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JJ Merelo
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Student of a BA in Art History by day, professor by another day.
Venetophile
Posts in English, Italian and Spanish.
Let’s go back to Denver (figuratively, I don’t see any good reason for going to the USA in the foreseeable future, to check out this, can you see where where it got its inspiration? It’s the Daniels and Fisher tower, that was built in 1911 as a simple milestone that marked a department store.
December 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I managed to get in a retirement home that, managed by the Brotherhood of the Charity and Refuge, has inherited many works of art from the 17th century. I showed the building the other day, it’s a modernist work by Wilhelmi, a local architect. But this painting and others are something else.
December 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Winter sunlight illuminating the tower of Southwark Cathedral this morning. Here Shakespeare buried his younger brother Edmund, an actor aged just twenty-seven in December 1607, at the cost of twenty shillings “with a forenoone knell of the great bell.”
December 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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This was… expected
December 2, 2025 at 6:06 AM
We’ve talked about stations several times before, and this one, Union Station in Denver, Colorado, USA, stands on its own. Built, as recorded in the side, in 1880. It’s got a clock, t’s got high arched windows, but this is America so a bit of neon can’t hurt. It’s now become, since recently, a hotel
December 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.

If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.

It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
A “memento morí” that includes a copy of a “Gisant” or effigy originally created by Arnolfo di Cambio, a Tuscan sculptor in the 13th century.
The frame is Baroque, however. The “golden eggs” are the Chigi symbol, from Alexander VII, who intervened in Saint John of Letran in the 17th century
November 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
And owl mystery solved. It's simply a decoy to scare away pigeons and others www.bauhaus.es/repelentes-p... Someone placed it there to avoid them taking over the niche. Maybe there was something there before, maybe not, who knows. Thanks to Reddit user becs1932 www.reddit.com/r/askarthist...
November 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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$1.6bln: The amount of his fraud scheme

7: Years of his sentence

10,000: Victims of his fraud

1,000: Letters from victims to the court

13: Days he served

1: Pardon from Trump

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Hungary must immediately be stripped of their EU voting rights.
Hungary rejects EU push for media pluralism

Hungary broke ranks on Friday, rejecting the Council’s conclusions on access to reliable, free media, arguing that the EU is overstepping its authority and interfering in media freedom.
Hungary rejects EU push for media pluralism
Hungary broke ranks on Friday, rejecting the Council’s conclusions on access to reliable, free media, arguing that the EU is overstepping its authority and interfering in media freedom.
www.euractiv.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:53 PM
While on an errand, I remembered this building a bit off the way and returned to take some pictures. It’s the Carmen de los Alarifes, and it was built in 1938, during the civil War, by the architect Francisco Prieto Moreno, a rather prolific architect in the city of Granada.
November 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Gloom. Despair. Agony. Illustration from America: A Prophecy in 1795 but very current sentiment as well. By William Blake, born on this day in 1757.
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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www.tumblr.com/ymutate/8014...

William Blake, 1757

Satan in his original glory: "You were perfect until evil was found in you. "Pen, ink and watercolor on paper, c 1805.
November 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Just 10k signatures needed now
November 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I found this while tagging pictures from 2016 and I couldn’t resist; the combination of message, urban decay and classicist decoration makes it a ready-made work of art in the style of Duchamp. And it all looks designed: someone didn’t want random people to sit on their garage or storage local.
November 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
It was sunny August when I visited Olten for a #rakulang workshop; it’s a picture-perfect town, as most in Switzerland are, and this is one of the features: the Rathskeller, a typical restaurant. I think we had a few drinks there, but I want to focus today on the art and architecture.
November 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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“I told the president that the Russian Federation has always wanted a peace deal. That's my belief," - Steve Witkoff
November 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Putin is a child murderer
⚡️ A 12-year-old girl wounded in Russia’s strike on Ternopil has died in the hospital.

Her death brings the toll to 35 people killed in the attack, including seven children.

🧵 1/3 ⬇️
November 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
BTW, the press revealed most of that years ago, and he’s kept his seat at the Parliament, initially as socialist, then as non-ascribed but always voting with the socialists, and even now he keeps his status, although he can’t vote from jail or will be receiving his wage.
Transport minister, general secretary of the party in power, and best buddy with current prime minister.
Also sugar daddy for many women for whom he got plush jobs in government or government enterprises, host to the illegal visit of the Venezuelan foreign minister and oh so many things…
Spain’s Supreme Court ordered lawmaker and former Public Works and Transport Minister José Luis Ábalos to be jailed without bond today after deeming him a flight risk ahead of his corruption trial.
November 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Transport minister, general secretary of the party in power, and best buddy with current prime minister.
Also sugar daddy for many women for whom he got plush jobs in government or government enterprises, host to the illegal visit of the Venezuelan foreign minister and oh so many things…
Spain’s Supreme Court ordered lawmaker and former Public Works and Transport Minister José Luis Ábalos to be jailed without bond today after deeming him a flight risk ahead of his corruption trial.
Judge jails former Spanish minister ahead of trial, deepening deadlock in parliament
The imprisonment of José Luis Ábalos makes it virtually impossible for Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to pass legislation.
www.politico.eu
November 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Amazing in every way: Altarpiece of St. Vincent Ferrer, church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice. 1464. Paintings by Giovanni Bellini, whose day is today. Enframement also more than A+!
November 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
What’s in a painting? Depends on who you ask, there are materials, pigments, or color, design, shapes… and there are also symbols and what they mean. And this particular painting, a fresco by Ghirlandaio, the Florentine artist, in the Tornabuoni Chapel in Santa Maria Novella, made history.
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This is the Polytechnic building of the university of Granada that hosts a few engineering degrees, from environmental to civil. It’s relatively new, built this century, and has rotational symmetry, with most features interchangeable if you rotate it 90º. I can’t help but think of the Pantheon.
November 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM