“The world as we don’t know it” Facebook [ My personal works ] var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-13078802-2']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); Tumblr (3.0; @speciesbarocus)http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/“Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film-stars instead.”<br/><br/> - <em>C.S. Lewis</em>http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/53302149629http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/53302149629Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:42:26 +0300text<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/6a68f3f22e2eef121dc2f4287160ee01/tumblr_molt30seku1qe866ho1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloacina" target="_blank">Cloacina</a>, Goddess of the sewers, on a late Republican coin minted in 42 BCE under authority of L. Mussidius Longus.</p>http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/53297142653http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/53297142653Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:35:00 +0300varia42<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/47f8f27689e9803f1bb425e40cb852fa/tumblr_mokzb9WVDd1qe866ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Recueil de 131 tableaux ou figures, tant dessinées au trait et ombrées que peintes (c. 1501). Detail. [<a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55006390m" target="_blank">x</a>]</p> <p>> Text by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrarch" target="_blank">Petrarch</a>.</p>http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/53265965624http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/53265965624Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:52:00 +0300manuscripts15011600131 tableaux<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/a0d1f58dca368d1b31ea159884f93900/tumblr_mokxsnLjod1qe866ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Recueil de 131 tableaux ou figures, tant dessinées au trait et ombrées que peintes (c. 1501). Detail. [<a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55006390m" target="_blank">x</a>]</p>http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/53264919879http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/53264919879Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:19:00 +0300manuscripts15011600131 tableaux<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/34bf88d14a7f9d0e6a7e589eee0243ed/tumblr_moj76u5eaT1qe866ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Recueil de 131 tableaux ou figures, tant dessinées au trait et ombrées que peintes (c. 1501). Detail. [<a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55006390m" target="_blank">x</a>]</p> <p>> Text by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrarch" target="_blank">Petrarch</a>.</p>http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/53185651133http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/53185651133Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:47:00 +0300manuscripts15011600131 tableaux<p><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></p> <p>Hello and welcome to Species: Barocus ^.^</p> <p>A bit of a guide for what can you do while here:</p> <p>&gt; <a href="http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/about" target="_blank">A small disclaimer / about</a> S: B.</p> <p>&gt; <a href="http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/books" target="_blank">Books and manuscripts posted on S: B</a> (work on progress).</p> <p>&gt; <a href="http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/artists" target="_blank">Artists / Tracked Tags</a> (work on progress).</p> <p>&gt; <a href="http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/others" target="_blank">Others’ likes</a>.</p> <p>Thank you! <span class="Apple-style-span">( =ﾟｪﾟ=)</span></p>http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/53185453534http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/53185453534Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:40:39 +0300text<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/ce9ed84fc1107030cc8d886a6e10eab7/tumblr_moj6n1skdQ1qe866ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Recueil de 131 tableaux ou figures, tant dessinées au trait et ombrées que peintes (c. 1501). Detail. [<a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55006390m" target="_blank">x</a>]</p> <p>> Text by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrarch" target="_blank">Petrarch</a>.</p>http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/53185298102http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/53185298102Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:35:00 +0300manuscripts15011600131 tableaux<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/585f4c165369969062499837c140f230/tumblr_moj6ffMrE11qe866ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Recueil de 131 tableaux ou figures, tant dessinées au trait et ombrées que peintes (c. 1501). [<a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55006390m" target="_blank">x</a>]</p> <p>> Text by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrarch" target="_blank">Petrarch</a>.</p>http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/53185164079http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/53185164079Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:30:00 +0300manuscripts15011600131 tableaux<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/8367863802462dc925a57cfaa2b5ff2c/tumblr_moj6a7TB7a1qe866ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Recueil de 131 tableaux ou figures, tant dessinées au trait et ombrées que peintes (c. 1501). [<a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55006390m" target="_blank">x</a>]</p> <p>> Text by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrarch" target="_blank">Petrarch</a>.</p>http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/53185069943http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/53185069943Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:27:00 +0300manuscripts15011600131 tableaux<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/50f8289d6252d29f6af2879239a8b656/tumblr_mohq0yV2Pa1qe866ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Recueil de 131 tableaux ou figures, tant dessinées au trait et ombrées que peintes (c. 1501). [<a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55006390m" target="_blank">x</a>]</p> <p>> Text by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrarch" target="_blank">Petrarch</a>.