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Persian Ambassador during his entry into Kraków for the wedding ceremonies of King Sigismund III of Poland in 1605.

viva-caligula:

Louvre Mercury (by R. O. Flinn)

mediumaevum:

Voivode (Sergei Kirillov, 1997)
Voivode (derived from Old Slavonic language, literally means “One who leads warriors”) is a Slavic title that originally denoted the principal commander of a military force. The word gradually came to denote the governor of a province. The territory ruled or administered by a voivode is known as a voivodeship. In the English language, the title is often translated as “prince”, “duke”, or “count”.

tatteredbanners:

Fantaisie Egyptienne by Charles Allen Winter

mesbeauxarts:

Louis-François Lejeune. Assaut du monastère de San Engracia, 8 février 1809. 1827.
Oil on canvas.
Musée de l’Histoire de France, Château de Versailles. Versailles, France.

androphilia:

The Wrestler By Honoré Daumier, 1852-1853

centuriespast:

MedusaARTIST:Harriet Goodhue HosmerDATE:c. 1854

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

aboutegypt:

IMG_5273_A (by from_the_sky)

artemisdreaming:

Yun Shouping, Pear Blossom and Moon
Very brief:Gleam of blossoms in the treetopsOn a moonlit night
Basho

unhistorical:

March 5, 1770: The Boston Massacre takes place.
… although it was not much of a massacre at all, which is why the British more appropriately referred to it as the much less incendiary “Incident on King Street” (for the street on which it occurred). It is commonly cited as one of the foreshadowing events of the American Revolution. Despite Paul Revere’s famous engraving, however, it was not cold-blooded slaughter, but a muddled mess of a brawl that became propaganda material for both the Loyalists and Patriots, the latter of whom achieved great success in portraying the British as a firing squad murdering colonists.
The so-called ‘Boston Massacre’ began when a shouting match between a young colonist and young private turned into a tumult of angry Bostonians and overwhelmed, outnumbered soldiers. After snowballs and other objects were thrown at them, several of the soldiers began to fire into the crowd, hitting eleven. The most famous of the five who died was Crispus Attucks, a mixed-race runaway slave whose participation in the event was largely inflated during the abolitionist movement. After the event, John Adams, a Patriot, was beseeched by the Loyalists to defend the eight accused soldiers at their trial, and he famously agreed to do so.
He later wrote that the “foundation of American independence was laid” on this date.

mediumaevum:

The Hereford Mappa Mundi is the largest intact Medieval wall map in the world and its ambition is breathtaking – to picture all of human knowledge in a single image. The work of a team of artists, the world it portrays is overflowing with life, featuring Classical and Biblical history, contemporary buildings and events, animals and plants from across the globe, and the infamous ‘monstrous races’ which were believed to inhabit the remotest corners of the Earth.

0 - At the center of the map: Jerusalem, above it: the crucifix.
1 - The Paradise, surrounded by a wall and a ring of fire.
2 - The Ganges and its delta.
3 - The fabulous Island of Taphana, sometimes (possibly mis-)interpreted as Sri Lanka or Sumatra.
4 - Rivers Indus and Tigris.
5 - The Caspian Sea, and the land of Gog and Magog
6 - Babylon and the Euphrat.
7 - The Persian Gulf.
8 - The Red Sea (painted in Red).
9 - Noah’s Ark.
10 - The Dead Sea, Sodom and Gomorrha, with River Jordan, coming from Sea of Galiliee; above: Lot’s wife.
11 - Egypt with the River Nile.
12 - River Nile [?], or possibly an allusion to the equatorial Ocean; far outside: a land of freaks, possibly the Antipodes.
13 - The Azov Sea with Rivers Don and Dnjepr; above: the Golden Fleece.
14 - Constantinoples; left of it the Danube’s delta.
15 - The Aegean Sea.
16 - Oversized delta of the Nile with Alexandria’s Lighthouse.
17 - A person skiing.
18 - Greece with Mt. Olymp, Athens and Corinth
19 - Misplaced Crete with Minotaur’s circular labyrinth.
20 - The Adriatic Sea; Italy with Rome, honored by a popular heptameter: Roma caput mundi tenet orbis frena rotundi [Rome, the head, holds the reins of the world].
21 - Sicily, and Carthage, opposing Rome, right of it.
22 - Scotland.
23 - England.
24 - Ireland.
25 - The Baleares.
26 - The Strait of Gibraltar (the Pillars of Hercules).