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Alain Truong ♎🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @alaintruong.bsky.social · 1m

Gilded bronze flying apsara, Southern Dynasties period, 5th-6th Century, Guiyang Liu Yong Art Museum.

Alain Truong ♎🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @alaintruong.bsky.social · 25m

Bronze Bodhisattva, Tang Dynasty (618-907), Guiyang Liu Yong Art Museum.

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Alain Truong ♎🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @alaintruong.bsky.social · 28m

Gilt Bronze Buddha, Tang Dynasty (618-907), Guiyang Liu Yong Art Museum.

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Alain Truong ♎🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @alaintruong.bsky.social · 41m

Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669) & Workshop of Rembrandt van Rijn, Young Woman at an Open Half-Door, 1645. Oil on canvas, 102.5 × 85.1 cm; Framed: 121.6 × 104.4 × 5.7 cm. Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection, 1894.1022.

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Alain Truong ♎🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @alaintruong.bsky.social · 1h

British actor Jeremy Irons, in search of creative renewal, impulsively purchased Kilcoe Castle, a 15th century ruin on Ireland's Roaringwater Bay. 🏰

Photos by Simon Upton.
Repost from The Thrively Gentleman

Alain Truong ♎🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @alaintruong.bsky.social · 1h

British actor Jeremy Irons, in search of creative renewal, impulsively purchased Kilcoe Castle, a 15th century ruin on Ireland's Roaringwater Bay. 🏰

Photos by Simon Upton.
Repost from The Thrively Gentleman

Alain Truong ♎🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @alaintruong.bsky.social · 1h

He found it roofless and wild, a forgotten fortress by the sea. Now it stands in terra-cotta defiance, a jazz-infused ode to medieval grit. Kilcoe isn't just a home; it's a heartbeat, a stage, a story etched in stone.

Alain Truong ♎🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @alaintruong.bsky.social · 1h

British actor Jeremy Irons, in search of creative renewal, impulsively purchased Kilcoe Castle, a 15th century ruin on Ireland's Roaringwater Bay. 🏰

Photos by Simon Upton.
Repost from The Thrively Gentleman

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Alain Truong ♎🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @alaintruong.bsky.social · 2h

Bonjour et bon jeudi

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Alain Truong ♎🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @alaintruong.bsky.social · 2h

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Alain Truong ♎🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @alaintruong.bsky.social · 2h

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Alain Truong ♎🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @alaintruong.bsky.social · 5h

Enlightenment, Jigoku-dayu, from the Thirty-six Ghosts, by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1890

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Alain Truong ♎🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @alaintruong.bsky.social · 5h

Enma, the King of Hell, and Hell Courtesan, by Kawanabe Kyosai, 19th century

Alain Truong ♎🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @alaintruong.bsky.social · 5h

Hell Courtesan (Jigoku-dayu), by Kawanabe Kyosai, 1871-1889

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Alain Truong ♎🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @alaintruong.bsky.social · 5h

The Far East: A Monthly Journal, Illustrated with Photographs, 1870s. Albumen silver prints. Gift of John J. McKendry, 1975. Inv. No 1975.586.2. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Alain Truong ♎🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @alaintruong.bsky.social · 5h

William Thomas Saunders (British, 1832–1892), Opium smoker, 1867. Albumen silver print from glass negative. Robert O. Dougan Collection, Gift of Warner Communications Inc., 1981. Inv. No 1981.1229.51.2 © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Alain Truong ♎🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @alaintruong.bsky.social · 5h

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Alain Truong ♎🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @alaintruong.bsky.social · 5h

Alain Truong ♎🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @alaintruong.bsky.social · 6h

Fra Angelico, Perugia Altarpiece, c. 1437-43, tempera and gold on panel, 102 × 75.1 cm; 126.3 × 78,5 cm; 101.8 × 76 cm. Perugia, Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria, inv. 92, 91, 93.

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© Ministero della Cultura - Musei Nazionali di Perugia - Direzione regionale Musei nazionali Umbri -Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria, Perugia / Foto Tecnireco

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