a hankering for impossible journeys through the realms of time

Father's Day is giving me really visceral flashbacks to Sunday nights growing up in Baltimore.

Pot roast for dinner, procrastinated homework, choir practice that morning, Dad whistling to Mozart on the stereo, and sitting through '60 Minutes' until 'Murder, She Wrote' came on.

Silver Icon from 10th-11h Centuries CE, depicting baptism of Christ by John the Forerunner.

Jesus standing in Jordan River (with five fishes) that has a shape of a baptismal font. In upper part blessing right hand of God, three rays of light coming from Skies symbolizing…

End & beginning: Betrayal of Christ faces Annunciation to Mary in Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, 1325. Love how bodies of son and mother echo one another. For feast day of the Annunciation, which is today.

For a long time I would go to bed early.

Mosaics from Mausoleo di Galla Placidia, Ravenna. Built between 425 and 450. It was built by Empress Galla Placidia but it’s actually not her mausoleum — she died in Rome and was buried there.

How does one watch this in English?!

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A view of St Peter's Church (Howden Minster) through the east window of the ruined chancel at Howden in the East Riding of Yorkshire. #MedievalMonday

Definitely need to visit these the next time I'm in Rome!

Once again, from Scotland: it’s like living above a meth lab.

I'm 97% tired of all these dumb tweets full of statistics that are 93% made up. Why is 86% of the world now doing this?

Wells-next-the-Sea. Norfolk.

#WednesdayWallPainting The fabulous Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine in Paris has, amongst other wonders, life-size recreations of France’s most important medieval wall paintings - including Nohant-Vic and Angers - and their architectural settings. ⁦Cité de l'archi⁩

The eruption of Vesuvius in 79AD caused a group of painters/decorators to flee Pompeii, leaving behind their unfinished work & these paint pots & mixing bowls. Pigments shown here range from yellow (ochre) to blue (Egyptian Blue) to red (Haematite) pompeiiincolor.com/theme/process-…

Angels from the 15th century rood screen at St Mary's Church in Felmersham, Bedfordshire. #ScreenSaturday

it's ceased to be a to-be-read pile of books and has become an art installation on the passage of time

The chapter house at Salisbury Cathedral, c. 1250-60. The octofoils in the tracery here make it *far* better than the much more famous one at Westminster Abbey.

A pope discovers that free will does not exist, and is relieved.

The Norman west front of the priory church at Castle Acre Priory in Norfolk. #MedievalMonday

The image of St Michael on the rood screen at Binham Priory (c1500) was overpainted with words from Cranmer's bible of 1539.