Joseph Sattler
28th May 2012✧14:257 notes
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Ein Einsiedler führt Rosse zur Tränke, Moritz von Schwind
26th May 2012✧17:108 notes
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centuriespast: UNKNOWN MASTER, GermanVision of St John the Evangelistc. 1450Oil on oak panel, 132,3 x 161,5 cmWallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne
16th May 2012✧19:0729 notes
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gallarusarts: A Carved Infant in Swaddling Clothes Wood Gingerbread Fertility Mold. Germany, circa 1600 This form was hand carved to make a gingerbread cake to be given to newlyweds to encourage fertility and new children often on their wedding day. This example is particularly fine and was probably carved by the gingerbread baker himself whose initials are carved into the side. amazing. i would eat so much gingerbread cake if it was in an infant shape.
9th May 2012✧12:1421 notes
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mediumaevum: Monstrance Clock or Mirror Clock, ca. 1570Made in Nuremberg, GermanyCase of gilt bronze; dial of gilt brass; movement of steel In addition to showing the hours, the astrolabe dial of this clock (parts of which are now missing) was made to indicate the apparent motions of twenty-three stars in the northern hemisphere, the position of the sun and the moon in the zodiac, the astrological houses of heaven, and the age and phase of the moon in its monthly cycle. The recessed ring encircling the chapter of hours gives the day of the year, saints’ days, and other calendrical information for the period beginning in 1570 and ending in 1610. The dial on top is for setting the alarm. The inclusion of a clock such as this one in a Kunstkammer would have demonstrated the owner’s familiarity with cosmology, astronomy, and astrology. i love all the information contained in this object
26th Jan 2012✧20:09318 notes
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A Symphony, Moritz von Schwind, 1852
9th Jan 2012✧18:2219 notes
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yama-bato: By JOSEF MARIA AUCHENTALLER 1865-1949   [+] Calendar, 1901 here Ver Sacrum ,1901 reminds me of the masque of the red death
26th Dec 2011✧16:3582 notes
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from Jugend Magazine, 1897
23rd Dec 2011✧14:4212 notes
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(via demonbloodspiders, 010734) so amazing
22nd Dec 2011✧17:302,655 notes
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centuriespast: CHRISTUS, Petrus (b. 1410/20, Baarle, d. 1475/76, Brugge) Portrait of a Young Girlc. 1470Oak, 29 x 23 cmStaatliche Museen, Berlin
19th Dec 2011✧15:2259 notes
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Opaque  by  andbamnan