Anna H
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'Give her a helmet and a sword, she'd look like a brave little Hobbit'
Richard Cartwright • Evensong • night Venticelli •
December 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Richard Cartwright • Evensong • night Venticelli •
Okay, that's going on the must-buy book list:
December 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Okay, that's going on the must-buy book list:
This may be common practice now (I'm a long time out of the school years) but am highly intrigued by Mossbourne Victoria having a dedicated policy for dealing with complaints they deem vexatious:
December 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This may be common practice now (I'm a long time out of the school years) but am highly intrigued by Mossbourne Victoria having a dedicated policy for dealing with complaints they deem vexatious:
From the Window at No. 45 Brook Street, London, W1, 1926 • Sir Cedric Lockwood Morris •
December 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
From the Window at No. 45 Brook Street, London, W1, 1926 • Sir Cedric Lockwood Morris •
Toyota Hokkei • A Mountainous Landscape with a Stream •
December 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Toyota Hokkei • A Mountainous Landscape with a Stream •
David Vickery • Winter Moon and Jupiter • night Venticelli •
December 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
David Vickery • Winter Moon and Jupiter • night Venticelli •
I am delighted to say that having found the page posting this slop, actual Italians are making their feelings known:
December 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I am delighted to say that having found the page posting this slop, actual Italians are making their feelings known:
Not a TV recommendation, but have this very fine seal going about its business:
December 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Not a TV recommendation, but have this very fine seal going about its business:
Bloody WORD. Astounding that this needs to be said.
December 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Bloody WORD. Astounding that this needs to be said.
Showing my age, but immediately thought of....
December 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Showing my age, but immediately thought of....
Charlotte Sternberg • The Last Chore • night Venticelli •
December 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Charlotte Sternberg • The Last Chore • night Venticelli •
Jan van Eyck • Saint Barbara •
December 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Jan van Eyck • Saint Barbara •
John Atkinson Grimshaw • Moonlight, Wharfedale • night Venticelli •
December 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
John Atkinson Grimshaw • Moonlight, Wharfedale • night Venticelli •
PPS: the colours are wrong - they're Northern Renaissance, not Italian Renaissance. And WTF is /this/?
December 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
PPS: the colours are wrong - they're Northern Renaissance, not Italian Renaissance. And WTF is /this/?
Here is the actual fresco - no people, the bridge isn't a bridge it's a ramp and the entire thing is fuzzier, as you might expect.3/n
December 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Here is the actual fresco - no people, the bridge isn't a bridge it's a ramp and the entire thing is fuzzier, as you might expect.3/n
BLOODY AI,a thread:so, I saw a picture online of the Towers of Perugia by a Renaissance artist, Benedetto Bonfigli whose other work I know a little bit. Here is the image 1/n:
December 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
BLOODY AI,a thread:so, I saw a picture online of the Towers of Perugia by a Renaissance artist, Benedetto Bonfigli whose other work I know a little bit. Here is the image 1/n:
Sorry, but this combination of message and media has absolutely sent me. Lockdown forever-ism and Eliot I can see as bedfellows (albeit rather odd ones), but it's the addition of Kermit that makes it special:
December 8, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Sorry, but this combination of message and media has absolutely sent me. Lockdown forever-ism and Eliot I can see as bedfellows (albeit rather odd ones), but it's the addition of Kermit that makes it special:
Marc Chagall • Notre-Dame and Eiffel Tower • night Venticelli •
December 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Marc Chagall • Notre-Dame and Eiffel Tower • night Venticelli •
Annunciation, The Merode Alterpiece • Robert Campin (and Workshop) • worth zooming in on this, there's a lot of intriguing detail, not least the Holy Spirit arriving through the window top left
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Annunciation, The Merode Alterpiece • Robert Campin (and Workshop) • worth zooming in on this, there's a lot of intriguing detail, not least the Holy Spirit arriving through the window top left
The Annunciation • from the Book of Hours of Charles of France •
December 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The Annunciation • from the Book of Hours of Charles of France •
Kay Nielsen • The Vision •
December 7, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Kay Nielsen • The Vision •
Also, this from High Windows by Phillip Larkin (full poem here: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48417/... )
December 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Also, this from High Windows by Phillip Larkin (full poem here: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48417/... )
Ian Archie Beck • Blossom in Moonlight, Isleworth • night Venticelli •
December 6, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Ian Archie Beck • Blossom in Moonlight, Isleworth • night Venticelli •
Sean William Randall • Those Distant Lights •
December 6, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Sean William Randall • Those Distant Lights •
I immediately thought of this scene from Dunkirk - presumably Hesgeth thinks the little ships should have sailed past...
December 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I immediately thought of this scene from Dunkirk - presumably Hesgeth thinks the little ships should have sailed past...