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James Lucas

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Jul 18, 2024 • 20 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X

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The art of making marble look transparent 🧵

1. The Veiled Virgin by Giovanni Strazza

2. The Veiled Lady by Raffaele Monti

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3. The Veiled Christ by Giuseppe Sanmartino

4. Modesty by Antonio Corradini

5. Undine rising from the waters by Chauncey Bradley Ives

6. The West Wind by Thomas Ridgeway Gould

7. Queen Isabel II By Camillo Torreggiani

8. The Veiled Lady by Giovanni Battista Lombardi

9. The Veiled Vestal by Raffaele Monti

10. Veiled Lady by Antonio Corradini

11. The Veiled Rebecca by Giovanni Maria Benzoni

12. The Sleep of Sorrow and the Dream of Joy by Raffaele Monti

13. The Vestal Virgin Tuccia by Antonio Corradini

14. Veiled Woman by Raffaele Monti

15. Faith by Innocenzo Spinazzi

16. The Bride by Raffaele Monti

17. Veiled Son by Jago (contemporary artist)

18. Sisters of Charity by Raffaelle Monti

19. White Soul by Livio Scarpella (contemporary artist)

20. Bust of a Veiled Woman by Raffaele Monti

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May 5

In 1962, three men escaped from Alcatraz.

They left lifelike dummy heads in their cells, and the guards didn’t notice until morning.

The official story? They drowned.
But a 2013 letter suggests otherwise… 🧵

Alcatraz operated as a maximum-security prison in the San Francisco Bay from 1934 to 1963.

Heavily guarded and surrounded by freezing, shark-infested waters, it was considered escape-proof.

But on June 11, 1962, three inmates defied the odds and vanished into history...

The escape was led by Frank Morris, a bank robber with an I.Q. of 133, along with brothers John and Clarence Anglin.

A fourth conspirator, Allen West, failed to escape and was left behind.

Morris and the Anglins pulled off one of the most daring prison breaks in U.S. history:

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James Lucas

@JamesLucasIT

May 5

Alcatraz operated as a maximum-security prison in the San Francisco Bay from 1934 to 1963.

Surrounded by freezing, shark-infested waters and heavily guarded, it was considered escape-proof.

But on June 11, 1962, three inmates defied the odds and vanished into history...

The escape was led by Frank Morris, a bank robber with an I.Q. of 133, along with brothers John and Clarence Anglin.

A fourth conspirator, Allen West, failed and was left behind.

Morris and the Anglins pulled off one of the most daring prison breaks in U.S. history.

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James Lucas

@JamesLucasIT

May 4

The art of David Ambarzumjan - a thread🧵

1. "Recover"

2. "Breathe"

3. "This Was Water"

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May 3

Thread of historical photos you've (probably) never seen before 🧵

1. A Protestant husband and his Catholic wife were not allowed to be buried together. These are their headstones, reaching across the two cemeteries in 1888.

2. Jenny Joseph posing for Columbia Pictures Logo, 1992

3. Dresden viewed from the Rathaus (city hall) in 1945

Between 13 and 15 February, over 3,900 tons of explosives and incendiaries were dropped on Dresden.

The resulting firestorm destroyed more than 1,600 acres of the city centre and killed up to 25,000 people.

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May 2

John Atkinson Grimshaw is one of the greatest painters you’ve (probably) never heard of...

A thread on the master of nocturnal scenes 🧵

1. A Moonlit Lane, 1874

2. Reflections on the Thames, 1880

3. A Moonlit Evening, 1880

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Apr 30

Imagine building something so epic it’s still famous thousands of years later.

Ancient civilizations pulled this off countless times...

A thread on the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World 🧵

1. The Colossus of Rhodes, Greece

Standing 108 feet tall, this bronze statue of the sun god Helios was erected in 292–280 BC to celebrate the island’s victory.

It stood at the entrance of the harbor in Rhodes and was one of the tallest statues of the ancient world.

According to the Suda, the Rhodians were called Colossaeans, because they erected the statue on the island.

This ancient wonder was destroyed in the earthquake of 226 BC.

Following the guidance of the Oracle of Delphi, the people of Rhodes chose not to rebuild it.

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