Luca Gal
@LucaGal
Dreamer of things. (Occasionally, thinker of thoughts.)
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The genius of Leonardo Da Vinci, born 573 years ago on April 15, 1452 - a thread 🧵 1. This is his map of Imola, with a modern Google Earth image of the city shown below.
#OTD in 2019, France's historic Notre-Dame de Paris went up in flames during a restoration effort and much of it was destroyed. Read about how the unexpected disaster offered archaeologists an unprecedented look at the 800-year-old structure's past: archaeology.org/issues/march-a…
Alongside the discovery of some food staples of Roman Britain, archaeologists at the Irish site of Drumanagh have discovered a 2,000-year-old burned fig that provides evidence of the presence of the Roman traders on the Emerald Isle in the 1st century A.D.…
Just a reminder, if you're an artist, specifically a painter and you don't look like this and your atelier doesn't look like this, I'm going to be disappointed.
Een enigszins karikaturaal weergegeven schilder ( wsch. Jan Sluyters) werkend in zijn atelier aan een luministisch landschap #artbots #rijksmuseum
#WorldRecord René Magritte’s luminous gouache, ‘L’empire des lumières’ achieves US$18,810,000, more than doubling the world record price for any work on paper by the artist, during tonight's 20th Century Evening Sale. #2021NY
#WorldRecord René Magritte’s seminal ‘L’empire des lumières’ shatters the record price for any work by the artist and any Surrealist work of art, selling for US$121,160,000 after nearly 10 minutes of bidding, closing out MICA: THE COLLECTION OF MICA ERTEGUN Part I. #2021NY
12. Claude Monet's caricature of his teacher Jacques-François Ochard. He was fifteen years old.
Kid Albrecht Dürer in 1484, age 13. Child prodigy. Seriously, I could not have done this at that age! And today is his 553d birthday.
Timelapse of the northern lights seen just outside Tucson, Arizona last night! What a magical night! #tucson #aurora #northernlights #arizonaurora #aurora #timelapse
The Sun is super active right now! ☀️ 💥 💥 The video below shows a series of flares that erupted over the past seven days… not counting another X-class flare that happened this morning!
Incredible sight to see the Aurora looking so spectacular tonight even from the south coast of the UK. What a show. If you are awake and reading this head outside now. #aurora #Auroraborealis
My feed is nothing but aurora photos right now and I’ve never been so jealous 😭😭😭😭
A look at my solar telescope and the most active sunspot in decades
For those that know me on here, you’ll know I has two things on my bucket list: see a murmuration and the Northern Lights. Achieved one last year a few miles down the road, and tonight I’ve achieved the other from my back garden. I’m overwhelmed….
Today we re-framed Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait. We replaced the late 19th century gothic fantasy frame with a newly acquired somber gilded 15th century moulding. The figures appear larger and the details crisper without the competition of the incongruous carving.
Happy Christmas everyone! Below is a nativity scene from the Lower Rhine. Dating to the mid-12th century, the relief is now part of the collections @V_and_A #Christmas #MedievalMonday 📷 My own.
OTD 2023 years ago: cheerful donkey carries Mary on the journey to Bethlehem. Knows he's star of the story! Italian ivory plaque, c. 1100. #ChristmasEve
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