These Were the Most Prominent Members of the Medici Family
"The Medici family and its members are well known for their patronage of the great artists of the Renaissance and their intriguing business and politics."
https://www.thecollector.com/most-prominent-members-medici-family/
Books about the Medici at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/16208
Pope Leo X with two Cardinals by Raphael
Her Intricate Paper Cuttings Outsold Rembrandts. Who Was the Dutch Master Known as ‘Scissors Minerva’?
Joanna Koerten was a super star of the Dutch Golden Age. A new museum exhibition at D.C.'s National Museum of Women in the Arts puts her back in the spotlight.
by Katie White
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/joanna-koerten-paper-cutting-nwma-dutch-women-2698104
This famous poster from the Holocaust Museum displays the early warning signs of #fascism. While still applicable, I want to make it clear that we are chest-deep in the #fascist #cesspool and have been for *years*.
Pinning this to my profile in case you know someone who still has doubts. Send them this post.
History is repeating itself once again.
#unitedstates #uspol #uspolitics #antifascism #warning #History #resistandinsist
Throughout former Yugoslavia, brightly colored kiosks began to emerge as hot dog stands, flower shops, currency exchanges, ticket booths, and more. "Kiosk: The Last Modernist Booths Across Central and Eastern Europe," features more than 150 examples photographed by David Navarro and Martyna Sobecka.
On October 23 1956 the #HungarianRevolution ignited
It lasted 15 days
It was crushed by #Soviet Tanks
On the anniversary Thursday, there were protests against #Orban
Peter Lakits, holding a sign reading "Russians Go Home":
“One thing we have learned from #history is that we have learned nothing from history. Sometimes the tanks that crushed #freedom in #Budapest are the very same ones that are now crushing freedom in #Ukraine"
https://www.rferl.org/a/hungary-rally-orban-magyar-uprising-budapest-ukraine/33568791.html
Charles Boycott, The Hated English Land Agent Whose Name Inspired The Word ‘Boycott’
By Ainsley Brown
"After Charles Boycott tried to evict a number of his tenant farmers in 1880, locals in County Mayo, Ireland, fought back by ostracizing him — leading to the term "boycott."
The #Trump #DOJ has placed 2 federal prosecutors in Washington on leave a day after they filed a document in court that referred to the #Jan6, 2021, attack on the #US Capitol as a “riot” carried out by a “mob,” 2 people familiar with the matter said.
Imagine if they’d called it what it actually was, an #insurrection carried out by #insurgents.
#law #history #facts #SeditiousConspiracy #coup #whitewashing #gaslighting #propaganda
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/10/29/trump-jan-6-prosecutors-suspended/
44 Photos That Will Take You Back To The Early Years Of Computers
By Austin Harvey
"Technology has advanced exponentially since the release of the first personal computer in 1974, but these vintage photos capture the time before handheld devices and social media."
https://allthatsinteresting.com/vintage-computer-photos
Books about computers at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=computer
“While the clearances in Sutherland were at their height in the second decade of the 19th century, around 1815, the clearances of the late 1840s and early 1850s – in places like South Uist and Barra – were far worse in terms of sheer brutality.”
—James Hunter, Director of the Centre for History at the University of the Highlands & Islands, selects five books on the history of the Highland Clearances
https://fivebooks.com/best-books/james-hunter-on-the-highland-clearances/
#Scottish #history #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #19thcentury #HighlandClearances
These Researchers Study the Legacy of the #Segregation Academies They Grew Up Around
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Three young academics in #Alabama are examining these mostly white private #schools through the lenses of #economics, #education and #history to better understand the persistent division of schools in the #South.
#News #Race #School #Students #Teachers #CivilRights
https://www.propublica.org/article/alabama-researchers-segregation-academies-school-vouchers
读过 Economy Hall 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕
[Made in NOLA] 一堆險些被當廢紙處理的破舊日誌記載的竟是延續百年的紐奧良黑人社群協作和抗爭的歷史。從這些破舊記錄裡還原的一個個鮮活個體的故事竟可以一直延續到作者著手調查和寫作的過程中，從可以在這些日誌找到自己祖先的左鄰右舍，到見證社團舊址最後一刻命運的父母摯友，更不用說熟識的樂界泰斗無不將這個曾經位於 Treme 社區裡的小樓尊為爵士樂的聖堂。所以說嘛，我們在紐奧良的小學從來沒教過愛國歌曲，coz New Orleans is way much Greater than this sick country. 真是受不了沒文化的北方佬“my country my country”地叨叨叨…NOLA獨立 刻不容緩！
10 Of History’s Biggest And Most Infamous Psychopaths
By Katie Serena
"From bathing in girls' blood to making homemade conjoined twins, these 10 famous psychopaths are some of the most terrifying people in the history of the world."
