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  1. Post-Black Friday exhaustion with my plague rat buddy #BlackFriday #blackfridayshopping #blackdeath #plague #🐭 #1348

    Post-Black Friday exhaustion with my plague rat buddy #BlackFriday #blackfridayshopping #blackdeath #plague #🐭 #1348

     
     
  2. centuriespast: “ Cleopatra, Daughter of Ptolemy XIII: Death –Cleopatra, wearing snood, seated, arms around winged dragon at each bared breast. Abrégé des histoires divines France, possibly Amiens, between 1300 and 1310 MS M.751 fol. 30v Morgan...

    centuriespast:

    Cleopatra, Daughter of Ptolemy XIII: Death –Cleopatra, wearing snood, seated, arms around winged dragon at each bared breast.

    Abrégé des histoires divines
    France, possibly Amiens, between 1300 and 1310
    MS M.751 fol. 30v

    Morgan Library

     
     
  3. riotnprotest: ““Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, 1916.” One of the banners used in a memorial service for Inez Milholland, the lawyer who became a martyr to the suffrage movement following her death from anemia while campaigning for the 19th...

    riotnprotest:

    “Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, 1916.” One of the banners used in a memorial service for Inez Milholland, the lawyer who became a martyr to the suffrage movement following her death from anemia while campaigning for the 19th Amendment. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. 

    (via shorpy)

     
     

  4. Happy Halloween! From a dancing 💀, the 🔥 of hell, a plague 🐭, and magic 🎃👻✨.

     
     

  5. Penis Pendants and Amulets were a thing in Ancient Rome #penispendants

     
     
  6. The Virgin Chastising the Christ Child before Breton, Elouard, and Ernst, 1926 @MuseumLudwig

    The Virgin Chastising the Christ Child before Breton, Elouard, and Ernst, 1926 @MuseumLudwig

     
     

  7. Adam Kraft, Tabernacle Caryatid, 1490s, St Lorenz, Nürnberg

     
     

  8. Bruce Nauman, Welcome (Shaking Hands), 1985 #Stuttgart

     
     

  9. Magical Scene 💀🔮🐵🐐🕷🕯🎃✨, Andrea Locatelli, 1741 @staatsgalerie

     
     
  10. Fool’s Scepter, 1600s, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg

    Fool’s Scepter, 1600s, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg