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"The Magdalen Holding the Crown of Thorns" by Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640)


📸 The Schorr Collection
Cenomani gold coin 5 to 1st century BCE French Gaul

The Cenomani was an ancient tribe of the Cisalpine Gauls, who occupied the tract north of the Padus (modern Po River), between the Insubres on the west and the Veneti on the east.

Their territory appears to have extended from the river Addua (or perhaps the Ollius, the modern Oglio) to the Athesis (modern Adige).
Wahnfried House, Bayreuth, Germany

Wahnfried was the name given by Richard Wagner to his villa in Bayreuth. The name is a German compound of Wahn (delusion, madness) and Fried(e) (peace, freedom).
"The very purpose of a knight is to fight on behalf of a lady."

— Thomas Malory
Anglo-Saxon glass drinking-horn, VII c. Excavated in Rainham, London

Drinking horns are attested from Viking Age Scandinavia. In the Prose Edda, Thor drank from a horn that unbeknown to him contained all the seas. They also feature in Beowulf, and fittings for drinking horns were also found at the Sutton Hoo burial site. Carved horns are mentioned in Guðrúnarkviða II, a poem composed about 1000 AD and preserved in the Poetic Edda.



📸 The British Museum
Farmer and farmer's wife working in the hayloft, 1960 - by W.L. Stuifbergen, Dutch
Sainte-Chappelle, Paris, France

Situated in the Ile-de-la-Cité, the Sainte-Chapelle is part of the Palais de la Cite, the residence of the royalty during the 10th to the 14th century.
For the ancient Romans, January was significant because it was the month dedicated to the god Janus (hence Ianuarius, which means January in Latin).

According to Roman mythology, Janus is the two-faced god, associated with beginnings and endings, as well as transitions and passages.
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