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iskender's Defter

January 2011

Angela McCluskey singing Don’t Explain.

Caligula's Tomb Found ... During Attempted Theft →

theatlantic: The lost tomb of Caligula has been found, according to Italian police, after the arrest of a man trying to smuggle abroad a statue of the notorious Roman emperor recovered from the site. After reportedly sleeping with his sisters, killing for pleasure and seeking to appoint his horse a consul during his rule from AD37 to 41, Caligula was described by contemporaries as insane. ...

ArtChix Magazine: ARTCHIX MAGAZINE SPECIAL ISSUE:... →

artchix: ZARAGOZA.- Rouault’s paintings are full of papers on their backs. References to all the places these paintings have traveled to, from Milan to New York without leaving out places like Tokyo or Paris (where his foundation is housed). “It is perhaps the fact that best expresses the importance…

darksilenceinsuburbia asked: Concerning the anatomy plate

Author: Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564.

Title: De humani corporis fabrica libri septem.

Title page title: Andreae Vesalii Bruxellensis, scholae medicorum Patauinae professoris De humani corporis fabrica libri septem ...

Publication: Basileae [Basel] : Ex officina Joannis Oporini, 1543.