this is the first time I ever saw Adonis. I had messaged a local rescue to inquire about a different, unavailable cat. the rescue messaged me back saying they had this sweet orange boy who is very hurt and just needed a place to recover, even as a temporary foster home, would we be interested?

madonna and child

Saint Benedict restores a strangely miniature monk to life after he was crushed by a falling wall. From the predella of Lorenzo Monaco's Coronation of the Virgin altarpiece.

Necklace, probably 19th century Culture: Oceanic Medium: shell, coral https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/141489

When you just can't get enough of the gold: polyptych of the enthroned Madonna and saints, 1410, by Lorenzo Monaco. It's been his day today.

Gone hog-wild - 15th century, Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.358 f. 2r

"There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort." —from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The combined splendors of gold and ultramarine: Lorenzo Monaco's extraordinary Coronation of the Virgin for the high altar of Santa Maria degli Angeli, 1414.

butts lol

Morning! Do any fellow historic building fans have a copy of Pevsner’s Nottinghamshire guide that they could kindly consult for me? Looking for info on The Friary/Shalem House, in Newark. Got the listing description but know it’s in Pevsner too. Thanks! ☺️ This is in a fab panelled room in there…🤩

The Baptism of Christ https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/472157

An ancient multiplication table in clay by a student named Suen-apil-Urim from the 1800s BCE

No finds from this day, so here's a rather splendid penny of King John found last year. Minted by Miles of Oxford AD 1205-1206 HENRICVS REX MILES.ON.OCSE

Church of St Odulph, Pillaton, Cornwall 15th Century granite west tower. Of 3 stages, with buttresses set back from the corners, an embattled parapet & pinnacles. The Weary Friar pub perhaps dates to the 12th Century. There may be monastic links or former use as a church house. #SteepleSaturday

Gangnam Style 1493.

Cage crinoline https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/100627

Bronze pennanular brooch with inlaid terminals, circa AD 450-550, was the latest object deposited in the Spring at Bath. Late Roman, probably made in Ireland; birds and fish on the terminals might be associated with the goddess Sulis Minerva. #FindsFriday #RomanBritain #Archaeology 📸 my own

Early Bronze Age bell-shaped beaker which was found at Stanground in Peterborough - an area rich in Bronze Age activity. Now part of the collections at Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery. 📸 My own. #Prehistory #Archaeology #Peterborough

A very good boy! 🐾🐕😍 An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest. The Met 📷 by me #Archaeology

how many times i’ve seen the same Anne Boleyn documentary with @tracyborman.bsky.social is none of anyone’s business

Something lovely to start the week! 🐙🏺❤️ Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

She is the lady of drunkenness, the queen of the dance. She stabs the enemy, drives back the rebels, kills off the enemies in the place of internment; she is Sekhmet the great, who has power over the masses--the countless crowd trembles upon seeing her. (OGC)

A complete pottery vessel, featuring repairs mid-body and a cord tied around its neck. Found in a Neolithic well in Altscherbitz, Saxony, dating 5100-5000 BC. Multiple complete vessels have been discovered within the well. They may have been intentionally...🧵 1/2 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

A reminder that I mostly left Twitter because I was getting so relentlessly sexually harassed on there that I basically couldn't do anything anymore & there are a group of women who all have similar experiences and we all talk about it with each other! This stuff sucks so much!

Wrapper https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/97488

POV: your headphones are being stolen and eaten

'HIEROGLYPHS: An ancient Egyptian language, invented by priests to conceal their criminal secrets. And to think there are people who understand them! Perhaps it's all a joke?' - Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas, 1870s

Astronaut Chris Hadfield said outer space smells like gunpowder and burnt steak. Yankee Candle, your newest seasonal scent has arrived.

#OnThisDay - 17 November - in AD 9 Titus Flavius Vespasianus (my fave!) was born. As 'last man standing' at the end of the Long Year that was AD 69, he inaugurated the Flavian Dynasty. #AncientHistory 🏺 Image: Obverse of RIC 2.1 Vespasian 515; ANS 1956.184.26. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

next week will be NINE MONTHS since Adonis came to live with us and I'm making myself emotional looking at pictures from when we first brought him home vs now

Glimpses of light, in the darkness...

Interesting household (food) account for Elisabeth of Valois, Queen of Spain, 9 August 1559 (as I suppose), on ebay: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/28692927...

#OnThisDay - 17 November - Tjaiemhotep was born in Year 9 of Ptolemy XII Auletes' reign, i.e. in 73 BC. A record of her life is left on her funerary stela, including a plea to seize the day while you may. #Archaeology #Egypt 🏺 Image: British Museum (EA147). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

good morning

The arms of an octopus were used to mark specific parts of this page that were of importance or interest - 14th century, Bancroft Library, BANC MS UCB 085

As night settled over the river, Cardinal Reginald Pole, the last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury, breathed his final breath on 17 November 1558, the very same day as Mary I. England would wake to a new ruler - Elizabeth I. Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors

Following last week's monochrome elephant, this is another common type of depiction in Roman mosaics. From the Great Pavement at Woodchester, moving around Orpheus. 1/2 #MosaicMonday @classicalalan.bsky.social

Boarding an international flight out of Boston and CBP officers literally in the gateway face scanning every passenger with their phones. I have never seen this before.

hydration is her beauty secret

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

She's pretty happy 😻

Black Glass Madonna, by unknown artisans of the Innsbruck Court Glassworks, 1570-1591, Lampworked and pressed glass on wood mount, 52.5 x 28.8 cm (20 11/16 x 11 5/16 in.), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

When I open the door of my sarcophagus cabinet, it looks like it's creeping on me from around the corner.

we were playing blanket monster