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Leoš Janáček - Taras Bulba Rhapsody, JW VI/15

Czech Philharmonic
Conductor: Karel Ančerl
Recorded in 1961

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlmXzQBug4o

#music #classic #concert #history

Romans Turned an Ancient Bath into a Massive Production Complex in Türkiye https://www.diningandcooking.com/2830714/romans-turned-an-ancient-bath-into-a-massive-production-complex-in-turkiye/ #AnatolianArchaeology #ArchaeologyNews #ClassicalArchaeology #culture #EgyptArchaeology #history #Mediterranean #MediterraneanOliveOil #MesopotamiaArchaeology #Mythology #Olive #OliveOil #science #travel

So now you'd better stop
And rebuild all your ruins
For peace and trust can win the day
Despite of all your losing

(Led Zeppelin - Immigration Song)

So there is this monastery in Lower Austria called Altenburg which is a big baroque building. Some pics have already posted. But under the monastery is the medieval origins you can visit. It's a great experience.

Camera: Leica Q2
Edit: none.

#photo #photography #history #monastery #building #ruins #blackandwhite #gothic #cloister

Fragment with a Musical Angels (Frammento con Angelo Musicante), Pietro de Bonitate (14th century), Regional Museum of Messina, Sicily, Italy

“Laurana’s style became widely adopted—as seen in the *Fragment with a Musical Angel* attributed to Pietro de Bonitate. De Bonitate was a collaborator of Laurana and the creator of the Cathedral portal (executed in 1468); he followed the design of Baboccio da Piperno—a sculptor active within the circle of the Angevin-Durazzo dynasty in Naples. Our fragment may well originate from that same milieu, as it demonstrates an adherence to Gothic models despite the structural approach derived from Laurana. The model of the Cathedral portal also became widespread beyond the Strait of Messina, influencing a series of pointed-arch portals in Calabria. – Regional Museum of Messina”

https://welchwrite.com/blog/2026/09/26/angels/

#fragment #music #angels #sculpture #marble #15thcentury #art #museum #history #messina #sicily #italy #photography #travel

Fragment with a Musical Angels (Frammento con Angelo Musicante), Pietro de Bonitate (14th century), Regional Museum of Messina, Sicily, Italy

“Laurana’s style became widely adopted—as seen in the *Fragment with a Musical Angel* attributed to Pietro de Bonitate. De Bonitate was a collaborator of Laurana and the creator of the Cathedral portal (executed in 1468); he followed the design of Baboccio da Piperno—a sculptor active within the circle of the Angevin-Durazzo dynasty in Naples. Our fragment may well originate from that same milieu, as it demonstrates an adherence to Gothic models despite the structural approach derived from Laurana. The model of the Cathedral portal also became widespread beyond the Strait of Messina, influencing a series of pointed-arch portals in Calabria. – Regional Museum of Messina”

https://welchwrite.com/blog/2026/09/26/angels/
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#fragment #music #angels #sculpture #marble #15thcentury #art #museum #history #messina #sicily #italy #photography #travel

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A corner of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Victoria, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada
Komeil Karimi_20210828_KNZ_9926
#Canada #Vancouver #architecture #history #parliament #government #shadows #dome #sunlight #travel #cityscape #streetphotography #Photography

Building with Sculptures, Oxford, UK

https://welchwrite.com/blog/2026/09/26/building/

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#sculpture #art #artwork #architecture #college #history #oxford #uk #england #photography #travel

Building with Sculptures, Oxford, UK

https://welchwrite.com/blog/2026/09/26/building/

#sculpture #art #artwork #architecture #college #history #oxford #uk #england #photography #travel

A Planned Roman City With an 8,000-Seat Amphitheater Discovered in Austria https://www.byteseu.com/2400778/ #AnatolianArchaeology #ArchaeologyNews #Austria #ClassicalArchaeology #culture #EgyptArchaeology #history #MesopotamiaArchaeology #mythology #Science #Travel

Warwick Castle!
#photography #castle #warwickcastle #medieval #history

I was waiting for my wife as she browsed trinkets in an antique store and spotted this alleyway with old lamps between the buildings. Took the shot and thought nothing of it. I’m experimenting a lot with black and white shots. #blackandwhite #bnw #b&w #photography #street #streetphotography #travel #kent #england #history

Finland metal detectorist unearths record-breaking Viking coin hoard https://www.byteseu.com/2401730/ #Archaeology #Europe #Finland #HistoricSites #history #OddNews #Travel

Two Thousand Years Ago, Julius Caesar Conquered the Settlement That Eventually Became Paris. Archaeologists May Have Just Found It

While conducting excavations at a hospital on the Île de la Cité, in the Seine River, researchers discovered part of a wall that may have once protected Lutetia, the Gallic precursor to France’s capital

by Sarah Kuta

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/two-thousand-years-ago-julius-caesar-conquered-the-settlement-that-eventually-became-paris-archaeologists-may-have-just-found-it-180989569/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=20260925-daily&lctg=93133550&user_id=19f2988141aeef1ce3da2871b25613801e24297faaf654001575521d8c39910f

