Annie Rie, contemporary stained glass artist inspired by the UK countryside #WomensArt

Happy #Easter to everyone celebrating today! 🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰 Photo: aprilmunday.wordpress.com/2022/06/19/the…

#Easter vibes: A charming #Roman silver spoon, the interior of the bowl is engraved with a rabbit nibbling a turnip (?). Happy Easter! 🐰 Found in the Roman settlement at Manching, part of a hoard dating ca. 250 AD. Photo: Archäologische Staatsammlung München

Linen jacket by Agnes Richter, a seamstress who was placed in a Heidelberg psychiatric hospital during the late 1800′s and who embroidered her life story onto the jacket as an attempt to regain her identity #WomensArt One of the many true stories in the #WOMENSART book

15th-14th century BCE rhyton (vessel for drinking or pouring libations) made from an ostrich egg (!), gold, silver and bronze. Found at the Mycenaean cemetery at Midea, Peloponnese, Greece. National Archaeological Museum of Athens (NAMA 7337). 📷 George E. Koronaios / Wikimedia

Marc Chagall's painting from 1976 represents himself and his first wife Bella, who died in 1944. For Chagall memory became the key to creativity, the desire to revisit and relive all the stages of a long life; it adds a poignant dimension to his work.

Easter Monday c1950 #WinifredNicholson

For #MosaicMonday and #Easter Monday a lovely image of a #rabbit, a detail from a mosaic showing Orpheus surrounded by enchanted #animals. Found in Antioch, modern-day Antakya, #Turkey. Dating 4th c. AD. On display at Museum Kestner Hannover.

The numbers are out: water companies dumped sewage into our rivers and beaches 301,091 times in 2022. Until sewage dumps stop, bonuses for water company CEOs should be blocked. Agree? Sign the petition: 38d.gs/vefa

Doorway in the 'Queen's Megaron', Minoan Palace of Knossos, Crete. 📷 My own.

The Archbishop of Reims preparing the holy balm; and the Archbishop of Reims unfastening the King’s tunic #Coronation     BL Cotton MS Tiberius B VIII/2; Coronation Book of Charles V, King of France; 1365 CE-1380 CE; France (Paris); ff.50v, 51r, Medieval Manuscripts

Can you bee-lieve this brilliant bug is over 3500 years old? 🐝✨ It was made by the Minoans, who inhabited the island of Crete from around 3000 BC. They used the bee to symbolise power and prosperity, making it a frequent motif in their art and jewellery Happy #WorldBeeDay! 🐝

A 🇫🇷 "Star" is back in🇬🇧. The French Navy schooner “Étoile” alongside in HMS President, St Kathryn’s dock, City of London. It will be 83 years to date tomorrow since she crossed the Channel in 1940 to be seized by the RN from Vichy and delivered to the Free French Naval Forces.

This tiny mouse is a netsuke. Until the 19th century Japanese citizens wore a kimono, fastened by an obi sash. Small items were hung from the sash by a silk cord. The cord was threaded through a bead, then tucked behind the kimono sash and secured with a toggle called a netsuke.

So much smearing & belittling of consultants in the press, but this, from today’s The Times and The Sunday Times letters page, could not have put it more beautifully. Pls RT if you agree. #NHS 💙

To my mind, this is one of the most beautiful autochromes ever taken: a study of artists on the banks of the Dordogne near Beaulieu in France. The light, colour & composition is a work of art in itself. It was taken in colour 98 years ago, in 1925, by Jules Gervais-Courtellemont.

All over Paris car parking spaces are being upgraded to plots for trees and micro gardens - cooling the city, cleaning the air & making the streets more pleasant for people - thanks to the vision & tenacity of city's mayor...

Détail d'une mosaïque de galets recouvrant le sol d'une salle de banquet au palais d'Aigai. Philippe et Alexandre ont sans aucun doute foulé cette oeuvre de leurs pas. Milieu du IVe siècle avant Jésus-Christ.

One of these Mondays.... A #Roman mosaic depicting a somewhat whimsical #owl 🦉 found in Uzèz southern France, dating second half of the 1st century BC. Photo: Denis Gliksman, Inrap #MosaicMonday #RomanArchaeology