Łukasz Sokołowski
@sokolowskilukasz.bsky.social
Doctor of archaeology and cultural anthropologist interested in Roman art and portraiture with special emphasis put on #RomanEast and #Palmyra🏺📖🇵🇱🇪🇺🌍🙋♂
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ISIS Beheads Elderly Archaeology 'Pioneer' in Palmyra: Reports
ISIS militants beheaded one of Syria's most prominent antiquities scholars in the ancient town of Palmyra, Syrian state media and activists said.
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August 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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3. The Romantic era saw a widespread interest in the "mysterious and exotic" Orient, inspiring artists and writers: “Evidence of the Orient was credible only after it had passed through and been made firm by the refining fire of the Orientalist’s work." Edward W. Said, Orientalism
August 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
3. The Romantic era saw a widespread interest in the "mysterious and exotic" Orient, inspiring artists and writers: “Evidence of the Orient was credible only after it had passed through and been made firm by the refining fire of the Orientalist’s work." Edward W. Said, Orientalism
2. Originally published by @sothebysinstitute.bsky.social in 2019 in absorbing essay 𝑊𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠 𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑙 𝐻𝑎𝑎𝑔'𝑠 𝐼𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑇𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑒𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑡 by Harry Edmonds:
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Watercolours From Carl Haag's Important Tour of the Levant
Eugene Delacroix once wrote that he was “truly sorry for the artists gifted with imagination who [could] never have any idea of [the] virgin, sublime nature” of the Orient. The vision of an exotic lev...
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August 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
2. Originally published by @sothebysinstitute.bsky.social in 2019 in absorbing essay 𝑊𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠 𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑙 𝐻𝑎𝑎𝑔'𝑠 𝐼𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑇𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑒𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑡 by Harry Edmonds:
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Must be awesome ;)
August 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Must be awesome ;)
I wouldn't mind dancing with horns during a full moon forest party.
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August 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I wouldn't mind dancing with horns during a full moon forest party.
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Looks exactly like that. Syncretism forever.
August 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Looks exactly like that. Syncretism forever.