They say a picture is worth a thousand words. This one deserves more.
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words. This one deserves more.
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[Netherlandish Mannerist Painter, ca.1500-1566]
Allegorical Scene
c. 1550
Oil on panel, 159 x 189 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
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(Belgian painter and printmaker 1860-1949)
,Fireworks, 1887
Oil and encaustic on canvas
Albright-Knox Art Gallery (United States)
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David Teniers the Younger, versions of The Archduke Leopold’s Gallery in Brussels, c.1647-51
Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria was a military commander and prominent patron of the arts during the 17th century. He frequently employed the Flemish painter, David Teniers the Younger, to paint depictions of his art gallery in Brussels.
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_MANILA’S NORTH CEMETERY_PHILIPPINES
_Starting around 1950, poor Manilans began squatting in the North Cemetery, the oldest and largest in Metro Manila—and they’ve been transforming it into their own thriving alternative community.
photos by
_James Chance _http://www.jameschance.com/#/projects/living-with-the-dead-%28work-in-progress%29/lwtd_2012_10
_Roland A Nagy _http://www.rolandnagy.com/cemetery
The Ancient Egyptian Famine-stela on Sehel Island, near Aswan. It is thought to date to the Ptolemaic dynasty, 332–31 BC, though speaks of the reign of 3rd dynasty king Djoser.
Photo courtesy & taken by HoremWeb
“Breton Brother and Sister” (detail), 1871, William Adolphe Bouguereau.
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