Avatar

@michalack

Michalack
PostsLikesFollowing
museum-of-artifacts
Avatar
museum-of-artifacts

The Swedish warship Vasa. It sank in 1628 less than a mile into its maiden voyage and was recovered from the sea floor after 333 years almost completely intact. Now housed at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, is the world's best preserved 17th century ship

Tap for more

lux-vitae
Avatar
lux-vitae

Statues of the Dioscuri at the Quirinal, Rome from Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (Mirror of Roman Magnificence), published by Antonio Lafreri (1546)

microcosme11
Avatar
microcosme11

Jean-Baptiste Aubry-Lecomte, Collection de têtes d'étude : Les généraux Championnet, Dampierre, Desaix, Dugommier, Kléber et Marceau, 1821. Print after this painting detail of Ossian receiving the ghosts of French heroes, by Girodet-Trioson

philosophybits
Avatar
philosophybits
“Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light only by which men can be free.”

— Frederick Douglass, “Blessings of Liberty and Education (1894)”