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loumargi:Karel Dujardin- Boy Blowing Soap Bubbles.Allegory on the Transitoriness and the Brevity of

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Karel Dujardin- Boy Blowing Soap Bubbles.Allegory on the Transitoriness and the Brevity of Life.

1668


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Jan van Kessel - A Cockchafer, Beetle, Woodlice and other Insects, with a Sprig of Auriculaearly 165

Jan van Kessel - A Cockchafer, Beetle, Woodlice and other Insects, with a Sprig of Auricula

early 1650s

oil on copper

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford


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The two pictures above were featured in an article about modern genius inventions. Pretty sure the SThe two pictures above were featured in an article about modern genius inventions. Pretty sure the S

The two pictures above were featured in an article about modern genius inventions.

Pretty sure the Simpsons had it right in nineteen ninety fucking four (1994)!


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Grimani Breviary: The Month of DecemberFlemish Minaturist 1490-1510Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Ve

Grimani Breviary: The Month of December
Flemish Minaturist 
1490-1510
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice, Italy


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In 1793, Republican French forces lost to coalition troops at the Second Battle of Neerwinden, part of the Flanders Campaign.  But the French recovered and ended the campaign with a resounding vi-diddly-ictory.

 Portrait of Flemish-Portuguese physician and antiquarian Luís Nunes (1553–1645) — Peter Paul Rubens

Portrait of Flemish-Portuguese physician and antiquarian Luís Nunes (1553–1645) — Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1627 (National Gallery, London)


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