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Cabinets of Curiosities. Stories in film, fiction and art
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dean.bsky.social
Hermes Pan rehearsing with Ginger Rogers for George Stevens' Swing Time, 1936
📷 John Miehle, who was once again still photographer on the set
#stillonset
Pan runs Ginger through some steps in front of a mirror
December 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
cabinetstories.bsky.social
must see it before it closes
December 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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timmorton2.bsky.social
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Library Enthusiasts • Join Tina McCroskey • 2d • Just a Metal Sign But Says a Lot... IF CIVIL WAR BREAKS OUT. MEET ME AT THÉ LIBRARY. THEY DON'T KNOW WHERE IT IS:
July 5, 2025 at 6:52 AM
cabinetstories.bsky.social
Farage is looking really rough - seems he's been badly rattled by all the recent negative publicity - but announcing his party isn't Far Right by meeting Bardella will come back to haunt him
December 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
cabinetstories.bsky.social
Taxi for Mr Aquinas? Your driver is in the pub car park and the meter's running.
December 10, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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andrewmale.bsky.social
The entry on the National Gallery website is surely a supreme act of trolling as it does not mention our beasty pal AT ALL!
The identity of the artist behind this impressive panel is a mystery. In fact, whether the painter was Netherlandish or French is up for debate. The panel's overall eccentricity and the dramatically foreshortened faces of the saints and angels are reminiscent of the early work of Jan Gossaert. Enthroned in the middle of an open-air chapel, the Virgin and Child are flanked by two music-making angels, the holy king of France Saint Louis, and Saint Margaret. Sumptuously dressed, she rises unharmed from the broken shell of the slobbering dragon that swallowed her. The painting is full of wildly inventive details. Some are sombre, such as the bare wooden steps that foretell Christ's sacrifice on the Cross. Others are unusual, such as the mouth harp played by the angel to the left, a sound hardly associated with celestial harmony. Others are even humorous, such as the unruly child showing us his behind on the top right pilaster. Datable to about 1510, the painting certainly served as an altarpiece, perhaps for the urban priory of Drongen (Tronchiennes) in Ghent, where it was first documented in 1602.
December 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
cabinetstories.bsky.social
Maybe only some of us can see it?
December 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM