Enamelled gold and sapphires Heart Ring by Florence Koehler, 1905-35. Smithsonian American Art Museum.

🫠 Sherwood Dollhouse Nightstand

Happy Valentine’s Day, friends! 💕 (I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t try to make your day a little more medieval 😉) This absolutely stunning heart-shaped manuscript dates from around 1470 ❤️ La Bibliothèque nationale de France Chansonnier Cordiforme de Montchenu - Rothschild 2973, fols. 3v-4r, 0, & 19r

This is one of the world's oldest apothecaries still in operation. Located in Florence, Italy, the Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella traces its origins to 1221, when Dominican friars began cultivating medicinal herbs to create balms and ointments. It

Book of Esther in fish-like case, Eastern Europe

ボニャール本物見てきた！オルセー美術館にいたのね！

Agnes Denes' beautiful visual mathematics.

This is a color pencil shop in Tehran, Iran.

20:20 del 20 del 2 🩵🩷❤️💚

Pinocchio was released 86 years ago. The Monstro underwater sequence required separate effects animation just for bubbles, currents, and refracted light. Making it one of the most technically advanced scenes Disney had attempted up to that point.

painted this while I was delirious with a fever

Gold mourning ring inscribed "Let Love Aibide till Death Divide", England, 17th century from The British Museum

When a human egg is fertilized, it emits a tiny flash of light, known as the “zinc spark,” a release of zinc atoms that marks the beginning of life.

Detail of “Salvator Mundi” (Original piece attributed to Leonardo da Vinci c.1500)

#PiezaDelDía 🔸 Vasija trípode con tapa Este peculiar recipiente de cerámica data del periodo Clásico Temprano (250 a 600), y fue hallado en la Tumba de la Estructura IV, en Calakmul, Campeche. @INAHCampeche

Dancing bugs. The population of an old pear-tree. 1870. Book cover.

British fungi. 1886. Book cover.

obsessed with pink on green interiors

Fabergé egg known as the "Columbus Ja". Fabergé Imperial Easter eggs were created for the Russian Imperial family from 1885 to 1916.