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#plants #history #botany #art 🌼

Bombax ceiba syn B.heptaphyllum - Silk Cotton Tree

20m-60m tree. Origin Tropical & Sub Tropical band, #Asia to N #Australia. Widely introduced to C & S #America. Many uses, food and materials.

Good descriptive & ecological ref:
forrest-ecology.org/2022/03/bomb...
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@aakheperure.bsky.social network
The use of the word 'portrait' is somewhat problematic, but these ancient works of art are still fantastic.
Roman era panel painting in Egypt was my dissertation topic. 😸

english.ahram.org.eg/News/581638....

#Egyptology #Archeology #History #Art
Fayoum portraits on show in Rome - Heritage - Al-Ahram Weekly english.ahram.org.eg
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@thehistorianshut.bsky.social network
This curious painting by Jan Boeckhorst (c. 1604-1688) draws inspiration from a peculiar myth about Achilles’ recruitment into the Trojan War. For more on the art and mythology, read our article here: thehistorianshut.com/2021/07/15/a...
#art #myth #history
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@seekingglory.bsky.social network
Getting close to releasing a new project, should be finished and ready around December; a tabletop drawing game. It's a history based thing and let me tell you something.
Doing research on medieval illuminated manuscript is a WILD ride.
#history #research #academia #tabletop #art #arthistory
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@randyepley.bsky.social network
#film #crime #guns #lol #joke #comedy #humor #death #noir #movie #mystery #actors #law #history #horror #prank #stunt #health #healthy #wellness #fight #fighting #fitness #scary #newyork #travel #scifi #dangerous #safety #police #cops #spooky #justice #dating #women #girls #games #play #writers #art
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@okaydrawboy.bsky.social network
roman "Pugio" dagger

#art #drawing #history
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@juanmentat.bsky.social network
🏛️ Design for a Panel or Wallpaper (?) with an Ornamental Frame with Scrolls and a Shell Decorated with Garlands and Bundles of Flowers and Fruits and a Monogrammed Oval Frame

#Archaeology #History #Antiquity #Art #AncientHistory

Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/711313
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@nicholas-paisley.bsky.social network
#history #politics #art #picture #icon #expressionist #TV #vintage #film #archive #socialist #anti-facist #Artist #Germany

Käthe Kollwitz - #portrait #3

One can gain nice highlight effects with graphite

#drawing light coming across her #face adds to a #Non_finito effect

#Media: #pencil 2B on A3
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@zminaukraine.bsky.social network
#RussianForces have killed about 120 Ukrainian #clergy members and damaged or destroyed around 800 religious sites since the start of the full-scale invasion, President Volodymyr #Zelenskyy says.
zmina.info/en/news-en/r...
#Ukraine #churches #Orthodoxy #culture #art #history #war #Russia #Russians
Russian forces have killed about 120 Ukrainian clergy in Russia’s full-scale invasion ➜ ZMINA zmina.info
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@acubaninlondon.bsky.social network
Bigots come in many shapes and forms, not just in the shaven-headed hooligan or the suited-and-booted Reform councillor
medium.com/writers-blok... #writingcommunity #culture #diversity #creativity #writing #creativewriting #art #race #history @medium.com #writerslift #essay #humanism #humanculture
Who Owns Culture? medium.com
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7 Best Museums for Renaissance Art Around the World

The Renaissance revolutionized the way the West looked at the world and created its art.

by Laura Pattara

www.thecollector.com/renaissance-...

Books about Renaissance at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje...

#books #art #history #museum
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@archaeohawke.bsky.social network
The Tomb of the Shields, ( dated 340 BC and discovered in 1870), is a large hypogeum one of the largest #Etruscan tombs in Tarquinia. The plan of the tomb imitates that of a house with a central atrium with three rooms.

#TombTuesday #Archaeology #History #art
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