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Art Nouveau was a nature-inspired, decorative movement which flourished between 1890 and 1910 across Europe and the Americas.

A thread of its most beautiful examples 🧵

1. Gran Hotel Ciudad de México, Mexico City (1899)

2. The Félix Potin building, Paris (1904)

3. The facade of a jewelry store in Lille

4. Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona (1908)

5. Sterner's Studio, Brussels (1902)

6. The Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City (1934)

7. The Guaranty Building, Buffalo, NY (1896)

8. Entrance of the Lavirotte Building, Paris (1901)

9. The stairway at the Hôtel Tassel, Brussels (1893)

10. The elevator at Majolica House, Vienna (1898)

11. Casa Batlló, Barcelona (1906)

12. Liberty Bridge, Budapest (1896, rebuilt 1945)

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Sep 6

"Maybe this world is another planet's hell." - Aldous Huxley

A thread of the most terrifying depictions of hell ever painted 🧵

1. The Garden of Earthly Delights (right panel) – Hieronymus Bosch (1515)

A nightmarish scene imagining the monstrosities of hell - including a bird-headed creature eating a naked man and a hollowed out giant with trees for limbs.

2. The Last Judgment - Jan van Eyck (1440)

Death is depicted as a bat-like, skeletal figure, looming over the damned. Some of the damned can be identified as kings and members of the clergy by their headdresses.

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Aug 31

Some things shouldn't be possible to carve from stone, but the master sculptors managed it anyway.

A thread of impossible details of marble sculptures 🧵

1. The intricate net of "The Release from Deception" - Francesco Queirolo (1759)

2. The delicate drapery and flower wreath of "Modesty" - Antonio Corradini (1752)

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Aug 29

A thread of towns and cities that look spectacular from above 🧵

1. Madrid, Spain 🇪🇸

2. Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸

3. Venice, Italy 🇮🇹

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Aug 28

Budapest is healing - the city is erasing the brutalist blight left over from its communist past, and rebuilding lost architecture destroyed during WW2.

A thread of uplifting before and after shots 🧵

1. Realized the original 1920s plans for a building at Kossuth Square

2. Removed 1960s cladding from the Corvin Department Store, Blaha Lujza Square

3. Decades of grime washed away from the Royal Tenement Palaces

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Aug 26

America was supposed to be Art Deco - a thread of 10 iconic Art Deco designs 🧵

1. "Mercury" - a streamliner passenger train which operated between 1936 and 1959

2. The Eastern Columbia Building, Los Angeles (1930)

3. The Guardians of Traffic, Hope Memorial Bridge, Cleveland (1932)

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Aug 24

"The Veiled Christ" is a marble sculpture so lifelike that the artist who produced it was accused of alchemy.

Sculpted by Giuseppe Sanmartino in 1753, the delicate, translucent veil over the body of Christ is so remarkable that it's hard to believe human hands could have shaped it from stone. At the time of its completion, there were popular claims that it must have been created by draping a veil over the figure and using alchemy to turn it to stone.

Alongside his contemporary Antonio Corradini, Sanmartino was one of the few artists to ever sculpt such intricate folds, rivalling the earlier Renaissance and Baroque masters like Michelangelo and Bernini.

The layered effect of the marble is so precise that every feature of Christ, from his eyelids to his earlobes, is easily discernible through the veil, which appears to sit weightlessly over his body - it is one of the most impossible feats ever achieved in sculpture.

Corradini was originally commissioned for the sculpture by Raimondo di Sangro, the Prince of Sansevero. Corradini died before the work began, so Sanmartino stepped in to create what became his magnum opus.

The work still lives at the Chapel of Sansevero in Naples to this day, where it is housed alongside several other miraculous creations like Corradini's famous masterpiece, "Modesty" (1752).

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