" is the stuff of nightmares.
