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Artist: Noriyoshi Ohrai

Here, have some good phone lockscreens

Illustration from La Esfera by Manuel Bujados (June 1929)

Arthur Suydam, 1981

Illustration from Pierre Louÿs’ Les Chansons de Bilitis by Georges Barbier (1922)

Odysseus and Calypso (1882, oil on mahogany wood) | Arnold Böcklin

🗡𝐹𝑜𝓁𝓁𝑜𝓌 𝔇𝔲𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔬𝔫𝔩𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝑜𝓃 𝐼𝓃𝓈𝓉𝒶𝑔𝓇𝒶𝓂

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from The Khalili Collections

Siemen Dijkstra - color woodcuts

This has been very popular since the 18th century, combined with a cannon and a burning glass, is set so that when the sun reaches its highest point at noon, a charge of gunpowder is ignited by the bundled rays of the sun, so that a loud bang sounds. Larger examples were used in dockyards and army quarters to indicate lunchtime.

Nymphs Finding the Head of Orpheus by John William Waterhouse (1900)

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