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some weirdness and some cheating but there was an attempt
Tag: Queue Sera Sera
Faithful Unto Death by Sir Edward John Poynter
oil on canvas
1865
Walker Art Gallery
Cultural Heritage Below the Water Line – OIC Moments
The cultural iceberg – worthwhile reading, with examples from Western society versus Native Americans. Either as reference, or for consideration when world building and designing a new culture.
This seems like a good thing to think about, particularly at the moment, but also: EVERY. TIME.
This is a fantastic visual depiction of everything to think about when writing about another culture or from the perspective of someone with a different background.
Liturgical Fan, ca. 1130–50 Germany. Gilded copper alloy, rock crystal, semiprecious stones, and ancient intaglios.
Melkor during the Years of the Lamps. Also some bonus detail shots
because the original canvas as per usual was way bigger than tumblr can actually handle.
~ Necklace.
Culture: Roman
Place of origin: Roman Empire
Date: A.D. 3rd century
Medium: Gold with amethyst
Brooch
Celtic (Ireland), 9th-10th Centuries AD
The British Museum
Medieval Massive Gold Iconographic Glove Ring with Saints, Spanish, 16th Century AD
A flat-section gold hoop formed as three discoid panels with interstitial square panels and larger bezel; the square panels each with high-relief expanding-arm cross; the discoid panels each with the symbol of an Evangelist, a winged nimbate ox for St. Luke, a winged nimbate man with scroll for St. Matthew, a nimbate eagle for St. John, a winged lion for St. Mark; bezel with pelleted border, reserved image on a hatched field of Corpus Christi with cross and banner above marked ‘inri’ in blackletter script, two nimbate flanking female figures. 29 grams, 29mm overall, 23.93 x 25.21mm internal diameter (approximate size British Z+5, USA 14 ¾, Europe 35.08
Devotional iconographic finger rings were a popular class of personal jewellery in the later medieval period. The present ring features heavy religious imagery.
Hunterston Brooch, c. 700, Hunterston, Ayrshire, Scotland.
Indian dagger with zoomorphic hilt (detail), second half 16th century
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