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Apr 15 • 20 tweets • 7 min read

This thread will put a smile on your face 🧵

1. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar alongside his longtime coach John Wooden (1969) and 38 years later.

2. This uncle tries to keep his nephew with Down syndrome from getting too close to the royal guard, and then...

Apr 13 • 20 tweets • 6 min read

Beautiful things from the past 🧵

1. A 16th century ring that unfolds into an astronomical sphere

2. The bookwheel

A magnificent 300-year-old library tool that enabled a researcher to have seven books open at once.

Comedian Mark Normand called it "the original version of having too many tabs open."

Apr 12 • 15 tweets • 5 min read

The art of making stone look translucent 🧵

1. The Veiled Christ by Giuseppe Sanmartino

2. The Veiled Virgin

This Carrara marble bust, depicting a veiled Virgin Mary, was carved in Rome by Italian sculptor Giovanni Strazza in the early 1850s.

The veil gives the illusion of being translucent, yet it is carved entirely from marble.

Apr 11 • 20 tweets • 6 min read

Famous artists and their palettes – a thread🧵

1. Claude Monet

2. Van Gogh defined a painter as "someone who knows how to find the greys of nature on the palette."

Apr 9 • 7 tweets • 3 min read

Once a year, a full heart appears in this tomb.

A breathtaking mausoleum born from a sculptor’s deep sorrow for his late wife 🧵

This is the final resting place of Léonce Evrard and his wife (1850-1916) at the Cimetière de Laeken in Brussels.

During the summer solstice, and a few days before and after June 21, sunlight streams through the roof, casting a heart-shaped pattern inside the burial chapel.

Apr 8 • 16 tweets • 6 min read

“A picture is a poem without words.”
- Quintus Cornificius, Roman general and poet

The beauty of Caspar David Friedrich's art 🧵

1. Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818)

2. The Stages of Life (1835)

Completed just five years before his death, this painting meditates on the fleeting nature of life.

It depicts an aged man walking towards two adults and two children, with five ships in the harbour symbolizing the stages of existence.

Apr 7 • 20 tweets • 5 min read

Italy seen from above - a thread 🧵

1. Centuripe, Sicily

2. Rome

Apr 6 • 20 tweets • 5 min read

Perfectly timed photos - a thread 🧵

1. This Jerome Brouillet's shot is absolutely wild

2. The moment a flock of starlings took the shape of a giant bird by Daniel Bieber.

Apr 5 • 11 tweets • 4 min read

The locations that inspired iconic paintings🧵

1. Van Gogh's Starry Night - Saint-Rémy, France

2. The Entrance to the Grand Canal (1730) by Canaletto - Venice, Italy

This Rococo landscape was crafted by Giovanni Antonio Canal, an Italian painter from 18th-century Venice.

Born in Venice to painter Bernardo Canal, he earned the nickname "Canaletto" ("little Canal").

Apr 3 • 22 tweets • 6 min read

What America looked like a century ago 🧵

1. View from Central Park, 1933

2. Buffalo, New York, 1908

Apr 3 • 20 tweets • 6 min read

Thread of cities at sunset 🧵

1. Rome, Italy

2. Central Park, New York City

Apr 2 • 20 tweets • 6 min read

The most beautiful islands on Earth 🧵

1. Bora Bora, French Polynesia

2. Mykonos, Greece

Apr 1 • 9 tweets • 3 min read

This is not the gallery of a royal palace...

It's a shopping mall in Italy - thread 🧵

Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II is a historic Milan landmark and the oldest active shopping gallery in Italy.

Designed by architect Giuseppe Mengoni, the mall was constructed between 1865 and 1877.

It is named after Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of the Kingdom of Italy.

Mar 31 • 21 tweets • 5 min read

Satisfying thread for perfectionists 🧵

1. Moon bridge

2. Devil's Bridge, Germany

Rakotzbrücke is often regarded as one of Germany’s most beautiful and bridges.

Its unique design creates the striking illusion of a perfect circle when mirrored in the water below, making it appear like an entrance to another realm.

Mar 29 • 20 tweets • 6 min read

Alternative views of iconic landmarks you (probably) haven’t seen before - a thread 🧵

1. Mont-Saint-Michel at low tide by İlhan Eroğlu

2. The Eiffel Tower from below

Mar 28 • 21 tweets • 6 min read

Colorized footage is like a time machine 🧵

1. English kids in 1901, 124 years ago

2. One of the first cat clips ever, 1899.

"Little girl and cat" by the Lumière brothers.

Everything is the same, yet everything changed...

Mar 27 • 22 tweets • 7 min read

Thread of surreal places you (probably) didn't know existed 🧵

1. Sverd i fjell, Norway

2. Derinkuyu underground city, Turkey

Extending to a depth of approximately 85 meters, it is large enough to have once sheltered up to 20,000 people, along with their livestock and food stores.

What could have pushed humans to build something like this thousands of years ago?

Mar 25 • 26 tweets • 9 min read

One of the most beautiful cities in the world was founded 1604 years ago today - thread🧵

1. Venice at sunset

2. According to the Chronicon Altinate, one of the oldest sources on Venice's history, today marks the city's 1604th birthday.

Tradition links its founding to the dedication of San Giacomo church, said to have occurred at noon on 25 March 421.

Mar 25 • 26 tweets • 8 min read

The most beautiful ceilings on Earth 🧵

1. Sainte-Chapelle, Paris (13th century)

2. The Sistine Chapel, Vatican City

Michelangelo painted this magnificent ceiling between 1508 and 1512.

As Goethe put it, "without having seen the Sistine Chapel one can form no appreciable idea of what one man is capable of achieving."

Mar 23 • 28 tweets • 7 min read

Life in the 1980s 🧵

1. McDonald's in the 80s compared to today

2. People in the 80s react to new laws against drinking and driving

Mar 22 • 23 tweets • 7 min read

Switzerland doesn't look real – a thread 🧵

1. Many scholars believe that Tolkien's 1911 hike through Lauterbrunnen directly inspired the valley of Rivendell in The Lord of the Rings.

2. Grindelwald and its unreal Alpine landscape

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