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ca. 1536 La Bella by ? after Tiziano Vecellio (auctioned by Christie’s). Live auction 19994 Lot 73. This is a copy.

#art #16th century fashion

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orson welles talking about “camping a little” to make gay men comfortable

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by not making me a man in the nineteenth century god robbed me of my rightful destiny of dying of scurvy trying to find the northwest passage

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oh no cigarettes for me thanks i just wanted to be in this dank alleyway with you

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1940s hollywood was it. bring back this type of actor

#joseph cotten #orson welles said he's tall he's skinny he's rich #also he doesn't trip on furniture

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i love the way they loved

#orson welles #joseph cotten

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me: what is your wisdom today, oh great stoic philosopher marcus aurelius

marcus aurelius:

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An exceptionally well preserved Chancay textile doll, some 1,000-700 years old. Peru, Late Intermediate period.

Courtesy of the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, USA. Via their online collections: 83.768.

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1522 Franciabigio - Portrait of a man, probably Matteo Sofferoni

(Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)

#art #16th century fashion

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me: i need to get better at embroidery, i should practice the basics

also me: i should make a turner

#i lack the skill. but also the self control #+ delusion #embroidery

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First you procrastinate on the task because it is not a big enough deal to get done urgently. Then you procrastinate on the task because it has become such a big deal that doing it is overwhelming. You would think that this implies a middle point where it is just big enough of a deal to get done easily, however the inherent perversity of the universe's causal geometry prevents this

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an annotated copy of macbeth

#macbeth #shakespeare #they drew a big heart because they know this is a romance story

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For every note this gets I’ll travel 1 league under the sea.

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you may have seen achilles in his miserable blanket burrito but have you seen odysseus Sitting Like That while appealing to achilles in his miserable blanket burrito

achilles looking very "make him stop make him stop make him stop"

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#TilesOnTuesday:

William De Morgan (English, 1839-1917)

Stork and Frog Tile

c. 1872-1881

earthenware with copper lustre glazing

15.5 x 15.5 cm

National Gallery of Canada 39225

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thoughts on media?

Great question thank you. We have to stop it