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As long as Twitter is here, I'll stay for the wonderful variety of accounts I follow and value.

[Ennius @red_loeb]

Incipit Vita Sancti Silvestri Papae Urbis Romae

BnF MS Latin 5304; Vitae et Passiones: Division ff: 1-60. Vitae sanctorum, pars I; 11th century (1st quarter); Saint-Pierre de Moissac; f.18v @GallicaBnF

[Claudine Cassar @claudinecassar]

This slender, elegant bottle, with its flaring rim in the form of an open papyrus umbel, was among the cache of objects discovered in a pit (KV 54) in the Valley of the Kings in 1907. The objects are associated with the funeral of Tutankhamun, whose tomb was discovered some fifteen years later about 200 feet away. The decoration around the neck imitates floral collars made of leaves, petals, flower buds, and berries that were worn by banquet guests and draped around vessels used at banquets. https://t.co/flYXUUozch

[Joseph Laois @JosephLaois62]

N.Y.C 1980s.

[Blue Cairo @thebluecairo]

Cairo

[Egypt Archives @archivesegypt]

باب زويله عام 1936

[AN🌱NA @Anna_15_06_099]

© Walker Evans - Times Square, New York City, 1952.

[Bauhaus Movement @BauhausMovement]

K A N D I N S K Y • Circles in a Circle • Geometric abstraction

[Dr Anne E Bailey @AnneEBailey1]

Anglo-Saxon Crypt, Ripon Cathedral. An extraordinary survivor from St Wilfrid's original AD 672 church.
📸2025

[Duille @DuilleDesign]

Murray Hill Hotel, NYC. Berenice Abbott. 1937.

[L'uomo degli abissi @Fanrizio21]

New York 1948

Ruth Orkin

[Paintings of London @PaintingsLondon]

'The Interior of Henry VII's Chapel in Westminster Abbey' (1750s) by Canaletto

(Private collection)

[CMA: Islamic Art @cma_islamic]

Royal Feast in a Garden, recto of left folio from the double-page frontispiece of a Shahnama of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020) #artbots #cma

[Miguel Méndez-Cabeza @talaveranator]

FRONTAL DE LA CRUZ EN VILLANUEVA DE LA VERA
Villanueva de la Vera (CC). Iglesia parroquial. Siglo XVI en policromía. La imagen representa una cruz muy ornamentada con decoración abalaustrada y de motivos vegetales y metálicos similar a las cruces procesionales de orfebrería.

[Classicals @_ClassicalSoul]

Speaking of Fes:

[Egypt Archives @archivesegypt]

شارع المعز والقبة دي قبة الملك الصالح نجم الدين ايوب قبرة واللي ع الشمال مسجد قلاون سنة 1910

[Egypt Museum @egyptomuseum]

A seated Tutankhamun hunting fowl in the marshes with his wife Ankhesenamun, , c. 1332–1323 B.C.

Image from the Small Golden Shrine of Tutankhamun found within the Boy King's tomb (KV62), Valley of the Kings.

Now at the #GrandEgyptianMuseum. JE 61481

https://t.co/zt06WJSeyn

[Ugo Ramella @RamellaUgo]

Manoscritto Carolingio con lavori anno 818

[Igor @dunnothevitch]

Kees Scherer 📸
Wall Street, New York, 1959

[Románico en España @RomanicoEspana]

La portalada del Monasterio de Santa María de Ripoll (Girona): ésta con mis medios no fui capaz de sacarla frontal y completa sin deformarla con el angular, pero aún así se aprecia y entiende bien por qué está considerada una de las grandes portadas del románico #FelizViernes

[Claudine Cassar @claudinecassar]

Seated female figure
Maya artist 700–800 CE
In the form of a seated royal Maya woman, this figurine also probably functioned as a whistle, with the mouthpiece cleverly hidden in the coiffure of the subject and an opening on the figure’s right shoulder.
https://t.co/DvKn0zOtou