The Hermitage

indigenousdialogues:

fromgreenwich:

wishflowers:

highgatedreams:

moonlightrainbow:

interioralchemy:

fullbloom:

(via verhext)

yama-bato:

TLIMOGES GOSPEL BOOK COVER

Binding: Limoges, France, 13th c., upper cover of a Gospel book, originally on wooden boards, 34x24 cm, with Christ in majesty holding a gospel book within a mandorla, surrounded by the 4 gospel symbols, 3 of them inscribed in red capitals: Iohannes, Marcus and Lucas, between them 4 oval rock crystals, the cornerpieces with tri-partite leaves in champlevé enamel, each with an oval rock crystal, all in colours dark and light blue, green, red and white. The original wooden cover was in the 19th c. substituted with the present copper gilt plate with scrollwork in silver gilt added in the mandorla and outer panels.(http://www.schoyencollection.com/bindings_files/ms4613.jpg)

sarahdeann:

by Ivan Bilibin

sacredgraffiti:

crashinglybeautiful:

Tina Modotti, “Hands of the puppeteer” (via: mudwerks, lucyphermann & clockface)

(via mr-gif)

iamjapanese:

Traveling clock watch with alarm, ca. 1680
Movement by Thomas Tompion (English, 1638-1713); case by Nathaniel Delander (English, recorded 1668/69, died ca. 1691 or before 1705)
Case and dial: silver; Movement: gilded brass, steel, partly blued, and silver

(via yama-bato)

artpropelled:

Zulu Hats

http://www.ezakwantu.com/

(via catherinewillis)

russiandream:

printedandbound:

Dostoyevsky’s notes for chapter 5 of The Brothers Karamazov

Amadeo Modigliani 

Portrait of Léopold Zborowski 1918

Oil on Canvas

Édouard Goerg, etching for Le Livre de Job, 1946

source: Adventures in the Print Trade

Dragon Postcard 1912, Ivan Bilibin

Incredible Mongolian Nomad photography by Hamid Sardar

The Cheap Art Manifesto

Bread & Puppet : Cheap Art & Political Theatre in Vermont

One-eyed Odin with his two ravens Huginn (from Old Norse ”thought”) and Muninn (Old Norse “memory” or “mind”)

From the 18th century Icelandic manuscript SAM 66 in the care of the Árni Magnússon Institute in Iceland

There was an old woman lived under the hill,

And if she’s not gone she lives there still.

Baked apples she sold, and cranberry pies,

And she’s the old woman that never told lies.

from The Only True Mother Goose Melodies 1833

source

source