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1/ The Story of Civilization

Volume I. Our Oriental Heritage (1935)

https://t.co/QLo0t0utj8

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No better than time than the present to dive into Will and Ariel Durant's, The Story of Civilization.

Narrating Western history over 11 volumes, 10,000 pages, 4 mil words, & 375 hours of Kindle reading hours, I couldn't be more delighted.

Will file my favorite passages here 👇

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Breakfast still life
Pieter Claesz., 17th century

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Still-Life with a Late Ming Ginger Jar
Willem Kalf, 1669

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Still Life after Willem Kalf.
Cornelis le Mair, 2015

[Daily Dose of Art @aDose_of_Art]

Landscape with pilgrim, c. 1813,
by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (Prussian, 1781–1841).

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Can't stop thinking about this passage from MFK Fisher on potatoes:

“They were almost evanescent, like the upper or lower cheeks of baroque cherubs.”

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April in Madrid

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the only tortilla I know

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Madrid’s Royal Collections Gallery, where even the children are dressed with a better sense of proportion than most grown men

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eating manchego in la mancha hits different

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can I get a hell yea

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Breakfast Table with Blackberry Pie
Willem Clasz. Heda, 1631

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Still Life with a Silver Jug and a Porcelain Bowl
Willem Kalf, 1656

[Richard Morris @ahistoryinart]

The Victorian critic and artist John Ruskin believed all beauty comes from nature. Look closely at his painting of a Bleinheim Orange apple (1873), and you'll see how Ruskin's lighting and shadow animate and dramatise a simple object.

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a recipe for extinguishing sadness from tamar adler

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Charleston in January

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[Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety]

Eggs, fresh bread, a cool glass of wine, and a flower to rest your eyes on ~ I like the simplicity of 17th century German still-life specialist Georg Flegel’s ‘Snack with Fried Eggs’ (1630), State Gallery Aschaffenburg

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'Still life of asparagus.' (1697) Adriaen Coorte's still lifes set against a plain dark background, are enormously appealing to the modern eye, his work fell into obscurity in the 18thC and 19thC; a reappraisal about his career was published in the 1950s.