I love the amazing, remarkable early American Peale family.


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*sob!*  They killed Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier!  I hate the Reign of Terror!

I was looking up info on Lavoisier whose design was the basis for Stephen Maturin's trephine ("I have an improved Lavoisier's trephine, a magnificent instrument with extraordinary biting power; and if you choose, you shall turn the handle!") because I wanted to see ( Read more... )

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I've made a medieval and renaissance illuminated manuscript mood theme.  I'm not exactly sure how the idea came about, but I've been working on it gradually for a while.  If you'd like to use it, help yourself, or pass it along to your friends or communities or anyone you like.

You may even hotlink, because the images won't be going anywhere.  All ( Read more... )

I found this artist online, Giorgio Griffa, and his watercolors and collages are BEAUTIFUL.  He has a website with an image gallery here, and also has images on flickr here.  I left a comment on his website, and then on flickr, and we've been emailing back and forth a little bit - me writing in Italian and him writing in English (and both of us ( Read more... )