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May 18 • 16 tweets • 6 min read

Details you missed and things you (probably) didn't know about St. Peter's Basilica 🧵

1. The Aventine Keyhole

2. Michelangelo was only 24 when he carved the Pietà from a single block of marble, a masterpiece now housed in Saint Peter's.

Widely regarded as one of the most extraordinary and emotionally powerful works of art ever created, it is the only piece the sculptor ever signed.

May 11 • 16 tweets • 6 min read

Details you missed and things you (probably) didn't know about the Sistine Chapel 🧵

1. The genius of Michelangelo

2. In The Creation of Adam, scholars suggest that the shape surrounding God resembles a human brain.

In 1990, Dr. Frank Meshberger noted it matches brain anatomy, including the cerebrum's sulci, brain stem, frontal lobe, basilar artery, pituitary gland, and optic chiasm.

Apr 30 • 20 tweets • 5 min read

The most beautiful chapels on Earth 🧵

1. Sainte-Chapelle, Paris

2. The Sistine Chapel, Vatican City

Goethe famously said, "Without having seen the Sistine Chapel, one can form no appreciable idea of what one man is capable of achieving".

Apr 24 • 20 tweets • 5 min read

The Lord of the Rings art by John Howe 🧵

1. Peter Jackson drew inspiration from John Howe’s artwork for his trilogy, recreating scenes like the Hobbits hiding from the Nazgûl as they appeared in Howe’s illustrations.

2. Legolas and Gimli at Helms Deep

Alongside Alan Lee, Howe served as the chief conceptual designer for The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Apr 20 • 20 tweets • 7 min read

Easter traditions from around the world 🧵

1. Good Friday at the Amalfi Cathedral, Italy

2. The Scoppio del Carro in Florence, Italy

On Easter Sunday, a cart brimming with fireworks and pyrotechnics is ignited, putting on a historic display.

A successful display is believed to signify a good harvest and continued civic harmony.

Apr 11 • 20 tweets • 5 min read

Paintings and drawings by J.R.R. Tolkien 🧵

1. Conversation with Smaug, 1937

2. Annotated map of Middle-earth

Apr 4 • 21 tweets • 6 min read

Inside Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks 🧵

1. Fetus in the womb

2. This iconic drawing, titled "Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk," is believed to be a self-portrait of Leonardo at the age of 60.

Mar 29 • 20 tweets • 5 min read

The Lord of the Rings art by Ted Nasmith 🧵

1. Shelob

2. Password Into Moria

Mar 26 • 20 tweets • 5 min read

Thread of ancient wonders reconstructed 🧵

1. The Colosseum, Rome (70–80 AD)

2. The Parthenon, Athens, Greece (447-432 BC)

Mar 21 • 20 tweets • 5 min read

The most beautiful basilicas on Earth 🧵

1. The Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, Italy

2. St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City

Mar 14 • 20 tweets • 6 min read

Sketchbooks of legendary artists & writers 🧵

1. Cats, lions, and a dragon - Leonardo da Vinci

2. Studies for the Libyan Sibyl by Michelangelo, 1510–11

Mar 8 • 20 tweets • 5 min read

Thread of stunning first-edition book covers🧵

1. The Hobbit, drawn by Tolkien himself, 1937

2. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925

Mar 8 • 4 tweets • 1 min read

73% of all women from every class survived the sinking of the Titanic.

Only 19% of men survived.

The patriarchy was so horrific they deemed themselves more worthy of a sacrificial death than women and children.

Feb 16 • 11 tweets • 4 min read

Thread on what famous architectural landmarks would look like if they were restored or completed using drones 🧵

1. Whitby Abbey, England

Whitby Abbey, originally a 7th-century Christian monastery, later evolved into a Benedictine abbey.

During the Dissolution of the Monasteries (1536-1545) under Henry VIII, it was seized by the crown.

Today, the ruins are a Grade I Listed site managed by English Heritage.

Feb 14 • 20 tweets • 9 min read

The greatest love letters ever written 🧵

1. Franz Kafka, letter to Milena, 1920

2. John Keats, from a letter to Fanny Brawne, June 1820

Feb 10 • 22 tweets • 6 min read

The desks of authors and historical figures 🧵

1. Einstein's desk on the day he died, 1955

2. King Charles Albert’s 1840 desk

One of the finest writing tables of the 19th century, this desk epitomizes royal luxury with its magnificent craftsmanship, exquisite design, and ingenious secret compartments.

Feb 6 • 6 tweets • 2 min read

This morning was the 73rd National Prayer Breakfast. One of the most unforgettable speeches in history took place at this event in 1994.

The speaker, was Saint Mother Teresa. To her right were the Clinton’s. To her left the Gore’s.

5 Unforgettable quotes from her speech 🧵

1) “Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.“

Feb 2 • 20 tweets • 7 min read

The most beautiful monasteries on Earth 🧵

1. Ostrog Monastery, Montenegro

2. San Galgano, Italy, has its roof open to the heavens

Jan 29 • 13 tweets • 2 min read

It was supposed to be a simple letter for his diocese in Nebraska. The goal was to provide a clear vision for education.

It accomplished that. It also became the new Magna Carta for Catholic education in the 21st-century.

10 chilling quotes from Bishop Conley’s viral letter.

1) “Every student is made for holiness, made to become a saint.”

Jan 25 • 20 tweets • 7 min read

The notebooks of great thinkers 🧵

1. Drawings from Leonardo da Vinci's notebook

2. Marie Curie passed away from aplastic anemia on July 4, 1934, due to prolonged exposure to radiation during her research.

Even today, her laboratory notebook from 1899–1902 is radioactive and will remain so for the next 1,500 years.

Jan 19 • 25 tweets • 8 min read

Thread of religious wonders so surreal you won't believe they exist 🧵

1. Abuna Yemata Guh, Ethiopia

2. Sumela Monastery, Turkey (386 AD)

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