Kees Scherer Nightclub cabaret dancing “Symphonie du Nu” Paris, c. 1957

Egyptian contemporary artist Hamed Nada Brass Music (Oil on canvas, 1986) #Symbolism #ModernArt

#ColoreTonFil 🙃 #AlmostMonochrome Only slight tweaks to exposure & contrast. #Montreal #StreetPhotography #EastCoastKin

St Peter's to celebrate 400 years with new booking apps, expanded visitor access and a font based on Michelangelo’s handwriting.

A Hymn to Life by Gisèle Pelicot review – a unique memoir by a figure of astonishing power

La Morphinomane (The Morphine Addict) — Eugène Grasset, 1897 color lithograph

🧶 « L’Amour » avec sa pelote de fil. Jean-Baptiste Tuby, 1673. Château de Versailles. Février 2026. #chateaudeversailles #versailles #chateauversailles #palaceofversailles #versaillespalace #photography

#MosaicMonday Detail of a corner panel from Mosaic Floor with a Bear Hunt, A.D. 300–400, #Roman, from near "Stufe di Nerone", near Lago Lucrino, near Pozzuoli, #Italy Stone tesserae, 51–68 1/2 × 34 1/2–58 ¼ in.

Citroën DS21 del 1969

Abdel Hamid Baalbaki (Lebanese, 1940–2013). Al-Hattab (1990, oil).

On Edgar Bergen's birthday, here he is relaxing in his dressing room with a colleague 🎂 📷 John Florea, 1942

‘Most of the tropes that came to define the vampire – neck-biting, blood-drinking or invisibility in mirrors – are recent inventions, though some, such as the protective virtue of garlic, do have a historical basis.’ @mikejay.bsky.social on the dangerous dead. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

🌵 Addisonia: . New York: New York Botanical Garden, 1916-[1964].. [Source]

Zapotec ceramic funerary urn, possibly depicting "Lord Eight Earthquake", a high-ranking Zapotec ruler, period 650–850 CE. These effigy vessels were discovered in tombs at sites like Atzompa and Monte Albán in Oaxaca, reflecting Zapotec beliefs about death, ancestry, elite identity and cosmology.

Dwight Baird (Canadian, b. 1957, lives and works in Montreal), The Aloneness of Winter, 2023. Acrylic on wood panel

Philippe Rousseau, Chardin and his models, 1867, oil on canvas, 177.5 x 226.5 cm (Musée d’Orsay). A portrait of 18th-century French painter Jean Siméon Chardin surrounded by some of the objects that appear in his still lifes

Louis Armstrong in his mirrored bathroom (1971)

Good Afternoon Rare polar stratospheric clouds over the mountains of Svalbard.

🐉 The naturalists' miscellany: . London: Printed for Nodder co, 1789.. Smaller cousin of fire-breathing dragons? Flying Dragon has folds of skin that it uses 2 glide through the air #bhlib [Source]

That. is. vile. Nobody expresses it like Adriaen Brouwer in The Bitter Drink, 1637. Genius! Today is his day.

Godly imperfection. A mono photo taken inside St Paul’s Cathedral in 2024. #B&W #photography #photo #blackandwhite #bwphotography #bnwphotography #monochrome #mono

New discovery: prestigious Early Bronze Age burial found in Écouché-les-Vallées, Orne. The grave contained an exceptional set of grave goods such as 31 flint barbed and tanged arrowheads. www.myscience.fr/fr/news/wire...

Low tide at Coast Guard Beach in Eastham this afternoon.

Tonight’s Northern Lights close to Reykjavik, Iceland #northernlights #reykjavìk #iceland

The Tale of the Twelve Faces. "The Warriors Engage in Combat": Illustration from the Firdausi Shahnama (verso) https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.479.b

The Beach at Sainte-Adresse | Claude Monet

Karl Lagerfeld - Selbstporträt 2013 📷Karl Lagerfeld #Portrait #portraitphotography #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #bnw #photography

🦎 Oeuvres du comte de Lacépède Paris: P. Duménil, 1836. [Source]

Rene Vincent - Peugeot. (1912) Colour Lithograph.

Meet The Sixth-Generation Family Behind Italy's Beloved Bitter Spirit

métro préfontaine, rue hochelaga, montréal

Happy birthday Art Spiegelman 🎂 📷 Roger Ressmeyer, 1986 "The subject of Maus is the retrieval of memory & ultimately, the creation of memory. It’s about choices being made, of finding what one can tell, and what one can reveal beyond what one knows one is revealing."

Reflection...

February 16, 1929

Freshly blooming Lesser Celandine and bedraggled Winter Heliotrope on a road verge near Plumpton Green, East Sussex #wildflowerhour

A repost... 'Ebony with Birch Bark' ~ The handle of this spoon looks like 'cork' but it is actually pieces of Birch bark laminated together with a metal rod drilled through for strength. Not my favorite design... but the tactile quality of this experiment was superb.

Two perforated altar reliefs from the Mithraeum at Mundelsheim. One depicts Sol, the sun god, with the radiant. the other shows Luna, the goddess of the moon, with the crescent. In Roman times, they were illuminated from behind, creating a striking play of light and shadow that must ...🧵1/2

The Great Escape, 2020. Cynthia Blumberg.

Thoth and devotee

#MolluscMonday Uncoiled ammonites known as heteromorphs (‘other shapes’) are mostly Cretaceous in age. However, this example of Spiroceras is from the Middle Jurassic of Dorset.

maharajah mangoes, painted by amanda almira newton, 1914

Lake Michigan shore at Harrington State Park.

Mixed reaction in Rome to the new restyling around the Colosseum.

Celebrate the John Schlesinger Centennial 🎂💯 📷 Eve Arnold, 1977 "I love the feeling of things underneath, of things not spelled out."

Cocoa stocks from main harvest pile up in Ivory Coast warehouses reut.rs/3OjOamj

In a spectacle of nature's infinite power, glorious Mount Fitz Roy, battered by furious winds, emerges from the clouds. Patagonia's mountains can be hidden for days, but when they clear, the beauty is endless! #bluesky #photography #landscapephotography #nature #naturephotography #mountainmonday

Vienna, seen from a commercial flight. February 2019. #photography #cityscape #aerial_view #Vienna #Austria

Silent stars. 452. Hermann Thimig (1890 – 1982). Il fit du théâtre, joua dans des films muets, et dès l'avènement du sonore, se dédia presque entièrement au cinéma.

The Bicycle. Gerard Sekoto,South African, 1913–1993.