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imjustli:

I have a question

How do you organize your books?

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vaspider:

lankyguy:

striving-artist:

millie1098:

alice-of-the-castle:

I have never heard of Norman Rockwell. I don’t understand anything about art. But this picture shook me and caused a storm of emotions. It is called Breaking Home Ties, 1954

The boy is going to a Uni and wearing his best outfit; the Uni sticker is on his luggage, even his tie and his socks are the colours of the sticker. He is excited and impatient. The father - obviously a farmer, is sitting at the worn farm truck with a flag and a storm lamp, because their place is so small the train won’t normally stop there, so the father will need to “catch” the train and signal with the light and the flag for it to stop.

His son will never come back to the farm.  

I think I understand why this picture sold at 15,4 million dollars in 2006. 

Great paintings by Norman Rockwell of everyday Americana.

Norman Rockwell specialized in exactly this, OP. You can look at almost all of his paintings and find a story in it. Some are sweet, some are poignant, some just show family. They are all stories, and they all have story woven into every single detail.

And because it is my favorite, this is “Shiner”

Rockwell’s mentor was A.C. Leyendecker best known for his illustrations of the Arrow Collar shirt man. The model was Leyendecker’s lover. Rockwell was a pallbearer at Leyendecker’s funeral.

Rockwell’s paintings also dealt quite a bit with social issues as he got older and after the Saturday Evening Post made him remove a Black person from an image bc Black people “could only depicted in service jobs”.

As a result he left the Post & created (among other works) The Problem We All Live With and Murder in Mississippi.

45percenterthen:

45percenterthen:

caving as an extreme sport is sooo unfathomable to me why are u as a creature of the daylight doing that. were u born without the dread in ur bones or something

come 9 year olds let us sleep in the hell fissures where time goes to suffocate

wtf kind of Lost Johns’ Cave Buried-alignment indoctrination is this

Vikings in the Mediterranean

warsofasoiaf:

If the Anon who was asking about vikings is interested in the earlier period, then I suggest Ann Cristys' Vikings in the South: Voyages to Iberia and the Mediterranean and Anders Winroth's The Age of the Vikings, which will provide a good overview of the involvement of the vikings in the Mediterranean and viking society as a whole. For daily life, I recommend Kirsten Wolf's Viking Age: Everyday Life During the Extraordinary Era of the Norsemen, while the only well regarded book on viking warfare that I’ve been able to find is Kim Hjardar and Vegard Vike's Vikings at War - fortunately it’s very reasonably priced and contains a wealth of drawings and images in addition to the text.

For Sicily, Leonardo C. Chiarelli's A History of Muslim Sicily is your best bet for understanding Sicily under Muslim rule - it goes down to the Norman invasion, so it’s worth reading even if you want to go the later Norman route. I recommend supplementing it with James E. Lindsay's Daily Life in the Medieval Islamic World. 

The ones most likely to hire viking mercenaries are the Byzantines, so John Haldon's The Byzantine Wars and Warfare, State and Society in the Byzantine World, 565-1204, and Marcus Louis Rautman's Daily Life in the Byzantine Empire are also worthwhile reads if you want to look at the world and structure the mercenaries would be working within.

For a general overview of Europe and the Mediterranean in the 9th and 10th centuries, I also recommend Chris Whickham's The Inheritance of Rome.

Hergrim at it again with good submissions.

-SLAL

dranor44:

dranor44:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

bricques:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

reminder that full suits of armor...weren’t actually the norm for medieval warfare. like, at all.

full plate armor was only widely used for less than a century, at the end of the Middle Ages. it was soon outdated by the growing use of firearms, and was more common in performative jousting than in actual warfare.

and knights in shining armor? they probably barely existed. shining suits of armor were the sorts of things kings wore in parades–the medieval equivalent of a fashion photoshoot. in reality, polishing armor to a shine was horribly expensive and difficult to maintain on grimy battlefields–painted armor was much more practical. 

knights in shining armor existed in medieval times the same way hardboiled detectives existed in the 20th century–as a trope for contemporary & future audiences to romanticize. in that regard, they were very successful!

shut up nerd

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Besides the yearly application of linseed oil paint, they also russeted the armor, or even left the blackened forge scale on it.

The latter two might be the reason behind the term Black Knight which may be an insult to lesser Nobles.

@biggest-gaudiest-patronuses

Damn those victorians!! They scrubbed off the finish to look more rich!

Painted

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larplyyyyyyf:

Last week I had to stay home sick from work and I figured, when is there a better time to work on a new project?? So behold, a short renaissance houppelande with scalloped dagging on the sleeves. It’s made from blue wool, purple upholstery velvet and lined with a black and blue floral brocade. I also think the little square buttons are super cute. I only wish I had about 10 more to add to it.

All up this project took me about 11 hours to make and it’s probably the most professional looking thing I’ve ever produced. Needless to say, I’m a bit proud of myself.

Also, bonus blue leather belt with hand stamping and renaissance buckle and decorated hat, both of which I made the weekend before. I’m so happy to be feeling inspired enough to make things again!