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around the year 1500, medieval painter hieronymus bosch drew a person with sheet music written on their butt being tortured in hell.

500 years later, someone decided to transcribe and play the song. now, you can hear it too!

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Ancient Roman glass bowl, 1st century AD. 

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I have died and am dead.

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Detail of the lions and flowers of the Ishtar Gate, Pergamon Museum, Berlin

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Rafał Wilk (Polish, b.1979)

Ezo-Charyty pod Warszewiczii, 2021

oil on canvas

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Frescoed bust of crowned Herakles bearing a club, from Herculaneum, c. 45-79

Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli

Photo by Charles Reeza

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If you're a writer of any sort, I think your story needs to pass the Unhinged Powerpoint test.

If neither you nor a reader can make an Unhinged Powerpoint about it - the characters, the lore, the whole thing, whatever - you must re-evaluate it in some way.

The Unhinged Powerpoint is the sign of a story that is affecting people. Because they stayed up until 4 AM writing half-baked thoughts in comic sans about something. And that's worth everything.

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my dad likes to call the stretches of time where you’re not creating “dreaming periods” and says that they’re meant to allow you to absorb all of the beauty, life, and inspiration from the things around you so that when you’re able to create again, you will have fanned your spark back into a flame. sometimes its hard to see those moments as anything but stagnation, but he always says that they’re natural and healthy and needed—things that should be embraced rather than feared.

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Silver centaur, Seleucid Empire, ca. 160 BC, gilded silver, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Wien.

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1887 Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (French, 1845–1902), The Impress Theodora (La Emperatriz Theodora), Oil on Canvas. 

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The port of Ravenna with three galleys, mosaic in the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna. This basilica was built by the Ostrogothic king Theoderic in 505

#rafts on rafts on rafts

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Triumphal quadriga, taken from the Hippodrome during the sack of Constantinople, 1204. Now located inside St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice

#fourth crusade #aka the robber’s crusade #i was going to say the murder crusade but that’s kinda all of them isn’t it? #byzantine #constantinople #roman art #byzantine art #these horses are virgos #rome #statue #bronze statue #cast bronze #but really dirty copper

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Nikolaos Gyzis - Art and her spirits (1876)

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Ricardo Arredondo y Calmache (Spanish, 1850 - 1911) Claustro de San Juan de los Reyes, ca. 1884 - 1885 Museo Del Prado

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Illustration from The Flying Islands of the Night by Franklin Booth (1913)

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El joven rey de las Islas Negras (Maxfield Parrish, 1906)