Fragmentary head of a king, made in Egypt, c.1400-1390 BC...

Fragmentary head of a king, made in Egypt, c.1400-1390 BC (source).

Bronze mirror, made in Iran in the 13th century (source). The...

Bronze mirror, made in Iran in the 13th century (source). The inscription reads: “Glory, longevity, power, splendor, honor, praise, beatitude, eminence, sovereignty, increase, might, grace - given to the owner forever”.

Huybertje Lansing Pruyn (Mrs. Charles S.) Hamlin...

Huybertje Lansing Pruyn (Mrs. Charles S.) Hamlin (1873-1964)

Charlotte Burt Kirkham

1900

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Skipper Ireson’s Ride Will Hicok Low 1880-1 Will Hicok Low...

Skipper Ireson’s Ride

Will Hicok Low

1880-1

Will Hicok Low was one of the first Albany residents to join the great migration of American students to Paris after the Civil War, but he’d returned to the US when the commission came for this work, the subject for which was to be “absolutely American.” The subject is drawn from John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem of the same name. It tells the pessimistic story of a Massachusetts sea captain who refused to rescue a vessel that was sinking off Cape Cod and then was punished by the wives, sisters, and mothers of the seamen who died. Low depicted the peculiarly American practice of “tar and feathering” and kept very close to the actual description in the poem’s last stanza. The painting was not well received in Europe, but at home critics generally responded favorably to the work; some considered it Low’s finest achievement.

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Morning, Looking East Over the Hudson Valley from the Catskill...

Morning, Looking East Over the Hudson Valley from the Catskill Mountains

Frederic Edwin Church

1848

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Unknown Artist

Unknown Artist

Pearl Frush

Pearl Frush

Edward Runci

Edward Runci

Avocado eggs benedic

Avocado eggs benedict. Yum!

Почти человек...

Xray en Pointe

Xray en Pointe

Catskill Mountain House DeWitt Clinton Boutelle 1845 The Albany...

Catskill Mountain House

DeWitt Clinton Boutelle

1845

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Apple Cider Glazed S

Apple Cider Glazed Sweet Potatoes

Mangum Pottery: Mugs

Mangum Pottery: Mugs etc.

Wow

Wow

Стамбул

Ha !

Ha !

Leaping Cat

Leaping Cat

Personnage Bizango

Lié aux rites méconnus des sociétés secrètes Bizango d'Haïti, ce type de statue offre une apparence violente, agressive, beliqueuse. A l'image de ces organisations secrètes fonctionnant comme une institution militaire, ces personnages possèderaient des grades militaires : capitaine, général, empereur... Celui-ci a été présenté comme un "empereur", sans aucune confirmation. Enveloppés de tissus cousus rouge et noir, les couleurs de la société secrète, ils offrent des attributs spécifiques : lance, bouclier, épée...

Be Thankful

Be Thankful

White Bean Dip (with

White Bean Dip (with basil, sundried tomato or black olive tapenade) with Veggies

Держатель факела. Дворец Строцци. Италия.

Барак Обама

Давно я сюда не заходила. Но сегодня не могу молчать! Я счастлива - победил Барак Обама.

Это лучший выбор!

Coat of Arms of the City of Albany Attributed to Ezra Ames Circa...

Coat of Arms of the City of Albany

Attributed to Ezra Ames

Circa 1825

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Your smug vegan indignity won't bring this delicious turkey back to life.

Ruined Tower (Mediterranean Coast Scene with Tower) Thomas...

Ruined Tower (Mediterranean Coast Scene with Tower)

Thomas Cole

1832-6

Albany Institute of History and Art

Belshazzar’s Feast Unidentified Artist c. 1742 The Albany...

Belshazzar’s Feast

Unidentified Artist

c. 1742

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The Crowning of King Jeroboam Unidentified Limner c. 1735 The...

The Crowning of King Jeroboam

Unidentified Limner

c. 1735

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Albany Rural Cemetery James M. Hart (1828-1901) 1849 The Albany...

Albany Rural Cemetery

James M. Hart (1828-1901)

1849

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Barbara Browne Bart, Lady Mostyn Thomas Gainsborough...

Barbara Browne Bart, Lady Mostyn

Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788)

1759

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Dawn of Morning, Lake George Jasper Francis Cropsey...

Dawn of Morning, Lake George

Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823-1900)

1868

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Dwarf Sunflower Walter Launt Palmer (1854-1932) 1875-1881 The...

Dwarf Sunflower

Walter Launt Palmer (1854-1932)

1875-1881

The Albany Institute of History & Art

Your doomsday preparations seem a lot less crazy now that Snooki is a mother and best-selling author.

You're the James Bond of clandestine Facebook stalking.

I can't wait for the weekend so I can sit at home and wish I had something better to do.

I intend to spend my day doing as little as is humanly possible without actually dying.

I'm confident the fiscal cliff will get resolved before I'm able to comprehend an article about the fiscal cliff.

Let's hang out on the off chance we hate each other less than we hate everyone else.

You creepin’ on my snake dick, bro? (submitted by...

You creepin’ on my snake dick, bro?

(submitted by poliorketes)

I can't think of anyone else I'd rather spend hating the rest of my life with.

Twilight (Sunset) Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) 1856 The...

Twilight (Sunset)

Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900)

1856

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Миниатюры

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Français 24955, f.72r. François Rochefort, La vie de la belle et clere Magdalene. Early 16th century.

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Français 2813, detail of f.95v. Grandes chroniques de France de Charles V. Paris, c.1375-1380.

Two ruffians attempting to gouge out Pope Leo III’s eyes and cut off his tongue.

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB Cgm 8010 a, detail of f.8. Furtmeyr-Bibel (Deutsche Bibel AT, Genesis - Ruth). 15th century. Artist: Berthold Furtmeyr.





British Library, Add 49622, f. 190v. The Gorleston Psalter. 1310-1324





British Library, Add 49622, f. 61r. The Gorleston Psalter. 1310-1324





British Library, Add 49622, f. 133r. The Gorleston Psalter. 1310-1324.





British Library, Add 49622, f. 133r. The Gorleston Psalter. 1310-1324.





Douai, B. m., ms. 0301, f. 001v. Gregory, Moralia in Job. Flanders, 1st quarter of the 12th century.





Lausanne, Bibliothèque Cantonale et Universitaire, U 964, detail of f. 480v (woman clothed with the sun, dragon with seven heads). Biblia Porta. Franco-Flemish, end of the 13th century.





Amiens - BM - ms.0108, f. 255. Bible. Pamplona, 1197.

Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, Ms-5080 réserve, f. 75r (St Clement of Metz and the dragon). Vincent of Beauvais, Miroir historial, French translation by Jean de Vignay, Books IX-XVI. Paris, c1335.

” While we fed our eyes with the sight of the phizzes and actions of these lounging gulligutted Gastrolaters, we on a sudden heard the sound of a musical instrument called a bell; at which all of them placed themselves in rank and file as for some mighty battle, everyone according to his office, degree, and seniority.

In this order they moved towards Master Gaster, after a plump, young, lusty, gorbellied fellow, who on a long staff fairly gilt carried a wooden statue, grossly carved, and as scurvily daubed over with paint; such a one as Plautus, Juvenal, and Pomp. Festus describe it. At Lyons during the Carnival it is called Maschecroute or Gnawcrust; they call’d this Manduce.

It was a monstrous, ridiculous, hideous figure, fit to fright little children; its eyes were bigger than its belly, and its head larger than all the rest of its body; well mouth-cloven however, having a goodly pair of wide, broad jaws, lined with two rows of teeth, upper tier and under tier, which, by the magic of a small twine hid in the hollow part of the golden staff, were made to clash, clatter, and rattle dreadfully one against another; as they do at Metz with St. Clement’s dragon. - Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Bk. IV, Ch. LIX.

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Nouvelle acquisition française 15939, detail of f.11 (fall of the angels). Vincent of Beauvais, Miroir historial, French translation of Jean de Vignay. Paris, c.1370-1380.





Bibliothèque nationale de France, Français 2664, detail of f. 142r (surrender of Bruges after the Battle of Beverhoutsveld - Field of the Beaver Hats - 1382). Jean Froissart, Chroniques. 1st quarter of the 15th century.





Bibliothèque Mazarine, Ms 870-1, f. 86. Laurent d’Orléans, Somme le roi. 1295





Bibliothèque nationale de France, Nouvelle acquisition française 15943, f. 75 (a hermit being dragged away by a demon). Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum historiale. Paris, c.1370-1380





Bibliothèque nationale de France, Nouvelle acquisition française 15944, f. 101v (demons taking the sinner’s son). Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum historiale. Paris, c.1370-1380

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB Cgm 8010 a, details of ff.148r and 148v. Furtmeyr-Bibel (Deutsche Bibel AT, Genesis - Ruth). 15th century. Artist: Berthold Furtmeyr.

Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them. And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. - Job 1:6-7