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❖ Veronika. Ukraine (Kyiv)
I post whatever I find interesting or beautiful, mostly within the following themes:
Vintage black-and-white photographs of cities and people
Visual art, especially Symbolism
Military artifacts & history
Memento mori
Slavic-inspired pagan motifs
This blog is essentially a collection of images, artworks, artifacts, and ideas that I find aesthetically or historically compelling.
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“Erwachen” / “Awakening” – Albrecht Leistner (1922)
“Eve Before Sin” – René-Jules Godard (1919)
The Devonshire House Costume Ball of 1897.
Mademoiselle de Courcel as a Valkyrie by Alfred Ellis, photogravure by Walker & Boutall (1897, published 1899)
Helmet-Shaped Headdress (Northern Black Sea Region, 4th Century BC)
Type: Helmet-shaped headdress
Origin: Ak-Burun Kurgan, vicinity of Kerch, Crimea, Northern Black Sea Region
Culture: Bosporan Kingdom
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Scythian Akinakes from the Lyta Mohyla Kurgan (7th century BC)
Discovered in the Melgunov (Lyta Mohyla) Kurgan, one of the earliest known royal Scythian burial mounds, dating to the second half of the 7th century BC. Excavated in 1763 and entered the Hermitage collection in 1859.
Type: Akinakes (Scythian short sword)
Overall size: 11 × 26 cm
Origin: Dnieper region, near Yelyzavetgrad (present-day Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine)
Material: gold, iron
Technique: embossing (repoussé)
“Valkyrie” – Stephan Sinding (“The Studio”, Vol. 53, #219, June 1911)
Hand and a half sword, German or Swiss, circa 1550-1580
from Alban Arms and Armor
Albrecht Graf von Habsburg – Albrecht Dürer (1514-1515)
“Evocation” – Max Klinger (1894)
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Ceremonial sword (mid–late 16th century)
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
According to tradition, the sword was presented by the Venetian Republic to Sigismund I the Old. Stylistic features suggest production in a Venetian workshop. It was later held in the Nieśwież Castle collection and the Tsarskoye Selo Arsenal until 1886.
Type: Ceremonial sword
Overall length: 106 cm
Blade length: 84 cm
Origin: Venice (?), Italy
Material: steel, silver, mother-of-pearl, amethyst
Technique: bluing, gold damascening, engraving, gilding
Decoration: Blued steel blade decorated with gold damascening depicting dragons and crocodile-like mythical creatures; moorish-style hilt; scabbard decorated with mother-of-pearl, gilded silver, coloured glass, and stone inlays.
“Una esclava en venta” / “A Slave for Sale” – José Jiménez Aranda (1897)
The sign hanging from her neck bears a Greek inscription ΡΟΔΟΝ ΕΤΩΝ ΙΗ ΠΩΛΕΙΤΑΙ ΜΝΑΣ Ω – “Rose, 18 years old, on sale for 800 coins”
“The Helmet and the Shield of Gold of Charles IX., the Spur of Charlemagne, a Carbine of the Fifteenth Century, a Missal and a Gate of the Gallery of Apollo at the Louvre” – Blaise Alexandre Desgoffe (1876)
“Bosnian Legends: Murcia – The Plague Lady” – Alphonse Mucha (1899)
The Embrace – Alphonse Mucha, possibly 1900
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Austrian school, early 19th century
A vanitas still life with a skull, sheet music, silver and gold coins, a bouquet of flowers and a broken candle
German Rapier (c. 1630–1650)
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Type: Rapier
Overall length: 100.3 cm
Blade length: 86.5 cm
Grip: 12.3 cm
Weight: 840 g
Origin: Germany
Material: steel (blued, gilded, perforated blade)
Technique: bluing, gilding, perforation, chiseling, russeting, damascening
