Örebro Castle.
Slottet i Örebro. Del 7 av 7. #photography #närke #örebro #pixelfedsweden #sweden #castle #castles #svenskaslott #svenskaslottochherresäten #historypix #history #sverigeshistoria #svenskastäder #visitsweden
Örebro Castle.
Slottet i Örebro. Del 6 av 7. #photography #närke #örebro #pixelfedsweden #sweden #castle #castles #svenskaslott #svenskaslottochherresäten #historypix #history #sverigeshistoria #svenskastäder #visitsweden
Örebro Castle.
Slottet i Örebro. Del 5 av 7. #photography #närke #örebro #pixelfedsweden #sweden #castle #castles #svenskaslott #svenskaslottochherresäten #historypix #history #sverigeshistoria #svenskastäder #visitsweden
Örebro Castle.
Slottet i Örebro. Del 4 av 7. #photography #närke #örebro #pixelfedsweden #sweden #castle #castles #svenskaslott #svenskaslottochherresäten #historypix #history #sverigeshistoria #svenskastäder #visitsweden
Örebro Castle
Slottet i Örebro. Del 3 av 7. #photography #närke #örebro #pixelfedsweden #sweden #castle #castles #svenskaslott #svenskaslottochherresäten #historypix #history #sverigeshistoria #svenskastäder #visitsweden
Örebro Castle
Slottet i Örebro. Del 2 av 7. #photography #närke #örebro #pixelfedsweden #sweden #castle #castles #svenskaslott #svenskaslottochherresäten #historypix #history #sverigeshistoria #svenskastäder #visitsweden
Örebro Castle
Slottet i Örebro. Del 1 av 7. #photography #närke #örebro #pixelfedsweden #sweden #castle #castles #svenskaslott #svenskaslottochherresäten #historypix #history #sverigeshistoria #svenskastäder #visitsweden
Main Street - Zanesville, Ohio. 1928. Street scene with a bus and cars and pedestrians in front of a store named Sturtavants.
Y Bridge, Zanesville, Ohio. Someone stands on a stone column from the remains of something that stood in the river. Behind is a newer bridge.
Muskingham River above Hooksburg Ohio. Braid calm water lines by trees and a few buildings.
Oak Grove Scjool. Several people stand by a one room schoolhouse.
I'm waiting for a photo box so I can do those shots without glare. But if anyone is curious what #Zanesville or #Hooksburg #Ohio looked like in July 1928.
#Muskingham River
Oak Grove School.
#HistoryPix #Genealogy
A long slender three-tined fork made of silver lies in a museum case. There is a separate piece shaped like the bowl of a spoon that slides on and off of the fork tines using little metal grippy brackets, so it can transform from a spoon to a fork. The handle is shaped like a Roman soldier. it is labeled with a card that says '"German, seventeenth-century, silver. Item number 914C."
It’s time for the RENAISSANCE SPORK!
And the fascinating problems museums face when dealing with objects no one expects. 1/?
Sharing for my countdown to the release “Inventing the Renaissance” coming Feb UK/Mar US https://buff.ly/4j6qkoS #HistoryPix
Ivory figurine of an androgynous figure at prayer, wearing a belted robe. The figure is sitting inside a two-footed little devil creature with pointy ears and a tail, so the legs of the figure disappear into a big hole in the creature's back, almost as if we were looking at a partly-open Russian stacking doll, with the praying figure as an inner doll and the creature as the lower half of an outer one awaiting its lid. The outer creature is facing the opposite direction from the praying figure, so they face inverse directions. As is common with ivory carvings, their facial proportions and hands are a little bit too large and exaggerated for their bodies, making them look childlike and cute.
Whoops, I had a swamped Saturday and missed yesterday in the countdown to "Inventing the Renaissance" so here's a quickie for yesterday: check out this weird little guy riding in a hoppy little devil creature! #HistoryPix
Meme of the image from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, in which the French soldier on top of the battlements taunts the knights, sticking out his tongue and sticking his thumbs in his ears as he shouts down "I fart in your general direction!"
Buckle up, friends, it’s time for the real life “I fart in your general direction”: Marquis Francesco Gonzaga’s unforgettable reply to the 1503 duel challenge from Galeazzo Sanseverino. #HistoryPix 1/?
(Teaser countdown to the book release of “Inventing the Renaissance” day 4.)
