Slavdom Unearthed: Marian Wawrzeniecki’s Neopagan Paintings (1891–1923) A neopagan visual archive meant to rival the iconic power of the Christian West. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/marian-wawrzeniecki #christianwest #rss #feeds #linksharing #qwibbit

Wonderful Weather: Floods and Foreboding in 17th-Century Britain When the Bristol Channel flooded in 1607, it was not just one of the worst natural disasters in British history, it was also a sign, for many, that they had strayed from the path of God. Erik Crnkovich examines the overlap of miraculous weather and the early modern printing industry, which cultivated a thirst for all things occult, exotic, and odd. https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/wonderful-weather #wonderfulweather #britain #bristolchannel #erikcrnkovich #god #rss #feeds #linksharing #qwibbit

Albrecht Dürer’s Monument to the Vanquished Peasants (1525) The design for a difficult-to-interpret monument that was never intended to be built. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/monument-to-the-vanquished-peasants #vanquishedpeasants #albrechtdurer #monument #rss #feeds #linksharing #qwibbit

“Earth Not a Globe”: Parallax’s Zetetic Astronomy (1865) A book more or less responsible for the revival of Flat Earth theories in the modern period. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/zetetic-astronomy #zeteticastronomy #globe #parallax #flatearth #rss #feeds #linksharing #qwibbit

Immortal Beloved: Krishna and Rādhā Exchanging Clothes (ca. 1700–1900) Indian images that grapple with the unbearable fact that lover and beloved are not one. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/krishna-and-radha-exchanging-clothes #exchangingclothes #radhaexchanging #immortalbeloved #rss #feeds #linksharing #qwibbit

“The Persian Mâr-Nâmeh or, The Book for Taking Omens from Snakes” (1892) A Zoroastrian text about serpents translated by the President of the Bombay Anthropological Society. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/marnameh

Photographs of Atlantic City Sand Sculpture (ca. 1880–1920) Photographs from when Atlantic City beaches featured artists ornately sculpting sand. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/atlantic-city-sand-sculpture

Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge Centuries before Neo instantly mastered Kung Fu in The Matrix, medieval scholars found a shortcut to years of difficult study: a magical manuscript that promised to fast-track advanced learning. Anne Lawrence-Mathers investigates the Ars notoria, its supposed powers, and the demonic influence it had upon some users. https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/ars-notoria

The Ties that Bind: Central Asian Ikat (ca. 19th century) Vibrant textiles from the dazzling Timurid metropolis of Bukhara. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/central-asian-ikat

Metamorphosis: Transformations in the Early Modern Flap Book (early 19th century) By manipulating paper flaps, the child could turn Adam into Eve into a mermaid, a lion into a griffin into an eagle — all while learning about the inevitability of death. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/metamorphosis-early-modern-flap-book