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Hi, I'm Lyra and I make videos about history and art. Prof


The Art of Sofonisba Anguissola: A Late Renaissance painter #arthistory #history #paintings Nameless and Friendless (1857) by Emily Mary Osborn #art #painting The Paintings of Elbridge Ayer Burbank (1858–1949) #art #arthistory #paintings Vanitas with Violin and Glass Ball (1628) by Pieter Claesz #art #arthistory #painting I find the human shaped teeth to be really weird | The Lion of Gripsholm Castle #history The Sugar Shack (1976) by Ernie Barnes #art #arthistory #painting Tomatoes Were Once Considered to be Poisonous #history The Witch's Sabbath (1797–1798) by Francisco Goya #art #arthistory #panting #history The day the the police dropped a bomb on Philadelphia | The 1985 MOVE bombing #history The Last Spring (1861) by Mikhail Petrovich Klodt #art #painting #arthistory The Missing Painting in Stuart Little | Sleeping Lady with Black Vase (1927–1928) by Róbert Berény The Human Beast (1870) by Antonio Fillol Granell #art #painting #arthistory The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death by Frances Glessner Lee #art Mary, Mother of Jesus, Beating up the Devil in Medieval Manuscripts #art #history #arthistory Ernest Hemingway and Mary Welsh Hemingway Surviving 2 Plane Crashes #history The Memorial of Joseph and Elizabeth Nightingale at Westminster Abbey #history #arthistory The Sort of Greed the Bible Speaks Of | The Atrocities of the Congo Free State #history Martyrdom of San Lorenzo (1581–1582) by Palma il Giovane #art #history #painting #arthistory Fortune Teller Svetlana (1836) by Karl Bryullov #art #painting #arthistory It’s kept in a little cage so it can’t escape | The Folklore behind Plymouth Rock #history First love letter (1884) by Eduard Quitton #art #paintings #arthistory The Two Thousand Yard Stare [That 2,000 Yard Stare] (1944) by Thomas Lea #art #arthistory #art The Capture and Life of András Toma as a POW #history #ww2 King Lear in the Teatro Municipal de Lima (1999) by Architect Luis Longhi The Statue of Dublin’s Molly Malone | Statue (1988) by Jeanne Rynhart #art #artwork #statue The new Banksy mural which is causing a stir with UK authorities #art #artwork The Favorite (2010) by Omar Rayyan #art #painting #artwork The Lunar Landscapes of Alan Bean #art #artwork #paintings Sarah Rector: The One of the First Black Millionaires #history The mausoleum of Léonce Evrard and Louise Flignot in Brussels, Belgium #art #artwork Doggy Buffet (1957) by Richard Sargent #art #painting #arthistory #artwork The story of Lilly Martin Spencer and her Husband, Benjamin Rush Spenser #art #arthistory Pioneering space travel really wasn't a bloodless process | Vladimir Komarov #history The Kiss of Death (1930) by Jaume Barba #art #sculpture #artwork #arthistory Two Young Women Kissing (1790s) by Louis-Léopold Boilly #art #painting #arthistory “The Vulture and the Little Girl” (1994) by Kevin Carter #history #photography The Embrace of Fra Filippo Lippi and Lucrezia Buti & Love or Duty by Gabriele Castagnola(1871-1873) Queen Boudica of the Iceni and the Burning of Londinium #history #archaeology “Extreme law, Extreme injustice" | Summum jus, summa injuria. (1886) by Erik Henningsen #art The Grave of the “Varna Man” | Varna Necropolis Grave 43 (1972) #history #archaeology Abduction of Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee by North Korea #history Mihály Dobozi and his Wife (1861) by Bertalan Székely #art #painting #arthistory The Unusual Burial of the Mutemmenu Mummy #history #archaeology Merle Oberon, the forgotten first Asian Best Actress Oscar Nominee #history L'intrigant [The Plotter] (1948) By Victor Marais-Milton #art #painting #arthistory The Mummy of a Teenage girl who Died during Childbirth #hisotry #archaeology Yes… him and Rita did get married after this | V-J Day in Times Square by Alfred Eisenstaedt The Homecoming (1945) by NC Wyeth #art #arthistory #painting