A photo of a street in Florence. Many tourists walk along and the buildings are all shops and eateries. In the center, conspicuous between buildings of yellow or beige stucco, is one building made of crude-looking yellowish stone, very rough and undecorated, with few windows and all small compared to its neighbors. A couple doors down, a second conspicuous stone section like this sticks up, also strangely blank and rough amid its yellow neighbors. Both stop about half a story above the roofs of the three-story buildings on either side of them.
An orange book cover showing Cellini's statue of Perseus holding aloft the severed head of Medusa, her neck streaming gore. The title "Inventing the Renaissance: Myths of a Golden Age" is superimposed over the statue, with the word "the" pierced by the sword. The author's name "Ada Palmer" appears below.
Day 2 sharing teaser #HistoryPix for "Inventing the Renaissance" (out in one month!). Often in Florence one sees buildings like this, where one section is rough stone standing out amid stucco neighbors. It's actually a remnant of the old Guelph-Ghibelline feuds that so long rocked Medieval Italy 1/?
A photo of a street in Florence. Many tourists walk along and the buildings are all shops and eateries. In the center, conspicuous between buildings of yellow or beige stucco, is one building made of crude-looking yellowish stone, very rough and undecorated, with few windows and all small compared to its neighbors. A couple doors down, a second conspicuous stone section like this sticks up, also strangely blank and rough amid its yellow neighbors. Both stop about half a story above the roofs of the three-story buildings on either side of them.
An orange book cover showing Cellini's statue of Perseus holding aloft the severed head of Medusa, her neck streaming gore. The title "Inventing the Renaissance: Myths of a Golden Age" is superimposed over the statue, with the word "the" pierced by the sword. The author's name "Ada Palmer" appears below.
Day 2 sharing teaser #HistoryPix for "Inventing the Renaissance" (out in one month!). Often in Florence one sees buildings like this, where one section is rough stone standing out amid stucco neighbors. It's actually a remnant of the old Guelph-Ghibelline feuds that so long rocked Medieval Italy 1/?
A bronze statue of naked Perseus, beautifully muscular and youthful, holding aloft the severed head of Medusa from whose neck gore is dribbling in streams. He wears a beautiful classical helmet with wings on it, and holds a curved classical sword. In the background one can see the arched roof of the Renaissance loggia above him.
"Inventing the Renaissance" comes out in one month in the UK (2 months USA), so I'm going to share daily #HistoryPix from the book, starting with Benvenuto Cellini's stunning Perseus, my pick for a cover illustration (thank you, editors!) For me, this statue personifies the Renaissance because 1/?
Statue of a man with a child riding on his shoulders holding a bunch of grapes. Both have vivid blue and white glass eyes as they gaze at each other
Good morning! Please enjoy this rare example of an ancient Roman marble statue which has the original glass eyes intact, that makes them seem so alive! (Vatican Museum) #HistoryPix #SomethingBeautiful
I’m giving this a try to import my archive of past #SomethingBeautiful and #HistoryPix posts. I’ll report on how it goes but promising so far. In my case they are asking less than $20 to copy 30,000 image-heavy tweets.
How did I not discover the Vierge Ouvrante (opening Virgin) until today! Looks like a simple Madonna & Child then doors open & BAM! God the Father framed by a Madonna della Misericordia sheltering people under her cloak, w/ bonus weirdly genderless Mary torso/arms! #historypix
#SomethingBeautiful to brighten your feed: Ancient Roman mosaic of Odysseus tied to the mast so he wont' swim out to the Sirens #historypix
#SomethingBeautiful to brighten your feed: Bad photos but fantabulous instruments, from a collection in the castle in Milan #historypix
#SomethingBeautiful to brighten your feed: Lovely detail of a face on a shield on this damaged relief sculpture from ancient Athens #historypix
#SomethingBeautiful to brighten your feed: ancient Bronze eagle head decorations, Athens #historypix
#SomethingBeautiful to brighten your feed: details of that great Roman statue of the Nile, leaning on a sphynx and surrounded by offspring plus bonus crocodile (Vatican Museum) #historypix
#SomethingBeautiful to brighten your feed: Pulpit, Santa Croce, Florence (decorated with Franciscan images) #historypix
#SomethingBeautiful to brighten your feed: Lady's telescope, ebony and ivory, 18th century, Museo Galileo, Florence #historypix
#SomethingBeautiful to brighten your feed: View across the altar in Santa Maria sopra Minerva, with candles, and the tomb of Leo X in the back #historypix
#SomethingBeautiful to brighten your feed: Four very different Roman versions of Ganymede and the Eagle (the eagle is Zeus), Vatican museum #historypix
