Art · Nature
The Mandrill
Oskar Kokoschka, 1926
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NB! · Art · Books
In the End, Harry Clarke Managed to Create Illustrations Sufficiently Ghastly for Edgar Allan Poe's "Tales of Mystery and Imagination"
NB! · Art
Truth and Mercy, Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, 1745
Art · Museums · Humour
Statuette of a Bear as a Hunter from the Inverted World Series, 1580/81, Vienna
When Someone Makes Advances on Your Beehive. Bear in the guise of a hunter, 1580/81. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna A figurine from the World Turned Upside Down series.
NB! · Archive · Art · London
London's City Gates, 1741
NB! · Art · Mores
A Kiss Beneath an Umbrella, by the Czech Artist Luděk Marold, 1895
NB! · Architecture · Art
The Cretan Labyrinth in a fifteenth-century Florentine engraving is, unexpectedly, shown as a building with very high walls
The Cretan Labyrinth in a fifteenth-century Florentine engraving is, unexpectedly, shown as a building with very high walls. The Minotaur himself does not appear in Tommaso Ginuera's engraving; he is understood to be somewhere inside
NB! · The East · Art
Russian Troops Take Samarkand
Russian troops take Samarkand. Nikolai Karazin, 1868
NB! · Art · People
Sisters, by the Finnish-Swedish artist Elin Kleopatra Danielson-Gambogi, 1891
NB! · Art · Museums · New York
Aphrodite, 1st-2nd century AD
Aphrodite, 1st-2nd century AD. Roman sculpture. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
NB! · Art
Bivouac, John Singer Sargent, 1911
NB! · Art