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Occupations of the month: October―On a village street lined with buildings, four men negotiate the sale of an ox tethered to the wall of a building. One man places coins in another's hand. Beyond, a man on a ladder gathers grapes from an arbor. A woman standing below looks on. In back, a man with a basket (of grapes?) on his back walks from a village gate toward a building with a sundial in the gable. The scene is within an illusionistic wood frame.
This fun coloring page comes with a twist! While coloring, see if you and your child can find the differences between the two library pictures.
One of a series of library education visuals designed by Peabody Visual Aids in the 1930s and 1940s, which I salvaged from a throw-away pile at my library school in 2003. These posters were created under the supervision of visionary librarian Ruby Ethel Cundiff. bit.ly/qWQ3YD. Many thanks to Gabriel Jaramillo at the Claremont Colleges Digital Library for the high-quality digitization.
Introduced in Mesopotamia some 2,500 years ago, astrology continues to fascinate poets, writers, and artists.
Visual literacy explicitly teaches a collection of competencies that will help students think through, think about, and think with pictures.
Drill dance meets mind-bending optical illusion in this video of the Enigma dance team's 2022 championship routine. Decked out in crisp white uniforms, these teen girls have the crowd entranced before they even start moving, striking a fierce opening pose. But it's when the beat drops that the real magic happens. In perfect sync, the
A recent visual study by History.com that explores the life of a sailor during the age of exploration has drummed up some truly fascinating notes about the golden-age of seamen and their unfortunate exploration diets...
In these library collections, family history speaks volumes. Check out the top public libraries for genealogists.
The ex-voto painting is a Catholic folk art tradition depicting individual tragedies that were guarded by divine intervention.
“When we allow our soul to guide us, we are always shown the way.” ~ Sue Krebs The Sanskrit word Akasha means ‘sky’, ‘space’, ‘luminous’ or ‘ether’; an etymology that encompasses the all-knowing aspect of the Akashic records, a term coined by H.P Blavatsky referring to them as ‘indestructible tablets of astral light’. For those
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