Luca Gal

Dreamer of things.
(Occasionally, thinker of thoughts.)

[Muse @xmuse_]

Easter 🐰

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

The genius of Leonardo Da Vinci, born 573 years ago on April 15, 1452 - a thread 🧵

1. This is his map of Imola, with a modern Google Earth image of the city shown below.

[Archaeology Magazine @archaeologymag]

#OTD in 2019, France's historic Notre-Dame de Paris went up in flames during a restoration effort and much of it was destroyed. Read about how the unexpected disaster offered archaeologists an unprecedented look at the 800-year-old structure's past:

https://t.co/jyCLmvQdWR

[Archaeology Magazine @archaeologymag]

Alongside the discovery of some food staples of Roman Britain, archaeologists at the Irish site of Drumanagh have discovered a 2,000-year-old burned fig that provides evidence of the presence of the Roman traders on the Emerald Isle in the 1st century A.D.

https://t.co/SYlWTo9nJt

[Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunt]

Just a reminder, if you're an artist, specifically a painter and you don't look like this and your atelier doesn't look like this, I'm going to be disappointed.

[Christie's @ChristiesInc]

#WorldRecord René Magritte’s luminous gouache, ‘L’empire des lumières’ achieves US$18,810,000, more than doubling the world record price for any work on paper by the artist, during tonight's 20th Century Evening Sale.

#2021NY

[Christie's @ChristiesInc]

#WorldRecord René Magritte’s seminal ‘L’empire des lumières’ shatters the record price for any work by the artist and any Surrealist work of art, selling for US$121,160,000 after nearly 10 minutes of bidding, closing out MICA: THE COLLECTION OF MICA ERTEGUN   Part I.

#2021NY

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

12. Claude Monet's caricature of his teacher Jacques-François Ochard. He was fifteen years old.

[Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @PP_Rubens]

Kid Albrecht Dürer in 1484, age 13. Child prodigy. Seriously, I could not have done this at that age! And today is his 553d birthday.

[Sean Parker @seanparkerphoto]

Timelapse of the northern lights seen just outside Tucson, Arizona last night! What a magical night! #tucson #aurora #northernlights #arizonaurora #aurora #timelapse

[ARCHIVED - NASA Sun & Space @NASASun]

The Sun is super active right now! ☀️ 💥 💥

The video below shows a series of flares that erupted over the past seven days… not counting another X-class flare that happened this morning!

[Tim Peake @astro_timpeake]

Aurora still going, moved south now.

[Tim Peake @astro_timpeake]

Incredible sight to see the Aurora looking so spectacular tonight even from the south coast of the UK. What a show. If you are awake and reading this head outside now.
#aurora #Auroraborealis

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

My feed is nothing but aurora photos right now and I’ve never been so jealous 😭😭😭😭

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

A look at my solar telescope and the most active sunspot in decades

[Prof Janina Ramirez @DrJaninaRamirez]

For those that know me on here, you’ll know I has two things on my bucket list: see a murmuration and the Northern Lights. Achieved one last year a few miles down the road, and tonight I’ve achieved the other from my back garden. I’m overwhelmed….

[Peter Schade @psframes]

Today we re-framed Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait. We replaced the late 19th century gothic fantasy frame with a newly acquired somber gilded 15th century moulding. The figures appear larger and the details crisper without the competition of the incongruous carving.

[Kevin Wilbraham @KPW1453]

Happy Christmas everyone! Below is a nativity scene from the Lower Rhine. Dating to the mid-12th century, the relief is now part of the collections @V_and_A #Christmas #MedievalMonday 📷 My own.

[HADRIAN'S WALL PATH @HWpath]

Wishing everyone a happy Christmas 🎄🎁🎉

[Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @PP_Rubens]

OTD 2023 years ago: cheerful donkey carries Mary on the journey to Bethlehem. Knows he's star of the story! Italian ivory plaque, c. 1100. #ChristmasEve