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Date: early 1460s
Creator: Willem Vrelant, Flemish
Place: Bruges, Belgium
Size: 25.6 × 17.3 cm
Material: Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink
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https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/105VPY
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#Art #History #Museum #ArtHistory #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random
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The Last Judgment (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection)
The Last Judgment (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection); early 1460s; Willem Vrelant (Flemish, died 1481, active 1454 - 1481); Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink; Leaf: 25.6 × 17.3 cm (10 1/16 × 6www.getty.edu
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a flying phallus! You can just spy the loop at the bottom that would enable this to be worn as a protective amulet.
Ah, Rome, the society where wearing a phallus bespoke good fortune, health, and warded off the evil eye.
#AncientRome #History @AimeeMaroux
#OnThisDay, 17 Apr 1964, Jerrie Mock touches down in Ohio to become the first woman to fly solo around the world. Press coverage of the time made much of her being a “housewife”. 🙄
Watch a newsreel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Pz2zGZ3To
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #AviationHistory #AmericanHistory
Woman Flies Solo Around The World (1964)
Unissued / Unused Material -Title reads: "News Of Flight - Housewife Circles The Globe Alone". American voiceovered newsreel material.Oakland, California, Un...YouTube
Inside the world of hidden #Renaissance portraits: ‘It’s very playful’
A new exhibition at #theMet looks at the practice of hiding portraits 🖼 attached to other portraits and the many reasons artists 👩🎨 chose to be secretive with their work
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/apr/16/hidden-renaissance-portraits-met
#art #glam #ArtHistory #history @histodons
Inside the world of hidden Renaissance portraits: ‘It’s very playful’
A new exhibition at the Met looks at the practice of hiding portraits attached to other portraits and the many reasons artists chose to be secretive with their workVeronica Esposito (The Guardian)
