“A fact is not a truth until you love it.”
—-John Keats, quoted by Shelby Foote in a Paris Review interview.
Note: “mind if I look at your, @Playboy@?”
From the title page of Foundation to Flute Playing: An Elementary Method by Ernest F. Wagner (1918). Original from Pennsylvania State University. Digitized March 28, 2012.
Monica Vitti in L’Eclisse
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The Minister’s Tree House, Crossville, TN by Chuck Sutherland on Flickr.
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Sir John Herschel, by Julia Margaret Cameron (1867)
Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish neuroanatomist and visual artist (1852-1934).
A drawing (c.1900) of the nerve cells and the structure of the retina:
Types of cells are identified by lowercase letters (a-j).
Retinal layers (“capas”) are identified by numbers (1-9).
The “A” section (layers 1-4) is comprised of pigmented cells (a-d). The B section, epithelial cells (e-j).
Image is from Wikipedia Commons.
[Dome of the Cathedral of the Assumption in the Kremlin, Moscow], 1852
Roger Fenton (British, 1819–1869)
Salted paper print from paper negative
7 1/16 x 8 1/2 in. (17.9 x 21.6 cm)
From the Metropolitan Museum’s comments for this photograph:
“Fenton photographed the cupolas of the Cathedral of the Assumption at eye level, from the lower bell arcade of the Ivan the Great Bell Tower, the city’s highest building, looking west over Cathedral Square toward the churches of Terem Palace. The view shows, behind the cathedral, the modest Church of the Deposition of the Robe… The Cathedral of the Assumption [was] built in 1475–79 by the Bolognese Ridolfo (Aristotele) Fioravanti for Grand Prince Ivan III…”
(Source: metmuseum.org)
A member of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition plays the bagpipe for an indifferent penguin, 1904
Lee Krasner,Primeval Resurgence,1961
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Monica Vitti in L’Avventura, 1960.
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