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... to create a completely different reality. Isn't every conspiracy also a tale of the power of sowing doubt? It's intriguing as long as no one gets damaged in any way, shape or form.

HIROSHIGE, Untitled (Two Rabbits, Pampas Grass, and Full Moon), 1849-51
Painting of the silhouette of a rabbit on the slope of a hill in front of the blue evening sky. Above it the full moon, next to it grasses and a second rabbit.
November 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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The Colliseum, 1919

(collections.lacma.org/node/217375)
Black and white photography with dramatic contrasts of shadow and light of a part of the colliseum.
November 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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H. Y. Summons

Gruyères, ca. 1930

(collections.artsmia.org/art/30753/gr...)
Black and white gelatin silver print of a small street with a row of old stone houses. No line is straight here. Sun shines into the street from the left upper corner. Flowers in many windows.
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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November (must be!):

H. Y. SUMMONS

Vesuvius, 1939

(collections.artsmia.org/art/30754/ve...)
Black and white gelatin siver print of a flat landscape with leaf-less trees and grass and mount Vesuvius in a darker grey on the horizon. Dark cloudy sky, could be winter.
November 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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"Mere Christianity" now on my reading list.

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Book Cover of "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis
November 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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November personified:

JEAN-FRÉDÉRIC BAZILLE
(1841-1870, born in Montpellier, died in Beaune-la-Rolande)

Portrait of Auguste Renoir, 1867
Painting: Portrait of a man sitting gloomily on a brown chair in grey trousers and a black jacket. He has pulled up his legs, arms around his knees, feet dangling in front of him. The background is grey.
November 24, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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... period, books played a vital role in reshaping knowledge, imagination, and aesthetic sensibilities, reaching an expanding Arabic readership and global networks of solidarity."

Wow, the graphics within these books are interesting, too:
www.decolonizingthepage.com/en/beyond-wo...
Photo of a book page with Arabic script in black and graphics showing a flower garland, tall cypress trees, a vilage and a mosque in red. Photo off a book page with Arabic script in black and what looks like a surreal rendering of three people clad in white tunics waliking away from us over the silhouette of a person lying on the ground. They are walking toward a rectangle covered in Arabic words. Photo of a book page with Arabic script in black. In the middle a sketch of three figures seemingly floating in the air.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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""Orientalizing" is a complex term that was coined in reference to the spread of Near Eastern and Egyptian ideas, motifs, and other cultural elements to Greece and the rest of the Mediterranean world."

Sphinx - Corinthian, ca. 600 BC - ca. 575 BC

Image:
www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/artif...
Detail of a vase: A sphinx painted in brown hues on beige background.
November 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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BARTOLOMEO CAVAROZZI
(1587-1625, born in Viterbo, died in Rome)

Grape Vines and Fruit, with Three Wagtails, 1815-18
Painting in dark green hues mostly oft what looks like a wall of many different leaves and fruits, light green grapes, red cherries and green and yellow peaches. It looks more like tapestry, leaves, vine and grapes interwoven, while cherries and peaches seem like colourful highlights.
November 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Jar

Greek or Roman, apparently no date or any kind of specification on the museum homepage: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
Black and white photograph of a black jar with a small base and a big and round body and a smaller opening at the top, a bit wider than the base but significantly narrower than the body of the vase. Made from terracotta with black glaze.
November 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Sleep and Death (Cista handle), 400-375 BC

Etruria

Who is it?
"Designed for attachment to the lid of a large bronze cista, a cylindrical lidded box, these three figures probably represent Sleep (Hypnos) and Death (Thanatos) holding the body of Sarpedon. A son of Zeus who helped to defend ...
Photo of a small bronze scene with three figures: Two male figures in armour, the right one with wings, carrying away a naked man.
November 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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MAURICE DENIS
(1870-1943, born in Granville, died in Paris)

Végétation, 1939-1940
Photo of a sketchbook, the left page is blank, on the right page different leaves in different hes of green in front of a dark background.
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Gray's citations of ancient Greek vase painting surely would have worked better in E.1027 than Le Corbusier's murals ...

"The screen “Le Destin” and the “Charioteer” table Gray created for table for fashion designer Jacques Doucet."

(image link in 1st post)
Two photos: on the left a red lackered screen with blue figures citing ancient Greek painting on vases; on the right an orange table with black figures.
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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"Badovici opened the door to his friend Le Corbusier and had him paint a series of semi-abstract murals, some of them with erotic themes, the sheer power of which truly ravaged the house’s delicate Minimalism."

E.1027 (image from link above) :
Photo of Eileen Gray's house, a white minimalist building with a flat roof at the foot of a hill with mediterranean vegetation.
November 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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MARTIN MUNCÁCSI
(1896-1963, born in Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvar), died in New York)

Fun During Coffee Break, 1932
Black and white photography of a woman in lightly clad attire sitting on the floor, her back leaning on a white wall, drinking coffee. A man, coffee cup in hand, jumps up in the air, hitting the wall with his feet that gives the impression of him "walking" vertically.
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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There is a whole service, a FENNEL service!

Wouldn't coffee taste a little different if drunk from these cups? Wouldn't thoughts of fennel salad or fennel and fish negatively influence the taste of coffee?

(www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...)
Coffee cup in the form of a fennel.
November 9, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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LÉON KANN
(1859-1925, born and died in Dambach-la-Ville)

Coffeepot, 1900-04
Photo of a small coffee pot in the form of a fennel.
November 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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If I started doing this it would sooner or later turn into an obsession, I often dream of being able to "collect" and archive the blue hues of the sky.

Joan Miró, Photo: This Is the Color of My Dreams, 1925
Looks like a beige postcard, on the left uupper side it says "Photo" in blank ink an beautiful calligraphy, on the right side there is a pastell sky le colour, looks like someone emptied a brush by quickly pushing it onto the paper. Beneath it in French, again blank ink and beautiful calligraphy "ceci est la coler de mes rêves" (translated: "this is the colour of my dreams".
November 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Torso of Christ

France, late 12th century

(www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...)
Photo of a wooden male torso with a red and blue fabric around its hips.
November 8, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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A Street in Grasse, 1852

(www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...)
Black and white phography of an uphill street in Grasse, on its left a garden with shrubs without leaves (probably winter), on thhe right of the street simple stone houses and terrasses, the horizon is a hill that can be seenn over the houses that are up highest. In the foreground, on the street, a woman in a white skirt washing something in a fountain.
November 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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It's irrelevant who it was, there are so many of them: a Ger. "type", not even basic "Bildung" but always ready to "explain" everything without facts/sources/knowledge. But with hate. As some kind of basso continuo.

Alfred Sisley, Sahurs Meadows in Morning Sun, 1894
Painting of sunlit meadows under a big blue sky, large trees in the background, shrubs on the left in the foreground, on the horizon blue hills.
November 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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CHARLES NÈGRE
(1820-1880, born and died in Grasse)

Plaster Casts of Bishops' Miters, South Porch, Chartres, ca. 1855

(www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...)
Black and white photography of plaster casts of three bishops' miters next to each other.
November 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Why are people who think like that invited to humiliate themselves publicly? To waste our time and get on our nerves? To disseminate their hate and show their lack of knowledge?

Claude Monet, Landscape: The Parc Monceau, 1876
Painting of a park in spring, blue sky and a typical Parisian house in the background, high trees and a pink flowering bush. The lawn is uneven and its lush green grasses look soft and perfect for a barefoot stroll.
November 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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On the other site, I see a German public thinker explaining why US-Americans who'd like to see the establishment of a caliphate on American soil can now rejoice after Zohran Mamdani's win. He is, they say, close to Islamists.

Shibata Zeshin, Autumn Grasses in Moonlight, 2nd half 19th c.
November 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Given that the current infectious disease means that sitting in a café is a distant memory for many people 28 % is ridiculously low.

#LongCovid

ALBERTO MAGNELLI
(1888-1970, born in Florence, died in Paris)

The Café, 1914
Colourful painting of the terrasse of a café in geometrical forms.
November 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM