Holy Mountaineering

— Salvator Rosa (Italy, 1615–1673)

Italian conservator Lorenza D'Alessandro working on the conservation of the tomb of Nefertari, QV66, in the 1980s.

Who Is This Author? by Midnight Believer Via Flickr: 1977

Things get a little meta in this page from a mysterious 16th-century watercolour manuscript of geometrical figures and perspective drawings. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/solid-objects

A shadow looms over this collection of vintage sundials.

Daniel Cramer - Heart Process of a Rosicrucian Meditator: I Live, I Am Healed, I Am Endangered, I Am Crucified, I Meditate, I Am Redeemed, I Become Sweet, I Am Nothing, I Outweigh, I Build Myself Up (top to bottom), “The Rosicrucian Emblems”, 1617. “And so, Reader, you have the work of Death and Life, The embossings of the Holy page, and a short epigram. These will be able to show and teach your Mind What your state was once and what it may become today.”

Alberto Zardo (Italian, 1876-1959, b. Padua, Italy, d. Florence, Italy) - Inferno Canto 34, Satan in the Frozen Lake from The Divine Comedy, Painting