"But all sorts of “dead” languages enjoy important existences today, albeit in quieter, more subtle ways. They’re threaded almost invisibly through contemporary culture, kept in shape by a combination of tradition and devotion, like good hand-stitching."

Josephine Livingstone, Why You Should Learn a Dead Language (via mesogeios)

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kvetchlandia:

André Kertész       Les toits de Paris       1963

amare-habeo:

Arrigo Minerbi (Italian, 1881 – 1960)

Mask of Napoleon as Medusa, 1910

Wax, height 51 cm

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thunderstruck9:

Michael Ayrton (British, 1921-1975), Man at Anvil, 1945. Oil on board, 21.6 x 29.2 cm.

kvetchlandia:

Uncredited Artist     Male Sans-culotte, Makers of the French Revolution     c.1793

kvetchlandia:

Uncredited Artist     Female Sans-culotte, Makers of the French Revolution     c.1793

arpeggia:

Munemasa Takahasi - Birds on The Heads

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lionofchaeronea:

Marble head of a Roman priest of the Egyptian goddess Isis.  Artist unknown; 2nd cent. CE or later.  Now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  Photo credit: LACMA.

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hideback:

Ice Fountain, Washington Boulevard, Detroit, 1917

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colin-vian:

   Lionel Smit peintre , sculpteur Sud Africain contemporain

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