I photograph art, architecture & historic artefacts. License my images on Alamy. For prints, mugs, etc., go to Terence Kerr on Fine Art America (link below).
Penzance, Cornwall, UK
Joined July 2019
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St Damian, Arab-born doctor of medicine and Early Christian martyr. Late 1400s fresco by German artist Albert of Konstanz in church in Plomin, Croatia. Damian & brother Cosmas are patron saints of medicine and pharmacy. fineartamerica.com/featured/…
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SNEEZING According to European folk belief the soul can fly out of the mouth whenever a person sneezes. 'Bless you' will prevent it being captured by a demon (& death during plague). Worth knowing if you have a winter cold! 🎨Hellmouthes from Books of Hours.
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Today's research is into the life of the youngest daughter of King Charles I, Henriette of England aka 'Minette' who became Duchess of Orléans through her marriage to her cousin Philippe I, Duke of Orléans. #Stuarts
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Miniatura del Libro de horas de Carlos VIII de Francia, manuscrito iluminado en pergamino, siglo XV. Representa a Luis XII de Francia orante, tras él, de pie, Carlomagno.
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British artist Louis Duffy's 'Christ Driving the Money-lenders from the Temple' (1940) shows Christ as a truncheon-wielding everyman confronting business-suited arms dealers, one with talon-like hands, trading on graves of war dead ngv.vic.gov.au/essay/militar…
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In 1958, Philco introduced a television with a 25-foot cable that let you place the screen across the room while keeping the controls beside your chair.
Called the Philco Predicta Tandem, it featured a detachable 21-inch screen connected to a separate wooden cabinet housing the electronics, speaker, and controls.
The screen could be lifted off its stand and moved to another spot in the room, while the wooden cabinet stayed beside the viewer.
Philco summed up the idea in its original advertisement:
“Keep the set beside your chair. Put the picture anywhere.”
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Catalan artist Josep Franch-Clapers'
moving depiction of Republicans marched in French exile in 1939 escorted by Gendarme, the Tramontana wind blowing across the Roussillon, a terribly uncertain future ahead. He painted this in 1945.
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The Machars of Galloway in winter, when the trees are bare and the fields empty, takes on an air of something ancient slumbering.
#blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #Galloway #SouthernScotland
ALT Black and white photo of a bare tree next to a drainage ditch in a field. Benhind are more bare trees.
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Picasso's portrait of his daughter Maya is from 1943. 'I had just turned eight; my mother had ordered a dress from Dior in brown velvet with a lace collar from Caen.' The classic face-on portrait was inspired in part by his study of Puvis de Chavannes and possibly Ingres.
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Where’s Waldobert? - 12th century, Bibliothèques d'Amiens Métropole, Ms. 108, f. 254r
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A detail from Hieronymus Bosch's Cutting the Stone (c. 1494). A nun sits unbothered with a heavy leather book balanced on her head—a surreal, satirical symbol mocking false intellect, human folly, and useless knowledge while a charlatan surgeon performs a fake operation nearby.
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Among some artifacts smuggled out of Turkey to USA in the 90s and returned in 2023 after legal battles, was the type of marble idols referred to as Kilia idols aka Stargazers.
Thought to be used in fertility rituals in Anatolia around 3000 BCE.
