The Last Supper, 1486, large fresco by Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448-1494), versatile Florentine Renaissance artist, master of Michelangelo.
Ghirlandaio painted an earlier version (1480) at Ognissanti Convent, which inspired Leonardo’s Last Supper at Milan.
Refectory San Marco Florence
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Underrated that the era of neoliberal globalism characterized by fierce defense of intellectual property as rents, patents, and copyrights gave way so quickly to a new paradigm marked by the blithe plunder of all human creativity for LLM training data.
Da Flüge gerade schwierig sind: Deutsche Bahn übernimmt Rückholung aus dem Nahen Osten www.der-postillon.com/2026/03/bahn...
Defendi minha tese de doutorado quinta. Ontem descobri que vou ser professor efetivo na escola de arquitetura da ufmg. Belos dias!
.@circus_human on how the Silver Tree of Karakorum — a legendary 13th-century fountain — became a potent symbol, not only of the Mongol Empire’s imperial might, but also its downfall: publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-khans-drinking...
Mit Max Oppel vom «Kompressor» im Deutschlandfunk Kultur durfte ich über #genAI im Histotainment sprechen. Er war ein wenig skeptisch, was meine Skepsis betraf, aber so wurde ein hoffentlich recht lebhaftes Gespräch daraus, ganz ohne bewegte Bilder www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/ki-im-histot...
sublime
Screenshot Beitrag vom rbb mit dem symbolbild eines in Nahaufnahme gezeigten lineals, die Überschrift: Polizei findet weitere fehlerhafte Lineale
Einzige True Crime Podcast den noch mir noch anhören würde
"[...] It’s a glass building, after all. To him, the gargantuan structure doesn’t signal ancient Greek democracy as much as a Singapore convention hall or the atrium of a Dubai tower. It’s the placeless architecture of 21st-century global capital. He calls it 'Airport Sublime.'"
RIP Martin Parr
Some of my favourite photos
Currently experiencing the perspective-changing of process of agreeing with a reviewer that I previously assumed not to have comprehended my paper...
A photo of me holding the book Chicago on Foot by Ira J. Bach, 1973. The yellow cover depicts an upside down show with buildings and attractions coming out of it.
Foreign vessels docked at the original Navy Pier before it became an annoying tourist attraction.
The old Sears Roebuck store located in the Leiter II building designed by architect William Le Baron Jenney in 1891.
Lindheimer Observatory at Northwestern University on the shores of Lake Michigan, built in 1966 and torn down in 1995.
My favorite book cover with my favorite outdated information: Chicago on Foot by Ira J. Bach, 1973.
Why not take a walk and see the foreign vessels docked at Navy Pier, go shopping at Sears, and conduct some astronomical research at Lindheimer Observatory?
Merz entschuldigt sich bei Brasilien: "Natürlich finde ich Deutschland viel beschissener" www.der-postillon.com/2025/11/merz...
«Today, the artistic prompt typed into a chatbot is itself becoming a form of expression. The difference between a clunky query and an inspired one is as wide as the gap between a finger painting and a Van Gogh.»
No, it's not. At best, prompting is to artistic practice what googling is to research
It’s never too early to see Angela Merkel ironing her Christmas gift wrap.
www.granger.com/0188584-ange...
#Onthisday in 1918, just days before end of #WW1, French poet Apollinaire (weakened by a shrapnel wound) died in the Spanish flu epidemic. Later that year Calligrammes: Poems of Peace & War was published, a collection of his concrete/visual poems publicdomainreview.org/collection/a... #OTD
A lone, weathered grain elevator sits against a rolling, undulating, barren mandscape. A singloe road winds around it and into the distance.
A slightly warm-tinted black & white photograph of an ornate, three-story wooden building. The lower two stories are white with pronounced dark trip around all of the many windows. The upper story is darker and has very large Serliana windows. The roof has a robust and picturesque skyline of towers and turrets, silhouetted against a dark sky with stormy grey clouds that seem to be in motion.
A wooden gabled building facade with a gently sloping roof is perfectly bisected by a tall and very ornately carved totem pole. The sky behind is dark with billowy white clouds.
A curvilinear, undulating, sheer white building facade contrasts starkly with the dark sky above. The facade is without any features such as window or ornament, Its white mass sits like an iceberg on the street.
I’m getting ready to co-teach our new course on Canadian architecture.
So, What *is* Canadian architecture?
Well, it’s a long story. Or rather, *many* long stories.
"Meine Mutter war 92 im Sauerland die Erste, die Madonnas Sexbuch gekauft hat."
Brigitte betrachtete den Glutkopf an ihrer Zigarette.
"Damit hat sie jahrelang angegeben."
Vintage postcard: pumpkin-headed man in a suit pulls a rope toward a small stone oven with a jack-o’-lantern face and smoking chimney; crescent moon above; “Oct 31st” text.
Vintage postcard: witch rides in a watermelon car driven by a grinning pumpkin-headed driver, with a black cat, bat, and crescent moon; citrus-slice wheels.
Vintage postcard: child on a broom teases a cone-hatted black cat popping out of a pumpkin and holding a letter; “Hallowe’en Greetings” text.
Vintage postcard: woman on a giant pumpkin watches small pumpkin-headed figures with pickle-like limbs dance under a starry sky; “Hallowe’en Night” text.
Happy All Hallows Eve! See our selection of Halloween postcards, ca. 1900-1920. Hobgoblins, joyous skeletons, and truly terrifying gourds... publicdomainreview.org/collection/h... #halloween
Bom dia!
A giant concrete rooster slide lit up in the dark
A concrete robot slide that has stairs as one arm and the side as the other.
And of course that incredible series of Japanese playgrounds at night. Still the best! www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/p...
Give me shine and awkwardly distorted things to look at as the world falls apart.
i don’t hate apple’s new “””liquid glass””” aesthetics