</p>http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/53113631345http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/53113631345Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:38:00 +0300manuscripts131131 tableaux<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e5bc77752268fe7d2cbebe8f240ba74a/tumblr_mohpwzgVVy1qe866ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Recueil de 131 tableaux ou figures, tant dessinées au trait et ombrées que peintes (c. 1501). [<a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55006390m" target="_blank">x</a>]</p> <p>> Text by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrarch" target="_blank">Petrarch</a>.</p>http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/53113505407http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/53113505407Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:36:00 +0300manuscripts15011600131 tableaux<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/6c7154c546f74ef06a33a02a01b0318e/tumblr_mohld5CGLC1qe866ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Recueil de 131 tableaux ou figures, tant dessinées au trait et ombrées que peintes (c. 1501). [<a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55006390m" target="_blank">x</a>]</p> <p>> Text by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrarch" target="_blank">Petrarch</a>.</p>http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/53111834098http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/53111834098Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:03:00 +0300manuscripts15011600131 tableaux<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/f934f5726787c637d9edc85f7e3f766a/tumblr_mogfutrA4O1qe866ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Recueil de 131 tableaux ou figures, tant dessinées au trait et ombrées que peintes (c. 1501). [<a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55006390m" target="_blank">x</a>]</p> <p>> Text by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrarch" target="_blank">Petrarch</a>.</p>http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/53053510779http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/53053510779Sun, 16 Jun 2013 01:01:00 +0300manuscripts15011600131 tableaux<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/331234a3cf4087065498d0c033ff772d/tumblr_mogfkpRetx1qe866ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Recueil de 131 tableaux ou figures, tant dessinées au trait et ombrées que peintes (c. 1501). [<a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55006390m" target="_blank">x</a>]</p> <p>> Text by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrarch" target="_blank">Petrarch</a>.</p>http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/53053361076http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/53053361076Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:59:43 +0300manuscripts15011600131 tableaux<iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jQez7ojgQDk?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>The city of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracleion" target="_blank">Heracleion</a> sank in the 6th or 7th century A.D., probably due to major earthquakes and floods. The ruins submerged in the sea were located and rediscovered by the French underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio in 2000.</p>http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/53051183286http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/53051183286Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:26:07 +0300movies“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. […] We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Beston" target="_blank">Henry Beston</a> (1888 – 1968).</em>http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/53012156999http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/53012156999Sat, 15 Jun 2013 11:35:58 +0300Henry Bestontext<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/c26194e405bec07d6ad79224485119d8/tumblr_mhvy7zAxAF1s2x1q2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://didoofcarthage.tumblr.com/post/45765496901/what-a-cool-photograph-it-accompanies-an-old" target="_blank">didoofcarthage</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>What a cool photograph!  It accompanies an old <em>National Geographic</em> <a href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2006/07/rome-ruins/bennett-text/1" target="_blank">article</a> about the sewers beneath Rome.</p> </blockquote>http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/52976021314http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/52976021314Sat, 15 Jun 2013 01:06:40 +0300varia<object name="kaltura_player_1370984451" id="kaltura_player_1370984451" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="330" width="400" data="http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/1_a9n5v24u/uiconf_id/48501"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowNetworking" value="all" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/1_a9n5v24u/uiconf_id/48501" /><param name="flashVars" value="" /></object><br/><br/><p>Peter Zumthor speaks with Michael Govan about the LACMA redesign.</p>http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/52734610744http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/52734610744Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:03:30 +0300Peter Zumthordesignmovies<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/38b933d412f0ff2f596ee8208ac9a4d4/tumblr_mo8qw6dTBe1qe866ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The National Library of Malta [<a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151412135621780&set=a.10151412130506780.1073741828.329513811779&type=1&permPage=1" target="_blank">x</a>].</p>http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/52722438270http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/52722438270Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:21:16 +0300library<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/9a9bb3fafaa6d56fa6946388093ab585/tumblr_mo6yc5h1TT1qe866ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><div> <p><span class="Apple-style-span">La mort de St. Jérôme, d’après Eusebe, les Épîtres de St. Augustin et de St. Cyrille sur l’apparition et les miracles de St Jérôme (c. 1501). [<a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8539712j" target="_blank">x</a>]</span></p> </div>http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/52719055334http://speciesbarocus.tumblr.com/post/52719055334Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:29:00 +0300Mort de Jerome1501manuscripts