https://allthatsinteresting.com/famous-psychopaths
Elizabeth Bathory
Sulphuric Acid Only
https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/sulphuric-acid-only-justin-farrimond.html
Down below, on the tracks you know, they say he fetched his supplies. Evidence would simply disappear.
From Sarret to Haigh on a train with no return.
#PhotoOfTheDay #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Art #Print #Railway #History #Acid
Globe In The Alley
https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/globe-in-the-alley-justin-farrimond.html
If you're lost you'll know where to find me.
#PhotoOfTheDay #BlackAndWhite #Print #Photography #Travel #History #Art #Heritage #Pub #InteriorDesign #Psychogeography #Globe
#art #history: every 28th october, i use elsa lanchester (born #otd in 1902) as an excuse to pay homage to mary wollstonecraft shelley's masterpiece, 'frankenstein'. mind you, elsa was pretty cool, herself. difficult not to be when you're the daughter of a suffragette who was also secretary to eleanor marx.
i've got more to say about elsa in the response posts below, so read or ignore as you wish.
#wip #illustration #cinema #literature #frankenstein #maryShelley #elsaLanchester
Santa Maria della Salute -- she is a spectacular work of architecture in Venice, Italy, one that draws the eye and attention by day, but even more so by night when her visage and detail are illuminated.
Santa Maria della Salute Illuminated art print -- https://stevehendersonart.com/featured/santa-maria-della-salute-illuminated-steve-henderson.html?product=art-print
#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #fedigiftshop #architecture #italy #venice #italia #venezia #church #cathedral #building #history #catholic #christian #blackandwhite #drawing #travel
#art #history: i promised myself that this year would be the one during which i paid tribute to the revolutionary, frida kahlo (born #otd in 1907), & then i was too busy to do her any sort of justice. not only have i rushed her portrait, but i've also had no time to write up the sort of blurb that she merits. she was a death-defying, genre-spanning communist powerhouse & diego was punching waaaaaaaay up. :)
#fridaKahlo #illustration #sketch #artist #mexico #communism
Brewing Controversy: How Coffee Sparked Fierce Debate in the 16th-Century
"A bitter new drink swept through the holy cities of Mecca and Medina in the early 1500s – and ignited one of the fiercest religious debates of the late-medieval Islamic world."
Books about coffee at PG:
4 Famous Historical Siblings Who Deserve Recognition
"They may have received all the fame, but some of history’s most impactful players had brothers and sisters who made their own mark. Here are four famous historical siblings."
https://www.thecollector.com/famous-historical-siblings-deserve-recognition/
Maria Anna Mozart
If a landscape ‘speaks’, can we hear it?
10 Nov, Edinburgh, & online. Tickets £6/£2
From the medieval West Highlands & Gaelic society, Prof Aonghus MacKechnie’s talk ranges through Early Modern Scotland, the exploitation of history & the ‘signage’ used by the Stewart monarchy, through to post-1660s classicism, Romanticism, “Improvement”, & militarism
#Scottish #history #culture #culturalstudies #placenames #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #EarlyModern #Romanticism #militarism
#OnThisDay, 3 Nov 1992, voters in Illinois, USA, make Carol Moseley Braun the first African-American woman to be a US Senator. She takes up office in 1993.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
#art #history: i could never pull myself away from any screen i chanced upon if gena rowlands was on it. from 'the alfred hitchcock hour' to 'columbo' & every collaboration with john cassavetes & peter falk in between, nobody will ever touch her enigmatic presence, her passion, her heart, mind, humour or spirit.
#illustration #cinema #genaRowlands #portrait
#OnThisDay, 5 Nov 1872, suffragists Susan B Anthony and 13 other women illegally vote in the US Presidential election.
Anthony is subsequently arrested and put on trial. She is found guilty, but refuses to pay the fine. The judge decides not to jail her.
Nine of the voters were initially reported as a "minor topic".
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons #VotesForWomen
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