
WILLIAM MORRISON
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My dog Harry. Stanford Germany England Saudi Arabia France Prague Spain. European History: the 30 Years War. Linguist of sorts https://t.co/Dwi1Qril87
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Joined October 2012
There are times when one need not know Ukrainian
President Zelensky: "Odesa region. Our defenders. I wish you a speedy recovery and thank you for your service on behalf of all Ukrainians. You are real heroes. Our military medics. I presented you with state awards. For putting seriously wounded heroic people back on their feet.
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Rose petals falling from the oculus of the Pantheon every year at Pentecost.
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Two angels blowing trumpets. Magnificent. Abbey of St Pierre de Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne. #Romanesque. @arteviajero_com @AraceliRego
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A Romanesque capital with two leashed birds of prey. Santa María, Teverga, Asturias. #Spain #Espana cf @RomanicoEspana
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Another Spanish masterpiece. The Chapel of St Anne, Cathedral of Tudela, Navarre. Cf @arteviajero_com #Spain #España #Baroque
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The Church of Santa Clara, Porto, Portugal, completed 1457. The beauty. The intricacy of design. Cf @AmyArtPoetry @JCCavallero
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A superb resurrected Christ in alabaster from a retablo from the now-defunct Church of St Sernin in Carccassone, France. XV century. More images at @RomanicoEspana
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The iconography of medieval churches. More at @RevistaRomanico, @cylromanica @intrepidojones. @AraceliRego #Spain #España
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The tomb of Christopher Columbus in the Cathedral of Seville, with a very large mural on the wall. Image @edel_miller
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Begun by Muhammad Amar, 1248, in Granada, it became the court of Ferdinand and Isabella after the Reconquista of 1492. Now a mix of Islamic and Spanish Renaissance architecture, it is one of the great glories of Spain. Cf @MissCelaneaOne @AraceliRego #España
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Two solemn men, wonderfully made, from the portal of San Juan Bautista, Palencia. Spanish Romanesque at its finest. Cf @cylromanica @AraceliRego
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A find from an excavation of the Tartessian civilisation from V cent. BC, southern Spain. What an advanced culture. Guareña. Provincial Archeological Museum of Badajoz. @ArcheologicoBa @cylromanica @AraceliRego #Spain #Art #Arte #Espana
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From the polychromed portal of the Cloister of the Cathedral of Segovia, a Gothic marvel from 1484, after Gil de Siloé (‘trazas’). @arteviajero_com @intrepidojones @AraceliRego #Spain
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This is brilliant. A 2024 release date is too distant.
Lovely to meet you, Madam Chancellor. #TheRegime, an @HBO Original Limited Series starring Kate Winslet, is coming in 2024 to Max. #StreamOnMax
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How magnificent! The Linsky Madonna, tempera on wood with ground gold. The central panel of a polyptych by Carlo Crivelli, 1472, Metropolitan Museum. Cf @MiguelCalabria3 @carroza13 @AraceliRego
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On this day in 1492 the Capitulations of Santa Fe were signed by the Ferdinand and Isabella for the voyage of Columbus to sail to Asia by crossing the Atlantic. @pildorashispan @areche60
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Vandals disfigured this work from San Bartolomé, Logroño. The greatness remains. XII-XIV cent. #Romanesque #Spain #España more photographs @arteviajero_com @AraceliRego
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An excellently preserved part of San Pedro, Zamora, apparently showing the Sacrifice of Isaac with the hand of God upper left. @arteviajero_com @AraceliRego
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