It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Near the Vasa Museum there was the Nordic Museum. It was mostly about Swedish and Nordic culture, so I didn’t go inside..but they had the coolest building ever so there’s that.
A little cultural immersion for you.
wiesn flashback 2014 on Flickr.
Title: Aquamanile in the Form of a Lion
Culture: North German
Date: 12th century
Size: 7 11/16 x 8 5/8 x 3 7/16 in.
Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Good lord let’s make some ravioli.
Bollock Dagger
- Dated: circa 1450
- Culture: Italian (Venetian)
The dagger has a wooden with with gilt and engraved brass mounts, a slightly domed pommel plate decorated with a Gothic style rossette and engraved with the inscription “DEXTERA DOMINI FECIT VIRTUTEM (the right hand of god makes wonders).
St. Lorenz - Nuremberg - Bavaria - Germany (von friedrichs.photos)
Wardrobes in History: Joseph II of Austria, Emperor
yes america’s history of slavery was horrible. yes the jim crow era was horrible. yes there are still day to day events where black people are targets of white hate, and that is horrible.
but remember, your white neighbor did not own a slave. your white classmate did not wear a white sheet and…