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[Archaeology & Art @archaeologyart]

The images I've shared are from a Latin incunable titled Flores Albumasaris.

An incunable is a book printed in Europe during the earliest days of the printing press, before 1501. This book was printed in Augsburg by Erhard Ratdolt on November 18, 1488.

The book's textual roots stretch back to a world much older and broader than Germany. The text belongs to a tradition translated into Latin by John of Seville in the 12th century. The illustrations, however, were created with a 15th-century German woodcut aesthetic.

The work is based on the astrological tradition of Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi, known in Latin Europe as Albumasar. Abu Ma'shar was born in Balkh in 787 and worked in Baghdad in the 9th century.

Abu Ma'shar wasn't just a writer of horoscopes.

In his world, astrology was a broad field of knowledge linking celestial movements to climate, disease, governance, war, harvests, human character, and the timing of events.

[Hernan Cortes @CyberPunkCortes]

Most people don’t know this, but “Nebraska” is a liminal space.

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

“Tigers in the Night,” by artist Erik Olson

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Georgia O'Keeffe, Wave, Night, 1928 #WomensArt #SeaArtWeek 🌊

[Giorgio @perennialmystic]

"Love is a secret that cannot be spoken aloud,
It is a story that cannot be written in books.
Wash your hands of the school and the book,
For the science of love is not found in pages."

~ Hafez

[Giorgio @perennialmystic]

We come from silence,
we go into silence,
and in between
we sing the song of life.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

[𝚛𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚝 @rawatthekiid]

in the odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια), the sea is repeatedly described as “the unharvested sea” (ἀτρύγετος πόντος), a formula that defines the sea through its resistance to cultivation and human mastery.

[海をかくひと @towa_sea_art]

←光らせる前　　光らせた後→

[HOW THINGS WORK @HowThingsWork_]

This isn’t just a ceramic bowl! - it’s a perfect example of how traditional craftsmanship can make everyday tasks smarter!

[宮本寛太 @miya_pastel1]

太陽との遭遇

[valentine @valawakened]

when hayao miyazaki said that true love was two people inspiring each other to live...recognizing just how hard living is, putting one foot in front of the other every day, how easy it is to lose our passion for it...... that's the real shit

[Meditations in Color @MeditateColor]

“I will try to grasp the flowers of the earth.”
- Hilma af Klint

Series VII, No. 7d (1920). Oil on canvas.

Color wheels appear throughout af Klint’s late work as symbols of spiritual and cosmic order.

[Meditations in Color @MeditateColor]

Charles Lacouture, Trilobe Synoptique (1890).

Created before the modern RGB color model, the diagram attempts to map all colors through combinations of red, yellow, and blue, reflecting 19th CE theories of pigment mixing and color harmony.

Chromolithograph on paper.

[blue @bluewmist]

Uncommon advice: If you don't know what to pursue in life right now. Pursue yourself. Pursue becoming the healthiest, happiest, most healed, most present, most confident version of yourself. Then the right path will reveal itself.

[宮本寛太 @miya_pastel1]

光がさす

[Art or Other Things @ArtorOtherThing]

Setting Sun — Angela Lane, 2024, Oil on birch plywood

[pale kirill @palekirill]

organic configuration