JennetteM

Art, social media, lit, history, cats.

[Masterpieces of Japan @JapanTraCul]

White flowers and small bird, by Kobayashi Kokei, 1930s

[The Last Farm @TheLastFarm]

This is like something from a different planet

In 1935, Frank Waugh—one of the first landscape architects & an influential ecologist—authored a technical manual for the Civilian Conservation Corps to use for the improvement of national parks

Check out the writing in this thing

[JennetteM @JennetteM]

@AnneLouiseAvery I absolutely loved this movie. It really honored the source material’s uncanny spirit.

[JennetteM @JennetteM]

@AnneLouiseAvery Beautiful

[Michel Estefan @michel_estefan]

Here’s something really interesting I’ve learned from Townsend’s book. In the academic literature, various explanations have emerged over time for how a few hundred Spaniards managed to overthrow the Aztec Empire, which, at its peak, governed millions. #history #colonialism

[JennetteM @JennetteM]

@AnneLouiseAvery Beautiful ❤️

[sean @DilettanteryPod]

Ibrahim al-Koni on the nomadic vs the settled

[Masterpieces of Japan @JapanTraCul]

Maple Tree, by Sakai Hōitsu, 19th century

[JennetteM @JennetteM]

@AnneLouiseAvery Thank you, Anne.

[Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @PP_Rubens]

Clara the rhinoceros, put on display (to a lot of masked people) in Venice in 1751 and immortalized by Pietro Longhi, born on this day 1701.

[WikiVictorian @wikivictorian]

Butterfly fancy dress costume by House of Worth, 1912. Whitaker Auctions.

[mars ᢉ𐭩 @horanluvbot]

“you let your cat sleep with you” i’d let that mf represent me in court

[Masterpieces of Japan @JapanTraCul]

Samurai-Class Man's Winter Formal Surcoat (jinbaori), 18th-early 19th century

[Nathan Ballingrud @NBallingrud]

This was my experience too. Moby-Dick is both exciting and hilarious. Jane Eyre full of crazy scenes I couldn't believe I was reading. Tolstoy, Dickens, Austen, Hugo, all legitimate page-turners. The classics didn't become classics by accident or by fiat. They fucking rock.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

I'm writing today about kennings in Old English. Essentially these are two word-metaphors that were used instead of concrete nouns, and they are exquisite. A ship was a 'wave-horse', the sea was a 'whale-road', the mind was a 'thought-chamber', and the sun was a 'sky-candle'.

[Masterpieces of Japan @JapanTraCul]

"Kogō" and "The Imperial Procession to Ōhara", from The Tale of the Heike, early 17th century

[Mexican Myths and Folklore. @AbbasiJuan]

The challenge of Lord Tepoztecatl.

A syncretic ritual from the state of Morelos

A thread

#mexican #aztec #INDIGENOUS

[Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety]

We’re right here in this tavern, as a Romani dancer performs, one arm dramatically outstretched. Along the atmospherical[y-shadowed back wall are guitarists, a singer & a man rhythmically clapping (JS Sargent, El Jaleo, 1882, Gardner Museum)

[Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety]

Back in the 12th century, French sculptor Gislebertus carved this angel as (s)he appears to the three Magi as they dream, waking one with the delicate touch of a finger, and pointing her other forefinger toward the Bethlehem star (Cathedral of St Lazare at Autun)

[Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety]

Here’s Utagawa Hiroshige’s fine woodblock View of Mt Fuji from Satta Point, Suruga Bay (from Thirty-Six Views of Mt Fuji, 1858). Interesting to see it next to the more dramatic (and famous) The Great Wave by Hokusai, a generation or so before