#Renaissance

Gray Connolly

GrayConnolly

Am grateful to the Pontifical Swiss Guard for the opportunity to visit their historic armoury at the Vatican. Here is the historic uniforms, body armour & helmets of the Swiss

Park Lore

ThemeParkLore

THREAD!: 31 years ago TODAY, the spark of the Disney Renaissance caught fire when The Little Mermaid premiered. For a decade and nine films, Disney could do no wrong. If

Rebecca Levitan

LevintheMed

All I want for Christmas is...an $80 million portrait of an unknown man!With everything going on in the world, a @Sothebys' sale next month may not seem newsworthy - but

Shavonne

shavonnemateen

Upopular Opinions//Black Church Edition: 1. The African American Church composed of enslaved black people and freemen was and should be considered as the persecuted church in the 18th-early 20th century.

Brian Whelan

brianwhelanhack

What’s an unlikely statue you’ve come across? The Giles statue of a Daily Express cartoon in Ipswich surprised me. Bruce Lee in Mostar, Bosnia, supposedly an attempt at finding a

Tinu Abayomi-Paul

Tinu

What's funny about community support for artists and activists is this is how it was always done, up until around the 80s. Only we didn't have to ask, hat in

Imogen Foxell

imogenfoxell

My merchant of Venice cards arrived already! Published by @FlipsCoCards with words from @mssfax. This was a great text to illustrate: Venice, renaissance outfits, Jewish history, complex and ambiguous characters,

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Dr_Sweets23

Meek Mill being an embarrassment: a thread chess not checkers a fry for help bunny hopping for the yt man modern renaissance photo unforgivable grown ass man robert takes a

Gregory Norminton

GDRNorminton

Reading Clive James's brilliant translation of Dante's INFERNO. No medieval work of literature casts so active a shadow: impossible to imagine the work of William Blake or T.S. Eliot or

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pawscreatures

I'm glad this brings up cherubs because classical art is often used as a defence and in that specific case I've never seen a sexualized cherub painting. but you know

Cynthia Miller

cynthiawmiller

Poets, writers, publicists who have launched a book during a pandemic - how did you do it? What's working best?Readers & book lovers - what kind of launch experiences have

Tomos Evans

TomosEvans01

Currently reading James Hankins’ brilliant Virtue Politics, and his rallying cry for the need to urgently address the vast neglect of scholarly attention of Neo-Latin texts by *specifically* Anglophone academics,

Dirk Schwenk (Esq) 🎵

DirkSchwenk

WASTE FRAUD AND ABUSE. A thread on taxation and governance. (I know that sounds boring, just read it - you need it). The economy is like the water cycle. Money

Dr Ashish A Malik

ashish_a_malik

Today Jim Prosser retires from an active career. Thread.His work is well known but just wanted to highlight some of his achievements with help from @graemepaton007. It was a pleasure

Immanent_Metalepsis

IMetalepsis

It is becoming clear to me that the "new polytheists" are part of a sociological-historical phenomenon reasonably distinct from occult revival (Renaissance or Victorian hermetism), völkisch romanticism (ariosophy, theodism) or

RC deWinter

RCdeWinter

With the resurgence of scum like the Proud Boys et al I'm going to post #photos of the unAmerican extremists who support @realDonaldTrump and this #IllegitimateRegime. The world needs to

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