More information about Lutetia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutetia

#archeology #history

Honestly, this article on "Doggerland" is absolutely fascinating

"The floor of the North Sea is now recognized as the largest well-preserved prehistoric archaeological landscape in the world. It would have been a paradise for the bands of hunter-gatherers who followed the retreating ice sheets into the region to settle there. They, however, were not Doggerland’s first inhabitants. Millennia prior to their arrival, the North Sea basin had belonged to Neanderthals, who lived there for hundreds of thousands of years."

https://archaeology.org/issues/march-april-2022/letters-from/doggerland-mesolithic-submerged-landscape/

#archeology #history

@classicalmusic
Franz Schubert
Mass No. 6 in E flat major, D. 950

Peter Schreier,
Werner Krenn,
Walter Berry

Hofmusikkapelle Wien
Herrenchor der Hofmusikkapelle, Wiener Sängerknaben
Karl Böhm, conductor

Rec. Hofburgkapelle, Wien - July 1976

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmrFoIc1CKc

#music #classic #concert #history

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Debussy: La Mer

Arturo Toscanini: NBC Symphony
Date: 1 June 1950

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khIV6fhD63g

#music #classic #concert #history

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Johannes Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15

András Schiff, piano
Moscow Radio Symphony orchestra,
Dmitry Kitaenko

Moscow, 1974

@Pierrette ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4urXIGNvL3c

#music #classic #concert #history

Port of Gdynia, Poland
Part 2 of 2: Development

Gdynia quickly gained importance, becoming not only a port but also one of the most dynamically developing cities in Poland. By 1938, its population had increased from approximately 1,300 to 120,000, reflecting intensive urbanization and infrastructure development. The city acquired modernist architecture and a unique urban layout designed by Stanisław Filipkowski. The port expanded, taking on military, commercial, and fishing functions, playing a key role in the development of Polish exports and enhancing the country’s defense capabilities. It was a symbol of Polish sovereignty and independence, an important “window to the world” for the young state.

Gdynia’s development was brutally interrupted by World War II, but after its end, the city was quickly rebuilt and continues to play a key role in Poland’s maritime economy. Today, Gdynia is a testament to the determination and vision of the Second Polish Republic, combining history with modernity on the Baltic Sea.

#Gdynia #Polska #Poland #morze #sea #morzebaltyckie #balticsea #baltyk #baltic #port #harbor #miasto #city #panorama #landscape #view #widok #photography #historia #history #statek #okret #warship #ship

Cēsis Castle.

Cēsis Castle, previousle called Wenden Castle, was the political seat and military headquarters of the leaders of Livonian Order - a crusader state that was the largest and most influential entity within the Livonian Confederation.
The Confederation comprised modern Latvia and Estonia, existed in the 15th-16th centuries, and fell to the Russian invasion under the tsar Ivan IV the Terrible in 1558-1561. Poland and Sweden then intervened, defeated Russia after a long war, and divided Livonian lands between themselves.

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#castle #castles #photography #history #crusaders #latvia #cesis #CesisCastle

Too early for the rainbow, too early for the dove
These are the final days, this is the darkness, this is the flood
And there is no man or woman who can't be touched
But you who come between them will be judged

(Leonard Cohen - The Gypsys Wife)

Camera: Leica Q2
Edit: none

Another picture from the Altenburg Monastery - the roof painting in the church spans over 700 square meters

#photo #photography #altenburg #history #architecture #monastery #building #art #baroque

Warwick Castle!
#photography #castle #warwickcastle #medieval #history

I'd love to know why so many houses in a certain part of #Putney are surmounted by sphinxes. Which by Barnes have become lions.
A makers mark for a certain builder or estate perhaps?

(Also, 'sphinges' is an acceptable plural of #sphinx. If I have to know this, so do you.)

#London #photography #silhouette #StreetArt #sculpture #history #ThamesPath

I took some shade here,
beneath this wizened oak tree,
as I've done before.
#haiku #PoetryInPictures #photography #oaktree #oak #history #hatfieldforest

I brought this fantastic bit of history home today. It's a street box camera, probably built by an itinerant photographer (or sometimes little specialty shops would cobble these together) in the very early 1900s. The history of street box cameras, not to mention how they're used today, is really incredible. Photographs are taken directly onto darkroom photo paper, producing a paper negative. Those paper negatives are developed inside the body of the camera (often with the photographer unable to see what they are doing). The paper negatives are then positioned in front of the camera and photographed, producing the final, positive image (again, after being developed inside the body of the camera).

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_box_camera
https://www.boxcameranow.com/en/a-little-bit-of-history/
https://www.boxcameranow.com/en/photographers/
https://www.afghanboxcamera.com/

I'll drop more photos (including the inside) in a comment.

#photography #antiquephotography #history #cameras #darkroom #antiquecameras #vintagephotography