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The National Portrait Gallery, William Beechey (died 1839), Horatio Nelson, 1800.

Materials: oil, canvas.

“Much has been said of the aesthetic values of chanoyu- the love of the subdued and austere- most commonly characterized by the term, wabi. Wabi originally suggested an atmosphere of desolation, both in the sense of solitariness and in the sense of the poverty of things. In the long history of various Japanese arts, the sense of wabi gradually came to take on a positive meaning to be recognized for its profound religious sense. …the related term, sabi,… It was mid-winter, and the water’s surface was covered with the withered leaves of the lotuses. Suddenly I realized that the flowers had not simply dried up, but that they embodied, in their decomposition, the fullness of life that would emerge again in their natural beauty.”

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Kakuzo  Okakura

Large shell lying in the forest. Even a century after WWI, many of these still remain.

Capture of Jerusalem by Godfrey of Bouillon, First Crusade, 15 July 1099. Liebig card, published in late 19th or early 20th century. https://www.instagram.com/p/CIkEUpxpaWN/?igshid=o9gglo00lae0

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absolutely obsessed with these three georgian girls called trio mandilli (source)